Show t 1 GRANT IT WA waa BECAUSE OP GRANTS KV R was honorable rable in ats wom as a cam mandor and aa kind and ad courteous courte to bestys kr birb itle wound wounds when col john S mosby waa was in atlanta last winter ho he told some of his old friend how ho he curoe came to liko like goo gem grant so 0 o much 1 I surrendered at lynchburg laid sald he ho I 1 think 1 I was about the last roan man to give in I 1 know I 1 WM was the only confederate officer who WM was outlawed by the united states government when leo surrendered awas I 1 was lu the lower end ot of the valley tomey with about general hancock s as at winchester with lie demanded m I 1 declined te to comply asking for a ten ton days truce be causel wanted to know what cen can johnsn Joh nem win was going to do hancock telegraphed secretary stan ton wn the altu situation atlon saying that he would under a flag of itryce havo have a conference with me stanton thought hancock meant te to come in person and tele graphed him not to do so i I 1 likely be guilty ol 01 some act of treachery later I 1 sent colonel chapman with a nag of truce to general linn ilan cocke cocks roan man an wae was agreed upon when it v as out aut wo we had heard nothing of johnson Joh neon then ilion hancock mode made another demand and said that if I 1 did not surrender eur rendor ho he would march hie his anoy up the valley walley and devastate it 99 all 1 I could not mot surrender render honorably because I 1 did not know what johnson was going to do I 1 disbanded my army and started for tho the jamee james river before getting there them I 1 hoard johnson had surrendered and I 1 went to my fathers house near 13 lynchburg burg general gregg was in charge there and through friends he began negotiating for my surrender c general grogg gregg telegraphed to I 1 washington and was told to receive and give me my parole this was brought to mo me and on the day I 1 agreed upon I 1 went to lynchburg in a buggy and went to my brother brothers bome for safety I 1 then sent word to general gregg I 1 was in town and ready to surrender eur rendor in the meantime general grogg gregg had been instructed by secretary stanton te to arrest me and end send meon mo on gregg was an honorable man ho knew that I 1 had come in en va his tt ement that I 1 would be paroled and herent he sent a man tome to me tolling me of hi his order orders the man said something about arresting arre eting me and I 1 picked up my pistols saying 1 I came lere to be paroled and not arrested and 1 kill the man who trice to take me tao 1 the man left with a peculiar mlle leand and I 1 got out of lynchburg gregg did not molest me then but twenty four hours later sent a squad to arrest arrn roe no they went to my fathers house but of course I 1 wae was not there general gregg finally got an order from general grant to parole me then I 1 went in and gave myself up 1 I am a great groat admirer of grunt grant and I 1 have been censured for it but not by those who knew me mm after my parole parale I 1 went to warren bonva ton Va and practiced law every time id leave the county some petty pro ost marshal would arrest me my wife left home for baltimore and in passing through Wh washington ington without my knowledge decided to cull on president johnson her father and jphnson had bad been bosom friends before tho the war and bud boon been in the samo same congress she mado made herself known to johnson and ho he not only refused her request but treated her very rudely As she was leaving the white house my son beverly a boy 7 bears cars old said mamma go and see general grant mrs mosby did go and see general grant and he be received her kindly and treated her with the greatest courtesy when he had heard her story he wrote me a passport which was over ever after a protection tec tion and I 1 havo have that letter etter now in general grants own handwriting in my trunk in san franciaco francisco then in 72 when grant and greeley were before the people grant was terribly abused and I 1 took the stump for him to refute the abuses and a these were the only pol political lUcal speeches I 1 ever mado I 1 never accepted anything from grant because I 1 promised the people in my speeches I 1 never would the first time I 1 was in atlanta was in 1857 on christmas Christ maa day I 1 hid been boon to kentucky where I 1 married two days before miss dark mark a daughter of congressman beverly dark clark andy john son came down on the same train with us and near here we had an accident in which his arm WAS broken I 1 wish that it had been his neck nock I 1 fow how many times were you wound edthe colonel wae was asked six times and I 1 carry a yankee bd b bullet d lot in my thigh now avem you ever captured no but I 1 had two or three might narrow escapes ih december 1862 alter after some hard bard fighting with illinois troops I 1 with tommy love one of my best men stopped one night fa nt a mr lakes near rectors recto ra crossroads our horses wore hitched outside the yard and a squad of yankees saw them they rhey surrounded tho hause and one of them hot shot nt at mo me through the window the ball struck mo me in the side and nd around to my backbone I 1 know I 1 was hit hard but before tho the tal kt came la in my coat was under the bod bed I 1 put ray my hand on the bloody wound and smeared tho the blood over my faco face giving me the appearance of a mn man with an in internal Int croni hemorrhage I 1 the yankees did not know me they thought I 1 waa was ono one of men but they wipe unable to provo it I 1 looked as it I 1 was dono done for olad x nd after taking my y clothing and hooth boot they left I 1 knew that as man as they went into my pockets they would A find ond out who I 1 VIM wits and would come back for mo so I 1 vot the fam family llyla to put roo me in an nix ox cart and over roo me with fodder and a negro drove me away boon after I 1 wai was cone gone the yankees came galloping sal lopin bock back they had found out who I 1 was and they wanted me hut but I 1 was safe in tho the mountains and smiling emill nr ho remarked remar keds odo o do ou know that mogro a ran away tho the very next day |