Marse Henry, Complete. Henry Watterson

don't feel entirely sure of my ground, but I am going to let you gentlemen go."

      We thanked him and made off amid the cheery good-bys of the assembled blue-coats.

      No lunch for us. We got to our horses, rode away, and that night I was at our rendezvous to tell the tale to those of my comrades who had arrived before me.

      Colonel Shook and I met after the war at a Grand Army reunion where I was billed to speak and to which he introduced me, relating the incident and saying, among other things: "I do believe that when he told me near Wartrace that day twenty years ago that he was a good Union man he told at least half the truth."