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Updated: May 25, 2025
It is only with a measure of habitual foolhardiness that you can be sure, in the common run of men, of courage on a reasonable occasion. An army or a fleet, if it is not led by quixotic fancies, will not be led far by terror of the Provost-Marshal. Even German warfare, in addition to maps and telegraphs, is not above employing the "Wacht am Rhein."
But I've kept my eyes and ears open and I have now become anxious." "Why so?" asked George. The boy looked thin and very pale, after his long confinement. "I heard some one I think it was the Provost-Marshal talking to the jailer this morning, at the front door of the prison. I was looking out of the window; you fellows were all playing games.
The ladies who had been in charge of it had been swooped down upon and gathered in by an irate provost-marshal some days before the shelling, and were, I am told, sent back to England for venturing so near the front line.
The work at length was begun in earnest, and in order to drive the lesson home into the understanding of the people, and to instruct them clearly that rebellion and murder were not any longer to be tolerated, the prisoners were promptly brought up before the provost-marshal, and twenty-six of them there and then, under the ruins of their own den, were hung up for sign to the whole nation.
The complainant said that he wanted the papers restored to him which had been surrendered to the provost-marshal under protest; he was a lawyer, and before the establishment of the "Confederate States Government" had been the attorney for a number of large business houses at the North; that "his government" had confiscated all debts due "alien enemies," and appointed commissioners, or officers, to collect such debts and pay them over to the "government": but in his case, owing to his high standing, he had been permitted to hold these claims for collection, the responsible officials knowing that he would account to the "government" for every dollar received.
"At this moment there is a man his name is Benito Villegas in the bakehouse below the shop," said Mariquita. "He is wounded; you will find him there. Go and seize him; make him tell you what he has done with the English officer, Mr. McKay." "Mr. McKay!" said the provost-marshal, deeply interested at once. "He is absent missing! Have you heard anything of him or his fate?" "Make Benito tell you.
The Provost-Marshal, however, came presently to visit me, and brought me in token that the good-fellowship of the evening still existed a pouch of the Queen's herb; which I accepted for politeness' sake rather than from any virtue I found in it. And from him I learned how the rascal came to be in his charge.
The next morning the provost-marshal called upon us, damned us a little for not insisting on being sent to our regiments, found out that my regiment was up the river two hundred miles, and seemed mad because I passed it when I come from St. Louis. I told him I was not expected to go hunting around for my regiment, like a lost calf. What I wanted was for my regiment to hunt me up.
Ranal Valdry, the Lord Provost-Marshal demanded, incredulously. "Pay our own slaves?" "You idiot," somebody told him, "they aren't our slaves any more. That's the whole point of this discussion." "But ... but how can we pay slaves?" one of the committeemen-at-large asked. "Freedmen, I mean?" "With money. You do have money, haven't you?" "Of course we have. What do you think we are, savages?"
As soon as he appeared at the door, he was informed that there had been a misunderstanding, and he was requested to wait a little. Half an hour later he was once more summoned, the provost-marshal and Captain van der Meulen reappearing to escort him. "Mr. Provost," said the prisoner, as they went down the narrow staircase, "I have always been a good friend to you."
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