The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-11-27

course, they were not all built that way,
but the high-born and aristocratic would
often 60 out of their way to get a chance
to call some officer of the Fourth Divi-
sion "nigger officer" with supreme con-
tempt and lordly satisfaction. I doubt if
A. P. Hill himself had any idea how COM
pletely his little joke worked as a bumil-
iator among that class of Union officers,
who knew for certainty that God AL
mighty had taken extra pains to create
them out of a superior clay.
FIRE EATER.
After Hill had marched and counter
marched us to his hearts content, until
the dear people became weary of the
show, we were placed upon a little island
or tow-head in the Appomattox River,
separated from the mainland by a narrow
channel, not to exceed a few feet in
width. During the day many of the
young bloods of Petersburg, who thus far
had escaped military service, visited us,
that is, they stood upon the mainland, the
guards would not allow them to cross the
channel, and were very ready to enter
into conversation and argument with TIE
prisoners on the status of the war, the con-
stitutional rights of the South, and.
especially the question of putting negro
soldiers into the field against them. One
heightened and naughty Southerner, of
swarthy complexion, in particular, was
loud-mouthed and very emphatic in his
uenuncialon OIL system Oh armng tneir
slaves against them, ana nnally, When
4 nus taIk ha1 peco a.N wearisone' one Oh our
poys remarked: ", you heeo not put on
sucn mighty airs. What' PETER imam the
negro are you, ahy"ay! II there is any
thing in color you are only half-breed
Yourself" NV. didn't that proud and
naughty SouIhern Dound win an oath
mat ne w0uid snoot Ihat 1anKee -, ne
graDoed tne sentineis gun ana tried 70
wrench IL from MIN, Dut the guard Wouid
notsurrenaer IL, ana Jerking II iree from
the grasp OF the exclted cltlzen OF the Con-
Iederacy, the soldier sad: You GIT away
from heah. You've no business heah
quariin with these prisoners. II YOU'D
Deen whar L was yesterday you wouldn't
DO round heah today hghtn' with your
mouth and tryln' to shoot some man who's
got no gun. II you wanter DO any shootn
you 60 out thar on the lines and they'll
give you q gun and you'll nnd plenty OF
white men and niggahs, too, out thar with
guns that.Il give you all the shootin' you
want" So he drove him, and all the
other argumentative fellows away and
during the remainder Of the day and the
following night we occupied our little is
land IN quletness.
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