The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-17
"REBEL" SOLDIERS DO NOT LIKE
a GERMAN WAR = =.
Confederates Recount Instances of
Where Humanity Was Dis
Dlayed in Civil War.

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Certain ex Confederate soldiers
weIe discussing changes that have
come about in the conduct of war
fare by civilized nations, as they sat
about the fire in .the Office of the
county treasurer. They agreed that
the humanity" has been removed
from it, aud they don't like the way
the Germans run the thing they call
war. They contrasted the attitude
toward a helpless enemy shown by
Southern leaders with that of the
Germans toward the people of en-
envy tereitory with whom the invad-
ers come in contact. ~
"Youremember, the Yankees had
all sorts of men in their armies, -
said one old soldier to !another.
They had men of all nations. One
night a Frenchman deserted from
the Yankee line AMI came. over to
US. He held up his hands and
talked but we didn't know what il
was all about except that he sur.
rendered. 1t was awfully cold and
some of the boys pounced upon him
and took fine overcoat the French
man was wearing.
we took him back of the lines
and before Richard Henry Lee, who
could tax to him in French. Lee
made the man who stole his over
coat return it to him. The Germans
would never do a thing like that, yet
that was the way the SouthernerS
managed ali through the war.
The Confederates also discussed
the munifcent pay for which they
fought. One veteran said the sol
diers drew $11 the first year of the
war, by the month, and nothing
thereafter. But the couple talking
it over in the treasurer's Office said
the pay was $40 Confederate money,
which meant almost nothing at all.
One of the couple said he paid a wo-
man >$15 for four biscuits and a
piece of chicken for breakfast -dnd
he cheated her at that, as things
eventuated.
There have been some changes in
war machines since those days, too.
the veterans agreed. They thought
then that the guns which fired out
a whipping chain was some gun, as
well as that which poured out a
handful of small balls. But they
had nothing like the artillery of the
present, and the exlOsive shell was
not developed to any degree of eff
fectiveneSs. One of the soldiers said
he was in Petersburg when Yankees
dropped shell on one of the steep
streets. The big ball came rolling
and bounding down the street, siz-
zIing, and expected it to burst every
instant, but it finally stopped with
out incident.
Others who remembered the war
times wildly agreed that Sherman
was a piker as a war devil, judged
from the German standpOint-and
the Yankees he brought with him
were gentlemen in comparison with
the brutes who invaded Belgium: In
stances where Union officers and
men beat up" obstreperous, drunken
soldiers who were making them
selves disagreeable to women are
recounted. The march to the sea-
was a pleasant call from tourists in
comparison with the hesitation prac-
ticed toward Paris. according to all
accounts, and the chivalric manner
of the Southern leaders who paid
tribute to the old woman with her
flying flag, when the Confederates
invaded the North, seems to be
something the Germans, could not
understand. Greensboro News.
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