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The horses had stopped, plunging at something which they could not pass. "Good God!" cried Franklin, "whose fence is that? Are we at Buford's?" "No," said Sam, "this must be at old man Hancock's. He fenced across the old road, and we had to make a jog around his d d broom-corn field. It's only a couple o' miles now to Buford's." "Shall I tear down the fence?" asked Franklin.
As he frequently remarked when for purposes of business he wished to air his Biblical knowledge, "I jest takes the Scripter fur my motter an' foller that ol' passage where it says, 'Make hay while the sun shines, fur the night cometh when no man kin work." It is related that one of Mr. Buford's customers was an old plantation exhorter.
He was the spirit, incarnate, of the young, unquestioning, unthinking, generous, reckless, hotheaded, passionate South. And Chad? The news reached Major Buford's farm at noon, and Chad went to the woods and came in at dusk, haggard and spent. Miserably now he held his tongue and tortured his brain. Purposely, he never opened his lips to Harry Dean.
Buford's old division, the First, was placed under Torbert, an infantry officer whose qualifications as a commander of cavalry were not remarkable. There were several of his subordinates who were both more capable and more deserving, notably Custer, Merritt and Thomas C. Devin.
Then he slumped, tumbling from the saddle into the embrace of an ornamental bush as his horse clattered along the sidewalk. Drew knew he was already dead. Buford's men went into Murfreesboro right enough, well into its heart. But they could not hold the town. Only that thrust was deep and well timed; it saved the whole command.
The three great divisions of the corps were to cross the river as follows: Gregg's, at Sulphur Springs; Buford's, at Rappahannock Bridge; and Kilpatrick's, at Kelly's Ford. At six o'clock the Harris Light plunged into the river at Kelly's Ford, leading the advance.
Buford's Division Opens the Fight at Gettysburg. Death of General Reynolds. First Bay's Repulse. Second Bay. Rebel Advantages. Third Bay. Last Grand Effort. Death of General Farnsworth. The Republic just Saved. For nearly two days we were prepared to march, and awaiting orders, when at last they came.
Early's division had passed it several days before on his way to York, and Pettigrew's brigade of Hill's corps on July 1, while approaching in search of shoes for his men, encountered Buford's Federal cavalry, precipitating the first day's conflict, in which Hill's corps, Rodes's and Early's divisions captured 5,000 prisoners and drove the Federals through the town to the heights beyond.
Probably most of the passengers were experiencing the same doubts; and the captain suspected the fact, for he gave us fire drill just to distract our attention and to settle our nerves. The luncheon gong sounded immediately after his efficacious diversion, and the military people who were to eat in the first section the Buford's dining-room was small went down to lunch.
Buford's weariness, and after the easy ways of that time and place the young people found themselves alone. Thus it was that Mary Ellen, with a temporary feeling of helplessness, found herself face to face with the very man whom she at that time cared least to see. "But it seems as though I had always known you," said Franklin, turning again toward the tall figure at the window.
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