It is now five months since I was at home, and nothing would afford me more pleasure than to visit there, but duty requires me to remain in the field. Give my kind regards to friends, and believe me, as ever,

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James M. Brownlow

Colonel Commanding, & c.

Harper’s Weekly published the sketch by Theodore R. Davis in its August 3, 1864 issue. The drawing of “Colonel Brownlow on a Picket Hunt,” was accompanied by the article printed below.

Another illustration on this page represents Colonel Jim Brownlow, with a small party of men in Georgia costume, crossing the Chattahoochee to capture the rebel pickets. The expedition was a successful one, but it broke up the friendly communication which had been several days established between the pickets across the river. This was before SHERMAN had crossed. The morning after the occurrence notice was given of the changed situation by a Reb yelling out across the stream:

“Hello, Yank!”

“What do you want, Johnny?”

“Can’t talk to ‘uns any more!”

“How is that?”

“Orders to dry up!”

“What for, Johnny?”

“Oh! JIM BROWNLOW, with his d—–d Tennessee Yanks, swam over upon the left last night, and stormed our rifle-pits naked–captured sixty of our boys,and made ‘em swim back with him. We ‘uns have got to keep you ‘uns on your side of the river now.”

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