Mrs. B. Shure it was meself that riz ye up out ov the streets, and give ye six hundred dollars that I had in bank, and made a gintleman ov ye; and now ye wouldn’t rize yer hand to protect me!

Here Mrs. Brown again became very angry, and would have given her lord a good drubbing, if the guard had not interfered and separated them.  Mrs. Brown became so furious that the colonel heard the disturbance, and walked down from his quarters to see what it meant.  She immediately demanded to be released, but this the colonel refused; and she then cited many illustrious military men who had been tyrants in some cases, but never so daring as to put a woman under arrest.

Mrs. B. Now, Colonel, I want to tell ye a thing or two.  Gineral Washington, nor the Duke of Willington, nor Napoleon niver put a woman under guard, nor ye haven’t any right to do it; and I’ll have ye court-martialed, accordin’ to the Articles of War.  So I will.

Colonel. Mrs. Brown, if you do not be quiet I will gag you.

Mrs. B. Ye’ll gag me, will ye?  Well, I’d like to see ye about it.  Ye would make a nice reputation to yerself, gaggin’ a woman!

Colonel. Very well, Mrs. Brown, I will show you that I am in earnest.  Sergeant, place a gag in that woman’s mouth.

Mrs. B. Och, Colonel dear, ye wouldn’t be so bad as that, would ye?  Shure, Colonel, I’ll be jist as quiet as a lamb.  So I will.

Colonel. Well, Mrs. Brown, if you will promise to behave yourself I will not gag you; but you must not make any more noise.

Mrs. Brown promised obedience and was soon after released, and went to her tent to search for the precious jug and drown her sorrows in another dram; but while the melee had been going on I had smashed the jug, and she came back again to bewail her sorrows with Brown, who was still under guard.  He was soon after released, and they returned to their quarters a wiser if not a happier pair.  That night Mrs. Brown was heard to say: 

“Sergeant Brown, ye made a fool ov yerself to-day.”

“Yis, Missus Brown, I think we both made a fool of ourself.  So I do.”

About the first of July we were ordered to Fort Pillow, which is by land fourteen miles above, on the same side of the river.  When we reached that place, they were daily expecting an attack from the gunboats, of which we had heard so much, but had not yet seen or feared.  Here the commanders wanted to exact the same amount of toil as at Fort Wright; but the men drew up petitions, requesting that the planters, who were at home doing nothing, should send their slaves to work on the fortifications.  General Pillow approved of this plan, and published a call for laborers.  In less than a month, 7000 able-bodied negro men were at work, and there would have been twice as many, if needed.  The planters were, and are yet, in bloody earnest in this rebellion; and