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Perhaps you would like to bet I can’t keep him?” “Yes, I will go you twenty-five that Captain Shackelford will have his horse back in less than two months,” answered Calhoun, dryly. “Done!” exclaimed the Captain, gleefully, and the stakes were placed in the hands of Captain Huffman.
Then the chairman called for nominations and Colonel Chenault was pompously nominated by Colonel Shackelford, who closed his remarks by moving that nominations close and the Colonel be unanimously declared the nominee. At this suggestion there was a stentorian clamour of noes.
About this time the regiment was deprived of its Colonel, he being placed in command of a brigade, and Major McIntyre succeeded to the command. About the 4th of November, Gen. Shackelford, commanding the Cavalry Division, received information that a rebel force, 4000 strong, was approaching Rogersville by the way of Jonesville, Va. He therefore ordered Col.
"Then, too, there's Shackelford of Mississippi, Duncan of South Carolina, Stowell of Kentucky, and a lot of smaller fry who are not worth mentioning." "Are they organized?" "Yes, Courtney has seen to that, the forces are compact." "We must split them. How is the bishop?" "Neutral." "Any influence?" "Lots of it."
For the next seven days he hardly remembers how he existed. Travelling by night and hiding by day, begging a morsel of food here and there, he at last reached the Confederate lines near Dalton. “Is this General Shackelford?” asked Calhoun of a distinguished-looking Confederate officer. “It is; what can I do for you, my boy? You look as if you had been seeing hard times.”
"I's Baptis' mys'f, but 'long o' dese Crismus holidays I's right fond of a little toddy." A half dozen eager men made a break for the bar, but Turner's uplifted hand held them. He was an autocrat in his way. "Excuse me, gentlemen," he said, "but I think I remarked some time ago that Mr. Shackelford was my guest." And he called the waiter.
In his effort to escape he had fallen over the cliff of Dick River, and been killed. “And I am sorry to say,” added the Major, “that that scout was your cousin, Captain Fred Shackelford.” “Are you sure?” asked Calhoun, in a trembling voice. “Perfectly sure. I knew him too well to be mistaken.
There was talk of sending him to a Northern prison as a dangerous man. But Fred Shackelford heard of his arrest and his probable fate, and came in and had a stormy interview with the Federal commander. He showed that Judge Pennington had committed no overt act; that his son, who was a Confederate soldier, had simply come to visit him, and had resisted capture, as any soldier had a right to do.
At the mention of Saylor's name and the resounding cheers which greeted it, Colonel Chenault nearly collapsed with surprise and indignation. He turned to Colonel Shackelford, saying: "I am beaten and by that mountain upstart. I would not let him in my front door."
Morgan not only paroled Fred, but let him return with the horse he had ridden, although many of the men looked on the splendid animal with envious eyes. But Morgan would not hear of their taking a horse which belonged to his old friend, Colonel Shackelford. “Why didn’t you ride that horse of yours?” asked Captain Mathews of Fred, alluding to Fred’s famous horse, Prince.
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