. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . < z 246 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. paper was run on a very funny basis. If Editor Owens didntfeel like getting out a new paper, he reproduced that of thedav befmv. The owner of the paper was joined with Owensin this venture, and he got more money out of it than he hadever made before. They faked their Northern despatches, andnews agencies were not of the least account. A bit of originalpoetry on
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . < z 246 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. paper was run on a very funny basis. If Editor Owens didntfeel like getting out a new paper, he reproduced that of thedav befmv. The owner of the paper was joined with Owensin this venture, and he got more money out of it than he hadever made before. They faked their Northern despatches, andnews agencies were not of the least account. A bit of originalpoetry on Sedgwick is given in Miscellaneous chapter. The lastnumber issued bore <lat♦• May , and contained the notice ofJeff. Davis capture. Those who liked fun—and who didnt?—tell wondrous81 :ies of the diversions the place afforded. Certain ones donot refrain from repeating the following, though the joke ap-pears to be on themselves: They found no end of pleasure in. LAST CAPITOL OF THE CONFEDERACY. attending the dances which the colored people, in honor oftheir newly-found liberty, were giving every night. Somehowor other the dusky damsels preferred them as partners to themen of their own complexion. After a while this began torankle in the masculine African breasts, and they determinedto rid themselves of their soldier rivals. Accordingly, afterdue consideration, they sent a deputation to wait upon thewhite dancers, and to tell them dat de presence of de whitegemmen was offensive to de ladies, for dey couldnt stan This turning on the boys their own oft-repeated sluron the ne<.rr<ies alleged scent, was effectual, and they tripped the THE DANVILLE RAID. 247 light fantastic elsewhere. The last office of the Confederacywas shown, for in the Benedict House on Wilson street, Jef-ferson Davis and his Cabinet established themselves April 4th,and there was issued the last address still breathing confidencein the success of the now lost ca
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