The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-04

This duel 1 relate to show Bibles
humorous propensity. Except the sin
gle fact of the challenge the rest was
no doubt the product of his fmagina'
! tiOn-what he intended to have done
had not the Hon. Mr.. Ciingman de-
clined the duel.
on the following morning, as I was
about to mount my horse to ride away,
all the children gathered about me for
a parting kiss-their comely mother.
TOO, looking as if she expected no less.
/ was younger then than l am now,
and didn't know any better, so L gave
her the same caress [ had given the
children. and then turned to say good
bye TO Bible. Holding my hand in a
warm grasp, and with d face as grave
as a funeral procession, he said: I'm
right sorry to hev We go, stranger, and
ye'd better stay and settle yere. If
We viii, we'll send We ter Congress. fur
the man as has cheek enough to kiss
another mans wife afore his very face,
can git any office in this part of the
kentry."
Bible Smiths Service as u Scout
saw nothing more of Bible till
/ thirteen years later, when, soon after
the battle of Stone river, I was on a
visit TO General ROsecrans at Murfrees-
borough, Tenn. where I found him act
! ing as a scout in the Union army. His
cool bravery, intimate knowledge of
the country and acquaintance with the
loyal men of the district, had enabled
him to be of great service, and the
many thrilling experiences he related
! TO me would fill a volume. I can re-
! peat only so much as will serve as d
brief epitome Of his subsequent his
tory.
At the outset of the secession agita-
ton Bible declared for the Union; he
I - id he believed Sin FREQ
/ speech and free air for all of Gods
critters" and in the spring of 1851
when there were no Union troops south
Of the Ohio, and the disuniOn fever
was reigning furiously all over Ten
nessee, he organized 106 of his neigh
/ bors into company of home guards.
pledged 70 resist all attacks on the
person or property of any one of the
number. Bible was elected to the
/ command of this company, and it Sc
cured his district immunity from the
! Confederate CONSUMPTION till about the
I time that ROsecrans assumed command
of the army of the Cumberland.
wares when at home with his family,
was captured by the COnfederates. The
remainder l will let him relate in his
own language as 1 took it down soon
after he repeated it to me:
In the Hands of the COnfederates.
They tied me hand and foot" he
said, land tOted me off to the military
commission sittin' ter Chattanooga. 1
know'd what that meant-a short
prayer, a long rope and breakdown
danced on the top of nothing. Better
men nur me had gone tibet way ter the
| kingdon-seVen of EN- within
month but l determined l wouldn't
go if I could help it, not that / objec-
ted to the journey, only to goin' afore
of Sally. Ye see, 1 hadn't been nigh
so good a man as I'd orter be, and
reckoned that Sally-who, We know, ar
/ the best woman that ever lived-I reck-
oned that she, if she got there a little
ahead of me, could sort of put in a
| good word with the Lord an get him
to shut his eyes ter a heap of my
doin's; an sides I'd feel mighty
strange like up thar without her
well, we got to Chattanooga just
arter noon of the second days tramp.
! The commission they had too many
on hand to look arter me ter onct, so
they put me into a tent under guard
of a whole GeOrgy regiment. Things
/ looked maZing Squally, and much as
/ I determined ter be a man, my heart
went down inter my boots, whenever
1 thought of Sally. l never felt so
afore or since, for then l hadn't got
used ter luckin' at the gallus every
day. I didn't know what ter do, but
/ thlnkln the Lord did, / kneeled down
/ and prayed ter MIN right smart. I
Etelled him I had no face ter meet him
afore I'd done suthin' for the kentry,
and that Sally's heart would be clean
broke if I went afore her: but, how
sumever, I said he know'd best, an
if it was his will L had just nothing
to say agin it. That was all I said,
but 1 said it over and over a heap of
times, and it was right dark when L
got off frum my knees. The Lord
yered me. that ar sartin, case
hadn't more'n got through prayin'
fore a dirty gray back, drunker'n a
member of Congress, staggered inter
! the tent. 1 reckon he thought it war
his own. fur he dropped down onter
the ground an went ter sleep, akin
| nuther leave nur license.
Then all ter onct it come inter my
head what ter do"-wh1ch was to cut
his cords with the Confederate's bowie
knife. change coat and hat with the
unconscious fellow, and thus disguised
escape from the encampment. This ne
did. and after many adventures and
hair breadth escapes he reached the
mountain that looked upon his home
How Bibles Wife Prayed For Him.
Il got to the edge of the woods" he
said ION the hill ahind of nv barn