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Title: General Nelson's scout
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald), 1842-1926 Wilmer, Richard Hooker, 1918-, former owner
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Publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg and Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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t Fer-ror, he was given a soldiers burial. A year after the war closed, Frederic Shackel-ford, a stalwart young man, sought out the homeof Mrs. Ferror. He found a gray-haired, broken-hearted mother and two lovely young ladies, herdaughters. They had mourned the son and brother,not only as dead, but as forever disgraced, for theyhad been told that Robert had been shot for deser-tion. Fred gave them the little mementoes he hadkept through the years for them. He told themhow Robert had given his life to try and save him,and that the last word that trembled on his lips wasMother. The gray-haired mother lifted her tremblinghands, and thanked God that her son had at leastdied the death of a soldier. Learning that the family had been impoverishedby the war, when Fred left, he slipped $i,ooo inMrs. Ferrors hand, and whispered, For Robertssake; and the stricken mother, through tear-dimmed eyes, watched his retreating form, andmurmured: And Robert would have been justsuch a man if he had lived.
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Fred raised his Head, Ferror ! Ferror ! he cried. CHAPTER XL CRAZY BILL SHERMAN. FREDS wound was not a dangerous one. Theball had gone through the fleshy part of thearm, causing a great loss of blood; but no boneswere broken, and it was only a question of a fewweeks before he would be as well as ever. The story of the two boys charging four Con-federate cavalrymen, killing three, and disablingthe fourth was the wonder of the army. But Fredmodestly disclaimed any particular bravery in theaffair. It is to poor Bob Ferror that the honor shouldbe given, he would say; the boy that knowinglyrode to his death that I might be saved. Fred gave General Nelson the particulars of hiscapture and escape, and the general looked graveand said: If I had known I was going to place you insuch extreme danger, I should not have sent foryou. On account of the crime of young Ferror,you would have met with a most ignominious deathif you had been recaptured; yet the charging onthose four cavalrymen was- one o

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