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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 14 0 Browse Search
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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Bible Smith, the East Tennessee scout and spy. (search)
Bible Smith, the East Tennessee scout and spy. No troops in the Union service were more thoroughly patriotic than the Union men of East o, in their great work of putting down the rebellion, than William Jehosaphat Smith, better known throughout East Tennessee as Bible Smith froSmith from his Scriptural middle name. Smith was one of the middle class of farmers of that mountain region; and had had very little education; hi; wSmith was one of the middle class of farmers of that mountain region; and had had very little education; hi; wife, who, as was often the case with the class to which she belonged, was of somewhat higher social position than her husband, and better ed. Mr. J. R. Gilmore ( Edmund Kirke ) gives an admirable history of Smith's experiences in connection with the war and as a scout, from whicht the front door, yellina out: We doan't want ter 'sturb ye, Miss Smith (they's chivulry, ye knows), but we reckons yer husbana ar yere, shed no blood, said the leftenant. but we's orders ter take ye, Mister Smith, ana ye'd better go wuth us, peaceable loike. I shan't go wu