Spirit Of Jefferson

Miscellaneous:

Just Out of their Holes Four Confederates Come in and Surrender.

The serenity of the office of the commanding officer of this post was agitated, on yesterday, by the apparition of four Confederate soldiers, who gave their names and "descriptive lists" as follows:

Anthony Monkas, Company E, 52d Georgia Infantry, Third Army Corps, A. N. V.
Thomas Wells, ditto.
James Brinberter, ditto.
Allen Tewksberry, Forty-third Louisiana, ditto.

A more ragged set of mortals had never appeared before the Colonel during all the dealings he has ever had with the "ragged rebels" of Lee's army. Tewksberry was a sort of walking illustration of original patchwork. His clothing had been tied and sewed and stuck together with string and thread and thorns until there did not appear a solitary square inch upon it which had not been tied up, sewed up, or stuck up, in some way or other. His companions were not quite as badly off, one having a pair of blue Yankee pantaloons, with only a half dozen rents in it; another hiding the raggedness of his gray pants with a flowing, though ribbonry, Yankee overcoat, and the other making his decency apparent by concealing the defects of his upper garments with a ragged cloth fly, awfully bedaubed with mud.

Tewksbury stated to the Colonel that he and his party stopped on the Appomattox, about seven miles above the city, after the evacuation of Petersburg, for the purpose, at first, of resting; that they stayed longer than they expected, and were cut off. They then made a vow to live on that spot, and never go home or give up until the Confederacy was completely annihilated. They sought out a cave on the bank of the river, which at that point is very rocky, and after some little industry succeeded in erecting for themselves a most comfortable little home. Here they lived upon fish and game and occasionally roasting ears during all last summer, and upon bread made of corn they had gathered from the corn-fields, and an occasional pig they found without a mother, in their rambles during the winter. This spring and summer they lived as they did last summer, but recently hearing from an old negro man that the Confederacy had undoubtedly "gone up," they concluded to quit the barbarian life and surrender. They marched to the city yesterday morning, with their muskets and accoutrements, stacked arms in front of headquarters, sent in word that they were the remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia, and that they wished to surrender upon the conditions accorded to the main body. Colonel Milton cordially assented to their request, gave them transportation to their homes and bade them adieu.

The illustrious four roamed about town for a short time, had new suits of clothes given them, and after being made about half drunk, embarked on the Southern trains for their homes.--Petersburg Index, August 14.