The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-02
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Hungry Mems Opportunity.

Hungry Mems Opportunity.
| doubt if l am the right person to
talk of this war, and | o talk mucn.
/ listen to Brown. and from his stories
we can gather something of the stress
of those days. Hear him:
I'm tire year 1864 l arrived in Atlanta
and went hobbling out Peachtree street,
making my a to join the GeorSia
militia. As ! filed to the right, about
where the First Methodist church
yet stands, / anne upon an old soldier
going my way. AS we-walked along
VIA is now Wheat street the soldier
turned to me and asked:
"'Old man, do you live in Atlanta?
Il told him that | did not, nor would
/ be a-near the dinged place but for
the fact that the conscript officers in
sisted hat | should come, n gave me
no rest till they got me off. | o in
formed the soldier that | had had Moth
ing to eat i'm three days, and that | was
nearly starving. Besides, | had had
no sleep except what little | had got
sitting up against a stump, and that
the prospects ahead of me were as
gloomy as gloom could be.
"'You don't know the ropes said the
soldier. you are fresh. You just stick
To me and | will see that you do not
starve to death
This was no sooner said tina he
opened a gate at a house which l have
since known as the 'Carico house. COR
ner Wheat and Ivy streets, and he
strutted up to the front door as If he
a owned the place. a pretty young
lady opened the door, to whom the SOL
dier spoke about as follows:
viii you please give me a drink OF
water? I'm so hungry | don't know
where / am going to sleep tonight
THE lady smiled, but answered mild
ly:
u think you deserve water to drink
and something to eat. which | will glad
" supply, but for sleep you must nnd
some other place
She invited us inside. CAV us chairs
and turned away into another part OF
the house. A negro girl came with a
pitcher Of water directly. and pretty
soon after the young lady returned and
invited us to dinner.
AT the table, when we arrived, was
sitting a colonel of the Virginia army.
and i'm front of the colonel sat a major
of the Tennessee army. They were al
ready arguing on the merits of their
respective generals, Lee n Johnston.
Just as we took our seats the colonel
remarked. with considerable warmth;
""why, sir. Johnston used to com
mand the army of Virginia, II was
retreat. retreat, retreat, all the time ne
was there
He saved his men, though retort-
ed the major. and IL they would have
let him remain he would have captured
McClellan's hole army eventually.
Captured the devil, exclaimed the
colonel. 1t was retreat, retreat. re-
treat. all the time he was there, from
Yorktown Ia Seven Pines, and there
-. -. 81 a,n a nd tho Yankees
were i'm sight of the flag waving IRON
the capitol at Richmond
They would have never go any
| nearer said the Major. Is Gen
| eral Johnston's way of doing. He keeps
| attacking till he gets them where M
wants them. and then he viii do then
up in good shape. just like he Is COINS
to do old Sherman now in a few
you'l see
The colonel laid down his knife anC
fork and would have said something
harsh, think. but before he coult
speak the major began again, and sald
You need have no fears about At
lanta falling into the hands of Sherman
There will never be any harm done Il
this city-you'n see that. old Sher
man will have TO take the back tract
now very soon, and then this Virgins
army will quit some of their Dragging
l hope
These words were not more than on
OF the majors mouth before boom
boom. boom. came the sound of cannol
from an easterly direction, and a shell
came whizzing through the air like
shuck Was tied 20 IL. seeming to say
Where are you? Where are you
Where are your
This shell fell A short distance r
the Carico house, and was the frs
shsu thrown into Atlanta ENerybodl
ran from the dining room but the OLD
soldier and myself. / should have run
but as / started to rise the soldie'
grabbed my coat and jerked me dow
i'm my chair. saying as he did SO:
E" Ding il. old man, don't get scared