The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-31
A RIDE FOR LIFE.
HOW cNE or THE coVFCDERArE CAB
MET OFFICERS ESCAPED.

A Midnight Incident In the wnds ofGcor-
ris when That whole section ct the .
Country was PatrolIcd b, Union soldiers.
An Anxious Farmer.
own among the piny woods Of south |
e. Georgia jefferson Davis was captured /
w y he shorli ever have been captured In .
th lonely land, suppo-ing Of course that /.
really wanted to get away, surpasses
ut .arstauding ] have ridden over the .
pr fnd and have visited that dismal, ont
of he way town of Irwuville Ga, which .
iii Waterloo, namele.s before, will now
be yer remembered.
itpr leaving South Carolina the COM
pa.y, consisting uf Davis, his family, sew
cr members of the cabinet and am escort
of spdicry, crossed the savannah river
ne o. the old town of Washugton-by the
WY, the first town named fer the father Of
hi. country in the United States There,
app ehcudmg the approach OF Federal cav
8llg. general breakup took place. Davis
co. .nucd his way toward the south, still
encountered hya considerable wagon train,
uni he crossed the Ocmulgee river at Poor
Robin Spring and camped at Asheville.
Thence he started hythe early dawn ON that
weary Journey through the solitudes of the
"w regrass,' made still more solitary by
the war that had depopuated Georgia Of
all the men able to bear a muSket, as well
as the boys. sixteen to sixty was the
lasy 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 Cen
eral Breckenridge mounted his horse and
struck out for the Floridian peninsula.
d. l.
pie could not give directions which routeto
pursue after 10 miles because they had new
er been farther he rode and thus escaped
the Union troops who were quartered at
different cities and towns across the PENN
sua from jacksonville to Tampa 1t was
as wild a ride as ever a man undertook, but
by avoiding the most populous sections
General Breckenridge finally reached a safe
distance below the Gordon Of troops lying
I'm wait for him and other refugees from the
fallen Confederacy.
Worn out, he rode up to a log cabinin the
dusk of evening and asked if he could get
shelter and refreshment for himself and
his horse and directions how to reach Char
lottes harbor. Although dressed in citi-
zeu's clothes his manners and striking ply
suue melted the curiosity of the sQuatter.
But true to the instincts Of that peculiar
race the latter agreed to give the stranger
food and shelter and asked no questions
l staid day and night at that hospita-
bic hut soon after and was the recipient Of
many kinduesses from the squatter. said
be in speaking Of the night that he enter
tanned General Breckenridge:
"r tell Won l was mighty susniciousa bout
the teller didn't exactly catch ON to him
whether he was a Yaull or a Confpd but
knew he was one or the other You see |
had stoI. 10 niprers from old man Norman
N,rDutTe over nj Pensacola and had rrn
tba,, down ia Tarppa and sold them inst
alb .u5 the brpal,ipl, ont of the war I Sold
tbr.rf,r roId several Thousand dollars done
I'M in bucEski7 b9us regular old Snauisb
COL i'm douHIoons. and bad tbacasb buried
nm. err tbe corner of the smolzebonse for
fpa. some of the strollers might find il
cit. prrunuiu, after. the Confeds orrupning
a,.v from the Yankees You see how Sim,
p,ri l.venow lived the same ,vav then
- .an.v of beef yenison hog meat milk
Ter bouiuy and pntators Sometimes
we lgd hear meat and sometimes we had
CO, bread: not often though. because the
nj was 40 miles off and we never fooled
vi bears unless they got to pesterinp our
lJ.s. As for biscuits. NV Young ones never
"a. oDa and tb.v'd hava mt a co.l of five
on ne. lust as they'd have done to n terra.
Dir if thev'd found it i'm the road.
Wen. that fellow looked so queer and
su ,icious that | felt skittish, but give
hi the best we had and turned his horse
in he pea patch to help himself We sat
an talked awhile, but | saw he was tired,
s. showed him the bed, and me and my
wi laid down on pallet on the floor. The
more l thought Of that man the more felt
IN. a-y about my money So, after all were
solii asleep, / slipped out behind the
smoSehouse to get it, not even stopping to
put On my clothes, for fear of being watch
ed In a few minutes l had it dug up, but
it vas so heavy that couldn't hardly tote