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acquaintances of mine in Kentucky, had always differed in politics, and when the war broke out, Howard, the younger, sought the Southern army, and Alfred that of the North. They shook hands at partiprobable they should meet again on some field or other. Alfred obtained a captain's commission; Howard, with many fellow-statesmen, shouldered a musket in our regiment. When the battle was over, HowHoward was searching for the bodies of friends who had fallen by his side, and stumbled over something. Halloa! said the object, in a hoarse voice, who are you? I'm a Southerner, replied Howard; you aHoward; you are one of the enemy, if I'm not mistaken, and know, of course, that the field is ours. Well, yes, I have some faint recollection of a fight; but all I remember is much smoke, a great noise of musketring me down with a musket, and then I fell asleep. When they advanced to one of the camp-fires, Howard recognized his brother Alfred, and he himself was the man who had knocked him down with the butt