The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-07-19
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hundred and eigkty-six dollars He askec
me if it was mine? l said yes, put it back
in my pocket, you have no right to take m,
money lie said you have no right 10 it.,
and kept it. then said, Look here,
want my boots
DASH FOR FREEDOM.
Barton dropped the end of the rope he
had been holding and started past me to ge,
the boots which were by my pallet. wa.
mad because he had kicked me, and felt as
tall as If were three feet above the focr
l turned my hands in the rope and 'whop
ped my arms into Gary's breast and knocked
HIM down. knocked Moore down in the
same way on tn, other side; the others
were all standing deep between me and
the door. kicked at Charley White, who
gave way; the rest scattered, and jumped
out OF the door like had been grcascd.-
My wagon was in front of the door, fortu-
nately; so | ran around it, gathering up as
l ran the rope with which was tied to
SSssccpp it from tripping me, (1 knew they
would catch me if i fell) They dashed
out after me. Bang! bang went their
guss. The balls struck all around me and
knocked up the snow. l heard one of them
say, by Cd, know we have killed him.
but l knew they hadn't, aud kept on. L
was still tied so tight couldn't get loose,
though kept tugging at the rope as I ran
1 had one pistol iu my pocket, and twisted
my hands round and got it out, but drop
ped it in jumping big chesnut log.
FIRST CATCH YOUR. HARE.
Thare lSssenySSSe in the wav. but went
over it without any trouble. think 1 flew
over, L got over so easily. The officers
turned back ; they were afraid to follow me
very far, and then stopped and united the
rope with my teeth, and knew 1 was safe.
The snow was thick on the ground, and
was without hat or coat and in my stocking
feet. l knew they had my pistols, but as
they had Amos, too, l determined to rescue
him or die:"@ thought they wouldn't stay
long about there after | was loose, so ran
across the fields in my stocking feet to
neighbor's house. won't tell his name :;
but when L got there the solcs of my stock
ings were cut to pieces by the ice, and the
legs were clinging around my ankles. l
Knocked and he let me in, and told him
those hellfircd devils had captured me and
my driver, and | intended to take him away
from them. He gave me hat and coat
and shoes, and gun and ammunition.
thaR went back to the load which | knew
they would have to travel, and waited for
them. l heard them getting ready to start
with Amos, and all were talking and shout
ing together. They had captured high
strung black mare of mine, and when they
hltched her to the wagon to start one of
them whipped her, and she began to kick
things to pieces generally. Barton was
anxious to get away, so Amos told me after
wards, and stood by with his gun aiming at
every noise he heard in the bushes. They
got started finally; the bay mare did all the
pulling, as the black was mad and heard
them coming up the road Amos was cry
ing he was nething but boy, then, and l
cant tell you how felt.
ATTEMPTED RESCUE OF AMOS LADD.
just seemed to swell, felt so big but
couldn't help from crying myself | knew
my own wagon by the black mare, which
could see against the snow bank Their
was n one-horse concern and was in front.
and just as soon as it came within reach |
lcvcllcd my gun and fired! / heard some
one hollcr, Run . run run! and heard
Barton say, whats the mattcr?' | thought
to myself, you wait minute and will show
you what's the matter. Then some one in
the foremost wagon fired at me two or three
times and they all fell out of the wagon,
and as they ran up the snow bank into the
bushes ! fired again. My gun was loaded
with buckshot, and when | heard some one
groaning and thought Il have got meat
this time | shot six more times, but the
banks were so high that l overshot them
and didn't get anybody.
CHARLEY WHITES TERROR.
One of them, Charley White had caught
a shot in his thigh, and as Amos who was
then lodging behind the barrels told me
afterwards, tried his best to get under orento
Amos for protection. Amos told him po
get out and take his share ; and he replied,
L have got my share already"
TO do him justice | may say here that
the "Major" did not seem to think that,
under all the circumstances, there was any.
thing particularly wrong in his single han.
dcd attack upon the dozen Revenues. lie
certainly enjoyed telling how hard poor
Charley White had tried to crawl into Amos
and how his faithful black mare had "fan.
ned timber" with her indignant heels. The
officers took Amos into their midst and
drove off rapidly, and Redmond ceased fir.