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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The contrabands in the war. (search)
enemy's lines, after scouting around as much as he wished, he picked up eight chickens and started for camp. His road led past the house of a secesh doctor named Roberts, who knew him, and who ordered him to stop, which, of course, Clairborne had no idea of doing, and kept on, when .he doctor fired on him and gave chase, shouting his hour had come, but the next he sang out: The Yankees are coming! the Yankees are coming! Where? Where? inquired the rebels. Just up in front of Dr. Roberts' house, in a piece of woods. Dr. Roberts sent me down to tell you to come up quick, or they'll kill the whole of us. Come in!-come into camp! said the solDr. Roberts sent me down to tell you to come up quick, or they'll kill the whole of us. Come in!-come into camp! said the soldiers. No-no, said the cute African, I've got to go down and tell the cavalry pickets, and can't wait a second. So off he sprang, with a bound, running for dear life — the rebs, discovering the ruse, chasing him for three miles, and he running six, when he got safely into camp, but minus his chickens, which he had dropped at th