L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion

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[25] and, without deigning any reply, turned at once, went into the house, and bolted the door. This slight barrier was speedily broken down, and the crowd rushed in. Search was made everywhere-down-stairs and up, under beds, in chimneys, and under the floor; but neither Young nor Scruggs was found. As a last resort, they went to the girl's bedroom; and there — in bed between two full-grown young women — the valiant Young was found snugly hidden away. He was unceremoniously dragged out, and Scruggs, in the meanwhile, having been found in a hay-loft, both were taken to Nashville, and thrown into the penitentiary at that place, awaiting their trial.

After their return to Nashville, Moore and Blue were constantly engaged for a number of months in the investigation of numerous minor cases of smuggling and fraud, and succeeded in making Nashville too hot a place for the swarms of rebel emissaries who had so long made it their headquarters.

At the outbreak of the war, in 1861, a Southern merchant wrote to a large firm in New York, requesting a list of the names of those who supported and sympathized with the “movement against the South.” The New Yorker replied by sending, through Adams & Co.'s Express, a copy of the “City Directory!”