. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . half mile to a bridge and seewhether he could learn anything of importance. On theway down he came on two young men asleep in a bunchof leaves by the side of the road. He thought that theywere a part of the gang that I had shot at the night be-fore. Without a word of warning he pulled his gun andfired. The horse pistol roared in the early morning likea small cannon. Blackburn never stopped to see what hehad done, but came o
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . half mile to a bridge and seewhether he could learn anything of importance. On theway down he came on two young men asleep in a bunchof leaves by the side of the road. He thought that theywere a part of the gang that I had shot at the night be-fore. Without a word of warning he pulled his gun andfired. The horse pistol roared in the early morning likea small cannon. Blackburn never stopped to see what hehad done, but came off up the road yelling, They aredown there. The command was marched down the roadto where Blackburn had seen the Confederates. All wecould find was a large hold in the ground, showing that hehad hit something when his old horse pistol had gone were getting intensely interesting. The report gotout through the country that there was firing going people had heard something that sounded like cannon-ading. This much was correct. A hospitable farmer came down and invited several ofus up to dinner. When we came onto the porch of the IN CAMP AT GRAFTON 33. J- W. ELWOOD 34 ELWOODS STORIES farmers home up on the mountain, there sat a man withhis face terribly scratched and cut and his clothes tornalmost to shreds. When he looked up Hopkins Moffittsaid to him ,You must have been in a fight. With aterrible oath he exclaimed, Worse than a fight. I haveseen fights but this takes the cake. You ought to see mybuddy. He is the worst used up fellow that I ever this time we had gathered about him to hear his told us that he had gone out coon hunting the nightbefore. His buddy was along with him. Being wearythey both laid down in the leaves and were soon fast daylight something went off, or they thought some-thing went off. They thought, from the sound and theshake of the ground, that it must have been a terrificearthquake. They never stopped to inves
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