. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . land?A friend told me that he arrived one night at the foot of Beersheba amile and a quarter from the top, and as he wound around the dismal,dreary ascent a catamount followed him with the most fearful frightened his horse almost beyond management, and after he gotto Beersheba he did not get over the nights experience for a was at Tantallon, in the Cumberland mountains, on the Nashville& Chattanooga railroad in 1866, just after the war, when E. , a telegraph operator, was at work over his instrument, ahungry catamou
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . land?A friend told me that he arrived one night at the foot of Beersheba amile and a quarter from the top, and as he wound around the dismal,dreary ascent a catamount followed him with the most fearful frightened his horse almost beyond management, and after he gotto Beersheba he did not get over the nights experience for a was at Tantallon, in the Cumberland mountains, on the Nashville& Chattanooga railroad in 1866, just after the war, when E. , a telegraph operator, was at work over his instrument, ahungry catamount jumped through the window of his room and stuck his fangs in theback of the oper-ators neck. Hiswife interferedand together theyfinally killed theanimal. After-wards the opera-tor went to hisinstrument andtelegraphed Wil-liam P. Innis (su-perintendent) tosend another op-erator, that thehorrors of theCumberland h ecould not stand,and he would giveup his place—andhe did. Presi-dent John alludesto this incident asone of the thril-. MRS. JOHN ARMFIELD OF BEERSHEBA SPRINGS. ling experiencesof the was auditorand paymaster of 116 BATTLES AND SKETCHES ARMY OF TENNESSEE. the Nashville & Chattanooga at the time. When I think of my boyhood terror of the mountains, and coupleit with the moral turpitude brought about between men in war, 1shudder over the used to be1 in those old days. Mrs. Armfield (formerly Miss Franklin, of Sumner county,) isstill in good health and tine mental vigor. Even her pearly teeth areas in days of yore. She is living at Bell Air, Md., with her niece,Mrs. G. L. Van Bidder. She is now eighty-six years old, still livingfor others, and attributes her long life to the mountain air and purewater of Beersheba. In a letter to me she says she is as busy as everwith her needle, devoted to her church, and tries to make others hap-py with her little remembrances. She has no children, but has raisedand educated more than a dozen. She was one of the
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