Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-06-23
D. H. q. EMPTIEs HIS HAyERsACK.

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Love-" we find the following anecdotes
When Johnson's army lay around
Smithfield, n. c., no -four could be obtain.
ed, and meal only in such small quaint.
ties that two corn dodgers per man con.
stitu,ed the bread rations. Col. r., who
had gained such an enviabie reputation
as the commander of the s.srpshocters
of Sharp's brigade, was a rigid disciplin-
a%rian, and determined to stop the prac'
tice, SO common among the rebel soldiers
of yelling at citizens who passed by, es-
pecially if within the conscript age, and
suspected of keeping out Of the army for
the same reason as Percy's fop-a moral
antipathy to the "vile guns" and 'vil-
famous saltpeter."
One day a nice dapper young man, Ell.
egantly dressed and handsomely mounted,
with a bell crowned hat, rode by the fun
loving regiment, and was Immediately
greeted with the old cry, Get out Of that
hat we know you are thar see your
toes working under it," etc. Col. r. i'm
mediately rode up, crying, !" Stop that
halloing ; it is coarse and ill-mannered !;
no well-bred gentleman would be guilty
Of it :" II don't know, colonel replied
a Mississippi boy, with a merry twinkle
in his eye, chow you expect men to be
well-bred on two c~orn-dodgers a day.
The colonel had no further remarks to
make on that interesting occasion.
That accomplished scholar, gentleman
and soldier, the lamented Gen. Garland,
Of Virginia, related to the writer a con-
versation which he overheard between an
Irish prisoner, taken at the second Man
assas, and a friend of his in the i" ould
country" but then serving in the South.
ern army. The rich counties around the
field Of battle bad been desolated by Gen.
Pope's order. Not a chicken could be
heard to crow or a pig to squeal for miles
and miles. The seven or eight thousand
United States prisoners were, therefore,
Of necessity, badly fed, as shown by the
following dialogue
Yankee Pat" Dennis, my boy, have
ye rebils no pity upon a poor fellow p
Eve had nothing to ate to-day, and the
suns most down. Faith and you'll have
a big score Of sins to confess to the praist
for such tratement."
Rebel DENIS And is it for having
nothing to ate to-day, you're after gumb-
ling. Pat? In the Southern Confederacy
we have one meal a week and three fights
a day. And how are we to fade SO many
Nv ye. whin your gineral has disolated
the land? No, no, Pat, we'll not ~confiss
to the praste, we'll coBiss to Pope him.
SELF"
At the first battle Of Fredericksburg,
kershaws's South Carolina brigade was
ordered to reinforce the troops at the
wall, and had to cross the terrific hill
An officer went forward to select the SAT.
est route for them. He rode to the sum
nit and took a deliberate survey. The
firing of the enemy ceased. He raised
big cap in acknowledgement, and rode
off without having a shot fired at him.
The officer was Gen. j. B. kershaw him
self. Was the cessation Of the fire acct
dental, or was it a compliment of the
crave to the brave? Who can tell7 But
IN that conspicuous position he could not
have remained alive a single instant had
the firing continued.
General Sherman cannot be charged
with the ain Of loving the Southern peo-
pie, and yet he has left his decided testi-
mony, which we commend " to all whom
it may concern"
we should not drive a people into
anarchy, and it is simply impossible
for our military power to reach all the
masses OF this unhappy country"
Connected with the battle of Fredericks-
burg there is an ~annecdote, which shows
the difference between true ~unpretending
courage and the spurious article with its
pompous assumptions. A general officer
riding alone two days after the retreat
of Burnside, stopped to warm at a fire
where a group of Cobb's brigade, which
had defended the stonewall, was lying
down in all the listlessnesa of the aban-
don after a fight. The officer had on a
common soldiers ~overcoat, and was well
coined as a cavalryman, to the freside.
. country lad, a farmers boy at home,
gave him a graphic description of the
fierce assault and the terrible repulse, in
own simple style, ending his narrat.
with bis ingenious lcomments upon the
fighting in general. Il have hearn men
say that they were spilin' for a fight.
Stranger [ have been in every fight with
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