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Title: Battleground adventures, the stories of dwellers on the scenes of conflict in some of the most notable battles of the civil war.

Year: 1915 (1910s)

Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940, ed Thomson, Rodney

He searched from the cellar to the roof.There was nt any place he did nt search in, I tell you. Heturned up the beds, and he looked in the wardrobes andclosets. He even pulled open the bureau drawers, and Isaid, Do you think Captain Turner is small enough toget in there? At last he climbed out of a dormer window onto the slateroof, crawled up to the ridge, and looked down the chimney.I dont know how on earth he ever got up there. When hewas comin back his feet slipped, and I leaned out of thewindow and just managed to ketch him by his two arms. Iheld on and hollered, Help! One of his men come rushing up the steps, and Mawcome, too. They helped pull him in. Oh! he gasped, you have saved my life. He was speakin to me. I did nt do it from choice, Isaid, but because I did nt want a dead Yankee on theplace on Sunday afternoon. That was a close call for him. If hed fallen three storiesonto our brick-paved yard hed have been killed.

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