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discovering their close proximity, Jones exclaimed, “For God Almighty's sake, tell me quick-friends or enemies — who are you?”
The other replied, “We are friends,” and at the same time advanced.
A little boy, named Joseph Ware, who was behind the Mississippian, instantly cried out, “Captain, they are not friends; don't you see they have not guns like ours.
They are Yankees, let me shoot.”
Again Jones exclaimed, “Who are you?
Speak quick, for I can't keep my men from firing.”
“I'll let you know who we are, you d — d rebel,” said the Yankee officer, for such he was, and suiting the action to the word, he sprang upon and seized Captain Jones by the collar.
For a second or two a scuffle ensued between the officers, when the latter broke loose.
At the same instant one of the Mississippians dashed out the Yankee's brains with the point of his musket.--Charleston Courier.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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