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have lost all knowledge of direction but continued east for
days. meeting with little of consequence intending
between Gen. Sloeums CORPS the extreme left of Shermans
army and that of Howard of These CORPS wings
of the army often march eight ten miles apart and would
be very hazardous push between We still called
ourselves Don Quxote Sancho and oked about the little incl
dents Of our travel
AS mey riding along day. regiment of Yankee
cavalry out the road behind from road laden
with great stacks of fodder tied their saddles behind which
showed they foragng party and little likely question
The head Of the column passed while continued talk
and laugh loudly to drive suspicion The commander smiled
while the guyed greatly and they yelled with wild
delight when Dxons mule began bray at the meeting with his
newound friends When they all past told Dixon that
time good mounts that troop of forgers
rode in close column long, and would lag behind
Our old horse and old mule seemed take and oed
along bsky We had formed plot and only awaited
portunty Poor, unsuspectng devs how little they dreamed
that Nemesis upon some of their traeks
We kept from fifty one hundred yards behind the Federal
troopers for several miles, until they small stream, at
which of them stopped their horses while the others
steep hill beyond We held up when within hundred
feet of the stream dismounted my
blankets One by the borses M they drank their fill and
continued up the h all being perfectly Indifferent to pres
and fearuy unconscious of the danger that urked in the
All had left but The bride of of these
had fallen his horses head while the animal drinking
and the trooper trying throw back with his foot while the
other watching with amused look. them before
either had time Think with cooked pistol in either hand keep
ing horses between and the other troopers much pos
sble
told them low tone that they prisoners and not
make noi pain Of instant DEATH They looked
if pefed While waiting for the others to pass
the of the hill they sat staring in the face their ghen
eyes boring like red hot steel into very soul Dixon often
laughed and said eyes gtered like snakes when
der great They have gttered then for
lived age while holding those down. The moving of hand
the changing position Of of their horses the glance behind
of of their comrades would have been the signal Of instant
death the and short while afterwards for
could have escaped seemed live dozen lives One moment
reented hazardous ac then returned Ny cheeks
would burn for then the chill would One moment
breath would if sufocang and heart beat
if bursting dared take my eyes off the men,
could not tell what the troopers front doing 1t
ed to that Dixon would to my relief.
No man, unless he has experienced such emotions real
the sensations gives be close upon the dividing line of life
and death be e hanging in the balance where the breaking of
we the rnng of head the life of himself and his
ride pay forfeit realized had taken desper-
chances and be prepared for desperate emergencies If
feelings uch what have been the emotions Of those
front of re? They knew that such lay for them
m:ny places. "n awaiting opportunity They must have
felt if h he'd bean caught upon the crest of great and
swept seward the of despair The beating of their hearts
have seemed the ticking of deathwach Their lives
must have passed before them as great panorama
aS At last heard the voice of faithful old Dixon speak
inc in my
We are afe he said The voice sounded afar off,
Cd reeed my feet and felt if had awaked from hid
t;a The whole time occupied could not have been
t three m:nltes.
',nrt., tha fnpino have
thus pull the veil of darkness the that
took place. is useless speak of them Each will form his
iae and it is best that it should be that way.
We were both we'll mounted again. with ovecoats and
Dixon pair of large We turn
the intending to head off Gen. Socums
corps of Union troops and connect with Hoods army possible
as thought to he somewhere ~, lie Of NORTH Cron.