. A friend with the countersign . north of that station, andnot daring to be seen on the Richmond road, we crossed it andwent on east. It was about two oclock, and we were ten milesor more from Milford, by the roundabout way we must far we had found no difficulty; we had met a few strag-glers, and a scouting party of our own cavalry, who demandedour passes, and who warned us of the danger we should con-stantly incur farther to the south, but as for the enemy we hadnot seen one, except at the signal station near Guineys, whichwe had discreetly flanked. Now we must avoid all roads exce
. A friend with the countersign . north of that station, andnot daring to be seen on the Richmond road, we crossed it andwent on east. It was about two oclock, and we were ten milesor more from Milford, by the roundabout way we must far we had found no difficulty; we had met a few strag-glers, and a scouting party of our own cavalry, who demandedour passes, and who warned us of the danger we should con-stantly incur farther to the south, but as for the enemy we hadnot seen one, except at the signal station near Guineys, whichwe had discreetly flanked. Now we must avoid all roads exceptmere bridle-paths, and be always on the watch, and take timeto examine ground in front before we should venture over I been afoot I could have gone on without great fear; asit was, I knew that I ought to get as near as possible to theenemy and select a spot for Jeeters night station, before ven-turing forward alone. ® Spottsylvania C. H. g\^ p-ROM THE r»o a. THE FAjVIUNliEY SCALE OF MILES ;uindysBridi,e\ Lebanon Church. BOWLINC GREEN LYDIA COMES AND GOES 195 About four oclock we had, just ahead of us, a small countryroad crossing our line of advance. Jeeter was halted, and Icrept up, and looked south and saw something; then I lookednorth and saw that there was nothing in that direction. WhatI saw toward the south was a group of four persons — two men,a woman, and a girl. They were coming. At first, they puz-zled me. The men and the woman were burdened with manythings. The woman had a great bundle of bed-clothing, seem-ingly. One of the men had an axe, and a frying-pan, andmany other things; the other man, somewhat similarly loaded,was wearing a Federal overcoat even in this warm mystery was soon cleared up. I saw that these peoplewere black. When they were very near I called to them to come into thewoods where I was. At first they were startled, but I assuredthem that they had nothing to fear, and they gray clothing must have given them an
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