Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-29

The intervening country was invested
with guerrillas, and the officer ut
Martinsburg advised him not to go
across till there WAS q wagon train
guarded by union troops. But he
would not wait for that. lie had
found two men who We're going
through with team and were willing
TO take him.
They were natives who had lived
near Winchester, were svnlpathizers
with the north, and were obliged to
flee from their homes at the advance
of the rebel army, and were now re-
turning to look after their homes and
families. They were armed, and
didn't propose to be ta..en alive by
guerrillas. Mr. Thompson hired an
other team to carry the casket that he
had bought for his brothers body, and
two soldiers were detailed to drive it
for him. They had proceeded about
half way in safety, and as they ap-
preached forest one OF the Virginians
said that if they could get through it
without molestation they would be all
right.
They had proceeded but short way
an the forest when Mr.. Thompson
heard somebody shout, close to him:
"Hold up thar, or I'u blow er hole in
yer!" He looked around, and there,
close to him, was u ty1':Iu, gaunt south
erner, on horseback, pointing large
revolver at his head. On the other
side was Il similar apparition, covering
the other men.
They held up and obeyed orders
without murrnur. The two guerril-
las took one hundred and thirty five
dollars that Mr.. Thompson had in his
pockctbook, but luckily did not find
one hundred dollars that were pinned
in the little watch pocket in the waist
band of his trousers
But where were the two soldiers?
They had been driving in the rear, and
were approached and disarmed first.
The whole capture was done very
quietly and with dispatch.
They were ordered to leave the high
way and drive off through the forest
There was no underbrush. and this
was easy to accomplish. The guerril-
las threw away the casket, after re-
moving the screws and other pieces of
metal, which they seemed very desirous
to obtain.
Finally they emerged from the
woods upon crossroad, and by that
time Mr.. Thompson had told his cap
tors his errand, and, with remarkable
clcmency for men of their customs at
that time, they not only allowed him
to go free, but gave him directions to
a certain house in the little neighbor-
ing town of Charleston, where he
might obtain lodgings and food
The next morning he started on foot
for Winchester, and arrived there after
walking all day and dodging various
troops of horsemen which he saw in The
distance.
At Winchester he showed his pass
port, and was admitted into the union
lines That night, accompanied by an
undertaken and squad of soldiers,
he went out to the battlefield and per-
formed the sad task of opening the shall
low grn re in which his dead brother
had been buried by his follow soldiers,
and bringing bac,; the body. AT Win
chester he obtained another casket,
and thus brought the body to Port.
land and inferred it in Evergreen Gem.
etery in Deering. The birch-GarlS let.
ter was in the dead soldiers havcrsack
that his brother officers had preserved
Portland Press.
SHORTLY before his death Gen.
Banks visited the adjutant generals
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