Bellefonte, Pa., April 25, 1913. Sten SHENANDOA By HENRY TYRRELL Founded on BRONSON HOWARD'S Great Play A Stirring Story of Military Adventure and of a Strange Wartime Wooing Copyright, 1912, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. SYNOPSIS Beauregard is ready to fire on Fort Sum- ter. Frank Haverill, General Haverlll's scapegrace son, is hiding in Charleston Edward Thornton annoys Mrs Haverill Lieutenant Kerchival West protects her and wounds Thornton In a duel. Fort Bumter is fired upon. to help reform him. Frank enlists in the Union army. Captain Robert Ellingham, Confederats, loves Madeline West. Lieutenant West, Union soldier, loves Gertrude Ellingham. The Union army is routed at Bull Run. Ellingham is with “Stonewall” Jackson in the valley of Virginia. Gertrude decides to return to the Ellingham home at Belle Bosquet, in the valley She gets through the Union lines ac- companied by Belle Boyd, a Confederate | spy. They meet Thornton, who is a pris- | onar. Thornton escapes, captures Lieutenant Bedloe and takes from him Mrs. Haver. fll's miniature. | Bedloe is Frank Haverill. He is taken | to Libby prison. Marie Mason finds her lover, Captain Cox. 8ix Union officers selected as hostages to protect Confederate prisoners threat ened with death are returned to Libby unharmed. | Bedloe escapes from Libby prison. Me. Clellan, Burnside, Halleck and are successively beaten by Lee and Jack- son. | [Continued from last week-] “General,” one of his staff finally said as they moved cautiously down the shadowed road toward Chancellorsville, “don’t you think this is a pretty ex- posed place for you?" “No,” he replied quickly. “The dan- ger Is over, and we must follow up the enemy. Go back and tell A. P. Hill to press right on!" After this no one presumed to offer further remonstrance, and they rode ou in silence. peering uneasily through the half darkness, until suddenly a volley of firing ahead seemed to indicate that they bad run upon a Federal skirmish line. The general turned his horse, but unfortunately went off the route and toward the front of some of his own troops who were lying on their arms and who had no idea that their com- mander bad passed beyond the lines. They fired upon the party, killing one engineer officer and wounding two or three of the signalmen. Jackson turn: ed about and recrossed the road to en- ter his lines at another point when an- other company of Confederates belong- ing to PPender's North Carolina brigade delivered a volley at short range in the confusion and darkness. Jackson's horse bolted, a limb of a tree struck the rider in the face, and be reeled in his saddle. Bob Ellingham rushed forward and caught the bridle rein, while Captain Wilbourn helped the general to dismount. His left arm hung limp, and the officers removed his gauntlets, which were filled with the blood streaming from three wounds which he had received simultaneously. Generzl Hill rode up at this moment and asked Jackson if he was seriously hurt. “1 think my arm is broken.” was the feeble reply. "1 wish you would get we a surgeon” An ambulance took him to the rear At the tield hospital at Wilderness Tav From "Battles and Leaders.” “General Jackson moved cautiously | down the shadowed road.” | ern Dr. Hunter McGuire amputated Jackson's left arm near the shoulder. Early the next morning a note came from General Lee at the front saying: { busy watching the Army of Northern | Longstreet and Hill. tle of Gettyshurg was already planned | James. “l cannot express my regret at the, occurrence. Could | have directed events | should have chosen to be dis- abled in your stead. | congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your energy and skill.” “General Lee should give the praise to God.” sald Jackson, fervently happy at the receipt of this message. It still remained for General Lee to complete the victory which Jackson had begun, and he did so in a series of operations which occupied two strenuous days and Involved risks fully as great as “Stonewall” had taken In his great flanking movement. General Jackson meanwhile bad been removed to the Chandler house, near Guinea Station, on the rallroad from Fredericksburg to Richmond. Here his wife and child joined him, and he was pot only comforted, but seemed to share with those about him the hope of recovery. Then came a change for the worse and pleuro pneu- monia developed. His last words were: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” * * » * * * . “If the head of Lee's army is at Mar tinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and, Chancellorsville the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break bim?¥" So President Lincoln wrote to Gen- eral Hooker toward the middle of June. But the Army of the Potomac was kept Virginia, and the movements of the lat. ter set the pace of action at that time Lee had sent Ewell, Jackson's suc- cessor in command, to the valley to drive the Federal force under Milroy out of Winchester, thus clearing the route for another demonstration to- ward Washington. This accomplished, Ewell bad entered Maryland, followed thither by lL.ee's other two corps under Then. even as Lee had calculated, Hooker also marched northward on a line parallel to his own, but, of course, much nearer to Washington. The bat. in embryo, but the Federal side of it was not to be commanded by “Fighting Joe" Hooker. As soon as the Federal army was ready to cross the Potomac a new leader was put in the saddle in the person of Major General George Gor- don Meade. CHAPTER XI. Whirling Trough Winchester. E great, epical three days’ bat- tle of Gettysburg, the most stu- pendous artillery and infantry combat that ever took place on American soll, saw the high water mark of the rebellicn. Shortly after Pickett's column had dashed itself to pieces against the iron bound, flame fringed Union lines on Cemetery ridge the tide begun to ebb, slowly but stead- ily, back from the hills of Pennsylvania and Maryland, below the old trium- phant lines of the Potomac and the Rappahannock, finally to cease, twenty months later, by the remote banks of the Appomattox. The Federal army, cautiously maneu- vered by Meade, followed Lee into Vir- ginia, but did not attack him, and the remainder of the summer season was one of welcome repose to both sides. At the headquarters of the Federal Army of the Potomac, uow encamped along the Rapidan, General Meade had a gorgeous Solferino silken flag with a golden eagle in a silver wreath embla- soned on it flying over his tent. One day in March a silent, bearded stranger paused in passing to gaze upon this splendiferous emblem as he exclaimed involuntarily: “What's this? Is imperious Caesar anywhere about here?” The bearded stranger was Lieutenant General Ulysses 8. Grant, newly com- missioned in command of all the armies of the United States. The Washington authorities had finally come to the de- cision that their immense plans of cam- paign should be put under one head for execution. Such head must necessa- rily be a hard and stubborn ome. It rested, in the opinion of Mr. Lincoln and of others high in the Federal coun- cils of war, upon the sturdy shoulders of the conqueror of Vicksburg. Gen- eral Grant was not addicted to high military strategy, but for direct tactics and plain fighting he was undoubtedly a match for General Lee. The first important vacancy now to be filled in the Army of the Potomac was that of commander of the cavalry corps. When Grant asked for a chief of cavalry Halleck suggested General Philip Sheridan, who had served with distinction under his own command in the west and under Grant at Chat tanooga. The suggestion therefore was one after Grant's own heart. and he promptly adopted it. The general be- lief indeed was that Grant himself hae selected Sheridan, though such did not happen to be the case. Personally Sheridan was not an im- posing figure. Short and slight, he looked even younger than his age, | which was just past thirty. He was reticent in speech and manner and to a casual observer seemed lacking in the essential qualities of a cavalry | leader which had distinguished such officers in the Federal service as Sum- ner, Sedgwick, McClellan, Thomas, Stoneman and others. ! “Does Sneridan say if he has a free | hand he can beat the enemy's cavalry?” | asked General Grant of General Meade | a few days after crossing the Rapidan | into the Wilderness. sixty miles from Richmond, to fight bis way to the “Then let him go ahead and | do it.” That settled the dispute between | Meade and the new cavalry command- | er, and thereafter the three divisions | of the reorganized Federal mounted force under Generals Torbert, Gregg and Wilson had comparatively loose | ' sorely needed rehabilitation. rein. The cavalry gave a fairly good ‘The bearded stranger was Lieutenant General Ulysses 8. Grant.” account of itself, but it found little or no opportunity for concentrited action in a region where even Grant's infan- try hordes got in euch other's way, even as Hooker's had in that same Wil. derness around Chancellorsville. The sanguinary horrors of the year before were renewed at Spottsylvania and the “bloody angle.” but they could not stop Grant. He could keep up his “hammering” process all summer it necessary, hecause the resources of the Federal reservoir of human supply were 80 much grenter than those of the Confederates that he could afford te lose three men to Lee's one and still ul. timately beat him. At Cold Harbor, the old McClellan battleground. the Federal losses came near to wiping out even this liberal murgia, Meanwhile Sheridan found his long awaited opportunity in a grand raid to- ward Richmond with an overwhelm. ing force, including the enterprising brigades of Custer and Merritt, the ob- ject being to tear up Lee's communui- cation with his capital and to be in a position to dispatch the remainder of the Army of Northern Virginia—if Grant had defeated it in the Wilder General J. E. B. Stuart, C. 8. A,, Caval- ry Leader and Beau Sabreur, ness. This latter part of the program was never carried out, but in opposing it at Yellow Tavern, only a few miles from Richmond, the Confederates lost their gallant cavalry leader and beau sabreur, the incomparable Stuart. Relentlessly the war went on. Lee a second time had checked the Federal forces at the gate of Richmond. Grant, in the middle of June, settled down in front of Petersburg, determined to “fight it out on that line if it took all summer.” It did. In fact, the siege was destined to last ten long, weary months. General Lee sent as large a force as he dared detach under Early, once more to march down the Shenandoah valley and threaten Washington. Sheridan's orders from Grant were to press Early and cut Lee's communi- cations by which he got supplies from the rich valley for his dwindling army. This was a large contract for the young commander of the Army of the Shenandoah. If he could fulfill it, Richmond was doomed and the days of the Confederacy were numbered. Moreover, this was the region where the prestige of the Federal arms most Hence the desirability, as Grant said. of Sheridan's driving the enemy out of the valley and of leaving nothing there to invite thelr return. With some idea of the magnitude of the task before him, but confident in the strong back- ing and broad discretion given him by the lieutenant general, Sheridan made his plans to “sweep the valley so clean that a crow flying over it would have to carry its rations.” The defenders met this move with & relatively small force, but including as many troops as possible who had pre- viously tramped the Winchester pike with “Stonewall” Jackson's “foot cav- alry.” Among these youthful veterans now led by Jubal Early was Colonel Robert Eliingham-still Bob to his Vir- ginla comrades, as once again he faced homeward. Homeward indeed he marched, yet with strange feelings of anxiety and depression. What if the ill turn for- ' and increase the quanti tune had taken of late pursued them : now even beyond the Blue Ridge | mountain walls? Far south, in Geor- | gla, Sherman's army was marching vic. | toriously to the sea. The Confederacy had been cut in twain by the fall of Vicksburg and again by the loss of At- | | lanta. Now Sheridan proposed to es- | | tablish a line of communication with his base of supplies at Washington | that would subdivide Virginia and iso- late Richmond. The hardships as well as the horrors of war were now com- ing home to the people of the valley as never before. But ripened summer was all around. ! and outward peace and plenty abound- ed that late August afternoon when Ellingham galloped up the sunlit linden avenue to Belle Bosquet. Gertrude rushed out from the veranda to meet | him. She was re-enforced by a buxom i and animated young person wearing a blue dress of military cut and a sol- { fier’s cap. i “Why. Miss Buckthorn!" exclaimed | Bob, flinging himself from the saddle ' and throwing the bridle of his horse to | Josephus Orangeblossom. the negro | i | hostler, who grinned an effusive dental welcome. “It is a delightful surprise to see you here—makes me think the war is over.” : “Thank you. Lieutenant—oh. pardon | me! [ mean Colonel Ellingham, of course.” responded Jenny. “Hearts- ease has come over to the valley, and 80 has papa—with General Sheridan. I hope there won't he any serious mis- understanding. Meanwhile | am a prisoner of hospitality. and I'm In no hurry to be exchanged.” “And now. Robert.” Gertrude went »n eagerly, “prepare yourself for more news. Some one else whom you know is coming” ~ “Madeline—but. no" — “But yes! How did you think of It? She was in Washington visiting Mrs. Haverill, and | arged her to come over here and see ns—that before [ knew of General Sheridan's intentions: they keep their plans so secret, you know. But Madeline accepted the Invitation. and she's coming anyway.” | “Hurrah!” cried Bob, flustered out of all self control. “Well, Sis, that's a big | surprise you've sprung—and now, let's see what | can do Iv the same line, | You have announced Madeline, maybe | I can give you some Information about ber brother Kerchival." | Gertrude uttered a little cry and her | baud trembled as she laid it impulsive- | ly upon her brother's shoulder. | “Yes.” he continued, with sudden | seriousness, “you know Sheridan is | bringing over a lot of people. He has | the whole Sixth corps of the Army of | the Potomac, under Major Genera! | Wright, 1 understand, besides a divi- | sion of the Nineteenth corps. and 1 don’t know how much of the Army of | Western Virginia, with General Crook. | Besides, they say be is especially strong | 4 in cavalry, under Torbert. with such | brigadier troopers ax Wilson and Mer- ritt and Custer. Our General Early has i got some re-enforcement from Long- | street's corps and will try to make it! Interesting for Sheridan when be | comes down Winchester way. Yes. | girls, as 1 was saying, we expect to have rather a busy time.” | Poor Bob said this in an offhand, | flippant tone, but he was In an agony { of apprehension lest he should be far | away from Belle Bosquet when Made- | line West arrived—if, indeed, she did safely reach that destination, His fears in regard to the first part | of the proposition were quickly real- ized. The very next day he was or- | dered to join his regiment at Shep- | herdstown. on the Potomac, where the Federal army was starting Its vigorous offensive campaign. Madeline West, as gentle and loving as she was loyal and courageous, came to the valley on the first day of Sep- tember, with the first mellow mists of gold on the Massanutten mountains. Her welcome at Belle Bosquet made the place seem strangely dear to her from the first moment she crossed its threshold. The next day Jenny was seated out- doors under a cottonwood when black Josephus came clattering up on a mule. In half a minute the whole household were listening breathlessly to him: “It's de Lor's truth! De Yankees have done druv de army out from Win- chester!” While they were talking an old mountaineer had slouched up to the gate. unobserved, though plainly enough to be seen. He stood a mo- ment gazing about in almless fashion, then quickly raised the flat stone cap on one of the brick pillars of the gate- way, deposited something beneath it and moved on. CHAPTER XII. Strange Fortunes of War. ERTRUDE excused herself, ran down to the gate, raised the the stone and took a packet of letters from beneath it. “My private postoffice,” she whisper- ed to Madeline. “Here is a line from Robert. You shall read it. 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