The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-11-04

before daylight, and spent the day in the
muddy ditches rain still pouring down.
June 5. 1sG4-At dark last night the ar
tillery commenced moving, and at II
o'clock the infantry Except two regiments
from each brigade1 were ordered to fail IN,
and we moved ont to the right. The night
mas dark and dreary, rain still falling, but
we groped our way through woods, fields
and muddy roads till daylight when we
halted in line. and remained during the day
Near Lost Mountain, Ga, June 6, 1SG4-
The enemy are moving on our right toward
Marietta. and we have done considerable
manuyerng.
June Z. 1S64-Clear and bright, the sun
shone ont warm and dried our wet clothes,
which have been thoroughly soaked for
three days and nights. Our corps moved
four miles to the right, getting into several
skirmisbes, but no serious engagement.
June 3, i8Gi-All quiet last night, and
got good nights sleep Moved TO The
right again the right wing of our brigade
now resting on the railroad, three miles
! north Of Marietta. Cannonading and Skin
mishing al intervals all day.
/ Thursday, June 8, 1S64.-We have had
/ busy day, moving from point to point, often
! in double-qujck got into several sharp Skin
/ mishes in which we lost quite number Of
men, and finally formed a general line-of-
/ battle, the line running through citizens
! yard, our compapy's position being halfway
between his house and front gate. The
Yanks moved mp very promptly, and by the
time we had our line fairly established their
/ skirmishers were popping away ut US, ard
the bullets, coming ZIP, zip, made 1t unc0Ga-
( Portable the more so as re were IN the open
yard, with not n tree or stump to get be-
1
rails, logs, ETC. for temporary protection
until we could get picks and spades to
make something better.
OF course, it soon got too warm for the
gentleman of the house, and, taking his
family, he evacuated in haste, leaving
everything behind-among the rest. large
lot of young chickens. Spring chicken has
I not been on our bill Of fare for long time
aud we determined to have one good mess
if it were possible under the difficulties
which surrounded US.
One of our mess happened to have an old
frying-pan, which he carried swung round
his neck, and each OF rs Il small piece Of
bacon; so, dividing our forces six in the
ness we put three TO work on the fortifica-
tons. two TO catching chickens. and one to
cleaning and frying them. The chickens
were scared nearly to death, and hid in
many places, bnt the catchers" were sue
crSsui, and soon had quite a nice lot OF
them.
BY 4 O'Clock the frying was well under
way, but it was slow cooking with only
one small frying-pan for six hungry
mon. We could eat painful and be hun
, cry before the next was ready. Our cook
performed his part very well, except occa.
sionally, when a bullet came too close, he
wonld dodge and spill tile grease.
We continued to work and eat till II
o'clock, when the last chicken was gone
the pan sopped out. and, summing 1t up, WI
found that six OF us had deyouTed 33 chick
4 ens-an almost Incredible tale until it Is ex
t planned that most of them were very young
! ranging from one day to small frying size.
1 To ,. Continued
HEe Was "a Hall Man. past midd
. age, with shoulders stopped and bent Hi
= face bronZed, thin, and care-worn: hi
/ hands large and calloused by hard Toll
His history was life OF hardship. By in
cessant struggling he had managed to raise
= educate and give his children start III life
He stood there, not yet an old man, bu
broken down physically -too much worry
too much hard work. We do not have {
= look TAR to fird him and his counterpart
= Ii is time that he should do something flo
: himself. Nature should be assisted in re
u storing wasted energy and tissue For thi
J. purpose there is no remedy that equals DI
= PETERS BLOOD VITALIZER. The use
y one bottle will demonstrate it. 1t is not
= patent medicine, neither is it to be had
druggists. Sold to the people direct by til
manufactures, DIR. Peter Fahrney, 1l2-I1