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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pistol practice. (search)
From the army of the Kanawha. The correspondent of the Lynchburg Republican, in alluding to the recent retreat of Rosencranz, writes: We pursued the enemy as far as Mrs. Tyrel's — some eight miles--when we returned. (By the way, Mrs. T. is quite a favorite with our army.) Though both her sons are volunteers, and her husband one of our most reliable scouts, yet Mrs. T. positively refused to flee from her home on the approach of the enemy. She penned her chickens, hogs, and cattle under her own eye, and, armed with nothing but a single gun and a brave spirit, she determined to stand her ground and protest herself and property. When the enemy approached, they pitched into her chicken-coop and garden and she pitched into them. With a pitch-fork she run them out of her house, and returning to the other side of her house, she found several Hessians cutting her cabbbage and bearing them off. Snatching up her gun and levelling it at them, they dropped their plunder and retreat