The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-08-26
'GIGHTs AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD
CAMP FIRES"

'LIGHTs AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD
CAMP FIRES"
BY ONE OF THE "oLD WITS.
General Abner Doubleday aimed the
first gun fired In defence of Fort Sumter
In 1861.
On the morning of the first days battle
of Stone River, when the right wing, I'M
der Gen. T. L. Crittenden, was preparing
to withstand the shock which all felt must
surely come, with the roar of artillery
and the rattle of musketry filling the air,
Gen. l. T. Wood riding away from Gen.
Crittenden, with whom he had held a
hasty conference said, swell as the coons
said when the dogs were after them,
Goodbye, we will meet at the hatters. I"
Captain ]. B. Williams, of Alabama,
served during the civil war in the Tenth
Tennessee Cavalry in the Confederate
army. He was captured, but released on
parole, May, 1866, aud have never been
released from that parole, 81 am simply
United States prisoner on parole, but there
need be no fear OF my taking up arms
against the government, but If any one of
those foreign people get into fight with
us then's when I'll come out, get my dis
charge and go into the service.
Antietam was the most bloody battle.
More men were killed on that one day
than on any other one day of the war
There were greater battles with greater
loss of life, but they were not fought out
in one day as at Antietam. At Gettys-
burg, Charlottesville and Spottsylvania,
the fighting covered three days and more.
AT the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Shiloh,
Stone River, Chickamauga and Atlanta,
the losses were divided between two days
of fighting, but at Antietam the bloody
work commenced at sunrise and by 4
o'clock in the afternoon it was over.
IN A VETERANS BON.
IT'S my boast that my father was one of the men,
Who offered their lives our Republic to save,
And to make IL in fact what IL feigned TO BIO then,
The land of the free and the home of tho brave.
And the lessons they taught us were written in
Inetaeeable ever and solemn as death,
This flag which was rescued from tyranny's flood,
You must raise and defend to your lifes latest
BREATH
All these lessons wen heed of our patriot sres,
And freedom we'll champion with saber and
Our aitars shall blaze with but Liberty's dres
And watchword shall be, "I'm Veterans Son."
I'm Veterans Son, IT'S title of JOY
An Inheritance bright which was calamity won,
By my father, whose words were "Be faithful, my
To the cause that has made you Veterans Son"
1t was Sunday morning when L. p.
Smith, OF the Christian Mission, was ring
ing the church bell at Kingston during
Sherman's march to the sea. Sherman
being disturbed by the ringing, sent
guard to arrest the supposed drummer"
So he was in spite of protest, marched to
Sherman's headquarters and kept under
guard for an hour, then being admitted to
the presence of Sherman, he looked up
from his writing and asked abruptly,
"What were you ringing that bell for 2"
'For service, it's Sunday, General"
Smith replied. ooh is It," answered
Sherman, 'Didn't know it was Sunday.
Let him CO."
General William Bartlett was among the
captured earlier in the war. He had lost
leg, which was replaced by cork leg.
While he was standing In the crater at
Petersburg, shot was heard TO strike
with peculiar thud, known TO those who
have been In action, and the General was
seen to totter and fall. A number of Of
ficers and men lifted him, when he cried
out, "Put me in any place where l can
sit down" 'But you are wounded, Cen
eral, arn't you," was the enquiry. "My
leg is shattered all to pieces" said he.
"Then you can't sit up" they urged,
''you'll have to lie down." ooh no" ex-
claimed the General, ''it's only my cork
leg that's shattered"
A few days before the Battle OF Chick
amaugs, when General Crittenden's Corps
was lying at Gordon's Mills, waiting for
General Rosecrans to come up with the
Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps, fight
occurred on the picket line, in which
Captain Drury, of the First Wisconsin
Battery (and allow me to say right here
that Drawer man or more genial COM
rade never pulled lanyard), was wound
ed as we all thought mortally, minnie
ball crushing through his right lung.
Borne to the rear he was laid on a cot in
a house near the mill and Surgeon sum
moned. Pending his arrival, the writer
sought to impart such consolation as tho
case seemed to require and told him,
among other things, to keep up his spirits,
that man with his continuous flow OF
spirits and good health might fight off
death by force of will. "Ah Colonel"
said he, (and as he spoke tho red blood
welled up from the wound with every
breath), II believe-I would--ratber--
have that-experimen tried-on ono of
my wife's relati ons."