Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-10
STORY OF THE WAR.
Sharpshooters in Tight Place on the
Chickahomny.

/ From the Atlanta Constitution
That Chickahominy was er bad, bac
place, l tell you,D said Phinkett. SIT was
in the days when there was no peace be.
tween pickets. They didn't swap tobacco
for coffee, and say how are you Yank, o,
how are you Johnny Reb, erlong them
! lines. A fellow had to keep behind some
thing, and keep mighty close. You could
! put your hat on your bayonet and stick it
out and three or four bullets would hit ii
before You could say Jack Robinson.
| Sharpshooters were everywhere, and it's OF
two of these that | want ter tell you
erbout.
| For several days man after man was
| shot on the Confederate side, and the
sharp-shooters place of concealment had
not been spotted. At last one of the
Confeds decided that as soon as darkness
come ergain he would try to make it
| to er big log that lay between the two
lines, and so the next day he would have
better chance to observe up and down
the line. No sooner than dark come than
the Confederate started for his log. He
got there by crawling and creeping and
never cracking stick.
AT sunrise the next morning the Con-
federate was snugly planted behind the
big log, bat he was horror stricken to dis
cover that the fellow who had been doing
the killing of his comrades for several
days was just on the other side of the
same log. They discovered one another's
presence at the same time, and at the same
time they both lay mighty close to The
ground and Rugged the log.
AT last the Confederate lowed to the
Yankee:
Hellow, Yank, you're in er mighty
tight place, hain't you?'
The same TO yourself, Johnny Reb,
replied the Yankee.
"'Well, darn YOU said the rebel. Won
daresent raise your head
The same TO you,' said the Yank.
"'You make the first move
I'll let you do that
i hain't ergwine to do it.
Nor hain't ergwine to lott
''And so they talked for an hour or two,
daring each other to make the first move,
till at last they agreed to truce between
themselves, saying that it would be muir
der for them to shoot each other under the
circumstances. The agreement was that
they should not modest each other, but
had the right to use every opportunity
against any one else, and when night come
they were both to retire from the log back
to their comrades
'The day rolled on till way up in the
afternoon when young fellow on the
Confederate side tried to change his posi-
ton from one tree to another, when the
Yankee behind the log pulled his trigger
and the young fellow dropped dead.
"An exclamation broke from the Con-
federate behind the log and he lowed:
THAT was my brotherp
- My God, you don't say so ?1 said the
Yankee.
Before a second could have been counted
the ConfeGerate's gun cracked, and a young
soldier fell full length from behind tree
AN exclamation broke from the Yankee
behind the log, and he lowed:
"'That was my brotherp
"'My God, you don't say so? % said the
Confederate.
"'Yes, said the Yankee, and he leaves
wife and three helpless children back in
York State
And my brother said the Confeder-
ate, leaves poor old father and mother
who will grieve to death over the loss of
their youngest child
WARS er bad thing, er bad thing.n