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Pues commenti ronin ai aiid arnt is mused ewmijlfln, mme iin pe . three .on. either side of 'the - road. muskets all held to cover me. . the Rpm\.dnto my horse, but he ha , leaps when he fell on ing - fast by the leg. =- | mer when Morgan ft iii ani bs 2d started out on a foraging expedition sogh af- |; Von. 1. _ CUBA, N. Y,, JULY, 1877. __ N01 Selected _, ADVENTURES OF & - PRmTER- - fl « BY M. Qr4D. 00+ ~ &\ p This is what I hmrd a ' \Halt! Halt there, you Johuny 1d) or we'll blow your head off!\ : 'This is what I saw s 0 0 [* > . bu blue coats in the umlelbl ush, I bent down and da f not' made 'six is knees, rolled ver, and was dead in a moment, fall- in such amanner .&ds to hold me 4 ~ ~Confound it! Didn't we tell you we'd shoot ?\ exclaimed one of the Fed- erals, # corporal. as the six came up and began heaving at the horse to set me fres. *You Olio'ht to have Halted when we shouted and has save a good confederate horse for Uncle Sam.5 It was ncar Lynthl' na, Kentucky,. and on. the momnxo'jfi' he same. sum- ught a battle and lost so many good mert. . I had « ter daybre: ak, aud in {returning had ndden directly upkn the Feder al \fel- lows,\ who were cautiously creeping down to attack Morgan, backed by a force which ought to have eater bim up in TEX MINUTES. How I caimme to be in CObedPI ate | un- iform, to be 2A member ~ Morgag's 3 conmmnd to think and\ act with. the Confederates, is a matter which I shall |, ot bring up bere, -I an going to re- late my adventures without fear .of polltlf‘ldn‘s or care fox what has passer], 1 {TIC-mellow\ in: wa narrow | Ever Qeeh +L VAP. It was no 0'1 eat j fb to 0Pei; mylea free, and then two 'of th fhen were detailed to coqduct meto tlhe rear, or back to 'the adviincing aamfy. - Thcy WGI‘GJOHV good feliows, havihg no. thought: of\ nralice oi word: of taunt. They had captured me fairlyf there- was no way | for me to escape, and I made the best of it. 3 'T had received a,; Li utpnant & conmné- gion not two weeks before, and it was rather hard to be was. sliding o'mceffipy into position. - But it! s‘ victory nearly all phlloqofi I 'was grected.with:-cheers and qhouts as I maehed the main body, being, the: a just, armed reb some of the men had Their'eriticisms: were good» natured anes, their conduct courteous, - and I was r. Lther sowry. when a guard | Headquq ters were on 'the mov e, 'and had time ohly to take my. pedl ree, when the mard Was ordered 10 oondact me & long. 2s . «Passing fr 0311 hand to hand always dose 'Iy guarded, I st length ascertained {ham} my destxm'ttnon “23‘s Johnson's Island oppo site Sanduskzy Ohio, whlch was a great 'de pot for captured Confcduates during the . Enr oute to bandushy I havmg been joined by ten othex 16110\Vb of the : com- nmnd we were wel treated by the guards but they at.the sang. time kept a. close. watch 0F our move entq Lol From the first m@# been constantly lofing for a chance to es apt! bfitnone offd: d 1mm] we wele ap- proach i5 Sandus}: the. evethmg The f open, and we wer near {fit the door, § ‘arrdoor of the car was fin the last Cal along tne hack Inafje up my mmd to) We bo - EL -:.- ~ _4'T v- to-day and' defeat- A and soldlers me ~~: ers. em. of captuxe I had: z] *. I sat\ 11d obscured That the \ a aptured ' just as I _ 128 came for me to report to headquarters. ~~ 9 p< q ‘, F, dbout five o clockim 0 f t,. ~ £14; \ . o> #500. < \+