“You shall have this again, my boy, when you are permitted to go from here.” Six weeks afterward the lad was paroled, and, repairing to Major Turner’s office, the kind officer, handing him the package of money and the passes, just as he received them, said: “Here is your money, my boy.” With trembling hands, but a joyous heart, the little fellow took the package. He was sent to Washington, and a few weeks afterward was going his old rounds selling newspapers. The boy was Doc Aubrey, the newsboy of the Iron Brigade, who now resides in Milwaukee. * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Punctuation has been made consistent. p. 12: Another version of this story (George B. Herbert, _The Popular History of the Civil War in America_, F. M. Lupton, Publisher, New York, 1885, p. 476) includes the following additional paragraph immediately after the paragraph that starts “Ward Lamon, when Lincoln had appointed him ...”. “I am astonished at you, Ward,” said Mr. Lincoln; “you ought to have known better. Hereafter, when you have to hit a man, use a club and not your fist.”