The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-23
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, 1S63-BEU-
TELSBACH, 1880.

"YAHI shpeaks English leetle perhaps you
shpeaks peter der German"
"No not q word."-"Vell, den, Meester it il
hardt forto be oonderstandt
1vos drei yahr in your coontry, fights in de-
Twentiet Illinois Infantry-fghtin' Joe
HookerS commando"
$50 you've seen service in Georgia-a veteran
eh?"-"Vell, 1 tell you
Shoost how it vos. l vent ofer in sixty unt
lapdt in Nei- York;
shpends all mine money, gets sick, und neal
dies in der Hospiddel Bellevue;
Ven / gets peter 1 trampS to Sheecago tx
look for some work."
"Pretty young then, I suppose" Yah, swan
sig apout; und der peoples
Vot i goes to for to ask for some work dey
hate none for to geef;
Fiery one laughs; but holds my head opt
shoost so high as der steeples.
Only dot var comes along, or should have
die, l belief"
SEVER get wounded' notice you walk rath
er lame and unsteady.
Pshaw got wooden leg eh? What battle
At Lookout? don't say?
was there too-waita minute-your beer glass
is empty already,
Call for another. Therel tell me how 'twa:
you got wounded that day."
swell, We charge ope der side of der mountain
der sky vos all smoky and hazy,
We fight all day long in der clouds, but nef
er get hit until night
Butt don't care to say mooch apout it. Del
poys called me foolish and crazy,
Und der doctor vot cut ofe my leg, he say
'Goot'-dot it serf me shoost right.
''But drinks wood do dot thing over again
shoost der same and no matter
Vot any man say."-"Well, let's hear it-you
needn't mind talking to me,
For l was there, too, as tell you-and Lor
how the bullets did patter
Around on that breastwork of boulders that
sheltered our Tenth Tennessee"
$50? Dot vos Tennessee regiment charged
upon ours in de efening,
Shoost before dark; ind dey yell as dey
charge, und We geef hurrah,
Der roar of der guns, it vos orful."-" All! yes
remember, twas deafening,
The hottest musketry firing that ever oul
regiment saw"
''Und after We drove dem back und der night
come on. listen,
Und drinks dot l hear somepody callin'-e
voice dot cried,
'Pring me some water for Colts sake'-I saw
his pelt- bate glisten,
Oonder der moonlight, on der barapet, shust
outside"
ST drowmy canteen over to yer he lie, but he
answer
Dot his left hand voS gone ind his right arm
broke nit fall;
Den / slump ofer, und gife him drink, but
shust as ran, Sir,
Bang! come a sharpshooter's pullet, und
dots how it vos-dot is ALL"
" And they called you foolish and crazy die
they? Him, you hefriended-
The reb, mean-what became of him? Did
he ever come 'round?"
"Dey tell me he crawl to my side, und call till
his strength vos all ended
Until dey come out nit der Stretchers, und
carry us off from der ground"
"But pefore We go, he ask me my name und
says he: 'Yacob Keller
You loses your leg for me, ind some day if
both of us leefs,
shows you don't vorget'-but he most hafe
died, de poor Teller.
meier hear ofe him since. He don't get veil
beliefs.
"only always, always got de saddisfacshun ofe
Shtop! vots der matter? Here take some
peer, you're vite as q sheet
Shteady! your handt on my shoulder! my
goodness! drinks you vos goin'
To lose your senses away und fall right of
init der seat.
"Geef me your handt. Vot! der left Won gone
Und you vos q soldier
In dot same battle?-a Tennessee regiment
dots mighty queer
Berhaps after all you're-'-" Yes, Yacob, Goo
bless you old fellow, 1 told you
I'd never-no never forget you. l told yoI
I'd come, and Pm here''
George L. Catlin, in the ". Y. Tribune.
Stuttgart, Aug, 1880.