The National tribune., 1898-12-08
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

The famous Corp1 Pike, of the 4th Ohio
Cav, had life of almost continual ad-
venture. His services TO the Union cause
In the civil war were very valuable. IN
trepid and apparently reckless at times,
he managed TO get into and out OF more
Eight places during his service as seoul
than fail to the lot of many warriors.
When young man, in 1859, he LETT MIS-
souri, for Texas, became n Texas Hanger
and engaged in hot warfare with the IN
dams. When the civil war broke out ne
at once plunged into its most active ana
dangerous operations. He gives us q
story of wonderful deeds, innocently re-
cited and appearing 10 have been looked
upon as a matter OF course. He was the
intimate and trusted friend of all the great
leaders of the war, and we have their
Testimony as to the truth OF his mlracu-
lous stories. In the Immediately preced-
ing installment he told how he was with
Gen. Stanley's command when that dash
ing leader made raid on the rebel camps
near Middleton, Tenn. He SAYS that
every regiment-the 9TH Pa, the 4th Regu-
lars, the 4th Mich, the 4th Ohio and Sd
Ind.-all seemed TO be in their element
that morning; and that each member of
those regiments must ever regard as a
proud day in their history that one on
which they charged and cleared the rebel
camps at Middleton.
Gen. Stanley's raid resulted in almost
The destruction of the famous Sth Con-
federate Cav, which bore the brunt of
our heavy charge. Hundreds of the bodies
of men belonging TO that command lay
scattered over the field, while many more
graced our triumph by being led away
as captives. Our loss was small in num-
beers. but no man who fell there could
have been well spared, each was a
hero-almost host. We carried off our
dead and wounded; not strap or buckle
fell into the hands of the enemy when
they returned again TO their old haunts.
We shot every horse that fell into our
hands-even some of our own that broll e
down on the march.
In this fight | had little in the way OF
personal adventure of an unusual char
acter, perhaps not so much as occurred
10 hundreds Of others on that day. One
fellow fired a load of buckshot through
the right knee Of my pants, but in return
/ worked a new button hole in his coat
with my rifle.
Col. Long sent me with an order to Mai.
Dobb, who was in command of the 4th
Ohio. and / "lit OUT amid the dust
smoke. confusion and CHATTER in search
of the Major, but succeeded in running
up to the wrong crowd and did not dis
cover my mistake till within so yards of
the rebels themselves. / had reached the
end OF a lane which ran around a 10-acre
field, and come into another that ran from
a house through a cedar brake: and, COM
ing to This last lane, | turned down it to a
party Of soldiers saw close by.
A DANGEROUS MISTAKE
Our men were all covered with dust
and almost as gray as the rebels; and
when / saw them, | hailed but they re-
fused to answer me. / hailed them again
thinking still that they were our men,
and this time rode out from behind the
fence in full view Of their lines, so that
they could see nv accoutermentc and III
stantly a volley from the cedar brake
greeted me; and, after discharging their
pieces, five of the men nearest charged
out after me.
was riding very pretty little mare
that i had taken from them when we
charged the first camp, my own horse
having fallen headlong in the fight; and