New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-03-20

mend you for promotion to the rank of
brigadier''-
''General!'' -s-.-,.
He awoke and saw Jakey Slack look
ing down on him. 1t was he who had
spoken the word "Generalp' 49,.
General" said Jakey as he saw his
friends eyes open, ''it's ben a Id
hard fight
"For heavens sake, my boy, where
have you been, and what are you doing
here? The battle will open soon again
this morning I wonder it hasn't open
ed already. You must get back"
II thort war sojer.'
"Well, Jakey, you are soldier,
that's fact, and I'm not
Reckon I'll git cashyered. l ben
away 'thout any furlough."
"Where?''
"Waal, T thort I'd go n see Souri,
afore tn fight COS I moughtn't hev no
chance after it, I mought git killed, n
then I wouldn't be no good nohow."
''Have you seen her?'
'Yas.''
"And Laura?' he started up.
"Yas.'
''And you told herr
'Reckon.''
Maynard paused in his questions He
dreaded to know how his wife had re-
with the rest?
Jakey put his hand in the pocket of
his coat and took out card on which
was picture Of Laura holding her
child. Maynard seized it, and in mo-
ment his eyes were riveted on it to the
exclusion Of all other objects. His mind
drank in thirstily all it suggested.
MARK" he exclaimed suddenly,
'for these you must win back your
spurs -
"Reckon she uns ud like TO- ter hear
y talk tibet away put in Jakey SYM
pathetically.
"Jakey, I'm changed man. 7 feel
that am to have chance to vindicate
myself Oh the field today. For two days
have been fighting in the ranks.
have had only a private's opportunity,
and that is to furnish material for the
sacrifice demanded by the god of war,
while the god only smiles on those who
lead the victim. Today-today''-
"Somep'n'll turn up sho', y bet
Come, we must get some breakfast.
Well need it soon. This day will de-
eide the fate of the Army of the Cum
berland'
Going to group of soldiers near by,
from whose campfire emanated the
pleasing odor Of boiling coffee, the two
asked and received a breakfast.
A fog hung over the valley of the
Chickamauga which screened the two
armies from each other. Maynard and
Jakey were ignorant Of their surround
lngs hundred yards distant, SO they
munched their ''hard tack" and swal-
lowed their coffee, quite willing to be
hidden from Confederate fire while they
were doing SO. Meanwhile Jakey gave
his friend an account OF his trip and
how he had arrived on the field at noon
the day before
''How did you find me, Jakey?" ask
ed the hearer
WAL, [ asst good many sojers, N
none Of 'em knew whar y war. Bout
dark I heard one O. tn cavalry of tn
old brigade. our brigade, tibet knew y.
He was a-tellin how y went with 'em
in a charge. They all liked ter hev yer
do thet away. I asst him whar mought
lind y, n he reckoned he sor y goin
up this way. So I KEN n found y.
Thet's ALL -
AS he finished Maynard exclaimed:
''Look!"
The fog had suddenly lifted. They
were on a ridge which had been forti-
fed during the night, the works resem-
bling a horseshoe. Their position was
on the left side of the shoe and COM
manded view up the Chattanooga road,
which ran directly north from where
they were. There a short distance east
OF the road and overlapping the Union
left the lifting mist revealed line Of
Confederate gray. AS Maynard spoke,
with a shout they rushed forward and
took possession of the prize they had
been trying to grasp for two days. They
were between the Union army and Chat
tanooga.
Leaving Jakey where they were and
instructing him to stay there till he
should return, Maynard went down to
take hand in the fight. He found a
dead soldier, whose musket and car
fridge box he seized, and pushing on to
the line Of firing took position with an
infantry regiment. The enemy, unsup-
ported, were driven from the Chattanoo-
ga road to ridge near by, where they
halted and gave their pursuers desper-
ate fight. Then the regiment to which
Maynard had allied himself was order
ed to another part of the field, and he
went with them. Passing through a
thick fireof bullets, which were mingled
with the larger missiles Of cannon, he
encountered a sight that has seldom
been seen on the field Of battle. Crouch
ing under a log was a little girl about8
years old, who, having got caught in
among the disputants, was right in the
midst OF a battlefield. Maynard never
forgot the contrast between the terrified
child and the unmerciful scenes SUR
rounding her. Being volunteer, he
was under no man s orders except as he
chose to obey them. Falling out Of the