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Added to this primary desirability was the fact that, in the fine gradations of pedigrees and the stringent exactions of blood which the patrician families of Shelbyville drew, Colonel Price and his daughter were the topmost plumes on the peacock of aristocracy.
But 'when we have sich sorry weather as this, Shelbyville seems on t' other side o' nowhar. You've got t' pull through the mud an' swim every branch and crick, an' you're mouty lucky if you git thar in a week." "Why don't you build bridges over the creeks?" asked Si. "Can't do hit when hit's rainin' an they're runnin' over thar banks." "But why don't you do it when the weather's good?"
On the 26th of June McCook's corps advanced toward Liberty Gap, my divisions marching on the Shelbyville pike.
"They've struck for more grub. Promise 'em double rations till we get to Shelbyville." "Stop swearin', there, you fellers. You've frozen 'em stiff with your bad language. Pray with 'em." "Read them the Emancipation Proclamation." "Call 'em pet names. You can do anything with kindness. Even a mule has, a heart." "Bring up the band and serenade 'em."
The color deepened in her cheeks; she caught her breath with a little "Oh!" She wondered what sprout of blue-blooded and true-blooded nobility in Shelbyville there was capable of turning a reply like that without straining for it more than that pale cavalier with his worn clothing hanging loose upon his bony frame.
Captain Standart left us at Murfreesboro and went to Shelbyville, where Lieutenant Sypher was stationed with the left section. We were accordingly under command of Lieutenant Baldwin. We camped the first night, two miles beyond Franklin. Made an early start on Saturday morning, June 21st, and reached Columbia at 11 A. M. the same day.
"A message came from Mitchel at Huntsville. He wants to see you." And so Tom, mounted upon Star and accompanied by the Captain's messenger, retraced the road to Shelbyville and followed the course of Mitchel's army southward. All along the route, when the news spread that one of the raiders was passing through, they were surrounded by soldiers, who wanted to hear the story and to shake hands.
"I stood there holding onto the back of my chair, my legs as weak under me as if I'd stayed in swimmin' too long. I didn't think anything about going to Shelbyville, or anywhere else, but hell, I guess, for a minute or two. I tell you, Judge, I thought it was a call!" Morgan was sweating again in the recollection of that terrible experience.
He saw him standing at the window of a prison, as he stretched his hands through the bars and cried out: "George, I am here here! Help me!" Then the boy's dream changed. He was back in the dark woods near Shelbyville, listening to Andrews as the leader outlined the expedition in which they were now engaged. In the middle of the conference some one cried: "The Confederates are on us!"
I heard him almost shriek, "O, O, God!" His head dropped forward, the rope with which he was pinioned keeping him from falling. I turned away and thought how long, how long will I have to witness these things? While at Shelbyville, a vacancy occurring in Captain Ledbetter's company, the Rutherford Rifles, for fourth corporal, Dave Sublett became a candidate for the position.
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