The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
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near that house for any uniauful purrose
ne more think Of stealing those bee gums
thoroughly gentlemen to steal bee gums
sir.
This sounded all right. but I recalled
now these same gentlemen had won my
mens sabers and six-shoOters and then
MA them IN the swamp. ] wasn't so sure
ABOUT their uprightneEs touching bee
gums. At any rate, | made up my mind
that when my battery was punished 1t
would be after they had heen convicted
ON evidence not TO be denied. SO turned
TO Herbert again.
g I've no doubt. major I said, but
what you believe all you say OF your men.
But m just as sure on my part thac
none OF my battery would steal hes
gum. Still, IN tell you what 1 would
suggest ~ parade my men; you parade
yours. II six bee gums have been stolen
y among the certainties that the maio-
factors got well stuug In the enterprise
They'll show H. too. and if we order out
our men we won't have any trouble pick
ing out the bee hunters
Mai. Herbert scoffed at the idea that
any OF his men could possibly be guilty,
but consented In the perfection Of his ralr-
ness TO make the test I suggested. F1vo
minutes after. my hugles and Herhert's
drums were sounding and rolling, and cur
men were falling into line. As Il turned Que
every one Of my fellows answered to his
name, and there wasn't a mark on one Of
them. Herbert, on the other hand. was
shy eleven men, and when finally they
were hunted up ana dragged out. their
hands ar Il faces were all pulled and Hwol-
len from bee stings The larceny OF thu
bee gums was solved.
The hardest campaign / was IN" COR
tinucd Mai. Sayers, was through New
Mexico after Gen. Candy III didn't work,
What from battle and disease and priva-
tion we lost three-quarters of our men In
nine months, and got back into Texas with
only handful. ! recollact how we Inter-
cepted a dispatch from Candy, who was
then al Fort Craig on the Rio Grande IL
was sent to the officer In command al Fort
Union After referring to our presence In
But let them alone for the present: We
viii dig our potatoes when they are ripe.
Il didn't understand until aftcrward
that we We're the potatoes Candy was
talking about IL was lack OF water and
general supplies which worsted Us, rather
than any lighting We got into. Sttll Candy
had terrible set of people with him, they
would fight like tigers. / remember what
q sergeant OF my battery said to me after
Rio Grande.
Major said the sergeant to me a few
days after the battle, 'whar did you say
these Yanks came from we've been against
!" Colorado, replied. 4 understand Cam
by enlisted them In Colorado. WhyT
oh, nothing particular rctoined the
sergeant only half way allowed from the
way they fit, they'd been recruited in HI
My most exciting adventure and the
one which cost me the most was on an oc-
CASTOR when my whole battery ran away.
My mules and horses had been In one OF
those New Mexico deserts and away from
a little in their canteens, but the horses
and mules had not seen "a drop. At the last
of the second day we were closing up to-
ward a lake. where we expected to camp
that night About four miles from tbs
sound or lake the mules and horses got a
smell OF the water, and the next moment
the whole battery was on the dead run.
Bride reins were broken, bits were yanked
and sawed until the blood ran out Of the
animals mouths. But no power short Of
death in their tracks could stop them.
They were starved for water The crazy
animals rushed out into the lake taking
guns caisons, wagons. everything, that
was hitched 10 them. And then they began
TO sink. II was quicksand lake, and we
had n iioundering time Of 1t. lost one Of
my guns and had two score of horses and
mules drowned before we stood on firm
ground again.
THE saddest page in the New Mexico
campaign was the death of one OF our
officers He was only q boy, and had
command OF a company of laneers.
There were about thirty men in the COM
pany, ana their main arm was bowie
knife dashed to lance shaft 1 don't
believe there were fifteen guns in the out
IT. one morning we were getting ready
for a fight with Candy. The yankees
these same Colorado feliows-were falling
into line ana we We're going through
some preliminary steps ourselves. sud
denly l saw this company OF lancers,
headed by their boy officer, come surging
out Of a little valley close to whore the
yankees were in line. and charge them,
The laucers were al alone, and wheth-
or they had been ordered to the duty, or
were on their own hook, j never FOUND
out. As they charged through the yam
KEGS ! don't think a gun was fired. The
blue lines seemed to open in places In
gaps and let them charge through. But
tho moment they were through to the
rear OF the yankees the shooting began.
Not one man OF them ever got back. our
whole command charged at this time, amt
we succeeded in driving the enemy a half
a nile. We recovered our boy officer,
wounded TO death and shot IN three
places. lie couldn't live, so the doctor
told him That night he was lying in one
OF the DOLBY Mexican houses We had made
q hospital Of The moon was shining, and
he asked 10 be placed close to the door
where he could see across the sandy des-
ert toward Texas. AT last he asked one
of the boys about his horse. IL was
splendid animal which he had brought
from his onw home,
did they get my horseY" he asked.
when he was told that We had his
horse ali safe. he had one Of the men
lead the animal up to the door where he
could look at him. There he lay with his
one sound arm caressing his horses muz-
zle. The animal seemed to know him.
too and rubbed his nose In his face, as IL
delighted 10 find his master again,
"AIl at once a pistol went of, and the
flash shown in the interior of the DOLBY
like lightning The horse spfang back,
and then stood trembling ana snorting.
The boy soldier had taken his pistol.
which was lying near, and shot himself
through the brain. He was dead when
we got to him"