The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-06-22
"Bully Boys

Coming out from church in the morn
ing, We found line of ambulances going
down the street. A driver told me that
they had just left hundred "bully boys
at judiciary Square hospital. Do you
thiuk the adjective coarse and vulgar
Que? 60 anywhere from Pleasant Hill
what sting and satire there ls In the
name go anywhere froul the banks of
Red River er-toreVermore coursing blood
lily through our memories go anywhere
from Alexandria to Spottsylvania and see
how it is refined aud saucti6ed by the men
who battle for US, and you'll be ready to
do as / did-iollow the leadiug Invent
to the hospital. In one of the wards |
found man, or rather he found NE, for
| marked him a reserved man, while |
passed, who would choose to be left to his
own thoughts. But he called to NE, II
say, you re a Yankee" 1t seems that my
dvzen years of knocking about the world
have not worn off all the marks of nativity
yet though had fattered myself that
was grown a cosmopolIte. So told this
soldier. II knew you because | IN Yam
kee, too" was his answer-which pass
over to students of mental organism |
found him man from Maine He had
bad flesh wound 10 one arm, and one leg
was of just above the knee "Don't mind
the leg, but tell NE about Sheridan's raid "
| read Secretary Starton'S telegram reia-
tive to it. 20 tell you, we'll fetch 'em
yet! Old Lee'il find what It's to come tC
judgment, before he gets through with it,
guess, in way he didn't look for. Go
down by that room, and read it to that
man on the right" That was my dismis-
sal, and | went. ''The man oD the right
| found to be Boston notion, red of hair.
freckled of face, blue of eye, square Of chin,
broad of nostrll-in a word. not man
with whom Arawinta would fall 10 love
at first, nor mau whom Susan Jane would
idOlise as the hero of romance. "Mor.
uin'," was his answer to my salutatiep-I
terse and pointed as possible. What could
! say to one who cut me off in that way
While stayed an instant he made an in-
ventory Of mel felt he was passing judg,
ment, as only man can whose wits have
been sharpened by long experience at
picket duty. Suddenly he opened bis
large eyes TO their widest. AID said
"What's the news ?" | saw that une arm
was gone above the elbow, and judged
there was body wound somewhere. aud
| knew by the working of his forehead
that he was in pain. own this question:
sstonished me. | briefly summed up the
morning papers for him. Then, as l saw
be was in extreme pain, made remark
about his armand asked if could do any
thing for him. For answer | got, 80,
damn the arm what's the difference if
we only lick the rebes" We had fur.
ther talk and | found him hero from
head to foot-every quarter inch Of his
i've feet nine. His parting word was
somewhere you'll find youngster with
hole in his leg-be's kind of pug
nosed boy, with white hair. out he's got
the grit-I know him, and be came up
in the ambulance with me; please get hin
an orange or two if you find hin, and
cheer him up-he's little down in the
gills this morning, but he'll be all right
in day or two" Yes, be will be all
right in day or two, for he will be where
pain and death never come.