The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-07

Company d. fall III" lit Foss
depioy Your skirniishcrs and give I'm
h-l'.' i had been with John before
and knew hls tactics when be wanted
to play The bluff" I had this ad
vantage of jim, but you need not
think that either of us went INTO
cc5tacies ever our apparent sur
roundings. l had gathered my coat
for my pants and stove my foot into
the sleeve up TO my knee. We hal
no time to make light. My pistols
were out on rho piazza without caps
on them. | gathered my sabre and
gun, threw open the door, and pre-
pared to shoot and cut my way out
All this was the work of few
moments. We found the asssuliing
party was in the rear of the house,
and betwcen us and our relief. How
far John had succeeded in bIuffing
we had no means Of knowing. But
whatever was done, must be don.
soon. 1t would never do for day
light to come and reveal our true
situation. Our pistols we're recapped
and we felt secure against reasonable
odds. Our horses were saddled. The
only way Of escape was by the road
our eninics were holding. A caucus
was held, and the situation discussed
hurrirdly. The conclusion was, VIC
must get up aud get" Next was,
who will 20 farward." Like the
Invited guests all made excuses. A,
last ''Stoncwall Jackson" was turned
Ihlo the road at the gallop. So were
the others. Each rider with pis oil
in hand. We had 10 ride by file.
For some of us this was perhaps to
be the last ride. An we drew near
the dark avenue, walled on each side
with dense thickers. 'Stouewall"
raised his head and through di|ated
nostrils announced the presence of the
enemy. Spurs pressed him forward
and soon we had run the gauntlet
and were shooting like so many
arrows up the side of the canal
prince dashed past like a parrot
she'll. My horse stumbled and fell
and lost my cap. Before my horse
recovered they were all past me and
| got down to hunt my cap. One
fellow says ''come on, they can kill
us yet" l could not find the cap,
50 | mounted and rode OH bare
headed with the others towards our
relief John Faucet reported to
picket headquarters. The rest of us
stopped. l tied 10Y handkerchief
ar"und my head. Soon Lieut.. Mabry
Thn,nas had the whole reserve at the
place. Lockhart Mitchell! rode up
to Inc and said "why haIloo Sallie
Worthy, are You here" We went
back TO our post. The Lieutenant
and relief went with us. Ii was now
dayIight. We found old shoes, hats,
bonnets, shawls. walking sticks, etc,
strcwn along the the road which re
vealed the character of our foe, who
had taken TO the marsh when thew
heard us coming behind them. We
found out from an old darkey living
near our picket post that large
body of the slaves from the 'up
country, as it were, had that night
attempted to get to the yankees, but
coming upon our piekcts they were
stopped. Some of them. however,
got past and were taken on Edisto
Island that evening. Some We found
and others returned to their homes.
| found my cap in the edge of the
water in the canal just ready to be
taken off by the rising tide.
On another occasion before this I
was on picket at the same place. Bill
Savage and Gillian Thomas were
on post with me. We were standing
at the bridge which l have told you
was about 200 yards from the
Mothews house. Tom Fowler, Long
Hungry was his nicknamr) with the
rest of the relief was in the house
asleep. 1t was as dark night as
ever saw, l think. In rear of tho