Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-07-25
A Yankee Trick.

The women about winchester, NlrSliia
are very discriminating in their attentions
to soldiers. The rebels are treated with
the utmost courtesy, and furnished with all
the edibles and drinkables that the now
rather slender larder of Virginia house
hold can supply. The Worlds correspond |
eat at Winchester gives the following ac-
count of the manner in which two Of the |
Yankees secured the hospitality of the Sc
cession ladies.
Two of our soldiers, both Yankees, one
from Boston and one from Vermont, be-
thought themselves to transfer upon their
own heads a portion of this courtesy and
hospitality. One of them was accordingly
arrayed in gray apparel of honespun' be-
strobe upon beast of slight and angular
outlines, furnished with double-barrel shot
gun, and such trappings and accoutrements
as usually accompany Virginia cavalry
man. His sabre and ammunition are worn
by his companion, who, in full federal uni
form and an excellent horse and equipments,
rides by his side and assumes the AIR OF
captor toward the confederate soldier, who
wears the depressed and downcast counte-
nance Of a prisoner OF war.
In this way they ride through town, and
the confederate receives many a nod oi
sympathy as he passes and when he ar
riyes at fine residence on the outskirts,
where half score of ladies were gathered
together, gossiping on the probable late OF
! Ashby and the possibility of Jackson's re
turning again, one lady espies him and calls
ont the rest. "There is one of our confed-
crates. Poor fellow he has just been cap
lfured." All rush in moment to the porch
and united their cries and entreaties to Tho
federal soldier to stop for moment, ant
allow his prisoner to come into the hous'
and rest, and have something to eat ant
drink.
The federal protested that he was il
haste to take his charge to Harper's Ferry
f but consented 10 go in with him for feV
, moments. Such jubilee as succeeded !
The ladies laughed, clapped their bands
: sung patriotic songs, to cheer him up
eThe spirit is in us
Of Henry and of Lee"
: brought in glass of whiskey for the capto
and captured, and succeeded in dispelin
> the grief from the face Of the prisoner, an
n bringing the whole party into state OF e'
n hilaration.
a Then they drew from him the story
: his capture. He had been sitting under
= tree reading, when the federal approache
! behind him before he was aware OF If. L
% fred his pistol and started for his hors
when the pistol of his captor discharged
: ball which passed through a somethiI
about his neck containing several mystel
. Gus papers, which he succeeded in throwi
!, away. (This the ladies rejoiced at excee
! lv.A The federal bad disarmed him, a
~ had Just arrived in town with his prisoner
After spending half hour in accepn'
6 the kind words and offices Of the ladies, Z
- federal demanded that the prisoner shou
); bid adeu to his friends, which was do
with many affectionate good wishes, and t
two Yankees put spurs to their horses a
:, escaped down the next street to laugh ov
\ their success in befooling the secession
a. dies of Winchester.
ID Having witnessed the entire periormar
ba myself, can testify to the truthfulness W
ns which each performed his part. No
d would have suspected the genuineness
Mr.. of Ash5y's cavalry, from Lc
don.