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Show Till! (0MHIIltt1l.1ltl.tMlt. J-INOOLN'J linoTllkll IN I.VW 1H.H 1IUW Till. 1.A8T Or IT WAS Dniiiro. irroy lie AUMltt eailfullaal Dr. II. ('. roJil of Harnwell, H. C, a dlatlngutahed itirgeon of tho Con fedirate army and a brother In liw of Abraham Lincoln, aa well an o connection connec-tion by niarilaite wltli the famout IliickluilJgu family nf Kentucky, during hla younger daa waa olteii thrown with Allah am Lincoln, who married hla aiater. llui, by family tlia anu by aaaoctatlou, he It cloiely couneclod with llroikl rldgo aud J.lucolu, who were both l'realueutlal candljalra In lbUO. Dr. ldd waa lu charge or the Cou federate llotpltal at Charleaton, under (leitaral Hardee, aud waa with the tmrty of tho ftlgltlvo Coltfittclatu cabinet cab-inet when It dlabauded. He diacllbta tbediTlalonot tbe Iaat lueney of ll f TnnfaflMrnlA treaanrv. e ntallvr inuoll dlacuaied In the newajapura a lew yearaagu. "A great deal haa been aald about lt,"aaid he, ' but, aofara I know, no deacrlptlon of It la on record. I wai thcro In tbe room when the money waa jiatdout, and eaw the whole pru-tiedlng. pru-tiedlng. Indeed 1 am partly naon-Iblo naon-Iblo lor the dltlelun of It at that time, I had been with the addict ad-dict coming down, and I heard Ibe Ken ucky and Virginia ttootiaay. lug they were going to have aome of the money or have blood. I totd llrecklurluge, who waa the aecretary of war, what 1 had beard, und aald there might bv rioting and bloodshed. riitro may be rlotlug,' kald he, 'but no bloodahrd.' I then auggealcd to him the propriety of a dlvlalon of the money among the aoldtere, and he replied! 'We will ace about It.' In the parly woro the Confederate cabinet and theoftlcereof the four brigade of trooi which were with u when we croaaed the Havannah river. We had the Iaat money of the Confederate Ircaaury fTO.ouo lit gold and allvtr, bealde eotnu gold lielonglug to the llauk of Illchmouu. The money waa In charge of Colonel Morgan, a brotb.tr of tha famou John Morgan. Wo croaaed theHavati-uali theHavati-uali river nn pontooue, and went on toward Washington, Ua. When wu had tone two mile from the rlvtr we fttoppetl at a log cabin on the aouth aide of ttio road, aud there the $70,000 waa ialdout. Mr, Davl hkdgoueonkbuut tour mile ahead of us with hlaiiaiT. 'In the cablu were John llreckln-ridge, llreckln-ridge, 'eecrttary ot war; Judah 1'. Jtcnjamln, who looked a scared a tbe devil and apjwared to be pauto atrlck en; (Jen. lliag, thecommaudtrof the four brigade, aud Col. Morgan, who hadchargeof the money. " Tbo dtvlatou waa madu by a cenau of the men. Ihlae reacul were Vaughn', Do Ilrell', Hull Duke' and Humphrey Marthall'a brigade. Manhall waa then under arreai, aud hi brigade wua lu charge ot Col. W. C. 1'. Jlreukenlldge. The cenau of the loldlcr was the reverae of 1'orter'e. Home of tho brigade returned flcllc-tlous flcllc-tlous name lu order to get more mouey, Ibe dlvlalon waa $.0SA for each man, oftl cera and common aoldlere faring alike. "Home of them, by itufllug tbe can-tua, can-tua, ct a much a $30 n head. Divide Di-vide $70,000 bj ml and you will ate how mauy (ooQ men) were relumed by thoceoauaof tbefour brlgadea. In tbe toying out we finally tamo to a keg of allver Ingou piece a by 4 Inchc iquaro. lhey opened a box of gold biluiiglng to the Hank of Itlcll-mond. Itlcll-mond. It waa about 10 luthialong and 10 or 12 luchea wide and cantalued puraeaofgold. lhey madunrougbeetl-male madunrougbeetl-male or the value of that gold and of the keg ol silver aud exihauged thi in. In that way I got eomu ,olJ, Then thty carried the Hank of lllchmond money to the bank at Wuahlncton. (3 . aud deioslted It, I hay took none of It, except a little box, for which the) sill stltuted Iho keg of ellver Ingota. S title the money wat being uiv ided out. CoL Morgan tald a man $o au hour to guard. When we got through Colonel Morgan took the remaining mouey and drove It away III tho dark, rhente It Ian led In the bank at Washington, Wash-ington, Ua. I kuow only by bounty, but am aallafled that Iho luformatlou waa correct, tbat the Hank of lllchmond lllch-mond aent ror lit mono, and on lit way the men guanllug It were attacked at-tacked by tuaraudere. J he guard waa teu Joraply dlaperaud, and the marauder maraud-er got tome of the ruoaay before they were driven olf." |
