Chapter XVIII: Wooldridge, Marquis, Pugh and Breeding

Exceptional Distinction—_Revs. J. B. H. Wooldrige_, _D. J. Marquis_ and
Geo. N. Johnson Arrested, Abused and Imprisoned for Associating
Together—_Rev. M. M. Pugh_ Arrested and Imprisoned—Arrested Three
Times—Indicted—Northern Methodists Implicated in his
Persecutions—Flags over Pulpits by Military Orders—Efforts to Force
the Consciences of Ministers—A Caustic Note—“Der Union Flag on Der
Secesh Church”—A Minister’s Wife Ordered to Make a Shroud for a Dead
Union Soldier—Keen Retort—An Old Minister in a Rebel Camp—How he
“Went Dead” and “Saved his Bacon” and Potatoes—_Rev. J. M.
Breeding_—Armed Men Visit him at Midnight—Order him to Leave the
Country in Six Days because he was a Southern Methodist
Preacher—Arrested at Church by Lieutenant Combs—A Parley—Men said if
They were not Permitted to Shoot They would Egg Him—Waylaid by
Soldiers to Assassinate Him—Providential Escape—Waylaid the Second
Time, and Providential Escape—Move to Macon County—Further
Troubles—Reflections.