While he claimed to be only a private soldier, I felt quite sure that he had worn shoulder straps. Those who deserted the Confederate army were not men of his Btamp, but quite the opposite. At the time he came in I had seven, other deserters under guard, and after hearing his story Lput him among them for half a day. He wad then removed to a tent by j himself, and when I went among the seven all of them agreed with me that his excuse was rather flimsy, and that bis general demeanour was that of an officer. This determined me to keep an eye on him, and I also dropped in on him pretty often for a chat. 1 tried my best, to trip him np, but he was too sharp for me. I had him in charge for about ten days, and' then one night he escaped from the tent nnder the very nose of the guard and was not re captured. About the time Wickham came to us, a corporal in a New York infantry regiment named Hinsdale crossed the Bappahannock and penetrated Stonewall ' Jackson's lines as a spy. Through some careless move on his. part he aroused suspicion and was placed under arrest. He would have been tried by court 'martial and probably con vioted and hung, but he likewise made his eßoape. Jußt before the army made ready for the movement which ended in the' disaster at Chancellorsville, I was one of five cavalrymen captured while a force was -making- a reconnoissanoe on Con federate territory. We had been held one day and were on the point of being shipped off to Richmond, when I was separated from the others and conducted to a guard house within Jackson's lines. I, of coarse, asked for explanations, bat none was vouchsafed for several hours. I was the sole occupant of a log hut which would have held twenty men, and after I had been there for a couple of hours five or six soldiers came in with' a lieutenant. It turned out that they were the men who had charge of Hinsdale several weeks before. Bach and every man instantly and positively identified me aa Hinsdale. When I gave my name and command they laughed at me. 