Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-12

HAULING A MoRTAR-From Drawing in liar
 per's War Volumes.
 The night Of April Spanish Fort was evacuated. In Mobile paper of that same date was found the following letter en- titled:
 ION PICKET, SPANISH FORT, April {, 1665.- Messrs. Editors: With powderburned face and a sore shoulder from the backward movement of my rife, have concluded to rest little, and while resting will anuse myself by dropping you Q line. But, stop right here, will take Q chew of tobacco, for I have plenty and of the finest article. and did not buy it. nor steal it, nor draw 1t, but have 1t. We are having a
 fine time here sharp-shooting with the Yankees, though we never put our heads above the breast works, for the atmosphere ts unhealthy too high up, but we have headiogs to shoot under which the boys call skull crackers.' We have anosher game we play oyer here; 1t is . gamel used to play when boy, but there is not alto Rether so much fun in it now as there was then. It is a game called Antny oveP.' We play 1t here with shells from mortar gun. The one that catches 1t Is the one that tS caught ous and not the one that throws 1t.
 We have generally about two artillery duels each day, and they make things happen when they do get ct 1t. Every thing is comparatively quiet at night"
 Ten thousand thanks to the ladies of Mobile for sending us that provision, they sent us last night. think was the hungriest man on the map" You ought to have seen with what eagerness devoured those eggs, meat and cake. While eating my heart ran out in thankfulness to the fair daughters ci the fair city. I was proud that was soldier battling for the rights of such ladies as those"
 shall have to close. The shells are coming too fast and my mind is too much centered on ''Number One" and my nerves too unsteady to write. You know that bombshells are very de- moralizinS if they are not SO dangerous" More anon, CHUM. From the same papers editorial column the following is taken:
 'SThs Enemy" "From about five o'clock till after dark last evening the firing on the eastern shore was the
 heaviest yet heard, and it still continues, though somewhat slackened at our usual time of closing, though we are yet without any tnfor- nation Of the progress of affairs" ,ss l. "Ldter. After eleven o'clock a dispatch was re- | celved, stating that the enemy had opened on \ Spanish Fort with thirty guns, but after great deal of noise had made no impression. Our | garrison over there stands like stone wall | The Yankees ammunition is bad, of the shod- dy-contract sort, SO that very few of the shells | explode. Our artillerists use only Confederate | powder to send back their own projectiles. ! While.we write at ten oclocx ?. m., an occa- sional gun is heard"
 < From the same column the following is
 also excerpted: '''- "Brave Boys" Tne following letter received by Major Gen OraI Macry from student at Spring Hill Col | lege cannot be read with indifference by friend or foe of the cause of Confederate independence. | This is what General Grant would call ''robbine | the cradle to recruit our armies." | sPRINGHTLL CoLLEGE, March 27, 1885. \ Mdj. Gen D. H. AanrT: DEAR SIR:v-At the request of great many of
 my fellow students, write to you on very | serious subject-that Is about joining the army \ for the defense of Mobile SS
 The President will not let us go without wa