Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-06-12

By G. -.----.------.....r, even tnusr
that have convenient side-doora This
has brought the military up standing
straight, too. When they frat came
about Washington they-we only speak
Of the ''fast boys" for the great majority
do not get intoxicated--strolled about at
win, and occasionally did lose straight
perpendicular, leaning like the famous
tower OF Pisa at slight angle. Since
the bars were barred TO them decided
improvement in their position 10 per-
ceptible. See the benign effect of that
grea. power--moral suasion. Sherman $
boys "think Washington is safe" and
the strolling veterans of the Army of
the Potomac are often saIuted with that
famous slogan, "All quiet on the Poto-
mac" They don't like this, it often ex.
eites them alightly, and they rouse them
selves aud become unquiet "Hello,
hummersi been marching through the
South, eh ? while we kept Lees army
away from you, hii bill Who the h--ll
couldn't march all over Dixie when
there's nobody at home; ha ha ha "
And then discussion, not always con.
ductecs In strictly parliamentary man
ner, takes place, and Sherman's ''bum-
msrs" and the 'quiet men of the Poto-
mac" take each others measure, when
suddenly a cry Of "Hers's the Provo
guard" scalters the impromptu council
of war and saves the necessity of bloody
noses or worse.
Ia such q large assem- blage of men
from all quarters of ahe country, there
s.F he al -
the roSdy element The genus bum
meF also exists to some extent The
hummer in an ingenius and intricate
animal; he of course becomes very much
tangled, both in tongue and legs. In
Sherman's army we understand the word
hummer has slightly different sig-
MITIGATION, and ia also sometimes applied
10 the rough riders-gallant fellows, too
and the foragers and purveyors We
are told by persons who have investigated
the matter and published learned folios
on the subject, that there are various
kinds OF Dutchmen; for instance there is
the Rotterdam Dutchman and the Am
sterdam Dutchmsn, and then the Dutch
man without either the Rotter or Amster
prefix. So Of bummers; there is the
camp buramer, the hospital hummer and
the teld hummer. From time immemo-
rial all armies have had these charac-
teFs, FalstaF was the very prince of
hummera See how be behaved on the
6eld OF Shrewsbury, when he stabbed
the dead body Of Harry Hotspur and
carried him of ms a trophy.
''Lord, Lord, how this world is given
20 lying / grant you, / was down, and
ont OF breath, and 90 was be; hnt we
roae both at an instant, and fought q
long hour by Shrewsbury clock" &c,
re- I'VE quote from memory, of course,
as We always do) That is the field
hummer. The hospital-bummer grows
dreadfully sick about the time battle
ia expeesed, and Ress aent of in time
He usually surv ives, aud NAV be of en-
seen relating his most wonderful adve1-
tnres % that easily Rulied class thai
General Sherman speaks so contemp,u
ousiy OF as non eombatfants All, the
''imminent, deadly hreeehes" that he
has been inl, 1t would make any ones
hair stand up under a black beaver to
hear him tell of them; while, in truth,
the only breeches he had ever been in
were bis own, and they safe and far
enough from bullets. The camp-bum-
mer shirks duty by toadying to the sa-
perior officers; lodges picket-moanting,
| and gsts detailed "a very comprehen.
sive term. He is o miscellaneous sort
of losfsr, and good judge of provisions.
A true soldier hates the whole tribe OF
hummers as he does Copperheads.
Of the two hundred and odd thousand
soldiers congregated about this city, it
ID a wonder 10 us how and where they
oil get anything to eat When they frst
came we used to hear good deal OF
grurbliug and deep moral swearing
about that eternal hard tack and junk,
while she |" p A. boys had white bread
aud white gloves 10 sat il with, &s.
But then, said they, good humoredly,
SheFm&n's men can stand anything.
Old Teeumseh thinks we're hardy as
| horses; wonder be don't feed us on
oats" ----' 4---
Soldiers will all grunble. and so would
we If we were soldiers. We grumble 8
little nm il is, if our eggs are boiled q
little too hard, or our beef steak cooked
M shade too much, or the coffee little
wstery. But, ah! how il gladdens their
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