The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-05-11
: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD
CAMP FIRES"
BY ONE OF THE "oLD VETS. y

convey the four New Jersey Regiments,
three months men, from Bordentown to
Annapolis.
The private in the German army is
paid $3.50 per month, or eight cents
day, out Of which three cents is deducted
for mess expenses. How would this do
for this country.
Seminary Teacher-'I read you the his
tories of some famous heroic acts; now
Ella, what would you consider an ex-
ample Of modern deed of heroism Z"
Ella-"To refuse Lieutenant
A soldier loves his laurels. The vital
battles of the war were won by Meade,
McClellen, Thomas and Grant, and Gettys-
burg, Antietam, Nashville, Chattanooga
and Vicksburg, are laurels that make
rank and position.
The losses of the Union Army at Gettys-
burg, were in round numbers 5000, and
every year the railroads of this country
kill and mangle more people then the
rebel artillery and musketry did on those
fateful days in July, 1868.
5000 men in camp will consume daily
$500 pounds of fresh beef, 5000 pounds
of fresh bread, 600 pounds of sugar, 800
pounds of coffee, 100 pounds of candles,
four bushels of salt aud 13 bushels of
beans. Besides other little necessaries
1t is estimated that the cost alone is 81, 200
per day.
General Grant was maguanimous to his
own Generals as well as to those of the
enemy when surrendered. unconditional
surrender. move Immediately on your
works" were tho conditions Grant offered
Buckner at Donnelson, but In the dark
ness of the night he entered the prisoners
tent and said, "Buckner, you must have
lost everything, take my purse. 1t was
difficult to win his confidence, but when
once gained his heart, his efforts and his
fortune were at command; the most bril-
liant jewels 10 his crown of glory will be
that. Though conqueror on the field,
he counseled through life, and advised
with his pen when in his last hours, when
his voice had failed, peace and reconcilia-
ton among his countrymen.
When the veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic assemble in Washington
next September, for their annual reunion,
the blood in their veins will be quickened
by the sight of their old Corps badges,
under which they marched from 1861 TO
| 1866, depicted 10 flowers and decorative
plants, under the direction of Government
Landscape Gardener Brown. The badges
are to be worked out in floral designs on
the beautiful lawn south OF the pension
office. There will be forty flower beds,
twenty mine of which will be the various
designs representative of the different
Corps badges. The most conspicuous or
central design will be the q. A. r. Badge,
with flag aud pendant star, crossed can
non and musket, worked out carefully in
flowers, that will duplicate all tho original
colors precisely. This bed is 10 be 60
feet long, by 15 feet wide.
One of the most familiar figures about
the Capitol at Washington, for nearly
twenty years after the close of the war
was Col. Tom WorthingtoD, West Point
officer, who commanding an Ohio Regi-
ment. During the carly part of the re.
belion, he was dismissed from the ser-
vice, for alleged disobedlence of orders at
the battle of Shiloh. Seeking redress,
constantly begging to be reinstated In the
service, he bored President Lincoln al
most to death. One day he called on
General Ewing and said to him, 'Lin-
coins fool" "What makes you think
So" asked Ewing. "Read this note"
said Worthington, pulling paper from
his pocket. The letter was dated Execu-
tive Mansion and read as follows: 81
have several times informed Mr.. Worth
iDgton, verbally, that he was unfit to be
Colonel, and now, at his request, put it
10 writing. A. Lincoln"
Corporal ]. B. Linn, of Co. f, 9Th Pa.
Reserves, was taken prisoner at Charles
City Cross Roads, and was taken with
some others to Libby Prison. On enter
ing Libby, the prisoners were required to
surrender all articles, list being kept.
"What have you got 7" asked the officer
in charge. Linn pulled out pocketbook
OF silver. s'Put him down pocketbook
of silver" said the officer. "What else 2"
Linn flshed out another pocketbook like
the first. 1.-TWO pocketbooks OF silver"
"What elsei" Linn fished out pocketbook
No. 8, like the first. ''Three pecketbooks
of silver" said the officer. "What else
Out with It," Again Linn presented
pocketbook No. 4. ''My -" said the
officer, "Put this fellow down four dozen
pocketbooks full Of silver" Linn had d.
vided his money in this way in hopes that
when searched some might escape the
Johnnies. When asked, he was too honest
to tell an untruth about II, but when be
was paroled every farthiug was returned
to him. Something very nnusual.
During the war of the rebellion, an &C.
centric Colonel in military affairs led
with big umbrella over his head, his
regiment to the attack. The Brigade
General, knowing that the conspicuous
mark would draw fire, remarked to his
aide, ''Look at that old fool now. Go
and tell him TO put that umbrella down"
When the order was delivered, the Colo
mel replied, 'srell the General that | will
not lower tho umbrella" The aide re-
turned again with the order, and the
angered Colonel said, "Tell Gen. Rodes
that had as lief be killed by the bullet Of
the enemy as by the sun, and I'll be d.
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