Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-04

lat ne about shootin him on the dead
Line. Before this nay carkass would haS
I been eat up by the worms or cut up h5
I poktors aud my pikter spred ali over Z
whole side Of Harper's Weekly as a mon
sJer Of deth.
"Wen, Ikep handlin guns and bayo'
nets and dangerous weepins, OntiH or;
dav I got a firl0 30 go % Rome. Sher
man was pIayin base around Atlanta
and 80 had 10 circumference around by
the way OF Selma, and the very day
got there, everlastin blast EN-, the Wilson
I raiders rot there TOO. I wasent no more
/ lookin for them Yankees in Selma than
/ I wers for old Beelzebub, and both Of EN-
sras all the same 20 me. Bland If they
Z Wasena shOotin at me before I knOWd
I they was in the State. How in the
/ dickens they missed me ! dom know,
I FOR their minny balls sung yankee doodle
I all around me and over me and underme
and betwixt me.
"T tell YOU. Bill, I run Ike a mud
turkei, lOokin ahead Of me at every step
70 find an easy place 10 fall when / was
plugged. An old woman overlook me,
aud I aXd her 10 take my watch ana nay
money. She took EN- In q hurry ana
put EN- in her b0ozum- Well j Iounu
gully at last, and r0lld in kersplosni Ior
ID was about two feet deep in mud anc
water. The Intervals found me there
lest at night, ard got me out al lhe pint
Of the havnet. They marchd me 70 the
wolf peu and tbereI stayd till the fuss
was over.
"Right here, BIZ, I want 10 make an
observation. There was a fellow Win
me when ] was cotch'd, and 1 seed ham
make q s1rrer Of q sign 20 the captain,
and they turned him loose IN two minetsi
and be Just went about anywhere as
material rs a king, while ] had crossey'd
dutchmau standinover me with baynet
z-innin from mornin till night. There
was some Free Masonry about that, Bill,
and il another one of these fool wars
comes along, III jine EN-, if they'll let
me.
But I'm at home now for good. I'm
rwine 10 stay here Ike a sine die. I'm
agin an wars and fghtlns. I'm opposed
20 all rows and rumpusses and riots. l
don't Eeer nigh as much about dog fight
as 7 used to. Vow, if one could always
see the eend Of q thing in advance, and .
The ssHd JC1S al right wOUldenJ mind a 1
big fuss, but then you know man s fore
j ghts aint as good a. his hind sights. II
they was, this war wOuldenJ have broke .
out and / wouldent have lost my steer, .
nor my watch. never seed that woman .
before nor since, and ! wOUident know .
her from any other woman that walks .
The yearth-blamed If I'm certain .
whether she were white or black. Bill, I
how is y0ur 0ftspring2n
Hungry as usual, thank you my
'rend. p sed l.
" How's Mrs. Arp"
" RebeiliGgs, ! ohm, very; but I think
.hel be harmonized-GttertC
CbUs.H
Mr.. EdiUUr, I viii not relate further Of
hese trying adventures at this time.
Big John are now entirely harmonious,
,nd I suppose his future career VIII be
ID screen. Yours, as ever,
BILL ARP.
p. S.-AIrs. Arp wants you 70 git back
he letters I writ her when she we're
weeu sixteen. Them ofiisers have got
IN and I suppose have laughd al the
unny part away by this time. They
0ntained some fool things that boys viii
write when they fall in love, and my
wife sometimes used EN- upon me as re-
1indeIs Of broken promises.
She says, if they'll send EN-, shell try
nd forgive em-EttCrUkNs
Don't trouble y0urselfHEucH, Mr.. Editur,
nd iJ VIII be all the same 70 me. |E