. The olive branch of peace and good will to ment anti-war history of the Brethren and Mennonites, the peace people of the South, during the civil war, 1861-1865 . eparation. ** After traveling about twelve miles, we fell in com-pany with about seventy others—Brethren, Mennon-ites and others. The conclusion among us was to crossthe line to West Virginia. So with the Shenandoah^Mountain before us, we proceeded, going part of theway during the night. The next day we traveled onwest, and the next night we lodged at a friends house,resting on the floor. The next day we arrived at Pe-tersburg, W. V
. The olive branch of peace and good will to ment anti-war history of the Brethren and Mennonites, the peace people of the South, during the civil war, 1861-1865 . eparation. ** After traveling about twelve miles, we fell in com-pany with about seventy others—Brethren, Mennon-ites and others. The conclusion among us was to crossthe line to West Virginia. So with the Shenandoah^Mountain before us, we proceeded, going part of theway during the night. The next day we traveled onwest, and the next night we lodged at a friends house,resting on the floor. The next day we arrived at Pe-tersburg, W. Va. Now a good many persons came outto see us cross the South Branch of the Potomac River,it being fifty yards or more wide, and more than halfour company were on foot, so that in crossing somehorses had to go three trips before all had passed overthe stream. It seemed to be a great curiosity for thepeople to see us cross the Branch and to go throughthe town. Soon after passing this place came the trouble, aswe then thought, but it seemed that the good Lorddid not think as we did; he prepared a better way forour escape than we had marked out for o to c oo U3 6S THE OLIVE BRANCH OF PEACE. After going through Petershurg, he sent two men tocause a halt in our journey, one in front, and one inthe rear. The man in front made use of sonie hardwords, but the man in the rear was kind. We hahed,and at their sohcitation we turned back to took us into a large upper room and as we passedin by the door we were asked individually whether wehad any arms. When the question was put to me, Ianswered, Yes. Let us see it, said he. I showedhim my New Testament, the Sword of the Spirit. Hesaid, That is very good; you can keep that. I do notthink there were any arms found in our company, ex-cept one or two small pistols, and they were not withthe Brethren. We were furnished a snack for dinner. One brother Alennonite, who had talked of goingback before we got to Petersburg
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