Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-10-11
THE BOOMING CANNON
RECiTALS OF CAMP AND BAT.
TILE INCIDENTS.
survivors of the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startling Incl
dents of Marches, Camp Life, Forag-

"A good many stories" said the
Colonel, have been told of that truce
at kenesaw, but here is another. NV
point of view was that part of the I'm
ION line nearest the rebel works. After
the assault on the dead angle, June
- 1864. many dead aud wounded were
left on the ground between the line
we established and the rebel fortifica-
lions. Some of the wounded crept back
TO us during that afternoon and others
managed to roll ont of the zone of fire
ana creep back TO us that night. The
more severely wounded. however. re-
NAMED where they fell until death re-
iieved their sufterings. ON the 2Sth
| OF June there We're no living left he
tween the lines. and on the 29th n truce
was arranged for the burial of the
dead
Some of the bodies were carried To
our lines, but most of the dead were
| buried where they fell the rebel de-
| talls and our own working 10 the same
purpose. During the truce there was
| in front of our brigade a mingling of
officers and men from both sides in the
not very wide space between the lines.
| | saw General James u. Morgan of
| our division wearing a soldiers blouse,
without insignia of rank. talking to
| General Il. +. Cheatam, commanding
| the Confederates in our front. Cheat
/ a IY-sFt .3.,G
| gathered at the waist, and. like Nor
gan, was posing as IA private soldier
| Both, however, were recognized and
| identified, and Cheatam during the
truce threw off all pretense of dis
| guise.
Among the men in company G, Eff
| ty-second Ohio, was a young fellow,
| born and raised in jefferson County.
| Ohio, who was one of our men to scale
| the rebel works. In some way he
| learned that a certain Texas regiment
was in our immediate front. and that
his elder brother was surgeon of the
regiment. When the truce was on our
| Ohio boy mingled with the Confedcr-
ates, expecting TO find his brother, but
on inquiry learned the surgeon had
been sent back to Marietta with wound
ed that very morning, and so the broth
ers missed seeing each other on an his
! toric occasion. The Union soldier sent
| verbal and written messages to his
rebel brother. and after that never re-
ferred TO the relationship. Did they
ever meet after the war? don't
| know"
| "Of course they did, said the Ser
| geant. II meet every day or two men
who struggled against one another at
iNStone River or Kenesaw. And by the
way l met an old comrade at an even
ing party the other night whose face
| had not seen for forty years We
were together in hospital at Nashville
| in 1862 and convalesced together I'M
| der what seemed TO us ut the time in
| tolerable restrictions. When we were
| transferred to the convalescent wards
we were always hungry and although
we were high-grade men we could not
resist the temptation to hover about
| the dining-room door half an hour be-
| fore meal time. We were shame
| faced about it, but we were so hungry
all the time that shame did not count.
and we with a score of others formed
every day about the door for a first
rush on the tables and were often driv-
en- back with reproaches by the sur
geon in charge.
| Un n a u Mt or
dining room at a reception if / can
help 1t. But on this evening last week
my wife wanted 20 see the table and
the decorations and / was inveigled
into the crowd waiting outside the door
for seats. / felt as uncomfortable as
| did in the hospital at Nashville, and
was wondering if anybody else was
ashamed Of this waiting like children
for dainties and sweets. when | caught
the expression of disapproval and dis
gust on the face of man just In front
of me in the jam. His hair was gray
or would have said Immediately that
he was my old hospital chum. Then l
remembered tina my own hair was
gray, and l held out my hand to greet
in fact my old friend.
"Fe began at once, Like old times.
isn't it? | never remember Nashville
and how ravenous l was in that con-
valescent hospital. without blushing.
Do you remember the day / stole an
apple on the street, / think of it
whenever Il petty thief is brought be-
fore me in court. Do you remember
Blake. who in frenzy of hunger stole
and devoured two pounds of cheese =?
He is on the bench out in Kansas and
he spends all his spare time in buying
cheese for hungry boys and hoboes.
They have to take cheese or nothing be
cause he remembers how cheese touch
ed the hungry spot in his case
And do you remember he contin-
ued, as we drifted TO the rear, the
chicken pies that old colored woman
sod in the market-house? Lord, how
hungry / was then. l ate three pies
at one sitting and they never feazed
Il.