What boots it, Lindaraja, that I, at Jaen's gate, That unsurrendered city, have met my final fate?

One lovely May morning a Federal despatch-boatyes, the one we knowsped down Mobile Bay with many gray-uniformed men aboard, mostly of the ranks and unaccoutred, but some of them officers still belted for their unsurrendered swords.

The surrender or capture of the more respectable military element left the unsurrendered firearms in the hands of men most of whom were ignorant, many of whom were criminal, and nearly all of whom were irresponsible and unscrupulous.