The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-02-15


Lieutenant West. and | want you to
tell this 10 my father and to my dear
est mother. for she is that"-here he
kissed the miniature fervently tell
them that | deserve the worst that can
happen &c me. but that | didn't desert
my wife.
Poor girl. She only allowed that
story to 30 cut in order to throw them
OF the track and help me to escape, as
| did Nuw she will know that the
colonel and Mrs. IIaverill know the
trurh. and that will comfort her more
than the meuey they are sending her.
Gcd bless them, And it would com
fort me, too. if anything could, but
nothing can. except one thing. and
that is fight ana plenty Of it. want
TO light my way tack to self respect
TO honor, and show those who have
stuck by ne that I'm worth saving
after all. No matter what happens.
thank God I've still got freedom to
| fight"
DO you mean that yon'll enlist;"
asked West
Yes yes, lieutenant. can't get to
Washington quick enough"
In the Federal army. of coursc?"
surely lin the fight for the Union"
Bully for you. Frank cried the
officer. imruIsivcly graspiug the hoy's
hand. That will be splendid news for
| HE colonel"
The Som5er scowl overspread Frank
| Hayerilrs face again He rose to his
! feet and said earnestly:
| NO, Lieutenant West. | charge you.
upon honor, not to tell my father-not
| TO tell any one--hut to keep this Sc
| crat between ourselves. 1t will be
time enough for them to know when
have proved myself a man again.
| Lieutenant, am going to Washington
to enlist But that is all that will be
known about me for the present. per
hapS forevig. Even If you hear of me
| III the days to come it won't be under
the name Of Frank Haverill
II am going to start al! over again
| under new name. which won't have
a spot of dishonor on it. and Uncle
sam ana Father Abraham Lincoln will
have Il brand new recruit. born today.
Do you understand. lieutenant? That
| sweet lady. heavens own angel mother
to me- has stopped down and grabbed
NE out of hell. and she shall yet have
reason to be glad that She did 80 or
my father will never set eyes on his
son again!'
When Colonel Hayelill arrived IN
Washington. which at that period had
not yet outgrown the aspect of 4 shift
less, overgrown Virginia town. he found
it transformed into vast. chaotic nil
itary camp. Every incoming train from
Baltimore or from the west brought it,
regiment of raw recruits. who were
driyen like cattle to the barracks and
drill grounds on the Potomac fats, near
the end Of the Long bridge and within
sight of the steeples and roofs Of Alex
andra, where on clear day the Soutii
ern flag could be seen from the very
windows OF tie White House. floating
deEantly.
White Washington was getting ready
to send the Army of the Potomac to III
wade Virginia. Robert Ellingham re
ported to General Lee in Richmond
10 miles to the southwark. and found
the new Confederate capital likewise
seething with activity,
Lee was exercising all his energy. s;i
gacity. skin and experience in the tom
de force of sending an equipped army
to Johnston and Reauregard in the field
at the threatened points. From one Of
these points. he great valley OF
Virginia lying between the Blue Ridge
and Shenandoah mountains, he mad
called Colonel Thomas Jonathan Jack
son. an eccentric Presbyterian profess
or ut the Virginia Military institute IL
Lexington. and who in the first brie
month since the breaking out of til,
war had developed aggressive qualitie:
calculated to attract the attention o
, The authorities at Richmond.
Lieutenant dillingham;. promoted t.
captain. naturally grnvitated to the new
brigade of jackson, who was now Gle
waited to the rank of brigader genera
, pf volunteers The regiments of hi
| bl&&Ge were coHlpOSeu Vi tne yer,
flower and pride not only of the vale,
hut of the whele commonwealth of Vii
: ginia, and even before Jackson's troop
t took the lie,d they had already begun
I to receive the impress of the iron han'
, If their leader.
+, Theft Gest destination was Manassa
,SinctiUn. the point of union of the rail
i. ROAD conli;g into Nirgiuii from Wash
y in@tou with branch road len Ing int
, the Shenandoah valley. General l."
+ had pointed ont that this strategy
. point would in all probability be III
I FIRST battlefield in the move 10 check II
4 Federal advance toward Richmond, an
q he row concentrated all availabl
F, forces there.
r On Il small stream called Bull Run
some thirty miles southwest Of Wasl
ingtcn. Beauregard awaited the arriy;
:, Of Mcdowell! The banks of thi
), stream are abrupt and densely woot
cd, but it is forbade in numeror
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