Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-01-22
VIRGINIA, JANUARY 22, 1892.

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party of drunken troopers quarreling ant
cursing over game of cards.
"When in the enemy's country we livet
on the enemy. Wealways travelled light.
equipped and with great speed. remenl
Der an order of his, 'Stragglers will b
shot, which had the effect of always keep
ing us in compact body. These are tn
main points of Quantrell's ideas of war
and by which he always came out victorl
Gus. Anecdotes 1 could tell you by thu
dozen, but have not now the time"
The narrator paused, relighted his ex
tinguished cigar and, with what thougii
half sigh, resumed:
''Well, to get to that affair at Lawrence
Quantrell had received some terrible blqEs
at the hands of the red legs, as the FEEDER
ais were called in August of that year,
think Several of his best men had beer
caught by them and hung without show 0
trial. The James brothers, Jesse anf
Frank, had both been waylaid, wounded
and escaped after desperate fight, and &
number of respectable old farmers in.JaeS
son, Clay and Liberty counties, whence w
drew the larger portion of our supplies
food, stock and recruits, had been brutaily
used during one of those periods in which
Quantrell temporarily disbanded his corp;
to meet at certain time and place.
when the night of the rendezvous ar
rived we mustered about $50 strong apG
were paraded in the moonlight in an oper
glade in the big forest.
"Quantrell had little to say, but never
saw his brow so stern and his eye so scin
tillant with vengeful wrath. He rode uI
and down our lines twice closely scanning
his men. Then he addressed them few
brief words, telling them of what had
been done and of the determination of the
enemy to ruin them at all hazards. He
notified me that we were going to execute
signal act of vengeance, but what it was
not one knew save his two lieutenants.
Let any man leave the ranks who
doesn't wish to co. said Quantrell, but
and all understood what but meant
If there were any traitors among us just
to spy he would be perforce to come and
do as we did, or if he wished to draw out
now at this supreme moment he we'll knew
that the way within dozen yards would
be checked by storm of bullets from the
finest pistol shots in the world.
$50 we were told to break ranks, give
our animals feed and eat one ration and
cook another. That was all we carried in
the way of provisions.
''The moon had scarcely reached her
meridian splendor when we set out on a
frosty night all night long; the creaking
of the horse furniture and the dull tramp
lent a pleasing monotone to the oppressive
stiffness of the night. We were all in an
ticipation of some unusual event and the
majority Of us were very somber and 81
lent.
cat last, just as the faint parhelia in the
east over the level prairie land began to an
nounce the approaching dawn. halt was
ordered and Quantrell sent forward Gregg
and score of men to take the bridge over
the little stream some six miles this side
of Lawrence.
Meantime we break fasted on cold ra-
tions, and such as had it took drink of
whisky. It was very dark and dismal as
the wind swept the mist wreaths here and
there over the vast, silent prairie and
tossed the tall grasses into pillows re-
sembling those of the Atlantic under a
heavy ground swell. 1t was very ghostly
standing there, hand on name and foot in
stirrup, impatiently waiting for some
sound from the front, while the gi-
gantic figures Of the orderlies moved
through the damp gloom like specters of
the Broken calling the morning roll.
Suddenly firing was heard half mile
in front, where Gregg had gone Then all
was still. Then came over the prairie the
rapid hoof beats of a fast horse. The rider
soon became visible and went direct to
Quantrell.
1--WE killed three, captured nine, and
Captain Gregg awaits orders, SIR
"'Fall into your troop replied Guam
trell, and to the bugler:
BOOTS and saddlesv
loud, long, clear and shrill the beautiful
refrain rang out, and ere the bugler had
his instrument well under his arm we had
got the order.
Right dress, forward We
had already been arranged in columns of
four, and along we Numbered, passed the
bridge without a halt, where Gregg Joined,
leaving q party to care for the Federal
killed and wounded, and as they were soon
again in ranks l opine that they put their
own construction on their orders and slew
the whole layout! Obi they were barba-
rous.
81 can't dwell on what remains to be
told; we sighted Lawrence Just at day.
break and went into the town with 6 wild
rush and whoop which startled the regi-
ment of infantry posted just across the
river. And then the bloody work began;
no wonder women and children were hurt
in that wild raid, for there was no time
for discrimination, as we knew not at
what moment the force opposing us would
be largely increased by re, endorsements.
Sweeping through the town. applying the
torch right and left, we went. But that
part of the story is known in history
M. G. Johnston in Atlanta Constitution,
lne sJrIng DrUne.
Blank comes 60 Brooklyn every day from
one of the prettiest of Long Island towns,
where he has one of the prettiest of cot
tages His wife has a sister in Carleton
avenue, and to this sister Mr.. Blank often
carries fresh eggs by the score. Mr.. Blank
has plenty of money, and he could easily
afford to keep a thousand unproductive
chickens, but the Carleton avenue lady
conscientiously saves all the unused bread
for Mr.. Blanks fowls, and the bane of his
life is the lady's hat box, in which it ac-
eumulates and in which it is finally trans
ported to the chicken house.
Last week consignment of eggs went
one way. as usual and consignment of
bread the other Mr. Blank is well groomed,
well eAeotiCu f'lO gnu lOOhIuS, Dub uc Is
about as domesticated as one of his own
fowls just tho same, and he never could
summon up enough courage to get up a re-
volt on the bread carrying question. His
last experience proved to be the straw that
broke the camel's back
Among his fellow passengers on the
train were two ladies. He didn't know
them then, and he doesn't want to know
them now. AS he left the car he over
heard one of them say:
''That's the kind of Il husband to have;
he's taking new hat home to his wife"
Mr.. Blank had the hat box by the string
with which is was tied, and the string
with which it was tied didn't happen to be
very strong. 1t broke. A choice collection
of stale bread scattered itself over the plat
form, and the ladies-well, the ladies
laughed as ladies will.-Brooklyn Life.
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