The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1864-11-26
Incidents Of the War.

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from Grsn's army ssys:
.There ia cornfeld between cur lines
81 one pain,. . lite 10 the left Of Cemetery
Hill. The opposing picks's will efeel into
that for an occasional friendly chat or for
barter. or Tor game % cards. Only think Of
Ia. Two Of them were playing game Of card
q few days since. With Abe Lincoln and jeff
Davis as imsginsfy stakes. The Lincolcite
los,--'the,e.' Gays the winner. "Od Abe l.
mine
"Weil. III send him over BY the Peters
Lurh Express" reso anded the defeated
Ysnk.
One dsy lac, week there had been lively
Ishe ing aud some muskriry firing Ia tae
forenoon. After dinner there weas a slsck
" hostlii,ies. A Johnny rose upon The
psrap-t of his lines, ard shock paper ss
rieu Of truce; he spraBg over into cosnheid
AZ once a hundred men from either lines
went over their work-. and side by side
swsfping pspers for Pspsrs tobscco for jack
knives hard,sck and sugar for corn cske.-
New acqusiats noes were made-In come
instances old sequ'intances were renewed
A Connecticut sergesnt found . towsmen
and sbcoimrte ins sergeant over The way.
A Connecticut ofirer found kinsmsn IN
a rebel officer. A o,ai Maryland regiment
~as vie Wis with Mssy land secesn regi-
meBt Msuy iinks Of union were there
one found . brother on the other eide. and
v-t soolhtr his own father. There 10 the
,umsnco OF war 'or you.
Arer iitle time, The swapping Of the
day VS. done. end ,ficers aud men return
ID 10 their own Iines. All was quiet again
aaui the artillery opened fire. Then half e
score of lo.or-rs sprang up from their con-
lmen; IN The cornheld and scrambled
back 10 i.sir gi.ces behind the works. Thus
tne q. h,ts ond the chatting alternate,
IT. Queer bus,re-s tilis war"
sHAEP SHOOTING.
Some may tblnk that man mry have
moves tLsi day from the yidette pits toward
ghe main line ~ith tair chance Of escape
Blu, they don, knas the truth Why. the
soft crown of the Low bsnk before some o.
those pits wfs actually cut down from si,
20 tseive inches o. 'aas busy day.rifI- shots
i-ehipprd swsy by repeated buIle, hits in
Iisnded Tor the men II bsrely concea ed
The enemy had shsrpshco,ers q work, &C.
cura,s shooters TOO. The men from ou'
main lines were firing through Iitle open
langs . tt.e Sand bag piles along the para
pet The rebels could not see the mrh.-
IThev could only knOw from The puff o
smoke whence the shot proceeded.
4 Bu, they would reply with such desdly
,lm 50 % 20 sesd bullet after bullet directl.
,hrnugh those openings which were nc
Isfger than ones hsnd. Some Of thes'
-per,uves were 20 enlarged BY the man!
Z bullets siriking their edge thst they wer'
absndoned fer others. When . man fire,
!. through enc Of them he must look througI
s6oiher II he would note the effect Of III
shot.
z A soldier not long since, Who siter frinG
locking thrsugh the same hole 70 follow b.
: -hoi. had bis hesd bored through BY q rs
Iturn bullet. With such shooting . ma
; could not walk or even erawl fifty yards /
! pl,in sight on side bill with impuniiy. =
Not one rife alone but hundreds would
aimed u him
The old Potomac report cannot be mad
Of the Petersburg front st the resent time
III is not al qui., along the line. The rim
Of the rife echoes in the evening air a.
write. and the sound q passing bullets
even now 10 my ears. The life ID not NOR
oiooous, nor ", is i attractive and resliu
: But % the soldiers cay, Its all in ,hre
years."