Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-08
BROTHERLY LOVE
Will Be More Prevalent Between
North and South.
Some Amusing incidents Recited by Veteran
Of the Civil War.

I'm one respect this war will be q
great thing for the United States.
said Hon. Edward Wiggin one day re-
Gently. "It will tend to bring the
North and the South nearer together
and Will obiterate, in a greater degree
the feeling that has existed since the
Civil War, for there has been FEELING
even if 1T has been announced from
the lecture platform and the press that
there was not
OF course it has not been of a
nature that was dangerous, but it was
OF kind that made the leaders of the
Confederate forces and the true fol-
lowers feel a jealousy, even while they
claimed they were fully converted to
the cause of the Stars and Stripes.
Now that they are given chance to
fight under the flag they will learn to
truly love it, and there will no longer
be that feeling that the flag is more
the property of the North, all will
claim the privilege of owning some of
the honor that the flag has gained
for itself
Just to show that the spirit of the
confederacy is still in the hearts Of
some of the old Confederates. ! viii
cite case that came to my knowledge.
1t was in Boston several years ago,
when there was a large grange meet
ing, and delegates were present from
all over the United States. Among the
delegates was The master of the grange
of the state of North Carolina. a man
who was a general in the Confederate
army.
I'VE had one meeting that was n
genuine love feast, and the speakers
were loud III their praises of one an
other. They all referred to the differ
cnces that had existed between the
North AMI the South, as having passed
away.
after the meeting was over I was
talking to the North Carolina gentle
man in the office of the United States
hotel. In the course of our conyersa-
ton ] said to him:
General. you have heard the re-
marks of the speakers, tonight. upon
the subject of the obliteration of all the
differences between the North and the
South. Now be frank. Is it the true
state Of affairs as they have stated?'
The old general a;Shtened up ana
grew serious az once aslhe said stifily,
sub. the Stars and Stripes float over
the capitol at North Carolina the same
as they do in Massachusetts. Further
than that l have nothing to say, BY
Gawd' Then he walked away. W
some of The men standing about
laughed as he went away. and said
they thought l had received my an
swer all right. l told them it was
nothing more than l had expected"
speaking Of the war" continued Mr.
Wisgin, Il hardly think that the rank
and file OF the American and the Span
ish armies are such goods friends as
We're the rank and file of the Northern
and the southern armies. Do you
think the American and the Spanish
piciiets viii swap tobacco? | should
rather think not. Yet that is what the
blue ana the srey boys used to do.
Another instance that will show the
good will of one army personally for
the other in the Civil War, came to
my notice once in a skrmish where
meadow between the lines of the army
The picket line of each army was pro-
tected by a little fringe of bushes.
Whenever man would show himself
on either side. it was a signal for an
exchange of shots. This continued I'M
til pig was seen running along the
meadow. At once two or three of the
Northern boys dashed after the pig.
and at about the same minute there
were as many of the s5outherncrs who
joined in the chase. Not a shot was
fired on either side. until one or the
other of the two parties / don't know
which, captured the pig, and all the
participants in the chase had disap-
pearcd as suddenly as they had ap-