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diff --git a/36971.txt b/36971.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e909659 --- /dev/null +++ b/36971.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1529 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Captured Scout of the Army of the James, by +H. Clay Trumbull + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Captured Scout of the Army of the James + A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the + Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment + +Author: H. Clay Trumbull + +Release Date: August 4, 2011 [EBook #36971] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTURED SCOUT OF ARMY OF JAMES *** + + + + +Produced by David E. Brown and The Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + THE + + CAPTURED SCOUT + + OF THE + + ARMY OF THE JAMES. + + + A Sketch of the Life of + + SERGEANT HENRY H. MANNING, + + OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MASS. REGIMENT. + + + BY + + CHAPLAIN H. CLAY TRUMBULL. + + BOSTON: + NICHOLS AND NOYES. + 1869. + + + + + Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, by + NICHOLS AND NOYES, + In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of + Massachusetts. + + CAMBRIDGE: + PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. + + + + + TO THE SURVIVING MEMBERS + + OF THE + + Twenty-Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Vols., + + THIS SKETCH OF THEIR COMRADE IS AFFECTIONATELY + + _DEDICATED_, + + BY ONE WHO HOLDS IN EVER FRESH AND DELIGHTFUL + + REMEMBRANCE HIS THREE YEARS' EXPERIENCE + + AS THEIR BRIGADE COMPANION, + + AND + + _HIS MINISTRY AS THEIR OCCASIONAL CHAPLAIN_. + + + + +NOTE. + + +This little sketch is the best, because the only, tribute to the memory +of its subject that the writer, amid the pressure of varied duties, can +find time to render. + +Prepared, in great part, for use in a memorial discourse, it has not +been rewritten, although extended by additions which perhaps mar the +harmony of its first design. + +The fact that it was shaped to be spoken rather than to be +read,--designed for the ear rather than for the eye,--will account, to +those accustomed to public address, for some of its unsuitableness of +style for the form in which it now appears. + + H. C. T. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +The Dead of the Army of the James 9 + +Cost of the Slaveholders' War 10 + +A Massachusetts Boy.--Foreshadowings of a noble Life 13 + +The Soldier of Christ and Country 14 + +A good Regiment.--A good Record 16 + +Fighting and Praying 17 + +James Island.--Hospital Supply of Rebel Shells 19 + +Charleston Siege-work.--Sharpshooting 20 + +The Veterans.--Love for the old Flag 22 + +Campaigns it in Virginia.--Volunteers as a Scout 24 + +The Capture.--The Dungeon.--The Gallows 27 + +Gloom of the Stockade and Jail.--Consecration Vow 29 + +Escape and Recapture.--Torn by Blood-hounds 31 + +Andersonville Horrors 34 + +In the Rebel Ranks.--Loyal still 35 + +A Prisoner among Friends.--Good News for Home 37 + +Again with his Regiment.--Merited Promotion 38 + +Home at last 39 + +Telling his Story.--Fulfilling his Vow 40 + +Student-life at Andover.--Loving Service for Jesus 41 + +Toil for Bread.--Unfailing Trust 43 + +Failing Health.--A Grateful Heart 47 + +In Hospital.--Gentle Ministry there 48 + +Hope against Hope.--The Privilege of Christian Work 53 + +Only Waiting.--Rest at last 55 + +Claims of the Dead on the Living 58 + + + + +THE CAPTURED SCOUT +OF THE +ARMY OF THE JAMES. + + +THE DEAD OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES. + +On the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1868, some two hundred ex-officers +of the "Army of the James" were assembled in the dining-hall of the St. +James Hotel, Boston, in delightful re-union, as comrades of camp and +campaigning. The writer of this little sketch was called on to say words +in tribute to "The memory of the honored dead" of that army, and in +consequence the tenderest recollections were revived of those who fell +in the long years of war with rebellion. + +Hardly had the writer reached his home from that re-union, before word +came to him of the death of another soldier of the Army of the James; +one whose varied and thrilling experiences, peculiar services to the +Union cause, and noble Christian character entitled him to special +mention, as a noteworthy and satisfactory illustration of the bravery +and worth of the enlisted men of that army. While on his death-bed, this +young soldier had sent particular request to one who, as an army +chaplain in his brigade, had known something of his personal character +and history, to preach a commemorative discourse on the occasion of his +decease. Thus called on again to pay just tribute to the memory of the +dead of the Army of the James, the writer prepared this sketch as part +of a sermon preached at Warwick, Mass., Sept. 13, 1868, and now gives it +to the public at the request of those who, knowing something of the +young soldier's history, naturally desire to know more. + + +COST OF THE SLAVEHOLDERS' WAR. + +Others than his immediate comrades have reasons for an interest in this +young soldier, and should join in honoring his memory, and recalling at +his death the record of his army life. Dying though he did among the +green hills of Massachusetts, in these days of palmy peace, with parents +and sisters ministering to his comfort, as he wasted slowly before their +loving gaze, he was really one of the dead of the war, one of the +starved of Andersonville. His vigorous constitution was broken down +under the malarial damps of the sea-island death-swamps, beneath the +smiting sun-glare of the Carolina sands, in the fatigues of dreary +marches and anxious picket service, and amid the excitements of battle +and the crushing responsibilities of a mission of imminent peril within +the lines of the enemy. His young life was really worn away, not here at +the North, but there at the South, in dragging months of imprisonment, +in teeming hours of attempted escape, in rapid flight from the swift +pursuers, and in the death-clutch with the fierce-fanged hounds in the +swamp of despair! + +And he was but one of many,--a representative youth; one out of thirteen +thousand martyrs of Andersonville,-- + + "The men who perished in swamp and fen, + The slowly starved of the prison pen;"-- + +a solitary soldier among fully three hundred thousand who gave their +lives for the nation's life, the sodden mounds of whose graves, like an +encircling earthwork, make secure that nation's proud though +dearly-bought position among the kingdoms of the world. Surely, there is +little danger that the story of such a man will be told too widely, or +his services be too highly esteemed; small cause for fear, that, in the +glad days of rest from war, there will be too vividly recalled those +dark hours of the imperilled republic, when the bared right arms of two +and a half millions of loyal and loving Union soldiers and sailors were +essential to the preservation of a free and righteous government; and +not only each blood-drop shed by those who stood or fell in battle for +their country, but every heart-throb of their suffering or toil, and +every tear of those who loved them, counted on the ransom of Liberty, +and helped-- + + "To make, for children yet to come, + This land of their bequeathing, + The imperial and the peerless home + Of happiest beings breathing." + + +A MASSACHUSETTS BOY.--FORESHADOWINGS OF A NOBLE LIFE. + +Henry Hatch Manning was born in Warwick, Mass., May 17, 1844. He was +ever a loving and dutiful son and brother. Just before his +death, his mother remarked, "I cannot now recall any act of his +disobedience."--"Our brightest earthly hopes will perish with him," +added his sister. When young, his frequent wish was that he had been the +eldest child, so as to lift burdens his sisters now must bear. At eight +years old, he was at work for a neighbor, earning something beyond his +board. While thus occupied, he was startled by the sudden death of his +employer by accident. Hurrying to his home, he whispered the sad story +to his mother, adding in almost the same breath, "But don't tell father. +He wouldn't let me go back; and what would Mrs. Holmes do without me?" +Thus early he showed his independence of character, and his desire to +live for others. + +Having the ordinary common-school advantages of a Massachusetts +town,--such as are now, thank God! extended into regions whither they +won an entrance by blood,--Henry Manning improved them well. He had, +moreover, faithful home instruction; and the influence of a Christian +mother's prayerful teachings followed him like a continual benediction. +When about sixteen years old, while at work in another town from this, +in a season of spiritual declension and coldness there, he was drawn by +God's Spirit to make a full surrender of himself to Jesus. Evil +influences were around him just then: a sneering scoffer sought +persistently to dissuade him from his new-formed purpose; but God was +with him, and he witnessed faithfully for Christ. Others followed his +example, and a precious revival of God's Spirit-work followed in that +long cold and formal community. + + +THE SOLDIER OF CHRIST AND COUNTRY. + +It was soon after this that the echo of rebel guns against Fort Sumter +aroused the New-England sons of Revolutionary patriots to the perils of +the nationality their fathers had founded in blood. Henry Manning was +not yet seventeen when the old flag was dishonored in Charleston +Harbor; but he was old enough to realize his country's need, and +patriotic enough to stake every thing in her defence. His heart, warm +with new love for the Saviour who died for him, throbbed to evidence its +affection in some sacrifice for a cause approved of God. Delayed +somewhat in his original plans, he enlisted, in the early autumn of +1861, as a private in the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, then +forming near Boston, under the gallant and lamented Stevenson. + +After his enlistment, on the Sabbath before he left for the war, he +stood up alone in his home-church, and made public profession of his new +faith, and was there enrolled as a follower of Jesus; his pastor +preaching an appropriate sermon from the text, "Thou therefore endure +hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;" which inspired counsel +Manning certainly followed to the letter. Going out thence, clad in the +"whole armor of God," Manning commenced his career as a soldier of the +cross and his country, and thenceforward followed unflinchingly the flag +of his government and the blood-stained banner of Jesus. + + +A GOOD REGIMENT.--A GOOD RECORD. + +The Twenty-fourth Massachusetts was a noble battalion, with a glorious +record. Through its four years of service, its well-earned reputation +for good discipline, thorough drill, and staunch courage was +unsurpassed; and few regiments were its equals in hard fighting and +practical efficiency. It would be enough for any man's soldierly +reputation that he stood well in that regiment; for he who won honor +there deserved it everywhere. Hence the good name there secured by Henry +Manning shows his personal worth, and indicates the value of his +services. Said Col. Ordway, at the close of Manning's term of service, +"I have known his whole course since he has been a soldier.... He has +always been a brave, faithful, truthful, soldier, ... honest and +temperate, and in every way to be trusted." Maj. Edmands added, "I can +cheerfully say, that I have never known a braver man in the +regiment--and I was formerly his captain. He is, I believe, competent +to fill any position where fidelity, integrity, and energy are +required." Adjutant Stoddard also testified, "[He] has always been +especially noticed for the efficient manner in which he has performed +his duties as a soldier: always ready for any daring undertaking, he has +won for himself a place in the hearts of the officers and his comrades +of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts; and his name can never be +obliterated from the pages of the history of that regiment." + + +FIGHTING AND PRAYING. + +The Twenty-fourth went out in the Burnside expedition to the waters of +North Carolina, and, passing the perils of Hatteras "Swash," had an +honorable and distinguished part, under brave and beloved Gen. John G. +Foster, in the battles of Roanoke, Newbern, Little Washington, Rawl's +Mills, Kinston, Whitehall, and Goldsboro'. In all this service, Manning +gained in manliness and in the Christian graces, under the developing +influences of active army life. At Kinston he had a narrow escape from +death. A bullet struck the rail of a fence, behind which he was +stationed as a sharpshooter, just in range of his head; a knot turned it +aside so that it barely passed his cheek, scattering the splinters in +his eyes. + +In the spring and early summer of 1863, the Twenty-fourth was in South +Carolina, passing months on the sickly sea-islands, where it was said no +white man had before lived at that season of the year. It was there that +the writer of this sketch--then chaplain of another regiment in the same +brigade--first met young Manning. His regiment then having no chaplain, +he was one of an association of earnest Christians who had banded +together to keep up religious meetings, and to do good as they had +opportunity, among their fellows. Under their rustic canopy of boughs, +beneath the grand old live oaks, and amid the stately palms of Seabrook +Island, were enjoyed never-to-be-forgotten hours of prayer and praise. + + +JAMES ISLAND.--HOSPITAL SUPPLY OF REBEL SHELLS. + +From Seabrook to James Island, the Twenty-fourth moved, in July, 1863, +under Gen. Terry, in co-operation with Gen. Gillmore's advance on Morris +Island. Stricken down with sunstroke there, his whole system prostrate +under repeated attacks of fever and chills, fastened on him in the +malarial regions of his recent service, Manning lay sick in the rude +regimental hospital on the morning of July 16, when the enemy in force +made a sudden attack on the Union lines. The shock of this battle was +bravely met by Col. Shaw's Fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment, then +first in action. The hospital of the Twenty-fourth was found to be in +the focus of the enemy's sharpest fire, and a hurried move was ordered +down the island. As the poor invalids, with failing limbs, dragged their +tedious way to the beach, shell after shell from the enemy's guns came +shrieking past, or bursting among them. One such seemed to explode in +Manning's very face, and he fell, with the half conviction that it had +killed him. As he rose again to his feet, another burst above him, and a +ragged fragment of the hot iron tore down along his very side, laying +open his clothing, and bruising and lacerating his arm. But this injury +probably saved him from a severer; for, checked by it a moment, he saw +yet another shell explode directly before him, in the group he had +fallen behind, killing and wounding not a few of that number. Sorry +comfort, this, for sick soldiers! Yet such was but an incident in the +trying army service of our Union soldiers, in the prolonged war with +rebellion. + + +CHARLESTON SIEGE-WORK.--SHARPSHOOTING. + +Immediately after the fight at James Island, the Twenty-fourth passed +over to Morris Island, to have a part in the operations against +Charleston from that point, commencing with that terrible assault on +Fort Wagner in which Col. Shaw lost his life,--when Gen. Stevenson's +brigade (including the Twenty-fourth) was in reserve, holding the front +after the sad repulse. There, Manning was again stricken down with +sunstroke. Later, he was assigned to a company of sharpshooters in +active service at the extreme front. He then had narrow escapes daily. +On one occasion, as he and a comrade were alternating in rifle firing +through a loop-hole, he had thrown himself down to rest under his rubber +blanket, raised for a shade, when a bullet wounded his comrade in the +face; as he sprang up to aid him, a huge fragment of a mortar shell came +tearing down through the air, and crushed the rubber blanket into the +ground on the very spot where Manning had lain. Those were toilsome days +on Morris Island, in the slow dragging siege; men who were there will +not soon forget its shifting sands, its blazing sunlight, its +unintermitted fire of artillery and musketry, its labors on traverse and +parallel and sap, its frequent struggles of sortie or assault, and its +atmosphere laden with disease: + + "How they marched together, sound or sick, + Sank in the trench o'er the heavy spade! + How they charged on the guns at double-quick, + Kept ranks for Death to choose and to pick, + And lay on the beds no fair hands made!" + +The Twenty-fourth sweltered and toiled with the other regiments, and won +for itself a proud name by its brilliant charge on the rifle-pits in the +very face of Wagner's guns. Thence it passed down the coast to Florida, +and had a little rest in the quaint old Spanish city of St. Augustine. + + +VETERAN RE-ENLISTMENTS.--LOVE FOR THE OLD FLAG. + +It was while the regiment was at St. Augustine that the call came from +the government for the re-enlistment of its veteran soldiers. It did not +take Henry Manning much longer to make up his mind to a second +enlistment than it did to the first. Had he been wanted for thirty or +fifty years, instead of three or five, he would doubtless have been +ready. God be praised that such boys lived, and were willing to die, in +the hour of our country's need! + +A little incident, occurring as the veterans of the Twenty-fourth left +St. Augustine, on the furlough granted them as a consideration of +re-enlistment, well illustrated the character and spirit of the soldiers +of the war. They were gathered about the head of the dock, just ready +to embark for the North, to leave soldier-life for a while behind them. +Their thoughts were naturally of their release from service, and of the +homes and loved ones to which they were hastening. Their comrades, who +were to remain behind, had assembled to see them off: citizens of the +old town were also there; and all was glad-hearted cheerfulness. But +unexpectedly to nearly all, as they stood thus together, the regimental +colors were brought down from Fort Marion, to be taken with them to the +North. As the dear old flag came in sight,--the bullet-rent and +storm-worn colors which they had followed unflinchingly on the weary +march and in the battle's crash, and for which so many whom they loved +had died,--instinctively, as by the word of command, every voice was +hushed; every farewell stayed; and the soldier group parted and fell +back on either hand, in reverent, affectionate regard for that symbol of +all that they lived for then; and, as through the open ranks the loved +flag was borne down the pier to the steamer's deck,-- + + "Every foot was quiet, + Every head was bare; + The soft trade-wind was lifting + A hundred locks of hair;" + +while tearful eyes, in bronzed and manly faces bore precious testimony +to the patriotism and generous devotion of those brave and +tender-hearted soldiers. It was with such men and in that spirit that +Henry Manning came home, in the spring of 1864, on his veteran furlough. + + +CAMPAIGNS IT IN VIRGINIA.--VOLUNTEERS AS A SCOUT. + +Rejoining his regiment at Gloucester Point, Va., he was in Gen. Butler's +expedition up the James River, towards Drewry's Bluff. Early in June, +while the Army of the James was shut in the peninsula at Bermuda +Hundred, Gen. Butler called for a volunteer scout--or quasi spy--to +venture within the enemy's lines, and bring back information of his +position and numbers. This call found a ready response in Manning's +heart, and he volunteered for the undertaking. He found, as he said in +writing to his home of his determination, peculiar satisfaction in the +thought that he could now be of real service to the cause he loved. On +the vedette-post, in the rifle-pit, or on the battle-line, he must stand +or fall as one man, doing only what any lad might compass; but in this +new mission, all his nervous energy and cautious shrewdness and +consecrated purpose would tell in an effort worthy of a soldier, whether +that effort brought success or failure. As expressive of his feelings, +he enclosed to his friends the following lines he had clipped from some +paper:-- + + "We must forget all feelings save the _one_; + We must resign all passions save our purpose; + We must behold no object save OUR COUNTRY, + And only look on death as beautiful, + So that the sacrifice ascend to heaven + And draw down freedom on her evermore." + +It requires not a little moral courage and true nerve to deliberately +leave one's military lines in the face of the enemy, and pass over into +the encircling forces of the foe. But Henry Manning had counted the cost +of his undertaking; and late on the evening of June 7, 1864, he glided +stealthily down the steep right bank of the river James, and along the +water's edge in the shade of the heavy foliage, until he had passed the +rebel picket in front of the famous "Howlett Battery;" then cautiously, +and with bated breath, he crept up the bank, and was within the enemy's +intrenchments. Bayonets glistened, lights flashed, voices hummed about +him: he was everywhere surrounded by sights and sounds of life, but he +saw never a friendly look, heard never a friendly note. + + "He hears the rustling flag, + And the armed sentry's tramp; + And the starlight and moonlight + His silent wanderings lamp. + + With slow tread and still tread, + He scans the tented line; + And he counts the battery guns + By the gaunt and shadowy pine; + And his slow tread and still tread + Give no warning sound." + +Carefully making his observations, he passed from point to point up and +down the intrenchment lines, out to the Richmond pike, and beyond to the +Petersburg railroad. Concealing himself during the day, he scouted again +on the second night. The defences of the enemy were noted, with the +general disposition and number of the troops. Long after this he wrote, +"[I was] in possession of such valuable information that if I could only +have got back with it, all the time, treasure, and blood which have been +spent before Petersburg would have been spared. It could have been +captured then with very small loss." But the attempt to regain the Union +lines must be postponed until the following night, now that the dawn of +the second day found him far from his starting point; so, seeking a +secluded spot in the forest, near Chester Station, he concealed himself +in its cover, and was soon fast asleep. + + +THE CAPTURE.--THE DUNGEON.--THE GALLOWS. + +Awaking after a few hours, he heard the unexpected murmur of voices near +him. A change of position had been made by some of the troops, and he +was surrounded by the enemy. He hardly moved before he was discovered. + + "A sharp clang, a steel clang! + And terror in the sound; + For the sentry, falcon-eyed, + In the camp a spy hath found: + With a sharp clang, a steel clang, + The patriot is bound." + +As a prisoner he was hurried before Brig.-Gen. Johnson, and by him sent +forward to Gen. Beauregard's headquarters. The order to him from Gen. +Butler, being found on his person, gave color to the charge that he was +an authorized spy; and the first proposition was to hang him at once to +a tree. Indeed, he was told that his body should swing before sundown. +But from some reason it was decided to try him by formal court-martial; +and he was sent to Petersburg, where he was shut in a vile hole, +underneath the jail, "a low, filthy dungeon," as he described it, "dark, +gloomy, and crawling with vermin." Those who have never been prisoners +of war under special charges, in the gloom of solitary confinement, with +the staring gallows threatened, cannot fully realize the terribleness of +Henry Manning's struggle of mind during that first night in the +Petersburg dungeon. Earnestly did he call on God for strength, that, if +he must yield his young life thus and then, he might be faithful even +unto such a death. And God sustained him. + + +GLOOM OF THE STOCKADE AND JAIL. + + "I will lift up mine eyes to the hills." + +Manning was sent to Georgia for trial. By mistake he was carried with a +party to Andersonville, and turned into that place of yet untold +horrors; but thither, after seven days, he was tracked out by the +authorities, and to them turned over by the brutal Capt. Wirz, who, at +parting, shook his clenched fist in his face, and cursed him vehemently +as "one of Butler's spies," disgracing that foul stockade by his +temporary presence. Thence to Macon, he was shut in a felon's cell in +the common jail. There the days dragged heavily, while he lacked air, +exercise, fitting food, hope. He pined away until it seemed as if he +could not live. "I heard it whispered around, many a time," he wrote +afterwards, "'Poor Manning! What a pity that he must die in such a +place as this. Poor boy! he's past recovery.'" It was while shut in +there, anticipating trial, conviction, death, that Manning cast himself +before the Lord, and cried mightily for help. On his knees, behind the +grated door of his hope-barred cell, he pleaded that he might yet have +life and again find liberty. Although in intense and agonized +earnestness, he yet prayed in trustful submission to God's righteous +will; and, in no mere selfish love of ease and safety, solemnly he +promised there that if his life was spared, it should be given wholly +and heartily to the service of Jesus. In relating this incident after +his release, he added artlessly, "I told God that if my life was spared, +I should know _He_ did it, for there was no other hope for me, then." +That prayer and that vow seemed to be favorably heard of God. An alarm +from an anticipated attack startled the authorities at Macon; the +provost-marshal of the post was ordered on active duty; in the transfer +of authorities, the charges against Manning were lost, and in +consequence his court-martial trial did not take place. But his personal +trials were by no means at an end. His tedious prison-life had barely +commenced. + + +ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE.--TORN BY BLOOD-HOUNDS. + +With some of his fellow-prisoners he made several attempts at escape: +once he was actually outside the jail, but was soon retaken. From the +jail he was removed to the Macon stockade. Digging out thence, he was +making his way towards our lines at Atlanta,--travelling only nights, +resting in the woods by day,--when he was caught by a rebel scout, and +returned to his prison quarters. From Macon he was taken to Millen, to +be guarded in the stockade at Camp Lawton. Returned to Macon, he was +ordered thence again to Andersonville. Shrinking from the horrors of +that well-remembered pen, he was willing to risk every thing in another +attempt at escape on his way thither. Going by rail, he determined to +jump from the moving train; and, as several who had thus jumped with the +cars in slow motion had been shot down by the guard, he made up his mind +to leap while the train was at highest speed. On a down grade, he made +the fearful plunge, and, as though by a miracle, he rolled unharmed down +the embankment and into the ditch below. Quick as thought he was up and +off for the woods. How pure and free seemed the fresh air of heaven! God +speed and shield the flying boy! At the next station, the guard of the +train gave the alarm, and soon a pack of five blood-hounds, with their +mounted brutal keepers, were on his track, and in full pursuit. Bravely +but vainly Manning sought to retain the freedom he had won at such +fearful risk. Plunging into the recesses of a dismal swamp, he had brief +hope that he should evade his pursuers; but soon the baying of the +hounds was in his strained ears, and about him were the ringing echoes +of the on-spurring guard. His hiding-place was speedily surrounded, and +his hope of escape cut off. Yet he clung to dear liberty to the last. +Again and again came the blaspheming shouts of his pursuers, demanding +his surrender, and threatening him with "no quarter" if he compelled +them to push further through the entangling briers and slimy morasses. +He waded out into the sluggish waters of the inner swamp depths, to turn +if possible the trail of the keen-scented hounds; but with undeviating +directness they bounded towards him through brake and fen: he heard +their labored breathing; then caught a glimpse of their flashing eyes +and foaming jaws, as, with a vindictive howl at their long-delayed +triumph, they leaped ferociously out of the thicket into the water where +he stood, firm in despair. "Oh! 'twas a horrid moment," he said, "when +they caught me and made a spring for my throat. I sank in the mire: a +gurgling sound filled my ears--" One hound clutched him by the shoulder +as he fell in the water: another sent his sharp fangs through the flesh +of his side. As he rolled in the deadly struggle, the keepers came up +and choked off the dogs, although one of them was urgent to have him +torn in pieces because of his temerity. Weak, bruised, bleeding, +despondent, Manning was carried to the Andersonville stockade, there to +have his only nursing at the hands of the keepers of that accursed den, +amid its exposures, its privations, its gloom, and its loathsomeness. + + +ANDERSONVILLE HORRORS. + +Oh, how wearily the hours dragged in Andersonville! Shivering, +unsheltered, in the cold nights of rain; sweltering, all exposed, under +the noonday's sun; cramped in the seething mass of the close-packed +stockade, where half-naked men strove with each other for the last +garment from the body of their latest dead comrade; weighed down with +the poison-laden air of the malarial swamp; knowing no relief from the +gnawings of hunger in the soul-straining processes of slow starvation; +needing Christian courage to hold back from the relief of the dead-line; +full of sad forebodings of evil to home loved ones who mourned him as +dead, and from whom no comforting word could come; and chafing, most of +all, in his overwrought and high-strung nervous powers, under enforced +inaction at a time when every patriot's strength should tell for God and +Government,--Manning's life wasted surely away, and his system imbibed +fairly that disease which at length destroyed his firm and vigorous +constitution, and brought him so early in life's day to the house +appointed to all living. + + +IN THE REBEL RANKS.--LOYAL STILL. + +Finding himself still held as a suspected spy, although the special +charges against him had been lost, and denied the treatment of an +ordinary prisoner of war, Manning prayerfully determined on a course he +would not have counselled for one captured in open battle. The special +orders from his department commander clearly authorized such a +proceeding in his case, and he sought to find a temporary place in the +rebel ranks, that he might escape to the Union lines with the valuable +information he had in various ways obtained. Circumstances +providentially favored him, and he adroitly managed to pass out with a +squad who had regularly enlisted; and, without taking any oath of +allegiance to the "Confederate" powers, he was counted and equipped as a +soldier in that army, and hurried towards the rebel front. However any +might question the propriety or policy of this movement on his part, it +cannot be denied that in it he acted conscientiously, and verily felt he +was doing God service. He was acting for his government, to which he +was loyal as ever, and was carrying out the very letter and spirit of +his specific instructions. "I gained all the information I could, from +every thing that passed," he wrote, "and laid it up in my memory. When I +saw a big bridge, I studied how I might blow it up; when I passed a +large city, I was planning how I might set it on fire; and when I saw a +leading general, I was contriving some way how I might blow his brains +out. I was in the enemy's country,--nothing but enemies around me; and +the more harm I could do them, the greater service I should be doing my +country." It was not long before the Union cavalry made a dash on the +rebel lines in Manning's vicinity. At once he ran for the battle-line of +the assailing force, facing its sharpest fire, while also fired at by +his rebel comrades who divined the object of his move; and he reached +the Union ranks unharmed. + + +A PRISONER AMONG FRIENDS.--GOOD NEWS FOR HOME. + +Once more under the old flag, Manning told his strange story to the +commander before whom he was taken; but it is not to be wondered at that +it was discredited, in the absence of proof. He was deemed a rebel +prisoner, and as such was sent to the military prison at Alton, +Illinois. Sending forward his complaint to his regiment, he was, after a +few weeks' delay, ordered released by direct command from the War +Department. It was then--for he would not write to his dear ones while a +prisoner at Alton--that he sent his first letter home. The simple +message,-- + + "ST. LOUIS, MO. March 10, 1865. + +"MY DEAR LOVED ONES,-- + "I still live, and you shall hear from me soon. + + "HENRY H. MANNING." + +written on a sheet of "Christian Commission" paper, with the appropriate +printed motto, "Let it hasten to those who wait for tidings,"--came as a +voice from the grave to those who had mourned him, and gave to them glad +and grateful hearts; for now their dead was alive again, and their lost +was found. + + +AGAIN WITH HIS REGIMENT.--MERITED PROMOTION. + +Subjected, on his way to his regiment, to those vexatious arrests and +detentions to which an enlisted man absent from his command without a +"descriptive list" was liable, in war time, Manning at length rejoined +his comrades of the Twenty-fourth, at Richmond, Va., where the regiment +was doing provost duty, about the middle of April, 1865. The ten months +intervening since he left his command, not a dozen miles from where he +now rejoined it, had been teeming ones to the gallant and war-worn +battalion in its varied campaigning, as well as to himself within the +enemy's lines. He missed many a comrade who had fallen in the fight +while he suffered in the hands of the foe. But they were hearty +greetings that passed between those who at last thus met in safety and +dear-bought peace. + +The following regimental order shows something of the estimate put on +his services by his immediate commander:-- + + HEADQUARTERS 24th Mass. Vol. Inf. + RICHMOND, VA., April 22, 1865. + +SPECIAL ORDER No. 34. + +Corporal H. H. Manning, Co. G, is hereby promoted to be sergeant in +the same company, as a special commendation for the services +rendered by him. + +Captured within the lines of the enemy while on secret service, and +arraigned for trial as a spy, Sergeant Manning passed through a +series of dangerous adventures, sufficient to shake the firmest +resolution. Throughout his captivity he displayed a courage and +constancy to duty which deserve a greater reward than his commanding +officer has power to bestow. + + By order of + ALBERT ORDWAY, + Lieut.-Col. 24th Mass. Vol. Inf. Comd'g Regt. + +BENJ. F. STODDARD, + 1st Lieut. and Adj. + + +HOME AT LAST. + +Manning was too far reduced by his prison life to be of further use in +the army; moreover, active campaigning was at an end; and he was +honorably discharged, June 16, 1865, after nearly four years of such +service as few even of the Union soldiers in the late war were called +to. Returning to his Massachusetts home, his first effort was to +rebuild his health. A visit to the West refreshed him, and he hoped for +ultimate recovery. Investing his army earnings for the benefit of his +home loved ones, he looked about him for something to do. He had not +forgotten his promise to God in Macon jail: his only doubt was how he +could best redeem it. + + +TELLING HIS STORY.--FULFILLING HIS VOW. + +Visiting an army comrade in North Bridgewater, Manning met the Rev. S. +H. Lee, now of Greenfield, who counselled him to attempt studying for +the ministry; and, that he might procure funds to start with, Mr. Lee +suggested his preparing a lecture on his army service and prison +adventures, to deliver as opportunity offered, until the proceeds of it +should amount to one hundred dollars, when he could hopefully commence +school-life, and thenceforward work his way along through a course of +study. The lecture was prepared, and, under Mr. Lee's auspices, brought +out at North Bridgewater. It was repeated a score of times or so, +during the winter of 1865-6, with good success. It is much to be +regretted that no copy of this manuscript was retained; for Manning +wrote with no little graphic power, and such a record of his eventful +soldier-life would have proved of thrilling interest now. + + +STUDENT-LIFE AT ANDOVER.--LOVING SERVICE FOR JESUS. + +In the spring of 1866, he was on his way to Phillips Academy, Andover, +with the one hundred dollars in hand,--or rather with one hundred and +one dollars; and, as he had been advised to start with one hundred, he +gave the odd dollar to a poor man on the road. At Andover, while an +earnest student, he was an untiring Christian worker. He taught in a +mission-school, took part in prayer-meetings, and conversed on the +subject of personal religion with many school-mates, winning thus +friends to himself and souls to Jesus. His life really seemed--as he had +promised it should be--wholly consecrate to Jesus. "Way down in the +inmost recesses of my heart," he wrote, "the great all-absorbing purpose +and desire is to do the will of God as it is made known to me by his +providence.... I desire to be led by the hand of God.... I wish to do +away with every selfish thought, and live only for Jesus." Yet he worked +from no mere sense of stern duty, in the slavish performance of a +binding vow: love prompted his service, out of a willing heart. "How +much real enjoyment it gives me to work for Jesus!" he said. "All other +pleasures fade away and are lost, by the side of it." And this enjoyment +in work for Jesus was increased by the conviction that souls were +benefited by it. He loved to work for others, because Jesus commanded +it; and he loved to work for Jesus, because others were blessed by it. +"You know," he said, "the words of our Saviour are, 'Inasmuch as ye have +done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto +me.' How soothing and encouraging these words are! I don't see how any +one can help doing all the good they can.... I have an insatiable thirst +after perishing souls, and hope and pray that God will lead me to do +good wherever I am.... I am thankful for the hope that, perhaps ere +long, I can throw aside all other things, and enter with my whole heart +upon the work of saving souls.... My heart pants to be wholly engaged in +my Master's service." + + +TOIL FOR BREAD.--UNFAILING TRUST. + +One hundred dollars will not go far towards a young man's thorough +education, nowadays; and Manning found himself before long pressed for +means of support. Then he was driven to work hard for money, while +toiling incessantly at study. He swept the school-rooms, and performed +similar service at the academy, for fifteen cents an hour; he went out +in the early mornings to do mowing and other farm labor, until the hour +of school-time; and thus he kept along in every thing but health and +rest. He had no odd hours unimproved. Writing of his mission-scholars, +in whom he was deeply interested, he said, "I generally spend two +evenings a week with them, and two evenings at literary societies for +improvement of the mind, and there are not often but three evenings +left, and those are our prayer-meeting nights." + +Had Manning been in full health, he might have stood all this; but +disease, fastened on him in the prison stockade, never relaxed its hold; +and his strength failed steadily. Some of his friends advised him to +abandon student-life and seek renewed vigor in active out-door +occupation; but others, who were nearest him, with unaccountable +blindness and persistency, uniformly urged his adherence to first-formed +plans. Again and again his enfeebled frame gave way; and as often his +unwavering determination enabled him to rally for another effort. It was +hard for him to relinquish his purpose of _activity_ in Christ's +service. He was far from wilful in this struggle. "I desire to be led by +the hand of God," he said; "I am praying very earnestly, ... asking God +to tell me what to do, and I know he will not tell me wrong.... Feeling +that I am performing my mission here on earth, I take every step +gladly;" but he wanted to take some step, not to stand still: it was +easier for him to do any thing for Christ than to do nothing. "I will +endeavor," he wrote, "to keep within bounds, and not try to strain my +rope when I find I have arrived at the end of it;" but he was loath to +believe there was any end to his rope. "God willing, I shall be able to +do something by and by," he said, "and what shall it be?" He had the +feeling that God, having accepted his consecration vow in prison, would +somehow find work for him to do for Jesus, in accordance with its terms. +No lesson concerning God's "kingly state" seemed so hard for him to +learn as that-- + + "They also serve who only stand and wait." + +And, doubtless, his energy, coupled with his faith, prolonged his useful +life. In his condition, and with his temperament, he would have fallen +sooner but for his indomitable will, his determination not yet to yield +to the closing pressure of disease, and his conviction that God would +still sustain him in his work; that so long as he did what he could and +should, his Father would supply all lack. It is, unquestionably, every +man's duty to consider his health, even in the prosecution of a +religious enterprise, and no desire for high and holy attainment will +justify reckless over-effort of body or mind. But not all are to be +judged by the same standard of prudence in amount or kinds of effort or +toil. What is rest for one man would prove torture to another. Not a few +depend for very life upon tireless activity; like the traveller on the +Alps, if in their exhaustion they sit down at the approach of night, +they chill and sleep and die. They must keep moving or perish. So in the +case of Henry Manning: while his example of unintermitted nervous +endeavor may not be commended to ordinary men for imitation, it may be +admired and approved in him, doomed as he was to an early death from the +hour he entered the Petersburg dungeon, and kept alive through his +resolute activity, his over-estimate of remaining strength, and his ever +sanguine anticipations of returning health. + +And with all his weakness of body, his faith never faltered. "If God +wants me to stay at school," he said while at Andover, "I have no fear +but that he will find a way for me to get along there." Then he told of +his rising one morning without a cent of money in the world, and going +earnestly to God in prayer for help, and of his finding, but a few +minutes later, between the pages of the book he took up to study, +fifteen dollars (which God had put it into the heart of some friend to +give to him in that delicate way); and he added, in affirmation of his +undoubting faith, "And God will do so again if it is best." + + +FAILING HEALTH.--A GRATEFUL HEART. + +It was in the spring of 1867, that Manning finally left his studies. He +struggled manfully with disease, but it gained on him steadily. He +visited among friends, to try change of air and scene, and was under +various medical treatment, but all to little purpose. His prison +privations were working out in his shattered constitution their +inevitable result. For all attention shown or aid rendered him, he was +ever grateful, and he seemed to feel that none had better friends than +he. Of a pleasant home where he had passed a brief time, he wrote, "It's +a second paradise: isn't it? If Christ was on earth now, I do believe +that he would make his home there--a part of the time at least: don't +you?" + +Those who were privileged to assist him from time to time may surely +feel, as he felt, that their gifts were unto the Lord. "I want +assistance," he wrote on this point, once, "only that I may be useful; +and, strictly speaking, I want to be useful only for Jesus!" To God he +gave glory for whatever help came to him from any direction. Returning +thanks for a generous donation--which proved most timely--from one who +sent it as "a cup of cold water to a disciple," he said, feelingly, "How +very strange and mysterious are the Lord's dealings with this poor weak +child of his! Every earthly prop is struck from under me, and I am just +sinking in utter hopeless despair, when the Lord not only succors and +relieves me, but catches me right up in his arms, and gives me such +blessings as I had no thought of asking for." + + +IN HOSPITAL.--GENTLE MINISTRY THERE. + +In his health-seeking, Manning visited Boston to secure the valued +counsel of Dr. S. A. Green, his former regimental surgeon, who had on +many occasions shown special interest in him, and expressed a readiness +to aid him to the utmost. Soon there came a letter from him, dated in +the Massachusetts General Hospital, saying, "My health has been growing +frailer of late, and yesterday I came to this city, hoping to see Dr. +Green, and perhaps get into some hospital; but on arriving here I found +that Dr. G. was in Europe!... So, with an earnest prayer on my lips, I +turned back, and, after much difficulty, found my way to this +place,--found the head of the institution, and told my story--simple and +short! Out of health, out of money, and disappointed about meeting +friends. + +"Well, I was told that this was just the place for folks in such a +condition, and I was hustled into a warm bath, and into Ward 23, among a +set of ghastly, half-in-the-grave looking fellows, some of whom lay, or +sat up, in bed, like marble posts; some were cracking vulgar jokes, and +one or two of the most deathly-looking ones were cursing and grumbling +because they could not be allowed a pint of whiskey a day.... Perhaps I +am wrong, but I can't help feeling grieved, mortified, and sad to come +here so like a beggar! but what could I do? Here I've been on expense, +more or less, ever since I left school, and no way of getting money. I +have parted with my watch, and expect to receive ten or fifteen dollars +for that shortly; so I shall get on nicely, only it galls me to have to +be in this situation here! but I hope I shall not be here long.... And +if I can get my health again, I shall know how to prize it; and shall be +as thankful to God as I was when released from prison." + +He was as unselfish in hospital as elsewhere. Having a little money left +with him by friends, for the purchase of such comforts as he might +crave, he at once set about ministering to the needs of those about him +in the different wards, finding it ever "more blessed to give than to +receive." + +"Perhaps it may be gratifying to you," he wrote, in returning thanks for +kindness shown to him by a slight gift, "to know of some of the effects +of that kindness; of some of the good it has brought about, and some of +the hearts it has cheered. That poor, deformed, ghastly-looking boy +that I pointed out to you while we were conversing together in the +hospital, wanted many things that were not furnished him. I expended a +little of that money that you left with me upon him, ... and it would +send a thrill of pleasure through and through you to have noted the +effect. He was so unused to kindness that it quite overcame him. Poor, +dear fellow! He is not long for this world. May the Lord watch over him, +and prepare him for the future! + +"And then there was a poor Irish girl in one of the wards, a Catholic, +but one of the most devoted Christian girls I ever met.... Her home is +in Ireland; but while visiting in this country, she met with a fearful +accident, and was sent to the hospital for treatment. When I met her she +was recovering, but was feeling somewhat disheartened because her +friends were so far away; and she was often slighted on account of her +being an 'Irish Catholic.'... I was enabled to cheer her up a great +deal, and to do one or two little substantial acts of kindness for her, +which went directly to her heart, and seemed to do her so much good +that I thanked God, involuntarily, for the opportunity of cheering her, +and being of service to her. + +"But I was enabled to render the most assistance to an American lady,--a +noble-hearted woman and a true Christian. Her life has been one of +adventure and suffering, and one cannot listen to the recital of her +touching story without feeling deeply interested in her. She has been in +the hospital a long time, and is at present very weak and frail; and +there is a great deal of doubt about her ever being any better. I bought +little things for her that I knew did her good; and when I came away I +left a very little money with her, in order that she might be able to +procure any little thing that she felt as if she couldn't do without, +even if the hospital did not furnish it. And so I had the pleasure of +leaving her quite light-hearted and hopeful, believing more firmly than +ever that the Lord would care for her, and never, never forsake her." + +It was indeed a privilege to give assistance in any way to one so +grateful as was Manning, for all that he received of blessing, and so +ready to make others happy by ministering discreetly, and in a loving, +Christ-like spirit, to the needy and heavy-burdened about him. + + +HOPE AGAINST HOPE.--THE PRIVILEGE OF CHRISTIAN WORK. + +From the hospital to his home, and again among friends who felt that his +presence with them was in itself a blessing, Manning still sought +health, while growing gradually weaker and less able to exert himself in +body or mind. He would not see the dark side of his case, but still +confidently hoped for recovery. "I don't feel natural yet, by any +means," he wrote from Fiskdale, where he was with good friends on a +farm, in October, 1867, "nor free from mental weakness, but I'm stronger +physically than I have been since I left Andover, certain. You see we +are a mile and a half from neighbors, and my friends are very quiet +indeed, so I talk hardly any; and when I get to work husking corn, +digging potatoes, and the like, I often even forget to _think_, and I +gain by it rapidly; but when I come down to writing letters, it puts me +back." + +Manning's days of struggle with disease were not wholly profitless to +others. He was the means of not a little good, in his moving from point +to point in the last year of his toilsome life. At South Danvers, +Bridgewater, Fiskdale, Winchester, Beverly, Hartford, and elsewhere, he +raised his voice or used his warm and loving heart for precious souls, +in ways that will never be forgotten. His crown in heaven will be bright +with stars won in those months of vain search for health. And this work +was ever a joy to him, and he thanked God for his part in it. + +While in the hospital at Boston, he told in sadness of his +disappointments in efforts at Christian activity,--of his going to a +place in Vermont where was such need of religious endeavor that "even he +could do something for Jesus," and of his being taken ill on the very +day of his arrival there, and thus prevented raising his voice for the +Master. "And so it has often been," he added, regretfully. "I don't know +whether I've learned the right lesson from all this; but this is what +it seems to me God is teaching me by these disappointments: It is a +blessed privilege to work for Jesus. Jesus didn't need me in Vermont. He +has never needed me anywhere; but he has let me work for him sometimes. +Oh, if I ever get well enough to work for him again, won't I be thankful +for it!" Would to God that all Christians had learned this lesson as +well! + + +ONLY WAITING.--REST AT LAST. + +At length the prolonged struggle drew towards its close. Early in May +last, Manning--told by the physicians in a water-cure establishment, +where he had been spending some months, that nothing more could be done +for him with hope--turned his steps for the last time to his Warwick +home. He still had hope of recovery, for he had passed so many perils +safely that he could hardly realize there was any death for him; but he +was now more resigned to inaction, in the same trustful love of Jesus +and his cause. "I know that my Saviour will take care of me," he wrote: +"I don't _think_ it, I _know_ it! I haven't the slightest doubt of it. +He never manifested himself to me more wonderfully than he has of late; +never satisfied the cravings of my heart more, or filled my soul more +full! And I believe I never had so much love for him, or loved to speak +of him to others, so well, as at the present time!" But he added, "It is +not my business to think whether I am to live or die, but, rather, how I +can best serve Christ. I want to do any thing, and be any thing, and +suffer any thing that he wants me to." So, as he lay down on his +home-bed to die, he had learned his last lesson,--he could wait as well +as work. + + "He was not eager, bold, + Nor strong,--all that was past; + He was ready not to do, + At last, at last." + +His faith grew firmer as his flesh failed, and the less he could himself +do, the more he was ready to trust God to do for him. On one occasion, +when it seemed as if his hour of death had come, his sisters who were +nearest were all summoned to his bedside, and just then two other +sisters came in unexpectedly,--one from Boston, the other from +Wisconsin,--while a friend whom he had particularly desired to see +again, also visited him. For the first time in several years the family +were all together at home. This moved Manning to profoundest gratitude +to God, and he repeatedly referred to it in this spirit, telling over +the story of recent blessings secured to himself and his loved ones, as +though he had just pride in the power and goodness of his heavenly +Father, who had done all this for his comfort. Again, when he was +pressed for means to supply his daily necessities, a sister came to him +one morning to say that a letter had been received covering a gift of +thirty dollars for his use. A pleasant smile came over his face as he +responded, "I prayed for money last night. It was the first time I had +asked for that in a good while." + +There were long and weary weeks for him of final trial in racking +pain--the whole inner system destroyed by the foul air of swamp and +dungeon, and the scant or vile food of stockade and jail, while the +still young and naturally vigorous outer man refused to be yet wholly +crushed. There were dreams of prison-life, hunger and thirst ever +unsatisfied; and seasons of agony in struggle for breath, as with slow, +wasting flesh, and cold, clammy brow, the patient sufferer whispered +with livid lips, in unfailing trust, "I want nothing; I wish for +nothing; I hope for nothing: I only wait," until death brought relief +and rest on the evening of Friday, Sept. 4, 1868. Two days later, his +remains were borne out by loving hands from the church where, seven +years before, that very month, he had stood up to witness for Jesus +before going out to face death at the call of God, and tenderly laid +away under the green turf of the neighboring hill-side cemetery, close +by the tasteful granite shaft which stands "In Memory of Warwick's +Soldiers who fell in the War of the Great Rebellion." + + +CLAIMS OF THE DEAD ON THE LIVING. + +And thus the earthly warfare of another brave soldier is concluded. His +was a noble work,--a work for others; for his fellows, his country, his +God. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life +for his friends." Henry Manning "hath done what he could" for the +interests dear to the hearts of the Union soldiers. It is for those who +survive him to hold sacred, and to guard jealously the principles and +privileges--the supremacy of the Federal Government; the integrity of +the national Union; the just liberties of the people of the Republic; +the protection in their every right of all its citizens; the execution +of the laws, and the inviolability of the national faith--for which he +and so many other soldiers battled, endured, and prayed, and gave or +risked their lives. + +And the faith of Henry Manning should be deemed yet more admirable and +holy than his work. His work was heroic: his faith was sublime! It was +because of his faith in that Saviour who died for him, and was an +ever-present help in all his needs, that he went out as a soldier, and +endured unto the end so bravely. "He fought a good fight" because he +"kept the faith." "Through faith" he "escaped the edge of the sword; out +of weakness was made strong, waxed valiant in fight," "had trial ... of +bonds and imprisonment, ... being destitute, afflicted, tormented," and +out of all "obtained a good report;" and finally has "gotten the +victory," and received "a crown of glory that fadeth not away." + +Surely in view of his faith and his faithfulness, and of the cause for +which Henry Manning lived and gave his life, it behooves the lovers of +their Country and of the Cross, to "hold such in reputation, because, +for the sake of Christ, he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life +to supply their lack of service." + + +Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son. + + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: + + + Text in italics is indicated by underscores: _italics_. + + Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from + the original. + + Punctuation has been corrected without note. + + Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows: + Page 16: stanch has been changed to staunch + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Captured Scout of the Army of the +James, by H. 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