The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-01-23

odck 10 me III Il flash. hear the com
nahds Prepare to mountv sMount,
ana once more l am jangling alongside
ii Il troopers leg"
DO YOU remember when | got you?'
| asked.
vi course | do. | was hanging in
the Kitchen of II farmers house at Rran.
u! STATION, Va, and you bought me
i"r TWO silver dollars. That was SO soon
after the war that l hadn't time ia
rust. You cant find many C. s. A.
pelt-piates around these days. | rcck-
on:'
They are very scarce. What's your
story?"
THAT of Il thousand other sabcrs.
You've heard of Stuart. the chevalier.
as our boys used to call him? Wen.
/ mao the honor to make that famou
I Il around McClellan's army witt
nm. That was my first active ser
wee. | belonged to Il captain, as Nu
can see. and he knew how to handle no
well. You remember when Stuart las
Killed! Well, on that day my ca'..ain
was DeSet by three troopers at ace.
but we won a victory. The vel IL
uoWnStroke he made cut one o. those
common sahcrs slick in halves. and at
his first point | was driven Trough a
troopers body. Ugh! Makes g SILVER
to think of it! Poor StuarI. saw
strong men weep like children that day
when they heard of his fatal wOunding.
Ever up in the Shenandoah Valley"
YES"
well, after Il time my captain was
transferred ove there, and | was car
ried up and down until / knew every
crook ana turn of the highways. My
captain was killed over there in a Skin
miSl,, and Il second lieutenant of cav
airy somehow got hold of me. This
was promotion Backwards, but l soon
found out that he had strength and
skill. 1t wasn't over three months,
though, before he was also killed, and
from then ON | had n dozen n |
was in the cavalry, infantry and artil-
lcry by turns. and always got round
in time for all the big fights. You've
heard Of Fitz Hugh Lee?"
Yes"
And Wade Hampton?
"Of course"
well. at different times l served
under both. The night Gen. Jackson
WAS killed at charlottesville | wasn't
i quarter of Il mile away. Wasn't that
a terrible blow to rs. They kept the
news from us as long as they could,
but when it became known some look
Cd white and scared and others hid
thpir faces and wept. You were at
Gettysburg. of course? Rather hot
Wort. there. ch? When Custer drove
at US. thinking to get hold Of our wag-
cn-train, l had the honor of giving Il
Of YOU uns' Il slash across the face
which made him Il lolnely man for the
rest OF his life. You men under Custer
followed us over the mountains. Lands!
but didn't it rain as Lee began to fall
back? We turned on you two or three
times and left the road full Of dead.
but our orders were TO fall back to the
river. Did you make the Wilderness
caInpaign!'
Yes"
What a place that was for might!
armies to grapplc. had gotten into
the infantry and this time a major had
me. He was among the first Killed and
before noon the captain OF a battery
had me buckled around him.. l chang
cd owners three times before Lee final
" stood at bay and prepared to dole
out the blood of the C~Onfederhcy untl
the last drop was gone. Al! those
were grim and gruesoime days. In ana
around Petersburg were barefooted
captains and ragged colonies, and there
were DAYS when even Il b%rigadicr could
not get full rations. Outside of the
army were those who could see the be-
ginning of the end, but we in it never
gave up hoping. 1t was hope II
light. fight and hope, and even whe
the calamity came we couldn't com
urchend it. We always believed I'm
clc Robert would find n way out OF it,
bnt the day finally came when he had
lone all that human hands could do.
.Appomattox! All! it hurts, and yet
why should it? We had done better
than the veterans of Napoleon, and
when we laid down our arms not II
cheer was heard from your leSions. You
felt how it was, and you had only kind
words. 1t was always 'iank' and
Johnny with us at the front. and II the
politicians had kept away we'd never
tvlt the bitterness that came later on.
| wouldn't have said a word, you know,
but that bugle woke me UP, and for
just n minute | seemed to hear the old
vi. vi. vi! again and to feel the eXulia-
ton OF a cavalry charge"
What q Grab Bag Contained.
A. Bangor pastor at a fair Invited ali