. LXXVI
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
A. 148th
By 7T PF
Regi
Meyer,
P,
T'o be (
Sergeant Co.
V.
‘ontinued.]
wend,
CHAPTER HE PRISONER'S STORY,
Attempts at escape were constantly
made, but were generally known only
to the trusted few concerned in the
Now and then we heard from
who escaped from the
ed the U
nonce on the
scheme,
soldiers
lines in safety,
there
through
the
coun-
and reac nion
» main land
even chances of getling
zens
Lid
igh
ue ¢ and
throl the
pi lot escaping Un-
1
of
Many
‘oes generally,
ry, would aid and g
FW trial
10001 8 regul lar
¢
d
t scheme in whieh I was con-
for a general ‘break
by
1 fan
cerned was a pian
to make our escape en masse,
a nui-
ruard
It was planned that
at
isoners assemble at esch g
given signal rush
or dispateh
I
and
with
it ved
few
a
4 the
hrs ugh
guard
) trengthencd by the addi-
giment of infantry and five
added to
s commanding our camp, most
artillery were the
the Richmond side of the
hey were now prepar-
and
this
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1 p -
eneral Lreax,
3
1d ¢
was made {i
excitement in our camp,
Richmond, was intense,
rning
ve
ie
and
wom forty-ei
returns
Union
OSSD a siream.
R. R.
of I
Was
contractor,
Haven,
recaptured.
y prison d
de
1 Lhe md
JOCK
hem and
t}
he Lil
live
' rning of
y 1 .
sounded ;
very
yith
vith
Al
VEE
i duri
or
ilar intervals, small
turn in triumph,
rupn-away | . officers, t
ted to Libt
ot
witl
J. 8 0
wy.
fully
that bears the |
I-hound,”
would
fe people, I informed, |
ould
¥ ful nam
¢ that
PAS
judge the dog
e of “blood
In
befiew,
d i
than |
This|
But the fugitive must
for the arrival of the!
Should the fugitive run, and |
not heed the warning growls
blood hound will seize and
‘his, the “Yankees” knew,
fitted by knowledge
one hundred
tun
and trios,
in the street
nized, i
previously planned, traveling only
er night, and hiding in swamp,
ero huts during the day.
no sooner & DAD
come up with a fugitive,
would attack aud tear him.
is not the case
halt, and wait
master,
Our
and beg
As slated
j1i¢ escaped by tl
hat
and n
k for
roug gt I groups au i
of Richmond
directions,
nel ar “home'' ju pal
crowds |
uunrecog-
all
I routes |
aft |
nlong
and ne
General Reed and two companions
moved down the peniosula toward
Fortress Monroe. Early on the morn-
ing of the second night of their escape,
they hid in the brush in a ravine, and
had lain down for rest and the return
of night when something lightly
touched the foot of Gen. ; he rales
ed his head and saw two blood hounds
them, pleasantly look-
They had followed the
trail given them, to the very feet of
the resting men, and smelling the
shoes, touched the foot of Gen, Reed,
and roused him,
A low whistle was heard, and the
Johnny pursuers were on hand, They
said, “Come boys, you will have to go
back,” and all started on thelr return
to Libby,
Almost daily arrivals of prisoners
rapidly swelled the number, until
Belle Island Camp, twice enlarged,
was 8 privop-pen city of over eight
thousand, made up of all classes of
men known to the world : Students,
lawyers, doctors,” teachers, mechanics,
and machinists, every trade and
branch of art and industry, had its
representatives here, by masters in
their line as well a= scamps and cheats
in great numbers, dying by degrees,
There were toy, relic and memento
Continued at foot of next column,
teed
standing over
ing at them,
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kK sold at
young
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was slo
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heifers bringi: .
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Peagth of J. 1, 8 Gast
John Daniel Nps ker Gast, who has
in the in
{ Mifllinburg longer than any other mer-
chant of the
| been mercantile business
town, and was the propri-
business
183 died
1830,
oldest continuous
$
ing fre
town, da 347)
i
Wednesday of last week,
Mr. Gas born in
Nov. 24, 1835, died Dec
years and eight days,
of Henry
sth deceased
Was Mifflinburg,
1903, aged
He
Mary
ight
the son and
He is survived by one son, Harry A.
daughters, Margaret,
Snodgrass; Mayme, wife
F. Roush, and Katharine, wife
A. Kurtz, all ing in Mifflin
He is also survived by one
brother, Dr. J. R. Gast, of Mifflinburg,
and J. A. Moantelius,
of Piper City,
and three
tof Guy
fN.
resid
one sister, Mrs
Il.
Continued from first column
8 restaurant where corn-pone
was sold, barber shops, jewelry shops,
Market street, so called, was on
every fair day crowded fromm morning
till night, with mes, ragged and dirty,
loudly offering something to sell and
extolling its merits, with an earnest.
ness that rivaled a stock exchange.
stores,
ete,
There all imaginable things, pecul-
iar to the place, consisting largely of
toys and curios made in camp, were
hawked, sold and traded. Some of
the finest specimens of “‘wood-cuts
ting,” earvings in wood, ivory, human
and beef bones, wonderful in design
and workmanship ; also, beautiful pen-
cil drawings and landscape sketch.
ings, and famous battle scones,
It was the more distressing to see so
many talented and highly educated
men in rags, loaded down with filth,
dirt and vermin, down to the level of
barbarism, slowly but surely dying,
Common pocket knives were the
only earving tools and common lead
pencils, the only Instrumsents of are,
There was absolutely nothing for the
prisoners to do here. Therefore, for
want of occupation for the mind, many
fell to brooding, scolding, cursing the
war and the stoppage of exchange.
HALL,
PA.,
RSDAY,
By H. 1
$'/
ide
air of
has
oak-covered
Much w added to the
tery and romance which
surrounded the steep,
knoll near Pine Station,
ty, when, in 1860,
digging a cut for ti
Erie Railroad,
tion
house,
as mys-
always
Clinton ecoun-
some workmen in
1e Philadelphia &
the fi
rand block-
unearthed unda-
of an ancient stockade
3
From that time to the pre
antiquarians and local hist
wrangled over the name and tradition
of this fort, e le
ruins of Fort
ture of
columups
ni claring |
Fforn e, in
more recent co
have
pers,
Deen
newspn apparet
the
thi
nr
my al
mote
vl
less = ys} who hit nts the spot where
the i
Hill its name,
From t
of Pine
be tl
fortr
that
pers
dian fig
hi
nage
biter, wi
still earlier set
1:4
sil
blo
his
leaped
the
out
ouvt
Lieut
the
on tie
trappers to unbolt the
done i
ked
Venrs, rihy aud b
a qu
a you of about twenty.
five arded,
in
mai
trappers, &
guug, the
of ammunition.
set i-milila semi-back wood
y : . ‘
# ERTD. owe
+ ¥s 5
ACE
last one Leavy
bag «
Lieut.
the
sucl
quehanna,
was amazeq Lo
Numero Six’
iy
id
Bushong
of post
ur and so {
but befor uld express
Le the leader of
exclaimed ; “Excuse
here, Hir, but an unfortiu-
has happened. One of our
Indian Medicine man
on yesterday. The
we fled for our
ZArrison
an hi down the
his smazement, dru,
the
our
neweomers,
presence
nate thing
men Killed
named Two Pines
Redskins are «
lives.
HA grave
der,’”’ said
“No mat
Was contrary
an
uraged ;
a grievous blun-
Lieut. Bushoug, calmly.
what the provocation, it
to the policy of our come.
mistake,
r
pany ; but since your man has destroy-
ed the life of this Indian, you had bet-
ter make yourselves comfortable here
until the matter can be referred to the!
Council of Chiefs."
Both pa lies of trappers were soon |
exchanging reminiscences, Lieut,
Bushong aud Le¢ Brun discussed in!
under tones the different phases or the
unfortunate killing. The beautiful
Jacqueline Le Van resumed her volu-
minous diary writing, and the block-|
houses once more resumed its night
time tranquility.
Next morning, to make sure, a recon-
nolssance was taken from the little
walch-tower on top of the fort. No|
Indians were reported in sight, so the
whole party spent the day sunning
snd packing furs to be shipped down
the river. About b o'clock in the afi.
ernoon, Louis La Fitte, a little hump- |
backed Frenchman, who was said to
have slain the Medicineman, went out
in the stockade to chop some "wood, |
but he had scarcely raised his axe be
fore a well-directed bullet, fired evi:
dently by an Indian, pieroed his skull,
and he fell over, dead | This 8 inennt
that the refugees had
i
|
|
ker, Yort
and a skirmish
Fitte’'s body
Ho one
New City.
was imminent,
was left out over night,
caring to run the risk
after it, but just
companions buried
fell, Howeve
darkness
him near where he
'r, the cover of partial
proved deceptive.
re-enter the
|
they
the
could
need a fusilade,
ling two Frenchmen,
Bushong hurried
just in time to see a band of Red-
skulking from
Lieut
away a
4 Ridg re, a point of high gr
fort. Quickly
having the
big burly
gony. Then he
which
numbered five
ouna
theast of the
and fired,
fl e
seeing BAVAL
11
iil
death a
the
ides himself
to man the
summoned garrison,
, DOW
read
had he given this
bullets from
n the
¢ : ver Ton fo
eplied gallantly
gun-holes in
an attack. Hardly
when a shower of
gan to rain ino
encnman 1 3
ie honors were
he Ind
LiANSs
ever.
ur
nunition,
mint i
braves emerged from their
1 aade
iock-hi
Lhelr
use, th
unc
t
the
il by
reckless courage
aie the stockade, but
eared above th
tu t.2
aa
ie ordered the
¥ Val taabl ©8 RDOAT
moored the
and make
next block-house,
ii WAS On
he fort dowi
whicl
on
The
an
I preity nearly
+1 sy #
vie present
iinmsport., SUrvivors,
a cl {io escape,
hides
hid.
aud
most valuable
from its
the guns
them nix
ae money
ip
sled
fit sper t
tacked
ad Ie
ard
in em!
nents was vaiuabie
he Indians :
wilh
ly was
fire began anew
wag, Le Brun, and Jae
heir firearms and
Lieut.
re-
‘he
trappers to
he
got out of fir- |
stating that
until they
siream,
ct them
stance
at the
¢, Lhe
noon hour,
r, aud
and
the «
in
Bushong, Jacqueline,
BWA) swirls
When
mid-stream, Lieut,
and Le Brun
made u dash from the back exit of the
block-house and down a steep bank to
the canoe, Half way an Indian bul-
let laid low Le Brun, and regardless of
their own great danger, the Lieut.
and Jacqueline stopped and bent over
his prostrate form, to ascertain the
amount of his injuries.
Quick as a flash, a young Indian
who had crept around from the ridge
and lain concealed in some water
birches by the river's edge, sprang for-
ward, and unobserved drew Lieut.
Bushong’s sword from the seabbard :
then he dealt a terrific blow which
War soon J
urrent.
fely
his shoulders, and in another instant
hie grasped Jacqueline by the hair and
dragged her back into the bushes, As
he caught her she uttered a piercing
scream which was heard by the trap-
the raft, now almost to
In a couple of
more minutes a crowd of nine or ten
| Redskins emerged from the brush,
Their leader, the Chief SBusquee, pick-
fed up the severed head of the Lieut,
| and danced and waved it about, final
{ly pitching it out into the river, ere
{it dyed the water red as it sunk.
But even death did not bring peace
to the brave spirit of Lieut. Gaston
Bushonug, as now the farmer boys who
cross this fateful hill at noon, even
when the summer sun shines bright-
est, aver that they see a headless figure
in powder staloec imentals, search.
| log amon jibe fag splings, poke
swreles, elders, and EI vines, per
haps for the head he seems never des-
tined to find, but which found him an
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A Fent of Horsemanship,
For the sake of a
ble feat of horsemansh
years ago accomplished by a
ing nobleman in a certain
mansion. He made
a friend that he would
from the ground floor of the
the top and down again. His steed re
quired a good deal of persuasion to at.
tempt the task, but it was finally per
formed, though the damage done to the
stair carpets and other things amount:
od to almost $1,000, which had to be
paid by the winner,
Hasty Afterthounght,
“Policeman,” said the stranger, ad-
dressing the officer who was guarding
the muddy crossing, “ean you direct
mee.
Here he slipped and fell.
«to the nearest place,” he contin.
ved, gathering himself up and survey.
Ing his solled garments, “where they
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Wager a remarsa
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NO.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
'ENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM AL
r $1.00 a 5
PARTS.
y
i EVET
. and
r Bald
urned
non
hen.
FONG
and
child's
ight
were
almost c
face was ui
ey
her eyes being d
pala we Of
World's fair, at St.
Fhe
oEioultane
Louis, is
the
inrg~
COD
at
the
netructed
It
mor
est building ever o io
ngie department, is Hi6x
than
The
but as it
its actual floor
contains
res floor s
0 by S00
three ad
Inn is 4
sLOT I
twenty pace.
naide feet,
three
# high
space exceeds
riculture
that of the great ag-
building.
Dr. J. E. Ward is just home from a
two weeks’ stay in Ipswick, South Da-
kota, and so enthusiastic is he about
the resources and products of that great
Stale that a stranger would class him
at ounce as a real estate agent employs
ed by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, says the Watchman, Ipswick
is the county seat of Edmunds county
and the Doctor was so favorably ime
pressed with its advantages that he
and his brother-in-law bought upa
tract of land and are going into the
business on their own account.
Mrs. Benjamin Bitoer, of Fidelity,
Jasper county, Missourl, accompanied
by her son, Charles Bitner, arrived st +
this piece last week, It is about
twenty-three yearssince Mrs, Bitner
and her husband went west. The
Bitners at ove time lived vast of ens
tre Hall, on the farm now occupied by
Adam Neese, sod owned by Bamuel
Bruss, This is Mrs, Bitner's first visit
east. Ii is needless to say that she
was a very welcome guest at the home
of her step<uother, Mrs. Catharine
Durst. The son, Charles Bitner, is en-
aged with ulead mining company.