Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-12-04
from the Augusta lGa-) ConatitutonalIst.
Marrow Escape Of General shermrn.

from the Augusta 0Ga) Congtituhonalist.
Narrow Escape Of General shermrn.
LThe following remarkable adeodote
comes 10 us from an esteemed contrib
utor, He says: II did not myself meet
with the adventure recorded, but it
was narrated TO mo By friend, whose
word could implicitly trust, but
i whose death has occurred since the
surrender. Ed
| One morning. how, 10 matters not.
tour OF our company, myself among
tne nu929F, found ourselves in the
Wllds OF South Carolina without any
4noWtedes OF tne country, separated
from our command, and having an idea
that Sherman's advance guard was
close TO us, but in what direction we
could not tell, as we were utterly 90 a
loss. This, it will Be allowed. was
situation far from pleasant, but when,
in, addition, it is taken into consider
alton that we were enduring the pangs
OF hunger and thirst; that we were
weary IN heart and body-complstelv
9roken and that we possessed Sorrow
tuL CONSEQUENCES that the Confsderngv
was near Its end, IL will readily ha iw
agIned that avery few Jokes and hiIari.
GUS remarks eniivened our CONVEX
satlOn as we logged along. Eunrer IN
a guest that uses very little csramnnv
ia his visits, and the little fellow wre
knocking ct our breasts very rudelv
and clamorously asserting his presence.
He was not to be put to silence, and
so, for peace sake, we determined 10
grant his request AS ifto try us, no
sooner had we agreed TO search for
food, than we came 60 bypath which
branched of 70 the right Of the road
we were travelling. It looked prOmiB-
ing, and looking down to a leafv vista.
we diseeFned about three hundred
yards off, unmistakable signs Of a farm
house, and as a thing Of course q land
noWlng. with milk and honey. So
determined to s'stand the hazard OF
the die: we filed of down the road
20 breakfast. We found a small farm
house, inhabited by an old widow lady
whose two sons had been killed in
Virginia, and who, with four or Eve
faithful slaves, still managed to keep
ber little farm In good order. Well
coming us, for the sake Of the gray, as
she said, we were soon seated on the
grass plat, enjoying a good though
homely meal, and under the influence
OF her excellent buttermilk, corn bread
and fried chicken, were rapidly be-
coming lnvigorated- Suddenly a con
fusion of voices sounded near us. A
word and touch, aud all four were in
the adjoining thicket awaiting their
approach. They galloped up, and, or
dering breakfast, sat down on O bench
to wait for ii, l felt a touch on nay
shoulder, and looking up, saw a pale
face near my own, with eyes turned In
a constrained manner to an officer on
the bench.
n" the lips whispered, almost in
audibly, now is the time to end tho
war. Yonder sits Sherman"
was so utterly taken by surprise
that did not aG first comprehend him,
but gradually as I gazed mechanically
on the officer pointed QUO 30 me, be-
gan to understand that the SOuth's
greatest and most powerful enemy, the
one who was rapidly Wiping her out Of
existence as q nation, who held her fate
as it were, in the hollow Of his hand,
who had done her more evil Ia four
months than all his predecessors had
accomplished in as many years, was
sitting there serene and unconscious,
within reach of my Carbine. I at once
commenced cautiously TO Unsling it.
The fate Of the confederacy, perhaps.
hung on that moment. When at this
length Of time, I think Of the awful
interests that were at stake, my brain
reels and grow faint. The general
arose, unconscious Of his peril, and
walked with a rapid military tread in
to the house, followed By his staff, and
very soon we could see them thorough
the open window engaged in eatin1
breakfast. / was completely bafled
and had no opportunity, nor had any
of us, to renew our attempts, as a body
of cavalry soon arrived, before whom
we thought it prudent TO retire, and
accordingly made sudden retreat.