"The General of the Mackerel Brigade.
("Green Seal.")
You may observe, my boy, that the remark: "I feel that it is so," does not make the strongest kind of connection with the preceding sentence; but great warriors are apt to be shaky in their rhetoric; and the Confederacy responded thus:
"Gen. Mack. Brig.:
"Sirrah,—Though repelling with scorn the vandal insinuation that further military confusion on my part is hopeless, I agree with you as to the stoppage of further carnage, and desire to know upon what terms you will haul the celebrated Southern Confederacy out of this swamp.
"MunchausenX his mark."
(This chivalrous manner of signing a name with a Cross is a knightly expression of profound piety, descended from the ancient crusaders to the Southern chivalry of the present day.)
To the above epistle the General thus replied:
"Munchausen, Southern Confederacy:
"Sir,—I propose to receive the surrender of the well-known Southern Confederacy on the following terms: