Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-20

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fair for q few moments, clubbing eahh
rection. every man shouting something
To the others
The guard came running up trying
TO quell the disturbance, but were
knocked sprawling, then believing
themselves to be surrounded by
superior force, the entire company
broke and ran, each man for himself
ana the Indians for the hindmoSt- An
hour passed, there was no sound of
firing, no pursuit, and presently one by
one these brave soldiers came creeping
p;tck 10 where that camp fire had
peen-lt was scattered far and wide
III the melee11ooking at each other,
scarcely recognizing comrades. so dirty,
and Scorched and bloody were they,
and one man shot through the arm.
one minus Il finger which had been bit
ten off in the excitement, and all with
heads more or less broken. and each
angry with the other fellow. while
the guard let off a verbal fourth of
July celebration.
1t was down in Louisiana one dark
night that l was awakened by a dis
talnt rJrmbling that rose louder and
louder ON the air. l jumped up, bring
ing my head in violent contact with
the pole of my impOvised uent-a
blanket and a tree Rumble, rumble.
rumble it came on, until the earth was
shaking, when there arose on the air
a shrill yell from the threats of the
whole command | tried to climb the
tree of my tent but / had fastened
the blanket too securely about it, so
l broke out of the place in search of
another, but that wretched blanket
was torn down in my flight, and with
what l shall always consider a deliber,
ate demoniacal intent, it wrapped it
self about my flying legs. The rest
OF my flight was Il sack race, for l
made it in leaps, and how | managed
to climb tree 1 shall never know.
But l did it, swinging just out Of
danger as a herd of thousand
stampeded cattle swept through the
camp. When they We're gone, the regi~
1aent EN- maSSe descended from that
timber
One day old DR.. Ross with a com,
paIion named John Tasiser, was riding
along a muddy Mississippi road in a
ramshackle old buggy, from which a
she'll had torn the dashboard the day
befOne, when they met brigade going
dOwn to Vicksburg-never to come
back, most of them, poou fellows. At
the head rode the general, who being
acquainted with the mem in the buggy
called OUT Goodbye, Doc, goodbye,
john" The men behind him, riding
two and two, caught the words and.
thOugn none of them had ever seen the
pair before, hailed themR also, Good
bye, Doc. goodbye John" Never was
there such farewell; for the next
three or four miles the adieu passed
along, Goodbye. Doc, goodbye, John"
In the early days of the war, when
men we've learning discipline for the
first time, and the majority were raw
recruits. it was sometimes ridiculous
in the extreme to hear the suggestions
they would make to the officers, or the
odd things they would ask permission
to do. One curled darling who, much
to his disgust, had failed to be given
an office, was one day put on sentinel
duty on d spot where the sun drove
rather too warmly down on him, and
he begged a passing comrade to go
and get leave for him to withdraw his
bayOnet and insert the umbrella he
carried with him into the campaign.
The friend took the message faithfully,
which is more than L can do in repeat
ing the answer.
1t was in an hour when things were
getting hot one day for both sides,
when Colonel Henry. of the-Missouri,
was near1y run over by 81 great Six
footer of a fellow who, had urgent
business Just then in the rear The
colonel halted the man with his re
volver, when the scamp fell on his
knees holding UP both his hands and
fairly numbering, ooh, sir, my little
Sisters, III never see them amy more
Oh, my little sisters another chap
who felt that it would decidedly agree
with him to go into the fight that day
hid himself in a hole about quarter
of a mile distant, where he was dis
covered after a while by some of the
hospital CORDS He feigned SleeD and
had to be aroused though half a dozen
batteries were believing a the time.
Sitting up, he said, rubbing his eyes,
'sWhat! You're fighting, boys? L
dreamed [ heard a noise, too"