Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-06-03
CAMPAIGN MISCELLANY.
ONE OF THE "BuLLY boys


Coming out from church in the morning,
we found line OF ambulances going down
the street. A driver told me that they had
just left hundred "bully boys" at Judicia.
ry Square hospital. Do you thiak the ad.
jrct've coarse and vulgar one? Go any.
where from Pleasant Hill what sting and
satire there il in the namel--go anywhere
from the banks Of the Red River--iorever-
more coursng boodily through our memo.
rics anywhere from Alexandria to SPOTS.
ylvania, and see how il is refined and sane.
titled by the men who battle for us, and you
will be ready to do as did follow the lead.
ing. went to the hospital. In one of the
wards fOunda man, or rather he found me
for | marked him as reserved man, while
passed, who would choose to be left TO his
own thought. But he called to mel say,
you're n Yankee" 1t seems that my dozen
years Of knocking about the world have not
worn off all the marks of nativity yet tho
had tlattered myself that | was grown
cosmopolte. So told this soldier. IL knew
you because I'm Yankee too" was his an.
swer-which pass over to students OF men.
tai organism. found him man from
Maine. lie had a bad flesh wound in one
arm, and one leg was off just above the knee.
" Don't mind the leg, but tell me about Sher-
idan's raid" read Secretary Stanton's tel,
egram relative to it. 80. l tell you, well
fetch 'em yeti Old Lee'll find what It's to
come to judgment, before he gets through
with it, guess, in a way he didn't look for.
Go down by that room and read that to that
man on the right" That was my dismissal
and went.
ANOTHER "BuLLY ROY"
90 The man on the right" found to be
Boston notion, red of hair, freckled of face,
blue OF eye, square Of chin, broad Of nostri,
in word, not man with whom Aramin,a
would fall in love at first sight, not u man
whom Susan Jane would idol ze as the hero
Of q romance. Mornin'," was his answer
to my salutaticn --terse and pointed as pos.
sible What could say to one that cut me
he made an inventory of me-I felt he was
passing judgment as only n man can whose
wits have been sharpened by long expert
ence at picket duty. Suddenly he opened
his largs eyes to their widest, and said
What's the news?' | saw that one arm
was gone above the elbow, and Judged there
was body wound somewhere, and knew
by the working of his forehead that he was
in pain. own this question astoni>hed me-
| briefly summed up the morning papers for
him. Then as saw he was in extreme pain,
| made remark about his arm and asked if
| could do anything for him. For answer |
got, so damn the arm what's the difference
it we only lick the rebels" We had further
talk. and found him hero from head to
loot-eyery quarter inch of his five feet nine
His parting word was: Somewhere you'll
find youngster with a hole in his lcg-he's
kind of pugnosed boy with white hair, but
he's got the grit know him, and he came
up in tho ambulance with me please get
HIM an orange or two if you find him-he's s
little down in the gills this morning, bht
he'll be all right III day or two" Yes, he
will be all right in day or two, for he will
be where pam and death never coma