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any moment. I have not yet learned whether the enemy has passed Yellow Tavern or passed near James river.

" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

"J. E. B. STUART, " Major- General"

With the intuition of a great soldier Stuart threw himself on Sher- idan's rear, and thus drew him away from Richmond to give time for troops to get into the city to defend it. In the ensuing fight Griffin, of course, had his battery well out of the fighting line, and it was captured by the enemy. Stuart instantly charged with a reg- iment and recaptured the guns. In a moment they were retaken by the Federals, and Stuart again retook them.

After the charge was over a dismounted Federal cavalryman, trot- ting back on foot, shot him with a revolver, striking him in the side, which killed him.

So Stuart lost his life in defense of the banner battery of the Marylanders.

BRADLEY T. JOHNSON.

[From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, September 8, 1901.]

IN A FEDERAL PRISON.

Interesting Career of Lieutenant W. W. George, of Echols'

Brigade.

HIS ESCAPE FROM FORT PULASKI.

With Several Companions he cut Through the Casemates With an Oyster-Knife and an Iron Clevis A Cat for Dinner.

The following incidents in the prison life of Lieutenant W. W. George, one of the 800 (Morris Island), is a unique, interesting and truthful narrative of a Confederate soldier.

Lieutenant George is a descendant of a long line of ancestry, who were among the first settlers of the southwestern part of this State, where their early days were spent in continuous war with the Red