Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-12-21

ed that as the war had ended we vert
no longer in an enemy's country, aac
were to act accordingly. So strict wart
the rules that man was not even per
mitted TO enter a yard to get a dri
of water.
There never was probably better dis
cipline maintained upon any march
than prevailed on that march from Ra
leigh to Richmond and from Richmond
to Washington. We had everything
that soldiers needed in the way of
clothing and supplies, and if we wanted
extras we were compelled to pay for
them. The men who had been in the
habit of roaming the country at will
and taking chickens and turkeys wher-
ever they found them were in dismay.
Joe contided to me that the restraint
was killing him. He would look long
ingly at the chickens running about in
yard, would start to leave the ranks
whenever he heard a hogs grunt, and
was nearly wild when he saw cattle
driving them Off He even considered
it disgraceful to pay the negroes for
butter and chickens, although he had
plenty of money. He went into Wash
ingtOn depressed man, but when he
saw the whole army on parade he raj
lied enough to admit that he might in
hundred years forgive Uncle Billy"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"reminiscences of the War.
1.-THE first pair of shoes 1 had in the
army" said the old soldier, were two
sizes too big for me. 1 Wore sixes
my first army shoes were Fights.
didn't take them from choice-I got
the nearest l could to my size. We
were being fitted out from head to foot
for the first time-that was when we
were mustered Inland the required
numbers Of pairs of shoes, of assorted
sizes, had been delivered to each COM
pany. When l got at them they bad
been culled over so much that there
was nothing left smaller than Fights.
II didn't think it would be possible
for me to wear a shoe two sizes too big
for me, but I tried a pair on. They
were brogans, having flaps, with two
eyelets on each side, lacing over the
instep with leather shoestrings They
tied snugly, so that the heel and often
part Of the shoe, and the sole, did not
shuck on my foot. The forward part
op fol +
doors, but 1 thought they might do. 1
had to have pair of shoes, and l took
them.
Il wore those shoes for months, and
with the greatest of comfort. They
were enormous, or they looked so to
me. AS soon as I began to wear them
the thick leather of the uppers bumped
up into big, round ridges, with val.
leys between, across the top, giving to-
the top of the shoe sort of fiuted on
corrugated effect. These corrugations
remained always just the same as long
as 1 wore the shoes. They were not
what you would call a handsome shoe,
but, as I said, they did not shuck
around on my feet, and they were
mighty comfortable
But it doesn't follow that after that
I always got shoes two sizes too big
for met as a matter Of fact; l didn't;
but 1 always did get shoes plenty large
for me; plenty; and found comfort in
wearing them.
Sometimes we used to draw boots;
cavalry boots. And it was kind O. fun
to get boots. l remember very we'll the
first pair Of boots I drew, l think 1
felt (perhaps in a little maturer sort
of way, though not much so, either)
about as much pleased over that pair
Of boots as did with my first red-tops
when I was boy. To get on a pair of
cavalry boots sort Of maze a man feel
a little bit less like plodding infant
ryman, and a little more like a cavaI-
ryman; it gave him sort of horse
and-sabre touch. But this was only as
he walked down the company street
after drawing the boots from the quar-
termaster; the next day, ON picket, the
boots were about the same to him as
shoes would have been.
"Still there were men who preferred
boots and always drew boots when
they could get them. But for myself 1
like shoes better. A mounted man, of
course, wants boots; but according to
my notion the most comfortable thing
for an infantry soldier to wear is a
good, roomy shoe that can be made
snug enough somewhere so that it
won't shuck around on the foot
New York Press.