The Flying, Gray-Haired Yank: Or, the Adventures of a Volunteer ... a True ...
The Flying, Gray-Haired Yank: Or, the Adventures of a Volunteer ... a True ...
Egan, Michael, 1826?-1888
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He told me he had drawn a bead on General Crook on the day previous, but Digitized by VjOOQ IC COURTEOUSLY TREATED. 1 87 that the latter's staff and a squad of men coming up immediately behind him caused the young man to forbear. While resting a short time at this house I was permitted to write two notes, of only a few lines each — one to my wife and the other to General Crook, apprising them of my mishap. After reading the notes, my captors said they would drop them where our men could find th...em. They did so, and this concession on their part I attrib- uted to the honorable and humane record found by them in perusing my diary, which, however, was never intended for their inspection* • From this farm-house we were marched hur- riedly to the narrows of New river, over the same route lately taken by our army on their raid. The forces at this place were under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Tavenner, a tall, gentlemanly young man, who was born and raised in Weston, Lewis county, West Virginia, and who, like many other brave young men of promise, gave up his life to a cause and theory which, though false and destructive, was yet sacred to him.
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