Four Years a Scout and Spy "General Bunker", One of Lieut. General Grant's Most Daring and Successful Scouts, Being a Narrative of ... the Experience of Corporal Ruggles During Four Years' Service as a Scout and Spy for the Federal Army

CHAPTER XIII.

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Reconnoiters Hickory Flats with a squad of seven men--Shoots at the mark--Orders to march with two days' rations--Cause of the alarm--Reconnoiter beyond Whitesville--Major Mudd's trap-- "Bunker" entices the rebs into it--Rides into the trap behind rebel Captain--Sent out beyond Pocahontas--Passes as a rebel artillerist--Secesh citizen stands guard for him--The a very kind secesh lady--The anxious wife--Discovers guerrillas burning a human being 139