Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-28


 put 1t strong to the sergeant that he had been made fool Of.
 Half an boar later ..ee was missed. 1 An hour later word went back to the 2on?p&nE that he i4.l,.st have been sur 4;2al and captured by Confederate &Cout<
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 1 Through the u,an who sat there , boastinS of what he had written a sol- i dier with clean record had become q i sneak and a sknlk. Should he reveal himself then and there he would be loaded with ana,henas and reproacbes. No father with patriotism in his heart would have him for q son in-law. No T ton would welcome him.
 The dcserter groaned in agony as he realized the situation. and the people had withdrawn into the house tn go to bed before he crawled away. Tbat night he walked fifteen miles, dodglng and skulkpg and afraid of everything that moved by the roadside lH the f morning be was headed for Pennsy! vania Tbe papers told him which way Lee was moving He found confusion 1 ln Philadelphia. IhrTe was Do provost | guard to pick him up and ask Ques- l tions; 10 citizen !o suspect him of be fns a descrter He found place where 1 he could exchange his suit for q uni form and was of for 1bG front aD hour 1 later
 The country was oyerruL by parties from either side, auG/.1 was the ser geants fortune to be gobb1ed up by Confederate cavalry. He was sent to the rear as a prisoner. He was held until tue thunder of the three days bat slowly back on Falling Waters, and then he and hundreds more were head ed for the Potomac The rest is to be found in the history of his company and regiment That history reads:
 AS Lee fell back. his retreat incum. bered with wounded men, prisoners and long baggage train, Custer press ed one division of it closely over the mountain roads There were constant attacks and the ConfederateS fought bravely to save what they had won At a point about ten miles from tue river, where we made an unusually fierce attack and where the resistance was proving too much for us, sud den diversion gave us the victory. A Federal sergeant belonging to Michi- gan regiment and who was prisoner in Confederate hands rallied about 400 of his fellow captiYes, rushed theiI guards and, with arms thus obtained, made a hauk movement and scattered the force opposed to us and came charging through to us. The sergeant brought in the flag of Confederate regiment that he had captured, and there is no doubt of his promotion for his brave conduct"
 A month later Sergeant Wise was Lieutenant Wise The order read on dress parade spoke to the regiment of his being captured while on duty at picket post, of escape and recapture, and recorded his act of capturing the : flag and turning on his captors as one of the hravest things in war. inc ser Ceant had not lied or boasted. He had left others to figure out as they wanted to- and they had made the most of it. 4 year and a half later ne was a captain and on his way nome . to marry the s1r! who was waiting for l him.
 He did not march to her house, nor f vet to his, from the depot. He took g { contrary direction until he brought up before the house of the man who had
 held his hopUr in lis hands. Then :, things happened 4 year later the Jus lice of the peace would have called 1t Ii felonious assault. and jail might have
 been the consequence, but Lee had sur
 rendered, the war was over, ana filt r home coming veterans owned the CORD , try The wife has never known. 7 No human being except the ser , peant,s rhuln has ever known, It was ~ . rore hctWt1x ilGacr an' }isErace, ant
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