Jes' git a note ter the Jineral at Wildcat ready while we saddle fresh beasts, an' we'll hev hit in his hands afore midnight." The proposition was immediately accepted, and in a little while the Kentuckians were speeding their way back to Gen.

Schoepf, with a letter giving the news, and signed: "Kent Edwards, Chief of Scouts." That evening a party of young men who had followed the Rebel retreat some distance, brought in a wagon which had been concealed in an out-of-the-way place, and left there.

It was loaded mainly with things taken from the houses, and was evidently the private collection of some freebooting subordinate, who did not intend that the Southern Confederacy should be enriched by the property.

Hence, probably, the hesitation about taking it along with the main train.

It was handed over to Kent as the representative of the United States, who was alone authorized to take charge of it.