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FIGHTING JOE.
FIGHTING JOE;
OR,
THE FORTUNES OF A STAFF OFFICER.
A FIGHTING MAN.
"WELL, Alick, I don't know where I am," said Captain Thomas Somers, of the staff of the major general commanding the first army corps of the Army of the Potomac, then on its march to repel the invasion of Maryland, which had been attempted by the victorious rebels under General Lee.
"Well, massa, I'm sure I don't know," replied Alick, his colored servant. "If you was down 'bout Petersburg, I reckon I'd know all 'bout it."
"We must find out very soon," added Captain Somers, as he reined in his horse at a point where two roads branched off, one to the north-west and the other to the south-west.
"Day ain't no house 'bout here, massa."
"I don't want to lose my way, for I have no time to spare."
"Dar's somebody comin' up behind, massa," said Alick, who first heard the sounds of horses' feet approaching in the direction from which they had just come.
Captain Somers, after receiving the agreeable intelligence of his appointment on the staff of the general, in whose division he had served on the Peninsula, hastened to Washington to report for duty. He had hardly time to visit his friends, and was obliged to content himself with a short call on Miss Lilian Ashford, though he had an invitation to spend the evening with the family, extended for the purpose of enabling the young gentleman to cultivate an acquaintance with the beautiful girl's grandmother!
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