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Numb... 50, mwflgfmvmw BY JOHN M’ELROY, Author of “Andersonwille,” Etc. [Copyrighted by NatiOnal Tribune Publishing 00.. * and published by arrangement with theni.] [The name given this story is made glorious b the valor and achievements of the list division of the Feurteenth -»Army corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers and borne upon their battle fines] Continued. CHAPTER VIII. rm: '1'}:an or CAMP. To really enjoy life in a ‘camp of instruc- tion requires a peculiar cast of mind. It re« quires a genuine liking for a treadmill round of merely mechanical duties; it requires a taste for rising in the chill and cheerlesa dawn, at the unwelcome summons of reveille, to along day filled with a tiresome routine of laborious drills, alternating with tedious ml] calls and wearisome parades and inspections; it requires pleased contentment with walks , continually cut shortby the camp guard, and with amusements limited to rough horse play on the parade ground and dull gaines‘ Of Cards by sputtering candles in the tent. .. ,. ? These» were the trials that tested Harry Glen‘s resolution sorely. ’When he enlisted with the intention of redeeming himself he naturally expected that the opportunity he desired would be given by a prompt march to the field and a speedy entrance into an en- gagement. He herved himself strenuously for the dreadful ordeal of battle, but this be- csunc a continually receding point. The blip :cr defeat at Bull Run was bearing fruit in months of painstaking preparation before venturing upon another collision. “I do wish the regiment would get orders to move," said almost hourly once one of :- half ' million impatient youths fretting ll'l camps of instruction through the long sum- mer of 1861. “I do wish the regiment would get orders to move,” said Harry Glen angrily one evening, on coming into the surgeon‘s tent to have his blistered hands dressed._ He had been on fatigue duty during the day, and the fatigue squad had had an obstinate struggle with an old oak stump, which disfigured the parade ground, and resisted removal like an Irish tenant. “I am willing—yes, I can say I am anxious, even—to go into battle,” he continued, while Dr. Paul Denslow laid plasters of simple cerate on the abraded palms and then swathed them in bandages. “Anything is preferable to this chopping tough stumps with a dull ax and drilling six hours a day while the thermometer hangs around the nineties.” “I admit that there are things which would seem pleasanter to a young man Of your tem- perament and previous habits,” said the sur— geon, kindly. “Shift over into that arm stool, which you will find easier. and rest a little while. Julius, bring in that box of ci )1 . While J ulius, who resembled his illustrious namesake as little in celerity of movement as he did in complexion, was coming, the sur- geon prepared apaper, which he presented to Harry, saying: “There, that’ll keep you off duty to-mor- row. After that. we’ll see what can bedone.” Julius arrived with the cigars as tardily as if he had to cross a Rubicon in the back room. Two' were lighted, and the surgeon settled himself for a. chat. “Have you become tired of soldier life?” asked he, studying Harry’s face for the effect of the question. “I cannot say that I have become tired of it,” said Harry, frankly, “because I must ad- , mit that I never had the slightest inclination to it. I had less fancy for becoming nsol- dier than for any other honorable pursuit that you could mention.” “Then you only joined the army”— “From a sense of duty merely,” said Harry, knocking the ashes from his cigar. “And the physical and other discomforts now begin to Weigh nearly as much as that sense of duty?” “Not at all. It only seems to me that there are more of them ~,ghan are absolutely essen— tial to the performance of that duty. I want to be of service to the country, but I would prefer that that mrvice be not made unnecessarily onerous.” “I can make your lot in the service easier,” said Dr. Denslow. “Indeed! How so!” “By having you appointed my hospital steward. I have not secured one yet, and the man who is acting as such is so intemperate that I feel a fresh sense of escape with every day that passes without his mistaking the oxalic acid for Epsom salts, to the destruction of some earnest but constipated young patriot’s whole digestive viscera. “If you accept this position,” continued the surgeon, flinging away his refractory cigar in disgust, and rising to get a fresh one, “you will have the best rank and pay of any non- commissioned officer in the regiment; better, indeed, than that. of second lieutenant. You will have your quarters here with me, and be compelled to associate with no one but me, thus reducing your disagreeable companions at a single stroke, to one. And you will es- cape finally from all subserviency to Lieut. Pancake, or indeed to any other officer in the regiment, except your humble servant. As to food, you will mess with me.” “Those are certainly very strong induce- ments,” said Harry, meditating upon the de- lightfulness of relief from the myriad of rasp- ing little annoyances which rendered every day of camp life an affliction. “Yes, and still farther, you will never need to go under fire, or expose yourself to danger Of any kind, unles you choose to.” ' Harry’s face crimsoned to the hue of the western sky where the sun was just going down. He started to answer hotly, but an understanding of the surgeon’s evident kind-' ness and sincerity interposed to deter him. He knew there was no shaft of sarcasm hid- den below this plain speech, and after a. mo- ment‘s consideration he said: “I am very grateful, I assure you, for your kinduem in this matter. I am strongly tempted to accept your offer, but there are still stronger reasons why I should decline it." “May I ask your reasons?” “My reasons for not accepting the appoint- ment?” ' “Yes, the reasons which impel you to prefer a dinner of bitter herbs, under Mr. Pancake’s usually soiled thumb, to a stalled ox and my profitable society," said the surgeon, gayly. Harry hesitated a moment, and then de- cided to speak frankly. “Yes," he said, “your kindness gives you the right to know. To not tell you would show a lack of grati- tude. I made a painful blunder before in not staying unfilnchingly with my company. The more I think of it, the more I regret it, and the more I am decided not to repeat it, but abide by my comrades and share their fate in all things. I feel that I no longer have a choice in the matter; I must do it. But there goes the drum for roll call. I must go. Good evening, and very many thanks. " “The young fcllow’s no callow milksop, after all," said Surgeon Denslow, as his eyes followed Harry’s retreating form. “His gristha is hardening into something like his stern old father’s backbone.” . CHAPTER IX. 0N rm: MARCH. The regiment made its first step on Ken- tucky soil with a little bit of pardonable os- tentation. Every one looked upon itas the real beginning of its military career. When the transport was securely tied up at the wharf the colonel mounted his horse, drew his sword, placed himself at the head of the regiment, and gave the command “Forward.” Eleven hundred superb young fellows, march- ing four abreast, with bayonets fixed and muskets at “right shoulder shift ” strode up the bank after him and went into line of battle at the top, where he made a. short, soldier-1y speech, the drums rolled, the colors dipped, the men cheered, and the band played “Star Spangled Banner" and “Dixie.” , Three years later the two hundred survivors of this number, returning from their “veteran furloug ,” without a band and with their tattered colors carefully cased, came of! a transport at the same place, without uttering a word other than a little grumbling at the trouble of disposing of some baggage, marched swiftly and silently up the bank, and disap- peared before any one fairly realized that they were there. So much had time and war taught them. . , “Now our work may besaid to be fairly begun,” said the colonel, turning from the contemplation of his regiment and scanning anxiously the tops of the distant line of en- circling hills, nsif he expected to see there signs of the Confederates in strong force. All the rest imitated his example, and studied the horizon solicitously. “And I expectwe shall have plenty of it!” continued the colonel. “No doubt of that,” anSWered the major. “They say the Confederates are filling Ken- tucky with troops, and going to fight for every foot of the old dark and bloody ground. Ithinkwewillhavetoearnallwegetof it.” “To-day’s papers report,” joined in Surgeon Denslow, “that Gen. Sherman says it Will take 200,000 troops to redeem Kentucky.” “Yes," broke in the colonel testily, and the some papers agree in pronouncinz Sh"- man crazy. ,But on ml“? 31.97. 115919” . ing acres, bounded bysubstanin'gl stene walls, umarked by winding streams of..pnre spring ' water, centering around great - roomy houses, how few it takes. That’s none of our aimlr. We’ve got 1,100 good men in ranks, and we’re going to do all that~1,100 good men can do. God Almighty and Abe Lincoln have got to take care of the rest.” it will be seen that the colonel was a very practical soldier. For days the regiment marched steadily on through the wonderfully lovely Blue Grass region, toward the interior of the state, with- out coming into the neighborhood of any organized body of the Confederates. The turnpike, hard and smooth as a city pavement. wound over and around romantic hills-hills crowned with cedar andevergrcen laurel, and scarred with cliffs and caverns. It passed through forests, dramatic with rip- ening nuts and changing lea'vos,'a.nd glorious in the colors of early autumn. ‘, Then its course would traverse farms of , gracefully undulat< with huge outside chimneys and broad plums, and with a train of humble negro cabins in the rear. The, horses. were proud- stcpping thoroughbreds, the Weamely and spirited, the men dignified find, athletic, and all seemed well fed and comfortable. The names of the places along the iroute recalled .to Harry’s memory all he had ever read of the desperate battles and massacres and single handed encounters of Daniel iBbone and his associates withthe Indians in‘ the early his- tory of the country. , ': .r. 1..) At last the regiment halted under the grand old beeches and hickories Of: Stile famous Camp Dick Robinson, in the heart of the Blue Grass region. In this must picturesque part of the loVely Kentucky River valley they spent “the ‘ bright days of october very delightfully. . . - ~. Nature is as kindly and gracious in central Kentucky as in any part of the globe upon which her sun shines, and she seemed to be on her best behavior, that she might duly impress the northern visitomg. ,_ It was the very poetry of soldiering, and Harry began to forget the miseries of life in a camp of instruction, and to believe that there was much to be enjoyed, even in the life of an enlisted man. There was enough excitement in camp to prevent any danger of ennui. The proba- bility of battle gave the daily drills an in- terest that they never could gain in Ohio. The native Confederates were numerous and de- fiant, and kept up such demonstrations as led . to continual apprehensions of an attack. New regiments came in constantly, and were re- ceived with enthusiasm. Kentucky and East Tennessee loyalists, tall, gaunt, long haired and quaint spoken, but burning with enthu- siasm for the government of their fathers, flocked to the camp, doffed their butternut garb, assumed the blue, and enrolled them- selves to defend the Union. At length it became evident that the Con- federate “Army of Liberation” m really about crossing the Cumberland mountains to drive out the “Yankees” and recover posses— sion of Kentucky for the southern Con- federacy. Outposts were thrown out in all directions to gain the earliest intelligence of the progress of the movement, and to make such resist- ance to it as might be possible. One of these outposts was stationed at Wildcat Gap, an in- expresibly wild and desolate region, sixty miles from Camp Dick Robinson, where the road entering Kentucky from Tennessee at Cumberland gap crosses the Wildcat range of mountains. One day the startling news reached camp that an overwhelming Confederate force under Gen. Zollicofi‘er was on the eve Of at- tacking the slender garrison of Wildcat gap. The “assembly” was sounded, and the regi- ment, hastily provided with rations and am- munition, was hurried forward to aid in the defense of the threatened outp05t. Nature, as if in sympathy with the gather- ing storm of war, ceased her smiling. The blue, bending skies were transformed into a scowling, leaden-visaged canopy, from which fella chill, incessant rain. - When the order to prepare for the march came Glen, following the example of his comrades, packed three days’ cooked rations in his haversack, made his blankets into a roll, tying their ends together, threw them scarf fashion over his shoulder and took his accustomed place as file closer in the rear of his company. He was conscious all the time, though he suffered no outward sign to betray the fact, that he was closely watched bythe boys who had been with him in western Vir- ginia, and who were eager to see how he would demean himself in this new emer- gency. He was shortly ordered to assist in the in- spection of cartridge boxes and the issuing of cartridges, and the grim nature of the errand they were about to start On duly impressed itself upon his mind as he walked down the lines in the melancholy rain, examined each box and gave the owner the quantity of cartridges required to make up the quota of forty rounds per man. Those who scrutinized his face as he passed slowly by saw underneath the dripping caves of his broad brimmed but firm set lines about his mouth and a little more luminous light in his eyes. “Harry Glen’s Screwing his courage to the sticking point. He’s bound to go through this time," said Kent Edwards. //M ”Mi. " /’ ' // IV“ /".;,, ' Wflj‘ ,tI/tf \_‘. .\ “Harry Glen‘s bound to go through this time." The hospital steward approached, and said: - “Captain, the surgeon presents his compli- merits and respects that you send four men to convey your First Lieut. Pancake to com- fortable quarters which have been prepared for him in the hospital barracks. His rheu- matic trouble has suddenly assumed an acute form—brought on doubtless by a change in the weather—and he is suffering greatly. Please instruct the men to be very careful in carrying him, so as to avoid all unnecessary pain, and also all exposure to the rain. He will have a good room in the hospital, witha fire in it, and every attention, so that you need have no fears concerning him. ” “I never had,” said Kent, loud enough to be heard all over the right mug of the com- pany. . “ have,” said Abe. “There’s every danger in the world that he’ll get well.” Away the regiment marched, through the dismal rain, going as fast as the heavily laden men could be spurred onward by the knowledge of their comrades’ eminent need. For three weary, discouraging days they pressed onward through the dispiriting rain and over all the exhausting obstacles. 0n the morning of the fourth they reached the foot of the range in which Wildcat Gap is situated. They were marching slowly up the steep mountain side, their soaked gar- ments clinging about their weary limbs and clogging their footsteps. Suddenly a sullen boom rolled out of the mist that hung over the distant mountain tops. ' Every one stopped, held their breaths, and tried to check the beating of their hearts, that they might hear more. They needed not. There was no difiiculty about hearing the succeeding reports, which became every instant more distinct. “By God, that’s cannon i” said the colonel. “They’re attac .ing our boys, Throw Off everything, boys and hurry forward!” Overcoats, blankets, haversacks and knapsacks were hastily piled, and. the two most exhausted men in each company placed on guard over them. Kent and Abe did not contribute their canteen to the company pile. But then its weight Was much less of an impediment than when they left Camp Dick Robinson. - They employed the very brief halt of the regiment in swabbing out the barrels of their muskets very carefully, and removing the last traces of moisture from the nipples and hammers. “At last I stand a show of getting some re- turn from this old piece of gas tube for the trouble it’s been to me,” said Kent Edwards, as he ran a pin into the nipple to make as— surance doubly sure that it was entirely free. “Think of the transportation charges I have against it, for the time I have logged it around over Ohio and Kentucky, to say nothing of the manual labor and the mental strain of learning and practising ‘present arms,’ ‘carry arms,’ ‘support arms,’ and such otherrnilitary monkey shines under the hot sun Of last summer!” He pulled off the woolen rag he had twisted around the head of the rammer for a swab, wiped the rammer clean and bright and dropped it into the gun. It fell with a clear ring. Another dexterous movement of the gun sent it flying into the air. Kent caught it as it Came down and scrutihmd its bright head. He found no smirch of dirt or damn- ness. “Clean and clear asa. whistle inside,” he said, approvingly. “She’ll make music that our secession friends will pay attention to, though it may not be as sweet to their cars as ‘The Bonnie Blue Flag.’ ” “More likely kick the whole northwest quarter section of your shoulder oif when you try to shoot it,” growled Abe, who had been paying similar close attention to his gun. “If we’d had anybody but a lot of mullet heads for officers we‘d a’ been sent up here last week, when the weather and he roads were good, and when we could’ve done something. Now our boys’llbe licked before we can get where we can help ’em." Glen leaned on his musket, and listening to the deepening roar of the battle, was shaken by the surge of emotions natural to the occasion. It seemed asif no one could live through the incessant firing, the sound of which rolled down to them. Togo up into it was to deliberately venture into certain destruction. Memory made a vehement pro- test. He recalled all the pleasant things that life had in store for him; all that he could enjoy and accomplish; all that he might be to others; all that others might boto him. Every enjoyment of the past, every happy possibility of the future took on amore en- trancing roseateness. Could he giveall this up, and die there on the mountain top, in this dull, brutal, un- hcroic fashion, in the filthy mud and dreary min, with no one to note or care whether he acted courageously or otherwise? It did not seem that he was expected to fling his life away like a dumb brute entering the rocking shambles. His youth and abili- ties had been given him for some other pur- pose. Again palysying fear and ignoble sel- fishnem tugged at his heartstrings, and he felt all his carefully cultivated resolutions weakening. “A sergeant must be left in command of the men guarding this property,” said the colonel. “The captain of Company A will detail one for that duty.” Capt. Bennett glanced from one to another of his five sergeants. Harry’s heart gavca swift leap with hope that he might be ordered to remain behind. Then the blood crimsoned his cheeks, for the first time since the sound of the firing struck his ears; he felt that every eye in the company was upon him, and that his ignoble desire had been read by all in his look of expectancy. Shame came to spur up his faltering will. He set his teeth firmly, pulled the tompion out of his gun and flung it away disdainfully,as if he would never need it again, blow into the muzzle to see if the tube was clear, and wiped off the lock with a fine white handkerchief—one of the relics of his bygone elegance—which he drew from the breast of his blouse. “Sergt. Glan-Sergt. Glancey willremain,” said the captain, peremptorily. Glancey, the captain knew, was the Only son and sup- port of a widowed mother. “Now, boys,” said the colonel in tones that rang like bugle notes, “the time has come for us to strike a blow for the Union and for the fame of the dear old Buckeye state. I need not ' exhort you to do yo'fir duty like men; I know you too well to thin that any such words of mine are at all necessary. Forward! quick time! MARCH!” The mountain sides rang with the answer- ing cheers from a. thousand throats. The noise of the battle on the distant crest was at first in separate bursts of sound, as regiment after regiment came into position and Opened fire. The intervals between these bursts had disappeared and it had now be- come a steady roar. A wild mob came rushing backward from the front. “My God, our men are whipped!” exclaimed the young adjutant in tones of anguish. “No, no,” said Capt. Bennett, with cheer- ful confidence. “These are only the camp riff-ruff, who run whenever so much as a cap is burst near them.” So it proved to be. There were teamsters upon their wheel-mules, cooks, ofiicers, ser- vants, both black and white, and civilian em- ployee, mingled with many men in uniform, skulking from their companies. Those were mounted who could seize a mule anywhere, and those who could not were endeavoring to keep up on foot with the panic stricken riders. All seemed wild with one ilca: To get as far as possible from the terrors raging around the mountain top. They rushed through the regiment and disordered its ranks. “Who are you a-shovin’, young fellow— say !” demanded Abe Bolton, roughly collar- ing a. strapping bulk of a. youth, who, hatless and with his fat cheeks white with fear, came plunging against him like a frightened steer. “Oh, boys, let me pas, and don’t go up there! Don’t! You’ll all be killed. I know it. I’m all the one of my company that got away—I am, really. All the rest are killed. ” “Heavens! what awrctched remnant, asthe dry goods man said when the clerk brought him a piece of selvage as all that the burglars had left of his stock of broadcloth,” said Kent Edwards. “It’s‘too bad that you were allowed to get away, either. You’re not a proper selection for a relic at all, and you give a bad impression of your company. You ought to have thought Of this and staid up there and got killed and let some better look- ing man got away, that would have done the company credit. Why didn’t you think of this?” “Git!” said Abe, scntentiously, with a. twist in tho coward’s collar, that, with the help of an opportune kick by Kent, sent him sprawl- ing down the bank. “Capt. Bennett,” shouted the colonel an- grily, “fix bayoncts there in front and drive these hounds off, or we’ll never get there.” A show of savage looking steel sent the skulkcrs down a side path through the woods. 5, ‘The tumult of the battle heightened with every step the regiment advanced. A turn in the winding road broughtthem to an open- ing in the woods which extended clear to the summit, Through this theétorrent of noise poured when a.‘ powerful band passes the head olefin-street. Down .this avenue came rolling the crash of thousands of muskets fired with the intense energy of men in mor- tal combat, the deeper pulsations of the artil- lery, and oven the fierce yells of the fighters, as charges were made or repulsed. Glen felt the blood settle around his heart ’anew. ~ “Get out of the road and let the artillery pass! Open up there for the artillery l” shouted voices from the rear. Everybody sprang to the side of the road. There came a. sound of blows rained upon the horse‘s" bodies~of shouts and oaths from excited drivers and eager officers-Of rushing wheels and of ironed hoofs striking fire from the grinding stones. Six long bodied, strong limbed horses, their hides reeking with sweat, and their nostrils distended with intense effort, tore past, snatching after them, as if it were a toy, a gleaming brass cannon, sur. rounded by galloping cannbneers, who goaded the draft horses on with blows with the flats of their drawn sabers. Another gun,with its straining horses and galloping at- tendants, and another, and another, until six great, grim pieces, with their scores of dis perately eager men and horses, had rushed by toward the front. It was a sight to stir the coldest blood. The excited infantry boys, wrought up to the last pitch by the spectacle, sprang back into the road, cheered vociferously, and rushed on after the battery. , Hardly had the echoes of their voices died away, when they heard ' the battery join its thunders to the din of the fight. Then wounded men, powder-stained, came straggling back—men with shattered arms and gushed faces and garments soaked with blood from bleeding wounds. “Hurrah, boys!” each shouted with weak- ened voice, as his eyes lighted up at sight of the regiment, “We’re whipping them; but hurry forward! You’re needed!” “If you ain’t pretty quick,” piped one girl. faced boy, with a pensive smile, as he sat weakly down on a stone and presseda delicate hand over a round red spot that had just ap- peared on the breast of his blouse, “you’ll miss all the fun. We’ve about licked ’em al- ready. 0h!——” Abe and Kent sprang forward to catch him, but he was dead almost before they could reach him. They laid him back ten- derly on the brown dead leaves, and ran to regain their places in the ranks. The regiment was now sweeping around the last curve between it and the line of bat- tle. The smell of the 'burning powder that filled the air, the sight of flowing blood, the shouts of the fighting men, had awakened in every bosom that deep-lying killing instinct inherited from our savage ancestry, which slumbers-generally wholly unsuspected—in even the gentlest man’s bosom, until some accident gives it a terrible amusing. Now the slaying fever burned in every son]. They were marching with long quick strides, but well closed ranks, elbow touching elbow, and every movement made with even more than the accuracyof a parade. Harry felt himself swept forward by a current as re- aistless as that which sets over Niagara. They came around the little hill, and saw a bank of smoke indicating where the line of battle was. - ‘Let’sfinish the canteen now,” said Kent. “It may get bored by a bullet and all run out, and you know I hate waste." “I suppose we might as well drink it,” as- sented Abe—thefirst time in the history of the regiment, that he agreed with anybody. “We may n’t be able to do it in ten minutes, and it would be too bad to’ve lugged that all the way here, just for some one else to drink." ' An aide, powder grimed, but radiant with joy, dashed up. “Colonel,” he said, “you had better go into line over in that vacant space there, and wait for orders; but I don’t think you will have anything to do, for the general believes that the victory is won, and the Confcxleraies arc in full retreat.” As he spoke, a mighty cheer rolled around the line of battle, and a band stationed upon a rock which formed the highest part of the mountain, burst forth with the grand strains of the “Star Spangled Banner.” The artillery continued to hurl screaming shot and shell down into the narrow gorge, through which the defeated Confederates were flying with mad haste. CHAPTER X. rm: HOUNTAINEER’S REVENGE. Harry Glen’s first feeling when he found the battle was really over, was that of elation that the crisis to which he had looked for- ward with so much apprehension, had passed without his receiving any bodily harm. This was soon replaced by regret that the long- covetcd opportunity had been suffered to pas unimproved, and still another strong senti- ment—that keen sense of disappointment which comes when we have braced ourselves up to encounter an emergency, and it van- ishes. There is the feeling of waste of valu- able accumulated encrgy, which is as painful as that of energy misapplied. Still further, he felt sadly that the day of his vindication had been again postponed over another weary period of probation. All around was intense enthusiasm, grow- ing stronger every instant. It was the first battle that the victors had been engaged in, and they felt the tumultuous joy that the first triumph brings to young soldiers. It was the first encounter upon the soil of Ken- . tucky; it was the first victory between the Cumberland mountains and the Mississippi river, and the loss of the victors was insig- nificant compared with that of the van- quished. '- The cold drench from the skies, the dreary mud—even the dead and wounded—were for- gotten in the jubilation at the sight of the lately insolent foe flying in confusion down the mountain side, rocking for nothing so much as for personal safety. The band continued toplay patriotic airs and the cannon to thunder long after the last Confederate had disappeared in the thick woods at the bottom of the gloomy gorge. A detail of men and some wagons were sent back after the regiment’s baggage, and the rest of the boys, after a few minutes’ survey of the battlefield, were set to work building fires, cooking rations and preparing from the branches and brush such shelter as could be made to do substitute duty for the tents left behind. Little as was Harry’s normal inclination to manual labor. it was lam than over now. with these emotions struggling in his mind, and leaving his comrades hard at work, he wan- dered Off to where Hoosier Knob, a command. ing eminence on the left of the battlefield, seemed to offer the best view of the retreat of the forces of Zollicoffer. Arriving there, he pushed on down the slope to where the enemy’s line had stood, and where now were groups of men in blue uniforms, searching for trophies of the fight. In one place a mus- ket would be found; in another a cap with a silver star, or a canteen quaintly fashioned from alternate stoves of red and white cedar. Each “lint " was proclaimed by the discoverer, and he was immediately surrounded by a. group to earnestly inspect and discuss it. It was still the first year of the war; the next year “trophies” were left to rot unnoticed on the battlefields they covered. Harry look no interest in the relic hunting, but walked onward toward another promi- nence that gave hopes of a good view of the Confederates. The glimpses he gained from this of the 5.1: rging mass of fugitives inflamed him with the excitement of the chase—of the most exciting of chases, a man hunt. He forgot his foam, forgot how far behind he was leaving all tlic others, and became eager only to see more of this fascinating sight. Before he was aware of it, he wasthree or four miles from the gap. Here a point ran boldly down from the mountain into the valley, and ended in a bare knob that overlooked the narrow creek bottom, along which the beaten host was forging its way. Harry unlicsil‘utingly dc— sccndcd to this, and stood gazing at tho swarming horde below. It was a sight to rivet the attention. The new ' All semblance of military 0. g. well-nigh disappeared. Horsemen :1 . men, infantry, cavalry and artillery, m i r and privates, ambulances creaking under their load of wounded and dying, ponders-.15 artillery forges, wagons loaded with food, wagons loaded with ammunition, and wagons loaded with luxuries for the dclccialion of the higher ofiicers—all huddled and crowded together, and struggled forward with fever- ish haste over the logs, rocks, gullies and the deep waters of the swollen stream, and up its slippery banks, through the quicksands and quagmires which every passing foot and wheel heat into a still more grievous obstacle for those that followed. Hopelessly fagged horses fell for the last time under the merci- less blows of their frightened masters, and added their great bulks to the impediments of the road. The men were sullen and depressed—cast down by the wretchedness of earth and sky, and embittered against their officers and each other for the blood uselessly ahed—oppremed with hunger and weariness, and momentarily fearful that new misfortunes were about to descend upon them. In brief, it was one of the saddest spectacles that human history can present: that of a beaten and disorgan- ized army in full retreat, and an army so new to soldiership and discipline as to be able to make nothing but the worst out of so great a calamity—it was a rout after a repulse. Nearly all the passing thousands were too much engrossed in the miseries of their toil- some progress to notice the blue-coated figure on the bare knob above the road. But the rear of the fugitives was brought up by a. squad of men moving much more leisurely and some show of order. They did not plunge into the mass of men and animals and vehicles, and struggle with them in the morass which the road had now become, but deliberately picked their way along the sides of the valley, where the walking was easier. They saw Harry, and understood as soon as they saw, who he was. Two or three responded to their first impulse, and raising their guns to their shoulders. fired at him. A bullet slapped against the rock upon which he was partially leaning, and fell at his feet. ~ Another sputtered mud in his face, and flew away, singing viciously. At the reports the fear-harassed mob shuddered and surged forward through its entire length. The companions of those who fired seemed to reproach them with engrygestures, point- ing to the efi'ect upon the panicky mass. Then the whole squad rushedforward toward the hi1]. Deadly fear clutched Harry Glen’s heart as the angry notes of the bullets jarred on his senses. Then pride and the animal in— stinct of fighting for-life finned upward. So swiftly that he was scarcely conscious of what he was doing be matched a cartridge from the box, tore its end between his teeth, and rammed it home. He replawd the ram- rod in its thimbes'with one quick thrust, and as he raised his eyes from the nipple upon which he had placed the cap, he saw that the Confederate squad had gained the foot of the knoll and started up its side. He raised the guntofire, butashedid so he heard a voice call out from behind him: “Skeet outen thar! Skeet outen thar! Come up heah, quick!" . Harry looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a tall, slender, black haired man standingin the woods at the upper edge of the cleared space. He was dremed in butter- nut jeans, and looked so much like the Con- federates in front that Harry thought he was one of them. The stranger noticed his inde- cision, and called out again still more per- emptorily: - “Skeet outen thar, I tell ye! Skeet outen thar! Come up heah. I’m a friend—I’m Union.” Hisriflecame to his face attheaame in- stant, and Harry saw the flame and white smoke puff from it, and the sickening thought flashed into his mind that the shot was fired at him, and that he would feel the deadiyball pierce his body. Before he could more than formulate this he heard the bullet pass him with a sereech and strike somewhere with is plainly sharp slap. Turning his head he saw the leading Confederate stagger and fall. Harry threw his gun up, with the readiness acquired in old hunting days, and fired at the next of his foes, who also fell. The other Confederates, as they came up, gathered around their fallen comrades. Harry ran back to where the stranger was as rapidly as the clinging mud and the steep hillside would permit him. “Party fa’r 'shot that," said the stranger, setting down the heavy rifie he was carefully reloading and extending his hand cordially as Harry came panting up. “That’s what I call mouty neat shooting-knock yer man over at 150 yards, down hill, with that ole smoothbore, and without no rest. The oldest han’ at the business cohldn’t’ve done no hot- _ ter." Harry was too much agitated to heed the compliment to his markmanship. He looked back anxiously and asked: 3, “Are they coming on yet?” “Skalcely they hain’t," said the stranger, with a very obvious sneer. “Skacely they hain’t comin’ on no more. They‘ve hed enuil’, they hav. Two of their best men dropt inter blue blazes on the first jump will take all the . aidge of! ther appetite for lurks. I know ’em.” “But they will come on. They’ll pursue us. They’ll never let us go now," said Harry, ro- loading his gun with hands trembling from the exertion and excitement. He was yet too young a soldier to under- stand that his enemy’s fright mat be greater than his own. “Nary a time they won’t,” said the strmrger derisively. “Them fellers are jest like Injuns: they’rcred hot till one or two gets knocked over, an’ then they cool down mouty suddcnt. Why, me an’ two others stopt the whole or Zoilicoffcr’s army for two days by shootin’ the ofilcer in command of the advance guard jest 02 they war a comin’ up the bill this side of Barboursville. Fact! They’d a' been at “'ildcut last Friday of we hedn't skeered ’em so. They stopt an’ hunted the whole country round for bushwhackers afore they‘d move my other step.” “But who are you?” asked Harry, looking again at hit: companion’s butternut garb. I’m called Long Jim Fortner, an' I’ve the name o’bein’ the pizenest Union man in the Rockassel flountains. Thar’s a good s’tifikit 0’ my p'litical principles (painting with his thumb to where lay the men who had fallen under their bullets). Harry looked again in that direction. Part of the squad were look ing apprehensively toward him, as if they feared a volley from bushwhackers concealed near him, and others were taking from the bodies of the dead the weapons, belts and other articles which it was not best to leave for the pursuers, and still others were point- ing to the rapidly growing distance between them and the main body, apparently adjur- ing haste in following. The great mental and bodily strain Harry had undergone since he had first heard the sound of cannon in the morning at the foot'of Wildcat should have made him desperately weary. But the si ht of the man falling be- fore his gun had ermented in his blood a fierce intoxication, as u own, as unsus- pected before as the passion of love had been before its first keen transports thrilled his heart. Like that ecstacy, this fever now con- sumed him. All fear of harm to himself van- ished in its flame. He had actually slain one enemy. Why not another? He raised his musket. The mountaineer laid his hand upon it. “N 0,” he said; “that’s not the game to hunt. They’ll do when thar’s nothin’ better to be bed, but now powder an’ lead kin be used to more advantage. Besides they’re outen range 0’ your smooth bore now. Come. As Fortner w his rifle across his shoul- der Harry looked at it curiously. It had a. long, heavy, six-sided barrel, with a large bore, double triggers and a gayly striped hick- ory ramrod in its thimbles. The stock, of fine, curly rock maple, was ornamented with silver stars and crescents, and in the breech were cunning little receptacles for tow and patches and other rifle necessaries, each closed by a polished silver cover that shut with a snap. It was evidently the triumph of some renowned Kentucky guusmith’s skill. The mountaineer’s foot was on the soil he had trodden since childhood, and Harry found it quite difficult to keep pace with his strong, quick stride. His step landed firm and sure on the sloping surfaces, where Harry slipped or ,shambled. Clinging vines and sharp briers were avoided without an appar- ent effort, where every one grasped Harry or tore his face and hands. The instinct of the wolf or the panther seemed to lead Fortner by the shortest courses through the pathlem woods to where he came unperceived close upon the flank of the mam of harassed fugitives. Then creeping behind a convenient tree with the supple lightness of the leopard crouching for aspring, be scanned with eager eyes the mounted ofiicers within range. Selecting his prey he muttered: “_’Tain’t him, but he‘ll hev to do, this time.” The weapon rang out sharply. The stricken officer threw up his sword arm, his bridle arm clutched his saddle pommel, as if resisting the attempt of death to unhome him. Then the muscles all relaxed, and he fell into the arms of those who had hurried to him. Harry fimdimp thermasi the next insta' at; a few random shots replied, and another im- petus of fear spurred the mob onward. Fortner and Harry sped away to an- other point of interception, where the same scene was repeated, and then to another, and then to a third, Farther muttering after each shot his disappointment at not finding the one whom he anxiously sought. When they hurried away the third' time they were compelled to make a. wide circuit, for the little valley suddenly broadened out into a considerable plain. Upon this the long (b'awn out line of fugitives gathered in a com- pact, turmoiling mas. “That’s Little Rockassel ford,” said Fort- ner, pointing with his left hand to the base of the mountain that rose steeply above the farther side of the commotion. “That’s Rockassel mountain runnin’ up that inter the clouds. The Little Rockassel river runs round hits foot. That’s what’s a-stoppin‘ ’em. They’ll hev a turrible time gittin' across hits. Hit’s mouty hard crossin’ at any time, but hibeiwful now, fur the Rockassel’s boomin’. The big rains hev sent her up kitin’, an’ hit’s now breast deep thar in the ford. We’ll git round whar we kin see hit an.” Another wide detour to keep themselves in the concealment of the woods brought Fort- ner and Harry out upon an acclivity that almost overhung the ford and those gathered around it. The two Unionists crawled cau- tiously through the cedars and laurel to the very edge of the cliff and looked down upon their enemies. The were so near that every- thing was plainly 'ble and the hum of con~ versation reached their cars. They could even hear the commands of the officers vainly trying to restore order, the curses of the teamstcrs upon their jaded animals, the ribald songs of the few whose canteens furnished them with forgetfulness of defeat, and con- tempt for the surrounding misery. All the flooding showers which had been falling upon hundreds of square miles of pre- cipitous mountain sides were now gorging through the crooked, narrow throat of the Little Rockcastle. The torrent filled the ragged banks to the brim, and in its greedy swirl undermined and tore from there logs, great trees and even rocks. This was the barrier that stayed the flight of the fugitive throng, and it was this that they strove to put between them and the pre- sumed rcvengeful victors. On the bank field and line ofilcers labored to calm their men and restore organization. It was in vain that they pointed out that there had been no pursuit thus far and the unlikelihood of there being one. When did Panic yield to Reason? In those demoralized ears the thunder of the cannon at Wildcat, the crash of the bursting shells and the dead- ly whistle of bullets still rang louder than any words ofiicers could speak. The worst frightened crowded into the stream in a frenzy and struggled wildly with the current that swept their feet of! the slimy limestone of the bottom, with the logs and trees dashing along like so many catapult bolts, and with the horses and teams urged on by men more fear stricken still. 0n the steep slope on the other side glimmcred numbers of little fires where those who were lucky enough to get acres were warming and drying them- selves. “Heavens !” said Harry with an anticipatory shudder, “if our men should come up, the first cannon shot would make W these men drown themselves in trying to get away.” Fortner heeded him not. The mountaineer‘s eyes were fixed upon a tall, imperious looking man, whose collar bore the silverstars of a colonel. “He has found his man at last,” said Harry, noticing his companion's attitude, and picking up his own gun in readiness for what might come. Forbier half-cocked his rifle. took from its nipple the cap that had been thereon hour and flung it away. He picked the powder out of the tube, replaced it with fresh from his horn, selected another cap carefully, fitted it on the nipple and let the hammer down with the faintest snap to force it to its place. His eyes had the look of the rattlesnake‘s when it coils for a spring, and his breast , swelled out as if he was summoning all his strength. Ho stepped forward to a tree so lightly that there come no rustle from the dead leaves he trod upon. Harry took his place on the other side of the tree and cocked his musket. So close were they to hundreds of Confed- erates with arms in their hands that it seemed simply an invitation to death to call their at- tention. Fortner turned and waved Harry back as he heard him approach, but Glen had appar- ently exhausted all his capacity for fearing in the march upon Wildcat, and he was now calmly desperate. . 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All kinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish, Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept- constantly on hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro~ cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend to prove to our customers that we deserve their patronage by fair and generous dealing. lyeo LOCKWOOD k ANDREWS. ' ABOUT DR M’GLYNN. THE QUESTION OF HIS RELATION TO THE CHURCH DISCUSSED. Will no Go to Rome in Answer to the Summons which is Said to Have Come than the Head of the Catholic Church ? NEW YORK, Dec. l4.—The case of Dr. Mc- Glynn. the Catholic clergyman involved in the late municipal campaign, is attracting no little attention in this city. The World is today filled with the subject, and among other things says: The news of Dr. Mc- Glynn’s suspension, announced yesterday morning, is the talk of the city. It is worthy of remark that all discussions of the subject were accompanied by earnest expressions of sympathy with the suspended priest: Dr. IIch was at the rectory of St. Stephen’s church all day yesterday, but he refused to see reporters, and neither Dr. Curran nor any of the priests connected with the church would answer questions on the subject. A reporter who unsuccesfuliy tried to see Dr. McGlynn addressed him the following note: Will Dr. McGlynn oblige the reporter by saying anythingin regard to his reported sus- pension; whetber he will go to Rome, and, if so, when he will start; or anything concern- ing the subject? In answer to this a verbal message was brought by the servant girl as follows: “Dr. McGlynn sends. his compliments and mys he would like to oblige you, but he can- not say anything on the subject.” At the archiepiscopal residence it was said that the archbishop had not just returned to the city and that his secretary, the Rev. Charles E. McDonnell, was not in, and nobody knew when he would be at home. The question whether Dr. McGlynn really intends to go to Rome is seriously discussed now, both by Catholics and others. Some say there appears to be a growing impremion that he does not intend to do so. The state- ment has been made, emanating, apparently, from a well informed statutes, that the doctor was at first very angry at the receipt of the summons to Rome and even showed a strong inclination to disobey. A gentleman who knows Dr. McGlynn very well and who is in a position to know what is going on, said: “I think, to say the least, it is exceedingly unlikely that Dr. McGlynn will go to Roma His record of twenty years' opposition to the policy of coercion; his well known fearless and independent spirit; his positive character and the strength of his convictions, added to the fact that he has already been suspended and that, if he went toRorne, he would in all probability be kept there or sent to some distant field of duty wherein he would not be likely to give the church any further trouble, all create a very strong presumption in favor of the opinion that Dr. McGlynn will refuse to obey the summons Of course if he does not obey the summons he will have to leave the church, but the breach betweenhim and the church is already very wide, and he need go only a very little further to cross the line. There is no doubt whatever that Rome has been watching the doctor for avery long time, and the chances are that Dr. McGlynn’s case is tried already, though he isstill in New York. The doctor no doubt has considered all of this, andunless heiswilling to bury himself for the church, which, in view of the course he has pursued for years, I do not think is likely, he will probably decide to stay in New York and take the conse- quences. “As to whether Rome can afford to part with Dr. McGlynn there may be differences of opinion outside of the church, but the whole history of the Church of Rome shows ataglance that she cares nothing for one man, howsoever great or powerful he may be. She deals summarily with the refactory. I have heard men say since this matter has come up for discussion that the Church of Rome will make a mistake if she deals harshly with Dr. McGlynn; that she will cause a schism in her ranks in this country. 'This is all sheer non- sense. If Di‘. McGlynn actually goes out of the church he couldn’t carry a baker’s dozen of his congregation with him. Of course, if he were to set himself up as an independent preacher he could gather a con- gregation around him—a man of his ability and eloquence and strong convictions can always raise a. following—but it will not come from the Catholic church. Of course I do not speak of what Dr. McGlynn will do from anything he has told me himself. Probably nobody but himself knows exactly what he intends to do. I speak only from my general lmowledge of the man, and have given you what seems to me to be the most reasonable view of the probabilities.” A gentleman who has been a professor of philosophy in a Catholic institution of learn- ing said, apropos of the subject: “Well instructed Catholics understand per- fectly that they are free to dissent from the opinions not merely of priests, bishops, arch~ bishops and cardinals on questions of politi- cal economy, social science, astronomy and the like, but even from the opinions of the highest Roman tribunals, including the pope himself. The dogmas of the church are some- thing very different from and very far above the philosophical opinions of all of the clergy- men put together. These dogmas are doc- trines that must have been entertained in the original deposit of faith, coming down from Christ and his apostles, and must have been explicitly defined as dogma contained in this deposit, before a person can be condemned as hereticatical for holding the contrary opinion. “Even the theological reasoning and argu- mentation of great acumenical or general councils contained in the immediate pre- ambles of definitions of faith are not of faith. They may be illogical, false and even foolish. They may contain false statements of fact and quotations of scripture that a more modern and more scientific criticism may show to have been no part of the origi- nal scriptures at alL The dogmatic defini- tions and teaching of the church are simply in the line of a message delivered by a prop- erly accredited ambassador and witness to the truth of the alleged fact that the mes- sage is contained in the original depodt of faith. The messenger’s views, opinions or reasoning concerning the usefulness or neces- sity of the definition, the philosophical bear- ings of the definition on other truths or facts may be entime irrelevant, false and misleading.” When asked what restriction is applied to sets in matters of this kind, the professor said: “There is no restriction whatever on Catholics concerning more matters of opinion. Where a question of dogmatic truth has not been defined a. Catholic may believe anything he likes, or nothing at all if he pleases. He may accept the pastoral of Archbishop Corrigan or Henry George’s re- joinder to it, just as he sees fit.” That Baltimore Outrage. BALTIMORE, Dee. l4.—Coroner Sparrow, of the western district, held an inquest on the body of Emily Brown, the white woman who was so atrociously murdered in Pig alley so that her murderers might sell her body to the Maryland university. A great volume of testimony was submitted by the police authorities, and the jury rendered a verdict holding Roe and Hawkins for the murder, and Perry, the colored janitor of the medical school, as an accemary. no Worked as a Sailor. New Yonx, Dec. 14.-George Brown, as- sistan‘ t postmaster at Hamburg, 1a., was ur- rested hero and confessed to having robbed themnilin his postofilco last April. Since the robbery Brown has made a tour of the world. He went to California, thence to Australia and thence to New York as a sailor, assuming the name of Fox-bush. His coursewastracedandhewasamstedon the arrival of his veml here. ‘ Broke a Window for Diamonds. Fon'r WAYNE, Ind, Dec. ilk—Robbers last night broke with a large boulder the heavy plate glass of the show window of Henry C. Grafie’s jewelry house. There was fully $10,000 worth of diamonds in the window, but owing to the glass breaking in a peculiar manner the robbers succeeded in getting but one case containing a small set of diamond earrings, which they escaped with. Miss Wolfe's Estate. New Yonx, Dec. 14.——A relative of Mia Catherine Lorillard Wolfe is authority :6: ' the statement that “Vineland,” Miss Wolfe’s superb estate and mansion here, has been willed by her to Pierre Lorillard. The pulp- arty is valued at about $600,000, and there has been much speculation as to its disposition. Miss Wolfe is slowly sinking, and her death is daily expected. Dillon Will Defend Himself. LONDON, Dec. ld—Mr. John Dillon’s coun- sel has withdrawn from his case, leaving Mr. Dillon to defend himself against the govern- ment's accusation of inciting disorder. This is understood to in a perfectly amicable ar- rangement between Mr. Dillon and his conn- sel, the former having signified his ability to conduct his own defense. Settled Out of Court. Bosron, Dec. 14.—It is announced in the United States circuit court that the case of G. Bchwab & Bros, of New York, vs. Jordan, 'Marsh &; 00., to recover 861,600.53, alleged to be due for cloaks sold to defendants, had been satisfactorily settled out of court. The particulars of W. at are withheld. ;
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