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How he served a ‘non-combatant.’

While at Harper's Ferry I went to his office in an upper room where he was paroling the prisoners for instructions as to the distribution of the immense stock of hard bread and other supplies captured there. A man wearing a rusty cavalry uniform of the Federal army came in and asked General Hill for a pass to go over into Loudoun, claiming to be a non-combatant resident of that county who had been caught at the Ferry when it was surrounded.

‘What are you doing with those clothes on?’ said General Hill. ‘I bought them,’ said the man.

‘You are lying,’ said the General. ‘Get out of here, you—— scoundrel.’ And grabbing the fellow by the shoulders he pushed him to the head of the stairs and started him down with all the momentum a vigorous kick from his military boot would impart to him.

Richmond, VA. 1891.

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