. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . they came near the cross-roadAllen said, I!ob, right here once, mv brother and Icaptured five Yankees of the Fortieth Xew York Cav-alry. We heard them coming just in the bend aboveand had only time to get outside the road as thevcame up; we promptly ordered them to surrender, atthe >ame time covering them with our revolvers Thevhad been in \merica but a short time and spoke verybrokenly, but knew what surrender meant and sopromptly plead to be spared. I said to them, •Win-did vmi leave your country and come over here to
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . they came near the cross-roadAllen said, I!ob, right here once, mv brother and Icaptured five Yankees of the Fortieth Xew York Cav-alry. We heard them coming just in the bend aboveand had only time to get outside the road as thevcame up; we promptly ordered them to surrender, atthe >ame time covering them with our revolvers Thevhad been in \merica but a short time and spoke verybrokenly, but knew what surrender meant and sopromptly plead to be spared. I said to them, •Win-did vmi leave your country and come over here tofight usv ( >ne of them replied, Me no fide de what are you doing with those guns? Minefrent me not sliood any repels mit mine carpine, mesliood nodding as rattle snakes and owls. They werecertainly the worst scared Dutchmen I ever saw Theythought thev were in the hands ,,f murderers. They didnot know that Confederate soldiers are gentlemen^ andnever stooped to such things, and when they found thatwe were not that gang of pretended soldiers who were. f^-^fWH JAMES S. STANLEY OF THE CIVIL WAR. 115 killing so many Yankees they were the most delightedmen I ever saw. I never believed in killing a Yankeewithout giving him a chance to surrender. They haddismounted and hitched their horses as the story wasended and walked across the road to the residence ofDr. Lewis, where a few minutes later they were sur-rounded and captured. Capt. Shaw of the Illinoisregiment said, I was just about to give the order tofire when I heard the conclusion of that story and Iknew you were not the men we were looking for, andconcluded to capture you. They were kindly treatedand ate at the mess table with Capt. Shaw and long as they remained in their custody, andthen went North and spent a dreary ten months inFort Warren, Boston Harbor. CHAPTER XX. Fight at Clinton—Jim Stanley Wounded—Rux-yans Joke on Campbell—Extract from Cla-rion—Fight at Thompson Creek—StedmanM
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