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March 7, 1895
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CHAPTER V.
CARRYING TBI NEWS.
Bad not Jake j Slack possessed a stoat
heart he would hare quailed at poshing
cat in the middle of a dark night on a
road of which be had no knowledge
and possessing the disadvantage of be
ing occupied by neither Union nor Con
federate troops. Between the rain and the
artillery and the wagons, the roads were
all oat to pieces. Water stood every
where, and often where the way passed
over a depression in the ground it was
necessary to pass through small lagoons.
Thia in the daytime, when one might
keep the road by observing the fences,
when there were any, would not have
been so difficult, but overshadowed by
the great black wings of night there
was absolutely no guide save by feeling
underfoot or an occasional glimmer
ahead indicating that the way lay
through an opening in the forest
Tom floundered along at a very slow
pace. Jakey found it not only difficult
to keep him in the road, but impossible
to keep out of mudholes when on it
Now Tom's fore legs would sink into a
soft spot and again would splosh into a
deep rut, or one leg would be in the rut
while the other was on the higher
ground. Then he would flounder, while
Jakey held on to the saddle with all his
strength to keep from being thrown off
by Tom's wri things. All the while a
drizzling rain was slowly working its
way through Jakey's jackot to get at
the skin. The boy tried to guide his
horse for awhile, but finally concluded
that Tom was far better qualified to
find his way than he was himself, and
dropping the reins on the pommel of
the saddle turned his nndivided atten
tion to keeping his seat Every now
and . then Tom would stop and look
about him, as much as to say,. "Jakey,
I don't like the looks o' things at all. "
But if Jakey understood him he made
no comment on the remark. He bad
placed Tom in command and did not
propose to interfere. i
Just before morning the darkness
grew thicker. Tom had for several
miles proved himself worthy of the con
fidence reposed in him and kept the
road, but all of a sudden he brought np
against a snake fence.
Jakey was discouraged. He knew
Tom had lost the road, and as for hiin- 1
self he did not feel competent to find
it again. Bringing the horse sideways
to the fenoe, he slid off on to the top rail
and then down on to the ground. Hold
ing the reins and leading Tom for he
dared not leave him, lest he might not
find him again the boy groped aroand
for awhile looking for the road. It was
of no use. uo where he would, there
were only stumps and grass, every hol
low being filled with water.
He thought of lying down in a fence
corner to sleep till morning. But he did
not like to do this, for fear that, once
asleep, he would not wake up till late
the next day, and then the southern
army might be away from Tullahoma,
with all its stores, and perhaps there
were a great many other advantages
they would gain that caused Jakey, be
ing a good Union boy, to wince, though
he could not name thom. But there
seemed no alternativa It oould not be
more than two hours before daylight
would show him the road, and he re
luctantly concluded to go into bivouac
As he was looking for a good, broad,
flt rail to stretch himself on, Tom put
his nose over his shoulder affectionately
and rested it there. Never before had
Jakey felt so deeply any interchange of
sympathy with a dumb bruta
"Tom, ole critter," he said, putting
his arms about the horse's neck, "'this
air lonesome. "
And Tom seemed to respond as plain
ly as if the words were spoken:
"Jakey, you bet"
Maybe Tom had an object in view
more important than an offer of sympa
thy. Maybe he had something to com
municate. At any rate as Jokey stood
with his arms around the lowered neck
and looking over it he espied a light
"Golly. Tom," he exclaimed, "I
reckon y' sor't" '
In a moment he had climbed the fence
and had regained his place in the sad
die. Then, pointing the horse's head di
rectly for the light, with a "Git up,
Tom," rider and horse were soon away
in the direction of its appearance.
Suddenly there was an ominous click,
which in the stillness of the night sound
ed with all the distinctness of the cock
ing of a gun.
"Whocomt dare?"
"Mister, can y' put rue on ter the
road?"
"Who you vas?"
"I'm a boy, I air."
"Vat yon want?"
"I want ter go ter Manchester."
"Vat for?"
Jakey thought a moment before re
plying. The question occurred to him,
Was this surely a Union picket? No
Confederate would be likely to chal
lenge with a German accent
"I've got some information fo' Mr.
Rose Rose what's his name?"
"Sheneral Rosecrans?"
"Tes."
Jakey was led over a stubble field
which had not been planted since the
previous season and brought before
group of half a dozen tents, the head
quarters of the colonel commanding the
th cavalry brigade. The colonel had
sot yet risen. Jakey's oonductor ex
plained to the sentinel on post that the
boy bad important information, where'
upon the sentinel shouted, loud enough
to wake the whole army, "Corporal of
the guard!" The summoned soldier
came, and it was explained to him that
Jakey had important information. The
corporal went off to fetch the officer of
the guard.
"What you want, sonny?" asked that
person when he arrived, buttoning a
coat he had just put on.
"I don't want nothin."
"Oh, you don't I thought you did. "
"Reckon I gotsomep'n you uns want,
bnt I'm gittin tired answerin questions
bout it"
"WelL what is it, my little man?"
"I ain't no little man. I'm a boy."
"Can't you tell me what you have
for us?" asked the officer, smiling.
"Can't tell nobody but somebody
big."
"I don't know anybody bigger than
our chief of staff about here. I'll call
him."
So the chief of staff was called up
and informed that Jakey had informa
tion of the enemy. 'The chief of staff
called up the colonel commanding, who
suddenly appeared at the tent door in a
pair of trousers and a woolen shirt
It was evident from the moment the
colonel espied Jakey sitting on old Tom
In front of the tent and Jakey espied
the slender figure of the colonel, with
his blue eyes and light hair, that they
had met before, not only that they had
met, but that they must have been unit
ed by some cord of great durability.
There were two exolamations like pistol
shots.
"Big brother!" from Jakey.
"Little brother!" from the coloneL
Colonel Mark Maynard strode up to
the boy, took him in his arms, and
Jakey might have as well been in the
embrace of a bear for a time, while not
a word was spoken. Then there was a
fusillade of questions and answers,
after which the oolonel took Jakey into
his tent and sat him on his own camp
cot Jakey lost no time in giving a brief
aooount of his trip from school, how he
had slept at the guerrilla's house and
how his father had heard of the evacua
tion of Tullahoma.
The colonel, throwing open the tent
flap and seeing his chief of staff outside,
called him in.
"Captain," he said, "ride over to
corps headquarters and say that a boy
has just come in who is sent by his fa
ther to say that he slept last night at
the house of a guerrilla, who told his
wife, not knowing that he was over-
heard, that they are getting out of Tul- I
lahoma. Say that the information is
perfectly reliable, as it has been brought
by a Union boy who went with me on
my most important mission when I was
a scout and rendered me on that occa
sion the most valuable service a human
being can render another. Ride at once.
Never mind the division commander.
There's no time to spare for army eti
quette. Go."
The captain saluted, and without
waiting for his own horse to be saddled
mounted the horse of an orderly and
dashed away.
' CHAPTER VL
TULLAHOMA.
Colonel Maynard was ordered to push
forward down the road from Manches
ter toward Tullahoma in order to test
the truth of Jakey Slack's information.
Jakey begged permission to go with
him, but the colonel told him that be
had better go back to his father and
sister. Jakey argued that he could as
well return from Tullahoma if they
should reach it, and, if not, from any
point where they might halt The colo
nel at last consentedj and as they rode
off he remarked to the members of his
staff, using the conventional military
phrase for announcing a staff officer in
orders, "Gentlemen, this is Jacob Slack,
volunteer aid-de-camp to the colonel
commanding the th cavalry brigade,
and will be obeyed and respected as
suoh." The announcement, couched in
these terms, so delighted Jakey that he
caine well nigh losing his balance and
falling off old Tom's back and getting
himself trampled on by the rest of the
staff. Bnt after the first flurry he made
a most efficient aid-de-camp that is,
if riding close beside the colonel and
eing always ready for an order which
was never given constitutes a good staff
officer.
About noon the fortifications around
the town of Tullahoma suddenly appear
ed before them. Though it was plain
now that they were not to be defended,
the advancing foroe half expected to see
a cloud of smoke burst from them. But
they were silent and impotent, without
troops to man them.
Dashing from the edge of the wood,
Colonel Maynard, followed by Jakey
and the rest of the staff, rode over the
intervening space, and in a few min
utes were climbing the slanting sides
of the earthworks. A point had been
gained which, without the previous ma
neuvers, would have cost thousands of
lives. Even Jakey Slack, who can hard
ly be called an eduoated soldier, expe
rienced a certain comfort on riding un
opposed over breastworks so formidable.
Once within them, he got off his horse,
and seeing a big siege gun from under
which the carriage had been burned
climbed on to it and sat a-straddle, wav
ing his hat and cheering as vociferously
as if the victory had been exclusively
due to his own genius.
His hilarity was suddenly quenched
by the colonel, who, riding up to him,
told him that the brigade was ordered
forward in pursuit of the retreating
enemy, and that he must go back to
his father and sister. Jakey begged hard
to go on, but his appeal was unavail
ing. His brief dignity must be resigned.
From aid-de-camp on the staff of the
oolonel commanding the th brigade,
"to be obeyed and respected as suoh,"
be must be reduoed to the level of a
small boy.
The colonel gave him a hug before
parting and told him that he would
send a trooper with him to Bee him safe
ly on his way. Had Jakey been a sol
dier his action on this occasion would
have been considered by any court mar
tial rank mutiny.
"D'y think I hain't nobody nohow?
Didn't I go with y' last summer ter
Chattanooga when y' war nuthin but a
scout? 'N didn't I stay in jail with y'?
'N now yer talkin 'bout sendin a sojeT
inn me fo' a nurse. "
"All right, Jakey. Go it alone if yon
prefer it"
The colonel rode away, and Jakey,
shorn of the plumage he had worn so
becomingly for a whole half day, pro
ceeded on bis return journey. He first
inquired the most direct route to Hills
boro, and having been directed to it he
set off at a brisk trot He had eaten
nothing since early morning and was
ravenously hungry. At a farmhouse by
the way he secured a meal for himself
and a good feed for Tom. Then the old
woman who furnished them gave him
a kiss and started him again on bis
journey.
Jakey had not gone far before he
came to a road connecting Hillsboro
with the MacMinnville branch' of the
railroad at a place called Concord. The
road on which he was traveling forked
into the other at an acute angle, the two
running nearly parallel for a short dis
tance. Looking ahead toward the fork,
be saw a rig which struck him at once
as being astonishingly familiar. It was
none other than the rawboned horse and
paint bereft buggy he had seen several
times before. As it drew near, Jakey
could see some one in the buggy, and
he was not long in recognizing the pe
culiar dress of Miss Betsy Baggs.
"Hello, Miss Baggs I Whary' goin
at?" he called.
Never a word spoke Miss Baggs. She
sat bolt upright in her buggy, regard
ing the boy fixedly as Bobby Lee trian
gulated onward. As she passed she
turned her head slowly, keeping her
spectacles on Jakey with an unearthly,
stare. There is something superstitious'
in all human beings and especially in
boys. Something like a shiver ran down
Jakey's back at sight of this singular
person, who knew him perfectly, yet
who passed him, her head turning me
chanically, without uttering a word.
For a moment he was tempted to believe
that Miss Baggs had perished, and this
was her ghost going to seek rest in
some other land than war scarred Ten
nessee. But this feeling was momenta
ry. Throwing it off, he shouted:
"Shell I give yer love ter Rats when
I see him?"
If Miss Baggs was trying to make the
boy believe he was mistaken, or that he
saw her disembodied spirit, her effort
failed signally at this point A peal of
suppressed laughter came back on the
breeze to Jakey. Looking after her, he
saw the back of the buggy, from which
streamed the tatters of the top and un
der it Bob Lee's four legs mingled in
inextricable confusion, doing some of
their best work.
"She uns hain't bent on no good,"
said Jakey to himself as he gave Tom a
jog. "Reckon she's up ter somep'n. "
Jakey rode on musing upon Miss
Baggs. He had noticed her kind treat
ment of his sister, and as Jakey was
disposed to regard Souri the most im
portant person on earth after Colonel
Maynard Miss Baggs had thus found
her way into that youthful something
or other which for want of a better
name may be called Jakey's heart. His
remark was made with great serious
ness. Jakey felt that it was his duty as
a Union sympathizer to put some one
(ju Miss Baggs' track. "She mought be
orken fo' the Confederates," he mus
ed, " 'n then agin she moughtn't. "
The latter view was most agreeable to
him, because he liked Miss Baggs and
would grieve to see any harm come to
her.
While he was jogging along, turning
the matter over in his mind, he saw
several horsemen in blue and yellow
come tearing down the road. They rein
ed in when they came up with him and
opened a volley of questions.
"Say, boy, did you see a woman with
K striped dress and goggles go by?"
" 'N a long legged wind busted crit
ter?" "Yes."
" 'N an ole rattlin buggy?"
"Yes."
"What d'y' want with her?"
"Never mind that Have you seen
her?"
"Waal, never mind whether I have or
not. Git up, Tom!"
This brought the questioner to terms.
"Are you a Confederate boy?"
"Don't I live in Tennessee?" '
"I suppose that means you are Con
federate. x We've no time to lose. The
woman in that buggy is is" He
was conjuring up a story to deceive the
"Hello, Miss Baggs!"
stupid looking boy before him and get
the required information, but he was
not good at inventions. Jakey came to
the rescue.
"Wanted by you una' general or colo
nel or somep'n?"
"Yes."
"Fo ter keep ner outen danger coz
she's like nuff to run inter a guerrilla
camp?"
The man looked wonderingly at the
boy, who was making a story for him
unasked.
"Y-e-s," he replied, uncertain what
to say.
"Waal, she's gone along thar. When
y git ter tn' tork in tn' roaa, take tn
left fork."
"All right Thanks, my little man,"
and the party galloped away to take the
wrong road on reaching the fork.
Jakey pursued his course meditative
ly-
"Reckon that warn't me done thet
'X must a ben some un else. 1 air a
Union boy, I air. She un's Confedor
ate. Like nuff some un got spicion of
her. Reckon I can't be Union ef I help
m
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Notwithstanding the view taken at
the close of Jakey's soliloquy, he felt
very much dissatisfied with himself. He
rode on thoughtfully, wondering what
Colonel Maynard would say if he should
know what he bad done. He soon met
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"Waal," said Jakey, taking his cue
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him all over th' United States."
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father. "Go in 'n git yer supper. "
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