The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-04-17

declaring that he would never be taken
alive. The Captain Of the squad then
fired the barn. \ correspondent thus
describes the scene:
"The blaze lit up the recesses Of the
great barn till every wasp's nest and
cobweb in the roof were luminous, fling
ing streaks of red and violet across the
tumbled farm gear in the corner. They
tlnged the beams, the upright columns,
the barrlcades, where clover and timo-
thy piled high held toward the hot in
cendiary their separate straws for the
funeral pile. They bathed the muir
derer's retreat in a beautiful illumina-
ton, and, while in bold outlines his
figure stood revealed, they rose like an
impenctrable wall to guard from sight
the hated enemy who lit them. Be
hind the blaze, with his eye to a crack,
Colonel Conger saw !. Wilkes Booth
stand upright upon crutch. At the
CLEAN of the fire Booth dropped his
crutCh and carbine, and on both hands
crept up to the spot to espy the incen-
diary and shoot him dead. His eyes
were lustrous with foyer, and swelled
and rolled in terrible beauty, while his
teeth were fixed, and he wore the ex-
preston Of one in the calmness before
frenzy. In vain he peered with venge-
ance in his look the blaze that made
him visible concealed his enemy. A
second he turned alaring at the fire, as
if to leap upon it and extinguish it, but
it had made such Roadway that he dis
missed the thought. As calmly as upon
the battle field a veteran stands amidst
the hail Of ball and shell and plunging
iron, Booth turned and pushed for the
door, carbine in poise, and the last re-
solve of death, which we name despair,
set on his high, bloodess forehead"
ust then Sergeant Boston Corbit
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