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BOOKS: The Capture of Jefferson Davis

"Friends." We were ordered to dismount and come forward, which Hussey refused to do, and ordered us to retreat, which we did. As soon as we moved, the halting party fired a volley into us, wounding Gus Sykes and myself, and I think Apply. We retired a few rods, and immediately the Colonel, with his command, coming as agreed upon. Sykes and I dismounted here, and the rest moved on after the firing party. We had no ambulance with us. After daylight Sykes and I were put in one of the captured ones, and sent with the Fourth Michigan. When we got back to the ferry the same day, where Colonel Pritchard had left some of his men the day before, we camped for the night. These men came crowding around, and asked how it happend that they fired into the Wisconsin men. Some of them answered and said: "We were ordered to fire, so we fired, but we knew they were Union cavalry by the rattle of the sabers' scabbards." I heard several say the same. At the same time some one said: "Well, who will get the reward?" and one of the

BOOKS: The Capture Of Jefferson Davis

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