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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Not afraid of Yanks. (search)
count of his conversation with the general. Butler in his letter to General Gilmore thus refers to this interview: You made no such demonstration as caused any alarm in Petersburg until nine o'clock, as is evidenced by the fact that General Kautz's command captured a school-master whom I have examined, who was in his school in Petersburg after nine o'clock when the first alarm was given. It is an interesting coincidence that the school-master to whom Butler refers in his letter was young Archer, who was teaching in his school at the Anderson Seminary the day before when I summoned him to report for duty at the front, as I have already related. You will notice that Butler used the word examined in his letter to Gilmore. It is a term that a military man to the manner born and bred would hardly use. In truth, he was more at home in examining witnesses than in commanding armies, and doubtless many an unlucky wight has quailed before the searching interrogatories of the astute Mass