Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-15

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Latin teacher captain. AS the captain
was Methodist preacher, he promptly
took them to Brooklyn and put them In
the 4Sth New York, whose colonel was
also a clergyman of that denomination.
So great was the reputation OF this reg
iment for piety, and so jealous was the
colonel to maintain its high ethical tone,
that an advertisement was inserted in
the Christian Advocate, to the effect
that no soldier would be received who
did not bring a certificate Of good moral
character from his pastor or the super
! intendent Of his Sunday school. Not
d, withstanding this great care. the lee
| turer learned later that not chicken
was left in a whole county in which the
| regiment encamped. And worse thar
that, boy, born in house which was
| guarded by soldiers of this regiment
lived to be a democratic postmaster I'M
| der President Cleveland. They received
the name of the "Die-no-Inores," from
their nightly habit of singing that we'll
known hymn, I'm going home to die
no more"
The speaker next described the loca-
ton and structure of Fort Wagner, the
long approach to it on the sand, the
moat, the two walls and the projected
quarters for the garrison. The die
no-mores' were in the fighting brigade
which made the partly successful
charge, and lost 20 per cent of their
number, a record for carnage unsur-
passed in modern history He was
among the 140 who reached the inside of
the fort, and who had to surrender at
midnight owing to the failure of the
reinforcements.
On the next day he was taken to
Charleston, narrowly escaped injury
at the hands Of the mob, and, despite
his theological training, for once he
was glad to get into Jail. After two
days they were given mush-tubsful Of
it-and since then he always takes it in
hotels and never allows any one to
speak disrespectfully of it in his pres
ence.
From Charleston they were taken to
Columbia, and while at a railroad sta
ton he put his head out of a window
and espied a colored lady carrying a hot
chicken pie in a tin pot He inquired
the price Of the pie, and was told that
1t was $40. To his request for permits
sion to sample the same before pur-
chasing, she consented, and at that
juncture the train opportunity moved
away, leaving the lady furious and pro-
fame. The question arises "Did he
steal the pie?" question about which
no old soldier can be in doubt; for first
ly, it is the duty of every soldier to
weaken the enemy, which makes this
simple confiscation; secondly, it was eX-
ercise of strategy; thirdly he was fight
ing to set colored women free; fourthly,
she had probably stolen the chicken;
and lastly, he paid her what she asked,
namely 500 in Confederate money,
equal to nothing.
Southern watermelons were eulogized,
and the reasoning of Pudd' nhead Will
son was approved, that watermelon was
not the forbidden fruit which Eeve ate,
because she repented. The horrors of
Libby prison were vividly described, and
strong plea made not to regard the
soldiers who died in prison as victims,
bat as heroes, for toward the close of
the war, when the rebel prisoners were
three times as numerous as the Union,
it became evident that to release the
rebels was but to prolong the war, and
so the Union prisoners had to suffer,
that the war might speedily end. Again
every Union prisoner could be released
who would join the Confederate army,
but the records show that only about
96 awaited themselves of this privilege,
while 10000 persisted in prison
The lecture was listened to with the
closest attention, and the many bright
hits and eloquent passages brought
forth the hearty applause of the audi
ence.