The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-21
SOME WAR GOSSIP.
Men ard Things in Atlanta
After the Siege.
SOME GOOD LUCK AND PLUCK
Queer Scenes and Incidents in
PerilouS Times.
BY WALLACE Y. REED.

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For The Constitution.
Mr. Tom Crusselle has been lucky man in
his day.
During Sherman's occupation of Atlanta Mr.
Crusselle decided to so west. Greenbacks were
scarce with the citizens in those days, and he
did not know whether he would be able to
make the trip and have anything left
One day he was walking along, thinking
over the situation, when he saw a
piece of green paper in n ditch. 1t
looked like a patent medicine label,
and he passed on. Then something
whispered to him that it was q greenback. He
secuted the idea and continued his walk. He
had gone about two hundred yards when he
gave in and retraced his steps. AS he ap-
preached the ditch he met two soldiers He
placed one foot on the scrap Of paper and
stopped down, apparently to scrape the mud
from his boots, but in reality to pick up the
supposed treasure and convey it to his pocket
When he reached q safe place he rubbed
the mud from the piece OF paper, and found
that it was five hundred dollar greenbacki
This was pretty good beginning, but Mr..
Crusselle was still more fortunate when he
reached Chattanooga. He stopped awhile in
that city, and started down the railway track
to see an Atlanta friend. Something in the
mud attracted his attention, and he picked it
up.
1t was q casket of glittering diamondsl
No owner could be found, and the finder dis
posed of everything except airing, after
he crossed the Ohio river, for thirteen hum
bred dollars!
A little later, at Covington, Kentucky this
lucky refugee was walking behind u man one
day whose feet lifted the light snow from the
ground at every step. In one of these foot
prints Mr.. Crusselle saw something that looked
like gold. Taking his knife no dug
it out of the frozen ground. 1t was n gold
watch and chain. This last find brought our
keen-eyed Atlanta man seventy-fve dollars.
These little pick-ups provided him with ready
money enough to make him comfortable until
he returned home.
Mr.. Crusselle tells good story on one
Mccormack, q plasterer who wanted to get
pass and transportation from Atlanta to some
point north.
Mccormack called on General Sherman to
see about the matter.
"Well, sir" said the general, "what is your
business?''
Mccormack was an awful sufferer and it
was hard for him to talk
"G-g-general," he said, 81 w-want a piper
NIT to ego north"
ties you to this fayor?" asked the general.
This smashed poor McWormack. He
thought moment and stammered out some
thing about being neither loyal nor disloyal.
"Upon what ground, then, do you make
this request?" was the next question.
McWormack could stand it no longer. His
face turned red, and he stammered worse than
ever.
"C-c-confound it, g-general, he blurted out,
"I'm in f-f-fx. The r-r-rebs c-called mo
a d-d-d--dy- yankee, and now your f-f-folks
c-call me d-d--d r-r-rebel H-h-hanged
If [ amt b-between h-h-hell and the iron WV
wortsi"
Sherman dropped into chair and shook
with inward laughter. Without saying
word he scratched off an order for the necessa-
ry papers and gave it to his visitor who left in
hurry.
'Ifow did you manage him?" asked q friend
who was waiting outside.
'P-p-pluck did it," replied Mccormack.
"T-the g-general admired my p-pluck and he
had to t-t.tumble to it,"