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CHAPTER L The day ?nd date is the 21st of July, 1861. The scene is the battleground of first Boll Bon, a field made memorable for-, ever. From daybreak to high noon the Fed? eral army under McDowell has been moving down on the Confederate posi? tion selected weeks ago by the generals old in the strategy of war. da the flanks brigades have grappled in the open fields, regiments have dashed at each other in the forests and thickets. Here a little gronnd has been gained, there a little lost. It has been the skirmishing which precedes every battle, locating the enemy, testing his readiness, drawing his strength and uncovering his designs. The hoar is high noon. The Confed? erate front has been pressed back, the left wing shattered. Men looking down -on the battlefield from the hills of Cen terville have every movement in plain view. At 13 o'clock the battle is won for the Fed?rala. Bee, Barstow and Evans, who have held the Confederate center, have been beaten bad: by Burn? side, Sykes and Porter. They give way ?lowlyand grudgingly, fighting as they break back, and they are trykig to rally, when there is a clatter of bayonets be? ing fixed to muskets, and a thousand men rash forward at the double quick. It is the New YorkTwenty-seventh, and Colonel Slocum leads i t, the fir st bayonet charge .ol the war-*4Forward ! For? ward!" And the wedge drives into the Confederate center and rolls the frag? ments right and left The cheering ia beard a mile away above the noisoof battle^ The Federal center move? forward to pursue the shat? tered enemy, and couriers ride away with the news, **We have pierced the Confederate center and won the day!" Behind the flying Confederates isa platean of 300 acres, comprising two or three farms. Tt ere are two o^ .h ree farmhoases, orchards, meadows, thick? ets of pine, barrea fields. Here is Stone? wall Jackson with 5,000 men m reserve. ? The fragments of brigades, regiments and companies axe hurled back to the slopes -of tins platean to be rallied and reformed behind the reserves. Con? ners ride away to Beauregard to ask for more artillery, infantry and cavalry, and while the Federals panse to replen? ish their cartridge boxes and gird np their loins for a last straggle 5,000 fresh Confederates are hurrying forward to the platean. Noon becomes 1 o'clock. The skir? mishers are at work all along the front of the platean, bot there is no fighting. Another hour slips away. The Fed? erals have waited too long. Atnoon they could have carried the position with a rash. At 1 o'clock they would have met with stubborn resistance, bnt victory would have perched on their banners. Now as the Federals are ready to move the Confederate 5,000 bave become 10, 000, and their 10 pieces of artillery have become 30. A majority of tbe troops are fresh and their nerves unshaken, and all are ready for the grapple. Thirteen thousand Federals move against the pl?tean at different points almost as one man, and the battle opens with a great crash. Under General Jackson's Immediate orders are five or six regiments. On the right ol' his line is a Virginia regiment. On the right of that regiment ia a company from the Shenandoah valley. They have not boen in action jet. As the Federals move np to the attack Rickert's Federal bat? tery, supported by a Minnesota regi "floZt, men, halt! Those who are not cowards will follow mc!'* ment, are in front of Jackson's men. The battery is wheeling into position, when the Virginia regiment is ordered to charge it With a wild cheer, the command dashes forward, but to meet with soch a withering volley from the western men that it falls back in con? fusion. Let ns follow the company on the right. As it falls back its captain is left lying on the field. The first lieu? tenant should be in command, but neither he nor his fellow officer seeks to rally the disorganized men. The com? pany is breaking- back in a mob right under Jackson's eyes, when a private seizes Use flag from the panic stricken color hearer and shouts: "Halt, men, halt! Those who are not cowards will follow me!" It WM too late to rally the company as a whole? It wan breaking back on the reserve, headed by its two lieuten? ants, but at the call to rally about 30 of the men turned and raised a cheer and^fojlowed the fl^g. The sjgr^ of the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IIGHTED I8S+ SY A/wERtCAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. flag and the echo of the cheers pat hea: into the beaten regiment. Sometbin like order came oat of confusion, and moment later two-thirds of the reg: ment were righting over the guns. Th other regiments of the brigade move up, and they came jost in time. Th First Michigan and Fourteenth Ne^ York were charging: np to support th Minnesota men-and save the guns. . And now for the space of a quarte of an hour 5,000 men fought wit! bayonet, with clubbed musk?ts, wit] whatever weapon they could wound o kill, lt was the fight o? a mob. It wa a mob which went circling round an? round the battery long ago disabled b; the killing of all its horses. The Thirty eighth New York, followed by a portioi of the Fire Zouaves, went forward yell lng and cheering, but they came too lat? to sa ve all the guns. The Confederate, held the ground and retained three of th* pieces. As Jackson rides forward thi company from the Shenandoah valley ii dragging one of the captured guns to th< rear. "Who commands this* company?' asked the general, looking rn vain for ? commissioned officer. The men halted and stared at him, but np one replied. " Where is your captain? . Where ar* your lieutenants?'1 he demanded. "Can't tell yo', general," answered a private who was bareheaded and coat less, "but the boss we are workin un? der jest now is that ar' Yankee with the flag!" Jackson was about to speak further when an aid delivered an order, and he rode hurriedly away. There is no more fighting on this front. To the right and left the Federals charge again and again, but always to be beaten back. Did they number twice as many they could not dislodge the Confederates from the platean. Nature made it for the key of a battlefield. It is 3 o'clock, and the fight still rages fiercely. It is 4 o'clock, and the Federals are still battering at the slopes of the plateau. Half an hour later the volleys of musketry suddenly increase in volume, the artillery redoubles its fire, there is wild cheering all along the Confederate front. Johnston's troops have come up from the valley. He throws them into the battle, and the Federals are driven back. The Confed? erates push forward in pursuit, and the troops who were giving way slowly and retiring in gcod order suddenly become panic stricken. An army panic is like unto nothing else in its foolishness, in its madness, in that feeling of terror which makes serv? ile cowards of brave men for a few hours. In 80 minutes from the first wild shouts of alarm the highways lead? ing back to Centerville were choked with the shattered, disorganized and fleeing Federal commands. Here and there feeble attempts were made to check the terrified mob, but each effort only increased the panic. What were they fleei ng from ? Death ? If so, almost every man of them bad faced death for hours that day without flinching. They faced it now, as terri? fied men discharged their muskets and threw them into the ditches, as remnants of cavalry commands dashed into the mass, as fielchpieces and limbers and caissons, drawn by horses which seemed to have caught the spirit of terror, turned in from che fields at a mad gal? lop and rode down every obstruction. Men flee like shadows from a plague, but they know from what they flee. Hushing into the highways, righting each other as they struggled to reach the van, stumbling, falling, a chill of fear upon every heart, the army which had fought sp well and long streamed into the hamlet of Centerville. There was no pursuit. There wasn't a brigade in the Confederate aimy in condition to pursue, nor was the extent of the Fed? eral disaster known to Confederate offi? cers. Here was a strong position, and here it was that troops who had not been in action were formed across the high- j way leading to Washington to check the \ panic stricken thousands. Mounted of- | fleers rode into the mob and shouted , commands and appeals. The panting fugitives pansed for a moment, but it was not to listen, not to obey, not to feel ashamed of their silly fears. It was to draw a long breath and then dash at the wall of glistening bayonets. The wall menaced them, the bayonets point? ed at their breasts, but with one mighty surge the living wave dissolved the wall, hurled it down, flung the frag? ments to right and left, and the stream of humanity poured on over the hills and flowed the faster for its temporary check. It could not be checked again until it reached the Potomac. CHAPTER H. Let as go back a few weeks and con- i nect the chain of events. The thunder of a hundred guns had been let loose at Charleston, and the south was rushing to arms. One who i has not witnessed the beginning of war j cannot comprehend the insanity of ex- ! citement which accompanies the pas- j sage of each fateful day. We of the north were delaying, hoping, trying to make ourselves believe that war would' be averted, though np one could tell how. While we were delaying the south was acting. No man in any southern com m unity dared talk of peace. While the j north raised regiments, the south pat brigades into camp and planned a cam? paign. While the north waited the south possessed itself of fort after fort. The streets of every city echoed the tread of marching men; every village was aroused by the music of the fife and ? yarnia. TJpat generation knew nothing <>f war. ^Men looked npon th? waving flags and rippling Banners, the 'march? ing volunteers and the holiday attire and said to each'other:* . W "Then this is war? Men who have written of war have deceived ns. There is no suffering, no wounded, no dead. Let us also join in the march." But historians had not deceived them. They were deceiving themselves. The beginning of war is merriment and Teaftr'The end Ts markedly?tfioWrios' of marble headstones bearing the single word "Unknown"-those and crape and tears and desolation, lt is 4 o'clock in the afternoon of one? of those never to be forgotten spring days of lb in. re? membered now only by gray haired men and women. The scene is the an? cient town of Winchester, in the beau? tiful Shenandoah valley, the garden spot of the Old Dominion. Under cover of a wooden awning sheltering the front of the old store and postoffice two men are seated at a table borrowed some? where for tbe^occasion. One of them wears the uniform of a militia captain; the other is in citizen's dress and has a list of names on a paper before bim. Hear what the captain is saying to the men crowding np until they stand sis or eight deep before him. ** We want 60 more men to fill up this company. Within a week we shall be ordered to the front. We want only young men and good men. Now, then, yon all who want to go to war and see some fun put your names down on this paper. You, there, Steve Brayton, step up and sign!" "How long shall we ons be gone, captain?" "I reckon on 60 day?." "Then"i'll putdown,." "And I!" "And I!" "Say, captain, " called a young farm? er from the rear rank of the crowd, " can't yo' make the time 3Q days? The old man's feel in pore] y this spring, and "We want sixty more men to fill tip this j company." he can't do no farm work. I'd like to go along with yo' all, but I can't spare over 30 days. Make it 30 days, and I'll put down." , "I don't like to say. 30, " replied the captain as he stood up to look over the crowd. 4 ' Yon see. we've got to get there, wherever it is. and then we've got to nave a right or two and march around, and I Should reckon on 50 days anyhow. Better come along. Yon never did have no such chance to see fun in all your life before." j "Waal, I reckon 10 or 20 days won't ! make no great difference anyhow, " said the man. And he pushed forward to ? add his name to the list. Directly opposite two men sat look ing ont of a second story window. They | were in the law office of Justin Wil- I Hams, a lifelong citizen of the town and a lawyer of repute. He was a man of 55, but carried his age lightly. The j other was a young man of 24, well I built and having a plain but kindly face. He was Royal Kenton of Rhode ; Island, a graduate of law at a promi- j nent university and the junior partner of the law firm of Williams & Kenton, j They were uncle and nephew. Kenton i had come down about 18 months before. ? As the relative and partner of a promi- ; nent citizen he was treated with cour? tesy. As a Yankee, fresh from Yankee land, he was a subject of criticism, and there was little heart in the hospitality accorded him. There could not have j been. He represented * principles an- j tagonistic to the south. There was no j neutral ground in those days. A man ! represented not himself, but his sec- j tion of country. The opinions of his sec rion were considered tc be his. A south- ; erner at the north would have been ! looked upon through the same eyes and i held responsible to the same extent. ? Men liked him as a man, but they de? tested him as a Yankee. "Well, I am sorry this trouble has fallen upon the country," said the old : lawyer as they watched the crowd oppo? site. "I have long felt that it must j come sooner or later, but 1 hoped it would not be in my day. Nothing can '? now prevent war." "But everybody appears to think it j will end almost as soon as begun," re- L plied Kenton. j "They do not stop to reflect," said | the lawyer as his face assumed a more serious look. "I am a southerner, and I believe the south has been fully justi- : fled in her course, but our people are foolishly underestimating the strength and temper of the north. They will not : let us go because we bluster and threat? en. If the south secures a separation, it will have to be won on the field of battle. It was to be, and it has come, but it is to be deplored." "If war comes, business will have to ; go," observed Kenton as he looked about the office. "War is here, and our business has i already fled," replied Williams. "Mar- ! tial law will soon be proclaimed, and \ there will be no more use for judges, jurors and attorneys. I have wanted to ask you for several days what course yon mean to pursue. If it was to be a war of 60 days, six months, or even a year, we might make certain plans, but j it is to be a long and bloody struggle, and this very valley will be a battle- ! ground. We may as well close our of? fice today as a month hence. -Amid such excitement as this there can be no call for our services." "I am a northern man," eaid Ken? ton after a moment's thought. "Yes, they call you a Yankee." "I have cared nothing for politics. | There is a great principle herein in? volved, bat ciar greatest -statesmen aie divided over it/ The south seeks inde? pendence f?brn;?a fedferafcion "which bis become nnoearablei-^' Tire north;-or*8t least a goodly portion of it, denies the right of secession. This coming war is the consequence. I stand on neutral ground." " You are neutral today, bat you can? not be 30 days hence," said theolcTlaw yer as a troubled look came into his race. ^Tto you~firi~d any'neutral* m&oTn that crowd down there? Have you heard any neutral talk among our people? It may not be 10 days before yoa will be pat to the test." "What test?'V "Uf your allegiance to one side or the other. Every young man in our town is hastening to volunteer. 1 am too old to be taken now, bat later on 1 may be forced into the ranks. It will be a war in which the south will need her last man. I am not pledged to a southern confederacy, but I am pledged to Virginia: I go with my state. You have come down to cast yoar lot with us. It is for you to answer whether yoa are for or against your adopted state. Think it over. If you wish to go north, the routes are still open. If you wish to remain, yoa will be asked why you don't volunteer. I do not seek to influ? ence you. Be guided by your own con? science. Tomorrow we will settle all business matters between ns. It may be years before there is any farther call for our legal talents in this or any other Virginia town. Military law will soon override everything." The old lawyer rose np aBd passed down stairs on his way home without further remark, leaving Royal Kenton in a brown study, which was interrupt? ed 10 minutes later by wild cheering on the street. He went down to ascertain the cause, and a man who had just vol? unteered swung his hat and replied: "Hooray! We uns is gwine to send fellers right on to captor' Washington and ole Abe Lincoln!" CHAPTER HI. Night comes, and the streets of the old town grow more quiet. Men have cheered themselves hoarse, and intense excitement has wearied everybody. An even 50 men have signed the roll, and more will come, in tomorrow. The re? cruiting office has been closed by the re? moval cf the table and the departure of the captain. With that officer we have little to do. With the man in citizen's clothes who assisted him we have much. Let me introduce to you as be sits on the veranda of the village inn Duke Wyle, 25 years of age. a bachelor, the only son of ex-Judge Wyle, the nabob of the village and county. The young man has been educated for nothing in particular. He has done nothing in particular since he left college. "Duke? Oh, Duke's all right," was the reply to any half meant criticism. "The old man's got plenty of money, and Dake is his heir. Good boy, that Duke. Likes to hunt and ride and is a little wild, but he'll steady down after a bit. Don't you worry about Duke!" And when the news of war came Duke found the excitement bis nature craved. When the volunteer company was full, he was to be its first lieuten? ant. He and Royal Kenton were ac? quaintances, but not friends. In the be? ginning the}" had been attracted toward each other, and there was promise of close intimacy. But no two men can love the same woman and be friends be anything less than enemies. Both were frequent callers at the old man? sion standing at the bead of the long street, in which resided the widow and daughter of the late Hon. John Percy, one of Virginia's oldest and wisest sen? ators and statesmen. If Marian favored either ene, if she was interested in any one of her numerous callers, no sign of encouragement had been given. Ken? ton and Wyle were only two out of twenty, and yet it seemed to be general? ly understood that she would ultimately favor one or the other. "Hooray! Hooray! We uns will be in Washington in less'n 30 days!" It was the voice cf Steve Brayton shouting as he drew near. "You there, Steve?" called Wyle as the enthusiastic volunteer was swinging his hat and making ready for another cheer. "Wat's wanted, lootenant?" "Come up here!" "Doggone my hide, but 1 want to git down thar and hev a font so bad that 1 can't stand still!" growled Steve as he "Say, Steve, do you 7?now there's a Yankee j among usf" came along down the veranda. "What's up, lootenant? Hain't dun gone and got word that them ar' Yankees is goin to | give up without a fout, hev ye?" "No. There's no news this evening. | Sit down." "Whoop! I'm powerfully minded to sot out by myself and git thar befo' the fussin is all over!" exclaimed Steve as he hesitated to take the chair pushed at him by the other's foot. "Sit down! You'll get there soon enough without any extra harry! Say, Steve, do you know there's a Yankee among us-a regular, full fledged Yan? kee right here in this town?" "Lordy. no! Has he un cum dewnto captur' we uns?" "He is here as a spy, Steve-asa spy to let 'em know up north what we are doing. You fellers are not very bright, or you'd have got onto him without my telling." "Shoo! A Yankee spy right yere in this town? Hev yo' seen him with yo'r own eyes?" ?Ihave.". **And!yo' fein name bim?" "I cm. Do you lrnowjtawy/er Wil- ' Karns?"' ^ * "I reckon." j "Do yon know the man in the office ! with him-fellow named Kenton?" "I do, fur suah. Hedrawed np some papers fur me awhile ago. Purry nice J sort of a feller, I take it." "Didn't you know he was a Yankee?" [ "No!" **Well, he is. Any one will tell yon j that' be came down here from the north j only about a year ago." "But he cum to go inter biZness." j "Yes, but he's a Yankee, and they are all alike-^all down on us about the nigger, and all want to make ns eat dirt." "Shoo! Jest want to walk right over | us and tread us into the ground, eb?" "That's it, and he's one of them. No one knows how many letters be's sent off in the last two weeks. He probably sent one today, and they know in Wash? ington just what we are doing here." "But wb?tt's he doin yere if he's a Yankee spy?" persisted Steve. 'Seems like I've heard they hang spies. " "And they'll hang him if he stays | long enough! I'm thinking he'll get all j the information be can and then sneak for the north and enlist in the Yankee army." "Shoo! What's yo'r idea, lootenant?" **I think somebody ought to wait on him and give him warning to leave the town at once. If he refuses to go, I reckon we can scare up enough tar and feathers to give him a coat." "Doggone it, lootenant, but yo' are dead right!. Yo'n the captain orter jest walk right up to him this very night!" * * Well, you see, ' ' observed Wy le aft er some hesitation, "the captain and 1 j are very busy waiting for war news, j and we have sort o'* decided to leave the matter to you boys. You'll find he's a ! Yankee spy, and you'll probably want 1 to use him rough, and if we were along we'd be obliged to protect him. You'd better get about a dozen of the boys to- j gether and give Mr. Yankee a call to- ! night Talk right np to him and let j him see that you know all about him. Perhaps he's found out all the Lincoln government wants to know and is ready I to go north. If he says he'll go, give j bim half an hour to pack np and walk j him down to the train, which goes past ] at ll o'clock." "I see. But s'pos? be says he won't ! go?" "Tar and feathers, Steve-tar and j feathers will make him change his I mind!" "They will, fur shore, and we ons j will giv bim tar and feathers! Yo' ar* j sartin he's a Yankee?" "Of course." "Means to fight agin us?" "Of course. You are not going to flank out, are you?" "Steve Brayton never did flunk in all his life, and he ain't goin to begin now. j bat" "Bat what?" impatiently demanded J Wyle, who was in a hurry to begin pro- ; ceedings. j "Seems like we orter nev some sort o" j beginnin. He un drawed up them pa- : pers fur me and didn't make uo charge, and I don't want to jump in on him all of a sudden. Seems like 1 orter he sort? er civil and decent at fust and find out what he un's doin or means to do. " "Steve Brayton, I'll scratch your name off the roll this very night! You ain't got tbe sand to make a soldier!" j "Shoo! Don't yo' be* so flnstrated! j Hev yo' got that roll with yo'?" "Yes." "Good! Hand it over." . "What do you want of it?" "I've dun got a plan. I'll take that j paper along. I'll git Ike Baster, Bill '. Taylor, Tom Henderson and sisror eight ! mo', and we'll find that Yankee. When we've found him, I'll be civil and de? cent ard say:4Folks is a-tellin that yo' an is a Yankee spy, and that yo' an is gwine to skip out fur the norrh porty j quick. How loes yo' un constandnate?" j "What do you mean by that?" asked j Wyle. "That means how does he un stand. [ Is he un for the south or north? If he j un's fur the south, let him put his name right down thar"to be one of us. If he j un's fur the north, we ans will cum back j fur tar and feathers." "Steve, you've hit it-hit it plumb center!" exclaimed Wyle as he ?ose np to | shake hands. "You've got the idea ex- ! actly. Put that there paper right at I him! If he's for us, he'll sign; if he's i agin ns, he won't. Get your men to- ? gether and start out right away. " "We uns will find out all about it in an hour, lootenant, and doggone my hide if I ain't so chock full of fout that i've j got to holler! Hip, hip, hooray! Aim | low, boys, and giv' it to 'em heavy!" j [TO BE COJ?TINUED.] ODDS AND ENDS. Professor Garner says that gorillas do not converse with chimpanzees. the United States married widows. Workmen in Italy wear beards as a rule, owing to the cost of shaving. The jewelers wheel was employed by j Greek artisans in cutting cameos from agate. During Victoria's reign India has coin- j ed ?2,000,000 in gold and ?206,000,000 in j silver. Don't growl because it's raining. If it was dry weather, you might get sun struck. It is computed that 1,000 cattle give 67 I tons of beef and 1,000 sheep 12$ tons of I mutton. The Chinese claim to have possessed : the art of enameling metals from at least j 2000 B. C. All the glaciers in the Alps would not 1 equal in size one of the largest in the j territory of Alaska. Since the dawn of human life Mada- ; gasear has been inhabited by at least 12 j species of gigantic birds. An advertisement in a Chicago paper j describing a lost dog stated that the ani- j mal has a gold capped tooth. I . Suffrage Progress. The Boston 'Evening Transcript say3 editorially*: "The driffcofj?bings in th<?{ direction of equal rights-Jor women is j shown in^the following chronology: Inj 1845 Kentucky gave school suffrage to} widows. In 1861 Kansas gave it to all! women. In 1869 "Wyoming gave full; suffrage to all women, and England gave* municipal suffrage to single women and] widows. In 1875 school suffrage was j granted by Michigan and Minnesota, in] 1876 i>y Colorado, in 1878 by New Hamp-] shire and Oregon, in 1879 by Massa-S chusetts and in 1880 by Vermont and; New York. In 1881 municipal suffrage j was extended to the single women andi widows of Scotland. School suffrage ^ was granted by Nebraska in 1883 and by] Wisconsin in 1885. ? "Municipal suffrage was given to the] single women and widows of New Bruns-1 wick in 1880 and, school suffrage to the ? women of Washington in the same year. ! In 1887 municipal suffrage was granted in : Kansas to all women, and school suffrage was given in North and South Dakota,. New Jersey, Idaho, Arizona and Montana. In 1891 school suffrage was granted in Il? linois. In 1893 school suffrage was grant? ed in Connecticut and full suffrage in, Colorado and New Zealand. Evidently . the common sense of the world is work? ing around by degrees to a belief in equal rights for women. No disasters have followed the acceptance of ih$ prin? ciple elsewhere, and there is no reason to suppose tbat it will result incatastrophes and cataclysms in Massachusetts." Extenuating Circumstances. There was trouble in the coffee com? plexioned young woman's eye as the two policemen escorted her from the alley. "What made you hit that girl?" asked one of the officers. "What made me hit 'er? I had er call ter hit 'er. Da's what made me hit 'er." "She wasn't doing anything. You were making all the trouble." "I hsd a right ter make de trouble. 'Twas her talk dat done made me smash 'er." "What did she say?" * 'She didn't say nuffin. She jes' sinni vated." . ? < ?? "Well," asked the officer impatiently, "what did she insinuate?" "'Twas'bout ma new dress. She done axed tue how I got de labels offen de ham covers dat I se wed in f oh sleeves... An den I smashed *er."-Washington Star. A Model Maa* Of course women like good men, but they don't like prigs. One bright girl was entertaining another with the de? scription of a young man who lived next door. 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