...n the neighborhood. In trying to get back home he was captured and made a prisoner in his house, where there were about twenty-five women and children who had fled there for shelter. His home was General Carl Schurz 's headquarters. One of Schurz's staff officers, said Hawkins, as he placed a chew of tobacco in between his grizzled beard, came in the house, and, throwing down his sword, said he would go out ...