utmost importance. Keifer
was not only an attentive listener, but seemed wonderfully interested.
Uncle Jacob undertook to thrust in a word here and there, but
Garfield was much too absorbed to notice him, and so pushed on
steadily, warming up as he proceeded. Unfortunately for his scheme,
however, before he had gone far he made a touching reference to
his mother, when Uncle Jacob, gesticulating energetically, and with
his forefinger levelled at the speaker, cried: 'Just a word--just
one word right there,' and so persisted until Garfield was compelled
either to yield or be absolutely discourteous. The General,
therefore, got in his word; nay, he held the floor for the remainder
of the evening. The conspirators made brave efforts to put him
down and cut him off, but they were unsuccessful. At midnight,
when Keifer and I had left, he was still talking; and after we had
got into bed, he, with his suspenders dangling about his legs,
thrust his head into our tent-door, and favored us with the few
observations we had lost by reason of our hasty departure. Keifer
turned his face to the wall and groaned. Poor man, he had been
hoisted by his own petard. I think Uncle Jacob suspected that the
young men had set up a job on him."(15)

The court having concluded the case, Buell, August 6, 1862, issued
an order approving its proceedings and sentence of dismissal from
the service, and declaring that Colonel Turchin ceased "to be in
the service of the United States."(16)

Although the charges against him and his trial were notorious, and
well known at the War Department and to the country, President
Lincoln, the day preceding Buell's order of dismissal, appointed
Colonel Turchin a Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and the Senate
promptly confirmed the appointment, and thus he came out of his
trial and condemnation with increased rank. He accepted the
promotion, served in the field afterwards, was distinguished in
many battles, and left the army October 4, 1864.

Turchin at the time he entered the Union Army was, and still is,
a resident of Illinois.

There were many excellent men of foreign birth and residence who
found places in the Union Army and filled them with credit.(17)

At Paint Rock, on the railroad east of Huntsville, the train on
which the 3d Ohio was being transported from Stevenson (May 2d)
was fired upon from ambush by guerillas, and six or eight men more
or less seriously wounded.

Colonel Beatty stoppe