The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-05-19
MT STERLING, KENTUCKY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 49, 1916.

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IL. Each mess had forage man for
each week. This was my week and
as / was returning from out in the
country and passing a nice frame
residence, a good house wife said /:
"Capt. Clay your butter is ready for
you" L inquired how much. "Ten
pounds is what you said you want
ed" paused moment, "why you
paid me seventy-fve dollars for it; !"
yes, but l am packed up just now, l
can send back, our camp is only a
mile away. hurried to my mess,
mile away. l hurried to my mess and
told of my good luck. Capt. Johnson,
who was foreman of our mess vetoed
sending for the butter but by unan-
imous vote we sent Ben Fishback for
Mr.. .Clay's butter. He was soon back
with ten pounds of good yellow but
ter. We learned Mr.. Clay was a
member of Col E. Clay's LIST. KY.
Battalian and was camped some 800
yards from us. Seven dollars and
fifty cents in Confederate money was
price per pound.
Twenty eight or twenty-nine years
from that fall l married Mr.. Sam
Clay's oldest daughter. Il never told
him of his butter.) He has long since
joined many of his comrades on the
other shore. My wife has been in
Heaven the last fifteen years. Mr..
Clay's widow yet lives and is eighty
three years old, and is one of the
best women in Bath county. 1t was
she who first taught my wife how to
make the best bread, fry turkey
steak and make angel cake. 1t was
she who would snugly tuck my chill
dren, cher first grandchildren), to
bed. 1t was she who would willingly
have paid my bills if l had not been
able. Yes, she would gladly have
seen me president.
Boys, that kind of a mother-in-
law, Mrs. Clay, lives on waters Of
Flat Creek, where Mrs. John S. Will
liams, the Stoner's, Hamilton's, Ber-
RVS, Phelps and Clay's have beat all
the Blue Grass counties for appetiz-
ing dinners.
War is wicked, heathenish. / was
at the battle of Pinchem in Magoffin
county when Col. Clay's eye was
shot out; l was at Greenville, Tenn.
the morning Gen. Morgan was killed.
We were soon formed in line Of bat
tie. A fine young man from Fleming
county, Johnny Little. was to my left
in three feet Of me, shot by minnie
ball in forehead. A shudder and it
was the last l saw Of Johnny Little.
Why not all people pray for
peacea But We are forgetful, We
are now abusing the Germans, and
well we may for their many murders.
But do we remember Sherman's
march through Georgia, South Car
DINA. We mourn today for Louvain,
Rheims, Antwerps. Did the North
mourn for the burning of Columbia,
S. c., for the burning of Wade
Hampton's hundred thousand dollar
homestead, colleges and universities
destroyed, women insulted, children
with their homes burned, all gone
one is now-the other over fifty one
years ago.
was made to feel good and proud
the last week by friends that had
known me 80 or 40 years. W. T.
Tyler and many others said " l did
not know you were in the war-I
never heard you say anything about
it," / came home to let by-gones be
forgotten. / would not go where
hot-headed, fiery speeches were be-
ing made on either side. That is
why l can count Taft Howell, Jim
OConnel, Ben Wyatt, Maj. Burchett
and many others who wore the blue,
among my good friends.
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