The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25

| cf Tusoalo,saFs fairest daughters, to | Captain Carpenter, of the Confederate | Army.
 The parish minister, Rev R. D. New | ins, had just pronounced lne solehln words of the Episcopal service, Those | whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.'
 | Bridesmaids and friends were offer | ing their congratulations. and m the | dining room the table was laden with a | | suinptuous repast. Bright eyes looked | | love to other eyes and all went merry l | as a marriage bell.
 | When suddenly the loud reports of | guns were heard. and firing just at the l | door, then in rushed the Federal sol diers, and captured the bridegroom, and | the other men escaped. The prisoner | | was taken across the bridge over the | Warrior River to Northport, where the l Yankees had encamped.
 The ladies were left with no way to get Ato their homes, for the Federals l | had captured the horses that were | hitched to the carriages at the door, | md the drivers had fed The brides | maids tried to comfort the disconsofate \ pride, but after a few hours of dreary : waiting and suspense they brought her l husband back to her. It seems that | one of the officers recognized Captain I Carpenter as an old schooimate of his, l and under the circumstances ordered
 
 | to the arms of his lovely bride. The Federals had i,500 regular troops l and they sent out spies ahead. of them | In Tuscaloosa Croxton himself said in | his report that his spies told him just l where our two pieces of. artillery were | and he sent fifty picked men to take 1 them. The State had placed these pieces here at the disposal of the University authorities and the Home Guard When the cadets came down to get the artil- l lery it was gone. Only 8 few volleys | were fired on either side, one man was I wounded on the Confederate side, Capt | Howard Murfee. who was shot in the l foot General Croxton says in his ofii- cia1 report that the Federals lost twen- ] ty-three men killed and wounded. The l Federals so far outnumbered the cadets | that the Colonel ordered a retreat. I At the bridge ii was far worse, Crox- ton with f50 picked men of the 2nd l Michigan Cavalry, moved down to the bridge over the Warrior River from | Northport, and attacked our home | guard. John Carso |, who was then only 14 or Is years Of age. was se- i verely wounded This wound made him | an invalid for the rest of his life. Capt 1 Ben Eidins, who had but recently re- turned from the Virginia army. was killed at the bridge.
 After this the Federals went out to the University grounds and destroyed
 
 kee officer who was sent to burn the University was man of culture and Of
 literary taste, and when Professor De I.affre, acting Librarian. plead with him to spare the Library, he said: Tt Is
 pity will at any rate take this as g
 memento of the occasion and saying 1 this he took a copy of the Koran, the
 Mohamedan Bible, for himself, then orr
 dered the buildings fired Immediately
 they began to throw a species or tor
 pedo against the walls, and as those
 were of an explosive nature, the fine
 buildings were soon in flames Then
 they blew up the powder magazine.
 that seemed to shake the earth.
 They burned the saltpetre factory, or
 nitre works This was established by
 the Confederate Government They
 destroyed the cotton factory, the tan yard, the foundry, the large cotton
 warehouse and the hat factory. They
 carried away a great number of horses
 and mules. The only harm they did to
 the Insane Hospital was to take its
 horses and mules. Only few strag- glers came yprowling around the Insane
 Hospital. They seemed afraid to go in,
 for fear of some plan to entrap them. I They went to the door and asked for
 the Superintendent. Dr. Bryce, who
 was keeping guard, met them. The
 man said, Good morning, I am glad tu
 see you" The Doctor replied, T am
 
 man then said, Where are your
 horses?" (they had evidently been look
 ing in the stables. The Doctor re-
 piled, "They are hid where you can't
 find them" The man replied, Well
 if I was sure Jackson was not near
 here, would find them pretty quick
 The Doctor told him Jackson was not
 far off, for he and his staff were in
 town a few days before.
 The Yankee then unbuckled an old
 battered tin coffee pot from his saddle l throwing 1t down, said, q would like
 to press some coffee pots from here. '
 The Doctor replied, Would you press p anything from an institution of this
 kind, filled with helpless. afflicted peo-
 pIeT' The Yankee said, No, I once
 had an aunt In an asylum" With that . he galloped off.
 . A half-witted negro man had been | sent to carry food to the man who had s care of the horses. and to take the - horse feed. On his return to the hos . pital the enemy had thrown around q
 picket line, and the negro was halted
 by the Yankee soldiers e, on na,, duty !. been to carry feed to the horses. 2 Il where are the horses?" said the Yan. h kee "Oh, I can't tell you" said the l. poor negro, ''the Doctor would not like '- it. Well" replied the Yankee, "yoI
 had better, for we have a gallowE
 
 Id you up with him today if you don't jusi
 come along and show us where those st horses are. The poor negro led then e. right to the horses, and I saw then
 as they crossed the lawn with thu
 horses going to their camp.
 The Yankees told our gardener tha of he could take alL-the old condemned I'd horses they left So the gardener wen In over after they broke camp, and go D. seven old sore back, raw bone, broker m down horses. They were pitiful look m ing but they soon improved and car le ried on the wdAk of the farm.
 The first time we could we mounted T. two of them and went to see Captain l. Murfee, who was wounded In the foot 'n The Doctor dressed his wound. Tn, n. Yankee horse was decidedly the best O y the lot, but he was always prickng hi e, ears and looking in the fence corner re for rebels. He was branded in larg rs letters "U. s." on one hip. and e s e, A." under his mane, and a large e h for condemned on his other hip. show y ing that he had been captured. fe k. P. B.