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His name is Conway. We left him back in Tennessee wounded. But he was able to follow Bragg’s army, and he joined us only yesterday. By the way, it was Fred Shackelford who shot him. He shot him when he got Prince back. Conway was riding Blenheim.” “Oh, Fred told me all about that. Wasn’t that just splendid in him, getting his horse back!” “Where is Fred now?” asked Calhoun. “I don’t know.
It was now claimed that Morgan had already surrendered, namely, to a militia officer, and had been by him paroled. This "officer" turned out to be "Captain" James Burbick, of the home guard. Rue held Morgan, with 364 officers and men and 400 horses, till General Shackelford came up, who held them as prisoners of war. He had taken two or three of their men prisoners, and was using them as guides.
Whatever he thought, north he rode, through the most populous counties of Ohio. And what a ride was that for six hundred men! Foes everywhere; Home Guards springing up at every corner; no rest day or night. Close in his rear thundered the legions of General Shackelford, a Kentuckian as brave, as fearless, as tireless as Morgan himself.
The bet afforded much amusement to the officers, but all of them looked upon it as a very foolish bet on the part of Calhoun. “That twenty-five is gone,” said Huffman to Calhoun, as he pocketed the stakes, “but I am sure of having fifty dollars for at least two months.” “I reckon I shall lose,” said Calhoun, “but Mathews had better not let Shackelford get sight of his horse.”
Shackelford; “there are more Federal officers buzzing around her now than I wish there were.” “Mighty useful to worm secrets from,” exclaimed Kate; “but I make no promises to any of them.” “That’s right, Kate, get all the secrets from them you can,” said Calhoun; “that is what I am in Nashville for. Can any one get around the city without much danger?”
But,” continued Calhoun, with a laugh, “my advice is to guard him very carefully, or Captain Shackelford will get him back, sure. That horse has more tricks than you dream of.” “I am not worrying,” replied Mathews. “One of your scouts has just had to fork over five dollars to one of my men, on a bet they made at Crab Orchard that I could not get the hoss.
They could not remember a time since they had known Zach Shackelford when by any stretch of imagination he could possibly have been considered good. He was known as one of the wildest young bucks that frequented the club, with a deft hand at cards and dice and a smooth throat for whisky.
For the time being, however, Hobson had a mounted force that was made up of fractions of brigades from all the divisions of the corps; and Shackelford, Wolford, Kautz, and Sanders were the commanders of the provisional brigades during the pursuit. Morgan's first course was due north, and he marched with some deliberation.
Shackelford had had a son about the size of Calhoun killed in the army, and our hero was soon arrayed in a nice dry suit, and seated before a substantial breakfast, upon which he made a furious assault. When his hunger was fully appeased, he informed his aunt and Kate he was ready to talk. And how they did talk! They had a thousand questions to ask, and he had full as many.
“Yes, captured, and by no less a personage than my cousin Fred Shackelford. But for this I would have reached Johnston by the second; as it was, I did not reach Shiloh until the morning of the last day of the battle.” “Then you escaped?” queried Morgan. “No; my cousin let me go, after he had held me until he knew my information would be of no value. I was dressed in citizen’s clothes.
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