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rode into Greensboroa, and alighted at the Britannia Hotel, where the Commissioners were already assembled.
They were Brevet Brigadier General Hartsuff, on the part of the Federals, and Colonel.
Mason, on the part of the Confederates.
Each guaranty of non-molestation had been prepared, beforehand, in a printed form, and signed by Hartsuff, and only required to be filled up with the name and rank of the party entitled to receive it, and signed by myself to be complete.
Upon being introduced to General Hartsuff, we proceeded at once to business.
I produced the muster-roll of my command, duly signed by my Assistant Adjutant-General; and General Hartsuff and myself ran our eyes over the names together, and when we had ascertained the number, the General counted out an equal number of blank guaranties, and, handing them to me, said: ‘You have only to fill up one of these for each officer and soldier of your command, with his name and rank, and sign it and hand it to him. I have already signed them myself.
You can fill up the one intended for yourself in like manner.’
‘With regard to the latter,’ I replied, ‘I prefer, if you have no objection, to have it filled up and completed here in your presence.’
‘Oh! that makes no difference,’ he replied.
‘Very well,’ said I, ‘if it makes no difference, then you can have no objection to complying with my request.’
He now called an aide-de-camp, and desiring him to be seated at the table where we were, told him to fill up my guaranty after my dictation.
I gave him my titles separately, making him write me down a ‘Rear-Admiral in the Confederate States Navy, and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army, commanding a brigade.’
When he had done this, he handed me the paper; I signed it, and put it in my pocket, and, turning to the General, said, ‘I am now satisfied.’
The following is a copy of the paper:—
Baltimore, MD. Kelly Piet & Co. 1868.
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