The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-17

put her head out at the front and said
to a soldier by the name Of Munger OF
Company G:
:" soldier there Is nobody but ladies
In this tent SO don't come In here. They
are dressing 4
.'Of course Munger obeyed. Not long
afterward. perhaps half minute. the
some woman looked out and said:
"'Wil you let our colored servant
go for some water?'
Edwards, of l. company, had come
up to the tent by that time. No one
objected to the servant making an ex-
cursion for water. A moment later two
figures, both of them apparently wO-
men, pushed out through the flap OF
the tent and started toward the river.
They had each other arm In arm and
each carried a water pail. One was
clearly an old fat negress, and the
other, who was dressed in a sort of wo-
mans storm dress with a hood drawn
over her head, one couldn't tell whether
she was a negress or not.
'They came right by close to me as
l sat on my horse. 1t struck me once
that the thin. bent old waterwOman
was no other than JEFF Davis himself.
But knew he couldn't get away, and
l didn't at that moment halt him. The
way he was headed l knew he would
run into Dickerson and his dismounted
men.
Just at this moment. however. a
snarp nrihs paohe out W She horth
WneIe FurrIhs.oii l,au sons' we nat
uIaly nSureu uhat heu Sot mo
trouple Win laws escort; Dickersoh
at once starteo over WIN MS uetali 10
refhiorce rurrlnStoh. AS natter OF
Iact the FIRST Wisconsin hau sotteh 10
me scene ana burlington ana ms peo-
Pre- hs,d openeu hre on ,nem. hacn look
the other IN the DARKNESS Tor DAVIS
escort IL didnt take Dickerson min
ute 10 )oint furrlngton, ana they Tor
twhety mlnutes haue rattiins nght
vi IL. iuere were apout twenty men
Wouhueu ana SIN OF seven killed IN TINS
Irtlie prush Detween Ine rlrst Wlscon-
SIN anu tue fouTth Micnisan. uont
know now rney hhahy iouhd out VINO
.ne other leiioW WAS put IL dawned on
,nem aiter while ana uhey quit shoot
ihs'
Auntie's Tcll.Talc Mustache.
"But to return to jeff Davis in the
womans storm dress going after
water: When Diekerson and his men
started Off to help burlington, l nat
urally had to go after Davis myself. l
spurred off to the right and galloped
round in front OF, Davis and the negress
and halted them. Davis still held his
head down and was stopped over. He
left the negress to do the talking. ASH
halted them, a ray of moonlight shone
through the trees, and l saw the gray
end of Davis mustache sticking out
from under the hood. That was the
first time felt sure that he was the
man was after.
THAT'S pretty good mustache
you've got Auntie,' said. Davis made
no reply, and l ordered him back to the
tent.
"As we approached the tent a Swede
by the name of Andrew Bee, who was
private in l. company, and detailed as
Colonel Pritchard's cook, came up. l
told him the old bent woman was no
other than jeff Davis. At this lnfOrma-
ton Andrew Bee seemed to get vastly
excited. He rushed wildly up to Davis,
tore his storm dress from him, saying:
Come out of there, you old devil!
''Davis Strengthened up like piece Of
steel. l don't know what shape his
indignation at Bees rough handling
would have taken, but Colonel
i.i, ri'cnaru Ioue up ana oruered Bee, the
,,npuis,ve, haI sn ~ iail PACK. DAVIS tore ehe
u ~ i a,oih ms heau anu Threw II on
tha srou stor, ne e s"uEh .,f n'insell tree from
t,Ie 80, oee II -. 81, ',y
i,t. 'A .o,n VII. mt was luiIy dressed IN
@ ,,,S v"h Poper sio.nes aIter ne got
~ ~ Vi '"e s'oi"i oress' ohiy he hao no
".1,,. t. Att.
pr,.ohau, 70 .nis uemanoeu Coiohei
:. IT III. "a ,ne as ne came up.
".. ,n ~ oen LAWS, sara J..
pr,tohord IT, " askeu Colohei
:" 49, ne 'ulheu " Jaws.
o,a, pn,to, e1n you' askeo COL
:. w., W DaV'S'
n,.,sa' on nh ahythins you
wo. h, rJ a." a,a 80 "''s' ana MS tone
e.S,na,,aii ru amu g,.teI.
.o, mw ,,.ann ".ie u, III urrins'oh ana Dicker-
o,hn,,t W. s,,rin n.Mns up d great racket
the. E;r,t W;ss WIS ustr " .,e nortn win
ruero h,,v,r'. mtHGohsll, i,i,o ana the bullets
ar1 ,u,a .i. i,Me pees' Coionel Pritch-
~,as a n,,,s, ;"e ] resi- ol US, supposed 1t
fnr tboi,. oh,,s H. nakln5 iast nght
n,,ar 70 ha,,' 'I,,,, nts sem slN Vi our men
o,rT ~ u,.nt ia urr'hS.oll ana DlcKerson:
D.i" MeHt aiohs n!mseit. The rest or
a,,ord m'T no,'i Sdp'a.n a Iuuson, l were lett 10
e""i" LAWS anu MS party.
Mrs. Davis Bravery.
There were twenty-seven people, all
told, with Davis. Besides jeff Davis
there was Mrs. Davis, their two chill