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"It was pretty hard work I kin tell you, strong as Jim was, an' we'd have to stop an' rest putty ofen; an' den, Jim an' I, we'd tote him atween us on some boughs; an' den we had to lie by, some days, all day, an' we trabbled putty slow, cause we'd lost our bearing an' was in a secesh country, we knowed, an' we had nudin but berries an' sich to eat, an' got nigh starved.
The hills were steep and rocky, and our poor horses, overcome with heat and thirst, were bleeding at the nose, and ready to give out; but by dint of hard urging, and easing them of their loads, we finally reached Pikeville early in the afternoon of Saturday, June 14th. Much to our disappointment, found that the secesh had left three days prior to our arrival.
"She was at my house yesterday, trying to comfort me, when I was telling her how these Secesh used to cruelize us." "I was telling her about my poor daughter Amy, and what a sprightly, pert piece she was, and how dem awful Secesh took my poor chile and hung'd her." "Hung'd? Aunt Susan, Oh how was dat?" said half a dozen voices. "Well, you see it was jist dis way.
This large-hearted woman Eunice Hastings had her horse taken from her, robbed of the goods she had purchased, and, after experiencing almost death at the hands of the rebel women, was released and turned out penniless, and without the means of reaching her home in the country; when Clotelle, who had just arrived at the dilapidated and poorly kept hotel, met her, and, learning the particulars of her case, offered assistance to the injured woman, which brought down upon her own head the condemnation of the secesh population of the place.
The sentry, a raw boat-hand from Illinois, gaped incessantly at him through the bars, not sure if the "Secesh" were limbed and headed like other men; but the November fog was so thick that he could discern nothing but a short, squat man, in brown clothes and white hat, heavily striding to and fro.
"But, Marcy, you dare not hoist it here," exclaimed Mrs. Gray. "Not now; but there may come a time when I shall dare do it. The other flag well, the other was made by a Union girl in Barrington, who had to work on it by stealth, because her sister, and every other member of her family except her father, were the worst kind of secesh.
"How on earth, then, did you manage to sell to the New Hampshire gentleman who came with me this evening, and who, as I learn, bought a part of your farm?" "Why, I had a roomy house, and I just opened my doors to him and his family, and kept them here free of charge till their own house was finished." "Well, general," dropping my voice to the Secesh conspirator level, "how do you like him?"
At 11 o'clock arrived at McMinnville, a small town of some five hundred inhabitants, and situated on the Manchester and McMinnville Railroad. The place is strongly "secesh." There was an M. D. along with us, who had lately been driven out of the town on account of strong Union sentiments. He was acting as our guide.
Didn't you hear the old man say that the orders for him to report himself came from Washington LAST NIGHT? No!" the speaker lowered his voice "Strangeways says that he had regularly sold himself out to one of them d d secesh woman spies! It's the old Marc Antony business over again!"
The ladies here wear secesh cockades in their bonnets and it is really amusing to see the curl of the lip and the contempt of countenance with which they sweep by us. Of course it is no wonder, when we take into consideration the way they have always lived, and thought that they were fighting for a just cause."
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