The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-06-24
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A SOLDIER THE SOUTH LOST.
A man who has long been a New
Yorker pointed to a story in The Sun
rebel yell was like and whether there
ever was a rebel yell. Then he said:
Il doubt if a phonograph could
have reproduced the rebel yell as it
was uttered by Confederate troops of
the border. 1t was demoniacal. 1t
was never heard except in charge.
| doubt if anything like it was known
to the soldiers of Lees army. So
while there was a rebel yell in one
part Of the country there may not
have been anything of the kind in
some other
But that is not what caused me
to stop reading. One of the persons
quoted in the articles as Captain
Ben Ali Gutherie, who says he never
heard any yell, although he enlisted
on the border. He may have drifted
early in the game to some other field
of action. What I was thinking of
was this: Early in the war young
man who had sold sugar and coffee
and other merchandise in the grocer S
line walked out of the store, out of
the town where he had been clerk
to Confederate camp composed of
the young men of Southern families
of the town. When enough of the
tor hi In1 To lyN
showing they made their way to
General Price, who was investing
Lexington.
'The clerk was accompanied by a
boy whose father owned the store.
Both were known to most of the citi-
main street it became known that he
was going to enlist His father was
an eminent preacher in that part of
the State and some of the old minis
ter's friends stepped aside to wish
the son good luck.
These same people then asked the
young man what he was going to do
with that boy who was accompanying
him. The urchin answered for him
self. He too was going to enlist.
"The pair trudgei along in the
heat and dust until they reached the
camp in the woods Soon after their
arrival an elderly man reached the
camp in hot haste after his boy, who
was scarcely big enough to shoulder
musket The elderly man had
been the employer CT the clerk who
was bent on war.
He and the young man had a par
ley, the result of which was that the
new recruit persuaded the boy to go
! back home with his father. That
night the urchin slept in his own bed
/ instead of upon the ground as he
| had hoped to do.
Later in the struggle when there
were no more COnfederates in the
neighborhood and the town was oc-
cupied by troops from the command
of Colonel Jennison, of Kansas, the
boy was taken from his home and
placed in a military prison because
he had walked to a rebel camp. 1t
I took some influence to get him out.
4 III ldCl HIS I0tSdSG W DIS cLDO W
by an appeal to Lincoln by a citizen
who was in the confidence of the
/ President and was a neighbor of the
boys father.
Later still the boy got even by
| running away from home and becoEl-
/ ing a bushwacker and was subse-
! quently captured by a detachment
from the command of General Sigel
and sent to a military prison in st.
| Louis, where he remained until more
influence secured his release, and
this again was through an appeal to
/ Lincoln.
''The clerk who walls ed out to the
rebel camp with that boy was Pen
/ Eli Gutherie | am the outgrowth
of the incidents l have related. l
/ never saw Ben Eli Gutherie after
ward Doubtless he saved me from
/ Icing shot, for that would have been
my luck if had followed ill his steps.
. Is it any wonder l STOPPED reading
when I came across his name in this
article" ?"-New York Sun.