Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01

one in blue, reclining toward the rear
end of the long vehicle, the object of
much silent curiosity but no intrusion
whatsoever, and to the prisoner Long
street spoke as couretously as to the
princess holding her little court in mid
car, bidding him be of good cheer.
Or. Chiffon has told us, sir, of your
protecting him from indignity at Cen
treville, and of all the kindness you
did him that night, resulting in your
capture. We cannot afford" and here
the blue-gray eyes twinkled and the
half-hidden lips twitched whimsically
Ito let so good soldier get right back
to business. Neither can we send SO
chivalric a foe to Libby-at least so
long as he is wounded as you are
Therefore, DR.. Chiffon, you will see to
his having hospital accommodations
and now, we must have a suitable
guard And here the tall general
Strengthened up, studied earnestly the
circle of soldier faces about him until
the twinkling eyes rested on the very
sweet and rosy features of the one
damsel present Then briefly and in
official tone, he finished. "Miss Chill
ton, appoint you, until further orders,
custodian of Lieut.. and Aide-de-Camp
Benton, of the federal army"
Verify, as Benton wrote at the time.
these were the halcyon days of the war,
before ever it had become the grim
and deadly earnest they were to know
so bitterly and so very soon. The car
was cleared of all save passengers, the
train was started before he could find
words with which to thank the courtly
southern general, and the doctor, bend.
ing over him, was saying, "You must
not discredit my repoht, sub, by look
ing so much alive as you do at this
as one requiring constant attention,
otherwise you might have had to go
to Richmond
And so for a day or two these
leasantries-these courtesies of war
prevailed. Then all of Johnston's men
remaining north of the Rappahannock
came drifting in before a new forward
move of the union force along the rail-
way. Towards strong division of
Summers corps swept out in reconnais-
sance, even as the bulk of McClellan's
army was being directed on Alexan.
Cria for the now inevitable swing to
the Peninsula between the York and
the James-full details of the gathering
OF every kind of bay and river craft
reaching Johnston quite as speedily as
they did New York So that skilled
soldier withdrew still further to. the
line OF the Rapidan where he could bs
nearer Richmond in case of need.
Then when Banks should have com.
down from the Shenandoah and "cov.
cred" Washington, up .sprang that rest.
less, watchful, prayerful Virginia lead
er, Jackson, and so stirred the stu
alton in the valleys that Banks and his
men mad to hurry back through the
mountain passes, and further delays
and complications arose before April
set in and Mcclellan could sail for
Fortress Monroe, and in all the hustle
and excitement, the rumors flying
hlther and yon, the marching to and
ITO OF cavalry and fleet-footed infan-
Try, II happened that for full a fort
night DR.. Chiffon and his patients,
nurse. guard and all, had settled down
10 something like peace and physical
comfort at coy, homelike old Char
lottesville, and no man sought seriously
10 hamper or disturb them. From
Gainesville DR.. Chiffon had penned a
letter to be sent through the lines,
notiIylng the commanding general OF
the union force along Bull Run OF
benton's capture after gallant effort
to cut his way through. in the course