Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-05
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOM INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies Whilcd
Away Life in Cnmp-ForaGinG Ex-
pcricnccs, Tiresornc MarChes-Tiril-
ling Scenes on the Battlefield.

made several attempts to escape from
re! 81 prisons, and that luck was against
, me. Turing the fight at Gettysburg our
regiment was ordered To hu!I 4 point
NJ any cost. but when the corps on our
right gave way. and the Co~urrhrrat"S
struck our flank. every man WAS in
strurtpl to look out for himself. | got
into the town Of Gettysburg. and started
down Il street swept by artillery rs well
as Wy rife fire.
AS ran down the street | came
upon n man standing IN ms own !ard'
H. started 70 90 int" tn" mousse '".
hihh him. Just as II" was Ill III" 't
OF GutnlnS tlr !""r a bullet SiFN X nm
in the ii!'k # =" neck. ana ne '''l
dead. | ran around the ''1N' ana
across tn" alley, ana went Ii''" Il p"I"'
which was soon s~llrround"l Ivy r'h'IS'
and was n prisoner. ;" II h'prrh'u
that was on" Of 1900 h''h prisoners
captured at Gettysburg PRISON ana TAX
en- to Libby PRISON, Mh''A NAS then al
most full. Just hel"r" W" went lhSlN'
the prison | h"ught seven Ioa''s OF
bread from Il boy standing near an"
when we were tAk"A to ia east room
up stairs. which we rlrI$''N'n ''t|S >
burg room because thrr" were 50 many
Gettysburg prisoners 'Il'F", | ''Ill'o'a
up near the r2!t"rS. ANA llanr Il KIM Oh
smell on when | 1H'' my H''''
VI D1''"' ''''.'''t wiz" ny
went 10 S'''I' la t''' '''' N'"-
'"'N'' l 'I''
d 9''7'e '""i VI "'"'; ~
o''ei p'"'o''tS ""N '"N'A '"'
s'o'h'
But | was not the only SUFFERER
There was a German in the room, the
son of a Iuartermaster IN New YORK
ana he lad plenty OF money. one day
he bought seven hogS heads ana some
bright new pans, ana maze WHAT Is
called loSShead cheese, anu put II III
the pans TO cOoI. lie Stfoll'd OH lot Il
few minutes, ana on ms return saw
h!m looking around, ana asked MN
what he was locking for. ph, nothing,
he SAID. l am just looking arouild'
lie finally found tn" pa;lS some distance
away, but empty. I'll" boys didn't raIl
this stealing, and THINK thry were
ordinarily conscientious about taxing
individual PROPERTY nut unu"r the CIR
cuMStalr'S they he4leVeu II TO be
to appropriate anything in the eatabIe
line.
lone day | said to Captain IInrte,
Now, | am going to get out Of here if
l can The captain replied, 1 don't
want you to go off and leave me here.
I want to get out. too l promised that
If l had 4 chance to escape l would not
take advantage of it until | had told
tunnel we heard that another tunnel
had been finished. l was down in the
cookroom when I heard of this COM
pleted tunnel. and l ran back upstairs
10 tell Harte. He said l was foolish
to attempt to get out that way, and de-
cliEed to go. BY the time l got down
again all Of Straight's men and Milroy's
men had heard the news, and the cook
room was packed. or the 100 men who
escaped siXty-nine were recaptured. Ev.
ervbody knows the story by heart, but !
might have been one Of the first had l
not gone upstairs to tell Harte.
las in the case Of Tulley Mckinney.
we were taken from Libby to Danv;l!e.
IRON Danville we went to Salisbury.
thence to Macon, practically to guard
the city from the Union soldiers. Vie
1ehtls placed us SO as thai they coriit
sly tc the attacking force, WI hay, a
ct Of your prisoners scattered through
tho CITY: fire if YOU want to- There
were 300 captains distributed for this
purpose, and was among them. On
the v2y to Macon, however,. I mazda INV
second attempt to escape. The train
going slowly. There was nearly
always something the matter with The
trains then, so 7 said TO Harte. r am
going to iumn off, He advised ma not
to Inf 7 said that if 7 could ,ar yoma
one else to 90 with me T would hmm
81 went through the train. fonnd n
man who was willing TO ioin me- and.
inst as the train was noa rinp Rronc
willie we iumned off. The Guards saw us
and fired. They shot nv nartner
through tho heel and T s~,r-endarod
know that had TO or he shot While
of Macon va wont in&o tho iuur.i h,,s;.
erino them I'M dur,no tho dow ,,a
uorEin, f,rio,,s,r of ni,h+ woo,
oil RI GET them done hy tho nicbt of TIL,
2 and then mako y Fourth ~ 1,,,r col