Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-02

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''FLING A ROPE OVER THE LIMB OF THAT
TREE!''
will accept the terms, even though I
cheat the devil in giving you your life. {"
''And you will let no one injure me?"
''No one; but be quick about it or I
may change my mind. Where are these
men?'
In a cellar under my own house."
81 might have thought of that" the
Major said, annoyed to think that the
miserable wretch was to escape his
righteous punishment.
So Mr.. Dixon was marched back to his
own house, with the rope still around
his neck and his hands tied behind his
back, together with the horses and
spoils of war, and the many wounded
men, who, though most of them enc
mics, were treated with wonderful
tenderness by the rough soldiers.
1t was even as Dixon had said The
men-one officer and five privates of an
Iowa regiment-were found, gagged
and bound with cords drawn so tightly
that their flesh was cut as with a knife.
1--WE had to keep them quiet or you
would have heard them," Dixon said,
reading the stern inquiry of the Majors
looks.
''Unloose his bonds and let him go
before break my word and brain him
where he stands!'' Hopkins cried, una
bic to control his Indignation.
Nor was the Major alone in his wrath,
irr it was with the utmost difficulty
that the officers ere able to restrain
heir men while 4mbling wretch
SUNK from the
When the rescued prisoners, whose
tongues had been so cruelty tied by
whip-cord, were able to speak, they
were of course asked hundred ques-
tions, and among them this:
''DO you know where Bragg is?''
Yes" was the prompt reply, The is
off northwards with all the speed he can
to Louisville"
And Buell. knows it not"' Major Hop
lSins declared, aghast at the significant
Importance Of the news.
So, leaving the enemy's wounded to
the tender mercies of the citizens of
Winstanley, and despatching their own
in a baggage wagon with small es-
cort, they mounted their newly-ac-
quired Steeds and hurried as fast as they
could back to Bucll's army.
No wonder Southern gentlemen call
such as our Winstanley friends white
trash,' the Major unused. Il have often
felt surprise at the epithet, but now
think it suits them down to the ground
CHAPTER XIII.
ALL FOR WOMAN.
Human interest is always stirred to
fever heat by a race, whether the com
peting objects be men in the arena,
horses ON the course or yachts or ocean
steamers flying over the foaming waves,
but here was a sight that made the dull
est pulse beat fast-two armies rushing
across State, as big as European
country, in anxious haste to reach .
spot that may be a key to pronounced
victory. Bragg and Buell. with thei1
thousands were the participators in thi:
stupendous struggle, with all the odds
Of an early start in favor Of the former
but the Union General reached the goa
first, and so foiled one Of the finest ef
forts of his aStute antagonist, whose
record during his brilliant career Wa:
second only to Lees among the South
ern commanders as an expert tactician
But though forcstallcd in his inten
tions, the Confederate leader seized The
| opportunities left to him. with consum
mate skill. flooding the State with ap
Peals to loyalty to his cause. inspiring
| them by the presence and boasted sue
cesses OF his troops to join his standard
and making almost 3upcrhuInan cf
forts to win the kcntuckians to {
declaration of secession. He wen
| further than Lee had ventured to do il
| Maryland, daring even to create a pro
visional Governor and carry into effec
| stringent CONSUMPTION law. Come
| into the folds of your brotherhood,
| was his passionate appeal by proclama
| ton. ''Cheer us with the smiles Of you
women, and lend your willing hands t.
secure the heritage of liberty
| And even when all this failed he VOL
| success from defeat by turning his de
mand for men into one for supplies
ravaging the rich lands of the northern
part of the State with it's fertile val
leys and green pastures, until he had ;
wagon-train of supplies forty mile
long clothing, boots, arms, two hun
dred loads of bacon, six thousand bar
rels of pork, two thousand horses an.
eight thousand beevcs, and all this vas
array of booty he dispatched in safct.
southwark. Then, when this VALUABLE
feat was accomplished, he sullenly be
gan retrograde movement with Buell.
whose delay had fretted the gallan
troops he led almost beyond endur
ance, in tardy pursuit. Day by day tn
Union forces followed the retreatin,
host, when on the 9th of October, a
they reached the village of Perryville