Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-12
game, forgetting that the cruel war was

Luck came my way and I soon had
everybody but the Yankee corporaI
broke. The rest were souatted around.
blue and gray, watching the game.
when there came that ugly 'c-l-l-ick ick'
so familiar TO the soldiers ear.
I'VE looked up, and there stood a
Yankee sergeant with four men. their
musketS cooked.
Members of the 10Th. consider YOUR
selves under arrest said the sergeant
40, come now, sergeant the cor.
poral began, when a horseman refined
up behind the guard, and he concluded,
Gen. Grant, by hokyr
THE bluecoats got up looking like q
lot OF whipped schOolboys and saluted
their commander, who eyed them as
sterniy as sphinx. They filed in front
of the guard and started for camn
When their backs were turned ON him
Grant removed the cigar from his
mouth and with cynical smile asked
the Confederate nearest him: Who's
ahead?'
30, we are replied the defender.ot
the stars and bars. Those chumps.
you've brought down here can't play
poker little bit. But they can fight.
General / remarked.
Have to sometimes, said Grant
dryly, and rode away
When the committee waited on Ham
nibal Hamlin TO notify him of his NOM
ination to the Vice Presidency they
found him in the hotel in the midst Of
game of poker. Hamlin, in telling
this story, used to say that they ruined
the only good hand he had held and
broke up the game.
Daniel Webster was not only great as
a lawyer and a statesman. but grea.
also as a poker player. SO was Henry
Clay.
or course this was in the early DAYS
when poker was still in the rough.
Even in this crude state it appealed 10
Clays gambling instincts. He PLAYED
for the excitement, however, and nor
for the gain, and used TO lose a large
part of his Congressional salary az
cards. He was calm under defeat. Only
once was he known to lose his temper
and then the circumstances JUSTIFIED
him.
At some western hotel some profess
sional gambler had introduced himself
into the game. For some time he
cheated without discovery. At last he
lay down three aces when Clay mad
two in his hand. Clay's anger is de-
scribed as something terrible. He
slowly drew himself out of his seat an
rose to his full height. He drew his
| pistol and the man made 70" the door.
Clay did not follow him. but express
ed his Indignation by Walking around
to his chair and shooting a hole
through its centre.
Clay did not follow him, but express
under embarrassing circumstances. He
sat down one Saturday TO a game Of
poker and never got up ulul il was
time to go to church. With the cards
hastily stuffed into his pocket he APP
peared among the worshipeTS. After
the service, while talking to the rector,
he put his hand into his pocket and
pulled out pack Of cards along with
his handkerchief. They flut,ered to the
| ground. Clay, nothing abashed, picked
them up and restored them TO his peck
ct, quietly remarking that they must
have been placed there as joke.
Gen. Garfield was an expert poker
player.
Gems. Sheridan and Grant occ--t----
ally took a hand in fCsiy game.
Once the latter tT0lheroes were tray
cling on a steamboat together. Among
the passengers was young English
man. A j0-cent limit was arranged
between the trio. While pot was in
progress the Englishman got up to light
a cigar and requested Gen. Serbian,
who had passed out, to play his hand.
1t consisted OF four jacks pat On the
Englishman's return he asked how the
hand PANIED out.
90" said Sheridan, the General bet
80 cents and | called him and won the
pot"
WELL" blurted out the Englishman,
when he had recovered from the first
shock of surprised chagrin I've heard
of military discipline, but I'm hanged
if I've ever heard of it going that far?
Poker was much played in camp both
North and South during the intervals
of active warfare.
When Col. Len. 4. Harris, OF Cincin-
natl, was left by Buell. in charge OF
Fort McCook to cover the Union re-
treat. he and his officers beguiled the
time by a game OF draw. One day JUS
as the deal for a fat Jackpot nad Deeh
finished. a Confederate shell came
crashing into the room.
Out went the lights. Every one
dashed for the door.
An aid who tells the story captured
the stakes and hastily thrust them mo
his pocket. OUTSIDE all was CONFUSION.
But Col. Harris got the handful oil men
safely out.
After a hard ten days march during
which no one took OFF his clothes, haI-
ris ioined Buelrs army. The mrs.
tbirg | did" said the aid. was to nun.
for a bath. and | and Capt -- i0unu
enc. As he unbuttoled bis coat iot lN5
first time in ten days he thrust MS manu-
into his insid pocket ana pu'l'' o,''
five cards. At the same moment P''
duced the stakes.
1--WE got an ace full he said SKIN
ming out his hand. Give me III Py"
Il truned it over to him. Bni uon .
believe a jackpot vas ever won "".''
ouch Circumstance before or since
When DR.. Chauncey NJ Dope" "1S
asked for a poker story some lime &go
he had no personal eXPer.en'es' o|,
raked out of his box Of stories d 90