The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-19
ANDY BURT'S THE STUFF
A Good Soldier and a Good Fell
low in Every Respect.
EVERY INCH A FIGHTER
No officer Has a Better Reputation in the
Army Than Our Old Missoula Friend.
He Likes Baseball and He's a
Master of His Profession.

Missoula, July 1S.-The special CORE
spondence Of the Indianapolis Journal
contains an interesting description of
General A. S. Burt, the old colonel of the
18th. In writing of the different types of
the soldiers i'm the army of your Uncle
Sam the correspondent selects Colonel
John Jacob Aston and General Andy
Burt as the extreme types of the officers
that are leading the present war. A
lengthy description is given of the New
York colonel and then the writer takes
up the old commandment of Fort Missoula
as follows:
IF one were to rake the army for a
contrast to the type mentioned above, no
better choice could be made than that OF
Brigadier General Andy Burt, who has
probably as little of the dress parade SOL
der about him as any officer i'm the army.
But the general Is a warrior, tried and
tested I'm grim battle, and known the army
over for his fighting qualities. his brusque
way of doing things, his candor and con-
tempt for the shams in life. whether they
appear i'm civil or military spheres. a true
patriot, a good soldier and a loyal
friend is the best epitaph this soldier
wishes, and those who know him say this
is a very modest estimate of the man. He
has the lighting nose and IL is well de-
fined. His eye is very clear and can speak
volumes in "A glance when IL rests upon
some offender against discipline or proper
army compartment. He has the remarka-
BILE faculty of frightening a subaltern
out of his boots on first presentation. and.
"A half hour later, winning his everlasting
friendship. But General Burt has his
weakness-like all good soldiers-and that
weakness is baseball. He does not de-
spise the lessons of the great game even
as they may be applied to the successful
waging of warfare: and / was not so sure
~ pvnG tho nnGGihilitipC ha "A Va i'm tactics
or his contempt for the Spaniards, which
led him to show me how il easy IL would
be to arm a battalion of league ball pay
ers with the regulation horsehide ammuni-
ton, and have it successfully shell the
best battery "a Spaniard could devise. In
front of the general brigade headquarters
at Jacksonville. Fla. / saw volunteers
playing ball in the hot sun. Any other
brigadier would have chased them away,
but it was too good a sight to General
Burt.
THAT morning he had just come back
to Camp Cuba Libre from Jacksonville,
where he had taken part, with General
F~itZhugh Lee and other army officers, in
the unwilling of "a confederate memorial.
IL was "A most extraordinary occasion,
federal troops practically parading i'm
honor of the lost cause. but II all went
to show how thoroughly the bitterness of
the past has been submerged. and how
strongly united are North and South in
the face of the nations enemy. All the
participants in the ceremonies did their
best to emphasize this beautiful relation
of the two sections of the country. There
were no harsh words said. and the blue
and the gray paid their tributes unspar-
ingly to each other. General Burt, always
a stanch unionist. and a veteran of 81.
has found il just "A little harder To bend
To the new order than some of the other
old union soldiers. and while it went a
trifle against the grain for him to take
OFF his hat in the presence of the stars
and bars. an old relic carried by the Con-
federate Veterans society. yet he did it.
together with the others. II was the first
time i'm his life-but Cancellation was the
thing now. After the speeches the officers
gathered at the Windsor hotel. where old
confederates, citizens of Jacksonville,
shook hands across the bloody chasm
with the union veterans still i'm the federal
army. Presently a long-whiskered fellow
pushed through the crowd. and, slapping
General Burt on the back. wanted TO
know if he was addressing General Fitz-
hugh Lee. General Burt caught his breath.
DO ] look like him2' exclaimed the gen.
eral. Between him and the eX-consul to
Havana there is a difference of several
hundred in avoirdupois. the bulk in Lees
favor. The bewhiskered man was insist
ent, and. in keeping with the spirit of the
day, General Burt engaged I'm CONVERSE
ton with him.
was my old nag. proudly hOast-
ed the stranger, pointing to the emblem OF
the confederacy. And that was mine
said General Burt, Indicating Old Glory.
So they bridged the bloody chasm, as oth-
ers had done before that day. They went
over the war, soldier fashion. commented
on the heroism of this commander and
that commander: Wanted the courage OF
the American soldier against the world,
spoke Of the lessons of the great civil
war. compared the hardships of that tn
happy season with those of the PRESENT
warm fact, grew as chummy as any two
old veterans who fought on the opposite
sides, but were now united, might become.
TIL general contradict his new ac-
quaintance i'm the most generous fashion.
After a half hour or so of this the man
with the whiskers blurted out:
General, do you know. sir. / always
envy you military fellows
What do you mean?' asked the gen.
eral. Then, growing suspicious. he asked:
Weren't you I'm the rebel army
% MOT aNnPTlN' Fanliad his aCnmr1Hp .