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to break up this practice. One night field officer noticed one of the boys o the End Alabama slip by a sentinel wht was a member of the same company Knowing he would come back by ths same sentinel. he ordered a change ane Kelly. an Irishman, was detailed on ths post. %The officer cautioned Kelly to bt sure and stop the youngster on his re turh. Pretty soon he saw him comine
 through the palmetto swamps and wait ing until he came within ten feet Of him
 he yelled at the top of his voice: Hait
 who comes there?' The rattle of the mus
 ket, the hoarse voice of the Irishman the surprise at finding his companion on
 this post, so frightened the young flu.
 gitive that he lost his balance, fell ane
 cut his leg on the sharp rocks that were
 hidden beneath the undergrowth. sur,
 fering from the pain caused by the cu'
 he cried out Jesus Christ" to which tht Irishman replied as quick as lightning .Turn out the chaplain for recognition don't know yez!" Afterward, being corrected for the man ner in which he challenged the soioler Kelly, in explanation, said: Sure, and there's not man Tn tns rigiment who would know him if ne Wal LO mate AlliAA HI tAN ASosss te%%~@S~ - - chaplain"
 But news which brought giadness tt the hearts of all the boys came in the shape of an order on August sendinl these regiments to Camp Cuba Labre. Jacksonville. Fla. The camps there were much more agreeable. and the boys De gan at once to regain their health, and were in closer touch with the dear ones at home.
 Remaining at this camp until September i6 these companies were ordered. the IS to East Lake. Ala, the End to Montsoni cry. where after a months turiougn thev were mustered out of the service with a vast amount of experience. This short sketch would be incomplet if I did not here give the names of thos who died in the service. l don't know Q any record published carrying the name of those who gave their lives TOT th cause of Cuba's independence and Wn' came from our own loved State or Ala hama. Believing that they should live II 1 history in this merry Christmas uae. commit to the hearts of their surViVIhs friends through this medium the names of 'Alabama's dead who served TOT tn' honor of a reunited people; Dead of First Alabama.
 Hugh Collins, Co. K, killed at Mobile
 Ala, May Srd. 1898. e.. Robert J. Mccullough. private, com
 pany L, died in hospital Mobile, Ma
 27th, 1898, fever. a,., Oien J. Olsen. private, Company l. oie'
 in hosnitais Mobile, June 9. fever. ". Walter Smith, Sergeant Compan' A. died in hospital, Mobile July 10th. i. J. w Hannon. private, company ! died in Gadsden, June g. N. P. Gaines Company l, died Tn nos pital. Mobile, Ala, June 20, fever. Herman Brada. private Company M died Miami, July F. Charles schitx. Company K, died Miam August 23rd, fever. J. M. Stewart, Company F, Miami August 29th. fever. ., I. F. Horten, private, Company Miami, August 2S, fever. Phillip Nicely Finch, Sergeant Compan' c, Jacksonville, Aug. %. fever. Captain George F. Hart, Jacksonville | September 9th.
 w. M. Pride, Jr., private, Company E Florence, Ala, Sept. 2Oth. William Thompson, private, Gompah' l., Opelika, Ala, Sept. H. w. M. Franklin. private, Company Birmingham, Ala, October fst. Fred Sizemore, private, Company Birmingham, October Srd. F. J. Maloney, company A. oh hiii's 1 ham, October 9th. Dead of Second Alabama. | Sam Noble, Company D. Anniston Robert N. Aston, Company G, Miami July 3. fever.
 l.. F.. Simmons, Company A, Miami
 dysentery.
 H. E. McCutcher, Company G, Miami ! August II, fever, W. E. Rollins, Jacksonville. Angus l I7th, fever.
 s. w. Gold. Company I, Larkinsville
 Ala.
 Anthony Sammercir. Company B. Jack
 sonville, Aug. 19. fever. J. F. Black. Company F, Jacksonville August 24. fever. B. E. James. Company B, Jacksonville Aug. 26. fever.
 c. A. McHugh, Company c, Jackson
 ville, Sept. 2.
 c. NJ. Herrin, Company F. Jacksonville
 II. W. Cox. Company c. Jacksonville | Sept. 10, fever.
 J. M. P. Hicks. Company I. Jackson
 vile. Sept. 19.
 Wallace Winborne. Company M. Mont
 gobery. Ala. Sept. g. Robert Tipton, Company H, Sept 9. A. E. Wells, Company E, Oct. 6. Mont gomefy.
 M. T. wbatley. Company c, winn. Ala G. Yawn, Company G, Greenville, Fla Sept. 2.
 W. J. Murphy. Company B, Montgom | cry, Oct 21.
 The above either died in the service o contracted the disease and died on fur | tough.
 Let us not forget our dead and ma | this list serve to remind those who vol
 unteered who we left behind As has been said by another. to thes | the words Death we salute thee" woul
 have been fitting legend to fiutter in funeral folds about our camp-Mat
 .nolia and fir trees guard their bones an
 they live immortal forever. The States white volunteers returne to civilian life after just six months ( army service fraught with suffering an privation but withal evidencing patrio
 ism and loyalty, and the magnificent maj
 hood of Imperial Alabama.
 CHURCH ANNIVERSARY.
 The Central Presbyterian Will Ceie
 brate Its Tenth Year Today. The Central Presbyterian Church vii