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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
anted them by Secretary Stanton, almost daily visited us, and furnished us with clothes, pipes, tobacco, and any other luxuries (sabres, pistols, and other contrabands excepted,) which the mind might fancy and the purse pay for. All thanks to them for their kindness, but confusion to Old Abe. Only one regret we felt at leaving , which was the unseasonable hour chosen, it being 8 P. M. We had all looked forward to the pleasure of showing off near 200 fine looking fellows, with their pet, Miss Belle Boyd, the rebel spy. I can assure you we had all of us rather spent one more night in prison, and had daylight for our start, than to be slid off in that quiet way. But I suppose they were afraid to have so many fine- looking gray jackets appear on the streets at such a time. Jackson so near, all would know us as reinforcements for that glorious, good soldier, who is an honor to his country and a terror to his foes. Here we are, at last, on the noble James, and we are "almost home." Wh