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RETURN OF A FORAGING PARTY
TO PHILIPPI.
OUR special artist writes: " While in Philippi I was attracted by an immense row
in the street in front of the Court-house, and ran with the entire
population of the town to learn the cause. Instead of the arrival of secession
prisoners, or of an army courier, I found the tumult occasioned by the return
from the country of a foraging party of volunteers—a squad of some half dozen,
under command of a sergeant, with their spoil. Each man carried
one or more young pigs—from the suckling up to the 'likely' shoat—and the squad
entered the street in rank with piggy shouldered or trailed, according to the
orders of the officer, to the vociferous music of their captives; As they neared
the camp the town pigs took the alarm, and made a rush for the
spoilers, followed by every cur of the neighborhood. The sergeant ordered
'double-quick,' but one old sow was too fast for the men; she broke their ranks
and scattered them as they had routed the secessionists on the same ground. They
saved their bacon by a rush into the Court-house yard."
RECAPTURE OF THE SCHOONER "ENCHANTRESS" BY THE
GUN-BOAT "ALBATROSS."-SKETCHED BY MR. DONOVAN.—[SEE
PAGE 522.]
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