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' " ' -
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ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
Ho-w the Boys of Both Armies Whlled
A iy Life in Cump Foraging Ex
periences , Tiresome Marches Thril
ling Sccnea on the Battlefield.
"N. S. Woodward , " said the Captain ,
"tells a good story in the Express Ga
zette. Woodward served as agent of
the Adams Express Company In the
South during the civil war , and , put
out of business curly in 1804 by the
operations about Knoxville , supported
himself by cutting cordwood. lie had
a good supply on hand , in fact , quite
a wood yard of his own , when Sheri
dan's division camped near , and the
boys conliscated every stick and chip ,
and were jolly over finding wood chop
ped and piled up ready to hand.
"Of course , the men of Sheridan's
division will plead guilty. It was-a
hard winter and at many nimps wood
was scarce. In this particular case
there was abundance of wood , without
the chopping , and the boys appreciated
Woodward's work , and I hiive no doubt
scores of them will write him at Knox
ville , Tenn. , expressing their thanks for
favors rendered in the matter of cord-
wood thirty-nine years ago. This story
reminds me of scores of incidents in
which tired or freezing soldiers burned
anything combustible , from shingles to
saw logs , or from fence rails to houses ,
with enthusiasm and a reckless disre
gard of consequences.
"When we first camped at Shell
Mound , after crossing the Tennessee in
1SG8 , there was a neat , substantial
brick building used as the railway sta
tion , and the orders were that tho
structurebe strictly guarded. It was.
but in the comings and goings , up and
down the Tennessee , the boys needed
brick for fire places in their little shan
ties and frame timbers for the same.
A'few bricks were torn out first from
one corner and then from another , un
til the building was pronounced un
safe. Then the men of the regiment
swooped down upon it like vultures ,
and in twenty minutes there was only
a bare skeleton left , and that was car
ried off that night.
"Open campaigns in winter would
have abounded in hardships had it
not been that most of the men in the
service were good fire builders. When
we first entered Kentucky in January ,
1SG2 , every fence rail was tied down ,
as the boys put it , with the order
'don't touch , ' and I have seen three
thousand men shivering in rain and
snow through a cold night without
shelter and without fire because there
was nothing to burn. There were
trees and wood piles all about us , but
none for soldiers. Several of our of
ficers were put under arrest because
they instructed their men to appropri
ate wood or rails to prevent great suf
fering.
"In one case a Colonel became popu
lar at home and. in tin * army because
on a stormy night he took possession of
a wood yard and a straw stack and
worked energetically to make his men
comfortable. When threatened with a
court-martial the next day he paid for
straw and wood and said nothing about
It. The boys found it out , however ,
and the year after the war that Colonel
received the vote of every man in our
township , Republican and Democrat ,
for sheriff , and he was re-elected , with
out organized opposition in the county ,
until he insisted he was too old to serve.
All because he believed that when the
boys needed things to burn they must
have things to burn.
"The men of some companies in the
old army , " said the Major , "called them
selves 'destroying angels , ' and when it
came to building fires or providing
shelter they were. In the early spring
of 1S64 our brigade was twenty or
thirty miles east of Chattanooga and
with no expectation of severe weather
the men lay down under blankets or
the thin shelter tents , and during the
night were literally snowed under.
When reveille sounded the next morn
ing there were six inches of snow on
the ground. The camp looked like a
cemetery with its "clusters and lines
of little hillocks , and there was only
one fire in the brigade , and that was
at guard headquarters.
"As the men were roused from heavy
sleep and three out their arms to lift
overcoat , cape , or blanket from their
faces the snow startled them to sitting
or standing posture , and the scene was
comical beyond any other I ever saw
in the army. Those who had taken
off their shoes could not find them.
Many could not find their hats. All
were chilled , but the boys laughed and
swore by turns. Then they started to
build fires , and while some cut down
dead trees as big as saw logs , others
tore down an old barn , and in half an
hour dozens of big fires were going ,
coffee was boiling , breakfast was cook
ing , and with bodies warm the men
were as frolicsome as children.
"It so happened that the barn de
stroyed belonged to one of the Brown-
low clan , and when he saw the fires
that had been built of its material he
opened his eyes very wide and said
'shucks. ' The boys joined in making
out a certificate for him which read :
'This is to certify that the First Ken
tucky volunteer infantry , being buried
In a snow storm and suffering dire
distress and other things , did on this
blank day of April , 1864 , tear down
and appropriate a barn worth about
$25 belonging to the holder hereof , who
is a good Union man , and if Uncle
Sam can't pay him for the barn we
will do it ourselves. ' This was signed
by about forty men who saw that the
'plucky man of the Brownlow clan'
didn't lose a cent. "
"Tho fence-rail habit , " eald the Ser
geant , "grew on a man. There was no
j more exhilarating work than breaking
up a seasoned cedar rail. A man who
did it once wanted to do it again , and
j after doing It again he could split a
cedar rail Into coarse or fine splinters
by the way he struck it on the hard
ground or a ! g. I hud a comrade who
had a record of breaking up 500 rhils ,
and he reasoned that over 5,000,000
cedar , walnut , and ouk rails in tho
South were burned by soldiers , and
that this wholesale destruction gave
us much Impetus to the barbed-wire
business as the settling up of the prai
rie States.
I "He located after the war in Nebras
ka , but got so lonesome with no fence
rails In sight that he returned to Ohio ,
and moved from there when the peo
ple began to replace the old rail fences
with board and wire fences. A year
ago he came to Chicago and I took him
out to Fort Sheridan , and incidentally
j called his attention to the fine grade of
! the wire fence inclosing the reserva-
! tion. lie was furious , and said that
if the government really wanted first-
class , experienced soldiers it ought to
build at every fort , and camp an old-
fashioned rail fence , and let the boy *
steal and brrn the rails , as a reward
for close attention to duty. " Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Narrow Kscape.
When the war broke out and a cal.
was made for volunteers , my husband
was among the first to join the regi
ment ; and as wo had been married
but a short time it seemed hard that
we must thus part , perhaps forever.
But as we were both loyal to the Un
ion we concluded that it was our duty
to answer the call. Three months af
ter my husband enlisted he was
wounded in battle and desired me to
send him something from home. I
replied that 1 would send a trnst.v
messenger with them soon. 1 then
went out and purchased a suit of male
attire , put them on and started for
my husband's regiment. When I found
him he did not know me , as I had m.v
hair cut and face and hands stained ;
so I thought it best not to reveal my
self or he would insist upon niy re
turning home. I was with the regi
ment only a few days when the order
came to march , and the Captain camo
to me and asked if I would volunteer
to carry important dispatches for him
to Sherman , about twenty miles away.
As I had traveled over the same coun
try before , I concluded it would be a
good chance to make a heroine of my
self , so I accepted the offer , and tha (
night at dark I started on my lonely
trip. It was a nice moonlight night ,
and I had no trouble until about mid
night , when from a lonely clump of
bushes by the roadside came the ordei
to halt , accompanied by the ominous
click of a musket. I had In ray sup
posed security walked right into a trap.
I was then led to headquarters , whicli
was half a mile away , and therq
locked up for the night as a spy after
first being searched in vain for papers.
I did not think it probable they would
find my dispatrhes. as 1 had them too
well hidden. In the m irning the Cap.
tain had me taken to his tent , and there
I had to answer a string of questions ;
but he could get no satisfactory in
formation. I was then returned to tho
guard house , with the orders to make
a more rigid search for papers. I now
saw 1 was in for it ; therefore sent
for the Captain , as I had information
for him. He came , and I informed
him of my sex and told him my father
was in Sherman's army , wounded , ami
I had taken that plan to get to him.
Of course , he did not believe me , ant ]
I was sentenced to be hung next morn
ing at sunrise. 1 saw now that unless
Providence interferred I was gone.
Night came with all its horrors ; but
at midnight Sherman's army advanced
and fired on the Confederate camp.
All was now confusion , in which I wa $
forgotten , and made a break for lib
erty. I had not gone far when I was
detected and pursued ; but I was too
near the Union army to be overtaken.
My pursuers fired on me with almosj
fatal result , one ball cutting my cheel
and another breaking my left arm. ]
delivered my dispatches , was well rei
eeived and oared for. I stayed witij
the army until the war broke up , anc ]
together with my husband went baclj
to the farm. Mrs. J. S. , in American
Tribune.
Obeyed I.ee'a Order.
Captain John Lamb , who represent
the Richmond district in Congress , hai
become famous as a lecturer on th
battle of Malvern Hill through his de
fense of General Jolln Magruder from
the charge that he was responsible foi
the slaughter of Confederate troops ijj
that engagement.
Captain Lamb at the time of the bat.
tie was an orderly sergeant attached
to the staff of General Magruder. Tin
night after the battle he was in Ma-
gruder's tent when General Lee cam <
in. The latter demanded to know whj
General Magruder had ordered his mej
to charge when inevitable defeat an1 *
disaster awaited them. *
"General Lee , " Magruder answered ,
"I charged because you three timei
ordered me to. I was not able to ge |
my men ready for the charge when yor
gave the order the first and second
times , but when you gave the order a
third time , we started. "
General Lee , says Captain Lamb , ad
mitted that this was true , and that Ij
was not until recent years that Genera ]
Magruder has been charged with re
sponsibility for the disaster. Captain
Lamb is the only man now living wh ( .
has personal knowledge of the rueetin *
between Lee and Magruder the nighi
after the battle.Washington Post.
Always speak politely and kindly tc
servants.
CATARRH THIRTY YEARS.
CONGRESSA1AN MEEK1SON OF OHIO.
- - - - - - > - - - - - - -
lion. David Meckison is well known , not only in his own State , hut through
out Aincrifa. He hcfran his political mrocr by .M rvinjr four consecutive terms : is
Msiyor of tlie town in which IIP lives , during which time he liccsunp widely known
: i * tinfounder of the Mct'Uison Bink of I\Tipoh-ou , Ohio. IJe was elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress I y a very hirge majority , and is the ncknowlud od leader of
his parly in his section of the State.
Only one Haw marred Ihe otherwise complete success of this rising statesman.
Catarrh with its insidious approach amlt cnncious jrrasp , was his only uncoiKiiicrod
foe. For thirty years lie wa ed unsuccessful warfare1 against this personal enemy.
At last Penina came to the rescue , and he dictated the following letter to Dr.
Hart man as th result :
* * - - +
" / have used several bottles of Peruna and 1 feel greatly benefited <
f thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged tobelieve that if *
\ ' / use / / a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of , I
< thirty years' standing. " David Meekison , Member of Congress.
season of catching cold is upon
THE The cough and the sneeze and
the nasal twang are to be heard on
every hand. The origin of chronic ca
tarrh , the most common and dreadful of
diseases , is a cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh
generally begins. A person catches cold ,
which hangs on longer than usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat. Then follows sensitiveness of
the air passages which incline one to
catch cold very easily. At last the pei-
KOU lias n cold all the while seemingly ,
more or less discharge from the nose ,
hawking , spitting , frequent clearing of
the throat , nostrils stopped up , full feel
ing in the head , and sore , inflamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at the
very beginning. A bottle of Peruna
properly used , never fails to cure a com
mon cold , thus preventing chronic ca
tarrh.
Ask your Druggist for a free Pe-ru na Almanac.
About 4.750 tons of British money
are constantly in circulation.
Thirty-eight guineas has been paid
at Yarmoub , England , for a Louis
XVI clock that formerly belonged to
Mrs. Siddos. the actress.
Missouri is now credited with the
greatest corn yield , estimated tbis
year at 315.000,000 bushels. Iowa is
a close second , with 300.000.000 bush
elsand Kan as and Nebraska follow.
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While many people have been cured
of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of
Peruna , yet , as a rule , when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly lixed more thau
one bottle is necessary to complete a
cure. Peruna has cured cases innumer
able of catarrh of twenty years' stand
ing. It is the best , if not the only inter
nal remedy for chronic catarrh in ex
istence.
But prevention is far better than cure.
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the slight
est symptom of cold or sore throat ut
this season of the year ami thus prevent
what is almost certain to end in chronic
catarrh.
Send for free book on catarrh , entitled
"Winter Catarrh. " by Dr. Hartman.
"Health and Beauty" sent free to
women only.
The Edinburgh Review , Byron's
"blue and yellnw pestilence" has re
cently celebrated its centanary.
"Put my gun in my colliu. " was
the request made in his will by Fran
cis Bagoly , a Hungarian nig game
hunter , who has died , aged 98.
His h'fty-Iiist sentence for proach-
ing has just been passed on a prison
er at Tewkcsbury. England. He has
been sent to jail for a month.
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