The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-28


"Well-er, l thought, general, that
it was only temporary and that We
would be ordered forward shortly,
and thought-er-"
'What right had you to think
anything, SIR violently. "What
right have you but to find your
duty and do it like mani If these
men are not moved into better
quarters at once and If 1 ever hear
of repetition of such inhumanity,
I'll cashier you, sir, and kick you
out of the army in disgrace! Go,
STRIP
DR.. Jones sneaked from the au-
gust presence. By this time the
streets under the balcony were filled
with soldiers looking on the scene,
and the general, turning to DR..
Alternately, assuming a dramatic at
titude and speaking with drawing
emphasis:
"And you, sir-you think this is
hard upon your boys, don't youf
If this is hard, what do you think
must be che suffering of our poor
boys at Andersonville? You COOP
them up there to die by the hun
dreds."
"But, general, the change to oul
heated climate and lean beef and
crackers has something to do with
it."
''It is premeditated murder, sir;
and you are one of them; and when
you go back to your army you may
tell your generals that I am going
to rescue these poor boys at Ander-
sonVille, if it takes every drop Of
blood in my brave army"
And as he said this and much
more like it he rubbed his fist in
DR.. Abernathy's face and cut uI
dramatic antics that set the thous
ands of soldiers to yelling wildly
DIR. Alternately thought perhaps he
was to be murdered but he was in
censed to desperation and he replied
''It is the fault Of your own in
human government, sir, that con
fines these men to southern prisons
You decline our offers for exchange
and had rather see your own men
die lest by exchanging you furnish
the south with more soldiers. And
l have just this one remark to make
Gen. Sherman, "and he assumed some
of the dramatic himself and gave
vent to the Indignation that was
pent up in hlm-"General Johnson
would suffer his right arm cut of
and his life blood to spill upon the
ground before he would wantonly
insult and insolently abuse a
prisoner as you have me to-day,
sir"
He turned upon his heel and left
the general to swallow the rebuke
and that was the last he heard of it.
In a few days he joined Hood at
Florence and came into Tennessee.
Another little incident in which
DR.. Alternately figured is amusing
and we tell it for the moral at the
end of it.
While a prisoner at Fort Della
ware he was invited by the surgeon
in charge to go with him through
the sick wards one day. AS he
entered he observed that every few
yards down the aisle between the
hunks was a table with instruments,
cupping glasses, medicines, ETC.,
upon it, and he noticed upon severa4
of them were large rubber syringes,
very costly then and the best made.
The sick soldiers were all delighted
to see him and many weary faces
were wreathed in smiles of recogni-
ton. He shook hands all around,
but all the time coyeting one of the
large rubber syringes, and at last
he whispered to one of the men and
with a glance all around that told
his comrades what he was going to
do, while the surgeon was looking
away, he slipped one of them into
his side-pocket. The soldiers set
up laugh and the surgeon was
surprised but never suspicioned the
cause, and DR.. Alternately got it
safely to his quarters, where he hid
it until liberated and then brought
it south, carried it through the
army and brought it home. He has
been using it ever since and accounts
it the best syringe in Tennessee and
worth 500 in his estimation on &C
count of its associations. A few
weeks ago some one borrowed it or
he left it in some sick room and for
got the place.
Moral-The person who has it
will please return it.