The Indianapolis journal., 1899-10-15
WHEN JOHNNY MARCHED HOME.
No Bells Rang Welcome to Worn
Out "COnfeds."
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
- At a dinner party uptown the other night
several former Union soldiers and one ex-
Confederate sat down. The latter had rid
den with J. E B. Stuart. He is now rid
ing about for Northern concern: The
talk turned on the homecoming OF military
heroes. and the Southern man said:
II was asked the other day In Pfttsburg
as We watched the. welcome of the people
10 the Tenth Pennsylvania. back from the
philippines, what sort of reception We
Johnny Rebs got when we went home after
often required TO march in bodies when they
go home. The Confederates did not. as a
whole. They went back in twos. or threes.
some day that the civil war was unlike any
other of history. When the Confeder-
ates realized they were whipped they were
ment for the cause. But you must consider
the temperament OF a Southern man to un-
derstald what defeat meant to him.
"You people in the North would have re-
covered IL the North had been whipped.
You would have been at Richmond. IL we
and schemes. You would have got the con-
tract foi the Confederate States public
works. You would have built railroads.
from our Golfers. You would have become
partners I'm our commerce. All this would
have been characteristic of you.
with the Southern man IL Is different
he was whipped but he was sullen. He
mcped and would not play. You people
had the advantage in the play. OF course
but you might have given the sulker a show
for his white alley II he had shown a dispo-
sition 10 let you inside his yard But he
barred the gate and scowled at you through
knothole. And this trait clung 10 him
for years. and he awoke one morning 20
on his plantation, working his soil. while he
was starving. Then he quit looking back
and went TO work. And now when you
have trade with Southern man Won do
not take advantage of him as you did.
But just after the surrender he was in no
mood to be received The town from which
"a had cd VQ In
out I'm welcome and hurrah. even IL a reei-
mcnt had returned. or any body OF men
Gentlemen. believe me. there was not n
healthy hurrah IN the whole South after
Lees surrender. IL was nothing TO b-ae
about for some time before that Some of
the handwriting six months before
tox.
Your soldiers returned home IN compa-
nies, oattalions and regiments- They were
received by the populace as we are now
receiving our returning soldiery from the
Philippines, and We recently received
them from Cuba. But the Confederate
sneaked back, not because he was ashamed
OF what he had done. for 10 this day we are
mighty sensitive on that point, but because
We had been whipped II takes brave man
us. We acknowledged II all right to you
and at home. but We did not want any
70 mood 10 ring the bells or fire the guns
when we went home. man going into his
old home In the night. climbing the back
ing peace with the dog, knocking al the
kitchen door. l. not inspiring spectacle
That's the way most OF US went back.
Very often there were no bells 10 ring
You Yankees shot them out OF the church
steeples, people had 10 melt them for
ammunition. We were mighty short toward
the last; There were few house guns in the
Occasionally a Confederate returned 10
md bis town 20 battered that he did not
know IL. He met strange faces in tho