Show = at ifhc utQtrltt = = APlUL 25 ISS REiAY got started and scared the conductor so he had fits by firing revolvers with blanks at the roof of the car 0 it was a picnic No discipline no nothing but beer The boys would sing and dance and if an officer showed up some one would hit him on the neck with a haversack hav-ersack full of hard tick and if he got mad they would lay him down in the aisle and set upon him No ofli cer would come in the car with the boys unless he could do as they did and howl Going through Chicago it i took four guards to watch each soldier to keep him from straying away and taking in the town and getting left After leaving Chicago anybody who tried to camp down in a seat and sleep was court mar tialed and shot in the neck with the cork from a bottle It was wild Three days later those boys that were so kitteny went into a fight and how they did fight There was discipline enough then The officers that had been treated so disrespectfully disre-spectfully on starting from home were looked up to as though they were emperors em-perors every order was obeyed and there was no more mqnkey work from that hour The fellow who kicked out the car window led a charge on a breastwork breast-work and brained with his musket a confederate con-federate who was going to shoot the captain I cap-tain he had called a baldheaded gut hoogen four days before The fellows who left Wisconsin so full of beer that their back teeth wer afloat had got over having fun and were taking in the reality and they were the best soldiers that ever lived They did not go to the front in a Pullman car but many of them came back in Pullman cars as officers of high rank years later some came back by express ex-press in boxes and some of them never came back at all but are lying in rows a little distance from Chattanooga in the National Cemetery with head stones above them some marked with their names others marked unknown but all waiting for Gabriel to play the Assembly on his bugle at the last great day A few weeks ago we saw the graves of some of the boys who went to the front that day from Madison in the cars that were ventilated by kicking the windows out and we felt that if the boys had not I drank the beer that day and had a high I I old time they never would have got a I chance and we didnt blame them a bit I I Going to war now is different Pecks 1 Sun I I |