The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-06-30
AN ENEMY or YANKEES.
A Southern Woman Who Complained 90
Grant-A Feminine Oddly.


General Horace Porter gives many
amusing pictures of army life in his
series of papers on Campaigning
With Grant in The Century. He
tells the following story of the cam
paign on the North Anna in the Feb
ruary Century; When | recrossed
the river and returned to headquar-
ters in the evening, I found General
Grant sitting in front Of his tent
smoking cigar and anxious to hear
the report as to the extent of the
damage to the railroad. About the
time | finished relating to him what
had been accomplished an old wom-
an who occupied small house near
by strolled over to headquarters,
apparently bent upon having a
friendly chat with the commander
of the Yankee armies. The number
of questions she asked showed that
she was not lacking in the quality
of curiosity which is supposed to be
common to her sex. She wore an
old fashioned calico dress about six
inches too short, with the sleeves
rolled up to the elbows. She had
nose SO sharp that it looked as if it
had been caught in the crack of
door and small gray eyes that
twinkled and snapped as she spoke.
She began by nodding familiar
"How do you do2" to the general
and saying in voice which squeak
ed like the high notes of an E fiat
clarinet with soft reed, II believe
you command all these hyah Yam
KEGS that are comm down hyah and
cavortin round over this whole Sec
ton of country" The general
bowed an assent, and she continued,
I'm powerful glad General Lee has
been lickin you all from the Rapidan
cl'ah down hyah, and that now he's
got you jes' whah he wants you.
Then she drew up a camp chair
alongside the general, seated herself
on it and, finding That her remarks
seemed to be received good natured-
ly, grew still more familiar and
went on to say: "Yes, and afo' long
Lee Il be a-chasin you all up through
Pennsylvany ag'in. Was you up
thah in Pennsylvany when he got
aftah you all last summerl" The
general had great difficulty in keep
ing his face straight as he replied:
well, no; l wasn't there myself.
I had some business in another di-
rection He did not explain to her
that Vicksburg was at that time
commanding something of his atten-
ton. Said she: II notice our boys
got away with lots of 'em Conestoga
hosses up thah, and they brought
lots of 'em back with 'em. We've
got pretty good show of 'em round
this section Of country, and they re
jes' the best draft horses you ever
see. Hope the boys l. get up thah
ag'in soon and bring Vback some
more of EN-
The general kept on smoking his
cigar and was greatly amused by
the conversation. After a little
while the woman went back to her
house, but returned later and said:
"See hyah; I'm all alone in my
house, and | am kinder skeered. I
expect them Yankee soldiers of
yourn II steal everything | have and
murder me afo' morning if you
don't give me some protection. "
"Oh," replied the general, well
see that you are not hurt, " and,
turning to Lieutenant Dunn of the
staff, he said: Dunn, you had bet
ter go and stay in the old lady's
house tonight. You can probably
make yourself more comfortable
there than in camp anyhow, and /
don't want her to be frightened. !"
Dunn followed the old woman
rather reluctantly to her house and
played guardian angel to her till the
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