The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-08-09
FLIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD
CAMP FIRES"
BY ONE OF THE GOLD VETS. "

wv SoiuiSiS Ray uuueF tuelE DluukelSy
looking up at the stars. Says Jack, "What
made you go into the army, Tom ~
swell, l had no wife, and love war,
Jack so went. What made you gol''
"Well," returned Jack, 81 had wife, and
l loved peace, Tom, so l went"
Lieut.. Michael Moore, OF Brooklyn, is
the oldest living regular soldier 10 the
world. He enlisted April Both, 1912, when
only IL years old. He is mentally as
bright as ever and he can remember his
various campaigns very wildly.
II there is man in the United States
Navy who is entitled to be called sold
Salt" that man is Rear Admiral Thomas
Selfridge, retired. Admiral Selfridge is
the Oldest United States naval officer liv-
Ing, having entered the service rs years
ago.
General Sheridan did not take any stock
in Genl. Rockers facetious remark that
she had never seen dead cavalryman :"
General Horace Porter, at meeting of
the Army of the Potomac, was given a
toast on the same, when he said, 81 suppose
this toast was given TO me in the spirit OF
that small boy in the country, who came
10 aud told his mother he had just set two
dozen eggs under the old brindle hen.
''Good gracious you don't expect her to
hatch out two dozen eggs, do your" mo,
but Just wanted to see the darn old thing
spread herself. :"
We often wonder how men can bear so
much pain with so little nursing. A man
came up to General Hooker, who asked
him why he was not with his regiment in
front. ~ have been there" "Why did
you not remain" 81 could not General;
see there, my fingers are all shot off; :
and drawing from under his coat his
bloody and mangled hand, he contn-
ued, 81 am going to the hospital to have
it dressed.
A confederate soldier one night, (when
We were before Richmond, where we had
our breastworks SO close to those CT the
other fellows that we held frequent ex-
change Of visits), big, long, lean, chap
asked II he might drop in on us for some
tobacco, and we let him come. We were
cooking bacon and coffee. The smell of
it was fine. When he got sniff of it,
be jumped as il he had been shot.
"What's that9" he asked. "Victuals,
said the Union soldier, lifting the coffee
pot lid. "How often do you get 'em an
says he. "Every day." says Union.
'Kin have sonnet" says no. "All you
can hold" says Union. "Hold on a min
ute," says he, and with that he climbed up
on the breastwoks, and swinging his gun
and accoutrements back to his side, sang
out, "Here boys, take them government
traps, and goodbye. l have struck
somethin' that's worth fighting for, and
fghtin' hard, -" and then he lodged down
to where the supper was, and from that
time stuck light by US until the war was
over.
Rev. Samuel Collins, of the Baxter
Fire Zouayes, always shouldered the mus
ket and took his place in the front ranks,
and there remained until the dying and
wounded required his attention. In the
thickest Of every fight, where shot, shell,
grape and canister were flying in every
direction, there would be found the
worthy Chaplain, Offering spiritual con-
ISOLATION to the dying and helping the
surgeons to dress the wounds. Such
acts as these gained for him the respect
and love OF the whole command, and the
name of "hghting chaplain"
General Mccall, while prisoner in
Richmond, gave the steward some money
to make purchases for him, which he did.
The General, however, beisg unacquaint-
ed with blockade prices, was dissatisfied
with the purchases and, cursipg the stew
ard, threw the articles In his face. When
the steward made some reply, the =" hero
Of Cold Harbor" said In his loftiest man
ner, 'Remember, sir, you ore speaking to
General Mccall" "You we're Genera
Mccall once" said the steward, but you
are now Yankee prisoner, between four
stout walls"
CAVALRY CHARGE.
A cavalry charge is more in the nature
OF personal duel than anything else, says
a cavalryman of the late war. have
vivid remembrance of a charge made at
Charlcstown, East Tennessee, in the win
ter Of 1868. AS he rode down on the
confederate lines could hear their officers
crying "steady, steady" When within
rs or 100 yards the confederate officers
gave the command +" fire " In an in
slant we were among them and it was
every man for himself. was riding a
anirited little mare and she hecame 30