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I succeeded perfectly for some five minutes, when Wells came in, threw an uneasy glance around the room, and at once exclaimed: "Sergeant, where is that officer?" The sergeant protested that he knew nothing about him; that he was not in the room when he entered. Wells then turned to me, and demanded: "Pittenger, where's that officer?" "What officer?" "That officer I put in here."
That was a cheerless, friendless time in the history of the little Visitor, to at least two inexperienced adventurers in the literary world. But these were hidden trials, and shall be unwritten still. The never-forgotten teachings of his mother, together with the unconscious tuition resulting from observation and experience, made PITTENGER an early and constant friend of freedom.
Then: "Bensinger, Company G, Twenty-first Ohio" "Dorsey, Company H, Thirty-third" "Brown, Company G, Twenty-first" "Pittenger, Company G, Second".... There were twenty of them, not including Andrews. Tom found himself between Wilson, Company C, of the Twenty-first Ohio, and Shadrack, Company K, of the Second Ohio. The thunder sounded again and a few drops of rain pattered down.
His father, THOMAS PITTENGER, is a farmer, and trains his children in the solid experiences of manual labor.
In three days after the receipt of the startling intelligence that the Stars and Stripes had been fired upon by rebels in arms, PITTENGER was on his way to the Capital as a private soldier in the Second Ohio Regiment of volunteers. He fought bravely on the disastrous 21st of July, in the battle of Bull Run, while many of his comrades fell bleeding at his side.
A universal sympathy prevailed in their behalf, and whole communities were excited to the wildest fervor on account of the lost adventurers. The widely-read letters from the Steubenville Herald's army correspondent were missed, for PITTENGER wrote no more. The family were in an agony of suspense for the silent, absent son and brother.
While here, the daring expedition to penetrate the heart of the Confederacy was organized, of which party PITTENGER was one of the most enthusiastic and determined. From the day the brave fellows departed over the Southern hills on their adventurous journey, a veil was dropped which hid them from sight of friends for many weary months and some of them for ever!
Although he was an adept in all branches of learning, yet, in school days, as now, young PITTENGER had two favorite studies; and they happened to be the very ones in the prosecution of which his teachers could aid him scarcely at all History and Astronomy.
Wilson was a professed infidel, and many a time had argued the truth of the Christian religion with me for a half day at a time; but in this awful hour he said to me: "Pittenger, I believe you are right, now! Oh! try to be better prepared when you come to die than I am." Then, laying his hand on my head with a muttered "God bless you," we parted.
Ever yours, WILLIAM PITTENGER. To THOMAS PITTENGER, New Somerset, Jefferson county, Ohio. We remained in this prison, reading of the victories of Southern rebels, and the doings of Northern traitors, until the first of February. At that time they wanted our range of rooms for a hospital.
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