tive operations and put an end
to the exchange, and resolved to go with the party that day,
if possible. I had noticed that the clerk had not called the
names in their order nor checked them, and knew he could not
tell who had been called. I therefore hurried down to the
lower floor and fell in with the rest, thinking all the time
of the possibility of detection and the consequent solitary
confinement, and although my conscience was easy so far as
the papers I had signed were concerned--for I had only
agreed not to take up arms until duly exchanged--I did not
breath freely until I had disembarked from the boat and was
under the Stars and Stripes. Fortunately, the rest of the
party came down on the boat the next day.

"'One other incident and I am done: Sergt. Henry Jordan, of
Company C, was wounded and captured with the rest of us, but
on account of his wounds was unable to be sent South with
the other enlisted-men. After his recovery he was kept as a
servant about the office of Major Turner, the commandant of
the prison, and when, on the 2d of April, 1865, the rebels
evacuated Richmond and paroled the prisoners, he remained
until our forces came in and took possession of the city.
When, a few days later, Maj. Turner was captured by our
troops and confined in the same cell we had occupied, Sergt.
Jordan was detailed to carry him his rations, and although
he was not of a vindictive or revengeful disposition, I will
venture to say that the rations allowed Turner were not much
better than had been given the sergeant through the winter.
Had Turner been guarded by such men as Henry Jordan, or even
by the poorest soldiers of the regiment, he would not have
escaped within three days of his capture, as was the case.'"

Very few of the black soldiers were exchanged, though the confederate
government pretended to recognize them and treat them as they did the
whites. General Taylor's reply to General Grant, was the general policy
applied to them when convenient. In the latter days of the war, when--in
June, 1864, at Guntown, Miss.,--the confederate Gen. Forrest attacked
and routed the Union forces, under Sturgis, through the stupidity of the
latter, (alluded to more at length a few pages further on,) a number of
black soldiers were captured, Sturgis having had several Phalanx
regiments