The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-01-21
For THE HERALD.
PO:S:-M Hollow,
,Janual.y. 1874

January, 1874
Nix. EDrTUR.-Ef YOU like militerry
displays, yon o:!"!,t TO hay <':v,l wot
t TX place in Charleston on New 1eres
d:iy, what tie dari;;cs ctll Emansipa-
s'Nm day now.
The cullcr,l truw.S turned "'t OF Il
big scale, Tar was cnny !nantity Of
Ginrals IL kurnel>. Wa: rid NJ {: down
the line, kNeretl I'LL over with y hepe of
gold lace, 4 Il StoMisliin. :,!iount Of big
epperlets. wot shoe; up Il down with
the moshnn of the horSes-the little
darkies seemed to think that it WAS cot
up altogether for ther. e,lditic:l>hun l.
almir:.shun, they hoilcrcd & hurreed SO.
Then the Guvencr in all the ''pride
& circumstance Of w:,r," surrounded by
his staff, rcvued the long line OF Gilt
terin uniforms. & nil WOE had :, hand in
it seemed MI harstir ont With patryot-
ism. tell you, the old time fourth of
July warn't nowhere long side it.
I cuddcnt help thinkin wot Il lucky
thing for them Spanyas'tls wot wanted
to titc Ginr:ll Grant, that he didn't
c:,us cf lie had sent them fellcrs thar,
ef they didn't cat them up, they wud
have frightened them to deth.
The inscedcnts Of the day, was ono
ossifer got prancin rom ginrauy Il his
horse got skcercd & lun away, knocked
over some of the kroud & scattered the
stock in trade ofsone Or two ole groun-
nut mommers, hoo always seem to do Il
good bisncss on these occ:lslluns. A
Cavalry truper'S horse fell 4 broke his
neck, not the mans neck, but the horses,
& the poor fellow looked very "down
in the mouth" when he tux off the sad
die & all the traps & carried them
away.
The hole concluded with IN orashun
aispl:,y;n Il htpe of patryotism, 4 the
Gnvncr in his address said hc was
mulch pleased to say, that he hadn't
seed one enpxcrcatcd person thru the
hole thing.
"Cump.rashunS is inoderus," sum ole
ritter SAYS, bat in tllc ole times, wen we
bad muster day in Squire Jones ole
field, it cudlent hole Il candle to the
display on New Ycrcs day. Wen our
Rigermcnt WIS out, we didn't have no
glittcrin uniforms; the oSsiters WAS
drcst up, but we common sogers wasn't.
All wot had guns tuk their place in the
front & them wOt had cornStalks IL hoe
handles was ordered inta the rare rank,
then we ranged ourselves long side Of
II straight fence, wot must llal been
kept up for that purpose, SO Us to GIT
a strnight line. Soon came thc order
'.tenShun battalion, shoulder arms"
then .sor,lcr almS,n then sum frller wud
Jump up & holler. "Cartin. Joe Smith
has lrapped the hntt Of lis bio muskct
rite on my toes"-anotlcr wud call
THAT man wot has = bayonet on the
eend Of a hoe handle most pat ont my
eye s. tored my hat" Arter i while
pecc was restored IL things got straight
encd; then sunc cumnic,l th2r order,
'.battalion forward march" wen each
feller seemed to try his level best to git
:,hed Of his next man, Il al wad git
jummbicd mp ginrally. & we hadt to cum
back to the fence to git the line straight
agin, a hepe Of the Sogers badly wound
ed in the heels, Il with thcr toes severe
" smashed. Then we stacked arms"
l. the nIen dismissed to refresh their
selves. Large quantities of bad whis-
key got bully punished, each man Try
ing to do his best in destroying it.
Wen 4 reasonable time was lowed for
this iaudcrbcl dooty, & for the stowin
away Of the subStanslalS, the Riger
ment was reasSembled but the cvcrlu
shuns wos not ginrallv satisfactorily jest
then, & we w;ls sune dismissed to the
sanctuary Of our homes e. tircsides.
Yours trnly,
pE"TE SNEANpHIRD