The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-11-02
SOME TALL SOLDIERS.
Heads That Stuck Up and Were TAX
en- as Marks by the Con.
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Ignorance of the possibilities of
war;" said the Judge, according to the
Chicago Inter Ocean, was the saving
grace with the volunteers. The One
Hundred and Fifth Ohio regiment
was ordered to the front in Kentucky
the very day it was mustered in, and
only two weeks after the men had
left their homes. They had been drill
ed only with pine sticks and started
to the trout without arms and with
out ammunition. remember that when
the regiment was formed for muster
the regular army officer who was 10
swear us in looked along the line,
and. discovering in company H a man
who stood head and shoulders above
every other, shouted Get down, sir:
you red headed man, there, get down
off that stump!
Nov, as this man standing in the
rear rank was Jerry MILESTONE, six
feet seven inches in height, and was
not standing on any stump, there was
laugh in the ranks and explanations
We're made, but ever after that, in
skirmish or in battle, or on the
march, Jerry was greeted with the
shout: Get down off that stump!'
He went through the service and was
in the grand review at Washington
but almost the last words he heard
from his comrades of the One Hun
dred and Fifth were: You red head.
ed man, there, get down off that
stump
THAT reminds me-" said the SER
geant, "of Isaac Macavoy, one Of the
very best soldiers in company G. of
the First Kentucky. He was probably
six feet four in his stockings, and on
one occasion while the men were
working on Notifications in front of
Chattanooga became the subject OF
an exciting controversy. The men
were sitting in the trench, with their
backs to the .earthwork they hal
mad thrown up. eating their MONDAY
lunch. AS they were not exposed,
they could not understand why the
| southern sharpshooters kept pegging
away just at that part of the line.
Finally one of the boys pro
ceeied to investigate. w, heard him
murmur By gum!' and laugh. Just
hen came a sharp command from
the officer in charge. You man in
company C, there, take down your
head. We supposed that this was al
dressed to the man who had been
prospecting and paid no at. ,ntinm to
it. 1t was repeated again in a sharp
err and more peremptory tone. Then
the man who had been Investigating
slipped into the trench to say:
The johnnies are shooting at Macs
topknot.' Macavoy was sitting ON q
level with the other men, but his
head went above the earthwork a
few inches, and the rebels were plug
ging away at it with enthusiasm. Re.
quested again to take io1n his
head. Mac took off his hat, leaving
his head exposed, ana quietly re.
marked that he thought he had
heard spent ball. There were
three bullet holes in the hat.
| On another occasion the men ere
ordered to kneel behind low stone
wall to receive cavalry that was ex.
pected to pass that way. The officer
looking after the disposition of the
regiment was about to pronounce ev
erything all right. when he wheeled
his horse and said: You man in
company C, there, kneel down Mac.
avoy was kneeling down like the
Other boys. but his head showed above
the top Of the wall. Unconscious OF
this. he was looking serenely at the
irate officer, and said calmly: am
kneeling down. The officer replied:
Then take your head down, bias;
you. or it will be shot on And Mac
avoy sullenly crouched down so that
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