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Updated: June 8, 2025
Five prisoners, lashed together, the binding ropes fastened to the pommels of the two "Bar X" men's saddles, were bunched together, and behind all came Neb, his black face glistening in the heat. Suddenly Bristoe drew rein, and rose to his full length in the stirrups, shading his eyes from the sun's glare, as he stared ahead.
She looked at him, scarce able to see, her eyes blinded with tears. "Will will he live? Oh, tell me!" "Live! Why shouldn't he? nothing but a hole to close up nature'll do that, with a bit of nursing here, now, don't you keel over give me the rest of that skirt." He bandaged the wound, then glanced about suddenly. "How's the other fellow?" "Dead," returned Bristoe, "shot through the heart."
The next morning Hill's and Taliaferro's divisions joined Trimble. Ewell remained at Bristoe; cavalry patrols were sent out in every direction, and Jackson, riding to Manassas, saw before him the reward of his splendid march. Streets of warehouses, stored to overflowing, had sprung up round the Junction. A line of freight cars, two miles in length, stood upon the railway.
Such is a rapid summary of the cavalry operations succeeding the action of Bristoe. Those readers who cry out for "movement! movement!" are respectfully requested to observe that I have passed over much ground, and many events in a few paragraphs: and yet I might have dwelt on more than one scene which, possibly, might have interested the worthy reader.
By noon the head of the column had already crossed those same communications which Pope had told his army to disregard in favor of the much more interesting enemy line of retreat. Little did he think that the man he had come to chase was about to burn the bridge at Bristoe Station and thus cut the line between the Federal front at Warrenton and the Federal base at Manassas.
"Thought so have seen Keith shoot before I wonder how the cuss ever managed to get him." As he arose to his feet, his red face glistening with perspiration, and began strapping his leather case, the others rode up, and Bristoe, explaining the situation, set the men to making preparations for pushing on to the water-hole.
As Hope had described, this had been securely fastened by a stout wooden bar. Bristoe forced it from the sockets, not without some slight noise, and Keith, crouching down at one side, lifted the latch. "Keep down low, boys," he cautioned, "where he can't hit you." With one quick push he flung the door wide open, and a red flash lit the room.
They all belonged to Hawley's outfit; one, a black-whiskered surly brute Bristoe remembered having seen in Sheridan. There was no time to deal with them then, and a "Bar X" man was placed on guard, with orders to shoot at the slightest suspicious movement. The Indian, then, would be guarding the front of the house, and Sanchez sleeping inside.
By lighting matches Keith and Bristoe discerned where some among them had laid down to sleep, and, through various signs, decided they must have again departed some five or six hours previous, one of their horses limping as if lame.
Believing therefore that you are a man of judgment and fairness I feel justified in making to you a complaint which I am sure you will agree with me is well-founded. At a little place called Bristoe Station I recently obtained a fine, blue uniform, the tint of which wind and rain will soon turn to our own excellent Confederate gray.
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