. Uncle Daniel's story of "Tom" Anderson and twenty great battles . y to re-enforce Biggs. On inquiry theGeneral found that the note was written by a lady, whowas then some ten miles away at a farmhouse. The caval-ryman stated that she was very anxious that Gen. Silentshould get the note that day, and that she had also told himto say to the General that she was the same lady who hadgiven him certain information at Nashua some days before,and that she informed the bearer of the contents of thenote and requested him to destroy it if in danger of beingcaptured. Gen. Silent consulted Gen. Papson a
. Uncle Daniel's story of "Tom" Anderson and twenty great battles . y to re-enforce Biggs. On inquiry theGeneral found that the note was written by a lady, whowas then some ten miles away at a farmhouse. The caval-ryman stated that she was very anxious that Gen. Silentshould get the note that day, and that she had also told himto say to the General that she was the same lady who hadgiven him certain information at Nashua some days before,and that she informed the bearer of the contents of thenote and requested him to destroy it if in danger of beingcaptured. Gen. Silent consulted Gen. Papson and foundthat he had implicit faith in her statements, as he said UNCLE DANIELS STORY. 227 she had given Rosenfelt truthful and important informa-tion twice as to the numbers and movements of the Silent said: This being so, we must drive Biggs from his positionbefore Longpath can join him. It was then raining and blowing a perfect gale, andGen. Papson said that it might be well to delay until thestorm was over. This Gen. Silent assented to, but directed. THE SPECTER APPEARS TO THE GENERAL. that all preparations be made for the attack, so as to be inperfect readiness at a moments notice. Sherwood, however, had not yet succeeded in gettingto the position assigned him. He was struggling againstrain, wind, and high water. In crossing Little CombinationRiver to the north side the pontoon bridge gave way, andGen. Osterman and his division of Sherwoods commandwere completely cut off and left on the south side of the 228 UNCLE DANIELS STORY. stream. Silent ordered him to proceed up the river to apoint opposite Middletons Ridge with the remainder of hiscommand. By this time the freshet was so great that itwas impossible to repair the bridge. So Osterman wasordered, if he could not get across by eight oclock the nextmorning, to report to Gen. Hord. Sherwood finally suc-ceeded in moving the rest of his command to the point in-dicated. Pontoons were now necessary for bridging the
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