The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-13
PREFERREp MISERY TO prr1rR.

Il told the doctor that he had got to
get one of those sugar-cane carts, a mig
ger, and mule, and after that l would
take care of myself. There were a lot of
these rough, two-wheeled carts around
| and after some time we found a niger
and mule who were willing to make the
trip. They hitched up and / was loaded
in. 1t was dark then and raining, and as
the doctor left me he gave me bottle of
morphine and showed me how to take it..
That night, and the next day, and the
next night, | lived on morphine When
at last got to Shreveport my ankle was
about as large around as any part of my
body. However, | got well. l went back
to Texas, and afterstaying awhile found
l could stand it to sit in a saddle, and 1
started out again. When l got back to
my battery got orders about the same
time which took me off with the cam
paign into New Mexico. We left Texas
with 800 men, and to show you what
that campaign meant, what with not
knowing the country and being without
water and food great deal of the time
what between fighting Gen. Candy any
time he could find us, or we him, at the
end of nine months we came back into
Texas with less than 900 men.
"Once / remember, we intercepted a
dispatch from Candy, sent from Fort
Craig in to Fort Union. We We're about
midway between these places. We cap
tured the courier, and l recall one sen
tence in Canbys dispatch, which was,
after referring to our movement:
1--we will dig the potatoes when they
are ripe
"Then did not clearly realize that we
were the potatoes. Yes, Canby's men
were great fighters. l remember one
fight in Colorado which we had with
them, and it seems to me now as 1 look
back at the work they did that he must
have recruited them in hell.
NEVER WOUNDED YANKEE.
''No, have no knowledge that 1 ever
personally even wounded a yankee, let
alone killing him outright OF course.
ordered my batteries to fire and death
must have certainly resulted, but person
ally l do not recall an instance when
ever left my mark on a man. The only
opportunity recall was an occasion when
| was carrying a dispatch from one part
of the field to another When the yankees
went into the battle they threw off their
knapsacks, and they still lay there in a
long windrow which reached for quar-
ter of mile. The fight had swept away
from this line of knapsacks and blankets,
and while carrying the dispatch found
myself cantering along this row of war
bric-a-brac. AS I was riding alond, a big
yankee suddenly sprang to his feet. He
had been lying among the knapsacks. AS
he jumped up he snapped his gun at me.
do not suppose it had cap on it. At
any event it did not go off and at that
he threw down the gun and started to
run. was on a good horse and so easily
rode up to him as he fed. had my six
shooter in my hand and could have shot
him fifty times. l called on him to halt
He only ran away the faster. l suppose
for a dozen times as l cantered along
was within ten feet of him-I fairly made
up my mind to shoot him. Each time
however, reflected that shooting this
one particular yankee could not cut any
the war, so each time l gave it up. At
last, as long as he would not pay any at
tention to my orders to halt, and as
could not bother with prisoners and
didn't want to shoot him anyhow, and my
dispatches to deliver besides, told him
to run on; that he was headed north any
how and it was all right. then turned
my horse off to the left and went on with
my dispatches"
"And didn't you shoot himl" inquired
the governors wife, who was listening
with rapt attention.
"No," said the governor, with a quiet
laugh, 81 let him go. And as he seemed
to be as young as l was | reckon maybe
he is living yet"
II am so glad you didn't shoot him
Joe, " replied his wife, with a sigh of evi.
dent relief. Il thought for awhile you
had killed him"