The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28

ert OuId, who was afterward ccnfed-
crate commissioner for tie exchanges
Of prisoners, in opening his speech for
the prosecution said May Il please
the court. gentlemen Of the jury. IN
the open gush light of the beautiful
Sabbath morn. when the bfSds were
singing. church bells Ginning, and all
nature smiling in gladstone beneAeence.
the prisoner at the bar met the de-
ceased and shot him down without
warning. General Dan Sickles. as he
was called in the war, and General
William Barksdale Of Mississippi were
friends in congress together IN 1850, at
the outbreak of the civil war. and
Sickfes lost his leg at Gettysburg IN
der the same tree in the evening under
which Barksdale was killed IN the
morning of the same day"
Colonel John Mosby.
Speaking of war times. met Colo
mel John S. Mosby, of guerrilla fame.
at the Colonial hotel last week. He IS
now an employe of the interior de-
rartment as special land agent of the
government. AS he showed a willing
ness to talk about his war experiences.
1 inquired into the truth of the story
that he had entered Alexandra in dis
guise in 1864 to engage in some dare
devil trick. ooh, that story is ali nom
sense" said he. I never went to a
place in disguise in my live. Yes, 1
fequently got close to Washington
during the war. Many a time l would
ride up to the hill up yonder across
the Potomac and look down on the
city. I might have one or two men
with me- and we would soon disappear.
Just over on the Virginia side early one
morning,I met a Mrs. Barlow on her
way TO Washington with wagon full
of vegetables. Her husband was a
federal soldier and she was a north
ern woman. She had a pass to go
in and out of Washington, and drove
into the city from her farm. I used
to go to her house often and get a cup
of good coffee OF course she gave it
TO US, knowing that we rather had
charge of things ali along that side of
the river. Well, on this particular
morning Mrs. Barlow had pair Of
scissors hanging from her apron Aft
er 1 had talked with her a while
said
mrs. Barlow, lend me your scis-
sors'
she handed them to me, and I
reached up to my head, got hold of a
bunch of hair, cut il off and said /:
Mrs. Barlow. please take this lock of
my hair right in to Lincoln and say
to him that I am coming in to see him
soon, and viii expect a lock of his hair
in return She looked much puzzled,
but said she would do it.
Il found afterward that she rode
straight to the White House and gave
the hair to the president personally,
refusing to give ii to any one else. The
president was amused and laughed
| heartily. No, / was not afraid to do
| this, because 1 knew that by the time
/ the president could attempt to catch
me would be thirty miles away Pres
/ ident Lincoln never made an attempt
/ to catch me, because he knew that !
would be somewhere else when his men
arrived. Many people took information
of me into Washington for the purpose
| of trying to bring about my capture.
mo, I was never a general I was a
/ private in the First Virginia cavalry
for the first two years of the war, and
began raising my company after that
] time, beginning with one troop of cav
airy. Each man was armed with two
| pistols and a saber. We had no car
bines"