A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . -versation. His life had been threat-ened often, and for this reason wenever allowed him to appear at thefront door until some of the familyhad first reconnoitered. I said to thecaptain, Step out into the moonlightand let me see your uniform. Hejumped lightly over the bannistersand jocularly remarked, Are you sat-isfied? I made him promise on hishonor as a soldier and a gentlemanthat my father should suffer no vio-lence from him or his men. He so
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . -versation. His life had been threat-ened often, and for this reason wenever allowed him to appear at thefront door until some of the familyhad first reconnoitered. I said to thecaptain, Step out into the moonlightand let me see your uniform. Hejumped lightly over the bannistersand jocularly remarked, Are you sat-isfied? I made him promise on hishonor as a soldier and a gentlemanthat my father should suffer no vio-lence from him or his men. He sol-emnly gave his word, and I then di-rected him to a window in my fathersroom. He and father had quite achat; he gave father several Confed-erate newspapers and father presentedhim with a number of Northern pa-pers that a neighbor had secured inChattanooga. Father then directedCapt. Harvey where he could find cornand fodder for his horses. Capt. Harvey and his command re-mained in our neighborhood six weeksor more, raiding the railroads up aboutRinggold and Dalton, and capturingmany Federal prisoners, many ofwhom f^uld net sreak a word of Eng-. REV. G. A. NUNNALLY, Baptist ministerwho once ran for Governor of Georgia ona liquor prohibition platform. 202 A History of Rome and Floyd County lish intelligibly—these were foreign-ers imported by wealthy Northernersas substitutes in the Federal prisoners were taken to CedarBluff, Ala., and as a member of command told me, were lostin the Coosa river. I can say that Capt. Harvey was agentleman, and we suffered no violencefrom him or his command. He wasvery fond of music and liked to playwhist, and was a frequent guest inour house. Thus he whiled away histime with my step-sister and when I sang The Officers Fu-neral, he leaned his head on the tableand sobbed aloud. He begged me tooverlook his apparent weakness, forhe had a wife and a little boy in Mis-sissippi, and the chances were hewould never see t
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