The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-24
''BEFORE THE CRUEL
WAR WAS OVER
The Tragic and Humorous---A General Spilled
in the Making. News Of Lincon's
Assassination
out asin. without even sctun' powder
burned''

I burned"
| began to swell With pride. no,
! dreaming that pride goes before fail.
resolved to add To my military re-
nown, and decided to have another
battio after dark. The Yankees were
IN camp beside Whaley's well. fully
| About twilight set out with my
I force of five mighty veterans, ali well
mounted on our stick horses. In tho
lead when we reached the enemy. and
trying to live up to my reputation for
sallantry. dashed among them. AS ]
let rock fly and turned to dash back
| TO tho main army. noticed Sum Bur
Sides. was now with the Yankees. Iic
had a good-sized stone In his nand as
l passed him, nnd--but the rest Is a
plank TO me. The subsequent proceed
inss Interested me no moro. When
caHN TO. was lying In my bed. tn
smell Of liniment about me and
bran poult!cc on the back OF ny head
while tender voice anxiousiy asked
Are you still suffering. Billy?" l was
and suffered two weeks. ] can vivid
ly r.ca!l at this moment how stin my
neck was, how ms head throbbcd as
! hopbied about, and how impossible IL
, mas ror N me to turn my head without
That is how one boy saw fun" dur
inB the Civil War.
the country, ways. II was Il plenty TO
make lasting Impression. There was
me raid every few weeks OF band
called the Short Mountain bushwhack-
crs ihcy were young men, some Of
them OF fine families. Their last. d.
scent on the town was on Il wintry
n night. They reached the village about
nionight. y worthy citizen. Ben
Blades. was shot down In his house in
trying to escape. Only one Incident OF
: wat night impressed itself OF no be-
sides tlit tragedy Itself. Some ono
said the murdered man. who was shot
In the abdomen. was blonting nightly,
and lady called out that II bag OF
sait was placed on the wound II would
cease TO swell. or mortify. Their. was
no no. doctor In tho village. The old man
We're not far away. They later in the
night pursued the marauders, and be-
fore sunrise found the dozen or more
ed ut the first fire OF tho Fcdcrais but
four. One awoke, sat up-and than
feil back eth bullet hole IN his
and escaped.
About sunse. the slain men wers
! hauled TO the village in an ux-curt.
| piled up in the vehicle like slaughtered
messed the unloading. Amid laughter
and humorous remarks. they were piled
IN vacant store, whence they were
taken the next day to an OLD field end
80 S'N b oN
Then there was the killing Of two
men at different times by the Union
Home Guards. I think. One, Young
man, was turned loose TO ruin for his
life in n sixty or seventy-acr, fen.
lie made the best race II. could uut
was soon wounded. Still dragging hin !.
self along. he waE taken UP b. a horse
| mana Northern-born Federal-whc
tried to save him. But he was shot
, from tho horse by one OF his pursuers
Tho other was IN old man, SO simple
that whom he was stood up against r
tree TO be shot, he asked some one
what tho soldiers were going 10 do"
His body was carried down the street
by four men-two at side, hold
Ing hand and foot
had only the story az to the
| charges against the men from protest
Ing Southern sympathisers.
such things, no doubt, occurred in
thousands of neighborhoods of the
hghting ZONE. Try as II may, history
VIII never be able to record all the
causes for heartbreek peculiar to those
awful years.
An. II beside the dead
Siumbered tn, pain!
All. II the hearts that bied
Slept with the siainw