The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

est boys were in the army and her hus-
 hand was almost there-her house was
 watched; the cupboard had not 'rasher
 in 1t. the horses had to be turned out to
 shift for themselves; the servants had
 to disband for a bare subsistence, ana
 vet these two old people-the one Tn a
 kind of home prison, and the other Tn
 veritable military dungeon-unbowed, un-
 yielding, uncringing, confronted the foe,
 triumphantly during the summer, or Iohz.
 On August 30 1862. General Bueis army retired from North Alabama, thus set ting Mir Robertson free. After the fall of Shelbyville, June, 1863. there was steady and extended advance of the Union Army, the Tennessee River rom De ecatur to Chattanooga being the bristling | front MT. Robertson's tits with the foe
 were frequent during the summer of 1863, but the shadow of Forrest was hav- I ing its benign influence. Citizens Who had no arms in their hands were treated with l some consideration, If not anectlon. MT.
 Robertson preached and prayed undis- turbed for some time. Northern troops
 were in Huntsville and out this week and ! the next. Forrest ruled the barometer: | when he was near it was low and when l he was afar it was high barometer. There was no occupancy of North Alabama until 1 the bad luck of Missionary Ridge. No more rebel talk. no more rebel preach no more praying for Jen DaVis, was the | warning henceforward. MT. Robertson | was one who never cOull take dare. He | just had to pray for Jeff Davis. Being | Ala
 | to pray for Jeff DaKis, in the Episcopal | Church of the Nativity, at Huntsville; {; | and feeling himself bound when he used | the services of the Book of Common | P.ever. as made for the Confederate | States, come good or come III, he dld his duty fearlessly. and was led rom
 the sacred altar into the devllish cell. | great many kindnesses and conciilatory measures were used to overthrow ms con victions but alN was in vain. Ills sense | of duty was supreme. He was poscesseo | of the spirit of the true martyr and De- came to the Tanks mentally, morally ana | nhvsically'' troublesome. After exhaust | ing all available resources for breaking | hin, down. the Tanks opened all their | vials of wrath upon him, when they l turned him over to the tender mercies of | a certain Colonel of theirs, with instruc- | tions to Put him over the river. That | so-called soldier was sort or humor- | ist for ne put the 'Old parson" in a | Chicken coop, on the banks of the Ten | nessee River, at Detto's Lan1ng. fin the l month of March, 1864. when the winter | bievv lev blizzards. Just because he kept | crowing" as Bishop Wilmer said. When 1 inc old Parson was sent over the river | i'm a canoe, it Is said but cannot be | Youched for, though 1t is believed to be | true. that the instructions were to Hose I him in the middle of the waters" H. .l was, however, safely landed on the soutf
 I him over turned the canoe adrtft ana
 their faces towards Sand Mountain. ana
 it Is not known what became of them
 The old mans exile lasted until 1887. II,
 spent most of this time in Jacksonville
 cared for by the Forneys. Hokes anS
 | Williamses. True pure and strong con } victions brought him into sorrow, bu