As they approached Obadiah fled easterly across the fields pursued by the Refugees who after calling repeatedly upon him to stop and surrender, fired, by Bearmore's orders and shot him dead at a spot about a quarter of a mile east of the barn. The poor youth who was only about 15 years old was brought home to his mother a corpse. The untimely fate of young Mead was much lamented, and among others by Bearmore himself who said that he (Mead) was mistaken for another person whom the Refugees were extremely desirous of taking prisoner. About two miles and a half north of Sherwoods Bridge, the Byram River road
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ascends a hill where it passes an opening through a ledge of uncommonly high rocks nearly perpendicular and quite inaccessible. The rocks east of the road are thirty or forty, and those on the west from 15 ^10 to 20 ^20? feet high. Once, in the latter part of the war, Huggeford told me that he was going up to Round hill and North Street, at the head of a strong party of Refugees intending to sweep off all the cattle of the country, and was fearful of this pass. He had reason to be. It was guarded by forty or fifty militia who lay upon the top of their faces, and when the Refugees advanced near enough rose up and poured upon them a sheet of fire. They instantly faced to the right about and retreated. It was cold and the ground frozen. The advance of the Refugees was expected and the sentry in advance put his ear to the ground and heard the approach of the enemy a mile off. Two miles north of Sherwood's Bridge