The National tribune., 1906-08-30
Rebel History of tn. War.

Editor National Tribune: I have
been reading some Southern histories
of the war, including jeff Davis's Rise
and Fall of the Southern Confederacy.
Jeff tells some whoppers: but the big
gest Dragging have yet read Is his
tory written by one who calls himself
Heros Won Borcke. of the Sd Prussian
Dragons, and lately Chief of Staff to
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. Vol. I. After
giving an account of how he came to
the South he says: 81 converted my
gold into Confederate money at bro
ker's at the liberal rate of two for one.
and thought it very clever financial
operation" There's where you missed
it, Won Borcke. You should have
waited a year or two longer. for you
could have traded S. gold piece for n
hatful of Confederate money; and even
at that rate 1t would not have been a
very clever financial operation on your
side. Vol. 1. pages 5S and SO:
II felt a stunning blow across my
spine and at the same time my horse
passed close to my horses back and
knocked over both horse and rider"
Vol. 1, page 63. tells of a tremendous
bayonet fight between a Texan and
New York Zouave. They pierced each
| other through and through, and their
dead bodies had been found standing
erect in the very attitude In which each
had received his deathwound. Page
81 he tells of capturing Government
stores. found great pyramids of barrels
of white and brown sugar; of salt fish,
and eggs packed IN salt. These were
blazing on all sides. "One of the burn
Ing barrels of eggs we knocked open
and found its contents roasted" Pages
81 and So: The gray squirrel is
smaller than the red or fox squirrel. /
had some repugnance to eating them
at first, a disagreeable suggestion in
their appearance of rats-but william.
out negro cook, made a pie of them
and l had the satisfaction to find the
pate highly relished by my lord. Pages
80 and 81, telling about a fire. Won
says: after half an hours work we
succeeded in getting the fire under con-
troll. Gen. Stuart gave the ladies a
most absurd and extravagant account
of my exertions, declaring he had seen
me running out of the burning build
ing with a mule under one arm and
two little pigs under the other"
Vol. II, page so: Looking at Stuart
1 saw him pass his hand quickly across
his face. l discovered that one of the
numberless bullets that had been whis-
his beloved mustache as neatly as it
could have been done by the hand of
an experienced barber" Page 115:
THE Yankees gave a most amusing de-
scription of me In their newspapers In
their accounts of the fight 1t was stated
that the rebels in their charge had been
led on by a giant, mounted on a tre-
mendous horse, and brandishing wildly
over his head sword as long and big
as a fence rail, who made q terrible
impression on their troops" Pages
119 and 120: 81 saw one of our SOL
diers throw up his arms and fall heav-
lily to the ground. I fastened to his
side. and finding that the ball had
struck him right in the middle Of the
forehead, I regarded him as dead. A
few hours after he had recovered suf-
ficiently from the shock to return to
his post of duty. The ball, striking
obliquely, had glanced, passing between
the cuticle and skull all around the
head. emerging at last from the very
place 1t had entered" Won says:
Resting my head upon 1t, I fell at
once into a deep sleep, from which 1
was presently awakened by something
crawling over my hand. I quickly
shook off the object, which gave out a
sharp. rattling sound. and which per-