The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-06-22
A TifaieGh Anniversary WAR Story
BIZ. RANDALL PARRISH
COPYRIGHT. 1909. BY A. c, MccLURG & co.

told II swiftly. realizing the value
Of time and inspired by the interest
immediately perceived depicted in the
faces clustered about ! related mere
~ what they needed to know from the
military viewpoint, leaving ont all ref
erence 10 the girl. except 10 mention
that she was the cause of Lieutenant
Dunn's night ride
You report" said the ajor. that
the plan, as you understood II. was to
double the Confederate right wing to
the rear past their center last night:
then that during today and under
protection OF those bluffs yonder he
center will also be moved To- the left,
thus massing their entire fighting force
just back OF Minersville soon after
dark. with the intention Of hurting II
in solid mass against our unprepared
right flank at daybreak tomorrow?
Do state this correctly"
That was my understanding. sir
Yet our pickets have reported no
movement apparent In their front.
CnmptireS We're burning the full length
"
vile to Coulter's Landing all through
the night
Then the most of them must have
been dummy fires. sir, for | rode from
Denslow's plantation to Couter's with.
out encountering a single man ! am
positive that after midnight there was
not Confederate company left on duty
east OF Salter's creek few men
may have been detailed to keep the
fires going, but their regiments were
certainly already on the march west
ward
in his chair, tapping on the table with
the blunt end OF Il pencil. his keen eyes
constantly studying my face, Sud.
denly he glanced over toward the
group of officers standing clustered in
the doorway (
Captain Geer, were auy OF your
scouts across the river last nightY
questioned Rosecrans.
Daniels. SIR
Bring him in"
He arrived shortly. still rubbing his
eyes as though just awakened from
sleep. as odd appearing specimen Of
the typical mountain white as ever
saw-long. loosely jointed limbs. mar.
row. stopped shoulders. bushily wills
kered face intensely solemn in express
sion and strangely wrinkled. yet orna
mented with keen blue eyes containing
flS
Daniels" and the generals stern
voice instantly commanded his atten.
ton, captain Geer tells me you were
across the river during the night
What did you discover
"Waal. ginral." he pped out in mere
ny enough although no one laughed.
long maybe bout 10 o'clock. ther
night helm tol'ble dark. ! got on Their
off side o. Il log an sorter drifted with
Their current. steerin u bit. o course.
till | come In agin Their south shore
| reckon ! clumb out maybe fifty feet
east o. Their mouth y Salter crick. whar
bushes grow clar down 10 Their edge O.
ther water. got ashore all right an
wormcd my way up to Their top o. Their
bank. but tibet wns bout all did do
! never see SIGH picket line afore as
them Rebs he'd Thar wasn't hole
that a black cat could IA crawled
through II made me think tibet some
thin was happenin' fer sure. but every
time tried ter git out o. tibet bunch O.
trees I run up agin picket tried
ter crawl up along ther crick even.
wadIn' In tber water under Their bank.
but tibet was no good so long bout
3 O'Clock decided tibet maybe !
might better be gittln' back ag'ln over
TO this side afore II got light"
"And you neither saw nor heard any
fhingT'
Not blame lot. anyway. heerd
battery goiu' long. the feliers cussin'
an llcken' tbcir hosses somothin' scan.
d1ous: an thar was conSidp'ble mass
a. cavalry marchin' b"hind 'em. fer
their things WIS. iiuglinr. nn they, stop ,
ped ~ water III. bosses In the crick.