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“A GIRL OF
TENNESSEE”
"AN INCIDENT OF THE CONFED
ERATE WAK."
(by lei.ia r\ins smythe.)
The following beautiful little
“incident of the civil war,” entitl
ed “A Girl of Tennessee,” was
read at the Thursday meeting of
the Daughters of the Confederacy
in Augusta.
The old Crosby place had been
the scene of several skirmishes be
tween the Confederates and Fed
erals.
It was one of the largest and
finest farms in Tennessee, extend
ing for miles and under perfect
cultivation. But war has put its
blighting touch upon everything,
and the fertile fields were torn up
and blackened, the outhouses bore
the marches of shot and shell,
and everything about had a dilap
idated appearence. Gun carriages
could be seen among the carts and
wagons of the place, and many a
broken musket told the sad story
of war.
Even the fine old forest had not
been spared, for many of the trunks
of the trees bore the marks of
bullets.
A public road ran by the farm,
and accross this road was the for
est. There had always been ugly
stories about these woods—a law
less band had its rendezvous in the
darkest places and it was a long
time before they were driven out.
Belated pedestrians had failed to
reach home, strangers were found
robbed and murdered.
Of course there were natives bold
enough to brave the worst, that
went through continually, but the
country people and negroes would
go a long distance out of their way
to avoid passing through the
woods.
Late in the evening of an au
tumn day in the sixties, a girl
stood among the shrubbery of her
home and made a pretty picture
with the burnished leaves falling
about her.
Her eyes had an anxious look,
and her red lips had a pathetic
droop. She was wistfully gazing
at the soft dickering of the declin
ing sunlight in a reddened sky.
Her eyes fell from the sky to the
placid scene about, and a tender
smile dispelled the sadness of the
lips. Suddenly her pensiveness
vanished and site became very pale
and a good deal agitated.
*ho looked eagerly in the direct
ion of the forest. The astonish
ment became merged in a visible
alarm, and yet the cause was simple
enough, just a country woman
with a hideous sunbonnet and a
basket of eggs upon her arm.
With great strides she approach
ed the house and stopped when the
girl accosted her.
“What have you for sale?”
“Eggs,” the woman replied.
Her voice was harsh and coarse.
The girl looked startled and darted
a dozen looks into the big sunbon
net. She met a pair of fiery black
eyes.
“Mrs. Cullom sent the eggs to
your ma,” said the woman.
“Wait here and I’ll take them
to her,” said the girl.
“1 wont to see your ma. You
look skeered. I ain’t a going to
bite you.”
“We havesickness in the house,”
said the girl. “Why shoiild I<
fear?”
The woman came closer and laid
her large hand upon the girl's slen
der arm.
“Is it the wounded officer?”
she asked in a whisper.
“There is an officer here on pa
role,” answered the girl.
“And has the general come?”
asked the woman.
The girl's cheeks grew pale, but
she answered very quietly.
“The general has not come.”
“ You do not seen to fear the
forest,” she continued, looking
intently at the woman. “You
country people never come through
the forest. You are the first, one
I have ever seen do so.”
The woman laughed. “T ain’t
afraid of nothing,” she replied.
“You must be a stranger,” the
girl said. “Your face is a strange
one to me.”
“I am a stranger,” replied the
woman. I’m Mrs. Cullom’scousin,
Abby Lucas, and 1 ran away from
the Yankees.”
“Wait,” said the girl, as the wo
man turned to go. “The general
is not with us, but a good many
Confederates are about, hunting
for a man who is a traitor and a
spy.”
“I don’t know any such person,”
j said the woman sullenly. “As
you don’t want the eggs, I’ll go.”
She turned abruptly from the
young lady and went in the direct
ion of the forest, disappearing
among the shadows.
With a low exclamation of
horror, the girl ran into the house.
As the lights went out one by one
in tht' home, a man pushed his
way through the thicket and step
ped out into the road. He remain
ed in a listening attitude for some
time, then with noiseless steps
approached the house. The howl
of a dog rang out on the night air
prolonged and mournful.
The man shivered slightly and
for a moment his head was bowed.
Ht> threw his head defiantly back
and with a muttered curse, again
slowly went forward. He paused
again and raised his convulsed
face to the moon, whose light re
vealed a tear upon the bronzed
cheek. -
His fiery eyes swept over the land
scape, softened and lovely in the
moonlight. The fields lay under
the silver spell. In the forest
were moon shafts. There were
fiery islands in the sky fioating in
a great incandescent sea.
A little lake formed by streams
from the mountains, like glass.
The oltl homestead stood massive
and silent amidst trees and shrub
bery.
The scene was only too familiar
to the gaze. In the lake he had
fished; the mountains he had
climbed, and down a pretty path,
visible in the moonlight, he had
wandered with the friend of his
childhood, tin* love of his maturer
years.
Great beads of agony were upon
his brow, his broad chest heaved
convulsively. He stood in the
moonlight in manly beauty, a per
fect Antnies, all glorious in magni
ficent strength, proud, distinguish
ed and fallen —a traitor to his peo
ple, a traitor and a spy.
The momentary hesitation pas
sed. He opened the garden gate.
There was a great deal of shrub
bery in the garden, consequently
the place seemed full of shadows.
As the gate opened a slender
shadow fell across the path in front
of the bold intruder.
The man sprang back and pre
sented his pistol.
“Fire!” said a low-toned voice,
“and you are ruined !”
The voice was a woman’s.
“Are you here?” was the angri
ly-spoken answer.
“Did you imagine that you
could deceive me this evening?’
she said, “when you came here in
( lie disguise of a country woman.
Your eyes and voice betrayed you,
Marcus.”
“You were anxious for your lov
er lying concealed in the house,”
lie replied. . “I have in the thicket
sufficient force to capture your
lovely colonel.”
“I am not afraid of you, Marcus,
but for you,” she said calmly.
“The general came, and brought
enough troops to surround your
friends in the thicket. I have
waited for you.”
“You knew 1 would come?”
“Alas, yes!” she said sadly. “I
knew' the strength of your hate,
and your desire for revenge.”
“1 do not believe you,” he said
sullenly.
“It is true’” she answered stern
ly, “and I would save you from
your own wicked will.”
“Who made me wicked?” he
said, turning upon her savagely.
“Who made me a demon, a traitor
and a spy. Your perfidy, Rhoda
Crosby.”
“It is all a mistake,” she said
in a quivering voice, “a dreadful
mistake, Marcus.”
“Your lover is this moment ly
ing wounded in your house attend
ed by you ”
“No! No!” she sobbed.
“Stand back!” he said fiercely,
“I’ll soon know.”
H< • raised his pistol.
“For Cod’s sake, Marcus! she
said. His answer was a pistol
shot. The quiet, peaceful „scene
became one of animation.
Rushing feet could be heard and
low words of command.
“Do not permit yourself to be
captured, Marcus,” she implored,
“for God’s sake follow me before
it is too late.”
“I do not care,” he answered.
“But you must care,” she said,
“for my sake and the blessed days
of our love.”
“For the sake of those days,
Rhoda,” lie said, as he followed
her flying feet.
By the spring, hidden by clus
tering bushes stood a horse.
“Before I go,” he said, now
quite subdued, “let me tell you,
Rhoda tonight’s work is the first
treachery to my country. It has
failed, thank God and I will atoue
in the future.”
He held her slight form a mo
ment in his arms and relinquish-
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“Why did you cease to love me,
Rhoda? God Bless you, even if
you marry my successful rival.”
He sprang upon the horse and
dashed away.
As the last sound of the horse’s
hoofs fell upon her ear, the girl
raised her arms heavenward. t
“Thank God he never knew,”
she sobbed, “that I loved only
him.”
The war ended and a gentleman
came to Augusta and established
a wholesale grocery store. Two
years later he went to Savannah,
where his mother joined him.
Then for long years a curtain of
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One day a letter came to him
whose words were faint and irregu
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“I loved you then, and I love
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am dying.”
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ing to her, but his love was dead.
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