Bibb County GaArchives News.....An Incident of Troublous Days. June 28, 1892
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. June 28, 1892
Macon, Ga., June 25.-- An interesting war story with which Speaker Charles 
Crisp is closely associated, and the location of which is at Macon, Ga., is 
told by a bartender from Cincinnati, O., who was, it seems, one of the parties 
chiefly concerned.

Louis Walker, according to his story, was a private during the war in Company 
K, Forth-Seventh Ohio Veteran Volunteer infantry, second brigade, second 
division and fifteenth army corps.

It was while encamped at Macon that Walker prevented a disastrous attack on the 
left flank of the army by the capture of a prisoner on whose person was found a 
dispatch detailing the plan of attack.

Walker, who tells his story very straight, states that he was out foraging 
early one morning a couple of miles from Macon, when he rode up to a house and 
stooping from his horse he saw a young girl talking to some one through an open 
window on the opposite side of the house.  The sound of the horse's hoofs 
attracted the girl's attention, and seeing the federal soldier, she begged the 
man with whom she was talking to leave.

Before Walker could grasp the situation a young confederate was around the 
corner and on him.  After a struggle Walker succeeded in getting the best of 
the boy and captured him, and in his pockets he found a dispatch from General 
Hardee to General Wheeler which was of the utmost importance.

The prisoner captured on that occasion was none other than Charles Crisp, the 
present speaker of the house of representatives, and the girl to whom he was 
talking is now his wife.

Walker has a number of letters from different people to substantiate his claim 
to having had a hand in the saving of the army of the Cumberland. 

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