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

tea and haIdtack from the hospital" Be
tween 8 and o'clock that night he kept his
word, dropping the tea and crackers ss he
had the note.
Regulation Army Fare.
They were very hungry and ate with 9
relish Mrs McCsfreY says she has never
heard of nor seen McAdams since.
The warning, though well meant, proved
disastrous, and led to the subsequent mis-
fortune. Between / and 2 o'clock that
night the two women stole out of the house,
and picking their way through the battle
field, got I've miles out the Romney road by
daybreak. The nights were short at that
season of the year. As soon as it was fully
day they took to the woods. Mrs. Ben
cough wore a fashionable bonnet, which
she took off and gave to Celia, who re-
mained in hiding while her companion
started on a foraging expedition. There
was no fashionable millinery in Winchester
at that time, and to wear it would excite
suspicion. Lottie went foraging, and by
and by found house where a 14-year-old
girl was induced to summon her mother, q
pleasant-faeed, motherly woman, who an
gwered to the name of Betty Jenkins. Celia
was called out of her hiding place, and the
women proceeded to have as pleasant q time
hS CAICuL1sbduCcS hOulO dllOW. IL WAS
novelty to the Northern women to
find, in rather opulent house
hold, that the garments for the
family were all homemade, Betty carding.
spinning and weaving the cloth, and then
making 1t into apparel, and all by hand
sewing. She had a husband in the North
ern army, and two stepsons in the rebel
army. When Betty was told her visitors
were Northern women she was frightened
nearly out of her Wits and she was afraid to
give them any help, though when they told
her their errand and that they were almost
starved, she told them to go upstairs into a
retired room and she would find food.
Everything was buried, as the country had
been overrun by both armies until chickens
would run squalling at the sight of any
thing that wore pantaloons There was
nothing visible that would tempt the sp-
petite, but, nevertheless, Betty managed to
get them good meal, bathed their blistered
feet, and all three eventually parted crying,
which, by the way, women are very like to
do under such circumstances. The times
tried women's as well as mems souls. They
never heard of each other again, but Lottie's
recollections are vivid, and she would
like long talk with Betty.
Hard on the Nerves.
They walked o miles on that hot, white,
dusty pike that day, and IL miles from
Bethy's place they found a house down by
g mountain stream, a long stairway leading
down from the pike. Here they found
very old man and very large woman, the
latter playing deaf and dumb, afraid to say
anything to strangers As supply of food
was of all things the most difficult to find,
Lottie and Celia asked for it on all occa-
sions. The old man brought out yard of mus
lin in which he had tied up an assortment
of scraps OF meat, cheese, bread, etc., and
told them how far and what way they
must go before they would meet Mulligan's
scouts. The heat was so great that they
soon found their commissary stores an in
tolerable burden, and were forced to drop
them. Turning off the road at length, they
bathed their blistered feet in a stream.
Water did not seem to quench their raging
thirst, and they were overioyed to descry at
some distance cherry tree heavily laden.
They got their handkerchiefs spread out to
hold the fruit and Lottie climbed the tree.
Hardly had she done so when she was seen
by savage bull In a pasture near by and
he broke for them. The road was shaped at
that point like the letter S, and in rounding
one OF the curves the bull lost sight of them,
but they lost their handkerchiefs and dare
not 60 back after them, so they supplied the
deficiency by tearing squares out of their
skirts.
Soon after they came to what appeared to
be a'deserted house, but just as they were
entering, q number OF children sTrang out
yelling in a frightful manner. The fugi-
tives were nearly frightened to death, but
they soon learned that the demonstration
was friendly. They got no refreshment,
however. Next they came to a place where
gun was leaning against a tree. They
held their breath until they saw that it be-
longed to a rebel picket who had gone to a
house half mile away and was
Making Love to n Girl
He had been charged to watch for and in
tercept them, as they subsequently learned,
but as love rules the camp as well as the
court and grove, he had surrendered. They
took the gun and hid it in the brush so as to
disable him should he discover them, but he
was so pleasantly engaged that he did not
see them, and they came on to house where
they found an old man and woman making
cherry pies. They had -four, but neither
shortening nor sugar. Neither would speak
to the travellers, but gave them some milk
and pie. The latter was so sour they could
not eat it, and the top crust was burned
while the bottom was dough. They drank
the milk thankfully and went on.
When they came to the Cacapon bridge
they found it guarded, and they made de-
tour and found q tree fallen across the
stream. 1t was high from the water, and
Celia could not cross it. Lottie stormed
and entreated, and offered to assist, but all
to no purpose; she couldn't brace Celia's
nerves, and they had to face the guard.
They were two miles further from Winches-
ter than was Phil Sheridan at critical oc-
easion, but still five miles from Mulligan.
They got some so yards from the bridge
when they were halted BY cavalry, and
nice young man in gray, Lieutenant Bell,
nephew of General Bell, of the c. S. A,
accosted them, saying: Ladies, I'll have
to interview you" Travel stained, foot
sore, faces blistered. hungry and utterly
wretched, the women were informed they
were arrested as spies by order of General
r. E. Lee and then Lottie remembered bit
terly that they had not obeyed his orders
to return to his headquarters to re-
port. They begged they should not
be made walk back. Mrs McCaffrey says
that, recognizing the inevitable, she lost all
fear at once, but her partner, unused to the
world, was badly broken up and helpless
They were taken to a house in the woods
owned by a Mrs. Smith, where Miss
Bell, their captor's sister, searched
them. They had secured the burial Of
Bengough's body in cemetery at Win
chester and the grave properly marked for
Identification, paying German undertaken
$40 therefor.
Nerve Saved Them.
A fresh peril encountered them when they
came to be searched by Miss Bell. Lottie
had in her possession large number of let
tiers from crippled Union soldiers in the
Winchester Hospital to'wives, sweethearts,
ETC., which she had agreed to take through
the lines. Before being searched she asked
for some water and leave to make herself
presentable, and was shown into a vacant
room for the purpose. There were some
white ashes on the hearth and she wet the
letters and rubbed them into pulp and
mixed them with the ashes until all trace
was obliterated.
The next day their cavalry guard put
Lottie and Celia into a wagon and they
were hauled back to Winchester. The
guard was gallant and secured the country