The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-01-06
A RIDE FOR LIFE.
HOW ONE OF THE CONFEDERATE CAB
MET OFFICERS ESCAPED.
Midnight Incident In the wiids OF ceor-
gis When That Whole section of the
Country Was Patroiled by Union soldiers.
An Anxious Farmer.

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gia When That Whole section of the
Country Was Patroiled by Union soldiers.
An Anxious Farmer.
Down among the piny woods Of south
srn Georgia Jefferson Davis was captured.
Why he should ever have been captured in
that lonely land. surprising of course that
H. really wanted TO get away. SURPRISES
understanding ! have ridden over the
ground and have visited that dismal. out
Of the way town OF Irwinville. Ga. which.
like Waterloo, nameless before. will now
be ever remembered
After leaving south Carolina the com
pnny, consisting Of Davl1. his family. sew
cral members Of the cabinet aud an escort
OF soldiery. crossed the Savannah river
near the old town Of Washington the
way, the first town named fer the father Of
his country In the United States. There,
apprehending the approach Of Federal cav
airy, "a general breakup took place. Davis
continued his way toward the south still
encountered bya considerable wagon train,
until he crossed the Ocmulgce river at Poor
Robin Spring and camped At Asheville.
Thence he started by the early dawn ON that
weary journey through the soitudes Of the
"wircgrass,n made still more solitary by
the war that had dcpopulated Georgia II
all the men able TO bear a muslSet, as we'll
as the boys. Sixteen 10 sky was the
last decree ot the conscrpt act, and only
pale faced and half famished women and
children remained to gaze In wonder at the
procession.
After the breaking upof the cabinet Gen
eral Breckenridge mounted his horse and
struck out for the Floridian peninsula.
Through lonesome byways, where the peo-
pie could not give directions which route to
pursue after 10 miles because they had new
er been farther, he rode and thus escaped
the Lnion troops, who were quartered at
different cities aud towns across the PENN
sula from Jacksonville 10 Tampa. II was
as wild "a ride rs ever a man undertook, but
by avoiding the most populous sections
General Breckinridge finally reached "a safe
distance below the Gordon OF troops lying
In wait for him and other refugees from the
fallen Confederacy
Worn out, lac rode up to 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-
lotte's harbor Although dressed in citi-
1en's clothes his mannersand striking ply
sique melted the curiosity of the squatter
But true To tue instincts Of that peculiar
race the latter agreed TO give the stranger
food and shelter aud asked no questions.
staid day and night at that hospita-
Bile hut soon after and was tb,. recin,.nt ~
many kindnesses from the squattcr said
he, in speaking of the night that he enter
tanned General Breckenridge:
II tell you was mighty suspicious about
the feller. didn't exactly catch ON to him
whether he was "A Nank or u COnfed, but
knew he was one or the other VI, .,,,
had stole 10 nippers from old man Norman
McDufie. over nj Pensacola md had rnn
them down To Tampa and sold then inst
about the breaking ont Of the ,var. / ola
them for cold. several thousand dollars done
up in bnckskin bnps. re0nlar olJ Snanish
pold in doibloons aud had c,.t, L,,,ia'i
under the corner of The smol,ebonse fo,.
fenr Soma nf The stroliers uoi,h, IA l.
eitherrunninp after the Conf.ds M, runni,,,
away from the YanLees Vou ..,. ho,,, s;,,,
nile live now Lived the so,na zoos, -,
PLENTY of beef venison hoo mot nil
butter. hominy and potatoes sometime,
we had bear meat and sometimes ,ve had
cornbrcad; not often though. because the
mill was 30 mile. OIL. and we never fooled
with bear. unless th.v ,,ot IA n,.stsr,,,, ,,,,.
hogs. As for biscuits nv voun,, ones ,,ey..r
saw one. ana they'd nav. mn, :, coal 80 49,
~, on, ~, ~. 49, ~. -, ~. ~
hin II they'd found IL in Tho road
well. that fellow look ed IA oneer aud
suspicions that fell slittish lnt ,,i,a
him the best we had and turned his ho,se
In The men match Ia helm himsslf ~
and talked awhile but saw, he was t;red
40 showed him IN. bel and mo ,,ni 49,,
wife laid down ON A pallet ON The foor Ths
more / thoueAt of tbat n,an The ,,,nr. e'i,
uneasy about my money. So. after all were
sound asleep, / Slipped out behind the
smok ehouse To gct IL. not even stoppinp To
put ON my clothes. for fear of being watch
ed. In "a few minutes had IL dug nm. but
il was 50 heavy that couldn't hardly tote
il, aud 1 studied my toe a. crawled owe,
Just then up came that blamed old
morse a. II oid Mex was after him, and