[CHAPTER XXIX.]
It is not for prisoners to be too silent.
Love's Labor Lost.
Standing by Our Colors.
On the way, one of our party enjoined my colleague and myself—
"You had better not say Tribune to the Rebels. Tell them you are correspondents of some less obnoxious journal."
Months before, I had asked three Confederate officers—paroled prisoners within our lines:—
"What would you do with a Tribune correspondent, if you captured him?" With the usual recklessness, two had answered:—