"When MacIver will be tried is at present unknown, as his case has
assumed a complicated aspect. He claims British protection as a
subject of her British Majesty, and the English Consul has
forwarded a statement of his case to Sir Frederick Bruce at
Washington, accompanied by a copy of the by-laws. General
Sheridan also has forwarded a statement to the Secretary of War,
accompanied not only by the by-laws, but very important
documents, including letters from Jefferson Davis, Benjamin, the
Secretary of State of the Confederate States, and other personages
prominent in the Rebellion, showing that MacIver enjoyed the
highest confidence of the Confederacy."

As to the last statement, an open letter I found in his scrap-book is
an excellent proof. It is as follows: "To officers and members of all
camps of United Confederate Veterans: It affords me the greatest
pleasure to say that the bearer of this letter, General Henry Ronald
MacIver, was an officer of great gallantry in the Confederate
Army, serving on the staff at various times of General Stonewall
Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, and E. Kirby Smith, and that his official
record is one of which any man may be proud.

"Respectfully, MARCUS J. WRIGHT,
"_Agent for the Collection of Confederate Records_.

"War Records office, War Department, Washington, July 8, 1895."

At the close of the war duels between officers of the two armies
were not infrequent. In the scrap-book there is the account of one
of these affairs sent from Vicksburg to a Northern paper by a