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been and still were rebels, cursing the Yankees and the government, and trying to provoke a difficulty with myself by declaring that "he could whip that d-d son of a b-h sitting over there" meaning myself; Lieut. Dunn came up, embraced him familiarly, and went in to drink with them. 
In regard to the second statement it can be proven as follows:
On the 13th of July It being pay day, and the men of the command being, many of them, intoxicated and boisterous, requiring the effective authority of an officer to repress their tendency to disorder and difficulties, Lieut Dunn was himself so intoxicated as to be incapable of intelligent communication, or physical control; that he was drinking with private soldiers at the public bar, that he walked across the square with a soldier, each with an arm round the waist of the other, and that he was borne across the square afterwards between two soldiers, supporting him, he being unable to walk, to the hotel where he boards. 
The effect of such feelings and conduct upon the hostile element of the place, always very