The National tribune., 1886-07-01

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| in his Hebrew craw as you or me or anybody IN
/ this crowd. i never was more surprised in my
| whole life. He came up and took his place
| alongside of me. Ideviled him and laughed at
| him, but he staid there all the same, and put
| in his work just as good as the rest Of Us. When
| Bob Landers got bullet through his breast
| the Jew helped me carry him back to the Sur
| geon, and after we'd got him there ! asked the
! Surgeon If we could do anything more, and he
| said no, and then / said i guess I'll go back TO
the 'front.' / supposed the Jew'd De glad
| enough TO stay back there with the Surgeon.
| He'd seen enough to satisfy his appetite for
| blood, and don't mind saying that it took all
the nerve had on hand to walk back in face
of them whelps plugging away at me- and you
! could've knocked me down with fence rail
when our cheap-elothing friend ups and says:
| / kess I'll ko pack NIT you, pardner.' turned
around and took his hand, and l said: You're
too white man to be q Jew. Why don't you
quit it?"
| What ID he say to that21
| He said that If pizness was goot he would
/ tink apout id. Hello, Ike, you got one for
yourself didn't you"
"Now you gan choost pet your sweet life efery
| day in de week dat dit. / not only got one,
but anudder vun-dat makes dwo, aind id
| kess 50. You said / tint know which endt
| Of garbine shoots, titn't you? Veil, you ko
| up dere in de CORNER unit see Plukes. He hain't
any rigid hand, pekause / shot i'd OF. i put
in two or dree bullets so klose to Popeye here
dat he gongluded ne would leaf for heltier
climate, but followed him up, unit here he iss-
Nice man, aind he? What viii you gif, spot
cash, for a gross of such as he2 What am i
Ofered-led me have pid."
/ win now bring My story 10 close:
The Kunnel, who had long been heartily sick
Of the war, its trials, dangers and hardships,
accepted with touching resignation the position
Of a paroled prisoner OF war. and maintained it
with dignity and consistency to the end of the
struggle. He remained On his farm, and had
no more exciting experiences than an occa-
sional raid by the rebel cavalry, which carried
off all his stock be could not hide in advance.
He continued to profess ardent secession prin-
ciples to the last, but many believed that this
was more due 10 desire to be ea rapport with
his old friends and neighbors than from any
real devotion to those destructive ideas.
A few years ago his naturally-fne eonstitu-
tion succumbed TO the influences and habits
which conspire 10 abbreviate the lives Of Ken
tucky gentlemen of the real old sort, and he
passed peacefully away in the arms of his be-
loved Jasmin and his scarcely less beloved SON.
in-law, Charles Barnard, and surrounded by
their interesting little family, the eldest Of
whom bears his grandfather's name.
The Majah, who also continued a paroled
prisoner to the end of the war, remained per-
petual visitor at Sourmash until his death,
which was some years before that Of the Kun
mel, and his last words were expressive of his
entire willingness to depart from world that
the " Dutch were making so unfit place for
true gentleman to reside in with any peace or
self-respect.
Before Capt. Grimsted's heroic death at
Chiekamauga, where he sacrificed himself and
almost the whole of his regiment in holding
back Bragg's advance to give Rosecrans time
to concentrate, the double-bars on his shoulders
had changed to Colonels spread-eagle.
During the long inaction which followed the
battle Of Stone River, Capt. Barnard found op-
pOrtunity to return to Sou-mash, marry JAS
min, and make q wedding tour with her to
Ohio. He succeeded to the command Of the
I regiment upon Col. Grimsteds death, and his
soldier record is one that he and Jasmin's chill
, dren have abundant reason to be proud of. At
, the close Of the war he took charge of Sour
) mash plantation at the Kunnel's argent request
? and has made it one of the most valuable prop
! critics in Central Kentucky.
Isaac Hirschmyer was given the saltership of
2 the regiment in recognition of his many good
{ qualities After he calamity carried supply
of tobacco, cigars and branded peaches through
q heavy fire to the boys who were holding
Longstreet at bay at Chickamauga, he was ap-
! pointed sole sutler for the brigade on the
strength of a petition to that effect. signed by
3 nearly every man in the brigade. Before the
T end of the war he had accumulated enough
! hard-earned dollars (hardly earned by the SOL
Q diers) to buy him controlling interest in one
1 of the leading clothing houses in Cincinnati
9 He has become quite wealthy, is generally
0 spoken of as a merchant prince, and his wife's
diamonds are the sensation at Long Branch
: every Summer
Jimson was Barnard's servant till the end of
the war, and developed such talents as q forager
that his friends tried to get him to go into poll
: itics, but he wisely put away ambition, and is
boss Of barber shop that has ii chairs of the
latest patent, marble-topped wash h-basins, and a
{ hair-brush worked by steam. He is also Deacon
in the First Baptist Church, Grand Panjandrum
u of the United and Indivisible Sons of the Wor-
Q shipful Jeh0sophat, and is . man generally
u admired and esteemed.
As for Myself:
t After passing through scenes that should
!. have turned every hair on My body as white as
y arctic snow, after having been alternately IN
the hands Of YankD and "reb," and after
n having hauled cannon, ambulances and baggage
% wagons this month for one side and the next for
the other; after being beaten ami manled until
{. wonder how My hide escaped being perma-
L nently frayed and frazzled, after having one
/ day borne General leading his command in q
furious charge and the next been the vehicle for
some hopeless coward to escape from the field,