History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . nd over fences, as fast as thehorses could go. We weregoing down a lane, whenI saw, at a distance, someof our men, who were alsoout foraging, and I yelledat them as loud as I heard me, andquickly took the hint andrun. The rebels fired onthem without effect, but Iwas ordered to keep mymouth shut, under the pen-alty of being shot. We were taken to Wheel-ers headquarters, dis-mounted, formed in lineand searched. From methey took a watch and$116, and they even
History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . nd over fences, as fast as thehorses could go. We weregoing down a lane, whenI saw, at a distance, someof our men, who were alsoout foraging, and I yelledat them as loud as I heard me, andquickly took the hint andrun. The rebels fired onthem without effect, but Iwas ordered to keep mymouth shut, under the pen-alty of being shot. We were taken to Wheel-ers headquarters, dis-mounted, formed in lineand searched. From methey took a watch and$116, and they even took the clothing from the otherboys. Guarded by a Company of rebs, we were marchedout, with a number of other prisoners, to be shot. Stewart,who stood at my side, punched me with his elbow, saying,We are gone up. I told him to be easy ; that they knewbetter than to shoot us. An order came from Wheeler tosend some of the prisoners to his headquarters, and I was * Was mustered in at Camp Gibson and was with the Regiment until theclose of the war. After the war he returned home and engaged in died March 10, J. REDBURN * 560 SHERMANS BUMMERS. among the three selected to appear before him. He told usthat he had ordered us to be shot, but had countermandedthe order and would send us to Libby prison, and that wewould soon be paroled. He asked me what force we had atCoxs bridge. I answered that we had enough niggersthere to whip him. Shortly after this we were started to Smithfield under astrong mounted guard, armed with Spencer rifles and navyrevolvers. After we had marched about ten miles, Ohioand I arranged to get a prisoner to walk alongside of eachguard, with a view of disarming them at a certain signal,shooting them and then making our escape, but not enoughof our men would take the risk. Our next plan was to makeas slow progress as we could so that night would overtakeus, when we would run, under the cover of darkness, andtake our chances. This was agreed to
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