The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

old negress, but none OF them entered
the cabin. 1t seemed to him ell OF
them knew her, and none had a suspi-
cion she would shelter an escaped pris-
oner. This last party he saw, through
the chinks in the clapboards, was re-
turning toward Andersonville; he
could bear the soldiers talking as they
passed, and he heard some of them say
they believed they were on the wrong
track, and that he had gone in differ
ent direction.
About 10 O'Clock, the old negress
whose name, she told him, was Phyllis.
came up and told him he had better
get out, as if the search should be re-
newed the next day he might be dis
covered, to his destruction and to her
ruin. When he came down she told
him to wash his face, neck, hands and
arms in a basin of some fluid which
she set before him, cautioning him at
the same time not to allow it to get
into his eyes, and telling him it would
make his skin darker In color. She
also gave him other clothes and a diff
ferent hat, aud at last handed him q
small bottle, saying:
Honey, dis yer bottle am full o. red
pepper; keep it dry, an Of yo' fine dat
de bloodhoun's am after you, before
dey comes in sight Of y0', sprinkle
some of 1T in yo' tracks. an when dey
shifts dat ar stuff into der noses it am
all up wild dem houn's TO dat day.
Don't yo' fergit to remember what yo'
ole aunty am a-tellin' yo.'"
She gaxe him the first full meal he
had had for months, and another tied
tions to certain negro living about
twenty miles away. Dave gave her one
hundred dollars in Confederate money;
she refused greenbacks, saying il she
were seen with Yankee currency In her
possession she would be compelled to
explain how she got it, and it would
cause her much trouble to do so.
Dave left the cabin and walked sIl
the rest of the night, at length reach
ing the cabin of the negro to whom
Aunt Phyllis had sent him. Here he
was treated kindly. remained two days
and nights, and the negro went with
him during a part of The day on which
he resumed his journey, at length turn
ing him over to an old negro with IN
structions where he should be taken;
but before he left the cabin of the for
mer negro he was again directed TO
wash in a fluid of similar appearance
to that which he had used in Aunt
Phyllis cabin.
Without entering into circumstan-
tial detail of his journey, 1t will be
sufficient to say that, with the help Of
the negroes, who everywhere were
kind, reliable and trustworthy, ready
to share their humble cabins and their
food with him, Dave at last reached
the lines of the Federal army, and he
has been heard to say that never In
his life did he feel so thankful as he
did when he saw the Stars and Stripes
floating in the heavens, found his own
regiment, reported himself as a pris-
| oner escaped from Andersonville, and
received a furlough of sixty days and
transportation to his home in Missouri.
At the end of the period Of his fur
Tough he returned to bis regiment and
served out his time of enlistment. and
when the war was over a year or more
he went back to Andersonviile and
found old Aunt Phyllis, whom he per-
suaded to return with him to his own
home, where he provided for her as
though she had been his mother, and
when she died in 1882, she had a food,
of tears wept over her by Dawes whole
family, and he himself, strong man as
he was, wept as though she had been
his nearest relative; and there in
little graveyard-they don't call them
cemeteries out there-she rests beneath
beautiful little granite shaft on
whose base is inscribed Sacred TO the
Memory of Aunt Phyllis" and Dawes
grandchildren go every Sunday and
scatter flowers on the grave and talk
of how old aunty saved grandpa's life
away of in Georgia during the war
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