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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)
s a prisoner, and that all his property was confiscated to the Government. They at once enforced the confiscation act ; and this, he said, taking from his wallet a piece of soiled paper, ara whot I hed ter 'tribute ter the dingnation consarn. It'r Sally's own handwrite, ana I knows ye loikes har, so ye kin hev it, fur it'll nuver be uv no manner uv account ter me. The schedule is now before me, and I copy it verbatim: 14 men and wimmin (Jake eluded the soldiers and escaped to the woods), 1600 barrils corn, 130 sheeps, 700 bushls wheat, 440 barley, 100 rye, 27 mules, 5 cowbrutes, 105 head hogs, 17 horses and mars, and all they cud tote beside. Wall, they tied me hand ana fut, he continued; ana toted me off ter the Military Commission sittina ter Chattanooga. I know'd whot thet meant — a short prayer, a long rope, ana a break-down danced on the top oa nothina. Better men nur me hed gone thet way ter the Kingdom-sevin on 'em wuthin a month-but I detarmined I wouldn't go ef I