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When the report came that McClellan had been captured, I happened to be at Baton Rouge.
Upon its reception there was, as nearly as by any possibility there could be, an attempt to start a riot in New Orleans.
One man, a German bookseller, displayed in his windows a skeleton with a large label, “Chickahominy,” on it, and told my soldiers who inquired about it that it was a Yankee skeleton from Chickahominy.
One Andrew, a cousin of my friend the Governor of Massachusetts, a high-toned gentleman (?), presented himself in the Louisiana Club with a breast-pin constructed of a thigh-bone of a Yankee killed on the Chickahominy, as he said.
A young woman, blonde and blue-eyed, wearing flowing silken curls and Confederate colors, white and red, was sent down St. Charles Street, at high noon, with a quantity of handbills containing the particulars of the capture of McClellan.
She was followed by
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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