The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-03

home his birth place his family, and his
neighbors. the ex slave would have mad.
better soldier for Dixie than Tor \ ankcedon,.
The characteristic which made him. AZ a
slave, 30 tond OF boastiug of hts. folks, his
dos ."an and general t"rn ou, ~ou "" hos, hnIe
made HIM, as free ,'soldies. the very
proudest Of States Rights men And
the characteristic which made, the negro
Cyerseer more harsh on his fellows than a
white, would have made these uniformed
Auxilliaries !, kind OF 'colored arristocracy, >
utterly ident flied with their former masters
and the Sout hern cause.
At TIE WHITE HOUSE.
Although less than a dozen miles distance
the march to the Paumunkey proved ex
ceedingly harrassing. The weather was
hot and sultly, the roads deep IN dust, and
there was little drinking water to be OBJ
tained. Added to this, in the case of Lieut..
S. was the mental stress Of watching for a
chance to knock down two or three of his
guards, and escape to the woods. Weaken
ed by eight days close confinement on bread
and water with limbs cramped by the same
period in shachles he ielt that it would be
useless to attempt to rana,cdy !; the only
hope being to pick favorable spot, and
out-wit the 'colored brethren" by sudden
dash into the thicket Hence every sense
was kept on the alert, every point watched
every bush scanned during the long tramp,
until gradually the feeble spark of Hope
hickered and died out. The guards sur
rounded the prisoner withoa wall ~ steel, :
two bayonets on each side, two behind, and
one in front.
Sud .enly. just at twilight, the road de
hected into broad plain or valley, whose
surface was dotted with thousands Of twink
ling lights like tireilies What could it
mean? Presently, the outlines of vast
camp became visible through the cleaning
A line of Notifications, with redoubts, and
deep bitches. curving out in half moon, or
horse shoe, shape, enclosed something more
than mile Of space, directly around the
" hite House Landing, on the Paumunkey
Within this half moon were the tents of an
army,-packed as closely as were McClel
lan's shattered divisions at Ha rison's Land
ing in 1862, or Grants beaten hordes at
Piltsburg Landing, on the night OF Shiloh.
These troops were an apparltlon even to our
guards, until we learned that they nsisted
of some 1000 Homeopathi: volunteers
known as : One Hundred Days ncu :"
that is to say volunteers who had been
conscripted to serve one hundred days who
had arrived at the White House within the
past two days, and were about to re embark
and sail around to join Grant at Petersburg
Here let the reader note the fact that Grant
after swearing he would fight it out on the
direct line to Richmond, If it takes all
summer, dare not stand in front of Lee S
wasted legions for single week after the
battle of Coal Harbor, notwithstanding that
he knew be was about to receive rs,ntorce-
0,cat (mark the word > equal in nun bers to
Lees entire fighting force
HEROES AT THE REAR.
These thirty thousand Three month 5
men were mainly HoOsiers' from the
West and Northwest, never before in the
South, and full of stay at-home Patriotism
To their loval souls the spectacle of 800 Re
bells marching in under guard of $500
negroes, was something to gloat oyer.-to
go wild about. In twinkling the entire
camp swarmed each side of the narrow road
with dense, blue coated mass, shouting,
yelling, gesticulating, and the like Hey /.
look At the Rebels Here's Lees whole
rag muffin crew fetched in by niggers :"
Whar' d Y ketch EN- boys p 'couldn t
stand the cold steel, could they well,
don't they look derned sheepish = More
lice than clothes in that crowd = 'IIurrah
for the colored Troops - Hurrah for the
9th Ohiol" etc, etc Under the upaoar
the darkeys became SO excited that they too
broke into cheers over their own (supposi
,iou,) exploits. Many Of the whites took
the arms Of negroes and walked along with
them, asking all kinds of questions as to how
they happened TO capture 80 many Rebels
and the delighted darkeys (who had not fired
a shot, or captured one Of the prisoners) ac
cepted the Grafton as 'ust tribute to their
own merits. What curious thing human
nature Is