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82 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
sequence of this, some of our over-suspicious "patriots
" went to General Hogg and implied that the
enemy had forces but a short distance north of us
and that the slow running and the many stoppages
of the train was done evidently through treachery,
and that the plan apparently was to give the enemy
an opportunity to capture the train with the men
and munitions on board.
I had been riding on a rear platform, conversing
with Mr. Wingo, when I proceeded to General
Hogg's coach, and found him considerably excited.
In answer to my inquiry he told me what had been
intimated and said the suggestion, he thought, was
a plausible one, and that he had about determined
to order the train forward at all hazards. He was
rather an irritable man, and his suspicions were easily
aroused. I endeavored to quiet him, and did so for
a time, by explaining the situation, and pointed out
the danger we would be in of colliding with some
other train unless the utmost caution was used, as
was being done; and finally told him that I had
known the conductor since he was a small boy, had
gone to school with him, and was sure there was no
treachery in him. It was not a great while, however,
before others came around with similar evil suspicions,
until the general was wrought up to such a
pitch that he peremptorily ordered the train run
through to Corinth, regardless of consequences, else
some dire calamity would overtake every person in
charge of it. Well, we made the rest of the journey
in very good time, at the risk of many lives, but fortunately
without accident. For this our friend and
new brigadier-general was on the next day ordered
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/90/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.