You can call it plantation drink, and I don't suppose anyone will ask too closely what it's made of." "Thank you, that will do capitally." The next morning Vincent again set out, turning his steps this time toward the right flank of the Federal position.

He had, in the course of the evening, made a sketch of the ground he had seen, marking in all the principal batteries, with notes as to the number of guns for which they seemed to be intended.
"Look here," he said to the woman before leaving; "I may not be as lucky to-day as I was yesterday.

If I do not come back to-night, can you find anyone you can trust to take this piece of paper round to Richmond?
Of course he would have to make his way first up to Burksville Junction, and then take train to Richmond.

When he gets there he must go down to Petersburg and ask for General Lee.

I have written a line to go with it, saying what I have done this for, and asking the general to give the bearer a hundred dollars." "I will take it myself," the woman said; "not for the sake of the hundred dollars, though I aint saying as it wouldn't please the old man, when he comes back, to find I had a hundred dollars stored away; but for the cause.