Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Didn't Know the Company.


Peace-keeper of the seas.
Didn't Know the Company.
Some men, said the captain, re
member the incidents of the battle and
forget the anecdotes of their associ-
ates. Others remember the anecdotes
and forget the battle incidents, but
Judge J. s. Anderson of the Fifth Wis
consin remembers incidents and anec-
dotes. Some of his stories, at our
regimental reunions, are worth re-
peating- Speaking. of Gen. Hancock.
reminded him of Hugh O'Neil, of ready
wit. Hugh was coming into camp with
haversack and arms full of sweet po-
tatoes and garden vegetables, and, In
sneaking past Hancock's headquarters,
was confronted by Hancock himself
1.-The general asked Hugh where he
got the vegetables, and pressed the
question in such a way that Hugh be-
came ratified, and in answer to the per-
emptory Where did you get them, sir!'
stammered: I drawed them There
upon Hancock numbered: Don't an
swer me that way, sir. There has not
been vegetable ration issued to this
command for a month. How did you
draw them?' Hugh was himself again,
and answered, meekly: why. by their
tops, General He was permitted to
go his way.
This story was probably common
property in the army of the Potomac,
but 1 had forgotten it and Anderson
had remembered it. Here is another,
pertaining to an adventure of Ander-
son himself. After the battle of Gettys-
burg, in pursuit of Lee, troops were
sent over South Maintain. A storm
came on and it was very dangerous
marching in the darkest kind of dark
ness and among precipices and gullies.
Late at night the column was halted
simply because it could not go for
ward, and the tired men dropped down
along the roadside and under the trees,
too tired, most of them, to take cog
n1zance of the heavy rain that was
falling.
Anderson noticed little distance
in front a good-sized fire with log
before it on which were seated two or
three figures with rubber ponchos over
their heads and with their feet to the
hre. He went toward the fire and the
men on the log sat like statues, the
rain beating on the rubber blankets.
Not one of them made a movement to
indicate that he was alive. Anderson
asked If he might make coffee at the
fire, and one of the men, without turn
ing his head, said yes
''Soon after an artilleryman came
up to make coffee and he proceeded to
make it without asking permission. He
was in state OF mind over the diff
Guilty his company had met with in
bringing forwar1 the guns, and he
swore at all Inc officers from Gen.
Meade down, for bringing men into
such place, and pronounced them all
thick-headed b1underers. In the midst
of the TRADE, one of the men on the
log threw back his poncho, and Gen.
Russell in command of the division
tie him up by the thumbs until he
cools off,
THE artilleryman was thunder
struck. Anderson looked for the i'm
mediate arrest of the swearer. Just
then the poncho of the other silent fig
ure was thrown back, and Gen. Sedg-
wick, commanding the corps, said, oh,
pooh, Russell, let the man alone. L
don't know but what he is more than
half right, anyway The artilleryman
made his coffee, but he was very quiet
ABOUT it, and when he returned to his
battery he explained that he had had
a very interesting conference with the
General commanding the corps, and
the General commanding the division.
and that the corps commander agreed
WIN him as to the movement over the
ountains."-Chlcago Inter Ocean.