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How Jclittbn.l ••lt;nrro;:ni!.- ! Them.Cumberland, K. 1.. furnished her full proportion of suMhr.s during rhe Revolution, ami when the war closed a number from other scctiuus of the country came to make tbeir homes iu Cumber lund till there was quite a community of veterans in this part of the town, near the Ballou Meeting House, where was situated a tavern built very soon after the close of the war, famous for good cheer in the old staging days, kept by Major William Ballou, who gave the veterans a soldier’s welcome. Seldom was a winter evening so cold or stormy that a goodly number could not gather there and relate “their deeds of valor done. Many were the stories, grave and gar. told before the glowing logs of that wide fireplace, and some have been related from father to sou until the present generation.One of these old tales is told of Icha-bnd Howard, who was once assigned to picket duty. At some distance he saw seven Hsiens of the British army, who stacked their arms and climbed the trees for apples. Alone he approached them, and. leveling his gun at them, ordered them to surrender. They descended, and Howard, standing between them and their gnus, shouted the names of other soldiers, telling them not to lire if the men would consent to go to camp, at the same time ordering the prisoners to inarch. The Ilcssians, believing that lie was accompanied by others and being forbidden to turn around on pain of instant death, marched before Icbabnd Howard to camp, where the brave man delivered the prisoners to his commanding officer. When Jcha-bod was asked how ho managed to capture seven men alone, ho replied, “I surrounded them.”—Spirit of ’70.
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Accomac Peninsula Enterprise
Accomac, Virginia, US
Sat, Oct 09, 1897
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