. The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings . east side, we knew that we hadnothing to expect from citizens if we claimed to be Yankee sol-diers, as they Avere nearly all against us, and, therefore, we almostuniformly represented ours
. The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings . east side, we knew that we hadnothing to expect from citizens if we claimed to be Yankee sol-diers, as they Avere nearly all against us, and, therefore, we almostuniformly represented ourselves as rebels on our way to Augustato join our regiments. We belonged, we stated, to the 4th (con-federate) Kentucky Cavalry. But we had as little to people as possible; but when we could not avoid meetingthem, we told this simple story with occasional variations, tosatisfy the curious and the doubting. Young Ramy was at home when we reached his fathers house,and in the morning we left early, telling the people we weregoing to Walhalla, to get on the morning train ; but as soon as wewere out of sight, we turned down the Tugalo, and stole a canoe,below the first shoals, and traveled constantly till we ran ourboat aground on a shoal, and were compelled to abandon it and»vade ashore, trusting to our chances to obtain another craft. When daylight overtook us, we hid out in the mountains, on. IDLE INDIANS. 343 Brasstown creek—a stream noted for its liigli cascades. Travel-ing on the river by night or by day, as best suited our purposes,we finally reached the head of the canal, seven miles above Au-gusta ; one day, at noon time, we passed through a section ofthe country where a large number of Col. Bill Thomas Indianswere quartered—some farming, some tending stock, while otherswere making baskets, and yet others were fishing. All appearedbusy, in a lazy sort of Indian way; and most of them had beenwounded in the rebel service. Being unfit for active duties, theyhad
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