Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-21

| A0n hCNSI CQulQ tell, Ediu the
| Colonel, what kind of man you were
| picking Up when a man enlisted in the
first year of the civil war, All sorts
OF men we're eager to get into the serv-
ice, and most OF them were humble
minded. | remember that in one of
the earlier regiments mustered in Ohio
we found college president, three
lawyers and four doctors among the
| privates, and hundreds of men who
were reticent as to their previous
standing In life. Much the same con-
ditions prevailed, l know, in Indiana,
illinois, Michigan aud Wisconsin. In
that day the best of us did not believe
that any man was too good to carry
musket in defense OF the flag.
Many OF them who enlisted incOg-
nito We're not found out for months
or years. For example. when we were
going through the Carolinas I'm the last
| year of the war Surgeon McCauley, of
the Ninety-elghth Ohio, overlook an
Irish sergeant on his way from the
field hospital to the front Artillery
, and skirmish firing In front indicated
that the brigade was having a hard
fight but the sergeant, we'll equipped
| as 10 arms and ammunition, and well
| fortified with 'spiritus frumenu,' OBJ
| tanned at the field sopital, where the
| surgeons were too busy with the
wounded TO protect their supplies,
seemed indifferent,
Surgeon McCauley, taking In the
situation, said Fat what are you
doing back here when the regiment
Is having a fight in 'front.' Pat sa-
| luted and said in reply: Faith. and
| bedad, doctor, 1t Is mCself that Is go
ing TO the same front where the boys
are fighting. | carried Jamey back
there TO the hospital and strapped him
TO dure while they took Off his leg
1t Is sorry day for the poor lad.
These field hospitals are little more
than butcher shops-a dure for an op-
Grating table. Bad luck to the whole
OF them After trudging along quietly
for few moments Pat said, explosive
ly: If were no better sawbones than
the spalpeens back yander | would
a change in the bearing Of the man,
| change IN the tone OF voice. led the
doctor to suspect that Pat was some
lsfhing more than a straggler who had
| drifted back TO the field hospital sim
ply TO get a drop of the crather, and
he piled him with questions 80 skill
| fully that he soon learned that Pat
was graduate Of Dublin Surgical Col.
lege and had practiced surgery A
| few days later. Pat a, the suggestion
of Surgeon McCauley, was detailed to
assist In the field hospital lie proved
to be, when sober, an expert with saw
and knife, and in a few days made
the quickest and neatest amputation
recorded from Perryvlle to Benton
| vile. Later, he made hip joint am
! putation regarded at that time as very
difficult, and placed to his credit one
| OF the noted operations OF the war"
| Il remember said the Major. "sev.
eral men with histories who enlisted
| in the first three months Of the war to
carry muskets. There Were full hun
dred men in my company in the three
| months service, but | didn't know the
anteeedents Of more than twenty Of
them. All we're well-appearing men.
! and n few seemed to me roIlickinp
! dare-deyils looking for trouble or adj
venture. | noticed in the first weeks
I drill in the mud OF camp one man who
was disregardful Of injury to a very
/ fine pair of trousers, which he wore
! every day. These would be crustnd
I with mud half way 10 the knees some
days, and yet the wearer was never
/ DISTURBED
/ Every garment that he wore was
| Of fine material, and he started In
/ every morning clean as TO person and
! apparel. However. he trotted around
| with the snost awk ward Of men. max
| ing no remarks, until some visitors
! identified him one day as the son OF
an old army officer who had run away
from school and enlisted For years |
watched with interest his steady pro
motion I'm the regular army. Another
man puzzled me not little. He was
/ fair-skinned. pink-cheeked. slender
young fellow, very choice in his speech
and gracious In manner one day there
was scrap in the mess and he han
died himself so well that / asked.
Where did you learn TO use your fisfsY
Taken off his guard, he said At Elton.
sir and in q few weeks | learned
that he was a young Englishman who,
travelling in this country. had bolted
his tutor and enlisted. He served
year and was sent home by the Brit
ish Minister
In one OF the early drills / noticed
man who seemed to regard the drill
officer with smiling wonder. but who
was stupidity or pcrversely awk ward In
executing commands One day or
dered him 10 the front and said. good