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 XXVII.

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Starts home on veteran furlough--Trouble at the table--Bluffs the Captain--Suspected of being a rebel spy--Commissioned officer serves him at the table--Kind attentions at home-- Silences an old maid--Returns to the front--Shot at twenty-one times--The remedy--A Union lady--The dwarf weaver--The weaver beheaded--Goes into Marietta as a spy--Confederate side of the lines--Escape from the rebs--General McPherson's death--Hard fighting 331