The Washington times., 1917-06-07

fought with the Mississippi Brigade,
Second Regiment, Company A, cav
airy.
Have your picture taken in one
minute" says the street photographer
and he is doing a great business on
Pennsylvania avenue with the vets"
F. NJ. Poore was shot six times In
the war and lives to tell the tale. He
fought under Lee at Gettysburg. You
had to chop the head off a Confederate
to kill him." he says. Poore's grand
father fought in the Revolution and
his father in the Mexican war.
The vets are never lonely. When one
is roaming around alone he is invited
to Join every tale-swapping session he
passes
Several OF the old soldiers took les
sons from a marine at the Capitol
grounds yesterday in the new manual
OF arms and showed the marine how
they used to do it. The gun" was q
sturdy walking cane.
Somebody told the National Service
School girls that the veterans were
hungry, so they came to the rescue
last evening with sandwiches, apples,
cakes, and all sorts of dainties, and
passed them around in the station.
All the vets" cultivated appetites at
once, and the girls were kept busy.
Some OF the vets even came around
for a second helping.
Ever since the war ]. NJ Murphy
has been carrying four bullets. He
hot fa11nrnra 10 ~
didn't hit him in the right places and
that the bullets don't bother him at
ALL Murphy fought at Manassas, Gull
pepper, and Charlottesville with Jack
son He insists that he is still young.
P. F. CriEgs, of the Second Virginia
Brigade, likes TO stay over at the sta
ton and watch the boys come in"
Criggs is a marksman of renown.
Fifty years or more does not make
the old soldiers forget their discipline.
The contingent from Charlottesville,
Va. came in about seventy strong.
There wasn't the least bit OF disorder.
When the men had registered. John
Aherns, who was in charge of that
group. shouted Fall i'm and every
one Of the veterans "fe.i in" and. in
good order, marched out of the sta
ton to the place assigned to them.
The Charlotte Court House, Va,
contingent was commanded by Capt.
T. Scott, who Unanswered them
around the station in old war time
style.
F. c. Grove is a progressive and,
not content with the old Confederate
| uniform, is In the city all dolled up"
10 a regular infantrymAn's uniform
| from his head to his feet He comes
| from Camp tombstone, No. "a. and is
bugler for the camp. He carries the
ybugle around with him slung by
heavy cord around his shoulder.
D. A Brown led the Soldiers Home
contingent. and pretty nearly had a
scrap with the car company because the
motorman wanted to break through his
line while II was crossing the tracks.
We'll" said the motorman. II can't
wait here all day."
We'll" said Brown. you can't run
over me. either" and placed himself
squArely in front Of the car and stayed
there until the last man had crossed the
tracks.
Mani" says W. E Darr. Il don't
know what battle was the worst I was
with the Twenty-sixth from Georgia,
and we fought all the way from Dali
ton to Atlanta"
Darr was originally from Louisiana,
but Joined a Georgia regiment
I ran away TO so in the war" said
Dalton. and / reckon that there were
times when ! wished ! had not, but ~
l had it 10 do all over again I think
that It would be the same way"
Weary Willie" Warren. who says
he halls from Alabama. lays but one
claim to distinction. His bid for
fame is the assertion that he was and
is the LATEST man in the Confederate
army. Willie says that the reason he
was captured prisoner is because he
couldn't bear to run. and the 'Yanks"
overlook him.
Texans in the Confederate camp
are warned to be law-abiding, be
cause Jim Forsythe, who fought
throughout the war. Is among those
| present from Texas. Jim was for
merly sheriff down in the sticks, and
still believes in keeping order.
The present scenes of carnage on
I
terrors for F. W. Smith, Of Alabama.
who, as dispatch bearer for Joe
Hooker, rode through square miles OF
dead Mr.. Smith, who has lived in
Alabama for twenty-three years, al
though a native Of Tennessee. when
asked II he had ever captured a
''Yank' answered: Thousands of EN-"
/ He later qualified this by saying
that the command he was with had
captured thousands Of them.
Visiting Washington Is no new sen
sation to W. T. Madeira, OF Virginia
AT one time" he said, my command
was in sight OF the city, but we never
| got in"
Music seemed to be one Of the
chief attractions at the camp last
night. A group OF men gathered IN
1 der the big arc light near the center
/ of the camp gave as many verses
| literally singing the praise Of Caro-
| lima as there are sons and daughters
OF the Carolinas combined.
The uniform OF the regulars min