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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 11: advance of the Army of the Potomac on Richmond. (search)
and clubbed muskets, and captured Johnson, with almost his entire division, who were breakfasting. With these, General George H. Stewart Stewart was a Maryland rebel, who was conspicuous in Baltimore at the time of the massacre of Massachusetts Stewart was a Maryland rebel, who was conspicuous in Baltimore at the time of the massacre of Massachusetts troops there in the spring of 1861. See page 415, volume I. His fine house and grounds in Baltimore, at this time, were used as an asylum for the sick and wounded, known as the Jarvis Hospital. He was an old army friend of Hancock, and it is related that the latter, on the occasion we are considering, cordially offered his hand to the prisoner, saying: How are you, Stewart. The absurd rebel haughtily refused it, saying: I am General Stewart, of the Confederate army, and under the circumstanGeneral Stewart, of the Confederate army, and under the circumstances I decline to take your hand. Hancock instantly replied: And under any other circumstances, General, I should not have offered it. and his two brigades were made prisoners, and nearly thirty guns and many colors were the trophies. Hancock sen