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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY JANUARY 19 1886
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STORIES OF THE WAR.
Which .Never Fall to Interest the Reader,
Whether Old or Yoong.
A BLOODY BATTLE.
Twelve Thousand Hen Killed in Fort/
Minute*.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Captain James A. Graham, of the Twenty,
seventh North Carolina, give* a description of
a terrible charge made by his two confederate
brigades at Bristoe station that was, perhaps,
the bloodiest of the war. The confederates
had been chasing the federals all day, and
were suddenly brought up against a corps of
troops that were hidden behind a hill. Bat we
let Captain Graham.tell the story:
It was a beautiful October day, but it was
destined to bo the day when more men were
killed and more blood shed in a few minutes
than waa ever known before, Tills assertion
seems strong, bnt I venture it, for I have never
read in history of as many as 1,200 men lost
on one side, where only two brigades were en
gaged, in less than forty minutes. The con
federates lost that many that day. My own
brigade, Cooke’s lost just 700 and Kirkland 560.
The battle did not last exceeding forty minutes
after the first gun was fired.
ABBIVAL NEAR BRISTOE.
After leaving Greenwich (or Grocnage) and
pursuing the rapid march, of which I spoke
above, for some hours wo reached tho vicinity
of Bristoe. On the top of tho high red hill I
noticed the head of our brigade turning to the
right into a cedar thicket As I passed General
John B. JDooke I said to him: ‘•Well, general,
you are going to givo us a rest now.” His re
ply waa: “Not yet, Jimmie; there Is about >
division of yankees over here just beyond tho
railroad: we’ll catch them and then rest”
Kirkland, immediately in oar rear, filed
*°. the left and formod line,
brigade, with ours, com
posed tho line of battle. Little did we think then
thero was death in the pot In a short while
the command “Forward!" was given and wo
advanced through the cedar thicket and adonso
forest of oaks for about 500 or 600 yards, when
we came to a beautiftit little valley,through
which ran a little branch. General L P. Hill,
our corps commander, was almost immediately
in our rear, General Harry Heth, our division
commander, was a little to our left and rear,
so that he could sec both brigade* and his
whole line. Before us, as Hill supposod—and,
in fact, all of us, at that time, had tho same,
idea—was only one division of the fodoral
aimy. That was tho resr guard, which we had
been pursuing all day and thought wo could
easily whip, but wo “coanted without our
host.” Warren, with his corps, wss then mov-
in* up tho railroad from Catteli’s station, pur-
iued fay Early and Ewell, and happened Jt
then to hare reached a point immediately
front of u» t where tho railroad embankment
formed n perfect breaatwork. There waa a lit
tle hill between ua and them whon wo ate
in tho little valley ao that wo could m
them.
TDK BATTLE BEOtTlt.
Bnt wo aoon felt them. I waa atanding near
General Cooke when a courier from Coneral
Heth came with the menage: “General Cooke,
General Heth eayx General HU1 ordera you to
advance.” Almoatat the anme time a courier
came from Colonel E. D. Hall, Forty-aixth
North Carolina (oar right regiment) nnd In
formed General Cooke that wo were flanked on
tho right. The courier from General Heth
wm lent hack with the Information that
wo wero flanked and asked that
our right he tupported before we were
made to advance, and Colonel Hell w.l
ordered to throw out two companies away to
hia right and feel tho enemy. The two ooarlen
came again, almost timnltaneouily, to Get
Cooke. The one from General Heth mm
“General Cooke, General Hath lays Get
Hill lays advance.” The one from Colonel Hall
reported that he (Colonel Hall) had thrown out
ilea as directed and that they
the two com]
wero
enemy
>ly driven in and that the
offered to go to General HU1 for Cooke. Direct
ly niter he started a courier came direct from
Hill to Cooke with the memage: “General
Cooke General HIU aaya advance at onoo.” [I
waa atanding within fifteen feet of General
Cooke and heard all these message* given and
received.] Upon this message Cooke, with a
* " i shoulders that ho had,
I’ll take my
peculiar shrug of the a
' ‘ “Well, '
remarked:
men in and if they outflank me I'll flue my
men abont and cut my way out. Forward,
men!”
ADVENCINO UP THE BILL.
As wo advanced np tho llttlo hill a rabbit
- . , Ono
had.
nodoabt, been made a thousand time* before
-“Go it, ■Holly Cotton Tall.' If I had no
more reputation than yon I’d run too.” 11
log up the llttlo hill we came to a skirt __
pino* on its top, and as wo passed through
thorn the work of death began. To tho left
of Kirkland, on a high round hill, had bean
posted Graham’s North Carolina bat
tery and Virginia battery,
of Poagne’a battalion. As we emerged from
the piaea we conld see on the opposite aide of
tho railroad two tents being pitched and a lot
of wagons apparently going into park. “Boom”
went n cannon from Graham’s battery. The
shell struck one of the tents, and, as was after
wards reported to ns, killed n lieutenant colo-
nel and major, who were preparing to mat
therein. Immediately all was confusion on
that aide, and all the [forces that wo could too,
wagons and all, harried away.
We had atlll teen no enemy in onr Immedi
ate front, but wo soon found that they wero
thero and ready for us. We thought we had'
the “hire now.” Jnat as we passed the skirt
of pines Are was opened on ns by skirmishers
beyond tho railroad and from two or throe bat
teries In the woods st the top of tho opposite
hUl. We etill taw no enemy behind the rail-
load, but soon they opened on ns with telling
effect. It was a gentle elope from the pines to
tho railroad, and as the enemy wero firing
bill their bullets told well.
FALL or COOKE AND OIUfXB.
command of the brigade then dovolvodon
Colonel E. D. Hall, of the Forty-aixth North
Carolina, and Lieutenant Colonel Whitfield
took command of our regiment. The Twenty*
seventh having boon always drilled In the
quick-step was a little in advance, and had
halted for the others. As Colonel Hell came
op, Coloael Whitfield told him he would loom
every man he had if ho kept them then, and
suggested a charge. Colonel Hall said: "Well,
charger” and down the hill we started.
Where we had halted bnt for an Instant the
line waa plainly marked by dead and wounded
men. Ten of my own company lay there. Tho
balance of the brigade immediately Joined In
the charge, as did Kirkland also. By this time
the firing woe becoming still more deadly. Men
were tailing at every step. Half way down the
hull was wounded andstarted back. As I
neared the top of the hill, I turned and saw my
regiment actually slaughtered by one vor
They bad then reached within thirty or
yards of the railroad. The regiment *L
to me jnat to melt away at one*. Jut than I
glanced to the left and saw a pert of the
Eleventh North Carolina dashing over the
railroad embankment The yankec* were too
strong for them, and they never cam* back
until they were paroled and exchanged.
DISASTROUS COEIEQUESCn OF THE FIOJTT.
Bnt the fight waa diaaatrooa to the confoder-
ate*. We had to &11 back np that fttal hill.
The Twenty-eeventh had ao protection of any
kind. The ground was smooth and eyan and
it seemed aaif every man moat bo ab<A but
wo wero protected to a great extent by the
gallant Fifteenth North Carolina, wh* ~ J
their able colonel (afterwards
era!,) William McBae,
by companies, as though
drill, and ponied their fire upon the ..
thus making a part of them, at least, keep
their heads and mneket bands below tho top
of tho embankment. The Fifteenth had some
protection by nnevennea in the ground thin
passed over, as well aa by some trees and
£S
bushes along their line. We bad none, except
their protecting fire.”
Colonel John Eaten Cooke aaya:
“The fault of fighting two brigades against
one whole corps and a division of auotherwas
. rwnebodr. but not with Cooke or Kirk-
land. They only obeyed the order* to ad
vance, and, as I have shown In tho caao ol
Cooke, protested against being rushed into the
slaughter pen withont aome support. They,
under order* like “The Six Hundred,” rushed
“right Into tho jaws of death."
LXn’STACTr DIBSfFXOVAL OF THE SLAUGHTER.
Well might General Lee, the noble old Bo-
map, ray: •'Well, well, general, bury these poor
soldiers and let ua say no more about It” I
havo heard it said—and the northern papers
so atated a few days after the fight—that the
federal loss was only thirty-five. I do not know
how this is, whether true or not. But Just
think of it! A loos of thirty-five on ono
sido ogainst 1,260 on the other, the
thirty-five ont of more titan a
corps and the 1,260 out of two
brigades, and all in less than forty mlnntoa. In
deed, we did “go intothe jaws of death.” Iftho
35 be correct, then I lost more out of my own
company than the whole of Hancock’s and
Warren’s troops did. I entered the fight with
65 men and olficera and lost 43, every odicer
being wonnded. The Twenty-seventh North
Carolina regiment hod 418 and lost 280. Of 33
ofllccrs only 3 escaped unhurt.
ALWAYS BOXETUINO LUDICROUS.
Bnt, while we might dwell longer on tho tad
K t of this scene, thero is always something
icroua to happen even in anch a battle. Jnat
before leaving Gordonavillo, Vs., on tho 8th or
lith of October, new clothes had been issued to
our brigade. Our men wore their old clothes
on the march to Bristow aud had them on at
the fight. When wo were compelled to retreat
np the hill under tho doadly
fire Private J. H, Lathinghousc, of company
H, Twenty-seventh North Carolina, finding
lilt knapsack too heavy and fearing he would
have to throw it away and lose his now
clothes, stopped about halfway np the hill,
threw off hia knapaack, opened It, jerked off
bit old clothes, donned hit new ones and then
continued hia trot up tho hill. It is tho only
instance of which I havo over heard of a man
changing his clothes under flro; but clothes
wero very good things to have in our army at
that date.
AXOTHEB INCIDENT OF THAT FIGHT.
Sergeant Fleming, alto of company H, was
shot through the right shoulder and did not
know it until next morning, whon ho com-
E ltined of hit gun having kicked terribly and
Is shoulder being very tore. Major Webb
railed bis attention to n hole in hia coat, and
on pulling it off bo found s bullet bole
through bit right shoulder. Happily it bit no
bone.
Gdailam, N. C.
A Captain's Escape from Prison.
Captain Woodruff, of the old First Alabama
regiment, thus tells tho story of his esetpo
from Johnson’s Island:
“Johnson's Island la in Lake Erie, some two
or three miles off tho city of Sandusky. It la a
low, sandy island with llttlo patches of scrub
by timber, and a few well mounted guns could
command it* entiro extent. For Its se
curity from attack it was happily
choaen, the only possible danger being
from a naval attack from the Canadian tide.
It waa pleasant enough in summer, bnt tho
cold winds had a fair swoop at it in tho winter
and made it aa bleak ns the shores of Green
land, and with onr loose jointed, Irani quarters,
•cant fuel, and still scantier clothing, wo hod a
hard time to keep from freezing. Many a night
havo I, with my comrades, bad to trot around
tho room in a circle to keep from actual freez
ing. The horronof. Licutcnznt Greely’s arctic
expedition may bo more tragic, bu
they could not exceed the winter, howovcr.we
endured in slow, uneessing torture—both of
hunger and cold.
I was raptured at Island No. 10, In tho Mis-
stsslppl river, and spent the summer and win
ter then, bnt the dread of the next winter was
so great on my mind that I resolved to escape
or low my lira In the attempt. I hid much
rather have died than endure another winter
In that prison.
"Boots came over every day from 8andusky
snd with them fhtlgue parties, with seavenger
carts to clean np the quarters. The Idea oc
curred to me that If I could got a uniform and
fall in with ono of the parties I could get out,
and acting upon this I went to work to get
a bine blouse nnd trousers. I had a few dol
lars In (liver and found no trouble In prevail
lug upon a Jolly good tutored Irish tcamstci
to let me have a cast off salt of his. Carefully
concesllngmy treasure I waited a few weeks
COOlT
been a born Jehu. No one noticed or Inter
fered, and I drove on the boat with tho rest
and waa ferried over to the city. Aa soon as I
landed I requested ono of my new com
rades to drivo for mo until
could stop at a shop to get some tobacco. It
took me some little time to get that tobacco,
and when Ifstepped on thejitreet the carts were
all gone snd I was alone. Yes, alone, thero in
that city I felt as mnch slons as If I hadstood
In the centre of Solum. I had no time, how
ever, to moralise npon my aolltndo nnd dodg
ing Into tho blindest alleys I could find, 1
made tracks for the country. It was In October
nnd the leaves wero crimson with tho autumn
dyes and still thick enough npon the little
notches of wood lend to effort > covert should
I with to hide. And tome how a fear came to
me that there would be danger In traveling by
day, and as then was n splendid moon at night,
I did make for a woody covert, end hid myself
until night. I had spent ell the little money
1 bad except s dollar In stiver
quarters, and when night
began to feel hungry. I wss afraid to show my
self, however, snd trudged on all that night,
passing through two considerable towns with
out lntorrnptlon. At daylight I hid again,
taking shelter nndar n shock of corn in a field.
Shocking an ear of com I made my breakfast
snd then slept soundly until snndown, whon
peering cautiously out I found tho coast eloar,
snd stripping another ear of the corn I com
menced my supper mud my tramp st tho same
time. I made n good trip that night, walking
at least thirty miles, feeling my heart growing
lighter at each step that widened the distance
between me and the prison. My stomach, how
ever,began to crave n more substantial food than
the raw corn, and I waa too hungry to sleep.
I took refligo in a llttlo clamp of enclosed
wood, and from it 1 noticed a hum
houso near by. Tho household
to consist of a man and hia wife, with* half
doaen little shock-headed urchin*. I watched
the nun fbiteh np bit wagon, and loading It
from a bm of potatoes, he drove off. I was
deapenlely hungry, and resolved to make n
venture for my breakfast. I waited nntll tho
man was well array, and then I walked boldly
np to the gate and hailed. The lady came to
the door, sad I stepped In, confronting her
with at bold a free aa possible. I thought it
beat to tell the troth, so I told her that I was
an escaped prisoner from Johnson’s island, nnd
that I ms starving for something to sat. It
mi the lint time she had ever stood free to
bee with a live rebel, snd it mss study to
watch the play of her countenance ns fear, pity,
or patriotism alternately worked anon It
“I will pay yon for my breakhst,’’ I raid,
offering her the dollar. I watched her keen
ly end I eaw her begin to melt her lips twitch
ed a little and her eys-lmahea began to moist
en, and I knew, then, that I was eaft.
“Keep your money,” she raid. “Coma In and
in can have breakfast, bnt I cannot take your
oner.**
“ God bless that wsmin, her voice, the first
woman's voice I had heard in eighteen months,
was low end strangely sweet-to me.
“Well she gave me my break bit,* royal break
bat, and It nude her eyea open to see me eat.
As aoon as I had finished she said I bad batter
that her husband would soon be hack and
... waa a bitter partisan and WMld have me
hunted down and raptured. She then nude
JJaHttiawaltetof bliculta with a chunk of
toUed bam and give mo a Pint ink «/wlila-
ide m* good bye. I thought
_ Good Samaritan and have
bleated that woman ever since. I doubled
hW
y pit/, ind making a detour to itoid tho
>ibead t :
•sed the
ing a -
I traveled on. The n^tdar after
Ohio river and began to feel at
home, and pushing across the mountains
West Virginia I made my way to Staunton
without danger or hindrance. I should like to
visit that lady though. The best that 1 havo
in my houso would not be too good for her.'
, How He Mined III* Dreakfhut.
It was the morning after Hragg’s retreat
from the battlefield of Murfreesboro,
were bivouacked at Wartrnce, a little villago
at tho junction of the Louisvillo and Naah<
ville and the Shelbyvillo branch
railroads, I was hungry enough
to eat a horse’s hoof fried in tar, and os soon
I could relieve myself from duty I set out
have breakfast, a convenient darkey pointed
ont a tavern, some hundred yards away, and I
made a bee line for it. It waa an old fashion
village inn, with an open ball running through
and an L attached to tho rear, with a wide
piazza all around. I entered tho
nail and rapped both right and
left but could get no unswer. I then stop
out to the L in the direction of tho Icitcl
and commenced rapping again. At tho sccoud
door came a hospitable response, “Como lu,"
and in I stepped, when lo, what a sight for
modest man. There I stood in tho presence
two of the finest looking ladies I over s iw,
making their toilets. Both were in tlio n l vert
kind of robes dc nuits—ono standing at tho
dreasing rase combing her magnificent
hair; the other was sitting facing me, with her
shapely foot elevated at an anglo of thirty-two
degrees, drawing on her stocking.
Never, if I live a thousand years, will I for
get tho crimson consternation that filled her
face as, too badly shocked to lower her foot,
site cried ont:
“Good Lord! it's a man! Shut the door,
Tom; shut tho door.”
Tom was a little imp of a brother,
and it would have been amusing to
anyone else, to have heard this little scamp
chuckle a he banged the door, not in my faco,
bnt on my back, shutting me in instead ol
out. His misrbeivious chuckle,however,seemod
to recall me to a sense of my position, and with
out trying io excuse myself, I jerked tho door
open and tumbled out. I did not liuut an
further for breakfast. In truth I didn’t thiu!
any moro about breakfast that day.”
Foraging During the War.
From the Fslrburn, <:*.. News.
In the winter of 1864 tho Colquitt brigado
was encamped near Wilmington, N. C. Ra
tions being scarce the bovs would occasionally
go ont foraging, nnd would bring into camp
and sell anything they could buy to thoso who
remained in camp. Upon a certain night,
complaint having been made to tho general
commanding, a guard was placed on tho public
roads leading to the camps, and all who wore
found with anything were placed in tho “bull
pen.” The writer, with bis command, was
placed on duty In camp to guard those
“pulled in,” and hr morning bad
quito a squad in tho pen. At sunrlso they were
marched to tho general’s headquarters, each
man carrying his load of potatoes. Arriving
there the command was halted and the general
came out on tho porch, and surveying the mon,
addressed them in no flattering terms, after
which he ordered the potatoes emptioT
into a pile, then for each man to fill his h
sack, which was done in fine style, while the
poor follows who had carried them for many
mllca looked on with a wistful, hopeless gaze,
that none but they could express. They wero
then allowed to go to camp, and all returned
ho poor follows could only look on still,
GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON.
Incidents Connected With the Confederate
Leader's Death.
Major Dudley M. Haydon.
I had been the bearer of several orders dur
ing the day, and In the intervals had not much to
do but witness the scenes hourly shifting before mo.
One of the principal duties of a staff olllcer y* to
bear orders and rally troops; but our troops were so
eager to strike the enemy on that day that my time
was not much occupied that way; consequently, I
was, with slight Intervals, by the side ot General
Johnston during tho morning up to tho time of tho
charge. Feeling a little neglected, I said to him:
“You keep all of your staff on the wing, flying to
and fro on their bones; why do you retain me by
your side? I want more to do.”
He replied: “You will find plenty ofwork to do
^In less than forty minutes a messenger came
dashing up to him and said that Breckinridge —
sorely pressed and wanted help. He turned at c
and said tome: "Your chanoe has come. Go as fast
as you can and tell General Bowen to move np am
prepare for action.” rrttrton.Ithlnk.hodrec''
an order just before to select tho ground.
- . . , geld as a reserve.
r cover, where thev
had been awaiting orders all the morning. Bo soon
as 1 delivered the order Bowen gave the word, and
1 shall never forget the quick glanee or delight
is fkce and an the oncers and
men of tho brigado, which was one of the best
drilled of the wboie army. As thi
dour path was strewed wUh
inded. Brcckinri ‘
army. As they moved
_ strewed with the dead i
ridge had suffered a repulse.
Hhclls were bursting, cannon .booming, and volley
after volley of artillery and infentnr were all
* L “'ering at tho same time. General Johnston
dashing up almost before Bowen's troops
jen aligned, and stopped his horse on the
crest of the Hill that Preston had selected. Gov
ernor Harris and myself were the only me
of bis staff at that moment by Ms
Brecklr - "
ment, a
Tennea
doing my utmost to rally incm ana gci mei
General Johnston did not answer hlm,bm
suddenly to Governor Harris, saying: “I—
hear that, governor?” and repeated Breckinridge's
words to him Harris galloped forward, after say
ing: "I will see what I can da” Breckinridge fol
lowed, but returned In a few moments and said
again: "General Johnston, I cannot get my men to
make the charge.” To which he replied: "Then I
will help you.’* , . '
It waa then General Johnston bowed to him and
redo instantly into Bowen's lines, not many paces
off, and motioned with his right hand for a
Ing to bo made. 1 followed him and stop]
the side or Bowen, in position Immediately
hia brigade.
The general then turned to the left and rode up
and down the line, returning near tho spot where
he entered It. Hero he halted and saluted. On
one of bis fingers hung a bright tin cun. which had
been banded him by Preston during the morning,
and which hsd served him for drinking water os
we crossed tho ravines.., I was within twenty
paces of him, and according to my recollection
theso were his words: "Men ofTuxaaand Arkansas,
the enemy is stubborn.. I want you now to show
General Beauregard and General Bragg, what you
can do with your bayonets and your toothpicks. I
Will lead you. Forward!” The men went In with
*C,teg around to sec if all the men were ad
vancing m the Are, I saw about one hundred fine
looking troops crouching along the line of a fence,
and, rialng up to them, found thst they wero a
K t of the regiment that Governor Harris hod at*
pted to nuly and could not put them into the
fight. To them 1 appealed, but to no purpose.
* T these incidents happened. I am sure, within
ty minutes. Putting spurs to my home I gal-
da few yards and was met by Preston, who
me be had Just placed Rutledge in position
‘ ravine, and bu battery was delivering a
fire through the disordered and retreat-
_ i of the enemy.
aaksd me: “llowMtoe hauls.going on, snd
.. Is Johnston! 1 ' Jnat then Colonel Theo-lor.
O’Hara approached na with rad face, and said: “1
Dear Oeneral Johnston If mortally, wounded,
“here ran I rate anrgeonr' Wehorricdly rodo
the direction of the bill on which the charge
ix made. A fow moments brought nz to whore
* chief we* lying In a reclining position, »np-
cled In the sms ot Governor Harm. A mime
11 had tom off part of tho zoic of his foot, from
which the blood wai oozing. Ho ws* deathly pate,
though bit eyea were open, but without Inter.
Heston lined Mm In bUtnu, opened np-
R ly bit clothing, but could find no wounds on
a tody. Ba thro exclaimed with grant emotion,
and loudly called out: -Johnston, don't you know
me!" Noreapona* followed,,and Praafou crlsd,
iSSiKsarm bfss
battlefield, and being alao on my knees and near
er hi. farad, I poured a ftw tabfctpoonfol* down
hia throat but be could not ewallow, and it flowed
aver bis chin. la
putting my band t
(bat 10a heart had
Preston i
''anguithTcV«hraniT"MyJuixl! myOodT Hay-
don, lx It art** A moment after, recovering hia
self command, he drew out.his note book of the
battle snd read to tbore of thesuff whowmatsnd-
tng around, this dUpatcb, which be naked
nor Harris (o bear Instantly lo
vStoS.'tsasrS’iW: 'iw.n «»**».*
andprocurean ambulance. You,gentlemen.will
uKdrannoif.wMwurejring’be tabs’ahoveetre
radalenear byrand we laid the Kami's body
It, and btlm we lifted the botfy I jerked my
■■up, and, casting his eyes to I
sash from ray waist and covered his face, shielding
It from the rays of the sun.
We took the body to the very spot that we had
left in the morning, some two miles in the rear over
ground that hod been so stubbornly contested. Tho
spot where Johnston fell was near the utmost
boundary to whic h the confederates drove the fed
eral army that duy.
Fighting lu the District of Columbia*
Editors Constitution: I see In Tub Con •
iiTTWON of the 8th Inst., a communication from J.
M. Smith in reply to an article in the weekly of
December tho £!d, claiming that "General l'hil
Cook had tho honor of leading tho only confederate
forces that fought in-thc District of Columbia." I
am satlcflcd Mr. Smith's accounts of the fighting Is
correct, and that Gordon’s battalion of sharpshoot
ers went as near Washington city os any other con-
federate troops (Infantry) at that time. I was in
command of the battalion of sharpshooters, and as
Mr. B. nald, ono of my command, Wm. D. Hay, was
wounded while engaged with the enemy and loft
with a family on tho plko rood leading to Washing
ton. We could distinctly see the domes and spires
of churches and oilier buildings from where we
were engaged with the skirmishers of federal forces
on the left of the pike, about ouo or one and a half
miles from the Blair house, whereGeneral Gordon’s
division bad halted. I have not the least doubt
that if any of the confederate force* fought ft
District of Columbia at that engagement, the
tallon of thar)»hootcrs of Gordon's division has the
right of claiming and shoring tho honor with Gcu-
eral Cook and lit* men. Wm. Kaioler.
Dawion, Ga., January 10th, 1886.
TRAPPING A YANKEE SPY,
PUR8UIT OF A TRUANT WIFE.
Her Husband Find* Her by Threatening to
Shoot Those who Aid cd Her Iu Escaping
Sauk Rapid®, Minn., January 17.—There
was an abrupt termination to a wedding that
was to have come off a few nights sgo owing
to the sudden appearance of the husband of
the wonld-bc-biide. The lady Is the daughter
of Joseph Ware. Six years since her mother
died snd the father removed to Illinois with
bis daughter, who was a blonde with a pretty
face snd agreeable manners. She hod many
admire is and finally accented one of them and
tho wedding-day was set.
But visiting st an uncle’s before tho
fixed, she thero met a Samuel Stein, of New
It/ an Ex-Rebel.
From the Detroit Free Press.
In the winter of 1801, when Johnston’s
ermy lay at Dalton in winter quarters, I mado two
or three excursions In tho direction of Chattanoo
ga. picking up more or less valuable information,
and wfih resting after one of these raids when tho
incident I am abont to relate occurred.
That Yankee spies were penetrating our camps
was a well known fact. Two or three had boon
arrested, but it was only two or three out of a
dozen, and orders had been issued to all regimental
officers to be vigilant and alert in seeking to detect
the presence of strangers. All tho scouts had, as a
matter of course, received the same Instructions,
but for a week nothing resulted from this combined
watchfulness.
One afternoon, while sitting In tho quarters of
an old frleud belonging to a brigado band, a crowd
gathered outside, and I heard the music of a Addle.
HtcppingVotbedoorlsaw a German about forty
years of age In the center of a circlo of soldlors
seated on a cracker box and playing the flddlo in a
r udo sort of way as U entirely unmiudftil of their
presenco. The man was in citizen's clothes, and
for what seemod a vory good reason. His right arm
had been amputated at tho elbow. I looked him
over closely os ho sat there, eyes half closed and
keeping timo with his foot, and I could not say that
1 had ever seen him before.
"Give us a song, Dutchy!” cried a dozen men in
chorus after ho had played for a spell, and he at
once complied. Tho first verso ran as follows:
"Oh! doin' you see my falling tears?
Oh! doan' you know dat I vhas sad?
Dot vhlleyou laugh und merry vhas,
No home I haf to make mo glad.”
He had not yet finished it when I wo* trying hard
to remember where and when I had heard it bo-
fore. Ills voire was soft and plalntlvo, and tho air
of the song wm ono to captlvato a soldier. They
crowded closer and wero silent while he sang tho
second verse:
‘•Nopody vhalts to welcome me,
Nopody cares which way I go;
1 vhalks alone, adown life’* path,
My happiness vhM turned to woe.”
I wm struggling like a prisoner to break his
bonds. Years ago I hod heard that song, and had
not heard it since. It wm in vain I cudgeled my
brain, but Just when I wm In despair I happened to
notice how ho wm holding and playing tho Addle.
His right arm wm gone, m I have told you, but
with the stump he wm holding the bow by a sim
ple contrivance and with his left hand he was fin
gering the strings. Indeed, tho soldiers were re
marking on the novelty or It. 1 hod not watched
him thirty tcconds when memory camo to my old.
In the summer of 18591 made a trip to a water
ing place in Wisconsin—a bridal tour. Oflo* even
ing, m my wills and I sat on the porch of the* hotel
this man came along, having a little girl with him,
and m ho played that fiddle and sang sho Joined
in the chorus and accompanied him on a banjo.
This was one of the songs he song thst evening—
ssvtn or eight verses to It—and It wm so sad snd
plaintive that ws paid him to repeat it two or
three times.
Now, I oottlfi not ray that ho waa not * confed
erate, but tho foot that ho waa not in ourunifonn,
snd that I had aeon him ao for north, waa
to route a suspicion. As aoon u he had fiui
ton, he otic ml for raloftom hit pack,,'
thread, nradlM, pencils and other smsll wa .
did a rnahlnt bnzlneat for half an hour. Ho could
havo sold everything right there, but he suddenly
packed up end moved away, even when a dozen
etutomcn had money In their hand.. This action
teemed queer, if not suspicious, and I followed the
men. In half an hour I was certain that h* waa *
H>y and had been making an estimate of our
strength.
Without entirely losing the sight or tho man, I
communicated my suspicions to tho offleer-ofthe-
day, and the result waa an arrest. The man did
not even change countenance when he found him-
sclfbetween the bayonets,but marched off as If such
affairs were down on hit programme.
Upon reaching tho guard honao he calmly rob-
milted to a thorough search of hit person, and
pack. Tbla lasted a frill hour, but we made no dis
covery of importance. Tho man denied that he
nt ever north of the Ohio river, and claimed New
Orleans as hit residence. He learned tho long
from n vagabond mttalclan who visited that city,
and had sung It In hundreds of confederate camps
since the war. There was absolutely no evidence
agalnat him, and be would have been act at liberty
bed I not entreated the officer to give me until
next dey to look np something to confirm my aue-
plcion*.
I at once mounted my horse and rode through
all the adjacent campe, and I found that the man
had visited every one of them. Ho had certainly
taken In nwhole corps in hia rounds, and waa
beard of among Infontry, artillery, cavalry ind
even the hospitals, As a poddlar bo would havo
done this, but aa a spy he would have dono tho
tame thing. All the evidence that I could get was
that bo had appeared, played hit fiddle, sung hia
Magi android bis notions, claiming to aome to be
wiling on commlwton fortbe sutler, and looUtere
that he waa In business for hlmwlf.
I returned to headquarter* clean dono up and
mad at myself for having mado inch a mesa of 1L
Tho man was all right and I was all wrong,
went to the guard houso to ask him a few further
questions, and It seemed to me that my sudden
entrance rather confined him. While I qua*-
Honed I also watched, and prewntly I observed
that he seemed to have a very large oubl of tobacco
in hit cheek, blind you, I was looking foe trtffoe,
and 1 no sooner noticed thclfocll havo mentioned
than I watched to we him expectorate, and aoon
realized that he waa not doing ao. This wasn’t at
all natural, and 1 began at hia head to look him
over. When I came downto the third button on
hia blouse there was no button there. AUthe
others were In place, but this one wu missing.
The man waa talkative and even Jovial, and by
and by I left him with the remirk that I would go
aud report to the officer nnd harojilmeetatliberty.
I stepped ont, walked around hr fifteen minute*
and then reentered the guard bo use. The third
button on hie blouse was now In place, end the
quid ol tobacco no longer; bulged out hit chock.
When ordered to "peel” his coat he hesitated for
Instant and I raw him change countenance, but
off It came end I carried It to.headquartera.
Every button on that blouse waa not only * hol
low cylinder, made to screw together, hut each
caelty wu filled with proobjlo convict him as a
‘ i He had wockad an entire corps, and ha had
number of men, pieces of artillery, condition
_ arms, end whatever elw might be asked for. It
mnat have taken him two weeks to secure each frill
and explicit Information.
When be eat brought before General
_l foil that the Jig wee up. There wet* Me
own notes to confront him. He refused to utter
one single word, and seemed to ban mad* op Ms
mind to pay the penalty without f Inching. It was
brief work to try, convict and condemn him, but
was never executed, on the night before Ma
execution he died on his Manketa. He waste the
foil vigor of yeanland health, having* beaitympo-
Ht*. and bit death burnt remained a mystery.
There wu no wound of any sort on the body, and
of the five surgeons summoned to Investigate all
were certain that b* did not, ttkepolaop of any
sort. After playing on hit fiddle for half an hour
' lay down on the blankets with the .remark that
su his laat night to sleep- A guard era within
feet of Mm and sew him apparently foil into*
sweet slumber, hut two houn later he was dead.
"The way of the transgreseor is hard.” Be
wiw and buy Dr. Bull’* Cough Byrop In time
Next Week's Constitution will be the bam
aver lened-rlch and Interesting. Han’t
rates It. finbacrlba st one*.
he bad a bank account several thous.nu
then her affianced, he wu accepted Instead of
the Illinois boy. When her fhthcr learned the
stato cf aflUra ho ordered hia daughter home.
Stein was with her, bnt when he itepped
off tho can Mr. Ware, father of tho young
Indy, with cocked pistol, ordered him to
move on or there would bo n funeral Instead
of a wedding. Stein's brother was there, how-
ever, with a pistol in each hand. A short
parley was held, and tho into parent gave his
consent, nnd shortly afterwards Stein and
Lottie wero married. A few month! after her
marriage she expressed a desire to visit her
relatives at Sank Banlds, nnd tho Indnlgent
husband consented. After a whllo she cessed
to write, and as he could get no roaponao to lit*
letter* he wrote to a citizen hen-, who in
formed him that sho hod reported that ho wu
dead and that sho wu to be married soon.
To satisfy himself tho brother who had boon
of ao mnrb service wont on nnd aoon found out
tho situation of aflhin and apprised hia mar
ried brother of the timo set for tho wedding,
and nt noon of that day the husbandanpeared,
much to the discomfiture of bis wire. Tho
husband, on tho evening of his arrival, con
cluded it waa beat to toko his wifo away from
the place wbereho came to near losing her, and
he went to a neighboring town. Next day tho
husband canto back for ids tranks. Ills wife
at once hired a fleet team, and with one of hor
admirers at the reins they were miles away up
tho river when ho returned with tho trank.
The husband then awaited the return of the
tram, and he called on tho driver, who wits
fully persuaded by tho production of a six*
shooter to take him where he hod loft tho Hoe
ing wife. After finding his wife, nnd on her
promlso lo rotam with him on the early train,
the husband and the young man retired to
gether to get n short rest. Abont! four
o'clock in tho morning a man walked Into tho
room with a lantern In ono hand and a revol
ver In the other, and u they opened their ayes
he told them to llo atill and thon ho stood
guard over them until tho trail! hod passed
which boro away tha truant wife. Tho hus
band continued thesrarchaud finally overtook
his wife In tho northern part of tho state, and
they an now on their way to Illinois.
The llog nnd Hominy Crop.
CniCAtio, January 10.—Tho Times of this
morning give* reports from neuly 500 points u to
tho crop ofcorn and hoga In tho northwest. Hap
pen that the yield of com has been overestimated
and Its quality ranked too high. Ohio aud In
diana ftnneis have raid moro freely than thoso
jrobable that receipts at tho chief paekfngpoln
lor the remainder of the aeuonwiU bolcastha
that lut year.
An Undoubted massing.
About thirty years ago, a prominent physi
cian by the noma ot Dr. William Hall discov
ered, or produced after long experimental re
search, (remedy for disease* of the throat,
chut and lunge, which woe of such wonderful
efficacy that It aoon gained a wide reputation
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Doctor—I’m ’ftald, Mr*. Brown, dla yah chile It
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