News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-02-23
Grand Army Notes.


General Abner Doubleday. who died
last week at Mendham, N. j., was
second in command at Fort Sumter
at the time of its first bombardment
and sighted and fired the first gun in
it's defence. After his retirement from
the service in 1873 he published "Re.
miniscences of Forts Moutrie and
Sumter in 1S60-61," "Chancellors.
vile and Gettysburg" (1S62), and
articles on army matters, the water
supply of cities and other matters,
which were printed in various periodi-
Gals. His funeral Sunday was under
the direction of the Grand Army OF
the Republic.
1t seems little strange at this late
day, nearly thirty years after the
close of the war, that the Grand
Army should be gradually on the in
crease. Yet this is a fact. Applica-
tIons for charters for new posts are
constantly coming i'm to department
headquarters. 1t has been presumed
for year or two that the organiza.
ton would begin to decline about
this time. But there are hundreds of
eX-soldiers who were never in the
Grand Army, this element appears
anxious now to join it's ranks. This
being the case we need not look for a
decrease for few years at least, not
wlthstandiDg the veterans of the war
are dropping out rapidly.-Albany
Press.
Anything authentic relating to the
lale OF Stonewall Jackson IS of in
terest. A confederate soldier gave
me this account. He said that he
was one of Jackson's cavalry escort
there we're about fifty of them) when
jackson rode through his lines to
locate the Union army. IL was after
dark. This soldier was the second
on Jackson's right and heard the or
ders given by the general. The troops
were In line of battle and Jackson
caused an opening to be made
through which he passed, intending,
as soon as he found his enemy. to
wheel and return through the place
at the same time he gave an order to
the troops to fire upon anything that
appeared in their front at any other
place. When he returned he struck
his line quite a distance to the right
OF the place where he came out and
received a volley in accordance with
his own order. He was wounded in
the arm and the limb was amputated
soon after.-Isaac +. Galloupe, NJ.
d., in the Boston Journal.
"The Story of a Cavalry Regi
ment,' by William Forse Scott, lat,
adiutant of the fourth Iowa veteran
volunteers, is full of anecdotes. Her,
is an example: "Two or three of tn,
Kansas regiments among them tn,
fifth were in camp at Helena, some
times brigaded with the fourth Iowa
At this time the second Wisconsin
cavalry was there a fine soldierly an,
highly-respectable command. On
of the second Wisconsin died and hi
comrades with proper decorum pr,
pared for regular military funera
Some went out and dug the grav
and returned to camp before the fl
nera, moved Tt happened the sam
| day that the fifth Kansas also ma,
| on hand the body of "a departed one
Not being given to idle ceremOnies
they simply carried it off to the bury
ing-grouDd intending to dig the egrave
and dispatch the business without
unnecessary expense oftime. The Wis
cousin party had not arrived and the
Kansans found a grave ready and
waiting for tenant. What was the
use of digging another. The defunct
Jayhawker would not care who pre-
pared his home. They dropped him
in quickly and filled in the earth and
went back to their camp or their
horse-racing. Presently the mourn
ful columns of the Wisconsins march
lug as a funeral guard OF honor, with
solemn tread and wailing dirge, their
fallen comrade at their head. The
diggers led them to the spot where
they had left an open grave. The
rest may be imagined. But the sec
ond Wisconsin had had experience;
they recognized the genius OF the fifth
Kansas. Only the Jayhawkers could
steal a grave.