AN INCIDENT.–

19. October 2008 by admin.

The following occurred while arrangements for an exchange of prisoners were being completed near the Union lines at Decatur, Ala.: Sergeant Miller of the Ninth Illinois infantry, who had been taken prisoner during the fight at Moulton, and who had been exchanged one week before, was along with the squad of national troops who had gone out to effect the exchange. When taken prisoner, a rebel soldier demanded of him his pocket-book and “green-backs.” He had, of course, to surrender it. Before he was exchanged, he had made the remark in the presence of several rebels, that he would shoot the man who took his pocket-book the first time he could get his eyes upon him. When we met that soldier was there. He immediately recognized Sergeant Miller, took him aside, and gave him his pocket-book and money, with the exception of five dollars, which he had loaned to some one. This he promised to get and send in to him the first chance.

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