text:  The flag and trumpet sent in next morning to recover the remains of such as had suffered in that mad rush to the gates of the town came back without being permitted to pass beyond the outworks bringing a brutal message from the officer on duty 'that the next flag should be fired on ' and that the 'brave soldiers of the Republic allowed of no compromise with the slaves of tyranny!' The bravado might be laughed at but it left me in the dark relative to your fate; and if you are to be flattered by the feelings of men who cannot get at you but by cannon-shot you may congratulate yourself on having had as many fine things said of you as would make an epitaph for a duke--and I believe with a sincerity at least equal to the best of them