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came to our house and on finding that we had several woolen

suits of underwear, socks, etc., ready to send away, she insisted

that we put them all on her that she might wear them and go
through the Federal lines and take them to our soldiers. I
believe that she succeeded in getting on nine suits of these
clothes and when she reached Jaeksonport, she was given some
valuable papers to be taken with her. She reached her destina-
tion safely but was months in returning home again. After the

battle of Pea Ridge, Lieut. Green Brandenburg (afterwards my
husband) sent to me a letter telling of his safety, and that his
company had been dismounted and that he had sent to me his

pony. This horse was brought by a colored boy, "Dick," who
belonged to me, but who gladly went into the Confederate army
and staid until the war ended. This pony was the cause of much

anxiety on my part, for I constantly feared that the "Yankees"

would get him. I remember to have sat on him a whole day
once to keep them from taking him off. They got to be very
insulting and I thought once I would have to give him up, but
they finally went away promising to return that night. After
a long night's watching, I decided that they had been joking,
and were not coming for the horse, for that time a least. The
pony lived to do us good service long after the war closed. I

helped my poor old father to count and securely pack twelve

thousand dollars in gold to be sent to Little Rock, by James
K. Polk Pritchard, to be turned over to the Confederacy. I
remember to have seen the receipt for this money in very recent
years. It was all we had left, but we gave it so proudly and

gladly."

GENERAL FORREST'S TRIBUTE.

Gen. Dick Taylor, who entertained for Gen. Forrest ia
high admiration, once asked the latter what was the great secret
for success in military matters, Forrest repied he knew of but
one rule, "Git there first, with the most men."