The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-04-09

to personal restraint. Often amid
the burning sands squads Of the reck-
less riders found themselves without
leader, and then every man for him
self. AS I have said, Forrest did not
care to take the stronghold by storm,
he would rather quiet surrender. AS
the great cavalry leader, with his
staff, rode along the dusty road, COM
ing each moment nearer to the fort,
he became sullen and morose, thought
full and detected. ''What is the mat
ter, old boy? Why this deep study,
what is there to think Of? Do you
think it is going to be hard job to
drive those d d--n niggers in the riv-
er?" said St. Ieger, with a good ma
tured laugh, and hearty slap on the
shoulder. ''No I am not thinking of
the task of Fort Pillow, we can take
that at bound, but it is the conse-
quences I dread. I will not besiege
it, for there is not time. and if they
do not capitulate at once, we will be
forced to ride them down and into the
river. Our men will be in an ugly hu-
NOR, when they find their slaves
shooting down their masters. The fed
eral government should never have
resorted to the expedient of making
soldiers out of negroes" Forrest
told his officers to be calm and to calm
the men. St. Leger promised to as
sist his chief in restraining the men.
The fort was taken by storm, and the
enemy claimed it was a massacre. To
tell the truth, it was a terrible butch
cry. The men could not be held in
check, and the widest disorder pre-
vailed. It seemed as if Forests
men turned demons. All discipline
was cast to the wind, and the one
great thought was to slay, to drive the
frightened hordes into the raging riv-
er. Some of the officers used every
effort to restore order, while others
urged the men on in their butchery.
Of the latter number, was st. Leger
Grenfel. He used the keen blade Of
his cimetar with bloody effect.
His conduct on that day greatly an
gered Forrest and they separated,
never to meet again. When St. Le-
gers wounds healed, he had received
very serious one, he had to seek other
fields, to satisfy overweaning ambi-
tion, his reckless propensity for the
carnival of blood. To leave the most
daring horseman of the west under
shadow, to seek adventure among the
idealist of the east, the Hamptons,
Lees, Buffers, etc., seemed not an easy
matter. His fertile brain began to
figure out on the unusual. President
Davis tells of man coming to him
with a proposition that shocked the
sensibilities of the president. He
proposed to go to all the coal yards,
where the vessels of the enemy took
on fuel for their warships, and by
process entirely his own, to insert
high combustibles in the large chunks
Of coal, thereby exploding their en-
giaes and vrecking the machinery.
That man was St. Leger Grenfel, but
Mr.. Davis would have none of it,
and drove him from his presence.
We next hear of this daring adven-
turer in Canada, undertaking schemes,
wilder if possible, than any heretofore
attempted. Along the great lakes,
and northern States, there were fed
eral prisons, where we're thousands of
Confederate prisoners confined. These
St. Leger proposed iberating by Or
ganizing a great body of troops along
the frontier, then when all was ready,
with arms and soldiers outfits, to
swoop down upon the prisoners, and
set the men at liberty, some making
their way South, the others to Cana
da. He had organized hundreds Of
men under him, and all arrangements
perfected: All that was lacking was
rifles, that were to be gotten from