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Johnson was detailed as our guard, and instead of staying with us at the jail, he invited us to his house, where he kept us over night, giving us a good clean bed and a good supper and breakfast, and treating us as had Doctor Moore, more as guests than as prisoners. The next day we were started for Ashville, N. C., with a guard, under Lieutenant Ammon.
"I waited a couple of minutes and then knocked again, and my stick was still beating the door when it opened suddenly and a tall bony old woman, holding a candle, confronted me. "'What do you want? she demanded gruffly. "'I've lost my way, I said, civilly; 'I want to get to Ashville. "'Don't know it, said the old woman.
"She was about to close the door when a man emerged from a room at the side of the hall and came toward us. An old man of great height and breadth of shoulder. "'Ashville is fifteen miles distant, he said slowly. "'If you will direct me to the nearest village, I shall be grateful, I remarked. "He made no reply, but exchanged a quick, furtive glance with the woman. She made a gesture of dissent.
"She was about to close the door when a man emerged from a room at the side of the hall and came toward us. An old man of great height and breadth of shoulder. "'Ashville is fifteen miles distant, he said slowly. "'If you will direct me to the nearest village, I shall be grateful, I remarked. "He made no reply, but exchanged a quick, furtive glance with the woman. She made a gesture of dissent.
"I waited a couple of minutes and then knocked again, and my stick was still beating the door when it opened suddenly and a tall bony old woman, holding a candle, confronted me. "'What do you want? she demanded gruffly. "'I've lost my way, I said, civilly; 'I want to get to Ashville. "'Don't know it, said the old woman.
We had reached ice-water, barbers, waiters, civilization. Ashville, delightful for situation, on small hills that rise above the French Broad below its confluence with the Swannanoa, is a sort of fourteenth cousin to Saratoga.
On the 13th, early, I entered Raleigh, and ordered the several heads of column toward Ashville in the direction of Salisbury or Charlotte. Before reaching Raleigh, a locomotive came down the road to meet me, passing through both Wade Hampton's and Kilpatrick's cavalry, bringing four gentlemen, with a letter from Governor Vance to me, asking protection for the citizens of Raleigh.
He was intelligent and well posted on every subject, and my conversation with him during the march, seemed to lessen the tediousness of the journey. We arrived at Ashville, N. C., on the 7th of November, and were crowded into an upper room in the jail, about twelve feet square, in which there were besides us, twenty-seven rebel deserters, two of them sick with the measles.
In 1858, the Meadville Railroad Company changed their name to the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company of Pennsylvania. In 1859, a company was organized in the State of New York, under the name of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad in New York, and purchased in 1860 of the New York and Erie Railroad Company thirty eight miles of their road, from Salamanca to near Ashville.
We had reached ice-water, barbers, waiters, civilization. Ashville, delightful for situation, on small hills that rise above the French Broad below its confluence with the Swannanoa, is a sort of fourteenth cousin to Saratoga.
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