The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-12
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| I recognized ~ having been employed in
| q tobacco factory prior to his enlistment.
".Why are you not fighting in your
placer asked, angrily.
swell, just wanted to tell you that II
you don't mind I think l will take my
| time off to-day.'n
''At the deathbed of my friend Colonel
81. witnessed what l think was at once
the most touching and dramatic incident
OF the whole war;" writes Admiral Por.
ter. 1T was some years after the termi-
| nation of the great conflict, and the
Colonel had long employed as the chill
dren's governess young lady of great
beauty and refinement. and as / stood
with his wife by his dying bed, he called
this girl to him. told her how he had
killed her father-a Confederate Captain
lin hand-to-hand fight, having recog-
| nized her by her resem blance, to her
| parent, and by his miniature. which she
wore around her neck, and ask ed her for
giveness.
II have nothing to forgive she an
swered. You only did your duty, and if
you deprived me of my father, you have
| filled his place.
with one last supreme effort the dying
| Colonel placed her hand in that of his
wife, whispered our daughter aud was
| dead.
II once asked friend who had fought
all through the war if he had ever killed
a man that he positively knew of. es.
said he. remorsefully. 'one. At Bull Run
ran at the first fire. A rebel chased me
for ten miles, and was then so exhausted
| that he dropped dead.'"
GENERAL LEES PATHETIC ONE.
MANY of the most beautiful and pa
thet1c incidents OF the late war occurred
after 1t was all over. AT a hotel at WASH
lngton in 1865 gentleman whose face /
| could not exactly remember, though 1t
seemed strangely familiar, introduced
himself and asked permission to present
me to his mother. singularly beautiful
old lady of queenly and dignitied bear
| ing, to whom he said: Mother, let me
present to you General r. E. Lee, Of the
late Confederate army, whose saber thrust
gave me this scar on my right cheek and
who bears the mark of a wound / gave
him. The beautiful old lady threw her
arms around my neck and wept on my
shoulder, and in that tender embrace and
in the fervent clasp of that Federal Off
GERS hand and mine were buried the ami
mosities of the war forever.
zone of the most devoted adherents the
| Southern cause ever had was Colonel
M. N matter how thick and black
disaster lowered on our arms the Colonel
never saw anything but brightest hope
and absolute surety OF success in the near
future. In fact, he might, not inappro-
| priately, have been styled the Caleb Bal
derstone of the Confederate army. for
| just as the original Caleb was represent
ing his master as being in the most affiu-
ent and prosperous circumstances, and
inventing the most ingenious lies to make
| it appear so, the Colonel constantly rep
resented the resources of the Southern
people to be limitless in the same clever
fashion. AT length, when defeat stared
us plainly in the face. and my surrender
| to General Grant was inevitable, young
officer delicately limited to the Colonel
that perhaps his confidence in the ulti-
mate success Of our arms. which was still
| as boastful as ever, was perhaps a tritle
overweening. The Colonel looked at him
| for a moment with an expression in
which contempt, anger, horror and
amusement struggled for the mastery.
Then, with hands uplifted, hair standing
on end, and eyes flashing fire. he reared
| out at the discomforted Lieutenant in the
voice of Stentor:
Dam up Niagara Falls with tissue
paper; bottle up the Atlantic Ocean in a
whisky flask; paste ITO let'' on the sun
and moon; catch flash of lightning be-
tween your thumb and finger; build a
worm fence around winter supply of
summer weather; harness a thunderbolt
| to sulky; watt all of the clouds out of
the sky with lady's fan; saddle and
ride hurricane; fasten dishclout to the
tail of comet; pack up all the stars in q
beer keg; knock q tornado out of time
with your fist; put hades to cool in a
spring house; put the sky in your pocket:
unbuckle bellyband OF eternity, but
never. never again allow yourself to
fancy for moment that the poor little
Confederacy.'
| WHAT GENERAL SHERMAN SAW.
"One of the most magnificent speci-
mons of manhood l ever saw was a
| soldier who was constantly laughing at
| the poor fellows who became fatigued by
| long marches or who sank under SEEM
ingly trifiing wounds. His courage,
health and strength seemed invincible.
One day heavy projectile from the
enemy's cannon. what we call a spent
| ball-came rolling along. The tempta-
ton to put out ones foot to stop such a
ball was almost irresistible. The soldier
have mentioned yielded to it. With a
merry smile he put out his foot and in an
| instant 1t was cut of, and he sank to the
ground manned, shattered cripple for
life, weeping like child at his awful
| misfortune.
II think the funniest incidents l OBJ
served during the civil war were some OF
! those that occurred among the colored
people during my march from Atlanta to
the sea. Many of the negroes hailed the
coming of the Yankees, bringing the
freedom of the coloted people with them,
| as certain Indication of the immediate
approach of the judgment day and the
end OF the world. Consequently there
was greatreligious excitement among the
! darkies, and by many of their preachers
protracted or revival meetings were held.
| The incidents that occurred at some of
these meetings beggar description. re-
member on one occasion the preacher
tried his utmost to induce one big buck
to come to the 'mourners' bench but
without avail. At length, losing all pa
thence, he exclaimed BY de wholly
apostle. the word oh de Lohd shall done
smite dat man. and, suiting the action to
the word, he felled the buck senseless TO
| the ground by a tremendous blow on the
head, delivered with ponderous volume
| of the Scriptures"
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