The Fellowship Of Foes

Gapt. McGrath, Clerkof th 3 Suprcme Court, tells a good story of his war expeiience, going to show that during the war, at least, the world sometimos seemed so small that you were continually knocking against somebody you didn't expect to meet. Just after the f:ill of Vicksburg the Captain's regiment, the Seventeenth Wisconsin, had charge of i lot of prisoners, most of uhom had oianned the works iinmediately in front of them tluriug the siege. These prisoners were supplied with rations ander Gen. Grant's order, the same as tlieir guards; but they didn't always, or even generally eat alone. The Union soldiers fellowed with them to a gveat extent, and, while guarding them as prisoners, really treated them as old friends, and diseussed the incidents of the siege with them with great relisli. Among tliem was a young officer nanied Saunders, belonging to an Arkansas regiment, who becamc a favorite in the camp of the Seventeenth, and spent a great deal of time for a few days among its officers. He had come of a good family, was woll eduoated, and among gentlemen always a gentleman. When he was paro!ed a few days later, hepartedfromhis recent foes, now friends, with evident regret, taking with him a new Yankee un:form which his entertainers had niadn up for him, to replace the tattered garb in which lic had been capturod. He went away never expecting to see his new-fonnd fiiends again, but a few proaebing Natchez early one morning. a liorseman in a blue uniform, mounted on a mulé, was sn approaching from the dircction of the city. He eviilently did not see the bluecoats nn til they were nearly upon him, and then seemed anxions to avo:d a meeting-a kind of conduct the soldiers eouldn't understand atfirst. as he wore the blue. The soldiers thought they must liave caught a spy, but the first oflicer who carne up identiiied Saunders. Being amono; friends it was easy to prove Iris parole, and he was soon free again, and this time crossed the river and went home to Arkansas. A ycar later the rebel and Union armies were confiontingeach otlier near Atlanta. There had been sharp firing on the picket line all day. Just as it was getting dark it let up a little, and pretty soon a voice called out from the Confedérate riflepits: "Wliat regiment is that?" The answer went back: "Seventeenth Wisconsin." Then carne the surprising inquiry: "IsMcAuley there?" "Yes." "Is McGrath there?" "Yes. Who the d- - d are you?" "Saunders, of Arkansaw." A shout gi-eeted this announcement, and "Saunders, of Arkansaw" was uiuiiipiiv uiviieu uvt.i. litj cauuc, suu, on invitation brought a party of fellow rebels with him. Then, as so often hap]ened both in the East and tho West during the war, men who had spent the day in active eftbrts to take cach othcr's lives, gathered around the camp-lire in the eveuing as closest friends, and then returncd again each to his post of duty to look upon each as infidel dogs or hated giaoiirs. - Chicago Mail.