(already mentioned), and Sherrard.Jere.Clemens had a wide reputation as a good pistol-shot, and once it enabled him to get on the friendly side of some drummers when they wouldn't have paid any attention to mere smooth words and arguments.

He was out stumping the State at the time.

The drummers were grouped in front of the stand, and had been hired by the opposition to drum while he made his speech.

When he was ready to begin, he got out his revolver and laid it before him, and said in his soft, silky way-- "I do not wish to hurt anybody, and shall try not to; but I have got just a bullet apiece for those six drums, and if you should want to play on them, don't stand behind them." Sherrard Clemens was a Republican Congressman from West Virginia in the war days, and then went out to St.Louis, where the James Clemens branch lived, and still lives, and there he became a warm rebel.

This was after the war.