Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

| emy'S cannon-what We cal spent bail
| came rolling along. Hhe temptation "a put
| OUT ones foot 10 stop such oa! WAS almost
! Irresistible. The soldier have mentioned
! yielded IL II. With Z merry smile he pgt
! out mis- leg and in IN instant his foo' WAS
| cut of and ne sank 10 The ground Il MANNED.
| shattered cripple for life. weeping like 4
! child Al his awful misfortune.
! MS FUNNIEST.
| | mink the funniest incidents ! observed
| during the civil war were some of these
! that occurred among the colored people dur
/ inc the march TO the sea from Atlanta
| Many of the negroes hailed the coming OF
| the Yankees. briu1ng the freedom OF the
| Culored people witt them. Is a certain uuI-
| cation OF the immediate approach II the
| Judgment day and The end Of the world.
| Consequently there was great religious
| excitement among the darkI"s. and by many
! of their preachers ''prOtraCted' or pew
| va" meetings We're held. The incidents
| that occurred al some of these meetings
| 0eggar description. | remember ON one
occasion the preacher tried his utmost 10
| induce one big buck negro 10 come 10 the
| 'laJ.rnerS' bench, bat without. avail At
| lon9th losing all patience he exclaimed. BY
| de holy apostle, de word of de LOhd shall
| done smite dat man. and Suitin% tine action
| to the word he felled the buck senselrSS 20
| Tire ground by tremendous blow on the
| head, delivered with 4 pondOrOuS volume
| OF the Scripture. WM. T. SHERMAN
JOE IoHNsToN'S YARNS.
Perhaps the most touching iIFident ariS-
| ing in connection with the war that | now
recall came 10 my notice on 4 railway train
which also bore as Il passenger the very
pretty young vile or Il brave young soldier,
| who by daring bravery mad secured promo
ton from the ranks to Confederate cap
taincy. The wife was u Pennsylvania girl
whom he had met while visiting in the
md N.IDp1 no had mn ipI and fal-,.u
to his Southern home Just before the break
| ing out of the war. He was one of the first
to enlist in the Confederate army, and in
| order to devote himself wholly to the cause
| he sent his wife, at the first boom of the
guns at Fort Sumpter. back 10 her parents
| in Pennsylvania TO remain until the great
struggle was ended. Now in 1866. after
five years separation, she was on her way
South to rejoin her husband, and place in
his arlus their four-year-oJ daughter whom
ne iiad never seen.
II was not long before a.! the passengers
on our ar knew the romantic story of the
pretty little woman and her beautiful child.
and there was not man among US who did
not feel Il tender, protecting interest III
both. There never was Il woman whose
heart was more full of love aud Joy. She
could do nothing but talk of the captain and
wonder if he had changed SO that she
couldn't recognize him, or if he wouldn't oe
able TO recognize her Then she would fall
to wondering if he would know his little
daughter by her resemblance to himself if
he met her in the street. which as he had
never set eyes on her scarcely seemed prob
able. Throughout that long days ride we
all entered most heartily into that dear lit
tie woman'S hopes fears. doubts and joys,
and shared them to such an extent that we
were quite as anxious TO see the captain as
she was.
We reached our journeys end, and before
the train had fairly stopped tall elegantly
proportional. handsome fellow of twenty
seven came bounding into our car The
little woman gave such scream of joy as
shall neVeT.forget, and in hess time than /
can tell 1t was standing in the car aisle
cIasped in the young soldiers manly
arms. and tears Of JOY uuut-
teraDle courSeG down two beau
tiful young faces as their lips met.
For my own part my own eyes were so full
of binding moisture that ! could see moth
ing wheu the proud and happy Young wife
and mother led her husband for the first
time 10 the place where their little child
lay sleeping.
HIS MOST LAUGHABLE.
In one of the early battles of the war, in
the hottest part Of the action, felt my
coat-tals pulled by young fellow whom
recognized a. having been engaged in a to-
bacco factory prior TO his enlistment.
Why are YOU not fighting in your
place / asked, augriiE.
y
YOU don't mind think will take my time
of to-day" JOSEPH Z. JOHNSTON.
TWO GOOD ONES FROM SHERIDAN.
Two soldiers Of the opposing armies en-
gagged in u hand 70 hand struggle during
charge amid smoNe so thici: that their faces
were unrecogniza bic Each received and in
ficted mortal wound. The smoSc cleared
and each recognized his brother
TON - Harry passed like pistol
shots and they fell forward and died in
each others arms.
LAUGH MAKER.
Once in camp myself and some of my
brother officers fell desperately in love with
a female voice we used TO hear singing at
night. II was simply angelic, ano resolved
TO see the singer, We followed its sound
through thickets and rarines till we came
to a lonely abn, whence the singing pro
ceeded. Creeping upto the window peered
in and 0eheld fat, greasy, middle aged ne
sreSS barefooteG and clad IN single gar
ment Of dirty calico. browning coffee with
long iron spoon, while she gave vent to the
sweetest notes ! have ever heard. In nv
surprise | staggered Toward with noise
that attracted her attention Grasying her
coffee skillet and waving IL around her head
she bawled out: &c way from deah, white
man Ell yo dent I'll frow dis yeah fryin'
pan right at yo' head p. H. SHEkIDAN.
WHAT sADDENEp AND F-EAsSD ADMIRAL
PORTER.
At the deathbcd of M friend, Col. H,
Witnessed what / think was at once the
most touching and dramatic incident Of the
war Il was some years after the great
conflict and the colonel had long employed
as his children's goyerness young South
ern girl Of great beauty and refinement. As
| stood with his wife by his dying bed he
called this girl 10 him, told her how he had
killed her father-a Confederate captain-ia
a hand-to-hand fight. having recognized her
by her resemblance TO her parent, and by
his miniature which she wore around her
neck, and asked her forgiveness.
4 have nothing TO forgive she an
swered. you only did your duty, ana IL
you deprived me Of my father YOU have
filed his place
With one last supreme effort the colonel
placed her hand in that of his wife, whts-
pered Our daughter and was dead.
HIS FUNNIEST.
Il once asked a friend who had fought all
through the war if he had ever killed man
that he positively knew of. Yes" said ne
remorsefuliy, zone At Bull Run | ran ap
the first fire A rebel chased me for ten
miles and was then so exhausted that he
dropped dead DAVID D. PoSTEI