The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-07-31
SELLING sECEsH LADIES.

The special correspondent Of the
World, in writing from Winchester, Va.
relates one among many other Yankee
tricks played off upon the rebels.
81 enjoyed a rare entertainment not
long since. Many Of the Confederate
prisoners have been walking about town,
receiving constantly the attention of the
citizens, who are rejoiced TO lavish all
their hospitality upon them, without re.
gard to rank or appearance. You may
see ragged gray coats, uncombed hair aud
uuwashed faces, promcnading the streets
with the fuest ladies 10 town, at any
hour Of the day. The confederates are
invited to tea, to evening parties, and all
the arts which the ladies' know are ex-
hausted in making their condition as
pleasant as possible; and, from the smil-
ing faces they wear, you would think
them very well pleased in their impris-
onment with the liberty Of the corpora.
tion.
"Two Of our soldiers, both Yankees,
one from Boston and one from Vermont,
bethought themselves to transfer upon
their own heads portion of this cour.
tesy aud hospitality. On" of them was
accordingly arrayed in gray apparel Of
homespun, bestrode upon beast of slight
and angular outlines, furnished with a
double. barrel shot gun, and such trap
pings and ecoutrements as usually nc.
company a Virginia cavalryman, His
saber and ammunition are worn by his
companion, who, in full federal uniform
and an excellent horse and equipments,
rides by his side aud assumes the air Of
a captor toward the confederate soldier,
who wears the depressed ard downcast
countenance Of prisoner Of war.
In this way they ride through town,
and the confederate receives many a nod
Of sympathy as he passes; and when he
arrives at a fine residence on the out
skirts, where half score of ladies are
gathered together, gossipping on the
probable fate of Ashby and the possibili-
ty Of Jackson's returning again, one lady
espies him and calls out to the rest:
'There is one of our confederates. Poor
fellow! he has just been captured All
rushed in q moment to the porch, and
united their cries and entreaties to the
federal soldier to stop for moment, and
allow his prisoner to come into the house
and rest, and have something to eat and
dunk.
The federal protested that he was iu
haste to take his charge to Harper's Fer
ry, but consented to 90 in with him for
a few moments. Such a jubilee as sue.
eeeded The ladies' laughed, clapped
their hands, sang patriotic songs, to
cheer him up
"The spirit still is in US
or Henry and OF Lee
brought in glass of whisky for the cap.
tor and the captured, and succeeded in
dispelling the grief from the face of the
prisoner, and bringing the whole party
into state of exhilaration.
Then they drew from him the story Of
his capture. He had been sitting under
a tree reading when the federal ap-
preached almost beside him before he
was aware Of it. lie fred his pistol and
started toward his horse, when the pistol
of his captor discharged ball which
passed through a something about his
neck containing several mysterious pa
pers, which he succeeded in throwing
away (This the ladies rejoiced at cx-
ceedingiy.) The federal had disarmed
him and had just arrived in town with
the prisoner.
After spending q half hour in ac.
cepting the kind words and Offices of the
ladies, the federal demanded that his
prisoner should bid adeu to his friends,
which was done with many affectionate
good wishes, and the two Yankees put
spurs to their horses and escaped down
the next street to laugh over their sue
cess in befooling tho secession ladies of
Winchester.
"Having witnessed the entire per-
formance myself, l can testify to the
truthfulness with which each performed
his part No one would have suspected
the geuuineness Of the Mr.. -, Of
Ashby's cavalry from London.
The ladies did not, for, as the confed.
crate told me afterward, one of them VOL
untccred her assistance in helping him
to escape, and another young lady in
formed him that she had pistol at her
house which was at his service if he
wished it.
"This has now been practiced on sew.
cral occasions, and it having been dis
covered greater caution is exercised in
entertaining confederates, for some have
entertained Yankees unawares,' is now a
maxim adopted by the ladies of Win.
chester.
"The ladies of Winchester have not
every one of them confined their sym.
nathy to confederates. 4 Quaker lady.