he said, after she grasped me in her arms, were "How you have grown," and then she told him of a dream she had. A Mother's Dream. Said she: "I dreamed that you had come to see me and that you were a little, mean-looking fellow, and I could not own you for my son; but now I find I was mistaken-that it is entirely the reverse, and I am proud to own you for my son." "I told her I could remind her of a few circumstances that she would recollect, that took place before I was made captive. I then related various things, among them was that the negroes, on passing our house on Saturday evenings to spend Sunday with their wives, would beg of her to roast pumpkins for them against their return on Monday morning. She recollected these circumstances and said now she had no doubt of my being her son. "We passed the balance of the day in agreeable conversation, and I related to them the history of my captivity, my fears and doubts, of my grief and misery the first year after I was taken. My brothers at this time were all married, and Mark and John moved from there. They were sent for and came to see me, but my half-brother, John, had moved so far away that I never got to see him at all." The Last Shot in the Civil War. D. N. Osyor, a well-known resident of Columbus, manufacturer of and agent for fine cutlery, a mechanical engineer and among the first to introduce electricity into the coal mining business, for cutting and hauling, and who is present commander of J. C. McCoy Post, No. 1, Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, claims to have fired the last shot on either side, in the military sense of the term, and backs up his statement by historical citations including those of the commanding officer General W. D. Hamilton, in his interesting brochure descriptive of the engagement, entitled: "In at the Death or the Last Shot at the Confederacy." The narrative of the incident, along with the subsequent encounter with the Confederate victim of that last shot, is given in Commander Osyor's own words, to which may be added the statement that all historical references given by him substantiate his claim. He says: "The last shot at the Confederacy was on the morning of the 17th day of April, 1865. The Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry were about twelve miles from Durham Station, North Carolina. We were keeping a close watch on General Joe Wheeler's Cavalry. Our command was on the opposite side of a swamp from Wheeler's position. Early in the morning, we were ordered to dismount and No. 1, 2 and 3 to wade across (which was about waist deep) and open fire on them to enable the balance of the command to cross the swamp on a corduroy bridge. We were using our Spencer carbines so lively that they thought we were a whole brigade, and we succeeded in our intention to take their attention from the bridge. Just as we were emerging from |