He then came down but Smith said: "We will give you quarters but they must be such quarters as you gave me in North Street- March off to yonder shed and I will fire. If I miss you may go clear, but if I hit take the consequences." Shube went a short [distance] and turned round to look when several fired at the same moment and the robber fell dead. - Bad as Shube was, yet good faith was outraged in his death, and at the time there was ever a feeling in his favour. It was considered by many at the
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time that Colonel Greene provoked and determined his fate. Some of his own men had, shortly before, made prisoner of Totten whom Greene put under a guard of negroes, refused to parole, and treated him in other res- -pects, uncourteously. When Totten came to be exchanged he told Greene he would repay him on the first opportunity the treatment he had received. Accord- -ingly when the attack was made upon Greene's quarters it was led by Totten who engaged at the door in single combat with the Colonel, was struck down by him and saved by a Refugee soldier. Totten the moment he saw his antagonist sprang forward with his sword and called upon him to submit instantly, but Greene answered the summons with a full and rapid stroke of his broad sword which, had it not been parried by another person, would have been