. Sparks from the camp fire : thrilling stories of heroism, adventure, daring and sufferng . uld the desired information be obtained,than it would be dispatched to some guerrilla chief) andin an unexpected moment the unhappy man would besurprised, and dragged away in irons to the conscriptprison; or, if the least resistance were offered or a flightattempted, he would be shot down in the presence of anagonized family. Should he by chance have some repu-tation as a politician and a Union man, more frequentlythey would hang him to the nearest tree; sometimes evenin his own door-yard. How many wid
. Sparks from the camp fire : thrilling stories of heroism, adventure, daring and sufferng . uld the desired information be obtained,than it would be dispatched to some guerrilla chief) andin an unexpected moment the unhappy man would besurprised, and dragged away in irons to the conscriptprison; or, if the least resistance were offered or a flightattempted, he would be shot down in the presence of anagonized family. Should he by chance have some repu-tation as a politician and a Union man, more frequentlythey would hang him to the nearest tree; sometimes evenin his own door-yard. How many widows, how manyorphans, these murdering miscreants have made, Grod inheaven can only know. Gathering in small parties, or scattering singly throughthe mountains, the Union men hid themselves, and prayedfor the day when the Union Army should deliver the echoes of the mountains would be awakenedby the deep-mouthed baying of the bloodhounds runningon the track of some unlucky fugitive, who was almostsure to be caught or killed when these merciless messen-gers were let loose on :^&^ \ ..
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