The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-02-21


mournin. exsepin their clothes. never
seed slch pitiful set in my life. talked
with en- all, and thar WAS nary one but
what had the dYspepsy or the swinny or
the rumatics or the bind staggors or the
beavers or the humps or sumthir. Well,
there want none of us discharged, for
there was bran new orders calm for
everybody for thirty days to GO to the
bitches. AS cou!deut walk tha, fur, |
was ordered 10 Anderson lille to guard
the prisoners. At Makon | me. an old
oE"an,arce, who was powerful big
officer, and lie had me transferred TO his
department an put me in charge Of his
ordnance. There's where | handled guns,
BdI, and slep on my arms. Whole
boxes o! muske;s was around me, and
dlGeut 40 more mind takiu a suooze or a
guu box than II it had been couch Of
ic'hery down. It's all in gil,in used to it,
BIl-aii in the USE"
jest so,' sed |, "tha;s the way see
L It-exakeiy so, my friend Proseed.
It's bland lucky, EiI, that / ddu't
90 TO Andrrsonv'.ie. Tney would have
had me alongside Of Wirtz, either as a
prisoncpaI or wi,uess or sumthin. and
some YIN Iank woud hav had swear
OF two at me about snoOtin him on the
dead line. Before this my carkass wou q
have been eat up by worms or cut up by
Dok'ors, and my plk,er speed all over
whole side Of Ha,per's Weekly as a
monster o. deth.
"We'l, KEEP handI;n guns and bynets
aud dangerous wespins, oniill one day
got furIo To 60 20 Rome. Sherman
WAS p'ayin base around about Atlanta,
and 50 had 40 circumference around by
the way OF SsIm", and the very day got
there, evsrlastin blast en-, the Wilson
raiders got there too. wssent no more
Iookiu for them Yam kess in Sslma then
were for old Bes!ssbub, and both ofsm
was all the same TO me. Bland i. they
wasent snoot,u st me before | lnowd they
was in the State. Cow in the dickens
they missed me ] don't know, for their
m'nny balls sung yanks doodle all around
me and over me and under me and be-.
twixt me.
81 tell you. Bill, run lik. . mud tur.
ke', lookin ahead Of mo At every step to
find an ssy place TO fall when / was
plugged. Apd old woman overlook me,
ard | axed her 10 take my watch and my
money. She took en- ina hurry and pu,
em in her boozum. Well, | found gully
at last. and rolld in ksrsplosh, for it was
about two feet deep in mud and water.
The Intervals fonnl me there jest at night,
and got me ont n, the pint Of the baynei.
rhey msrchd me to the wolf pen, and
there | stsyd till tho fuss was over.
Right here. Bill. want to make an
observation. There WAS feIIer with me
when Was cotchid, and seed him make
sorssr Of s'gn TO the captain, and
they turned him loose ir two minets, and
he jest went aboat anywhere as material
as king, while | had a crpssey'd dutch
man stsndiu over me with bayne. grin.
in from mornin ill night. There was
some FREQ Masonry about that, Bill, and
il another Que OF these tool wars comes a
long, IN jDe en-, if they'I let me.
"But I'm At home now for good. rm
gwine to stay here like a sine die. I'm
agin all wars and fghtins. I'm opposed
to all rows and rumpusses and s1Ds,:
don't keer nigh as much about dog fights
rs used to. Now if one could alway,
see the end Of a thing in advance, ana
the srnd ,ras all right, | wouldent mine
a big fuss, but then you know man.
foresigh's aini as good as his hind sights
IL they WAS, this var wouldent hav broh
out, and | wouIdent have lost my steer
nor my watch. never seed that woman
bsfors nor since, and I wouldent know
her from any other woman lha. walk
the yearIh-blamd il I'm certain whethe
she were white or black. Bill, how
your offspring ."
"Hungry as usual, thank you m,
frend." sed |.