Identifier: generalnelsonssc00dunn (find matches)
Title: General Nelson's scout
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald), 1842-1926 Wilmer, Richard Hooker, 1918-, former owner
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Publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg and Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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unexpected to theConfederates that the volley they fired wentwild. As for the horse of the Confederate leader, itreared and plunged, and then fell heavily, pinningits rider to the ground. Two of his men dis-mounted to help him. When he got to his feet,he saw that Freds companions had joined him andthat they all were coming on a charge. Here, Simmons! he yelled. Let me haveyour horse. You take to cover. Now, boys, standfirm; there are only six of them. Here is for oldTennessee! But it takes men of iron nerve to stand still andreceive a charge, and the Federals were coming likea whirlwind. The Confederates emptied their revolvers atclose range, and then half of them turned to flee.It was too late; the Federals were among them,shooting, sabering, riding them down. The fightwas short and fierce. When it was over, eightConfederates lay dead or desperately wounded. Ofthe six Federals, two were dead and two werewounded. Only one Confederate had escaped tocarry back the story of the disaster.
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The Federals were among them, shooting, sabering, ridingthem down. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. 203 and looked with wonder on the dead men andhorses. My good man, said Fred, here are somewounded men that should be looked after. Canyou not do it, or get word to their command? I reckon I kin, slowly replied the countryman.Must had quite a fought. Yes, replied Fred; and this reminds me,boys, we had better get away from here. Wedo not know how many of the enemy may benear. The wounds of the two Federals who had beenhurt were bound up, and they were helped on theirhorses. The bodies of the two dead were then ten-derly placed on two of the Confederate horses whichwere unhurt, and the mournful cavalcade slowlymoved away. Going back to the house which the Confederateshad entered, a distressing sight met their view. On a bed, the master of the house lay dead, shotto death by the murderers. By the bedside stoodthe wife and two daughters, weeping and wringingtheir hands. The face of the widow was cove

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