The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
Come on! Do you want to live for

Come on! Do you want t o live for
everPn
The appeal was irresistible, and
many a poor fellow who had laughed
at the colonel's queer exhortation laid
down his life soon after.
A shell struck the wheel of a federal
1eld-piece toward the close of the en-
gagement at Fair Oaks, and,
shivering the spokes, dismantled the
cannon.
"Well, isn't it lucky that it didn't
happen before we used up all our ANU
milton, remarked one of the artillerists
as he crawled from beneath the gun.
When General Pope was falling back
before Lees advance in the Virginia
valley, his W soldiers thought his
bulletins and orders somewhat strained
in their rhetoric. At one of the numer-
Gus running engagements that marked
that disastrous campaign, a private in
n OF the western regiments was NOR
tally wounded by a shell. Seeing the
mans condition, a chaplain knelt be-
side him, and opening his Bible at ran
dom read out Samscn's slaughter of the
Philistines with the j~aw-bone of an ass.
He had not quite finished when, as the
story runs, the poor fellow interrupted
the reading by saying:
Hold on, chaplain. Don't deceive
a dying man. Isn't the name of John
Pope signed to that?"
A command of troops was pushing
forward over the long and winding
road in Thoroughfare Gap to head off
Lee after his retreat across the Potomac
the close of the Gettysburg campaign.
Suddenly the signal officer who accom-
panied the general in command dis
covered that some of his men, posted
on a high hill in the rear were report
ing the presence of a considerable body
Of confederate troops on top of the
bluffs to the right. A halt was at once
sounded, and the leading brigade
ordered forward to uncov the enemy's
position. The regiments were soon
'crambling up the steep incline, officers
my men CALAMITY racing to see who
could reach the crest first. A young
lieutenant and some half dozen men
the advance, but at the end of
What they deemed a perilous climb,
hey were thrown into commissions of
aughter at discovering hat what the
ignal men took for confederate troops
only a t%olerably large flock of
heep. AS the leaders in this foilom
lope rolled on the grass in a paroxysm
f merriment, they laughed all the
ouder at seeing the pale but determined
aces of their comrades, who, of course,
anne up fully expecting a desperate
a%nd-to-hand fight.
IL is perhaps needless to say the brig
de supped on mutton hat evening.
As the army was crossing South l
fountain the day before the battle of
ntietam Gen. Mcclellan rode along +
lie side of the moving column. Over
king a favorite Zouave regiment, he
lclaimed with his natural 6onhomie:
''Well, and how is the Old Fifth this
Tening?" E
First rate, General" replied one of
Re Z%ouaves. 'But we'd be better off S
we weren't living so much on suppo- C
il
''Suppositionp" said the General, in p
puzzled tone. "What do you mean" o
Its easily explained, sir. You see a
expected to get our rations yester- n
", but as we didn't, we're living on I
e supposition that we did" g
"Ah, l understand; you shall have b
ur r%ations, Zou Zous, tonight" re- 60
led the General, putting spurs to his y
rse to escape the cheers of his regi- W
mt. And he kept his promise. a.