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"Here's the first: I want to bury a man in Morgantown and I need help to do it." Black Gandil snarled: "You heard me, boys; blood to start with. Who's the man you want us to put out?" "He's dead my father." They came up straight in their chairs like trained actors rising to a stage crisis. The snarl straightened on the lips of Black Morgan Gandil.
So, after furnishing us with two days rations to last to Morgantown, they started four of us, Captain Alban, myself, and the two Union prisoners brought in the night before, whose names I do not now remember, under a guard consisting of a Lieutenant and four men, for a tramp over the mountains.
Here's all I ask: When I die touch my eyelids soft an' draw 'em shut I've seen the look in a dead man's eyes. Close 'em, and I know I'll go to sleep an' have good dreams. And down in the middle of Morgantown is the buryin'-ground. I've ridden past it a thousand times an' watched a corner plot, where the grass grows quicker than it does anywheres else in the cemetery.
He dropped back beside her with a groan. He felt her eyes upon him; she had ceased her sobs, and looked steadily into his face. It would have been easy for him to meet that look on the morning of this day, but after that night's work in Morgantown he had to brace his nerve to withstand it. She said: "You can't budge the tree?" "Yes in a minute; I will try again."
The seventh chair was filled; all were present except Jack, who sulked in her room. Pierre went to her door and knocked. He carried under his arm a package which he had secured in the General Merchandise Store of Morgantown. "We're all waiting for you at the table," he explained. "Just keep on waiting," said the husky voice of Jacqueline. "I've brought you a present." "I hate your presents!"
Nolichucky Jack was presently holding a court of his own in the tavern, with North Carolina's men at arms as many as were within call drinking his health. So his sons and a company of his Wataugans found him, when they rode into Morgantown to give evidence in his behalf with their rifles.
One was formed in Morgantown and these four constituted the State association until the amendment campaign of 1916. The following have served as State presidents: Mrs. Beulah Boyd Ritchie, 1900-1903; Mrs. M. Anna Hall, 1904; Mrs. Anne M. Southern, 1905; Dr. Harriet B. Jones, 1906; Mrs. May Hornbrook, 1907-1910; Mrs. Allie Haymond, 1911-1912; Miss Margaret McKinney, 1913; Mrs.
Before day they were off, and at daylight the Fifteenth Corps was turned from Philadelphia for the Little Tennessee at Morgantown, where my maps represented the river as being very shallow; but it was found too deep for fording, and the water was freezing cold width two hundred and forty yards, depth from two to five feet; horses could ford, but artillery and men could not.
General Howard had marched from Loudon, had found a pretty good ford for his horses and wagons at Davis's, seven miles below Morgantown, and had made an ingenious bridge of the wagons left by General Vaughn at London, on which to pass his men. He marched by Unitia and Louisville.
It would have been easy for him to meet that look on the morning of this day, but after that night's work in Morgantown he had to brace his nerve mightily to withstand it. She said: "You can't budge the tree?" "Yes in a minute; I will try again." "You'll only hurt yourself for nothing. I saw how you strained at it." The greatest miracle he had ever seen was her calm.
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