The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10


 jet black, heavy-set animal. He was bestial in his every feature and express sion.
 However, the stock was brought back and fed, after which Eastwood was locked up for the night, the negro guards sleeping in their tents
 About 0 clock in the morning we were awakened by the loud knocking of the brass lions head on the front door, at the same time hearing a woman sobbing and moaning. I rushed out into the hall and found grandmother and Aunt Mary hast ening to a front window, which they threw open. The person knocking was Ellen Lambert daughter of the neigh borhood miller, who, when admitted into the house, told between her sad means that stragglers had burned the mill and their home, and that when her father, an old, one-legged man, protested against their cruelty, he had been killed by bull let crashing through his heart Ellen had seen 1t all from her hiding place in a thicket, and to save her own life had fled through the woods to Eastwood.
 The servants were called up a fire was made in one of the spare rooms, and FL len was put to bed, with hot-water bot ties at her feet. We feared pneumonia, but on the next morning 1t was seen that the simple remedies employed had been successful in warding off the illness ap- prehended. As I look back at Ellen's subsequent life I often ask, Why did not God permit her to die of pneumonia on that terrible night, rather than let her live the life"-but I am anticipat ting.
 When daylight came Uncle Henry and Joe drove over to the mill for MT. Lam- bert's body. From Eastwood 1t was borne to the graveyard in the rear of the Colonial church. Our minister was ab- sent from the neighborhood, and it fell to grandmother to read the sad words, Earth to earth ashes to ashes, dust to dust" while Aunt Mary cast into the grave the symbolic handful of earth. Ellen, poor girl, was not able to be at the burial
 The day after the funeral a small body of federals was passing down the road, followed by a slowly moving ambulance. When they reached our lane they halt ed. We could not understand this, and were more bewldered when we saw the ambulance turn and come through our gate. It was all made plain in a little While. The ambulance was occupied by the federal Colonel Drumgoold, whose horse had become uncomfortable and had crushed his rider against tree and broken his right leg. He had ridden as far as he could, but on account of his in- creasing pain, he had stopped at East wood ta he0 a 1,1apQ n fa days. Never had stranger been turned away from Eastwood in it's long history. Colonel Drumgoold, therefore, was as-. sured of hospitable shelter.
 In the yard there was a small brick building which grandfather had used for his office, but during the war 1t had been devoted to the use of any of our sol diers that might chance our way. It con tained a bed, bureau, chairs and a ca pacious fireplace. fire was soon burn ing. Old Mamma brought snowy sheets and pillow slips. and Uncle Henry and Joe assisted the wounded man to bed. Later Joe rode to pr. Andersons and summoned him to Eastwood The ambu- lance was whisked of and Colonel Drum goold was left on our hands. Many time afterward did we have cause to thank God for the coming of this friendly foe.
 Grandmother wisely thought that some little employment about Eastwood would be helpful in hastening Ellen's recovery from her nervous shock: she was called on, therefore. to do many minor duties about the house. She had been accus- toned to household duties. having kept house for her father since the death of her mother. She performed her little offices gladly. now in the house. then on the front gallery or on the back piazza, as the case might be.
 A TRAGEDY.
 I now come to describe a tragedy that occurred at Eastwood. whose sad sequel I shall never forget I was a mere child