Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-04

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next morning she asked the Federal an
thorities for guard, and 1t watched owe
her outgoings and ineomings as long as shI
stayed in Fairmont. Her newspaper nigh
wandering saved her life.
Some Border Life.
Soon after this the rebels blew up the B
& o. Railway bridge, and the courthous'
bell was rung to call the people to the hill
Encumbered by a baby and the care Of al
aged mother, Mrs. Bengough's experience
for time was trying one, as she hat
learned that the rejected eompositor wsl
still thirsting for her blood She finally
found refuge in the house of man named
Showalter, where considerable number Of
Unionists had collected for mutual safety.
She made arrangements to leave Faimont
and put her mother under the care Of Col
onel Richey while she went to visit her
husband at Winchester. It was the lasl
time she saw him alive. She found
him ID the woods in the command oI
General Milroy. There had been Q sword
presentation to General Milroy, and in
company with her husband, Mrs. Bengough
went to see it at the Generals headquarters.
Here she transgressed the rules Of military
etiquette in q manner that gave her husband
much uneasiness-she was only a girl in
years-but General Milroy, learning that
she was compositor and consequently not
afraid OF greatness, not only forgave her
but commended the frankness and spirit
with which she conducted herself In his
presence. Colonel Northcutt assigned her
quarters in q deserted mansion owned By
one of the chiefs of the Confederacy.
Coming back to Fairmont Mrs. Ben.
cough closed her business affairs and left for
Pittsburg. She states that il was rather
doleful experience. The people were not
overly friendly, and the only one to bid her
goodby was Lieutenant Parkinson, who
paid her $40 he had borrowed of her and
lent her q revolver, so that she might re-
press unfriendlY curiosity. In return she
mended his uniform, and after parting
never saw him again. The country around
Fairmont was laden with blackberries.
and Mrs. Bengough made herself fayorite
with the soldiers by baking pies for them,
They would save their fat pork rations, and
she rendered them into lard. The Union
soldiers had made quite free with her house
in her absence, but she thought them too
sociable when she found it full of them.
with their feet sticking out of the windows.
After receiving from her q lesson in eti-
quette, they desisted and the entente cor.
dale was restored. She only remembers
the names of two-Johnston and Gump.
Mrs. Bengough's loyalty was only once
questioned, and that was when she pleaded
tor man who was captured as 4 bush.
but she finally prevailed on the
men not to harm him, and filing him to
the chin with blackberry pie, she sent him
away, exhorting him to take the Union
side thereafter. She never knew what
effect her exhortation had, but she SAYS he
was too miserable to afford any comfort in
MS killing.
On gloomy day in March, 1868, amid a
driving snow storm, Mrs. Bengoueh left
Fairmont and came to Pittsburg. and some
months later learned that her husband had
been killed on the Romney road, during
he three days fight at Winchester. he yN
! Lieutenant under General Mffroy. He
vas killed by sharpshooter, having, with
lis command. lain down to sleep, and was
zilled as he lay.
Her Romance Begins.
Accompanied by sister of her husband.
Hiss Celia Bengough, principal of the High
school in Toledo, Mrs. Bengough went to
Winchester to recover her husbands body
md bury it, so that it could be subse-
uently identified, and from thenceforvsrd
he and her companion met with vicissi-
udes that only "the love that kisses the
lps OF death" can support. Arriving at
ne headquarters Of General Mulligan, on
dew Creek, Va, the ladies were assigned
uarters in big building, which they sub
equently discovered was occupied as . bar.
acks ~ the soldiers, and they awoke dur.
ng the night to find the large room filed
nth men. Celia was greatly excited
y the situation, but Mrs. Beupouoh's
revious contact with the sterner sex. as
came to her aid and she suo
eeded IN calming her companion, and with
eads under the quilt, they managed to get
long without incident until the soldiers
ad filed out in the morning. MulIigan
lrnished them with pass into the rebel
mes and assured them he had personal
'iends among the Confederates who would
,e that they were respected and properly
'eated. After walking few miles night
Vertook them and they put up at a house.
he proprietor Of which engaged to taks
lem to Winchester in q wagon for 500.
ood was scarce with him and they started
efore breakfast. On the way, in = Rap 10
le mountains, they heard something like
istant thunder and were astonished. a.
lere were no signs Of rain in any direction.
Ionths afterward they learned in Castle
hunder that the sound was that of cannon
the battle Of Gettysburg, Their
cort went as far as be thought Il
.fe to be seen in company with
Yankee" women, and after they left him
ey finally found their way into the pres.
ice of two noted chiefs of the Confectionery.
eneral r. e. Lee and G. 7. Beauregard.
eneral Lee gave them Q pass, which ID
III in Mrs. McCafrey's possession. He re.
Tired them after they had accomplished
cir work to report at his headquarters,
ID disobedience in this respect caused
EN- much subsequent suffering and I'm,
isOnment in rebel prison.
Woman's Resource In rroubI,.
Starting along the Romney road, the
'men met with more rebuffs than sympathy
their mournful errand, and finally near
ghtfall did what many a woman has done
der less trying eircumstances-sa4 down
d took good cry-which they found a
eat relief The rebs had taken possession
the quarters lately occupied BY Unionists
d they had to sleep in barracks occupied
confeds, They paid fancy price for
breakfast Of salt Junk, but
re allowed to pursue their mission.
rgeon McCandless had buried Beneoueh
d had sent Mrs. Bengough q letter Of in.
uction as to the place, and they found il
er travelling over q hill Uttered with the
dies of horses, mules, unexploded shells
d thousands Of letters the slain soldiers
4 gotten from home. Thirty cannon be-
lging to Early's command had been left
the field, and they saw gun that the
,els had hoisted BY meanSof block and
kle high up on erag in a gap in order
repel the Union advance, and had never
Ind it convenient to remove it. They
Ind the body buried near Early 80 guns.
10 rebel officers prowlIng in the vicinity
re very inquisitiye, but the women
fled them, and while Celia sat on the
I've Mrs. Bengough gathered flowers, and
" acted as uneoReernedly as possible.
ter all their trouble they learned that
railway between Winchester and Mar
sburg had been torn up and the body
Id not be shipped. Going back to the
riding house, they found sour woman In
Irge, who refused to give them anything
.at. A man with Federal uniform on
med desirous Of cultivating their ac-
,intance, but they treated him coldly and
i him at q distance, having become sus-