The Portland daily press., 1865-08-29
THE CAPTrRE.


per TO make reaay to enter the camp. The
men were alive to the work. Mounting their
horses, the column moved at a walk until the
tents came in sight, and then at the word
dashed in. The camp was found pitched on
both sizes of the road. On the lett hand, as
we entered, were wagons, horses, tents, and
men; on the right were two wall-tents, 'front.'
ing from the road. All was quiet in the
camp. We encountered no guards; if there
We're any out, they must have been asleep
The order OF the force entering the camp
should perhaps be given. Captain Hudson
COMMANDED the advance guard; Lieutenant
Doubeil, with one of the second battalion and
Lieutenant Bennett brought up the rear
guard. The force in advance of Lieutenant
Doutell, Immediately entering the camp dis
persed among the tents on the left of the road
Some of his men rode to the tents on the
right of the road, among them private James
II. Lynch, of Company Cit is well, for
Good reasons, to mention names of the en-
listed men-who, seeing horse saddled and
bgidied. with holster and travelLing-bag, held
by back man IN front OF one Of the tents, at
once capped tne niuzzle Of his Spencer to
the head OF the "boy,D and secured the animal.
TINS was Davis's well-trained and heetest
horse, which Lynch, who was in Richmond
when the war broke out and came and joined
us at Murreesborough after the battle Of Stone
River, Claims to have recognized.
Scarcely had this horse been secured when
firing was heard down the road in the direc
tion OF Purinton. Pritchard instantly gave
the order to advances and Lieut.. Boute1 who
had continued on horseback on the road, hold
ing has men mainly in hand for any emergen-
cy that might arise, promptly obeyed, and,
crossing slough OF mud and water swept
volley that killed two Of his men and wounded
himself IN the left arm. He had been preyi-
Ously wounded in the right arm in the Allan
ia campaign. He, however. ouiclrjv fo,n,od
his men for tight, uniting them with fhose mn
der Purinton, and for few minutes a decideII-
lv earnest conflict was waged, when a man bv
the name OF Wright, sergeant of Companv
discovering that our opponents Wore the blue
uniform. and divining tnat they must he tl,a
Wi.consin regiment, ran, swinging his hat
over to them, and stopped the firing-an acf
of cool bravery that saved, without doubt
many lives. set
** y y However Pritchard's arrange
ments NAV be cavilied at, they certainly Sc
cured the capture of Davis. For the Wiscon-
sin force. coming in the direction it did, could
hardly have crossed the body OF mud and wa
ter that lay between it and Davis without
alarming him, and affording him time to mount
his horse, kept, as we found, ready saddled and
bridled ior hight, and TO escape into the woods
surrounding the camp. But by Pritchard's
movement, Davis was not alarmed in season
and when he discovered his horse out Of his
power, he sought to escape by stratg aem.--
That he had reLiedupon his horse Tor safety Is
evident from the fact that his arms and mon
ey (goid) were en- the saddle.
DAVIS IN woMAN's CLOTHES.
Andrew Bee, private of Company L. went
to the entrance OF Davis's tent, and was met
by Mrs Davis, "bareheaded and barefoot as
he de. cribes her, who, putting her hand on his
arm, said: aN 80.
please don't go in there till my daueh-
ter gets herself dressedr
Andrew thereupon drew back, and in a few