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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 364 (search)
Fortress Monroe, March 24.--There is a story told of Prince de Joinville, which is worth printing. Like all gentlemen, the Prince dresses very plainly in citizen's attire, and assumes no air of self-importance. He has quite a penchant for making short, solitary rambles, and always keeping his own counsel. The other day he was walking on the wharf, when he was accosted by a sentry of the New-York Tenth regiment, who, not recognising his royal highness, demanded to be shown his pass. The Prince shrugged his shoulders, depressed his eyebrows, looked at the sentry in astonishment, and then putting his hand in his pocket, drew forth the document. Sentry examined it, pronounced it all right, and told him he might pass on. Just then a comrade of the sentry, who had witnessed the affair, stepped up and asked him if he knew who it was he had just detained? Hang me if I do; I never saw the chap before. Well, replied the other, that chap is the Prince de Joinville! The sentry caved,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 369 (search)
al, in order that he may exchange him for Buckner, who is a devoted friend of Morgan's family, and the latter's beau ideal of a gentleman and soldier. It may not be amiss to add here that his hopes were very nearly realized a few days since. With fifteen of his men he lay concealed in a cedar. thicket, near the road-side, within a quarter of a mile of a toll-gate, between this and Col. Kennett's camp. They were scarcely hidden before Gen. Nelson and staff came riding past, and were arrested by the earnest gesticulation of the gatekeeper, who informed them of the ambush laid for them. The General, concluding discretion was the better part of valor, returned to camp. The gatekeeper was found the next day, with his hands tied and a huge stone round his neck, lying in the creek. As it was very shallow, he was not drowned, but from the water he swallowed, added to the fright of having passed through such rough hands, it is thought he cannot recover. Philadelphia Press, March 24.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 372 (search)
e signal for a lull in the conversation, and all eyes were turned upon the General to hear his reply. He stood with his lips firmly compressed and his eyes looking fully into those of Mrs. Polk, as long as she spoke. He then said: Madam, the man whose name you bear was once the President of the United States; he was an honest man and a true patriot; he administered the laws of this government with equal justice to all. We know no independence of one section of our country which does not belong to all others, and judging by the past, if the mute lips of the honored dead, who lies so near us, could speak, they would express the hope that this war might never cease, if that cessation was purchased by the dissolution of the Union of States over which he once presided. It is needless to say the effect was electrical, made as the remark was, in a calm, dignified tone, and with that earnestness for which the General is noted; no offence could be taken. N. Y. Evening Post, March 24.