Johnson's advice--returned to their company streets and were allowed to keep their guns.

The Ordnance Officer was ordered to take all ammunition to the camp of the Thirty-first Michigan and place it in the guard-house.
The men had the freedom and pass privilege to and from the city.
[Illustration: MAJOR J.B.JOHNSON, OF THE SIXTH VIRGINIA COLORED VOLUNTEERS.] November 19th the command was ordered to Macon, Ga., arriving at Camp Haskell next day, with 820 men and 27 officers.
Near the camp of the Sixth Virginia was that of the Tenth Immune Regiment, in which were many Virginia boys, some of whom had been members of some of the companies of the Sixth.
Some irresponsible persons cut down a tree upon which several men had been lynched.

The blame naturally fell upon the Sixth Virginia.

The regiment was placed under arrest and remained so for nineteen days.
The first day the Third Engineers guarded the camp, but General Wilson, the Corps commander, removed them and put colored soldiers to guard them.

On the night of November 20th, at a late hour, the camp was surrounded by all the troops available while the men were asleep and the regiment was disarmed.
While all this was going on the Thirty-first Michigan Regiment had been deployed into line behind a hill on the north and the Fourth Tennessee had been drawn up in line on the east side of the camp ready to fire should any resistance be offered.
The men quietly submitted to this strange procedure, and did not know that Gatling guns had been conveniently placed at hand to mow them down had they shown any resistance.