neral is,
that he has been told several times that the horse was unsound, but
would not admit that as much of a horseman as he professed to be, had
been taken in by the 'Buckeye Officer.'"

The recital of the story appeared to have lightened the load upon the
breast of the sutler, and he wound up somewhat humorously, by telling
the crowd that there was another on the list to be court-martialed, and
that they must give him all possible aid and comfort.

"Be easy, sutler! there are too many ahead of you on that list,"
observed an officer. "Your case can't be reached for some time yet. It
is admitted on all sides that our material, officers and men, are as
good as any in the army; and, for all that, although one of the smallest
divisions, we have more courts-martial than any other division. Why,
just look at it. A day or two before the battle of Fredericksburg,
twenty-three officers were released from arrest. Thirteen of them,
Lieutenants under charges for lying, as old Pigey termed it, when, in
fact, it was nothing more than a simple misunderstanding of one of his
night orders, such as any men might make. Poor fellows! over one-half of
them are out of his power now; but I wouldn't wonder if the General
would be presumptuous and malignant enough to respectfully refer their
cases to the Chancery of Heaven, with endorsements to suit himself!"

"Well, that brave Lieutenant," said the Captain, "who asked permission
of the Colonel to charge with our regiment when himself and squad had
become separated from his own, has been reinstated. You know that at the
time old Pigey gave permission to the Colonels to send Volunteer
Officers before the board for examination, the Lieutenant-Colonel of his
regiment, instead of sending him a written order, as was customary,
sought him out when engaged in conversation with some non-commissioned
officers of his command, and in an insulting manner gave him a verbal
order to report. They had some hot talk about it, and in the course of
it the Lieutenant said that 'he'd be d----d if he came into the army to
study tactics; he came to fight,' and on the strength of that, the
General had him tried and dismissed. Our Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel
sent up a statement to 'Burney,' giving a glowing account of his gallant
conduct in the fight; and the General seeing how dead in earnest he was
when he said he came to fight, restored him to his position."

"I am very much afraid," said the Lieutenant, sl