The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-11-17

After leaving Jack near the Kentucky
line, Pike made his way TO Bowling
Green, where, under the name Of Pike
Mccoy" Mccoy was his mothers maid.
en- name-he enlisted in the Forty-second
Tennessee. He had fought at Shiloh and
Corinth. and was with Bragg on his raid
into Kentucky, He said in effect:
"a stuck by Bragg and ht a. wells the
mex man till no sCOoted Outen Kaintuck
and made TO Aist Tennessee. heerd
the boys sayin ez how our army was
gwine plum down to Knoxville, whar l
desarted from to git Jack away, and
whnr know they'd shoot me ef so DO
got back thar, so I've desarted agin, and
Arter q rest think Ill go plum up to
>Vaginny and take another name and
jins Lee"
Yes, Pike had heard Of Jack up in
Kentucky. Jack had a company Of
scouts land followed we unS plum down
Crab Orchard way, whar he raised mor.
ry old HI with one Of Bragg's wagon
trains"
After Pike had put on dry clothes and
eaten like a very hungry man. his
mother made bed for him by the FIRE,
for she could not trust him ont Of her
sight, and then she and Minny lay down,
but they could not sleep, no great waa
their joy and anxiety for the COnfeder.
ate son and brother.
/ Taking furlough without consulting
their superior officers was peculiar "a
these mountainous in both armies. and
they invariably returned to duty Rftel
they had had their visit out But Pix
Hurds case was different: there was q
reward still standing for his capture
and it would have been paid to somC
one had he not furloughed himself BE-
fore reaching Knoxville.
Yielding TO the prayers Of his mother
and sister Pike, made his home in the
cave up the mountain. Here his Union
neighbors visited him and faithfully
kept his secret till spring, but to quote
Mrs.. Hurd; The worry was q p0wahful
sight wus'n whin PIKE was away. BE
couldn't help Minny and me q he want
ed ter, and every night whin he went
up thar to the cave with his rife over
his shoulder somehow felt ez ,ef we unI
wouldn't never see him alive again, TO
thar was lots and lots Of spies in the
hills. And then whin daylight come
and Pike he'd show up all right hit allerl
seemed o. Of he'd been gone away on TO
long time. and Minny and med make
4 fuss ovah him and take on ez ef he
hadn't been nigh all the time"
In the spring Of 1858 news Of the law,
less exploits Of 0 guerrilla leader, known
as"Tinker Dave Beatty, " spread through
tho mountains.
Pike Hurd had no fancy for such
service, but at the same time that Beatty
and his Partisan rangers came into
notorioty, Il became known ~ q certainty
hat the Union troops in blue waves
sre pouring through the Gap and into
D, Tennessee.
: Pike Hurd's position was certainly very
peculiar. BE felt that II the Yankees
found him they would make him pris-
oner; If he returned to his old command
Bragg would shoot or hang him. ItwRs
the case Of the devil and the deep sea,
with third course open that led straight
to the camp Of the guerrillas in the
mountains, and thitheF he went.
Meanwhile dstaChments from the Sew
enth and Ninth Pennsylvania, the First
Kentucky. Fourth Ohio and Second East
Tennessee cavalry regiments were sent
into the Cumberland range to kill on
hang all Of Tinker Dave Beatty's men
that could be found. but under no cir
Cumstances 10 take prisoner. for the
gueTrillas were not regularly enlisted,
nor their leader regularly commissioned
and these facts, added 10 their barba.
I rUus conduct, led them to b regarded