Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-02-21
His Prisoner Arrested Him.

His Prisoner Arrested Him.
Have you ever seen some dwarfishs
and insignificant little fellow who had.
the bravery to fight circular saw in
motion, provided there were two great
big, strapping fellows holding him. whG
| were fools enough to believe he would
attempt such desperate thing? Well
you have an idea, then, of the kind OF
soldier one man would have made But
he wasn't soldier further than stand.
Ing guard at Andersonville, scouting
around for deserters and escaped Union
soldier made one.
He was one of those brave men
whose affected black" would not per.
NIT his going into the regular service
| yet as his patriotism was so strong and
! he could see no need of board of .
physicians examining into his disabili-
ties, a compromise was made by giving
him an easy place.
There were larger men on guard al
Andersonville than he, yet no one gave
such giant orders to the men while get
| ting out slabs or digging trenches liz
which to bury the dead. In fact. the
great navy pistol he always carried
buckled around him, and the musket4
under the weight of which he staggered,
were the real incentives to his bravery.
He never seemed to appreciate any
favor; the only thing that ever seemed
to please him were words of praises
TO illustrate his ingratitude, it was rec
lated that that on one occasion he over
calculated his ability to leap deep
ditch, and in making the attempt was
precipitated to the bottom, and though
a good swimmer would, due to the
weight of that great pistol, have been!
drowned, had he not been rescued by
one of the men he was guarding. He
ever afterward held that prisoner iE4
contempt.
His greatest ambition was to do some
thing that would distinguish him.
which was realized by all his compan-
ions. His greatest craze was arrestingr.
unnecessarily. privileged prisoners.
Some boys reported that "blue coat'T
had been seen in skirt of woods, wheE
our man Immediately set out to make
the arrest. He felt of no less import
ance when he found that all his as,
sumption at bravery had been made in
capturing a real coat.
But this incident only made him am
bilious and alert to find some victim to-
pounce upon.
A few days later just beyond the
line, he came across "blue jacket
asleep.
Wake up, you -, and
march,
The Union man raised himself TO a
sitting position, rubbed his eyes and
began to yawn.
'.Trot, or will have to waste some
ammunition in killing dog"
The man began to move along
II will have you hand-cuffed YOU
big bully, you,' and he gave the man
a kick
''Have notion to waste load on
you any way, you cowardly hound,
and he administered another kick.
Endurance had been taxed to it's ut
most, the prisoner could stand no more;
he wheeled, snatched the gun, and soon
had the drop on our man.
Now. / guess you will have to
march," came the command.
Our man hesitated, but he soon de-
cided that discretion was the better
policy and was marched to headquaE--
ters, where the trusted Union prisoner
was allowed to go about his.husiness.
The Hoop-Poie Chargers.
Shortly after the battle of Chickamau
ga, our command of mounted infantry
was sent to Harrison Landing for
picket and patrol duty, where, after
eating all that the Government had
and the citizens also, we We're relievedF
by infantry, and sent, to Bridgeport,
Ala, to recruit up our forces. There we
got four months pay, a new suit OF
clothes, and two or three rations, ana
then we felt fat and saucy.
While we were at Bridgeport, suit
Ter camped there one. night with load
of supplies, and we got it into our heads
we would like to sample them. 1t had
to be done without creating any racket.
SO we armed ourselves with a good
twelve-foot hoop-pole apiece, marched
quietly up to the fire. and commences
paying them down. There were three
or four soldiers that belonged to our
regiment sitting by the fire talking with
the sutler, and to remove them, though
it was against our wishes, we had to-
pay them off with hoop-poles, too. The
sutler got up and cooked his revolver
whereupon some fellow hit him crack
on the wrist and he dropped it and took
to the brush, together with the others
that were sitting there. Quick as AZ
flash each one of us seized box and
took to the brush, too. There we d.
vided up. cached our plumber and re-
turned to camp. The sutler left next
morning for parts unknown, and we
nothing was known of the
affair outside OF our regiment, till some
time afterward, at Ringgold, Ga, when
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