Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-04

Of war. and she was glad enough 10
have the subject dropped. 1t had got
50 she must condemn every historian
as a liar or conclude that Mr.. BoWsef
had never been to the front
Yes" continued Mr.. Bowser, as he
got up and walked around the room,
10 like to lead a regiment into battle
again. Lord. but the excitement OF 1t
the eXultation-the glory. When |
think OF it | can. hardly hold myself.
Mir. BoWser was very foolish man
to call up his war record and try a
game of bluff on his wife. He should
have been warned by the queer look
she gave him and the silence she
maintained, but temporary enthusiasm
made him reckless and he continued:
LANDS, but that day at Gettysburg
shall | ever forget it! Fer an hour
We We're under such a hailstorm OF
death that | did not expect a man In
MY regiment to come out alive.
Mrs. Bowser looked at him in a
dubious way, but had nothing to say.
This Diqued the old war horse, and he
turned on her with:
woman, did you ever wonder to
yourself what a battle was like? How
you can sit there like bump on log
when they may be fighting and cheer
ms and dying within ten miles CT us
is a puzzle to me. Why don't you
swallow that cud of gum and ask me
some questionS?"
q will" she quietly replied. 'Were
you in the late war;"
What. What! was I in the late
war;"
What regiment?"
The Eighteenth Chic, of course.
I've told you SO fifty times over. At
the battle of Antietam we lost 100 men
and l was promoted from private to
sergeant
Where is Antietam?"
"Where-where is Antietam," he
stammered, as his face began to red
den. "Antietam is in Virginia. OF
course. Where did you think ii was
in Wisconsin,"
mo, sir I knew it was in Mary
land. What the Federal histories call
Antietam is called Sharpsburg by the
Confederates. 1t is little town en-
the Potomac, in Maryland.'
"You-you set out to post me on
Antletam" he shouted, as he stood off
and glared at her but at the same
time realized that he had been caught.
Certainly. Headley, Losing,
Greedy and all other writer's OF the
war locate Antietam as l have"
Then they are base liars and de-
ceivers and ought to be shot, When
did you begin TO read up on what you
call history?"
I've been at it for some time. y
placidly replied Mrs. Bowser. They
may have been wrong about Antietam
but how does it happen that the Eigh-
teenth Ohio is not mentioned as one
of the Federal regiments participate
ing?'
Not mentioned" shouted Mr.. Bow
ser, as he swallowed at the lump in
his throat-"the Eighteenth Ohio not
mentioned,'
Not in any history Of that battle
and I've looked through about ten.
They might have had a grudge against
your regiment, however, and SO re-
Trained from naming it. You say you
were promoted TO sergeantcy. How
many sergeants in a company, Mr.
BOwser?"
He couldn't have told for his life
whether there We're five or fifteen, and
he drew a long breath and yelled at
her
Woman. do you take me for a fool,
You seem to have set out with the de-
liberate intention of insulting met"
Far from it," she soothingly re-
Piled You wondered why I was not
shouting over the war, and why
didp't ask you questions. You eventu-
ally became Colonel OF the Eighteenth
Ohio, didn't your
"Of course | did.
s'W.here the historians mad at you
personality
u don't know that they were
why?1
Because none of them mentioned
you as Colonel OF that regiment. Both
Losing and lHeadley give the Colonel's
name as
"WhanI What's that" he inter-
rupted1 hey don't mention me-. The
liars deceivers. The base-born
hyp And you viii read the
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