The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-12-27
HOW THEY FOUGHT THEM


battle Of San Juan aud began to
breathe heavily through his nose
Great grief, mother he cxclaim-
cd, looking across the table at his
wife =" Here's something that d
make old Gen. Sherman turn over in
his grave. They W poin to celebrate
the anniversary Of the battle Of San
.Jcwan' Thundcration The battle Of
San .Jcwan Battle 'io,h. all fla h
hoods Battle say. if the ol! boys
that uz Will, the army O Tennessee
ever started to celebrate The annivcr-
>aly Of ,Ncry burned little roprnn
>kirni>h ike that battle . ~an.Jcwan
We Wouldn't DO nothin' ln, celebrate,
lay inaal ay our from one year
end toanethcr We'd !iayr to get ~
in the n..'it AID annyscr,cra,c. HA.
ilc' ii.lti r.iAinl v y round Nr.
bur illrr wr u,d 10 rol on, te
nornin an iillt three or rnu, y ia! .u
hatlc iu,, tn wlct out ai Ic-.
We didi,' Cali en- battc. ii.rsl.
We knee the iiiicronc i-l@ten Il
battle an. strawberry ic.iiyal. /
went "nt rabbit shootin -eycra times
last wi'':cr- you may ser r,llrrt Well
didn't never com La4k and -ay III
been in a battle, i il IT,
con, well father, yon must MAKE
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These boy, len remember The other
war.
81 @uc,s they don ! Just good
an guess they don't Ii ,hcy did
they wouldn't br Spnnii'. much
about bcin heroes an all that
There i blamed sight . diirr nee
between chaSin some runt or Il ,lago
with a white feather in each and clas-
in Il six foot Johnny Rob that ir-t
raises up on hi hind lcrs a;d comoS
at you like Il runaway horse, Lrca,lin
mokc ont Of his nose and ears.
Cory. an ycllin like IN Iiiun. It's
easy enough TO chase anything hat
runs the other way, but this hero
job 5 got it's drawbacks when he
other fellow gets it into his head la,
he wants to do the chasin an swoun-
out Q the woods like an loway cyclone,
by gosh, pumrin' lead into You ill
you get too heavy to run. Battle.
When we had en- stacked up until
VIC couldn l. see over en- m every
regiment uz whitfield down to Il com
pnny an our flags uz blown into car
pet rags an the blood got 50 deep it
wet the ammunition in the wagons We
used to begin to suspect we'd had Il
battle. Somcthin little less argy-
mcntativc than that we called IL skir-
mish. Anything the size o the San
.)cwan baskct-mectin' VIC lidn't keep
no tally of at all. That kind o come
under the head o target practice
II wouldn't be too hard on en- faith
or. They say these boys fought real
we'll down there in Cuba!'
'Wcll to see en- struttin around
down.hcrc in their cowboy hats and
gassin in front Of cvcry store you'd
think, by cracky that every one O.
them had chawcd UP thousand O
them Spanish generals, whiskcrs and
all. You take some old codgcr that
crawled through them swamps for four
years, dodgin' minnie balls and moth
in to keep him alive but hardtack an
hot slough water an he ain t in it no
more with one o these cusscd little
whippcrsnappers, by ginger, that
we'll, you ought to hear old Cap Nes-
bit the other night, after post meet
in. He made few remarks about
these kid soldiers that wouldn't pass
mastucr in a crowd O. women, but they
wuz satisfyin to me.
II don't see why Cap Ncsbit wants
to pick onto those boys. I think
they deserve lot O credit for enlist
in an goin' down there in that hot
country to fight.
"Englistin's all right an fghtin's
all right, if you do it. don't beg
grudgc no man the cridit O going out
an fightin' for his country. These
boys done we'll as far as they went,
but don't want no kid to tell me
what war is until he's been through
.'e. These young fcllcrs got a sniff
o blood and now they think they've
been through the slaughter house.
There old Dan Bailey that got shot
30 often he din't mind it at all toward
the last; laid in Andcrsonvillc till he
was rack ofsbones; comes home here
lookin like corpse and aint seen
we'll day since and he ain't 10 hin n