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Show ONLY ONE OF EACH. Howell -I don't mm- why Tom Watson Wat-son always tin h "of HoMou" after bis name. Powell-Nell tier do 1: it In tin more necessary than II wax In the case of John 1. Sullivan. lloDicink f Toddy? if J ftftUluiqli Lee l LS n N August. HMI2, the Y " IT ) HimUB of (Jetieral ys I l' I' and General J 1'om confronted Ivt ,ach other on tho I i IvwOsjL Happahannock ill r'ver, lu Virginia. fi " ill Ceneral Ieo had . I " determined to attack at-tack I'ope, and conceived a plan hb brilliant a It was daring. He purposed to leave one-half one-half of his army under l,ongxtreet In front of Pope, and throw the other half, under Jackson, by a circuitous inarch to a point twenty ono miles exactly ex-actly between him and Washington. In pursuance of his plan and to facilitate fa-cilitate Its execution, a day or two before be-fore JackHon started I'e determined to throw his cavalry, under Stuart, twelve miles in Pope's rear, at Cat-lott's Cat-lott's Station, a point on the railroad connecting Pope with his capital. At that place were eniamix'd the reserve, baggage and ammunition trains of Pope's army There, too. were his personal effects. Stuart captured cap-tured a number of officers and men, a large sum of money in a safe lu one of the tents and dispatches and other papers, but the rain fell in such torrents tor-rents and the night was so dark that wM 1 'ft jht ' ' "It Was Vacant." it was not possible for Stuart to damage dam-age the railroad to uny extent or to burn the railroad bridges or the acres of camp wagons that were there. My command was in advance on that terrible rainy night. I was riding rid-ing with the lieutenant commanding the platoon which formed the advance guard, when I suddenly saw, between the flashes of lightning, a man run across tho road. I'nder the Influence of the spur my horse In a single bound reached the man, and under the Influence of a pistol pis-tol held to bis head bo told me that be was a servant of General Pol who was there with his headquarters tents, which, he said, were pitched lu a clump of pines close by. I made him get up In front of one of the troopers and guide a squadron, which I detached from the leading regiment, to the tents In the pines. On reaching the sjot I quickly surrounded sur-rounded the federal headquarters, and. seeing a light In one of the tents. I dls mounted and with one of my men en tered It. It was vacant, but filled with a largo number of papers, showing where some one bad been recently wrl'lng There were also two glasses of toddy on the table. A few days thereafter I raptured a squadron of the Federal dm goons, under un-der Major Thomas Hlte of the regular regu-lar army, whom ! had formerly known when a cadet at West Point. The major said that be and Iwls Marshall, the latter being an aide do camp of Pope and a nephew of General Gener-al I-ee, were In one of the tents thnt night and that he bad been working all day over his quartermaster paix-rs. and In view of the fact, as well as the tempestuous chars'ier of the. j night, he proposed to Marshall that ! they should take a drink. I "The whisky was brought out," con-; tlnue the major, "sugar was put In ! glasses with the prrier amount of wa- j ter. to which a liberal allowance of i whisky was added. I was Just pour- i lng the toddy from one glass to the other, thinking how soon the situation I would be Improved by swallowing it, when I heard the noise of horses' J hoofs, and the report of one or to I pistol shots. I quickly put the glasses j down, saying. 'I believe that Is some of that d Confederate cavalry."' At this point of the narrative the major paused, and af'er looking around, added. 'Gentlemen, If you be-Ilev be-Ilev me, I do not I now whether I ( Innk than toddy or not. The 'Rebs j we'e on us so quirk that Marshall snd j I lifted the side of tho tent snd rolled ! down Into a friendly ravine, and re- i malned there thlverlng In the drench- J lng rain writ 11 they rode off" j It only remains to say that Hlte ' snd Marshall did not drink the tod I dies they mixed, but that they rat idly j fllsaprwared down the throats of the J two wot Confederates who found them I |