The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-07-22

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A dusty, grizzly, crippled man of City.
leaning agood share of his weight on q
cane when he walked, sat on the postof-
fce steps yesterday while he ate dry
crust of bread. He was nthbling away
trying to ind the soft. side, wbenahe
looked up and sawsthat he was watched.
''Say, Yank, Whist do you call this
stuff r. be called ont as he chewed away.
saWell,dry bread isn't much OF a meal,
MAST The ansRert e
aThsF SO but when ATOMS are LOW
and the cofnmissary wagon in The rear,
you've got TO fill up on the best you
have. I've been camping 'longside Of
dry bread and water for whole month";
"Going anywhere2" ?" aua1aa %
II reckon. I'm alIus goin' somewhar
and never gittin' thar
"On the tramp ?"
"Kinder, though ! call 1t on the march.
You see I got Hsnked by hard times, and
I'm changin' my, base. I'm looking for
risin' ground now on which to form a
new bsttle-line. I've got q brother out
here in Kent County, and I'm marching
that way" ias -.s isf sa 9
"You were in the WARP" s ,ffe
"Wasn't I! Can't shet my eyes and
see jist how Gineral Pickett looked when
be led US agin your Second Corps down
at Gettysburg on the Sd Of July p
Wasn't it bilin' down thar that day
Wool! but how one Of ns got back be-
hind Wright's brigade alive 10 more than
kin tell! or zf7i3 Qi 9If la e4R st
$50 you were under Pickestr' ~
fright under Gineral Pickett, and
kin see the lay Of the ground on that day
as plain as that ERE boss. II I'd bin
layin' back under the wagons that day
wouldn't hev got two bullets in me nor
bin jabbed with bayonet. Lord, stran.
ger, but / thought was goner In that
fight! 1 can't talk about it 'thout chills
sweepin' up my back" o si,'e~Iif
ayes, It was hot" haiHesSs SsatlO
"Hot! Well, when thirty y-uine men
out of a company of fifty are killed dead
and six of the other 'leven wounded you
may reckon somebody was tryin' to,hurt
we 'uns 1t was about 4 O'Clock inthe
afternoon. All our guns had bin boom
in away for three hours to break the
Fed. CENTER and Pickett was to lead us
as stormin' party. The regiments fell
in like clock work, lots OF the boys look
in awful white around the gilis, and no
one but the officers speakin' above a
whisper. We knew we we're goin' to
charge rifle pits and old vets behind 'em,
and that lots of us we're goin' over to the
EWa,ptshura road tn -stax thar Eazaxar
he tossed the crust away with look
fof cousempt, graspet his cane with .
firmer grip, aud said: 81 ilei
"Pickett led, and behind US were. Pet.
tigrew's men. Attentiont Forward
And we went down in steady lines, every
company dressed as il on parade, and
every body waitin' for the ball to open
Boom! Boom! You uns opened on US
with forty cannons, all booming at once,
and il was awful, sir, to hear the screain-
in of grape and canister. Ittore men
to pieces and sent their blood spifting
on all sides. 1t took off legs and arms,
and the poor fellows sbrieked in awful
agony. March! March J! and by and
I BY We rushed at the guns with ayeli--
Behind 'em were the ride-pits, and behind
were lines of blue sixSor eight deep
Sich roar! Sich screams and yells and
shrieks! Stranger, Il believe got just
as near old Satan's headquarters that day
as live man can II ~ taf ia ig -
"And you we're driven back ?" Is,
sYes, but the ground was covered with
dead men FIRST. They lay thar in heaps
We trod on 'em as We surged up and fell
back, and the wounded driven to mad
ness caught at our legs or struck ct Us ai
we passed. We were among the guns
when I got this bullet in the shoulder
Down I went. and / got this one in .ht
leg. I was hangin' to the wheel OF 9
gun and pullin' myself up, when some
body chucked bayonet into me, anc
that laid me, and it was months before
Il
got out" IS. a1
"And now p"a3 rrsk.
"Well, dunno. $. ! amt Of much &C
count, but mebbe suthin' will turn or
by -and-by. I'm marchin'I on to see N.
brother, and like enough I'll 60 intt
camp out thar" - - .'....s. -,
"And forget your battles 20 -.
"Forgit nothin'! You uns and we IN
are all right now-no more war to eve
come between us, but I'd rather lose thi
fright arm than, to forgit how Ginera
Pickett looked that day as Eve Thousand
men behind him marched down to death
II We fought on the Union side I'll di
vide my crusts with ye and give ye tn
biggest half Of my bed, but when "
keep step with q man down to the jaw
Of death, and 60 back alone, If We eve
forgit him We are q wolf! That's me
stranger, and now-a.tention! Fill
lright-march! r.
And be moved away with slow an,
painful step, to pitch his tent again whel
bis old wounds ached. 80