The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-20

dress parade at Winchester and told
them that an old man who lived near
our camp had been robbed of his
honey, and restitution must be made
him. Said he: 81 thought that I had
tho honor to command a regiment COM
posed of the best blood of Georgia and
1 think SO still, but last night some
soldiers from this camp robbed poor
old man of his honey-ten hives OF
virgin honey that he was saving to sell
and with the money to buy soma
clothes for his family. do not wish
to know who did this wrongful and
unsoldierly act. but desire that oil who
are willing to make restitution to him
advance six PAGES to the front. The
whole regiment advanced and the
money taken up along the line amount
ed to SIS. Fifty dollars was paid to
the old man and the rest put in the
hospital fund.
I do not recall any other case OF
pillage or wrong doing. One OF my
messmates killed pig at Orange
Courthouse and 1 never enjoyed roast
pig in all my life as did that 1t vas
q small, plump Berkshire that nosed
around the boxes where we fed our
horses and my messmate declared the
pig tried to bite him and he shot him.
The owner lived on hill nearby and
came around hunting for his pig and
somebody told him that our mess had
smoat for dinner day before yesterday.
We referred him to our cook, old uncle
Bob, who pretended to get fighting
mad and lied out of it. But before
we left, Major Aver, the quartermas-
ter, went up and paid the man for his
pig. He was O union man and used
cusswords on us, but he took the con-
federate money. This was the only
biting pig we came across in Virginia.
Regulars are simply machine SOL
diers. Between the privates and the
officers there is wide gap-no init
macy, no familiarity, for the officers
are gentlemen from West Point and
the privates are Arabs, Hessians, mer-
cenaries from anywhere. They mean
dered all over this part of Georgia
during the war and did not leave
biting pig nor even o razorback
in Barlow county. The other day
I saw q young man in Allan
| ia who had come down from Mari
eta to enlist. He was seventeen years
old and the down on his face had not
turned to beard. An elderly man who
knew his folks was trying to persuade
him to 90 back and comfort his mother,
who was in great distress, and the
boy was troubled on her account, but
said he was going into the army tc
help her more than for anything else,
for, said he, "Gentlomen, amt get
tim but $10a month and have to buy
nv clothes, and that don't leave hardly
anything for mother. But can ge
S15 in the army and they feed me and
clothe me and can send mother 81
or S12 every month. I don't care I
dogon about the Cubans or the Span
iards, but if they should kill me, why
then mother would get a pension,
reckon" 1 did not stay to learr
whether he went back home or for
ward to the war. But there was M
patriotism in the venture, and that il
the case with most everyone who en-
lists. wonder what will come OF it
P. S.-My last letter closed with I
paragraph that seemed to mean tina
nv own loving family was rokeI
up. The typo omitted a part that pre-
coded. 1t was political family
ring that was meant. No, my owl
family is not broken up and will no
be as long as I live. BILL ARP In AT
lanta Constitution.