Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-16

/ feIlers as soilIy as glri, ls1nnIn at
one, gIvin' water 10 another, hxin'
| this ones head up on 10 knapsack,
and proppin that one up az inst a
mast, as ii he'd been a hospital nurse
all his days.
When some of the men would groan
he'd say, lis ruther unpleasant,
amt itl Scold away; it'll do We good
to spit II all out, and they'd have to
grin.
We got landed after awhile, as dirty
and water tired lot as ever YOU see :;
neither fun nor play; but bless you'll
| we hadn't but just said A There wa
the hull alphabet to come.
There We was, a parcel of yolun-
teers, doing nuthing but drill, in q
new, lazy, sloppy kind of a climate,
with nothing but meat victuals and
hard bread tell We we pinned after
onions and such truck worse'n them
old lsrelites in the hymn book did
l well remember how one day Char
ley Bliss was roarin' out that old hymn !;
The way is all new. as it opens TO view
An behind is the foamin Red sea-
So none now need to speak of the onions and leei0
And don't talk about garlic TO
Chaplin stepped up, as solemn as
clam, and threatened to punch his
head
Stop that blarsted tuner says he
I'm nigh about ready to desert for
head of cabbage, and l can't bear to
hear onions made light of. :"
There was one colonel had a regi-
ment In camp along of us who was the
greatest hand TO nag the men you ever
See He was as pernickity as an old
maid and as notional as an old bache-
lor. lie KEEP the men up TO drill as
though twas salvation, and inspected
them within an inch of their lives,
and called that discipline, and p'rhaps
it was.
But he done worse; he KEEP settin'
traps for to ketch the men nappin'.
He'd travel outside the videttes and
pickets SOS to see if they was awake
and alert, and if they wasn't, then
they had to take it.
Well, as / was sayin', we We're new
to the business, and to be spied on and
roared at and ketched nappin' made us
all pretty snappish, and Cool himself,
who was ordinarily as clever as could
be, was stirred up.
III fix him y says he, one night,
when we was talkin' it over by the
fire wait till my turn comes"
Sure enough, the next night he was
on videtle duty, ar he heerd a noise
in the bushes. Up t his musket-
WHO goes thereF' he roared.
Officer of the day." says the
colonel.
II know no officer of the day out
side the lines; throw up your hands,
dismount and surrender" yelled Cool
Il tell you I'm officer of the day."
says the colonel, madder'n a yeller |
hornet.
Il know no officer of the day out |
side the lines; dismount or fire, re
peated Cool
Well, the colonel r'ared and sput- |
tered, but Cool never lowered his gun,
and finally the colonel had to dis |
mount and come along toward Cool.
Il tell you, you blockhead, I'm Col. |
Blank, officer of the day"
Cool cooked his gun and leveled it |
at the feller's head, sayin' again:
Il know no officer of the day out
side the lines; give up your side arms
or ! shall shoot you through the
head"
Well, the colonel RELY b'lieved
Cool didn' t reco'niz him, so he handed
over his side arms, and Cool marched
him in clear through the camp to
headquarters, an handed him over to
the general.
/ tell you Mister Blank got a charge
, cold shot in the line o tongue lash
n that time, for the general was full
, steeL, but Cool go. Pror.AoSea for
When we got to Port Hudson, one
night before the battle we was lynn
round on the ground, and Cool he was
stretched out on his back, sort of tilt
asleep. / lay about twenty feet off,
and we had fire goin', soft could
See him layin' there like big log,
mouth wide open and big feet turned
toes up Jest though the want nothin'
goin' on.
Pretty soon / heard ''zip zipr' and
minnie bullet just took off the toe Of |
one of those great army shoes, and /
then buried itself in the stump close
to his ear; just shaved It'll He riz up
q little.
whats goin' on2" says he.
why" said l, there's some bull
lets flynn round here, and one nigh |
about shot off your ear. You'll find
it in that stump"
He looked around, as quiet as Sun
day.
.sWell, TIL get leetle out o their |
way" says he, and with that rolled
over about a foot to the left, shut his |
eyes and was snorin' inside of three |
minutes.
After the battle was over we had to |
stay on the field pretty much all night. /
When we begun to fall back next |
there wasn't any way to get |
to camp but through ravine that the
enemy's guns raked-and they kept |
rakin' of us into another world pretty
spry as we went through the gully.
We couldn't take along the wound
ed, so they crept i. to the bushes the
best they could, and there they had to
lie all day before 9 could go after
'em and fetch 'em 1t 1t was hard,
but that's war.
But we couldn't let 'em lie there all
that hot day, with no water
and nothin' to stanch their wounds,
SO about noontime we got leave to call
for a volunteer to go over to en-
Now betwixt us and that ravlne
there was about forty rods of old
feldSas bare as a brick, right in the
enemk's range. 1t was pretty smart