The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-06-18
"LIGHTs AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD
CAMP FIRES
Strengthen Loyaltyi Remember the
cost of our Union and free institutions,
BY ONE OF TIE sold VETS. y

Strengthen Loyalty Remember Tue
cost of our Union and free institutions.
This land is devoted to freedom forever,
Though rebels may try the lost cause TO proiohg
Twas killed, and praise of arch traitors can never
Obscure the foul fact they were totally wrong
The heaviest regimental loss of officers,
killed in any one battle of our civil war,
was that of the 9TH New Hampshire at
the assault on Fort Wagner, when eleven
officers were killed.
General U. s. Grant Post, No. 327,
Brooklyn, N. Y, have presented the
children of the public schools of that city
with 50 bunting United States flags,
mounted on stats, with spears, tassels
and belts.
A good anecdote is told OF a lad on one
of the Union gunboats. The vessel was
going into action and our soldierwas upon
his knees, when an officer sneeringly
asked him IL he was afraid. mo, l was
praying" was the response. "Weil,
what were you praying for9" 'Praying, :
said the soldier, ''that the enemy's bullets
may be distributed the same way as the
prize money is--principally among the
officers"
An Illinois colonel felt it his duty to
praise those double acting arms, said he:
SIN platoon firing with the Belgian
musket, can tell what cannot with any
other arm, and that is, how many pieces
have been fred" SHOW can you do
that9" ooh, count tho men on the
ground. 1t never deceives me. 1t is fire
and fall back, fiat. One OF these Belgian
muskets will kick like mule, and burst
with the greatest facility. Several soldiers
in our Illinois regiments have been killed
in this way. The bayonet, too, is novel;
ty-a soft iron affair, apparently designed
to coil round the enemy, thus taking him
prisoner,
The Boy Hero-A young boy was
wounded in charge in Grants army.
He was in the hospital in Washington.
Through each heel, between the tendons
and the bone, there was large hole
which was eating its way down under the
bones of his feet. There was another
wound in the fleshy part of his left thigh,
where the ball carried away half pound
Of flesh and muscle This was full of
maggots. Yet the brave little fellow bore
the pain like martyr. When asked 1.-The
did not suffer, he said Yes, / suffer
very much, but am willing to be torn
plecemeal joint by joint while living for
my country and liberty.
A soldier OF the LIST North Carolina
regiment (Union), who had lost leg 10
an engagement in North Carolina, and
WHO had supplied its place with an arti-
fetal member, consisting of stout oaken
peg, was present at the battle OF Olusta,
Fla, and while the battle was as warm as
one would care to experience, con-
federate sharpshooter put bullet through
his wooden leg. He felt the blow, but
escaped the twinge of pain that generally
accompanies the passage Of bullet
through genuine flesh and muscles, and
enjoying keen sense of the ludicrous, he
forgot the battle and its danger and gave
way to tho hcartest and most explosive
laughter. He pushed along the line and
approached the colonel, to whom, after
severe effort, he was able to communicate
the cause of his mirth. Almost convulsed
with laughter, he exclaimed: "Colonel,
by Georgel the d rebels have shot
me through the wooden leg hal ha !
divelish good joke on the fellows" and
he hobbled back to his position 10 the
line.