The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-26

No one yet has been able to explain how
 1t ls or Why it is, that of all bonds
 formed between man and man that
 comes nearest the ideal tie, which
 grows out of relations developed by
 armed bodies of men fighting in a
 righteous cause.
 It was said of old ''All roads lead tc
 Rome" It should be said by us, all
 days lead to August 25.
 am told that of thousands of regi-
 nents ln the civil war, north and
 south, but few fail to assemble their remnants annually and revive the mar
 llal memories of camp and field, so it is
 taet that scarcely a day passes in the round of years that does not witness some little assembly of veterans gather ed whether they wore the gray or the blue. Suchreunions are not without their weight Possibly We ourselves do not realize their power, for one thing is ab- solutely certain, that nothing in all our | country so Stirs the blood of the people as the slSht Of the veterans of the civil l war marching in some great procession. To the few the glamor of the present strife seems to eclipse the deeds of a generation ago, but with the great mass ot the thinking people the ex-soldier of 1862 is still solid
 From reports of the past year this command appears to have fully main | tained the honored place given it by it's sister regiments. No complaints have reached the historian that any member l has been unduly kissed by an admiring female public, or been presented with | S2.49 suit of clothes-marked down from 1 $3! There was a great explosion of gas at the capitol in Hartford, but as neth- CT Barnes nor Hough were present it is | not likely it was theirs. None of us has been accused of exposing too much money in public, or appropriating too little in private. We have not pe- tltioned the pension department for free milk and umbrellas as present day war riors seem ready to do. We have stood off green goods men-resisted appeals to become heads of truSts-broken no old habits or contracted any new ones--en- deavored to walk soberly, live upright ly, and where the torn and frayed edges of lives shortened in the service of country have showed, as they will, we have tried to mend them in patience
 
 of the union marching to immortality in the hearts of the American people. It is refreshing to find that some of us are still unconsciously teaching the same great moral lessons to the young which we did the few weeks we were encamped in Washington Ma, is that Moses?' said young miss up on New Haven green this morning as she be- held the patriarchical face and flowing Whiskers of -
 Equally glad are we to hear an ex- cellent record of a comrade of Go. I. who laid down the bayonet and took up the sword in the 109th colored U. S.. and whom any one of his company would go hundred miles to see He presides over the finest market on State street in New Haven. A customer who wanted some gooseberries rung him up the other day. How much are they" said she. Fifty cents a quart, ma'am!" Isn't that rather high?" said the lady. "Oh, no! Oh no!' said the merchant. They are very scarce" Indeed" was the reply How SOP" Well" was the answer, Hast winter was so severe that but few geese survived!"
 Now shift the scene a moment from Connecticut to Virginia It was at Fair fax Seminary. A detail for fatigue duty at Fort Ward took in McManus of Co. H. Paddy had two fingers of Alexan- dria whiskey left over from the preced- ing night and refused to turn out. He was put in the guard house Later he was brought before the commanding of ficer and asked what objections he had to working in the trenches. Me goin' on shovelin duty?" he shouted. My CT, SOFT; niver. I'd lave the guard house first"
 Much speculation has been indulged why in Burnsides attack on Fredericks- burg our regiment crossed the river left in front The most reasonable theory supposes that it was to afford Hen" Blakeslee of Co. B an opportunity to look up a house to go to sleep in be- fore all the places were taken. Henry was a great sleeper in those days, be- sides being a favorite of Colonel Wright. When the regiment halted in Carolina street the lads lay down in the front yards of the houses Cor those did who didn't go inside) Blakeslee had dis l coNertu llldt tie Stetll lldu appropriated | for headquarters a fine looking residence | which struck him as holding something he wanted. So he wrapped an old pa | per carefully, tucked it under his feet | and marched boldly to the door.
 Cant go i'm" said the guard
 "Orders!" said Henry, tapping the | bulky package, and in he went, waltzed | lightly up the stairs, threw two feather | beds from the window, got between | them, and slept like top till morn- | ing.
 We had some excellent farmers in the | regiment. Doolittle knows who they | were. They could drive furrow | as a ramrod, and handle a hoe ! like a rifle at guard mounting. It was imagined by the authorities at New | berne that vegetables might be cultivat- | ed at the sanitary gardens for the bene- | fit of the sick in the hospitals. So | pose. They remained through the sum- mer Full government rations were is sued to them, which they not only ate up, but all they raised. One account says that the only things which ever | reached the hospital were two aged | crook-neck squashes and half a peck of green peppers.
 It will be unfair to our officers, and | to the regiment, to let the impression get abroad that these lead- ara mt 6piDp tl1pjr mart in alsipp- !