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Show A ST C R Y CF THE REBELLION. Gi'ii. Harry White, of Pennsylvania, tells meoi au incident, which I repeal not from any disposition to stir up unpltisant memories, or add to tbe -lock ol bloody shirts, but benanee it is one ot the unwritten little incidents of the great Civil War. After his attempt to escape, disguised as a surgeon, he was placed in solitary confinement ot Richmond. He Wfte in durkneee and gloom, and began to despair ol regaining hia own liberty, or living to see the success of the Federal arms. Yet he received encouragement from an unexpected quarter. By digging a little hn n-jomnninicaled n-jomnninicaled with the occupant of tbe adjoining cell. "Who are youf" he anki-d. "A Tennessee Umou man," waa the reply. Then the Tennesaeean told his story. He piloted a company ot Union men through the mountains to Camp Dick Kobin-son, Kobin-son, in Kuntucky, where they entered en-tered the army. He went back for; more. He ventured to sleep at home one night. The conscript-hunters surrounded sur-rounded bis house at daylight. He lied out of iho back door. Headed off, he returned to tho house, the soldiers closing in on him all aroui.d. His wil'o ran out crying to him to sur render. He would not, but wnt for t,it gun. Tho soldier-! find. The bulMs missed him, but his wife Ml Jeid in his arms. He wua hur.i d away leaving her lying there; no time for burial, no time for tears, no time to kneel and see if the hpark of life was renlly gone. Yet this plain man from the mountains of Tennessee, with no one to herald hi heroism or l mnurn lor him if he died in the dungeon, dun-geon, spoke words of enumraiiement to thB desponding feder.il general. He slid: "General, we must not give up this fight for the Union under forty years yet." Cincinnati Commercial. |
