Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-11
MORE OLD TIMERS.
How Kindness Got Man Into Serious
Trouble.
WASHINGTON, APRIL %, .,

WASHINGTON, APRIL %, '93
We were out the other day hunting
for some of the relatives of the flock
that belonged to the patient man, Job,
which were destroyed by fire from
heaven. Sorry to say that all we seen
were like the turkey Job owned too
poor to make good mutton.
In our rounds we stopped at John
MacMakins home. He was glad to see
us, and soon said he had for years, and
ever would, hold the memory of Gen
eral A. E. Jackson and Captain Will
Deaderick in greatful remem berance.
In the year 1864 Mac. moved Mr.. Ma
hony and family to Bulls Gap. At
that time the Federal forces were in
possession of the county west of that
point, and there were many Union re-
fugees congregated there, waiting for
the army to advance east and let them
return to their homes and many of
them sent letters by him to their fam
lilies in this county. Among the num-
Der Joseph Lloyd, now dead, sent let
ter to his wife containing $3.50. Soon
after Mac returned home ne started to
Jonesboro to distribute the letters in
trusted to his care. On his way he
met DR.. William Reed and asked him
to take charge of the Lloyd letter and
sent it to Mrs. Lloyd, Reed done so, and
soon after parting with Reed two con-
federate scouts arrested Mac. in Sim
pson 5 lane, about three miles west of
Jonesboro, and took him to Carter's
Depot, where they turned hum, with
his letters and other valuables, over to
General jackson. Mac was not sent
to the guard house, but General Jack
sou divided bedding with him and let
him sleep in Alvin Browns house.
Next morning whel Mac went into the
General s room he found him reading
the captured letters. Jackson said :;
"Well Mac, Thought you had bet
ter sense than to have carried these
letters from the federal lines by this
act you have made yourself liable to
severe punishment" Mac. said We'll
General, did not think was commit
ting crime at all, but was just doing
my neighbors and friends a great
kindness, as | was on disputed terri
tory somtimes one army and then the
other, holds the county down there"
However, after breakfast, the General
allowed Mac to 60 about the camp on
promise that he would not leave the
grounds. "a. .- ',.s.
Mac. visited Captain Will Deaderick 3
quarters and told him of the trouble
he was in, and said he was afraid Gen
eral jackson would send him to Rich.
mond, and that he had "a notion to
violate his parol; land swim the river at
night and make his escape, Captain
Deaderick demonstrated with him and
told him of the danger of being
drowned or shot, and was verv kind
to him, promising to interoede for him
and if possible have him released. In
the meantime, jackson often met Mac,
treated him very kindly, and in the
course of few days Mac was released
on his taking the oath of allegiance to
the Confederate Government, and re-
turned to his home, and did not act as
mail carrier any more during the war.
Mac says he does and ever will feel
that he owes to the Jacksons and
Deadericks debt of gratitude for the
great kindness extended to him by the
General and Captain on this memora-
BILE occasion. : ...
Mac tells the following story on old
John Woodruff About fifty years
ago Mac met Woodruff at a muster at
John Ingalls,; Woodruff asked Mac
to loan him ninepence, Mac done SO.
Soon Woodruff returned and asked for
another ninepence,, and continued to
borrow until Mac had loaned him
about a dollar, and then refused to
contribute futher to Woodruff's de-
mands, Woodruff then turned to VIM.
Dosser and said {: Mac is not the man
l took him for, l thought he would
have given me as much as a nine
pence" He then turned to old Mrs.
Battles and said Granny, are your
ginger cakes clean ?" The old lady
said, in her German brougue, "yes, l
did not scratch any one but myself
while Twas mixing the dough-" Wood