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When we got to Bryan's, Rogers was saying when Abner again began to listen,
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Girty an' Caldwell an' ther Wyandottes hed fled. The stockade hed held out agin 'em, an' all inside wuz safe. But, land o' liberty! whut a ruination all about the outside o' them walls! Oveh three hundurd dead cattle an' hogs an' sheep lay strowed 'round through the woods; the big cawnfiel's wuz cut down an' tromped an' ruined; so wuz the flax an' hempfiel's; an' the tater craps an' the other gairden stuff wuz pulled up. No wondeh we thusted fur vengeance. So us rescuin' parties an' the Bryan Station fo'ces, afteh a night consultation, set out et daybreak nex' mawnin' to folleh up an' punish. We thought ef we hurried we could soon ketch up with the enemy; so we didn't wait, as some o' the oldeh men advised, fur the reinfo'cements whut Gen'ral Logan hed already started.
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Had we waited, interrupted Gilcrest sadly,
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Maybe so, assented Rogers,
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Who can depict the horrors of that day! Gilcrest ejaculated.
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It has been estimated that at least one-tenth of all the able-bodied men in Kentucky either fell on that battlefield, or were carried captive to meet lingering death by torture. You see, he continued,
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An' thet, said Rogers, taking up the narrative,
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Yes, said Gilcrest,
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Fo'tunately, Rogers put in,
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I, who hadn't been so close pressed, hed hed time to reload my rifle. So we left thet Injun varmint rollin' in the dust with a bullet in his back, an' you an' me jumped on thet hoss an' swum the river. But, pshaw, Hiram! talk 'bout my savin' yer life! Thet wuz nothin' to some o' the brave things you an' others done thet day. Do you re-collect how two uv our men afteh they'd got safe oveh the river, instid o' mekin' fur the bresh, stopped thar on the bank in full range o' the Injuns on t'otheh side, an' rallied the men an' made 'em halt an' fire back at the whoopin' red demons, so's we pore wretches whut wuz still swimmin' fur life could hev some chance to escape? It wuz Ben Netherlands an' one uv the Page brothehs--Marshall Page, I believe 'twuz--who did thet.
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Marshall Page!
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Yes, it was Marshall Page, I think, answered Major Gilcrest;
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I can't recall that I do, answered young Dudley;
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Your impressions, said Gilcrest,
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Blest ef I know, Rogers replied;
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Yes, Mrs. Rogers answered,
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Mary Jane Hart, who kept the little boy with her at the station afteh his motheh died, tole me about it the nex' summeh when she come oveh to Houston's one day, an' uv how she hated to part with him; fur she hed no childurn uv her own then, an' hed took a mighty fancy to the pore little fellah.
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Speaking of Netherland's and Page's brave deed, here spoke Major Gilcrest,
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Mason, do you remember Aaron Reynolds' equally brave and self-sacrificing rescue of young Patterson that day?