The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-05-01

| N' 10 pe sure tnere were grave chan
ces TO be taken which could not be
guarded against; but after thinking il
all over, and weighing everything tha,
could be said, tor and against, l found
my mind made up to 60. What l told
the rebel scout about visiting Alabama
was true. l had been there, and knew
something about the country and the
people This knowledge encouraged me
very little, tor to offer 1t was the risk o.
meeting some one who might have
known me there. But l thought a bold
face and my experience would carry me
through satei and they did, as you shall
hear.
The next morning / submitted nv
plan at headquarters, and it was approv-
ed at once. Mr.. Drake Dewey was COM
PEELED to change clothes with me, much
against lis will, for be now began to
understand me, and / mounted his
horse, and with the pass and his arms
rode away on my adventure had tri
ed to anticipate everything that might
by any possibility happen to me before
| found myself within our lines again,
and to prepare myself for any emergen-
cy. 1t was a bright. clear morning and
| rode brlskly southwark, passing
through Sjrasburg, where noticed the
two girls sitting by the window looking
sad and lonesome. rode straight down
the pike, without seeing single horses
man from either side until within three
miles Of Woodstock, as near as | could
calculate. Wien somebody called to
me to halt, and discovered half a doz>
en- rebel cavalry under a shed. rode
them, but was stopped again,
Halt! Who goes there!'
Dewey answered, thinking it like
ly that an advanced party like this would
know the name.
'Yes--that's him!' two or three cried
out, and | joined them under the shed.
They all seemed to recognize me as
Drake Dewey, and gathered around in>
luiring eagerly for Bascomb, | told
hem that he had fallen into the hands
't the Yankees, and l had had narrow
escape; and showed them a ball hole
trough the skirt of my jacket which l
lad made before leaving camp. Then l
old them | had important news which
must be carried to camp Immediately,
md two of them volunteered to go with
ne. So found myself known as
ebel soldier, and riding to the rebel
amp with rebel comrades.
We were stopped several times on the
way by rebel guards when we had to
how our passes. mine proving perfectly
In every instance. Twice | |
net soldiers who nodded to me with |
How are you Drake!' and the inquiries
Dr. Bascomb were repeated. l gathered
nough along the way to satisfy me that
Dewey and Bascomb were both expert
couts attached to General Early's head
uarters, and that both had lett Wood,
sock the morning before with the inten-
on of getting inside the Union lines
The headquarters are over there on
1e hill to the left, said one of my com
anions. They were changed last
ight.'
They left me and I rode straight up
trough the camp to the headquarter
mt, dismounted, and asked the orderly
, admit me. 4 am Drake Dewey
lid, 'one of the scouts He went in.
de and spoke to the General, and was
ushered into the presence
f the Bad Old Man, as they called him
Ie was sitting by the camp table calcu-
ting with penoil and paper. Look
lg mp he fixed his keen eye on me aud
lid
You are one Of the two that saw
st night ?
Yes
Then tell me everything thai has
appeued to you, and all you have dis.
,vered.'
I repeated over the story that I had
retty well prepared in my mind. 1t
as that Bascomb and had fallen in
ith a Federal cavalry patrol, just north
Slrasburg, about dusk, that he was
ken prisoner, and that I had saved
yselt by hard ride, the Yankees pur-
ling me TO Fishers Hill, and firing at
10 repeatedly. The General seemed
that I could not tell him
ore, and wished to know il I had talks
l with the people of Strasburg Isald
es. Well, dil they say anything about
herldan7 Had he gone to Washing
IN I and did they think tho Sixth Corps
as In the valley yet. I told him the
eople knew, or pretended to know,
othing about the Yankee army. He