Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-06-25

| Somehow" he said " it has been found out
that you are here, and they have threatened to
burn the house over my head for giving you
shelter, and to hang you forthwith.
had always expected to be discovered sooner
or later, and the old mans communication did
not startle me-
| " All we have to do then, said sis to leave
at once"
q That is easier said than DONE he replied
70 Pickets are every where, and it will be impos-
sible to get away"
| But thought differently, and So after time.
with many tears, the father and daughter deter
mined to attempt with me to reach our lines
How much it cost them to abandon their home
and all its precious belongings, to turn their
faces towards a strange land and people, only
those who have suffered as they have done can
ever know but life was more than estate, and
that was in peril every hour they remained
| That night we stole out under starless sky
and with such light effects as we could carry,
set our faces Northward. Patrols were all around
us, but lodged them all, how can not tell
For days we Travelled on, following unfrequented
roads, sleeping often in forests and fields telling
such tales we could to avoid detection; and
at last, foot sore, weary, with poor Jane half
wild with fever, reached the Tennessee crossed
over in a scow found ready to our hands, and
in the midst of thunder storm, that rolled with
the noise of a thousand guns along the heights
of Lookout, came into Chattanooga
There, very soon, kindly hands soothed our
WEAKNESS nursed Jane into health, and rubbed
from our lives all the grim and pain of our long
journey. Then, one day, said to Jane:
We under the old flag now, darling
am ready to become its defender again /; shall we
be married ~
With a blush she said Yes and a week after
we stood up before chaplain, and with tough
General Thomas looking on as a witness, were
married the flag hanging over us, its stars
seeming to shine down royal benedctons upon
our union.
! Thus it was that the scratch of nail got me
a wife, and as fair and sweet wife as any sol
| der ever won.
Three months ago. when Sherman dashed into
the heart of Mississippi, putting his hands on
the veins and arteries, and one paid his compli-
ments to the town of Enterprise, | rode with
others in the van Old James Weston house
| found standing unmolested STILL though weeds
were growing thrifty about the door, and dis
order appeared every where. They told us a
rebel Colonel occupied it now as his own but |
managed to save it from destruction, thinking
that perhaps some day, when Mississippi is
wholly redeemed, the rightful owner may return
and set up his affairs afresh, with grandchildren
of the name of Smith prattling to him as the
years grow old.
Already one grandchid is his, for only last
week he wrote me from the home in Vermont,
where my dear one abides, {! a fat, bouncing
boy dropped into James arms yesterday and
she saws his name is to be Enterprise Smith
NJ name is John Smith. But Enterprise AMI
| a rusty nail gave me wife; and it is only fair
that my boy, Growing in his mothers arms away
IN there in Vermont should he called Enterprise
Smith, in memory of the day that brought me
my fate. Besides the name may serve him rs
capital when he comes to a man S estate.