I had eaten my dinner, and was on my way to see about turning over the captured property, when I was met by some guards, with an order from Lieutenant W. S. Dewey, Provost-marshal, to arrest me. I accompanied them to the Provost-marshal's office, where I found Lieutenant Dewey, in a dreadful rage. "What do you want of me?" I asked. "I want to hang you, and all the rest of the G--d d--d robbers that were with you!" was his reply. "What is that for?" "For going through the country and deceiving the people, and representing yourself as a citizen of Tennessee." "I have never been through the country, except as I have been sent on scouts by my commanding officer." "I'll _scout_ you, d--n you! I'll scalp you! What's the names of the men that belong to your band?" "I haven't got any band." "What's the names of the men that were out with you?" I then gave him a list of the men that accompanied me, and was then ordered to be put in the guard-house. The court-room of the court-house was used as a guard-house. The Provost-marshal's office was in one of the lower rooms of the court house. The Provost-marshal had all the men that had been with me arrested, and when he had got us all together in the guard-house, we were marched, under guard, into his office. Addressing us, he said: "There has been a great deal of stealing and robbing going on in the country about here, lately, and I believe that you are the men that have done it, and I mean to make an example of you, and I shall use my _utmost endeavors to have every man of you shot_." "What have we done," I inquired, "that you should have such an awful antipathy against us?" "You will see when I make out my charges and specifications. Guards, take them back to the guard-house." When back in the guard-house, and left to reflection, the words, "_I shall use my utmost endeavors to have you shot_," seemed to force themselves upon my mind with vivid impression. What could it mean, that an officer in the United States army should express himself so emphatically, as committed against us, when justice every-where holds a man to be _innocent_ until he is _proved_ to be guilty. While I had been in camp getting my dinner, the Provost-marshal had released Mr. Perry, and had administered to him the oath of allegiance, and returned to him the property that we had taken. On being released, Mr. Perry found Doctor Russel Parson Hamers, and Mr. Lawhorn--who happened to be in town at the time--and, in company with them, went to the Provost-marshal, (who tolerated their complaints,) and fabricated such statements as they chose to make against us, and upon those statements the Provost-marshal based his charges and caused our arrest. It was humiliating in the extreme, for us, after having served our country with devoted patriotism, and imperiled our lives for its preservation, to be thus made the victims of revenge by those whom we knew were at enmity with the Government.