Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-18
BATTLE OF CHlCkAMAUGA.
The Farmer and His Wife Remembered
All Its Important Details.

| The Farmer and His Wife Remembered
All Its Important Details.
I stopped at the farmhouse on the
battlefield Of Chiokamauga and asked
the old farmer sitting on the doorstep it
| he lived there when the battle was
fought and could give me any articu-
lars about it,
"Yes, sah-lived right yere," he re-
| piled as he stood up, "and | shall never
! forgit that fout When got up in the
mawnin and went out to milk, I seen
about a million Yankee soldiers
| around.
"Thar was fo' million of 'em, Sam
I uel, +" corrected his wife as she came
around the corner of the house.
Eyes, TO- million, sab, and they had
guns and swords and was powerful mad
about somethin. Twas lookin around fur
the COW when monstrously powerful
| gineral rode up to me and axed if they
might hev fout Oh my land. I told
him I'd see the ole woman and let him
know"
"And I said I reckon they mought if
they'd be keerful of the garden sass and
not let the pigs out, )" added the woman.
eyes, that's what you said" contin-
ued the husband, and when went out
to feed the hawgs told the gineral so.
! He seemed powerfully pleased about it
| and said he wouldn't forgit my kind
ness. I was feedin the calf when an
other monstrously powerful gineral rode
up and wanted to know if he could git
some breakfast. told him I'd see the
old woman and let him know"
"And said he could if he paid fur
it," put in the wife.
Eyes, that's exactly what you said,
Hammer, and l went out and told him
SO. He smiled and bowed and made his
boss prance around, and bimeby he cum
in. He ate six Eaters, three slices OF
fried pork and monstrous sight OF
bread and butter axed him if he was
mad at the Confeds, and he said he was.
l axed him why, and he said he'd dun
forgot, but was mad all over jest the
same and was bound to give 'em down
the kentry. I told him it was agin the
Bible to fight.
$50 did l., added the wife.
Eyes, remember you told him SO,
and he didn't deny it. He was jest goin
to pay fur his breakfast when another
monstrously powerful gineral rode w
and axes fur me and wants to know il
he kin hev fout Oh my land. He was
a Confed, and he was Dustin mad.
told him I'd see the ole woman abou,
it and let him know"
"And l says he kin fout if he didn't
tip over the rain bar'l Or break dowr
the plum trees. -
"Thats what you said, Hammer, and
I'll swear to it, and the Yankee was Sc
upset that he went away and didn't pay
fur his breakfast. Then the Confed sale
he was hungry, and he ate five taters, TO
slices of fried pork and heaps and heaps
of bread and butter. Iaxed him what be
was mad at, and he said them DRAFTED
Yanks had stole his feather bed l tolt
him it was ag in the Bible to fout, bu
he didn't keer shucks. He was eatil
away when man steps in and says the
fout was ready to be fifteen, and the
monstrously powerful gineral hurrie'
out and don't pay fur his breakfast.
"But l told yo' to go arter him,
said the wife.
eyes, Hammer, you did and I wen
along, but jest then the fout begun
Sakes alive, but I never want to see an
other SIGH timep'
"What did you see?" l asked.
"Why, the awfullest, powerfulles
sights in the world, sab. They tore
down the hogpen, upset the hen roost
wrecked the mewl shed and trampe(
all my garden sass into the airth, ant
if l hadn't stood right thar with clul
they'd hev stole all our soft soap ant
hard cider"
"And is that all?''
SIS that all? Why, what ar yo' look
q in fur, stranger? Mebbe yo'd druthe
sumbody else would tell yo' about thi
fout-sumbody who wasn't yere.
eyes, mebbe he'd druther," addet
, the wife as l started for the gate.
,, M. QUAD