The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1899-07-27

post sctimmsse knocss you out like this,
shst you soiu 10 DO uhep hnndrtd
thousand men are shootias 10 killf
l'a soius to be 10 the thick OF ~ re
piled the boy, Is be si ur snd wiped The
tesrs sssy.
Shobi
Bat anil Ny nerves 60. swsr With NE,
DO, II Won't happen sssin. Wher.'s that
rebel pour
Right across ths, old Geld 10 the, clamp
] OF bushes. sid The soldier shose scalp
hsd been rsked. Here, ros, but What ye
soin TO dor
Harden up my nervesi replied fed,
spd. drawing hi, revolver from iis bolster,
be lesped over the log and dashed through
the bushes and straight scfoss The held.
We rose up an a shouted 10 him TO come
back, but be never hsltsd. There we're
four OF fys OF the enemy on that post, and
they opened on the boy ~ soon ~ be
started. Had be sioo1 s,Ii for three
seconds be would have bean target. bnt
be did not stand slill. With head down
and revolver swinging, be vent over that
old field like deer. and the bullets hred
at hin sang oil around rs fou won't
hardly believe what lm going to tell you,
bu, il's a matter OF record. iust the same.
His bol lash at tbs, picket poet made
the rebels believe that he had force be
had bin, and he captured one man aud
drove the Others b alter skelter. The posts
to right and lef began firing. and there
was an slatm for three miles along the
front, 10 the milst OF It, and while We
stood on the log with our mouths sgspe,
Our Correspondent returned with bis
prisoner. His face was flshed, bis eyes
like dismo and rs be reached us be
lsughed nervou.ly and said:
told you ia get over it. and nov l
think | hsvel
Say, now, bat durn my hide! gssped our
chief, as be held ont bis hand, you ere
the Teller I've been csllin Sissy
Yes.
And I've talked sbont nursing bottles
and soothing syrup and trundle beds
dozen times ovefl
Bot that's oil right.
No, cuss me II il ISL Boys, of with
your hats. Nov, then, three cheers.
Now, then. I'm ssyin IS l take back oil
I've said about the Sissy business, and
the foldier VINO looks CROSS eyed at this
boy from this time on has got to lick mel
That was Oar Correspondence baptism,
and thou h he was too modest to furnish
the details to his papers, they did not 60
unpu ublished. The rank and file became
friends Vt once and the officers who had 81
most ignored bis preserce we're glad OF
the chance to give him good wori.
month later be rode into battle with us.
On the previous hight our chiei said TO
him, az we sat about the Damp tir':-
Look here. nov, but don's you get poky
over what's comm Of iomo,rer. I'll be
different from what's bspp ,ned, but you
will be ready for it I've kinder adopted
you, have, and should be sorry II there
was any fake.
| think | can 60 through With 1t oil
right, answered the boy.
Ihope you can. You see. We are eoin
to Jump on to General Lee with over
hundred thousand men. He'll fight back
like hell When the guns and muskets
git to rosrn, you'll think the day OF Judg
ment hes come. Men will yell snd shout
and cheer men will scream aud Shrek
and fall dead. The sirth will tremble and
rise up, and now and then you'll feel the
hot blood Of the man next to you splash
your cheek. jest grit your teeth and
hang on. Git down among the boys with
gun and help em stop charge. and II
they make rush. 60 With 'em. It'll be
hell and repeat, bat II you come out Of
it You will have seen sunthn TO write
about for the neat ten years.
Our Correspondent took bis place In
the battle line next morning, and 1t was
Q O'Clock at night before we saw him
sRsin Then he Was writing account by
the light OF . Damp fire. was riding -
orderly for General Cranes when we
came upon the boy. There we're dead
and wounded by the hundred sbont him.
and sitting there with his hot cfi sld
bis face like chalk. Yed looked more than |
ever like girl
Well. you know what bell isl remarked
The Gensral with NOD.
The boy looked up and smiled.
can't tell you the number OF iriends
Yed had smops men and officers. We
had broken him 10, and we felt thst be be
loraed to rs. The rank cheered him
whenever he passed around camp, snd
score OF officers per day asked after bis
mother aud sister. Sometimes be would
read as the letters be got from them, and
when, time after time. bis employers
praised his work and raised his sslsry. We {
al felt proud Of him. You may have
read OF Chsncellorville? Hooker hinked
Fredericksburg by crossing above. and l
the ides ws to draw Lee out Tor battle
10 the open. mighty Federal army was
nsssed 10 the woods, srd Ilst IS darkness {
came on the 6rst day. and whe the enc Z
uy vas believed TO be miles away. Stone q
wall Jackson came sweeping down on us =
from the rear. Not . minute ws ALLOW Z
ed us for preparation. As We cooked our
suppers from the camp free there vas 50 .
osrn from the pickess. snd the reports !
OF their II ,keis bad hardly rcsched rs ,