The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-18

fellow. II you want the niggcrs to XIII
you, go out there; but don't let them
be firing In hero, killing or wounding
us all They had pet phrases Of their
80 I'll make my gun smoke IT'S been
wanting to smoke all night,r or III
you don't spects me you shall 'spects
this uniform; or Dress Gawd, dars
no stinction now--buttom rails OH
! top II is the patrol that have been
describing. sixteen foot plank were
set up on end, and an upper walk way
placed at top. for the Guards to walk
on. as remember the negroes did
duty two days In the week.
! We marched to the cook houses to
ger our meals twice a day. At first we
ate them there. but soon fell into the
habit Of bringing them away.
Tho street was raised in the middle.
with small ditch on each side. There
was j guard near the cook house The
white guards walked their beat on the
| outside Of the ditch. but on the occa-
sion relate. at least. the negro walked
on the inside, and when the prisoners
In their hurry going to meals, tostled
him. fred upon them. killing one and
wounding three. lie yelled: Oar, dar,
dar. now. dar." The authorities imme-
| diately removed him, and claimed that
no was punished, but we never believed
II. ceased to serve the Confedcracy
actively on tho field on the 18TH OF
May, Just three years to a day from
the time was sworn into the Missouri!
State Guard at Boonvilie. Mo. / might
say with Risingham:
What guerdon waited on ny case?
I gained but the high and happy lot
In these poor arms TO front the shot"
STRIVES TO UPHOLD
HONOR OF CONFEDERACY
carried a private's musket except
a short time before the battle oil, Elk
horn, and In that battle. stroye to
uphold the honor OF the Confedcracy,
both by example and precept. I main
taincd my own self-respect, and old
Polonius told his son:
ITO thinc own self be true
Thou cannot then be false to any
man."
! give simply my e1per,enc. a.
| better than the majority. for several
reasons. ! had property within the
Yankee lines. and the gentleman with
| whom ] roomcd while n student mt
I the University OF Virginia. as soon as
| he was appr,scd OF the fact that was
prisoner. wrote to me: MY funds are
at your command" and always sent me
| 30 more than I asked for. The prison
authorities allowed the prisoners to
establish a school. gave them very
large room and allowed the teachers
three meals day, whereas other prls-
oners received but two. was n
| teacher. The principal was very eff.
! fcient, his chief fault was a fondness
for hearing himself talk. We thought
this great Joke. As two men passed
have dlned feel like dining again"
The thought Of dining on hard tack
was more than he could stand.
We could battle in Chesapeake Bay
! as much as we pleased. The early
morning. for some reasons, was to be
preferred About month after we ar.
rived at the Point II seemed to be gen.
orally understood that those who had
| applied for the oath would pass out of
the Enclosure. whore We were confined.
do not know what their Interior des-
tination or destiny was. For some rea-
son. we OF the faithful anticipated a
! great deal of fun In seeing them go out
~ hrst they were merely teered. but
\ tho insiders grow more venturesomc
| and yanked their blankets from under
their arms. and ran away with them.
Finally they commenced TO lombard
| them with the pebbles. which lay thick
| III the streets.
TAKES HIMSELF OFF
BEFORE GUNS SMOKE
| peeming the last proceeding entirely
! too personal. I took myself Off before
the guns began to smoke There was
plot said to have been formed, but
| never carried into execution, for tho
capture OF the prison by the prisoners
1
there was treachery on the part OF some
I! who were to participate in the scheme.
/ That was generally the cause OF tho
/ failure or many plots to escape. II
| this project was formed. Ii must have
4 heen about the time that General Early
was threatening Washington from the
/ rear We, being new arrivals. We're not
j invited to participate. but from many
\ circumstances l am inclined TO believe
| there was some foundation for the
/ rumor. new provost-marshal named
| Brady had Just succeeded Major A. c..
o. Weymouth whom the prisoners liked
! very much. The prisoners captured at
| Spotsylvania Courthouse and adjacent
battlefelds were ordered to prepare
| themselves to move to another prison.
us, among other things, that he was a
much Information about what General
letters written with lemon juice; that
he often went about the camp, dis.
man WHO was and aone fFht
he sent him away. This tallies very
Well With the rumor, for those who
| T. Edie. of the Texas troops. an Epis-
copal preacher. and said to be, by birth,
| a Northern man, arrived at Elmira in
irons. The plan mapped out for the
attack was to rush down between the
bay and palisade while the artillery
| infantry engaged in the same manner.
Companies had been enrolled and off,
| GERS appointed.
a man who is now Baptist preacher
| told me since the war that he was to
| have commanded one OF the companies.
| When the roll was called in order to
make up the required 500 who were to
| so on the steamer some oath takers
| names occurred, and those who best
knew their status would call out,
Taken the OATH Brady stood 1t for
while, but when such an answer
was made he would say. ITS a -
lie."
| We were finally embarked on
river steamer to be taken to an ocean
liner farther out Some one asked a
| darby IL they were going to take MS all
the way on that. He said: mo, lie they
did we. would soon run into the
steamer, and behold US ali aboard for
RoBT. A. MARSHALL.
Delaplane, Va.
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