Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-19
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Union man lived. Before arriving at the
house We saw the man who owned it, rom
ming towards the woods. TO some hidilg
place. AS soon however as he found We
we're Union scouts be returned with a re-
forcing face, and told u we would have 70
take dinner with him. as he would always
feed the Yankees when they called on him.l
ItWhs not long eonkine, as il consisted o
nothing but some corn bread and milk .cs B.
After dinner we again started and bad
not gone far when we met another scout,
who gave US some Information, aud accom-
panied us down the creek until We arriSed
III a seCesh house, the owuer Of which, was,
in the Southern army. We had cold
lunch and then made the niggers catch ms
two corn cribs and saddle and bride themi
we mounted double and bidding them good
bye started on our way reipicing,E.
Aitergoing short distance we g6t sight
of'three Wildcats; took dsitbef8t; aim
and down came one Of them from the eff
fects OF 1. hlill und three buck hot pepetra-
ting bis fore shoulder; the other tRos made
good ttsit escape. We took the one had
shot and stuffed his skin, and We then Went
on a littte further aud eneamped for the
night. saa3 -,
Then emerging down towards Tue valley
we shot squirrel, built u fire, roasted and
made Ii breakfast for four from ii, togeth-
er with one cracker and no salt or pepper
After eating our meagre breakfast, we pro-
coed d down into valley where there
were some four or five houses. The occu-
pants declared they were Union men, but
we were nut disposed to credit it. and we
concluded to swear them, which wis; done
in new way, making them get down on
their knees and swear TO support tue laws
and Constitution OF the United States
They then gave ussome breakfast, consist
ing of corn bread ana sassafras tea, of
which we purtookhCa Wethenstart-
ed towards PeleFsbuFgh, and soon came
across a scouting party of the Rock Bridge
Cavalry, six in number. We fred upon
them and retreated to the woods. The cav
nlry no doubt presumiug our force was
greater than theirs, did not pursue US, but
left in an opposite direction much faster
than we did. We were thankful they did
SO, for they were better mounted and better
armed than our party. We did not follow,
as we understood there WAS about fifty OF
the 'tStolen Horse Cavalry" in our rear.--
If we could have had forty or fiFty men We
would have captured or killed the whole
force. We then proceeded to the left OF
Petersbutgli, on the south branch Of the
Potomac, where we were captured by
party OF Home Guard Jayhawkers. We
escaped the same night, and succeeded in
gcttingwithin about forty miles of camp on
our poverty. stricken horses.
We saw a fine large deer, but it was i'm
possible to get shot Mt it ON account of
the trees, (which grow very thickly tOgeth
er in this region. We travelled on till
pight and seeing n sign Of a house, we
concluded to camp out" So we tied our
old corn.cribs up to the trees, collected
some leaves together and lay down to re-
pose, weary and hail starved. We slept
very comfortable unIiImorning, being pro-
tected from Tire Wi1l by tue branches of
the trees. We arose ia tue morning and
discovered. to orr great surprise, On-peer-
ing through the Thick laurel, TWO huge
bIavk bears approaching us We all lev
ried our pieces, took deliberate aim and
fired, but the thick laurel prevented US
from killing them, bat sent them bowling
back over the mountain. This WITS a se-
we're disappointment to our almost fa,nish-
ed party, not having had anything to es't
for rhirty.six hours.
We were now seventeen miles from homo,
so we started on our journey, every niue
seeming to be three. for We were almost
dead. We arrived safe in camp Mt Fast,
when the compHny all gnthered around rs
eager to hear the news.