The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-10-11
FARMER BEACH
Chats Interestingly About
Some Things.
AN INCIDENT OF THE LATE WAR.
How Wounded Federal Soldier Was
Cared for by q Confederate
During Battle.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct. S, 1894.
DEAR JoURNALs Knowing what
your readers have had to undergo
during the past few months in the
ordeal Of heated days, the raging of
political factions and the struggle
tor bread and butter, which touches
a common chord in sill our hearts, I
have thoughttully forborne to iRfict
one of my letters upon them but
now Get me whisper word or two
in your ear, confdentially) am
homesick, but please do not say
anything about it. Yes, / am actu-
ally homesicS to once more fill my
lungs with Marietta's pure, fresh
air; homesick for drink of that
cool, sweet and refreshing well water
from beneath the back porch of my
Georgia home; homesick to see
again North Georgia's grand old
hills and even the red clay roads
that wind up their steep sides /;
homesick 70 hear again the genial,
pleasant voices of my old Georgia
neighbors !; and, oh, when I read
about the delightful 'ssingings," and
the debates" and the exercises Of
the different literary societies in
Cobb county, and the reports in
your columns from week to week of
what her noble boys and girls are
doing, l declare, it makes me- more
homesick than ever.
Your last weeks issue was espeei.
ally Interesting to iae, SO 'Erisn1
and newsy, and that account OF Cobb
County's Literary Convention meet
ing, written by Brother Barber, is
one of the best written and most
satisfactory articles have yet read.
wish to congratulate the Literary
Convention On its good fortune in
having chosen such q faithful, ener.
getic and worthy Secretary. And,
while / am about it, want to con-
graduate the JOURNAL on its having
so large and efficient a corps of
county correspondents, all of whom
WELD the pen most gracefully and
keep Cobb county at the front in all
that pertains to its real progress.
/ hardly know what to write from
this section that will interest your
readers, who have so much that is
full OF interest at home. GAIL quiet
along the Potomac tonight" might
be as truthfully sung, just now, of
this grand old river as in the days
when its blue waters formed the
boundary line South of which the
red tide of war ebbed and flowed 80
many weary years. All quiet on
Capitol Hill, too, at present, and the
eloquence, logic, wit and political
thunder that kept the air stirring
and made things lively through so
many long months, beneath the MAJ
tionsl Capitol's dome, are now scat
tered over the broad expanse of our
country stirring up the elements
elsewhere, and preparing for future
political battles here. Georgia has
no cause 70 blush or feel ashamed
over the records Of her representa-
tives in the House and Senate
Chamber, and it goes without saying
that Honorables Tate and Maddox
will come back to Washington from
the 9TH and 9th Congressional Dis
tricts holding their heads proudly
erect.
Reading over what | have said
above, referring to the war, brings
to my mind romantic incident re-
Gently related to me by a comrade
in one of the Grand Army Posts
here. This comrade, who now
wears an artificial leg, and is known
as doctor Purman" was a Captain
Of . Pennsylvania regiment and in
the fierce battle of Gettysburg was
severely wounded and crawled of
into the memorable "wheat field
where be hoped to be out of the line