OCR Text |
Show Effect of Phomotion. Gen. Dabney H. Maury of the Confederate Con-federate army used to tell a story about his faithful negro boy, Jim, the son of his old mammy, whom he took with him to the war. The general was not a large man, except in the traits which make great men and great soldiers. sol-diers. After the Rattle of Corinth, where he was promoted to the rank of major ma-jor general on the battlefield, he came into his tent and called his servant. "Jim." he said, "when you make trj my cot, tuck those blankets well in at the foot. My feet stick out all night." Looking up at him with an amused look. Jim said, "Marse Dabney, you ain't growed none, is you. since you got promoted yisterday?" Lippic-cott's Lippic-cott's Magazine. |