Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — CAMP FIRE STORIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAMP FIRE STORIES

MAN CAPTURES HIS CAPTOR Colonel Paine, Commander of Confederate' Brigade, Taken Prisoner When Thrown Into Vat. Among the Confederate prisoners taken at the battle of Gettysburg was Colonel Paine, who cammanded a brigade and was captured by Private Abram Folger of Cbmpany H, Fifth New York cavalry. The facts of the capture, as told by Folger, are as follows: “While charging in the edge of Gettysburg and getting separated from my regiment I was made a prisoner by Colonel Paine and was being taken to the rear. On the main rpad, just outside of the town, was situated a tannery, the vats of which were under cover and were very close to the street. “I was walking along beside the colonel’s orderly and as we came near these tannery vats I saw a carbine lying on the ground. When I came up to it I quickly took it. Seeing it was loaded, I fired and killed Paine’s horse, which, in its death struggle, fell over toward the vats, throwing the colonel completely under the tanning liquid. “Seeing that the colonel was safe enough for the moment I turned my attention to his orderly, who, finding his pistol had fouled and was useless, was about to jump his horse over the fence to the right and escape that way if he could, but not being able to do so, concluded he had better surrender. The reason I did not fire upon him was that the last shot in the captured carbine was fired at the colonel’s horse. As the orderly did not know this, it was my play to make him think instant death awaited him if he attempted to escape. “His gray uniform, with its white velvet facing, his white gauntlet gloves, face and hair, had all become completely stained so that he presented a most laughable sight. I then mounted the orderly’s horse, and marched them before me to the market place, where I turned them over to the authorities, who laughed heartily at the comical predicament of the colonel. I had been captured by Colonel Paine’s command the winter before, and you can just believe that 1 was glad to return the compliment with lnterest.” . ,■ ~ ~