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Show H ' Faced Each Other as Enemies ' Urlnilo9 of Union Soldiers B Perilously Close to Encounter H -i Tho civil war divided many families. H sometimes tin fiimli sentiment, esp.- H, rlully nlong the border stntcs, fro- H, A (iiii'iitly fiom tlii fart that a northern H' ' man happci ed to lit1 In tho Mouth B, ' when llu war opened anil in business , ' and tlii) pressure brought to bear Hi upon him drove him Into the Confed- H 01 ate army. No dnuht a number H r wont Into tho confederate army from H eholeo, though or northern birth. The H following Ih possibly an instance of H, tho latter kind' Anion); tho b'avo H soldiers of the Forty-ninth Ohio In- H fantry was a young man named Fergu- H Ron. His patriotism was of that kind H' which allowed no nspers'lonB to bo H cast upon it His father hail left homo B v BOtnctlnie before tho war opened anil H - ". wns In the south, but just where was B J not known. The regiment went to tho HBM 1 front in 1801, and in 1SG2 was at tho I crossing of Duck river, Tonn. Tho I crossing was not in ado without a fight, a confederate regiment of cavalry caval-ry hotly contesting the advance o tho Yanks, but they got across just tho same. Several confederate prisoners pris-oners wero taiten. Young Ferguson got Into a conversation with them, nnd learned that tho cavalry was commanded com-manded by a Col. Ferguson. Tho Idea struck him that possibly Col. Ferguson might bo bis father, nnd nfter a long talk with the prisoners, In which persona! description, habits, etc., formed n conspicuous part of tho tnlk, tie Union soldier becamo convinced thnt It was his father, although al-though ho never learned further of him. |
