The National tribune., 1895-09-26
ENCAMPMENT ECHOES.
Some Of the Things Noted mt the Louisville
Gathering,

Some Of the Things Noted Mt the Louisville
Gathering.
Inc following conversation was heard on q
street corner, and was only one incident among
hundreds of the kind:
Sam, never expected to see you again."
Nor You, Bob. How have you been all
these years7"
Aud two gray.headed, feeble old men clasped
hands. The tears ran down their grizzed,
bearded cheeks, and they said nothing for some
time.
Married, Bobi" was tho interruption of
that eloquent silence
Yes; wife and three children; two of them
Sons of Veterans. How is it with you Sam?"
= She died about 90 years ago. This here's
her boy" pointing to swarthy young man
with mustache. There's Just US two. We
I'VE over IN Missouri, bout 30 miles from st.
Louis. Wouldn't miss this for 30 acres of corn.
Glad to see you? Well, reckon"
Such showing from any one State has never
been seen at an Encampment, and may never
be seen again, since year by year many grow
too feeble to endure the hardships of travel
and exposure. Even after a fve-hours' march,
with the wearying hats, $3.50 Indianians kept
In the ranks and completed the march. footsore
and very warm, but proud to have helped
make Indiana famous in the history of En-
campments. Many were the eccentricities OF
dress and ornament noticed, but it needed
such advertisement to acquaint the thousands
along the line of march that Indiana was here,
and the cheers that went up as her thousands
passed showed that the great showing ap-
preciated.
One of the colored veterans was the most
noted man in the line of march, not for his
greatness, but for his extensive and deliberately
decorated body. Early in the day Department
Commander Shively heard of this mans collec-
tlon OF badges and sent for him. skillfully-
worded compliment sent the colored warrior
away with his bosom swelled to bursting, and
loose change ratified into the pockets of timer
ant merchants until the veterans dusky face
was shining radantly above a perfect coat of
mail composed of souvenirs
delegation of six from Moline H., left
that city Monday evening, but arrived IL hours
late The members were much disappointed
In missing the parade. This delegation had
its Headquarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Tho Tenth Congressional District Battalion
had about 1,500 in its ranks when the command
10 march was given, number many times
greater In itself than the roll-call of many
whole Departments. There were II bands and
drum corps in the Department, and bursts of
music every minute on the whole line of march
showed that one band had taken up the bars
furnished by another First in the line, and
escorting the Commander, was the band con-
nected with the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home, at Knightstown. The musicians are all
ingy well.
lie 9th KY. Cav. was in camp in Lebanon,
KY. and as we knew that we would be sta
toned there for some time, we began looking
around to see what arrangements could be
made for getting liquor said veteran at the
Encampment. "Our men had been in camp
several days and everyone was dry All of us
had been working ndustrousIy to get some
whisky. An old woman came into camp one
day with basket OF pies, which she wanted to
sell to the soldiers. She was given permission.
and in short while crowd of the men were
around her. With knowing smile she said
that she would sell the pies at 81 EACH One of
the men In the regiment understood in q mo-
ment what that meant, and he Immediately
bought pie. The rest of us followed suit and
shortly the woman did not have one left The
men ran to their tents and opened the pies On
the inside was fiat bottle filled with whisky.
and before night everyone in camp was feeling
rather happy. The old woman did not miss
selling her pies one day as long as the regiment
was III camp at that place"
A certain respectable and respected Jefferson
county farmer tells one story whenever he
visits the grocery and feed store at the north
east corner of Ninth and Broadway. The sight
OF that building is apt to remind him of the
story, and OF good many other things too;
for that building was Hospital No II during
the war; and this farmer WAS Union soldier,
who hIst put in some weeks in the wards on
the second floor recovering from wound and
then. as n con valescent, put in some more weeks
helping take care of those not so fortunate az
himself. One night after watching the last
struggles of conrade. the doctors having pro-
nounced life extinct, he was ordered to he 10 take
the remains down stairs and dispose them there
decently. with brick under the head, in the
room adjoining the alley at the back. All of
which was done as ordered Later i'm the night.
the convalescent having occasion to go down
stairs again he was Mortified to see that the
dead comrade had left his brick pillow and was
making stagger to walk up stairs and get
back to the wards above. The dead man, both
then and since confirmed this account of
terrifying apparition, only with the addition
that he-the apparltion-was not dead, had not
been dead, and on his way upstairs to
thank his friends in Hospital No. /" for hav.
ing postponed his funeral.