k "week about," and in this way each could be a _lady_ two
weeks out of three. This plan seemed to operate well, and they
soon became quite cheerful over it, and boastful of domestic
accomplishments.

Cluseret while on his raid into the Valley brooded over the incident
which resulted in his being prevented from taking command of the
post at Moorefield, and pretended to believe that I had wronged
him. He went so far as to talk freely to officers about the
incident, and to declare that if he should meet me again he would
shoot me unless I made amends. These threats came to me on my
arrival at Winchester, and my friends seemed to apprehend serious
consequences. As I always deprecated personal conflicts, and was
careful to avoid them, I was somewhat annoyed. I knew little of
Cluseret or his character, except that he was an adventurer or
soldier of fortune. I announced nothing as to what I should do if
he attempted to assault me, but I took pains to carry a revolver
with which I purposed, if attacked, to kill him if possible before
I received any serious injury. I soon met, saluted, and passed
him without receiving and recognition in return except a fierce,
vicious stare. After this, on several occasions, I passed him
about the camps or on the roads without noticing him, and although
his threats were repeated I was not molested by him. Soon the
incident and his subsequent conduct led to some trouble between
him and Milroy. Milroy placed him in arrest, and he was later
ordered from the command. On March 2, 1863, he was permitted to
resign, having served as a Brigadier-General of Volunteers from
October 11, 1862, and having previously, from March 10, 1862, been
a Colonel and acting aide-de-camp. He repaired to New York, and
there did some newspaper work in which he assailed President Lincoln
and the conduct of the war, and subsequently disappeared. Afterwards
he became the Secretary of War of the Commune in Paris, near the
close of the Franco-Prussian War. He escaped from Paris at its
close, and years later, being pardoned, he returned to France, and
is now, I am informed, a Socialist member of the Chamber of
Deputies.

There were many such adventurers as Cluseret from foreign countries
who received commissions in our volunteer army on account of their
supposed military knowledge or experience, who almost without
exception proved failures or worse. They were generally domineering,
and of a temperament not su