Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-01-22
GEN. LEE ORDERED TO THE REAR.

GEN. LEE ORDERED TO THE REAR,
Gen.. Early writes letter explaining when
the occurrence Of Gen. Lee being ordered
to the rear by his men took place. It Was
when Hancock broke throa : h the line on
the 18th at Spottsylyania. The Sind Va.
regiment mentioned was then command
ed by Col James FL. Skinner, of Staunton,
who was shot in the charge which follow
ed few minutes after, and the captain
alluded to is Capt. Jas. Bumgardner, Jr.,
now Commonwealth Attorney Of Aug
usta. Gen. Early says:
The brigade in front of which General
Lee placed himself on that occasion was
Pegram's Virginia Brigade, then com.
manded by Col. John S. Hoffman, of the
Thirty-first Virginia, aud an opening was
/ made in the Fifty-second Virginia by the
color-company, commanded by Captain
Bumgardner, to let Gen. Lee pass TO the
rear The charge made by Pegram's Vir-
ginia and Gordon's Georgia brigades, un-
| der the lead of Gordon, did arrest the pro-
| gress Of the enemy, so as to enable a new
| line to be taken up in the centre, but the
whole of the broken line was never recov-
cred. Doubtless number of cases occur
red in which Gen. Lee exposed himself so
much that the men called on him to go to
| the rear, for there was not a man in his
army who did not realize the fact that his
| fall would have been the loss of the very
| life and soul Of the, army. [ heard a sim
| liar call on him, on the same morning,
when I was bringing Anderson's MA
| hone's) division from the extreme left,
and he was exposed to q terrific fire OF shells
ard canister. But General Lee himself
has fixed this incident, occurring with my
| division, under Gordon, as really the one
when he Contemplated leading the men in
| person; and the time when it occurred was
| the most critical one in all his campaign
| from the Rapidan to the James
Capt. Bumgardner's recollection of the
| affair is that as he opened his company for
| the General to pass, Gen. Gordon took
| Gen. Lees bride rein and led his horse to
! the rear.
! A New YEARS HOUSE WARNING BY
LORD AND LADY MILToN.-The Green
brier independent gives the following
account Of house warming given by Lord
and Lady Milton, who recently resided in
Staunton. It will be remembered that
their former residence at Galatians was
destroyed by a fire, in which one of the
| servants was burnt:
| On New Years Eve, Lord and Lady
! Milton gave d ''House- warming" at Cal
| lahan House, in Allegheny county, Va.
| Their new residence is about three parts
| finished. it's architecture is a great credit
to the designer, Mr.. Phelps, OF Staunton.
| For this occasion the hall and dining room
were decorated with evergreens, and the
table beautifully lighted. About 100 guests
were invited md about 200 came 1.-THE
dancing, chiefly quadrilles and cotillions
was very graceful, and kept up with great
spirit until nearly a. m. "A beautiful
supper, including q Sc pound fruit cake,
was spread from II till 1870. The guests
were much pleased; and in return for Their
evenings pleasure, gracefully patterned
the floor with festoons Of tobacco juice,
and at noon next day sent up Il deputation
of one, with a hearty and delicately ex-
pressed vote of thanks. Lord and Lady
Milton and family left Galatians few
days later for visit to England. May
their sea be smooth to them.
| CONVICTED BY HIS OWN DAUGHTER
| Peter Cubbage has been sent to the peni-
! Tertiary from Page CO., Va, for IA years
for the murder of his wife The Page
Courier" speaking of the evidence in the
case says: a5
! 1t was very cumulative in the effort to de-
I stroy the character and credibility of a lit
tie girl, aged 10 years, the daughter Of Che
| prisoner, and who testified to the killing of
Eer mother by her father, by choking her
to death with his own hands, one Of which
he placed on her throat and the other upon
her mouth, to suppress her struggles and
all efforts at alarm. She heard her sup
pressed groans, saw him by the light which
burst forth from the fire covered up Oh the
! hearth, kneeling on her mothers breast,
end saw his hands, as. we have described.
! The principal noise which she claims to
have heard Was the beating of her feet and
hands on the bed and floor, 1.-THE bed was
spread on the floor.) 1t was these dying
struggles which made assurance doubiy
srre"in the minds of the jury aud all who
heard the child's story.
When returned to Jail after sentence,
Cubbage made an Intellectual attempt to
strange himself with a bed cord. He has
been lodged in the penitentiary.