Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05

spatch from Port Royal as to the
movement of Lee was not found out
by Governor Curtin till quite recent
ly. The Governor never gave up the
search for the man who sent the IN
poItant information, and when he
earned that Rev. Stephen W. Pom
eroy, of Mount Union, Huntingdon
county, had sent it, he requested Mr..
Pomeroy to write to him an account
of the event which must, from the
nature OF the case, now be classed a.
mong the great events of those try
ing and important pivotal times. Mr..
Pomeroy answered the Governors
request as follows, which was pub
lished in the Philadelphia Times OF
last week
MOUNT UNION, Pa, Nov. l3, 1888.
Hon. A. G. CURrN-Dear Sir: In COM
pliance with your request, l send you the
account of how came to send you the teie-
gram of the concentration of the Confeder-
ate army at Gettysburg during the war. AZ
ter being discharged from the nine months
service of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, l
happened to be home, at my father's-Judge
Pomeroy, of Roxbury, Franklin county
when the enemy were marching down the
Cumberland Valley. There was, OF course,
great excitement, for the enemy was at our
doors and taking what they would. Farm
ers hid their horses and other stock in the
mountains, as far as possible. One day thee
hundred cavalry marched into Roxbury.-
When We learned of their coming ten of the
men who had been out in the Line months
service armed ourselves as We best could and
went out TO intercept them; but the odds
were too great, so We retired. Anxious to
hear the news and render what service we
might to our country, q number of us walk
ed to chambersburg, a distance of fourteen
miles, reaching there in the afternoon. That
night the rebels concentrated at Gettysburg.
Next morning Judge T. A. Kimmel, with
whom my father sat as Associate Judge.
learned that a son of Thomas Pomeroy was
in town. He sent for me to come TO him at
once l found the Judge on the street that
leads to McConnelsburg, short distance
from the Franklin Hotel, where the Central
Presbyterian Church now stands. As the
town was full of rebels and a rebel had his
beat near us, the Judge asked ME if was
son of Thomas Pomeroy. Ireplied in the
affirmative. With apparently unconcern,
be asked me to follow him. I did so and
he led me into little dark back room and
told me that the rebels we're concentrating
at Getty ysburg and Governor Curtin did not
know it. He said it was of the utmost I'M
portance that the Governor should know at
the earliest possible moment and asked me
if would take telegram TO the nearest
point on the Pennsylvania Railroad and
send it TO him. He added: SIT is of in
finite importance TO him and to our coun-
try" l replied that | would try it. The
telegram was already written, SO he cut
bole in the buckle-strap of my pantaloons
and deposited the telegram to be sent there
and said: ''Get this safely and in the
shortest time possible TO the Governor.n-
Assuming Indifference, 1 came to the street
and met the rebel guard who did not dis
turb me. Some of those who came with
out together,
We met many at the edge of the town, re-
turning, who conld not get through the
guard, who were stotioned around the town.
Coming to the forks of the Strasburg and
Roxbury roads We found both cavalry and
infantry. On the left there was slight hol-
low, also several wheat fields, aud beyond
these there were woods. This was the on
ly way TO hope for escape. Atmy proposal
We crept along this hollow. at the end Of
which there were some wheat fields; We
kept these between us and the guard till we
iS@ShOu INC "oVuS. "hSh SSttIuS oFcr tno
fence into the woods we were seen By the
enemy. They called, rode after US and lev
eled their muskets at us, but we ran on, and
as they did not fire or follow US far we es-
capped. Still fearing capture We reached
Strasburg all had fallen behind but one. We
must have walked about seventeen miles be-
fore we got to Roxbury. As tie horses
we're hid in the mountains / was in dread
least should not get horse, bat met Mr.
S. l.. Seminar riding into town to get feed
for his horses in the mountains. Telling
him of the message was carrying he gave
me his horse. Informing my father of my
errand set out on my trip at once. 1t was
about noon. The mountain road to Ander-
son Valley was, | knew, blockaded with
trees to prevent the marauders from enter
ing the valley to steal horses. On this ac-
count l crossed the mountain into Ander-
son Valley by foot-path, then another
into Path Valley. Reaching my
lncle's W. K. Pomeroy, at Concord, and
telling him my business he got me another
horse. The Barrens, below Concord, were
by citizens of Tuscarora Valley,
many of whom knew me. The report hav.
ing reached them that l was killed while
trying to hinder the rebels from entering
Roxbury, the obstacles and excitement of
my friends at finding me alive hindcred me
about ten minutes. Free from them has
tened down the Tuscarora Valley as fast as
my horse could carry me. At Bealtown Mr..
Beale, now the Rev. d. ]. Beale, speedily
got me a fresh horse. When / reached Silas
E. Smiths did two things, got lunch and
proved TO the future Mrs. Pomeroy that |
vas not dead, as she supposed, but good for
many years to come. From thence rode
70 my uncle's Joseph Pomeroy, at Acade-
mia, found them likewise mourning my sup
posed death, and he supplied another horse,
he fastest he had. That carried me within
! mile of my destination, when a soldier on
,uard called, Halt : told the sergeant on
guard my mission and requested one of the
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