"We reached Baltimore, made the connection with the train going west to
Wheeling, and disembarked at Martinsburg. There the colonel procured a
horse--rode to a friend's on the Opequon--changed his blue dress for a
citizen's suit, and proceeded to Staunton, thence to Richmond, and
yesterday rejoined his regiment, near Chancellorsville."
XX.
GENERAL GRANT'S PRIVATE ORDER.
Stuart kicked a log, which had fallen on the hearth, back into the
fire, and said:--
"Well, Nighthawk, your narrative only proves one thing."
"What, general?"
"That the writer who hereafter relates the true stories of this war,
will be set down as a Baron Munchausen."
"No doubt of that, general."
"This escape of Colonel Mohun, for instance, will be discredited."
"No matter, it took place; but I have not told you what brought me
over, general."
"Over?"
"Yes, across the Rapidan. I did not go from Martinsburg to Richmond
with Colonel Mohun. I thought I would come down and see what was going
on in Culpeper. Accordingly I crossed the Blue Ridge at Ashby's Gap,
reached Culpeper--and last night crossed the Rapidan opposite
Chancellorsville, where I saw Colonel Mohun, before whom I was carried
as a spy."
"You bring news, then?" said Stuart, with sudden earnestness and
attention.
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