The Nevada picayune., 1885-05-14
Going to War ia Pullslsn Car.
"Recruits for the Canadian va

"Recruits for the Canadian var in the northwest are being sent to
 the front in Pullman cars," says a dispatch in one of the papers. Soldiers in Pullman cars! Truly, war is robbed of much, of its glory when soldiers start to the seat of war in such luxury. It must be an interesting sight to see a carload of soldiers disrobe for the night in a Pullman car, and roll in the clean sheets of the berths, and sleep all night, have their boots blacked by the porter, get up in the morning and wash in toilet room, end go to a dinihg-car for for their breakfast. A soldier would be spoiled for active service who started out that way. It was different in our war. Is there any gentleman within the sound of 6iir voice who was ever on the train with load of recruits on the way to the front. any time after 1SG1i If so, he remembers that the boys did not retire on downy beds the night he travelled with them. Gra- cious, but didu't we rsm ember the ain-load of recruits that left Mad ison in the spring of 1863. The first soldier that got in the car kicked two windows out, stuck his head out the hole. and called tho captain of his company bald headed old guthOgen. The cap tain sent the second lieutenant in the car to snatch the recruit bald headed, and the officer was seized by the back of the neck and the pants and showed through the win.
 dow onto the depot platform 80 quick he did't know what his sal ary was, and the broken glass tore his new coat off. The cars were loaded, and so were the soldiers. The most of them were full of beer and cheese, and they raised mer- ry hadcs. ripped pp seats, kicked over .he stove and pulled the bell cord after the train got started, and scared the conductor so he had fits, by firing ravOlvers with blank car tridges at the roof of the car. 0, it was a picnic. No discipline, no nothing, but beer. The boys would s.ng and dance, and if an of 6ccr showed up sOms ,onr would hit him on the neck with a haver- sack full of hard tack, and if he got mad they would take him down in the aisle and sit on him. No officer would come in the car with the boys unless he could do as they did, and howl. Going through Chicago 1t took four guards to watch each soldier to keep him from staying away and taking in the town, and getting left. Aftor leaving Chicago anybody who tried to camp down in sect and sleep was court-martialed and shot in the neck with the cork from bot tie. IL was wild. Three days la- ter those boys Chat were so kitteny went into a light, and how they did fightl There was discipline enough
 then. Tte officers that had been treated so disrcspectfully on start ing from homo were looked up to as though they were emperors, ev- cry order was obsyed, and there was no monkey work from that hour. The fellow who kicked out the car widow Tod a charge on a breastwOrk, and brained with his
 musket 6 confederate who was go- ing to shoot the captain he had called Q baldheaded guthogan four days before. The fellows who left Wisconsin 50 full of beer that their back teeth were afOat had got oyer having fun, and were taking in the reality, and were tho best soldiers that eyer lived. They d.d not go to the front in a Pull man car, but many of them came back in Pullmans, as officers of high rank, years later, some came back by express, in boxes, and some of them never came back at all, but are lying in rows Q littlo
 distance from Chattanooga, in the National Cemetery, little head stones above them, some imrked witk their names, others marked "unknown," but all waitins for Ga briel to play tho "Assembly" on his bugle at the last great day. A few days ago we say the graves of soma of tbn hoys Nho went to the