Note 34 — THE WALKING GALLOWS.

This circumstance is mentioned in my “Historic Anecdotes of the Union,” among several others, which were written before the present work was in contemplation. But the incident now before the reader is so remarkable that I have gone into it more particularly. Many will peruse this book who will never see the other, into which have been interwoven, in fact, numerous sketches of those days that I now regret I did not retain for the present work, to which they would have been quite appropriate.