The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
SOLDIERS STORIES.
ENTERTAINING "REMINISCENCES
OF THE WAR.
Graphic Account of Stirring Scenes
Witnessed on the Battlefield and in
Camp-Vetcrans of the Rebellion Re-
cite Experiences Of Thrilling Nature.

cite Experiences of Thrilling Nature.
Frank L. Stanton. the popular Geor-
gia poet, always speaks up for General
Sherman when he hears any severe
Criticism of that famous commanders
methods
The story told by Stanton has never
found it's way into print, but it de-
serves a place among the minor incl
dents and "reminiscences of the war
period
when Savannah FELL" said Stanton,
Il was little chap about s years old.
The confusion and tumult in the
streets frightened me- and l was afraid
to go very far from the house.
young as L was, / understood that
something very serious had occurred.
Instead of seeing Confederate soldiers
parading the streets with a few FEEDER
al prisoners, l saw thousands of Fed
erals swarming through the town, and
they had great many Confederates
under guard.
lHC ntu DCCh iCfCi'CN >
that was plain, even to child.
MY father was very i'll, in the last
stages of consumption. and my mother
was worn out with anxiety and the
cares of the household. Our neighbors
were panic-stricken and everybody
seemed to be expecting some awful ca
lamity
"Penned up there as we had been
for a long time. without supplies and
without any money except worthless
Confederate currency, the outlook was
gloomy enough. How was my sick
father to get the things he needed!
That was the problem with my mother.
Somebody told General Sherman
about my father, and mentioned the
fact that he was a kinsman of very
distinguished and powerful officer on
the Union side
"One day when entered my fathers
room 1 found three Federal officers sit
ting there in pleasant conversation
with the invalid and my mother.
Il was scared and started to run,
but one of the strangers, middle-aged
man with a roughly trimmed brown
beard, called me back. He asked my
name, and before knew 1t had me on
his knee, and he said so many nice
things to me that l took quite a fancy
to him.
"He was General Sherman. and he
| had called with two of his staff officers
to see my father. When the visitors
left the general told my mother at the
door that he knew all about the incon.
veniences of a siege. and the difficulty
of purchasing supplies, and insisted
upon sending from the army stores
something that would set sick man
Under the circumstances such ar
offer could not be declined. 1t was q
picnic for the children of the family,
can tell you.
"After that. while the general was
in the city. something was sent to the
house every day. Brandy, wine, LOAF
sugar, lemons. beef, chickens. coffee
vegetables. and don't know what else
came in generous quantities. We had {
plenty for the family and for our near
est neighbors.
one of the best physicians in the hos
pital service. and the last days of my
father were made far more comforta
BILE than we had hoped for under The
adverse conditions of those dark days
General Sherman came to the house
once more before he left Savannah.
cannot remember what he said. but hs
was sympathetic, and he said some
thing about the pleasure it gave him t.
| aid a relative of his distinguished
| friend at Washington.
AT that time l was very fond of 6
snowy uniform. and it vexed my child
ish mind TO see my friend the genera
always dressed so shabbily. His stat
officers presented a better appearance
and some OF them were really gorgeou!
in their spectacular rig.
1.-The other boys and the negroe:
agreed with me that the commander
must be in very hard luck, or he would
certainly dress better. Still, l wa:
then convinced that he was wonder
fully wise man. With my pockets full
of his loaf sugar, which / had surrepti
tiously distracted from the pantry,
would have been ungrateful IL 1 hat
formed any other opinion.
fisherman left the city and marched
onw ard through the Carolinas, and tina
ended the war.
"No, | never saw him again. My
father died, and l lived In differen
places, my work keeping me so busy
that I had no time to think Of the gen
eral or anybody else not connected
with my immediate business. l wisl
now that / had seen him before h,
passed away. AS it is, can only re
call him as he appeared to my boyisl
and wondering eyes, under circum
stances which did not give me an op
portunity to study him. No matter
what may be said of his conduct in war
cannot help liking him. He was /,
Yod friend just when we most needed
one. Chicago Herald.
A Pathetic War Letter.
OF all relics of the Civil War tn,
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