The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-11-23
She Was Not Up to War
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"AmazonsT'' saith the veteran.
whats ti.aty
women soldiers
Women soldiers be hanged! There
never wee women soldiers and never
will be; not that women lack bravery
sometimes they are brave as lions
but you can never rely on woman
not being put to route--to speak fg-
uratively-by her syrnpathies. That
isn't war. war, as General Sherman
said, is hell
Il was one Of Shermans bummers
myself, and you can bet your bottom
dollar the people Of Georgia were Not
against us, and it's like Haunting D
red rig before mad bull to mention
one of us to Georgian to this day. I
was out with d foraging party one day
and got separated from the others I
went into a potato patch and was dig
ging up the potatoes and putting them
into sack when heard woman's
voice say;
Hands upp
Looking up, saw a strapping girl
about twenty years old pointing a
shotgun at me. If the muzzle Of the
gun looked cold, the girls eyes looked
hot. They fairly blazed. / dropped
the potatoes and held up both hands
mighty quick. for feared she would
shoot me anyway. A man came out
Of the house and disarmed me: then,
covered BY two guns instead OF one, !
was marched to barn and told to
climb to the loft. ! obeyed and, look
ing ont OF window, saw the two
standing guard over me. My blood
ram cold at hearing the girl urge the
man TO hang me In the barn. He
argued that II my body should be
found there by the Yankees II would
20 hard with them, and he was In
clined to wait till the army had passed.
when evening came the girl brought
me my supper. took advantage Of
bher coming to talk soft to her / told
her had been married just before the
war opened and had the loveliest little
boy in the world, just two and halt
years old. This was all made up.
was only nineteen and hadn't sign
Of beard, and as for q wife. I'd never
even been in lore, But the girl swal
lowed the story, and when told her
some OF my boys smart sayings she
! said she loved boys Of that age and
wished she could sec mine Then told
1 her | knew they were going 70 hang
me and asked her IL she would let me
have something with which to write q
farewell letter 10 my young wife and
darling boy. Ny voice trembled. and
the girl put her handkerchief to hel
eyes.
THAT night they placed lanterns
around the barn, and saw four mer
on guard The next morning heard
one Of the men say that the Yankees
would all be out OF the way by sun
down and they were going TO hang me
to one Of the beams OF the barn. The
girl brought me ing breakfast. and
talked to her some more about my wife
and boy and got her crying In no time.
at noon all the men except one
went into the house 70 dinner The CIR
brought me something to eat and
saw at once from her face that some
thing was In the wind. She was whit.
as a sheet
They're going to hang you this aft
ernoon, she said
@sGreat heayensl Can't you stoI
'emg
"No.'
"She WINS looking round evidently TO
some means Of getting me of OUT OF th'
way, but there was nothing III the lof
except hay. Then she went below. ane
heard her rummaging around. Pret
\ vi soon she climbed the ladder ans
heckoned me to come down. Ifoilov
"a her mud she showed me som
sheayes OF grain. Unloosening one 0
them. she told me to lie on the foo
and, packing me inside, made shea
OF me, tying wisp around my waist
Then she picked me up and put me Of
her shoulder.
i didn't weigh much more than
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