The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05
YOU'RE a sheap!"


} in the neighborhood. Versoovius and the Crit.
ter amt circumstans
She how'd her he'd down and commenst che win
the strings to her sun bonnet.
"Ar, couAH you know the sleepless nights l
worry threw. Yith on your account, how vittles
has seized De attractive to me & how NY limbs
has shrHth tp, you wouldn't doubt me- Case
on thi Hin form and these ERE sunken
81 have continnered on this strane prob.
ably ,fofsom time, but unfortnitly lost my bal.
lsnse and fell over into the pastur ker smash,
tearin my close and severely damagn myself
|ginerally.
Betsy Jane sprang to my assistance in double
quick time and dragged me 4th. Then DRAWN
hereelf up to her full hite she said:
II won't listen to your noncents no longer
JeaHG rite out what you're driven at If you
mean gittin hitched, In 1sg'
considered that air enough for all practical
purposes, and we proceeded immeiitly to the par.
sons, and was made that veray mite
A Romantic Expedition into the Enemy,s
Country.
Special Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Press.
New BRIDGE, June Is. 1862.
1t is as much my duty to chronicle individual
feats of gallantry as it is to pen the praises Of
I. and Commissary Zach B, OF one of the
regiments hereabouts, are both of them very
good, fellows, and also very brave soldiers,
when either Of their departments of transpor-
tation and supply are brought into conflict
lwith the enemy. Each one mounts a mettled
steel, ard can control Kim with grace which
even General Mcclellan might envy. This
morning they strated out in company to forage
for the officers mess. Well provided with
money to meet the exorbitant demands of the
egg and strawberry hucksters of the section of
country to which they were going, they gaily
vaulted into their saddles and bidding good
bye to their friends briskly trotted on the road
toward Richardson's house. Having reached
there, they turned off on the White House road
and aftet a short ride, stopped at small house
by the roadside, to inquire what articles they
had for sale. B was the spokesman and
at his summons out came blooming danisel Ct
eighteen summers to answer the inquiry
'Have you any eggs or butter or milk, or
anything of that sort to sell ma 'am?''
whereabouts do you come from?.,
'About four miles from here. We belong to
the Yanke army"
"Tou do hey? Well don't allow Yankee
to come within twenty yards of me, much less
to speak to me-"
The officers opened their eyes at this despe-
rate declaration, and riding into the yard, the
commisary continued.
"Say, Look q here, don't you know that such
folks as yod are the only kind Of meat we have
down in our camp"
eyes, indeed" broke in fair secesia, '.I've
heard that much about you.'
''Well, / suppose you have, and it's all true.
Why at the battle of Fair Oaks, the Yankees
eat eight hundred just such looking rebels as
you, and it took ever somany soldiers to guard
the three thousand dead ones and keep US off "
At this barbarous speech which might have
provoked most terrible results, if the young
lady's flashing eyes were any index to her state
of mind, her parents appeared, and gently
checking, her accosted the Union officers and
} said they had nothing to sell The father seemed
somewhat amused at his daughters spirit, and
explained
That ere gals got beau in the Confeder-
ate army, don't you see, and you knew that's
good reason for her being so much opposed
to the Yankees. Just you make an offer tc
cspture her. and see if she don't haul down
coiors."
But Federal officers don't do such unmanly
things, and finding that they could procure nc
eatables at this place they withdrew to the
road, and continued their journey. Going a
short distance.along the road to the left, they
stopped at house where lady lived whose
/ husband was in the rebel army. Mrs. Mills
received them in o most bewitchingly friendly
, manner, spread out glorious dinner and off
cred to sell them. oceans Of milk and bushels Of
e cherries. With pleasant smile, so differeL,
from the excitable lass they had just left, she
r invited them into the house, setting chairs 70,
their accommodation. The quartermaster and
D commissary, nothing 10th, entered, and after
] some pressing consented to unsaddle then
: horses and turn them out to Craze. Nothing
D could exceed the politeness of Mrs Mills. She
, was so glad they had come, and so fearful that
their long ride under scorching sun, might
f have fatigued them. And were they not hun
t cry? Wouldn't they allow her to set out some.
: thing to eat. She was so sorry their camp
was so distant for nothing would delight hel
more than to send them strawberries, and
milk, and cherries, and everything which hel
garden could furnish. She thought the Unior
soldiers were such nice gentleman-so gallant
, and brave, AMI SO considerate toward the poor
Virginians who had lost their all in this sorrow
I full war. And couldn't they stay to dinner
and allow herto treat them with true Virgins
hospit ality?
Such loving reception extended by the wife
' of rebel solder to two perfect strangers was
so very unlike other earthly things, and SC
e very like the concluding chapters of the "yel:
, Ter kivered, that it astonished our soldier
i. friends. The Commissary looked at the Quar-
3 termaster, thinking he detected wink Of
y BIS eye, returned it, and they both togeth-
er entered the house. With many thanks and
f protestations that nothing was farther from
6 their intention than to give trouble, they took
t seats on the chairs set out for them, and while
f the lady bustlel about to prepare dinner, had
time to look about them.
e They were in cleanly, well kept Virginia
]. log house with old fashioned furniture; and
were evidently partaking of the hospitalities Of
g lady of cultivated manners and excellent un.
. derstanding. Their ride had been long one,
8 and the brush hey had previously undergone
, so unfavorably contrasted with this kind Of
8 treatment that heir hearts were almost melted
u in gratitude toward their fair benefactress. A
0 few moments s1fficed for the preparations of
the meal and the lady, placing chairs at the ta.
, BILE, invited then to be seated.
OF course, nothing on that humble board