The record-union., 1899-10-27

that they would never return-a reaii-
zation Of what war is was coming to
be understood. And SO it went on until
no home was without a sorrowful heart
and there was no woman who did not
wear the weeds of mourning.
The lecturer could scarcely, he said,
recall those days without a shudder
Men who have seen war; he explain
ed, want to see it no more. He into
whose soul the iron has entered, will
shrink from it and cry for peace"
Yankee" was a detested name and
applied to everybody outside of Dixie,
and as they kept a-coming, and kept
a-coming," he began to imagine them
as something with hoofs, horns and a
tail. He stopped long enough TO say
that he had since mixed with Yankees,
and the more he mixed with them the
more he liked them.
Then came the fall of Island No. 1O,
the fortress which the people of the
South had deemed impregnable. He
was at church the day the news came
A man hurried down the aisle and
whispered to the preacher. The latter
announced that Island No. 10 had
fallen. There was no service that
morning. The bulwark of the Missis-
sippi had fallen, and he was rather
glad of it, as it would give the guns OH
the bluffs at Memphis a chance tn blow
the gunboats up as they came around
the bend.
Then came. the boom, the rattle. the
clash Of battle, and as one listened to
the lecturer he could almost hear the
sound of the guns as the speaker heard
them thirty-five years ago It was
thunder in a strange part of the sky,
but his father and his mother knew the
meaning, and the latter promptly went
into Mysteries and stampeded every
thing about the place, negroes and all.
Then came the silence harder to bear
than the rattle of battle, and a night of
horrors followed.
In the morning the speaker and his
father started toward Memphis to
reconnoiter, and upon reaching the
railway station seven miles away,
learned that Memphis was lost; that
the gunboats had rounded the bend and
not been blown out of the water and
that the Yankees were "still a-coming."
Other pepole were there, and all were
panicky. They started to retreat sew
eral times, but were great on a rally.
The Colonel who was invincible in
peace and invisible in war, made a
speech, and then the commander of
marines-a man-was induced to tell
the truth, that Memphis had fallen and
that its loss was a calamity to the
South
The soldiers, who only the day before,
had taken part in the battle, joked and
though they We're, and then along from
Memphis came a train-the last one to
move over that line for months, and
the people went home.
When Island No. 10 fell, the young
men went to the front. When Memphis
fell those left at home went, but those
oblged to remain at home, agreed to
cripple the United States Government
by purchasing nothing from it.
Then supplies began to give OFT,
ana the speaker applied all the changes
to the word. Coffee gave out" and
rye took the place of Rio, but the
brand made from the sweet potato was
the most popular one. Sugar gave
out, and sorghum intervened to fill
the gap. Medicine gave out" ard
iopella and boneset tea reigned He
nad never forgotten those horrible Con-
federate remedies, still the people. who
would not take the oath of allegiance.
hau TO take the medicine. bitter though
it was
Inc efforts to make shoes and the