The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-09

the Union side. but they could not COM
| munlcate with us, and we did not even
know they were there
| To say that we were terrified when
! the rebel army entered town is to speak
mildly. Rough, ragged men appeared
on the streets; they took the chickens
! and pigs from the barns, and then thew
entered the houses and laid their hands
on all the food. Our house was searched
again and again. What one overlooked
the other found They We're very polite.
| They always said:
By your leave, madam but they
took everything, just the same. 1 man
aged to hide sack of flour behind the
| fireboard in a bedroom and a ham in
! the cellar. but the difficulty was TO do
any cooking. l stealthily fried little
| nam during the intervals of firing, but
once when 1 incautiously brought the
whole ham up to the witchen to slice it,
a soldier entered and carried it away.
They even took the half-baked bread
from the oven. l said:
If you must take it, wait until it is
done; 1T is all dough yet
'Ah.' said this courteous. half
/ starved rebel, if L wait until it is done,
some other fellow will get it, and he
might have added: 7 may be dead by
the time the bread is baked
You are not as much afraid of the
rebels as you thought you would be-
",
heart was really filed with compassion
Tor these dirty, hungry young fellows
! VINO TOOK possession of the kitchen and
gorged themselves with half baked
/ bread.
No. 1 said, I am not afraid of you.
put l think | would be afraid of the
louisiana Tigers The kitchen was
! hlled with an uproar of delighted
laughter as they cried out:
You need not fear any longer,
madam We are the Tigers And
then the cannon doomed and the guests
rushed out. with their mouths filled
with not dough. and l. their unwilling
hostess. fastened to hide in the cellar
again.
For three days we lived in the Gel
lar, crouching in the darkness. terri
| fed by the battle which roared above
our heads. Our house was shot through
and through; shells burst against it's
! stone walls. and hand tO-hand conflicts
took place in its garden. Once two
Union soldiers, hard pursued by the
enemy, hid in our house 1 buried their
uniforms in the cellar and gave them
my sons clothes. They pretended TO
be citizens of the town. After the bat
tie one returned to his regiment and
followed the enemy from the state but
the other remained to nurse the wound
ed. OF course. he was a deserter
There were times when there was a.
cessation of firing, then the rebels
would sit on the ground, eating or
sleeping, or, taking off their shirts,
would pick the Vermin from them
The Union soldiers were so much bet
ter clad than the southern that all of
our men who fell within the rebel lines
were at once stripped and their clothes
appropriated by their foes. One of
them was pulling the boots off a Union
officer, whom he thought dead, when
the dead mans eyes opened, and he
said:
I'm not dead yet, stranger, but if
you will give me drink from your
canteen you may have the boots At
ter drinking he died. The southern SOL
der did not take the boots, but took
his sword instead, and after the war
sent it to the officers family.
1T is said that when the war ended
a large part of the southern army was
clad in Union uniforms, and from what
1 saw / believe it.
Our house stood on a corner and
before it lay the stark bodies of seven
men who had been killed on the first
day of the battle. 1 accosted a man,
whom, by his air of authority alone, I
took to be an officer for there was no
distinction of uniform among the
ragged rebels, and begged him to have
them removed. When he heard that
they had already lain two days under
the fierce July sun, he ordered his men
to carry them to barnyard and throw
them on a pile of manure.
The day after the battle it was al
most as dangerous to be abroad, for the
southern army left behind sharpshOot-
ers to cover their retreat, and firing
was frequent.
There was pump before our house,
and my father pumped water for the
troops as they marched by Many of
81. A.
head that one could not see their
mouths as they raised the dripping cup
to their mangled faces, and yet these
men were marching.
After the battle the churches were
turned into hospitals. Great heaps Of
legs and arms which had been cut off
by the surgeons were piled outside OF
the church doors. Every private house
was hospital as well, for without re-
gard to distinction of Union or rebel,
the wounded men were cared for by
the tender-hearted women. 1 have
palmetto button given me by a South
Carolina soldier who had an arm am
putated. He offered to pay me for some
tobacco which 1 procured for him as he
lay on a hospital cot, and when 1 re-
fused it, he said:
''Cut off a button nearest the empty
sleeve
Victor Hugo says: Death has its
own way of embittering victory, and it
causes glory to be followed by pesti-
lence. Typhus is the successor to tri-
umph.' So it was at Gettysburg. In
the streets and fields surrounding the
town We're thousands of dead horses,
which, in the July heat, bred a fever
which has ever since been known as
the Gettysburg fever. 1t attacked the
wounded men, the nurses, the doctors,
and almost every house in town had a
case
1.-THE scenes of those days remain as
indelible pictures in memory which
would not wish to see again, but which
am not sorry to have SEEM
AS Mrs. NJ. concluded her reminis-
cences I said:
What about old John Burns the
hero of school boy oratory?"
Mrs NJ. looked indignant
"Old John Burns was a regular hum
bug He was no more a hero than any
body else 1t was just curiosity that
took him out to see what was going on,
and somebody put a gun in his hand.
You have heard of Jennie Wade, sup
pose: she was called a heroine because
she was the only resident of the town
killed in the battle If she had stayed
in the cellar she would not have been
shot or been a heroine. Her curiosity
led her to stand before a window while
she was kneading bread, and a ball
passed through the house and through
her body" D. L. RHONE.
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