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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Old Bradley, the Tennessee blacksmith. (search)
you to say to the charge? I say that it is a lie, and that he who utters such charges against me is a scoundrel. Simpson, said the chairman to the leader of the band that had captured Bradley, and who now appeared with a large bandage about his head, to bind up a wound which was the result of a blow from the fist of Bradley. Simpson, continued the chairman, what have you to say? The leader then stated that he had tracked the preacher to the blacksmith shop, and that Bradley had false, and that he who makes it is a villain. I accuse him with being a traitor, aiding the cause of the Union, said Simpson. If my adherence to the Union merits for me the name of traitor, then I am proud of it. I have been for the Union--I life lasts. At these words the chairman clutched a pistol that lay upon the table before him, and the bright blade of Simpson's Bowie knife glittered near Bradley's breast; but before he could make the fatal plunge, a swiftwinged messenger of de