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other style of receiving visitors, and will have an opportunity of comparing the Libby with the Ballard." Another Richmond paper remarked that, in consideration for his kindness to the prisoners at Johnson's Island, he should receive at their hands every courtesy consistent with his position as a prisoner of war, adding, "he has a reputation for gentlemanly qualities not often found in a Yankee !"

General Shaler and the prisoners with him were immediately sent to Augusta, Ga., passing through many southern towns. From his private journal, which he kept while a prisoner, we take the following extracts:

"Sunday, May 8, at Orange Court-house. Nothing of interest occurring. Officers with their feet skyward, trying to allay the inflammation caused by the hot march, and munching hard tack, with cold water to wash down the unmasticated lumps. Some few officers so foolish as to pay seven and eight dollars for a meal of hoe-cake, bacon, and coffee. * * * Lieutenant C., who knows only how to make himself and all about him happy, devotes his time chiefly to my interests. Seizing with doubtful authority a canvas tent, rolled up for some rebel's use and benefit, he made a comfortable shake-down upon which to stretch our weary limbs. Night comes on, and we drop down to dream of loved ones at home. Happy is the man who is contented with his lot, and resigned to his fate."

On Monday morning they were started off at an early hour for Gordonsville, at which place one Major Boyle, the commander of the post, insulted them by shutting them up in a stable with a negro servant. The private journal speaks thus: "I cannot forget the effect of Boyle's insult to our officers. All declared they would prefer the darkey's presence to his, and drowned all recollection of the abuse in singing national and patriotic airs. We made the welkin ring, and if Boyle was miserable, we were happy. The rations furnished us at Gordonsville consisted of two salt herrings each !"

May 11, at Lynchburg, Va.-"We arose refreshed, and demanded breakfast, but no breakfast came. We determined to obtain a relish, and decoyed one of the men about the

house into a foraging expedition. It was not long before we were gladdened with the sight of a bunch of onion-tops; cost $1.50. They tasted rather silvery, but were relished none the less. I bought a linen pocket handkerchief for $15, and a pair of merino stockings for $10, which together could have been bought in New York for $1.25. The rebel officers, who drop in to see us occasionally, amuse us not a little by the Munchausen stories of Grant's defeat and Lee's victories."

May 12.-" One of our number, desirous of having in view some evidences of civilization as well as more table comforts, concluded to purchase a tin plate and cup. For the first he paid $5, and for the latter $3."

May 13.-"The officers have to-day been cheered by an anonymous epistle, surreptitiously dropped among them, and signed by a sympathizing lady. It reminded me so much of the letters which passed through my hands to prisoners on Johnson's Island. If those furnished half the comfort to them which this little note did to us, I don't wonder at the desire for them. I could almost cry for the anguish felt by this lady for the sufferings of Union officers here incarcerated. God bless her and all like her."

May 14.-"Reading, card-playing, singing, and eating bacon and bread, make up our chief employment. The people crowd the street in front of our quarters daily, to get a glimpse of the Yanks.""

On the 17th of May orders came to have the Union prisoners moved to Danville, and on reaching Burkesville they were stowed away in baggage-cars, while negroes and soldiers were seated in passenger-cars. The journal continues as follows: "It so happened that in the car given to General Seymour and our little party, were two dead bodies, which, when the car was put in motion, emitted an insufferable odor. We objected, we protested, and finally succeeded in getting the bodies put out at the third station."

Arriving in Danville, they were confined in some tobacco warehouses, where they were fed on the notorious black bean soup, so famous in Libby prison, and where they were denied the pure air at the windows at the peril of their lives. They were not allowed to stop here long, but were hurried further

south. While the train was passing through a cut, with high embankments on each side, the women on the banks amused themselves by throwing stones at the officers sitting by the car windows. The limits of this article forbid further extracts from the interesting journal of General Shaler.

At Augusta, Ga., the prisoners were met by Governor Cummings, of Utah, and his brother, Colonel Cummings, and Captain Bradford, of Baltimore, who treated them with every kindness and consideration allowable. On the 24th of May they reached Macon, Ga., and were there confined in prison until the 10th of June, when they were taken to Charleston, in the midst of a most drenching rain, where, without a change of clothing, they were locked up in the city jail, five being crowded into a cell eight feet square, under the charge of a common turnkey. For a week this insulting incarceration was suffered, when they were removed to a dwelling-house on the Ashley River, in range of Foster's guns. Here they remained until the 3d of August, when they were exchanged. Soon after, General Shaler started for New Orleans, to report to General Canby, and on the 20th of November he assumed the command of the post of Columbus. On the 28th of December, 1864, General Reynolds put him in command of the Second Division of the Seventh Army Corps, and the post of Duvall's Bluff on the White River, in Arkansas, where he remained until the 31st of August, 1865, when he was included in the list of general officers mustered out of the service, by general orders, issued on the 24th of August, 1865,

While in command of Columbus and Duvall's Bluff, General Shaler accomplished a vast amount of work, and in the month of June, 1865, the rebel General Jeff. Thompson reported to him as a prisoner of war, with seven thousand rebel soldiers, who were paroled. General Thompson was a prisoner of war under Shaler at Johnson's Island in the winter of 1863-4, and in the following August was exchanged for him at Charleston harbor. The close of the war found them operating in the same field, and gave General Shaler the opportunity to see him lay down his sword.

While serving in the Department of Arkansas, an application on the part of General Shaler's old commanders for

brevet rank, on the ground of "continuous, faithful, and meritorious services throughout the war, and especially for gallantry in the assault upon Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Va., and the battle of Gettysburg and the Wilderness," was answered by an appointment by the President to be MajorGeneral by brevet, with rank from July 27, 1865.

Many recognitions of his services have been received from his friends, among which may be mentioned the presentation of a beautiful gold-mounted sword, by his friends in Hoboken, N. J., on the 3d of October, 1864, and on another occasion a public dinner was tendered by the same parties, at which the Mayor of the city presided. Other swords, medals, and commissions have been presented to him, some of which were accepted, while others he was obliged to decline.

On the 23d of January, 1867, Governor Fenton, of New York, appointed him Major-General of the First Division of the National Guard, and on the same day the State Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment. He assumed command of the division on the 1st of February.

In his personal appearance General Shaler is a very tall, graceful, well-formed man, pleasing in his address and affable in manners. He has a blue eye, light hair, and "a moustache of the fighting color," as the lamented Theodore Winthrop described it in his March of the Seventh Regiment. He is warm-hearted, cordial, and affectionate; and enjoys domestic life more than most men, with his wife and two daughters. As a man of business he was successful; as a military man he was noted for his promptness, activity, discipline, bravery, and perseverance. His recent appointment to his present position has given universal satisfaction, and we feel that the interests of the First Division New York State National Guard could not be trusted to better hands.

III.

HOW ONE MAN WAS SAVED.

A STORY IN TWO PARTS PART I.

But love is indestructible.-Southey.

He walked slowly along that dusty highway, Mark Bradley, revolving many thoughts in his busy brain. A summer afternoon melting gradually into evening, a sun sinking behind the hill tops, burnishing the spires with molten gold. In the still atmosphere those trees were outlined against the crimson dappled sky with wonderful distinctness. Not a leaf stirred. Down the sloping sides wide stubble-fields took on a new glory. Here acres of grass, early mown, nodding a serene satisfaction over the comforting idea of a second crop. Cornfields turned yellow, the browned and faded tassels hanging listlessly on ripening stalks. A sort of lazy, over-ripe August picture.

Had it been never so beautiful, he would not have paused to study it. He had other matters on hand. What was the paltry landscape to him? He could not make money out of it, and that was his whole thought by day and night. How many times he had walked over this road, dreaming of what awaited him at the end, hurried on with a buoyant step and hopeful heart. Now he lagged unconsciously, and when he came in sight of the gray cottage down yonder among the trees, he almost paused.

"She must know some time," he said, and this thought urged him on.

It grew shadier, and Here and there some

The road began to wind downward. fragrant with spice of fir and pine. wild asters starred it, or a spray of golden rod. Common things, all. Dusty and dull. They fretted him strangely. How many times he had found this road lovely to look uponthe end delightful. He seemed to have outgrown it all at a bound,

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