The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-20
ON KNEES READY 70 BE SHOT.

Optimistic with a ready laugh and
a hearty handshake, every man, wo-
man and child In his neighborhood
knows and loves George Barry and
can distinguish his horse and cart
among all those that help to make
and keep Milton roads smooth and de-
HghtfuI to the pleasure driver, says
the Boston Globe.
81 was twenty-four when / enlist
ed and went to Washington with the
rest Of the Milton boys" said Mr..
Barry. From there we marched to
Manchester, Pa, to head OFF Early,
but he was away to Gettysburg. We
were all tired out and most of the
boys had lain down, but / belonged
to the mess and gone to a spring
about a mile distant for a bucket of
water. When / returned the regi-
ment was moving to the battlefield,
only a. few stragglers like myself,
being left behind. / snatched VI a
cup of coffee and we took after them.
Marching all night, by noon the next
day we covered the 40 miles between
Manchester and Gettysburg, and there
the first thing we saw was the burying
of the dead. 1t wasn't an inspiring
sight to a tired, hungry a
Bushes? You just bet! There
weren't any macadamized roads or
.Yelyety lawns around Gettysburg
those days. We struggled through
bushes so thick you couldn't see the
man next to you. When we got be-
hind Little Round Top we laid down
for sleep, for we didn't take an active
part in that battle, but were held in
There were a good many hot
fights, but I guess Spottsylvania was
about the hottest. Cedar Creek was
another; the Johnnies got in our rear
and we had to fall abbut three miles,
but General Wright rallied us and
was "eady 10 sound the advance when
Sheridan came on the field. The
men cheered and hurrahed when he
rode down the line and he, instead
of Wright, gave the order to advance.
but we'd have won just the same if
he had been in Japan.
mo, we were not in the battle of
Harpers Ferry, and it was later at
Antietam, being detailed to guard
Harpers Ferry, and it was late in the
afternoon with the fighting all done
when we arrived on the field. The
dead were lying where they had fall
en- and we lay down among them to
snatch a few hours rest excepting
to renew the fight in the morning.
when we were in winter quarters
at Falmouth, Burnside was super
ceeded by Fighting Joe Hooker and
be put the regiments in splendid
shape. There was only a small
between us and the Johnnies
while the best of feeling prevailed
On both sides. Our pickets and theirs
did quite a commercial business. The
rugged up a miniature
boat, which they named The Louise
md when the wind blew from the
south they would send it over loaded
with tobacco: then when it blew from
he north we would return it loaded
with sugar and coffee.
When the weather grew warm our
men went in bathing and, n day a
Ihot was fired from the Johnny side,J
ed him instantly. Hooker sent an
officer v e the river with a flag of
to learn what it meant and Lee
informed him that he had not heard
# the event, but would inquire and
{ the culprit could be found he
would deliver him up to our general
punishment. A few days after
Yards a boat carrying a white flag
anne over the river, bringing the
nan who fired the shot. Hooker i'm
nediately summoned a court--mar-
the nan was tried, found gull
" and sentenced to be shot the next
ay. Accordingly a grave was dug.
coffin placed beside it and the man
7as brought out and ordered to kneel
pom it. Then his sentence was read
0 him, the firing party took position
4 front Of him and his eyes were
andaged. After a few minutes of
Hence the bandage was removed and
o r-as told that as he was not con-
worth the powder to shoot
i'm he would be sent back over the
Iver. What was done with him there
Re never learned, but no more men
ere killed while bathing"