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intense; it was abruptly ended by a Confederate challenging a 6th Wisconsin man to a fist-fight in the middle of the turnpike. The combatants got the attention of both picket-lines, who declared the fight a draw. They ended the matter with a coffee and tobacco trade and an agreement to do no more firing at picket-lines, unless an advance should be ordered. It was this agreement that enabled Lieutenant Rogers to save a long picket-line that was to have been sacrificed when we fell back. Racine, Wis., October 3d, 1886. Ii. By Orson B. Curtis, Corporal, Co. D, 24th Michigan. Since Private Smith, above, mentions the 24th Michigan as bounty men, let me state that in July, 1862, a war meeting held in Detroit to promote enlistments under Lincoln's call for 300,000 men was broken up by the disturbance created by a large number of Confederate refugees from Windsor, Canada, with the aid of some antiwar men here. To wipe out the unexpected insult, a second war meeting was held, which r