The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-06-13
SARGE PLUNKETT
The Boys Whe Get In thl War First
Have Advantage.
THEY CAN GUY NEW RECRUITS
How Thew Used To Have Fun with
the Old Militia-Joe Browns
Pixies.
For The Constitution.

| For The Constitution.
| az had to go when old Sherman came
said Brown. land | as little expected 1t as
90 of having to 80 at the present.
Had to go?" sad /. in IL manner 10
draw him out for talks on the war are
! now in order and about all that people VIII
| listen to.
Yes had to GO" said he, with some
thing of u snoer in his tone.
Il had to jinc under the last coh"crlp'
act, which took Us from sixteen 10 shty'
| | have never seen what good there was III
| taking such old folks, but they GA ana
was Il most unwilling victim. Ihey mlAeo
| me lIp with the fellows who had been there
! all the way through and to say ihat lheSo
| fellows presumed on their length oil service
! is putting it mild. They were ehtlrcIy 100
| funny to suit me. They seemed to derive
the greatest pleasure in laughing at me at
| times when nothing but the seVereSt Sc
| robustness pcrchcd upon my leNefed PROV
| am satisfied that one fellow they put
| me in a pit with tried to get me killed just
| that he might laugh at my kicks as l eX-
| pircd. Every time | got laid down Soou ne
| found some excuse to make me get up
| and LET them pop at me again. and then
! he would laugh at every fool thing ana
| the nearer they came to killing me the
| louder he would laugh. one time, when
| raised my head little too hlgh Il yahhco
| bail went ZIP through tho crown or my
! hat The fool took it as great fun and
rolled and roared in greatest Glee. l never
yet nave been able to see anything funny
| about war"
Browns right; the old soldiers did treat
raw recruits with too much hilarIty, and
especially did they take delight IN guyins
! the 'meliSh."
come out of that billed shirt"
come out Of that hat-l know you arc
! there for | see your legs.
| Such fooiishnesS as TINS was sure to greet
! the old meliSh whenever he happened about
! them. But these screams did not disturb
| the ones taken in the last call, Tor tho
| most Of them were deaf even to the cam
mons roar much less the voice of man. 1
! knew one company of this old militia that
was a hundred and five strong, and in all
| these 100 men there were only l06 eyes. Just
| one man of their number had two good
! eyes, aud the drill sergeant had to go c'oSe
! M to- each one aud scream: "Fall IN when
! he wanted them to form Il Inc. rail IN
! fall in' ana it took quite II while to get
| them in line, and then If you didn't mind
| they would sit down ana have to have help
! to set up if any speed was required in the
! matter. | laugh a little myself, now, when
! / think Of that old Georgia mcliSh ana OF
| Joe Browns pixies, and yet l know 1t
! should be no laughing matter, for it repre-
| scented the great stress for soldiers ana III
! utrdtcd the desperation OF inc lSdd''H ~
| sustain the confederate cause. Joe Brown
| pixies were good for nothing but to show
how little We knew Of what war really
! was, and SO it is now. The young genera
| ton VIII learn Of things they never dreaiu-
| ed. ana there can be LO harm IN telling OF
| things which may in a degree prepare
| thcu for whatever may come as conse-
| Queuco of war.
| just before old Sherman swung around
/ t. .iDIftS.lgIt seemed 70 know
! that thnre was trouble a-brcWipg. and the
! big roads were filled with refugees getting
| out Of the way. Rrfugr,irg IS a uar1 of
! war and "A very sad part These refugees
| had been rnnyiuer ON I'm front of Sherman
! from AWAY in Tennessee. and tho, most Of
| them was in y bad condition. In fact tf,a
| most Of rnetn u,ar, r., distress and bod ia
! fi,-. nc host tb.,, ,or,1 fr,,, tho ch.rf+v
| cr tho fa,y VIM vet ,,.,,,., rnad M their
homes along the roads, A1v folks nor
| Rrotyn'e folI,s c,uid mover fud If II, their
| b.oris F. tur,, ,v-a,, tj,.y, ,,,,. ,.r,, ,,,,.
| GlFi"e or " pace TO Suck one oil them on