Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-03-18

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feet they shot again; that shot sent
buckshot into my thigh. lit out
tborugh the brush and briars barefoot
ed as you know; both you and All
were bare footed. l had some old shoes
but was carrying them in my hands SC
as not to make any noise After ! hao
got out of their way so / could stop
l tried to put my shoes on but some
Of their shot had gone through one OF
them and doubled up the insole so
could not get it on so had to throw
them away. My leg was bleeding very
bad. it was warm and my running
made it bleed worse and when / went
down lost my hat so you can just ap
preeiate what kind of an object | was
with my pants in strings to my knees
and my coat sleeves the same. My coat
skirt / had already torn off for you
and Alf to put on your feet. We were
fred on Thursday night, / went to the
river or close to it and waited until
morning. ! was in a bunch of brush
where | could see up and down the
river, and could see men working in
the fields.
thought / would be safer on the
other side and l was looking for a good
ledge of rock to cross on. / could not
sleep that night for thinking of you
and Alf, and everydog in the country
was barking and bushwhackers were
shooting. / had an idea both of you
fellows were killed for if we had fall
len into the hands of those fellows we
would never have seen the sun rise
again. staid in my nest in the brush
all day Friday, my leg hurt me so l
could hardly move. / decided on a GER
tain ledge of rock that / thought /
could cross on, so as soon as dark came
so ] could move in safety / went down
to the river and got across all right.
But you know we had nothing to eat
that night except the two little crooks
Of milk you brought from the milk
house after our friends had gone. And
| had nothing all day Friday, and did
not get any sleep in all this time so
when ] started out / would go to sleep
walking and fell down three or four
times while walking in my sleep, so
found a haystack and hid my self in it
md went to sleep l thought would |
wake up at midnight and feel more like
travelling. When | walked up / crawled |
,ut and it was about 10 o clock the next |
lay. Saturday, another night without
Inything to eat l thought it would
,e no worse to be shot than to starve
o death so l went TO a house and
got a lunch.
There was no one there but woman
nd she gave me three big biscuits and
! small piece of ham and | like fool
tie some Of that ham and had not
,ot out of sight of the house before |
'egan to have pain in my stomach,
md it got so bad | thought l would
lie. SO ! started up the mountainside
o find place to hide myself in and
wait results. But just as | came out
N the road three rebel soldiers came
round a turn in the road and I Just
Tilted down like cabbage leaf, never
ried to get away, | was so sick and my
* hurt me so / did not care what
hey did to me. They took me prisoner
nd handed me over to Reb lieuten-
Mt and was taken back to Libby and
rom there 20 Belle Island and from
here TO Andersonville.
After the war was over they turned
5 loose near Jacksonville, Fla, April
:, 1865. All re-enlisted and in the
attic of the Wilderness was taken
risoner again and came back TO Ander.
'nville, and died. Poor fellow, he suf.
red many deaths in giving mp one
fe. Those bushwhackers were not
iter us they We're laying for lot
Reh dcserters that stayed in the
ountains in day time and came down
the valley at night to forage for
'ub. After I had been retaken had
rite chat with some of them. They
ptured ten of the deserters that
ght and took them to a little town
at we passed about 20 miles from
here we were separated. Leuray, / II
ink, was the name of the town, and
ey took me to the same place They
d the Jail full of deserters and they :
Il me- in the hall Of the Jail. / had
blankets OF anything else 20 sleep on,
eept an OAK floor and the hard side
, and those deserters were lighting all
up such racket could
sleep any all night long
The next morning they started us on
> march 10 Gordonsville. Those do
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