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WAR S' Thrilling Times with J Cavx Col. A..J. Mclii'Ulf Col. M ?al -M. Tidwell was one of the most eminent and successful lawyers in Georgia. Fruin a large income he dispensed his generous hospitality. His comfortable and spacious home r-1i 11 standing in the old town of Fay etteville will be pleasantly remember- ; cd by many still living. Ih r?- on the morning of July 1S'?1. i had a call of a very unusual and exciting character. My wound had given mc great pain and fever for several days. 1 was confined to my bcd most of tho timo. In the afternoon of thc 28th my fever arose, and during tho night ? rolled and tossed, or awoke from -Imrt, restless slumbers amidst fright ful dreams, and as it may interest scientists and those curious about that mysterious, subtle influence which connects mind and matter, I will tell of what has boen to mc through all these years an interesting physical ex perience, notwithstanding thc fact that for years there was enough of thc physical to make it very painful; for the first year or two, I would awaken from ?i frightful dream trembling and in cold perspiration; the dream was and is to this day always of the same nature, but after thc second or third ? year, there lias been but little pain, and no cold perspiration or fright. Now. while dreaming, I seem to know that it. is a dream, and am not disturb ed by it. I dream that 1 am engaged in a skirmish or battle; I sec thc federal soldiers some times only a few, some times many hundred, uniformed just as they were in the war, near to me, aiming at mc with their guns; I can see the flash, and am awakened by the report of thc ^uns. I long ago discovered that the sound which awakened mc was not all a dream, but some movement of matter or secretion in my hoad causing a noise, and I firmly believe that as thc secretory motion starts, it touches the sensor nerves so ns lo cause tho recurrence of thc same dream. "Wc are such stuff as dreams are made on." About 3 o'clock on the morning of the 2(Jth, I felt rather than heard that indescribable sound whioh arises from opposing armies or largo bodies of men and animals, something like the awful silence which precedes tho tor nado, or tho seismic tremor which comes with the earthquake, the dread vibrating stillness whioh every soldier has felt on thc eve of battle lasted but a few ninnents. Fully aroused, I heard tho heavy tramp of feet and clanging sabres on the piazza in tho hall, and on thc stairway leadiug to my room. The door was thrown vio lently open, and four of Gen. Mc Coox's 'loopers rushed in; one of them had a light in one hand and a re volver iu the other; all had their guns ready for action; they ordered me to get out of bed. I objected, told them I was uot able. At this they present ed their guns so close to my head that I could almost feel thc cold steel, and told mo that they would blow my brains out if I did not get up imme diately. Just then Miss Mattie Tid well (who afterwards married the bril liant lawyer, Stooktou S. Fears, and whose gallant cousin, W. ll Tidwell, now living with mo at McDonough, Ga., helped carry mc from thc field when I was wounded at Cold Harbor), rushed into thc room screaming," and fell upon her knees, begging them not to kill me. lier gentle spirit has flown to that distant land beyond thc seas of time, but to-night I eau sec her lovely, pleading form, as on bend ed knees, with uplifted clasped hands, she begged that my life bc spared, and this picture will remain with me until life and memory fail. In spite ; of all our pleading and protest two of j them took hold of mc, ono by each j arm, and pulled me out of bcd, helped me to dress and carried mo across thc square to a small law office, where General McCook and his staff and a number of officers were assembled. Seeing that my head was bandaged, and that I appeared to be weak, one of them gave, mc a chair. General McCook, his staff and most of thc officers and troopers were a fine look ing body of rueo. As memory now sorves mo, I met Colonel Purdy, Col onel Lamson, Colonel Dorr, General Croxton and Colonel James Brown low, now living in Knoxville, and many others, all of whom treated me with soldierly courtesy, asking me a great many questions about thc dis tance to Joncsboro, Lovejoy, etc , the whereabouts and number of our caval ry, all of which I answered so as to rr\ vc as little i nf orms''on as possible While being questioned, I noticed that they had captured about a hun dred Confederates, and sonic promi nent citizens, and were getting them in place preparatory to marching, some on foot, but most of them mounted. My dear old frier d and host, Colonel Tidwell, who weighed about 250 WRIES. VIcCook Mild Whaler's il ry. , .1 lin ula Journal. pounds, was mounted on .'.small white mule without bridle or saddle. He held and guided the mule by means of a rope imiter, and for a saddle he had folded blankets. Colonel Tidwell had a keen sense of humor, ami made so many witty remarks about his Indi crous appearance and his mule, even before starting, that he kept his fel low prisoners and their captors in almost continual laughter. When about ready to march, Gen eral MCCOOIC'H aid told ru?' to mount a mule. 1 told him it would kill me. He insisted. I appealed to thc gen eral. After a few questions he order ed his surgeon, whose name was Green, as I remember it, to examine mu. The surgeon took the bandage (di my wound, felt of my pulse and said that it would endanger my life to ride with the prisoners. General Mc Cook gave nie a parole and bade me goodby. 1 think it is in 1 iuds to say that there were more ..ead mules in the borders of Fayette County . on the night of .July 21), ISO I, than were ever seen within the same space anywhere. When McCook's troopers got within five miles of Fayettsville that morn ing before daylight, they came across the camps of quartermasters, head quarters, baggage trains, etc They quickly set lire to the wagons baggage and stores and lo avoid thc mdse, killed thu mules and horses with their sabres, at least 2,OOH, some reports say that .'1,000 of these innocent useful animals were put to death that morn ing; certainly the number was greatly increased by those killed during the battle that day. I feel that the sur geon was exactly right in saying that it would endanger my life to travel with the prisoners. Outside my weak condition, there was imincnt deadly peril to all McCon 's prisoners and troopers for thc next few days. Col onel Tidwcll said that the Yankees put him and his white mule and about 100 other prisoners up as targets, and both armies shot at them thc better part of two days and nights, and that while ho knew that his litilo white mule had no pride of ancestry, or hope from posterity, he felt sure that it had a charmed life. It had only escaped tho tragedy of thc sabres, but had saved him and most of tho other prisoners from biting tho dust during thc battles that raged so fierce ly all day and night from Bear Creek and Lovejoy on the cast clear across thc county, to the bloody grounds of Shako Bag and Roar Over on the west. Most of McCook's command was killed or captured and all the prisoners he had captured were released. When General McCook's command marched away toward Lovejoy that July morning, they made a splendid appearance, and notwithstanding so few of them got away, they had no cause to bo ashamed of their work. They inflicted a vast amount of dam age on the Confederacy. The shaking up they had given mc did mc good. As the last one passed out of Bight over thc hills toward GlasB1 Mill, I felt better than I had since being wounded. A few days after this 1 was so much improved that I felt almost \ ell. One evening on my way from Colonel Tidwell's to Mr. C. P. Bennett's I had passed hy the court house across the square and was about opposite the old academy when rapid musket firing, shouting and running horses heralded new dangers. I looked back and saw five or six Confederates pursued by 40 or 50 Yankees, all coming as fast as their horses could run. Only two Confederates took thc road I waa on, but they were two too many. As they passed inc at breakneck speed they told me lo run. I obeyed, but thc Yankees saw me as 1 jumped over tho fence into the corn patch. Thc corn higher than my head and couccaled me pretty well, but it seemed to mc that at the rate the bullets were com ing they would soon cut tho com all down. I decided to make a break for the thick woods just hack of tho cGrn patch near the cemetery, ind 1 was none too soon, for just as I was mounting the fence next to thc woods all the x'ankees in sight shot at me and I saw about half a dozen trying to head mc off from tho woods; but I got into thc woods and ran hack of thc cemetery towards Whitewater Creek. It was nearly dark. 1 saw a large j fallen tree with a largo top. As I jumped over thc trunk, thinking to hide myself in the top, I barely miss ed a man who was lying behind it. I was-weii, don't you think it wouid "jar you" to make such a jump? The mao wa? Mr. C. E. Bennett,? to whose house I had started. We heard horses coming, and took out for Whitewater swamp. After getting far enough to be out of danger, we lay down hy the side of each other, and talked in low tones, or listened to the melancholy hooting* of thu owl uti night long. O"C0 wo thought wo heard thc tramp of horses and kept very quiet. Wo staid there until uear noon the next day, when wc cau tiously approached the Ncwtian road. We had been in sight of thc road but a short time olien we saw Pomp, ono of Mr. Bennett's negroes, now living in Fayette County, looking^in all di rcctions, as if hunting for some one. As wc did not wish to make any noise wc motioned to him. When he saw us he carno ."tuning and greatly shock ed us by halloing loud enough to be heard a mile. "Cum on, Marse Cam, come on. I have been huutiu' for you all night. No Yankees dar; all done gone. Captain, you hadn't morc'n got outcn that com path 'fore Wheeler's critter company run right slap bang into 'ctn; and them Yankees fairly tore the earth up gitten way furn dar. Ole crippled Frand Tidwell. that nigger shoemaker, wu/, standing up dar on thc cote house square, and when ho seed dem Yankees comin' with Wheeler's cr?Uer company right ater 'cm, he jist lit out fruin dar like a streck of greased lightnin'. If dem Yanks keep a gwine like dey started de's a hundred miles frum herc rite now. Marse Cain, I didn't spec you cum dis far. Miss lindy told mo I blccgcd to find yci and captain. I looked all thrue dc woods. I hollo, but can't git no dnsur, cepen little scrich owl cryin' and big owl hootin'. One lime seine like T kearn dot?le pantur A hat stay down in that big Cant! orUkO uy ?ie oie I'ICIIIUIMI piuec. When I hear dat I sorter fall back a little and git closer homo. I tole Miss Kully I mighty tired and hungry, and spec I better stay dar and take keer of 'em. She say doy's plenty niggers dar now to tak keer ov 'cm, and I shan't have a bite to cat till I find Marse Cam and the captain. Marse Cam, I didn't think you cum dis fur. Captain, you ain't no slow coach; you sholy is a good runner." Wc were hungry, thirsty, sleepy, and I thought that my service with the cavalry would not bring honor or glory, and clearly showed that I had better stick to tho lofautry. Yet there was nothing to do but go back with Pomp to learn that thc Yanks left town about thc same time wc did. Faycttsvillc has always been thc home of a refined, cultured aud hospi table people. Brave men and beauti ful wouieu from her borders have won | success and fame in nearly every pur suit of life. None hold dearer places | ( in my memory than thc Blalocks, the Camps, tho Holidays, tho Tidwells, the Looneys, tho Horseys, Mr. C. E. ' Bennett (Marse Cam) and his excel- 1 lent wife, Mrs. Emily Strickland Ben nett (Miss Emly), and their lovely ' sons and daughters, who have always 1 treated mc as they would a son or 1 brother. Many of them have passed from earth. Colonel Tidwell, Mars 1 Cam, Miss Emly, whose lives uplifted and blessed humanity, have gone. | 1 Near them in tho old churchyard Ad jutant Strickland and John Blalock, thoso lion-hearted soldiers, who gave their lives to the South, who were the companions of my boyhood-all these, with many more dear to me, arc there sleeping. A simple marble slab marks thc resting plaec of my mother, where as a child ouc autumn evening io 1843 I first stood in death's shadow, and in thc darkening gloom saw tho gravo dose over her beioved form. The south wind laden with thc perfumes of springtimo and summer blows gent ly above them; winter's blasts and singing tempests cannot reach them; war's rudo alarms do not disturb them. Their bodies rest iu silence and eter nal sleep-such spirits do not die; they cannot perish, whether they quit this mortal frame in times of peace or leap from it amid the splendors of bat tic, they fly to glorious and immortal homes. "JUN T?I?Y;: And Learning" when to Run and when to Fight. Sherman's army, in its march through Georgia, was nearing the end of its journey, lt was within forty miles of Savannah. I < Having been pronounced "pcruia- J t nently disabled" by reason of a severe wound received at Second Manassas. I had boen assigned to an agency foi the collection of the farmers' title tax, or ''tax in kind," and was stationed at Guyton, on tho Central Railroad, thirty miles out from Savannah, and was, of course, right in tho lino of the army. Oo its approach I was ordered to ship everything on hand to Savan nab and "dispose of myself as I saw fit." Knowing there was a fine young horse out at my father's farm, only six miles di..taut, awaiting my final "re turn from tho war," I was not long in deciding that thc thing for mc to do WAS to get that horse and "line thc cavalry," leaving thc quostiou of mounting and dismounting, with a rather helpless left leg, to the "inspi ration of tho occasion." So, early next morning I set out and arrived thero to find everybody busy "hiding things" and making ready for tho ma ra tiding host. With a parting word to loved ones, I mounted '"Tip" and started nut, not knowing where night would Grid mc. Something prompted mc to try to ??et hack to Guyton before the Feder als should arrive. Perhaps it was a wish to see just coe more time "an other-not a sister." At any rate, two hours later I was in the village. But just as I drew my rein at F fa miliar gate a little darky darted round the corner and yelled, "Horse sojers coming' !" Going to the corner, I watched thc approaching cavalcade for a few min utes and discovered to my groat de light that they were Confed?rate?. The command proved to bc General Lewis' Kentucky brigade of Wheeler's ".avalry, with the Fourth Tennessee, under Major BledBoe, iu the lead. Hcporting to him as "mounted infan try" out of a iob. the major at once jucstioncd mc as to my knowledge of thc country, and on being told that I was born and reared in that county, tic exclaimed, "Just the man we want - a guide! Come on." Following a neighborhood road, we jame to thc next station on the rail road. Eden, or "No. 2," a little while ucfore sunset. It was hero that the main road to Savannah from the south ?ide of the Ogeechce Uiver crossed that stream, and as one corps of Sher man's army wa? known to be on that road, and probably in advance of those ipproaching on our side, and perhaps it that very moment crossing thc "vcr, a stand should he made herc with a view of at lea^u4?ttiug then know that thc way was not. entirely ?lear. "We'll dismount here," said Majoi llledsoc, "and you will please taki Lhat man riding across the woods yon 1er and reconnoiter for me towards tin ? wain p.' ' On reaching "that man,'' who prov 2d to bc a farmer lad getting out o Lhe way, and delivering to him Majo lilcdsoo's roquet, he replied, "I don' need to reconnoiter. There are Yan kees in that swamp, and I don't bc long to Major Blcdsoe." With that he struck old "Fire Fly' with his peach swith and gallope iway. I went on toward ti.e swami When I stopped in a clump of gall jerry bushes to make observations satisfyiog myself that "that man was right about Yankees being in th swamp and that they were moving t where I was, I turned my faco in th lirection of thc point where I had lei Major Bledsoeand his regiment, whet Lo my inexpressible astonishment an .error, I beheld a line of Federal ski; mishers, about seventy-five, I'm sun stretching across the open piny wooc from scarcely one hundred yards abo\ me to the railroad, and near the eros ing where I had parted with Maji ?ledsoe. Less than fifty yards belo ene and parallel with the skirmish Iii was a "stake and ridered" fence, ai my only chance of reaching the rai road and tho wagon road beyond it w Lo take my chances at full speed dov die skirmish linc between it and tl Pence. It seemed a hopeless unde Laking, and for a moment I consider* Lhe question of dismounting ai "heeling it" for the fence, but the was no friendly stump near, and t inspiration to dismount without iidn't come at once, so I resolved "rua tho gantlet." Dropping dot ?lose on "Tip's" neck, I headed h: for the railroad, and gave him t word. He seemed to understand t situation and burst from the galibi ries like a startled deer. With eve leap, it seemed to me, a rifle ball we singing past or struck a pine near with a noise like a firecracker. \ fairly flew! And how those skirmis irs shot! Cursing then, perha] their bad marksmanship, laughing many a time since they told the ste Df thc "flying rebel" and his iron-gi horse that they oouldu't hit. A half mile below tho railroad ero ing T overtook Major Bledsoe, vs manifested no surprise whatever tl [ had saved myself, and on rem itratiog with him about leaving without notice, he laughingly repli "I forgot you were only 'mounted fantry.' " This was my first experience in cavalry and in learning that pecu: accomplishment characteristic of CJoniederatc troopers, "always re Lo fight or to run, and always know which to do without orders," am was one of tho "closest calls" 1 e bad.- Ii. M. Zettler, in Atlanta ,/< nal._ Remarkable Cores of Rheumatism Vindicator, Jiutherfordton, N. V. The editor of tho Vindicator has occasion to test the efficacy of Ch herlain's Pain Balm twice v the most remarkable results in e ?ase. First, with rheumatism in shoulder from which he suffered orueiating pain for ten days, wi was relieved with two application Pain Palm, rubbing thc parts ?ffli< and realising instant benefit and tire relief in a very short time. 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Li Hung Chang received a bulletin announcing the sentence which could be best carried into effect by tho board of punishment, and ho requested the Japanese to deliver Ying Nien and Chun Shu Ciao in order that the sen tences in their cases might be executed to-day in conformity with the edict; but the Japanese considered thc notico too short nod have delayed the en forcement of tho penalties until Tues day in order that the minist?re of the powers might send representatives, as they desire. It is also intended to mia ni tin? men nt thc place of execu tion, so as to prevent suicide or escape. When official confirmation, duly cer tified by high officials of state, of thc sentences of death upon tho others shall have been received and these two nave been executed, China will have practically complied with tho terms de manded by the powers, ns she has al ready agreed to issue edicts prepared by the ministers of the powers for tho cess?t ion of examinations and regard ing thc responsibility of viceroys and governors. Prince Chun, the emperor's brother, will soon go to Berlin to express China's regrets for the murder of Baron von Ketteler. Ho says China ha? now ac cepted to the uttermost and also per formed everything required by tho powers, except tho payment of the in demnities, the amount of which has not been decided upon. He think? ar rangements should bo niado for tho evacuation of Pekin in order to enable tho court to return. 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