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I took the horse of my Yankee prisoner and made the latter get up behind me and rode back to our lines.

1 soon met General Jackson, who was glad to see me, saying with a smile, '* I guess you will stay in bed next time you are sick." I said I would ; told him everything I knew, and went on with my prisoner, now as hts guard.

When I met the Twelfth Georgia regiment such a cheer greeted me as I never heard before. They were in the advance, and said they were coming after me.

The Thirty-first and other regiments all cheered, to my delight and to the chagrin of my prisoner. I rode on. Everybody in the army seemed to know that I had been captured, congratulated me on my escape, and asked me an hundred questions.

I finally turned over my prisoner, who said to me : "I treated you well, now you do the same to me, will you ? ** I instructed the guard under whom he was placed to treat him well, rode off with his horse and equipments and joined the army, if not "a wiser or better,*' certainly a more experienced man.

I am in splendid health and spirits, and will not get caught again. I will be more careful in everything.

[9] Chancellorsville Campaign.

report of colonel edward willis, twelfth georgia

infantry.

Headquarters Twelfth Georgia Regiment.

May 8th, 1863, Captain :

I have the honor to make the following statement of the part performed by the Twelfth Georgia regiment in the recent operations made to meet the enemy's advance on the south side of the Rappahannock :

I left the encampment of the Twelfth Georgia regiment near the Dickerson House about 8 o'clock A. M., April 29th, 1863, with about four hundred aggregate; reached Hamilton's Crossing, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad, about noon, and remained there until about 3 o'clock on the morning of the 30th, when a line of battle was formed through the bottom, and at right angles to the railroad, my left resting about two hundred yards from the depot.