The National tribune., 1899-05-04
IN HRlY FEWSB0Y.
"a Kids" "reminiscences Of the Fiery Front, With the
Famous OIL Iron Brigade
BY DOC" AUIERY, Milwaukee, Wis.

didn't say thai Capt. Remington had
O have that whisky. fer it wouldn't do to
qucal on any of the boys.
| Well" said tie EoGd-natured Pap Cut
.Cr, as the soldiers called HIM, what are
you going 10 do now"
Going out To sell these papers, sir.
Where's yCur horse"
Gen. Stuart took him away from me
UP at WarrentCn, sir, when l was capt
urcG."
Go ard tell the Orderly to let you take
a horse Until you can get one. iiOw long
viii that e."
Dent know. sir. Perhaps tomorrow y
! rut OF my cap and took my leave, and
as ! passed out, with shrug OF his shoul-
Gers, he said
That's a thorough Green Mountain
! Icy, 20 doubt"
! i went out into the camp where the
! toys were, ard disposed of the bundle OF
papers; found my old friends, Billy Ieh-
man ard Jack Powell, who were detailed
at Brigade Headquarters; told them OF
my experience wi4en being escorted by
! Stu2rt's men on my grand cntree into
| chmond. They were quite amused at
my story, and one OF the boys asked me
/ why | did not pay my respects TO Jefi
| Davis. After my hardships the boys
seemed to have a warmer feeling Tor me.
! They would take my part and fight my
| battles fer me.
| That night went over 10 the Vermont
! regiments, which lay close by, TO hunt up
my troti.crs, fer they had rot heard from
me for a long time, and reckoned some
| thing was wrong. We wrote letter to
| mother, told her of my experience, and
| told her how ! had gone to Richmond
alone TO capture it.
AFFAIR WITH A MULE.
| finally secured n mule, for which
paid 81. 1t was brarded "C.S.A." The
brand would only show when it was
! little cGol. | WAS now ready i0r business,
| | thought. | vert down to the Landing,
ha,i i:ig heard that the boat would De
| down wish papers, secured some ana
| strapped them eli the saddle. linen my
trouble began. Tn mule was as con
tra:y as that Corporal Of Stuart'S whcm l
met On picket. lie would not move.
succeeded in getting about halfway up
the hill Ca tie corduroy road when,
thinking, perhaps, The newspaper BUSINESS
was not quite tie business 10 put a muie
lo, Gc STOPPED, got one leg down through
III corduroy, ard his won't power got the
better OF his will power. 1t was no pleas
ant situation, and but Tor the timely
passing by OF Il bagsage-wagon ! don
know how | should have extncated my
sell from the difficulty.
| cent the papers up TO camp with the
wagon, and led the long cared villain. /
finally got up the hill, ard replaced the
papers On his back, still leading HIM.
went down into the camp crying, Here's
your Sunday Morning Chronicle, PhIla-
delphia Enquirer. Forney's War Press"
and they soon were gone. The next day
q sutler in The Second Division bought
mule ior $50, and / heard him tell one OF
the boys how cheap he got him. i never
tried to freak a mule into the newspaper
business again. |
Along about the first week in Decem- |
hor Of that year, | think, the army moved
toward fredericksburg. When the city |
was pretty well shclied by oUr artillery !
remember going over the pontoon-brldge, |
and there, in "A shed, found a wounded
Confederate soldier, who belonged to the
Washington Artillery, from New Orleans. |
y piece Of siiell had struck him on the
shoulder and wounded him quite severely. |
bathed his head and gave him some
water out of my canteen. He said to me
between his groans:
30 God! why is it that this thing can
not be settled without resorting TO the
dogs way of fighting"
Poor fellow! i remained with him for
about an hour. Finally an ambulance
came along, and he was placed in it. He
gave me his name on a card. When /
gave him my own, he said:
''lf ever get out of this would like to
meet you"
IN WINTER QUARTERS.
The old Iron Brigade spent the Winter |
on the hill at Belle Plain Landing, where |