The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-04-23

HANGING UNION MEN IN 1EAAS-AN
UNwRITTEN CHAPTER IN THE History
X. Maple, brother of T. Maple, OF this
city, moved from Fulton county, ILL.,, to
Western Texas with his family, CONSISTING
of a wife and one child-a daughter-theH
about six years old. Until the breakine
out OF the rebellion regular cOrrespOn.
dence had been kept up between the broth.
ers, but after that period no word was re-
ceived from Henry. A few days ago hin
daughter arrived in Chicago with the dis
tressing intelligence that her father had
been hung by the rebels in the fall Of 1S0Q,
for his uncom promising Union sentimente,
He was at the time of his murder liviAein
Wise county. His wife died soon after y
went to Texas, and he married the daugA.
ter OF wealthy citizen of that county.
with whom he was living when the rebel.
lion broke out. Being a popular Baptist
preacher, he was watched, and when'tke
war became more earnest on the part Of tn
Union. the rebels would no longer tolefs1s
even a sympathizer with the Union, end
be, with thirteen others Of his Unioa
neighbors, was arrested. Within . IN
weeks of each other, they were tried BY .
mock court-martial, condemned and hum.
At the time of his arrest he was trying 70
escape to the Union lines, but was betrayed
bv his rebel father in law, whose name Il
Samuel Sheets, and who was general in
former against Union men. This MA
Sheets has since been driven from the cOulf
try. his life being threatened, and his fear
of death SO great that he had to keep guard
about his house. When he left he wao
guarded by rebel soldiers for more than
Hundred miles. NAPLES wife, who was
good Union woman, stood by him to IL
last. T
When he was under sentence of death bin
daughter, then about fifteen years old. va
allowed to visit him ut Decatur, l6 miles
from where they Lived. She glsdly awaited
youngest child, four years old, in her arms,
she made the journey On horseback to have
the last interview with them. r1g
Arrived at Decatur she found her father
under strong guard, in an old log build.
ing. She walked up TO the door and in
uuired if Mr.. Maple was inside, when the>
men who crowded the doorway in the noat
insulting manner told her YES" She said,
"He is my father, and wish to see him.
.sYou can't see him. was the answer. II
will see my father. STAND out OF the way"
was the reply vi the heroic girl, as she
pressed against the guard, loudly callingte
her father to come to the door. After SOM
parleying he was allowed TO see the chill.
dren, but only in the presence OF his muir
derders.
Just in time to reach home that day she
left him, and the next day his life was tax.
en- because he woulC not renOunce his
country and take The oatn 20 the accursed
rebel government. an
This girl, then, without father or mother,
or any one on whom she could rely for sup
port, nj once resolved TO come North to
her relatives, but she had no money. All
was gone. yet she possessed robust health,
and at once set to work 10 learn to card,
and spin, and weave, such work being in
great demand. Having never had to do
anything of the kind, it went hard at first,
but late and early she piled herself to The
task, and from house TO mouse, until she
had earned and saved about one hundred
and fifty dollars. ga
About the first Of February last she Learn
ed through friend Of her father's-a IN.
ion man who still lives there--that TWO
men, one of them an old acquaintance Of
Naples, from Kentucky, were soon t0staSt
North to try to get beyond the rebel lines.
They agreed TO let her accompany them,
and with her suit Of homespun, the work
Of her own hand, she left the hated place.
They travelled in buggy over five hun.
dred miles, and, after being halted, ex.
amined and questioned many times BY
rebel pickets and soldiers, they reached
the Mississippi river at Napoleon, Ark
There they traded their horses and buggy
for bale Of cotton, which they sold f61
greenbacks, and took the first boat NORTH
She is now in her uncle's family, in Chi
cago and will be well provided for.-Chita.
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