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Show Gen. Early told this story in his . recent speech to the ladies in the convention con-vention of the Southern Historical society: At the time of the Averill raid up the Roanoke valley, when Gen. Fitz Loc was alter him, there were some stragglers. Near there was a gent Ionian, his wife and daughtor,all of whom belonged to the MethodL-t church, and very good people. This girl was walking in the pirden, which was on the bank of a river, very steep, when, coming to it I suddenly, she saw a Yankee soldier1 coming up the bank. Without stop- pin to consider, she stooped down, picked up a rock and said: " Damn von, hand me that musiet!r' He was so ompleiely taken aback that he gave up 1ms musket, and was marched aprUouer into the house. |