Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-03
THE BOOMING CANNON
REClTALS OF CAMP AND BAT
TIE INCIDENTS.
Survivors of the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startling Incl
dents of Marches, Camp Life, ForaG-
ing Experiences and Battle Scenes.

Major L. III. Drury,' said the Colo
nel, before the war published a paper
at Berlin, Wis, the Green Lake Demo
crat, and thereby hangs a story. Know
Ing Drury we'll, a good many printers
enlisted in the Third Wisconsin or
Badger battery. After Corinth Drury's
battery was ordered to Iuka, Miss.
After the command had gone into camp
some of the printer boys strolled into
town and were attracted by the sign
Printing Office They went in, to find
only the devil, who said he was in
charge, and that the office force had
gone into the Confederate army to get
their rights. Thereupon the devil dis
appeared.
Major Drury was good disciplin-
arian, and from force of habit the boys
proceeded formally to elect an edi-
torial staff and to detach themselves
for duty at the cases. They threw off
their blouses, set to work to get out
an issue Of the Badger Bulletin, and
kept at work until the new paper was
replete with grapevine news from the
front, special kilograms from home,
spicy paragraphs, and comments on the
doings of the battery and the regiments
brigaded with it. Then the soldier
printers detached themselves for special
service as newsboys.
1.-THE brigade was electrified by the
cry, Here's your Badger Bulletin! All
the latest news for 10 cents!' The pa
pers sold like extras on election night,
but the story goes that the circulating
department never accounted for the
money received and that the treasurer
never declared a dividend. Some Of
the printers Of that day pretend to be-
lieve that the treasurer is still looking
for them to distribute the fund pro-
duced by the sale Of the only issue Of
the Iuka Badger Bulletin"
There were many cases." said the
Captain, wherein men were charged
with stealing printing offices, but no
case in which they were charged with
carrying off type and presses. They gen
orally left things as they found them,
which caused Uncle Billy Sherman to
wonder. One day after Missionary
Ridge Captain Dunbar, quartermaster,
heard Sherman say that he would like
to have a sawmill in camp.
'The Captain knew just where he
could find sawmill and the next day
he reported to Sherman that the boys
wanted to present the General with a
sawmill in camp, and in running order.
Sherman was greatly surprised and
said: L have suspected that some Of
the boys would steal anything portable,
but l never supposed they would have
the nerve to tackle a sawmill. This con-
vinces me that the Confederacy isn't
safe
speaking of stealing, there was
Colonel Archer of the Ninth Michigan
Cavalry, who had a very unusual ex-
perience. One day | was at his head
quarters when lady called. She said
her best cow. a great pet in the family,
had been stolen, and she was sorry to
say had been traced to the camp Of
the ColonePs regiment. Archer ex-
planned that that was impossible-his
men were all church members, and, at
all events, there were no COWS in camp
it was against the regulatiOns-she
might read them and see for herself
However, for her satisfaction he
would send the officer Of the day
through camp with her, and if she
found her COW she could take her
home. Archer called the officer of the
day and explained the situation, and
the woman went away satisfied that
the Colonel was an honest man and a
gentleman. In few minutes the Colo
nels cook came in and said: We done
lost our COW, Culnel.' The Colonel was
outraged at such carelessness. and
wanted to know how it happened.
The darby explained that a woman
came around to the stable right from
the COlonel's tent, said the COW was
hers. and said that she had the Colo
nel's orders to take the cow home. I
knOwed she was tellin' the trufe, be-
cause 1 knowed who stole the COW, but
the officer Of the day tole me what you
said. and | let her go. But dat amt
business, Culnel' The Colonel survey
ed the crestfallen darky, and then said
exhaustively: We'll, III be BANKED.
That comes from trying to be polite
in this darned country. Get another
COW, and get her quick.
"Things will happen that way, how
ever. Shortly after the battle of Stone
River my battery was ordered down
the Cumberland toward Fort Donelson.
AS We were going into camp after the
first days march l noticed a hundred
or more men cornering big flock of
sheep. The men were closing in on
the sheep, driving them toward a cor
ner of a plowed field. l knew what
would happen, and intimated to my
men that, as the sheep were sure to
break through the first line, it might
be well to form a reserve line.
1.-THE expected happened. The sheep,
pressed too closely, turned and STAN
neded through the line the men grab