The Atlanta constitution., 1900-07-30

cornat rags an. the blood got so deep u
vet the ammunition in the wagons We
used TO begin to suspect wed mao q pattu tt,,c
somethin a cl,IsS ltt,s igsh skirmish. Anything
the size o. the San Jewan basket hcTtn 1,.
we didn't keep no tally OF AT All .argat
kind o. come under the head o 'aise'
practice"
"I wouldn't be too hard on en- iather,
They say these boys fought reai we"
down there In Cuby-
"Well to see 'em struttin' around TOWN.
here In their cowboy hats and gassin in
front of every store you'd think, oy
cracky. that every one o. them had chd"-
er up a thousand o. them Spanish geher
ais whiskers an all. You take some oio
codger that crawled through tii
swamps for four years. dodgin miilhie
balls and nothin' to keep them ai.ve I'VE. he
hardtack an hot slough water, an no
amt In Ii no more with one lheSo
cussed little whipperSnappers. 0y s,hSe,,
that-well. YOU ought to hearo ona aet;n! 1np
He made a few remarks about these kio
soldiers that wouldn't pass muster IN
crowd o. women. but they wuz sausiyih
to me-"
III don't see why Cap Nesbit wants 10
pick onto these boys L think they deserve
a lot o. credit for enlistin an goin down
there in that hot country to fight
right. if you do it / don't begrudge no
man the credit of goin' out an fightin Tor
his country. These boys done well as Tar
as they went but don't want no Kid 10
tell me what war is until he's been
through one. These young fellers got 4
sniff o. blood, and now they think they We
been through the slaughter house There's
ola Dan Bailey that got shot so often he
didn't mind II at all toward the last: laid
in Andersonville till he was a rack or
bones: come home here lookin' like a
corpse and amt seen well day SINCE
and he amt as big a man in this town to-
day as that grandson o his that went
down there to Porty Rico last winter an
laid in a hammock for six months sInokin'
cigarettes. He's what they call a hero
now-had an ice cream reception for him
when he come home. didn't they? l don't
reckullect that anybody had an ice cream
reception for old Dan when he come home.
scarce about that time. Nobody paid any
attention to 'cm. They used TO ship en- IN
here by the carload. an most of EN- went
right on through town an on to the
Wux reaGin' the other day about some reg
iment that wouldn't get on train becuz
they wasn't no sieepers? Great JenoSe-
phat! Ilike to see somebody ask old Colo
mel GriggS for a sleepin' car. I'd like to
hear what he'd say. Sleepin' cars! We
wuz tickled to death to get box cars, cat
need no porter to brush our clOZe, for the
darned good reason that we didn't have no
close to brush. Then there's all that talk
about embammed beef. We'd been
mighty glad to git it-embamned. petri-
fed. moldv or any other way. We thought
we wuz lucky If we could get little hunk
o salt pork to drop in with the beans now
an then. We wuznt out on no moonlight
excursion. by gosh, playin' tag with lot
o tambourine players. We wuz out in
the underbrush, dad ding my buttons,
havin' Il out with the toughest lot o. hu-
man pantherS that ever wore uniforms.
An yit. like as not, II we go to breakin
in on this San Jewan celebration well
git a back seat in the gallery. We amt
heroes. l guess. Wy. on Decoration Day
these kids marched in front, every one OF
'em puffed UP like a toad in a thunder
storm-bigger man than old Grant. the
feller says. Now they're goin' to cele-
brate the anniversary of San Jewan.
There was another likely skirmish about
the same date. Gettysburg, think they
called 1t. Wonder why somebody don't
celebrate that. Hahr'