The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-06

Curious Incident In the waF..An lnfuf1,
!! atsd Female Captures 10 seeesslonisss.
Captain Boight Of Company h, Esd Kentucky
formerly resident Of this city, and
who has just returned on q short furlongh, re.
lates to US the following curious anecdote of the
war, for the veracity of which he will himself
answer:
During the retreat of the army of Kirby Smith
from Cumberland Gap, the regiment to which
he belonged was in the van of the Federal army.
One morning, when the regiment was about rs
miles east of the Wild Cat Mountains, they were
surprised to see file Of ten men, all of them
secesh, marching toward their lines, and a wo-
man marching in their rear with muskes in
her hands, on their coming within the Federal
lines she coolly gave them up to the officer com.
manding as prisoners In accounting for their
capture, she said that her husband had Joined q
military company in the Federal service, and
had lett her alone to take care of the house,
which lay between the two armies Eleven Sc
cessionists had come into the house that morn.
ing and proceeded to make themselves perfectly
at home, first killing oil he: chickens. and set
ting them to roast by the fire. They then pro-
ceeded to dispose of the things around the house
taking up the carpets, and constructing horse
blankets out of them.
They next perpetrated other atrocities Of q
destructive and Objectionable character, which
had the effect of making the lady of the house
"furiousy wild" as the Captain expresses it,and
she determined that such outrageous conduct
should not 60 unpublished. She accordingly
carried away their muskets to place of safety,
reserving two for her own use, and then going
to the room in which they were regaling them
selves on her defunct chickens, she informed
them that they were her prisoners. One of them
jumped up to seize her, when sue leveled her
gun at him and fred, causing him to bite the
dust, which lay thickly stIewed on the carpet|ess
floor. Throwing away the now useless gun, she
took the other in her hand and ordered the re-
threatening to shoot the first who attempted to
run awny. Having a wholesome fear of sharing
similar fate to that of their companion, they
went quietly along, and we're accordingly handed
over to the military authorities. On being
laughed at for being taken prisoner by woman,
they said they bad been wanting to get captured
for some time past, and we're heartily glad that
they were prisoners at last. They were enrire-
ly sick of the war, they said, and did not care
how 80 that they got out of it.-[Cin. Gaz.
| The immortal Iowa Second Infantry has had
the following Colonels samuel Curtis,
James N. futile, James Baker, Noah W. Mills,
and James B. Weaver. OF these Colonies, Cur
us 10 MAJOR OeueIa OOloueis Daker aOu
Mills we're killed at Corinth. The same Regi-
ment has had for Lieut. Colonies, j. NJ futile,
NJ. NJ. Croker, James Baker, n. W. Mills, J.
B. Weaver, and q. R. Cowles. OF these off,
GERS, Tuttle and Croker are now Brigadier Gen.
erals The Majors of the same Regiment have
been, NJ. NJ. Croker, N. P. Chapman, N. W.
Mills, ]. B. Weaver, and N. P Howard. The
Adjutants are as follows: N. P. Chapman, T. j.
Mckinney, Joel futile, and George L. Godfrey.
Chapman aud Mckinney have been promoted,
and Ajutant futile is dead. Des Moines has
furnished three of the above officers, viz: Crock
er, Mills and Godfrey. From its age, and from
the confidence reposed in it, the Iowa I'd has
had an opportunity to distinguish itself, and it
has made for itself q glorious history. 81 Du-
buque Times. Lss4a