West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-12-15
down South N Dixie"
SNAP SHOTS CAUGHT ON The FLY
BY PRESTON BOY In BLUE.
Short Sketches From One OF Our
Army Reporters.
FIRST Division HOSPITAL.

DEAR ARGUS: While writing,
We will pencil you IL short spIstle
from IA way down South III
Dixie"
We left Preston Thursday morn.
ing and after two days and nights
without any rest or sleep except
what We got between coach seats,
aud on waiting room benches we
arrived IN Macon, "forkcd end
down" fright side up with care"
At Grafton we found Buck SCOTT,
First Sergeant &c" Co, and one
Of our own company boys George
Carney, I'D" Co. If there is any.
body that We are glad TO SEQ, it rs
boys IN blue with whom We have
served and made our acquaintance.
Sergeant Scott and Carney were
taking back TO the First. some
fug itives-boys who don't like the
army. At Ularksburg we took on
another I'D" Go. boy and on leav-
ing Cincinnati we had some two
hundred of the boys bound for
Knoxville, Macon and other places.
Shortly after leaving Chatta-
nooga Friday night, while chuck
ing some plain bread and ham,
more as - pastime than to satisfy
our appetite, a well dressed old
fellow in civilian clothes stopped
In the aisle ut our seat and sizing
US up said We must be q hospital
or ambulance man. We answered
as he seated himself by oar side
but the exact word we have never
learned to spell. We learned later
that he was Colonel of the Sixth
Regular Infantry aud on his way
to Atlanta to join Gen. Wheeler.
lie was tanked up to the fourta
guage and after telling all land per-
haps msre)of his experience In Cuba
last summer; how we would sail
there together this time, he con.
cludsd with a laugh saying he was
liable to "a two hundred dollar fine
for talking to a private.
On arriving Saturday morning
3.l5, the first thing we done was
TO take "a nap, End to get q bite to
eat, 3rd u hair cut, shave and
shampoo and elevate our nose to
an angle of 524 degrees that we
might exchange smiles with the
fair aud unfair sex, which are not
IN so large numbers as in some
| places, but fine featu res and fasei-
mating. The fourth move was to
take In the town while at liberty
and before reporting for duty.
The gentle RAIN came down con.
tinuslly and the the prohibitionist
who had been defeated in the 70.
cent political contest said the
heavens we're weeping over the re
sults. La many respects Macon is
a good town. 1t is about the size
of Wheeling and populated with
a very sociable, clever, c~oRgenial
sat Of people. Ponce, T.. r., had
the narrowest streets of any town
We were ever in, but Macon has
the widest. On a prominent cor
ner In the center of the city, in a
large brick building on the front
of which IS marked johnson and
Harris Wholesale Liquors." is the
guard house. Although a great many
regiments keep a STANDING army
of twelve" in the guard house here
in Macon they have a whole reEi-
ment, the 9Th Va. Vol. Infantry
colered. IL seems that the coons
got their black blood boiling to
such a pitch, so determined to ex-
hibit their blooJthirstluess, they
proceeded to take the provost
guard, and said they were going to
burn the town. The were dis
armed and placed in the guard
house TO await General order
/ No"
"YOu slI's done GOT" ETC., are
common expressions among Macon
people aud we have been wondering
whether the white folks talk like
the niggers or the niggers like the
white folks. The principal Drop
with the farmer IS cotton. The
farm house and surroundings ex-
hibit quite a different aspect from
those IN W. Va. On approaching
one for example. We saw no
chickens, hogs, sheep, dogs, but
few out buildings and nothing to
give IT the appearance Of a farm
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