Narrow Escapes

When we asked R.N. Sanders of Company B 2nd Virginia what his close call was, he quickly answered it took place near Lewisburg, West Virginia and the affair made a vivid impression on his memory, though he thought it wasn’t anything particularly startling.

“Were you in the war?” asked the reporter, as he leaned back in one of the cozy chairs of Henry Woodfin’s parlor and addressed the proprietor himself.

“There” said Cyrus Palmer, at the G.A.R. fair, as we leaned over the railing at the relic department, “is a sash I took from a Rebel Gen. Tracy, at the Battle of Thompson’s Hill, or as some call it, Magnolia Hill, in Mississippi, on the first day of May 1863.”

A sketch of the ‘Haps” and Mishaps’ of a dismounted cavalryman in front of Stuart’s Pursuing Troopers by Jos. A. Lesage Company G 1st West Virginia Cavalry.

Samuel Sparling was a member of Company G 4th Ohio Cavalry. He went early into the war with Capt. Edwin Rogers. We haven’t found many of the boys of this gallant regiment and was consequently delighted when we found that it was in that organization that our old friend, Sam Sparling, did his fighting for the Union.

William G. Lambert was a member of Company H 6th Ohio Cavalry, and fought through the war. We asked him for a “Narrow Escape,” and he told us of getting into a close hitch one time when his horse was shot from under him. “But don’t tell that – that was the horse’s ‘Narrow Escape.’

Esq. J.Q. Bellville sat in his office, last Friday, receiving the congratulations of his friends on the entrance that day, upon his second term as Magistrate of Upper Township, when the Register man drew near and offered his friendly wishes, at the same time taking occasion to ask

“Well, Captain Jake Emmons, it’s your time” said the Register reporter to Capt. Jake Emmons as he was getting a span of nags together for a ride to Portsmouth.

Brady Steece wears a buckshot in his arm. It was planted there one hot July afternoon, down in Virginia, near Winchester. He didn’t like it at the time, but now he is proud of his little

Capt. I. B. Murdock was in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and was in all the fights of that fighting regiment. The event which he described to us was not a bloody one, but it was rather exciting.