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[190] was out of funds, and handing him *p;200 in gold as pocket money, directed him to put up at the Queen Hotel, where all his expenses would be paid until news could be received from Richmond.

What the fiscal agent next heard from Richmond was the news of the downfall of the Confederacy. This left the fiscal agent and Mr. Baumgarten in the lurch, but Mr. Baumgarten was provided with a ticket to Paris and a letter of introduction to Mr. Slidell, then representing the Confederate Government at the French capital. Mr. Slidell took care of him until the President issued the amnesty proclamation, when he pulled out for home,

“I got here in time,” said Mr. Baumgarten, ‘to be arrested on an average of six times a day, and if I had arrived two weeks sooner I suppose I would have been torn to pieces.’

Richmond, VA. 1905.

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