Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-08-17
NOT TO BE- BEATEN.


by story about General Cogswel,
representative Of the Salem. Mass.
district Henderson Of Iowa, re-
counted IT.
"General Cogswell, said Hender
son was great soldier, and, by the
way was the youngest colonel on the
federal side, He became a brigadier
in time to make good company ioI
sherman, as he journeyed through
Georgia However, that is not my
story. Cogswell was colonel Of
very famous regiment, the Second
Massachusetts He was decide lily
proud of it, too, and look more de.
light in it than mother does in her
offspring At one time Cogswells
regiment was brigaded with a regi-
ment from Michigan, also crack
regiment, and great rivalry fell
out between then To tell the
truth, Cogswell's regiment had thu
better of the competition, One day
wave Of religion struck the Mchi-
gan crowd, We'd been stationed
Some time at one place and the chap
lains had begun to get in their work.
When soldiers are marching or fight
ing every day religion never seems
to take much ho.d on them; hut make
camp for month and let muddy
currents of life settle little and IT.
is very different At this particular
time a regular revival broke out in
the Michigan regiment The colo
mel himself was given that way, and
you could always find as many hymn
books as decks of cards about his
headquarters, and as he rather led
this return to better and brighter
life many OF his boys naturally fell
in and followed Cogswell's regi-
ment, on the other hand, was de-
cidedly perverse and stitt-necked
generation, If there was any relig-
ion in that regiment it was a great
One day while the Michigan revival
was ut high tide an officer was talk
ing to Cogswell about it.
do you know, colonel he said
to Cogswell, Il understand eleven Of
those Michigan fellows are going to
be baptized tomorrow
The deuce they aren said Cogs-
WELL full of scorn and incredulity.
Then he fell to jealous rumination
thereon He thought he detected u
scheme to Guido his brave Second
Massachusetts,. He determined to
thwart it. That evening on dress
parade he addressed his regiment
He told them Of the Michigan regi-
ment and how eleven of them were
going to be baptized in the river next
; -nnoiiingk
"'Now. boys, said Cogswell, an,
his voice trembled, the Second Mas
n sachusetts can't stand this. View
: outfought, outmarched and outdrille
these Michigan men and can repea
rr all of these selemnities any day il
- the week. They know it, too, an
i so they try to make mean, sneak
u ing detour, as it were, and give IL
the go-by in religious matters think
81 ing to catch the Second Nlassachr
sets where it isn't at home Now
boys, If | were to ask for volunteer
to charge battery of siege guns q
y to just march calmly out and di
! there would be but one response
o Every man but the sutler woul
: step forward on the instant To say
the honor of the regiment, ther
when, it is so insidiously beset
these people from Michigan, | no
call on you for an unusual sacrifice
And boys continued Cogswen,
tones of deepest feeling, Il don
want you at this crisis in the caree
of great regiment, to whose undl
ing fame we all have contributed OF
blood, to weaken or hang bacl
Eleven Of our rivals are to be bal
tiled tomorrow morning, and l no
call for twenty-five of my brave fe
81 lows to volunteer to also be baptlze,
q Well see their eleven and go the
J fourteen better.
1.-THE line hesitated and the me
) looked doubtfully at each other. 4
last one OF them addressed Cogswe
q for fuller light.
"'Are you going to be 'mersec
q too, cOlonel?' he inquired.
al will never said Cogswel
shrink from peril to which invit
=, my men. Should the colonel of tn
y, Michigan regiment attempt any trio
e of personal baptism, /, too, will G.
E, Should he baptize any of his officer
or officers of equal rank in the Secon
,c. Massachusetts will be there to u
hold the honor of their regiment. A
the story comes to me now. it woul
seem as first play these poop
mediate only the baptism of eleve
privates, and so it rests with yoi
my men, to say whether at this jun'
ture their plot shall succeed, {
whether, with twenty-five brave vo
unteers for this special duty, we wi
retain our proud prestige as til
crack regiment of this brigade an
tho unmeasured Superior of this pa
tioular outfit from Michigan.