pants of light blue English broadcloth; taking all circumstances into consideration, he was neatly dressed.

Who captured him?

It was said and not disputed at the time, that the soldier's name who said "halt" to Davis, was Munger, a corporal in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, but he did not then know that it was Davis.

How did the hoop-skirt story get started?

When we got back to Macon, General Wilson sent for me and made me tell him all about my pursuit and the incidents of the capture of Davis. The General insisted upon every particular as how he appeared, what he said, how he was dressed, etc.

After narrating all, I told him that I heard the soldier who halted

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