Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-30

custom with him to fight all his men, leav-
ing no reserves, just as a man who means
business would put his purse down on the
table and bet 1t on the turns of the game.
That was how Warren got relieved by Sher-
idan at Five Forks, a man without a flaw
in his record but Sheridan expected to be
implicitly obeyed. He told Warren to fight
all the fifth corps and put them all in at
the battle. When he got around to where
Warren was he said: General, you have
not got all your men in there Didn't tell
you to put your whole command in" Yes,
Gen. Sheridan said Warren, but on re-
Election l thought 1 ought to reserve a GER
tain portion in case of emergency. Go to
the rear. sir, exclaimed Sheridan. That
was the spirit, however, which ended the
war, and there is no doubt in my mind but
that Grant achieved his great victory as
promptly as he did through Sheridan"
"Were you not sometimes almost worn
out under such a commander"
After the battle of Gettysburg, when
we came down to Frederick, Md, and we
kept moving, driving the rebels out, / 'ay
down beside the turnpike between Freder-
lex and Hagerstown, and thought to my
self If it could be done to put me out of
my pain at once without wounding me and
making me more miserable l would like to
die right there. 1t was in that retreat
that we hanged the rebel spy
What rebel spy?
Ex-Mayor Delamarter gave the name, but
I forgot it. Said he:
There was an old man who had been
around the camps in the guise of a Union
friend selling us stationery, newspapers
and other things. He was SO old that he
rather evaded suspicion. All the soldiers,
however, knew his face. AS we lay back
there, not far from Frederick. on the Ne
tional pike, some of our men were called in
the night to go into the adjacent field, and
when they got over there they saw man
lodging and running away. They hailed
him and he continued to run. but some
other soldiers coming behind him, he was
wv Ill.
Baltimorean. near sixty years of age. The
soldiers concluded that they would take
him to their commander. This commander
questioned him. and the man would not say
one word, so he was sent up to Gen. Beu-
ford. Bedford questioned the man, and he
continued to be plucky and obstinate Give
me a lariat,' said Bedford, and it was put
around the mans neck and he was pulled
up. When let down he again refused to
talk Pull him up again. said Bedford.
He was pulled up, and this time he began
to kick, and when let down he saw it was
all up with him. He then made his dispo-
stion to die. He told them that he had
been working for the rebel government as
a spy for two years. He was then searched,
and his pockets were found full of all kinds
of information, drawings Of the defenses
of Washington. Bedford told them to pull
him up again and make the end of the
lariat fast and there he hanged. AS the
soldiers went past they would cut off the
buttons and pieces of him for relics. until
at last he hung there with nothing but his
drawers on"
The Rebel Cavalry.
Were not the rebel cavalry for a good
while superior to the Union cavalry?'
"Yes, they were. They did not give the
Union army cavalry enough in proportion
for some time, and we were almost always
outnumbered and never sufficiently support
Land the men lost heart. thinkthat Beu-
ford had the making In him Of the greatest
cavalryman in the service. Sheridan,
though he commanded cavalry, was not es-
pecially q cavalry commander; he COM