The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-12
A RIDE FOR LIFE.
HoWoNE OF THE CONFEDERATE CAB.
MET OFFICERS ESCAPED.

4 Midnight Incident In the wnds ofGeor-
gia When That whole Section of the
Country Was ratrolIcd by Union soldiers.
Nn Anxious Farmer.
Down among the piny woods of south
erl Georgia Jefferson Davis was cantured.
Why he should ever have been capt ired in
chat lonely land, surprising OF course that
Zoe really wanted to get away SUI passes
understanding | have ridden over the
ground and have visited that dismal. ont
of the way town OF Irwinville Ga, which,
like Waterloo, uameless before, will now
be ever remembered.
After leaving south Carolina the com
pany, consisting of Davi7. his family, sew
,r,l members of the cabinet and an escort
ul soidiery, crossed the Savannah river
near the old town Of Washington-by the
way, the first town named fer the father of
his country in the United States There,
experimenting the approach of Federal cav
airy "a general breakup took place Davis
continued his way toward the south still
rucumbrred hya considerable wagon train
until be crossed the Octhugee river at Poor
Robin Syring and camped at Asheville
Thence he started by the early dawn on that
weary journey through the soitudes of the
"vircGa--' made still more solitary by
tine war that had depupulated Georgia of
all the men able TO bear musket, as well
as the boys. sixteen to sixty was the
last decree of the conscript act, and only
pale faced and half famished women and
children remained to gaze in wonder at the
procession.
After the breaking up of the cabinet Gen
,ral Breckenridge mounted his horse and
truck out for the Floridian peninsula.
Through lonesome byways, where tine peo-
pie could not give directions which route to
pursue after 10 miles because they had new
or been farther, lac rode and thus escaped
the Mon troops, who were chartered at
different cities and towns across the PENN
sula from Jacksonville TO Tampa. 1t was
rs wild u ride as ever II man undertook but
By avoiding the most populous sections
General Breckenridge finally reached safe
distance below the Gordon of troops lying
ina wait for him and other refugees from the
fallen Conledcracy.
Worn out, he rode up to a log cabin in the
dusk of evening and asked if he could get
shelter and refreshment for himself and
his horse and directions how to reach Char
lutte's harbor Although dressed in citi-
zeu'e clothes his manners and striking ply
sique melted the curiosity of the squatter
But true to the instincts of that peculiar
food and shelter and asked no questions.
stad day and night at that hospita-
bic hut soon after and was the recipient of
many kindnesses from the squatter. Said
he, in speaking of the night that he enter
tanned General Breckenridge:
II tell you was mighty suspicious about
the Teller | didn't exactly catch on to him
whether he was Nank or "a Confed, but |
knew he was one or the other You see |
had stole 10 niggers from old man Norman
McDufie over at Pensacola and had run
them down to Tampa and sold them just
about the breaking out Of the war | sold
them for gold, several thousand dollars dont
up in bucNslin bags, regular old Spanish
gold in dOubloons, and had the cash buried
under the corner of the smokehouse ful
fear some of the strollers might find it
either running after the Confeds or running
away from the Yankees. You see how sim
pie live now. lived the same way ther
plenty of beef yenison, hog meat, milk
butter, hominy and potatoes. Sometimes
we had bear meat, and sometimes we haC
cornbread; not often though, because tn,
mill was 30 miles off, and we never fooled
with bears unless they got to Fostering oul
hogs. As for biscuits, my young ones neve
saw one, and they'd have put coal of fir
on one, just as they'd have done to IA terra
pin if they'd found it in the road
well, that fellow looked. so queer anC
suspicious that | felt skittish, but | Civ
linn tbe hest we had and turned his / ors
in the pea patch to help himself We sa
and talked awhile, but | saw he was tired
sol showed him the bed and me and m
yv;fa laid down on a pallet on the floor Tn
..,,.,., O. tbou.tht of hat man the more | fe,
uneasy about my money. So, afteral wer
sound asleep | slipped ont behind tn
smokehousc to get it, not even stopping T.
put on nay clothes, for fear of being watch
ed. In "a few minutes | had it dug up bu
was so heavy that couldn't hardly tot
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