Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-29


Yes, said Captain Fowler. Il have
seen colored nan under fire. In the
| march to the sea my cGnk was rs faith.
full fellow as ever lived but he had
had little experience with bullets
When we were getting on we'll toward
Savannah, however, We had more trou
bic with the enemy. aud cooks as wei
AK foragerS were warned e. keep Il
| sharp lookout one afternoon our
brigade went into camp about the
house Of well-to-do planter Tn,
General took the house for his head.
quarters aud took the carriage hou~,
for mine.
"Refore We were fairly settled for
the night and While my colorcd boy
Henry was cooking supper. We were at
tackled by the enemy who opened q
furious fire on headquarters and on my
battery. Bullets came so thick that
they seemed to touch every part OF the
grounds about the house In few
minutes we drove the rcbs off. but II
was a lively scrap. As the firing ceased
| looked about for my horse. which
had ordered the colored man In charge
To bring to me. | found the horse tied
to bush In the rear of the house, hut
no c0lored boy. | then went toward
the carriage house my own headquar
tcrs.
| At the ire In front WAS Henry, tho
| cook, cooking pancakes, or tiapjacks
| Apparently he hadn't missed a note, as
he had several very fine pancakes on
| a tin plate and was cooking more But
| he was in a great rage and was talking
! loud TO the men about him. / asked
| Henry what he was grnmbling about.
He replied that he wasn't goln' to cook
any noah under fire. lie wasn't hired
TO be shot at. and II there was any
NOAH such f0olishncSs dar would be
one less cook, DAT was all He wasn't
goin' to be pestcred while he was cook
! in, for no man, no sab
II asked him why he didn't 10 rs
Bob, the hostler, did slip of behind
| the house while the bullets We're flying
said further that nobody asked him
| To cook under fire and that | was sur
| prlscd that he didn't get under cover
as | certainly expected he would. Hen
ry gave me a reproachfui, indignant
look, and. giving his pancake q skIIlfu
turn. said: Goshamightv Go Off and
| leave desc paucakcst M sab. /
wouldn't do dat for no man, sah. Wher
| l. i ! 'ass
| bullets or no bullets But / don't like
to be pestercd sab | don't ike f.
| cook under fire, sah.
''The fact was that Henry had stood
by his pancakes all through the fool.
| ishness ana hadn't thought of getting
| mad untll the fight was over and the
| boys asked him how II felt 10 be under
| fre. As a rule he was good forager
| but IN the march through North Caro-
lima he had bad luck. because things
| had been eaten up one day after a
hard march he reported, when we were
| going into camp, that all he had for
| supper was some long, thin sweet Pc.
| tatoes. He added that that was good
| deal more than the Colonel had be
cause his cook had come In with AZ
empty haversack.
| Just then the Colonel If the Ninth
| Ohio cavalry came over 10 me aud ASA
cl If | had anything 10 eat | pointed
to the sweet potatoes aud said ] would
gladly share them with him. lie was
so hungry~that he began on tho pola.
toes raw. and finished on some cooked
| in Henry's best style. He was very
grateful, and said he would remenbcr
| me in his will and iutimated he would
see me later. But he didn't The bat
| terry and Ninth cavalry. acting as rear
| guard. were ten miles behind the main
part Of the division and we had gone
into camp because We couldn't 20 auF
| farther in the dark
I
That So.