The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-24
MAGAZINES.


The July number of The Land We Lone
The GALAXY, and SCOTS Monthly, have beer
received. The first is filed with contributions O
a most interesting character, among which we OBJ
serve Dramatic Sketch" by PAUL II. HAYNE
Evenings in Parliament" by JOHN R. THOMPSON
''Humors Of the MORGAN Raid" which gives al
excellent apecdote; 'The Haversack," which i:
unusually full in this number; sPeach Culture,
by Hon. b. W. RAyENE1, Of Aiken, s. c.; edi
torial, book notices, etc. s'The Haversack'
opens with the following excellent thing =
Whatever good qualities the Southern soldiers
possessed at the beginning Of the war, fondness
for work was not among them. The order to in.
trench never failed to elicit growl Of discomfort
1t was not long, however, until the discovery was
made that Ga pile Of red yeah (earth) was good
thing" as the old tar-hee expressed it, when a
minnie struct the embankment Just before him.
] For 8 time 'tspades were trumps," until the news
papers began to pour into camp with the indig-
nant comments Of fighting editors upon such a
mode Of warfare: 'sWest Point Science" s'pick and
shovel Generals, !" "JoE JOHNSTON strategy" &C.,
&c. Then for brief period, these criticisms
chimed in with natural Incidence, and the "boys
in grey" in the last days of 81 and the first days
Of ga, had as great aversion to labor as 'sthe
gentlemen in black" have in this blessed year,
1867, Of liberty, harmony and reconstruc-
ton. It was not long, however, until the
soldiers discovered that the aforesaid fighting
editors did not set the example Of @brave-
ly charging breastworks with the bare bosoms Of
freemen." They began to suspect that there was
q little, very little humbug about these gallant
fourishes, and the pick, shovel and spade rose in
market value. Another difficulty was not long in
springing up, and proved more powerful auxiliary
to laziness. After the works had been painfully
constructed at much expense Of sweat, grumbing,
and, it may be, something q little more emphatic,
the boys would be marched of, abandoning the
fruits Of their labor, or they would have to fight
behind the earth-pils of some fellows even
common saying with them, eve are willing to
dig if you'll let US fight behind our o'on dir" !"
E. R. F.. Of Gainesville, Alabama, tells us of a
rather remarkable application Of this notable
phrase. One day when the boys were bitterly
grumbling about change in their position, which
had thrown them behind the dirt" Of other troops,
a very hard looking specimen Of rebeldom
passed a,eng, who was more sooty, more greasy,
more begrimed and more dirty than even the
lazy crowd Of malcontents. Corporal DIAL,
9Th Alabama battalion, cried ont, "here's
fellow, who ought to be satisfied, he fights be-
hind his own dirt No ball can ever get through
that pile on his fce!" After that every dirtyfa
fellow was said to fight behind his own dirt.
The oft-told drummer tale is also published as
follows: ga very large citizen, with enormous
abdominal protuberance, was standing by the
road side Watching the march Of JOE. JoHNsroN's
men, when he was suddenly surrounded by
crowd joyfu1y e1elaiming we've found him ! we've
found himP The captain Of the company tried to
get his men back in the road, and demanded what
they had found. The reply astonished the fat
man. 'Ohl captain, we've found the man who
swallowed our bass drum"