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Mrs. Fulton caught the words "smuggling string," "pistols," "cartridges" from Edmund.

She knew intuitively that the nature of their recent trips to the plantation home were being divulged by the artless child.

Sh-e trembled perceptibly at the thought of the consequences of this revelation, but continued the pleasant discourse with the Union officer with whom she was at the time speaking.

General Tuttle took his departure, apparently much gratified at the hospitality he had received at the home of the Fultons.

A few hours later a squad of soldiers, commanded by a Union officer, arrived at the house with a warrant for the arrest of Judge Fulton. He was taken and placed in prison, where he languished for eleven weary months, as the result of Edmund's communications to the Federal officer.

Mrs. Fulton was allowed the privilege of furnishing her husband his meals during his confinement, and of making his quarters as comfortable, under the circumstances, as possible.

This humane treatment was a grand departure from the usual ironclad rules of war, and it was through the clemency of General Tuttle that a release was eventually secured for this grand old patriot.

[From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, April 6, 1902.]

CAROLINA CADETS.

Part They Played in the War Between the States.

ACCOUNT OF LIEUTENANT IREDELL JONES.

Many of the Boys Served as Privates in the Ranks, With Self- Sacrificing Devotion and Patriotic Zeal.

The following in reference to the South Carolina College Cadets in the Confederate war has been handed to the bureau by one familiar with the subject:

It is to be regretted that the very interesting historical account of the South Carolina College Cadets, written by Lieutenant Iredell