The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-29
4 STAMPEDE OF CAVALRY.
Novel Night Experience of Some Con-
federate Horsemen.

From the New York Sun.
1T was bilin' July weather. when the
days are the longest and the hottest"
said the ex-confederate. as he slipped his
apple toddy. THE general of my brigade,
you understand, was trying TO drive in
the yankee picket line. stretched along
the RappahannOck. so as to let the infan-
try column cross unbeknown to the enc
my. Massa Bob you see. was slippin' up
on Gen. Meade to give him. when he least
expected it. a lick behind the ear. Well.
after wrestling for quite a spell behind
the timber We got Mr.. Yank on the run.
and drove him. with a rush, across the
river, near Warrenton, Va, gohbling up
nearly 200 prisoners. When we got on the
Washington side we had another brush
our regiment did-and started Mr. Yank
with flea in his ear toward Warrenton.
Frelly soon II was night. The sky got
black with heaps Of clouds, and il was so
head.
we were jogging along slow and eau
tious in tours. with an advance guard in
front, under Col Forsythe as cool a man
as ever drew rein. was awful tired, but
felt SO good over the way we had run
the yank that day, thac. like everybody
else, was abragging about il. ! forgot to
say that just before dark Gen. Jeb stuart
met us and took off his hat and said
Bully for the old Twelfth After that
we all came to think ours was the fight
enlist regiment in the army, and we was
Just spilin' TO tackle yankee division.
Well, we was going along this way ready
to bust with pride. when, all at once, /
heard pistol shots in the rear.
What's that cried Col Jarvis in a
loud and excited tone.
Il had squared myself in the saddle
and gathered up the reins. which | must
know, though l couldn't see, others were
doing likewise.
Yankees charging the rear was the
reply.
| only know that in less than two seconds
the whole command was out OF that
pesky road some on one side and some on
tOther. How we got out, on my side
specially is first class mystery. For
when we went to come back l found we
had got over a stone fence into a field.
When l held up there was a death-like
stiffness all around, and nothing could be
heard except the breathing and snorting
of the horses.
Il didn't know but what we were sur
rounded by the yankees, and really
thought / had gone fully a mile, where
as as a matter of fact l was only about
forty yards from the road. OF course
didn't say nothing to nobody, and for like
reasons nobody said nothing to me. AT
ter what seemed to be quarter of an
hour, though it was really but a minute,
] heard men near me whisperin'. Pres
entity a man whispered:
'Vot regiment ish dot?
The Dutch made my hair raise upl
felt / was In the midst OF Yankee Dutch
tol from its holder and cooking 1t, held
it toward the sound, for as l told you, 1t
asked.
'Vot regiment ish dot?
What do you belong tor
De twelve said the voice.
All right said /, putting up my pis-
tol. There was more whispering, and one
voice sounded like / knew II.
=" is that you, Smoot? l said.
Yes, Eb, was the answer
Where are the yankeesT asked.
'Sh! sh! was all the answer got, and
my hair began to shoot up skyward again.
in about half a minute ! whispered:
How far off are they2
Shl shall around us.
80 then we were I'm the jaws of the lion
or booked for Camp Chase, | imagined
After that | was still, moving nothing but
my right hand to pat my horse on the
neck to Keep him quiet. But the voices
around me grew louder and / soon found
out that the people near me were con-
whispers for everybody believed the yam
KEGS were within a stones throw. Soon
we heard voices on the other side.
Hello over there said one of our men.
What command is thatg
Who are your was shouted back, and
then there was an awful pause. At last one
We asked We frst Then we could
hear em laughin' like on tother side
One of our men said:
That's Col Jarvis a laughln' sure
it was the other half of our regiment We
all began to laugh as we went back to the
road, especially when we had trouble in
getting over the stone fence. We had
hardly got on the road before / heard a
voice right behind me Shout
Surrender, you fellows! And then
at different points, front and rear, voices
shouting the same. They were captur-
ing yankees all around me.
"Once / heard a big fuss near 1t was
two men quarreling about a prisoners
arms, each claiming that he had captured
him. / was, of course, upset by all this
a little, and tried TO make ascapture, but
got such GUESSING for freshness that
dried up and rode on i'm darkness, won
dering If the hull darned thing wasn't a
dream, anyhow. i never did know no.
how, where those yankees came from IN
til about a month afterward, when Col
Forsythe told me that while our regi-
ment was out on the road, SIXTY yankee
soldiers came along the road right be-
tween us, and. going on, were captured by
his advance guard. They had fallen back
you see from the Rappanhannock line
after dark, and not knowing that there
were any Of our men ahead of them had
come on, and overtaking us thought they
were among friends, and that's the way
il all came out, through the stampede Of
the cavalry"