Show I Riding a Cannon Down Hill In the reunion of exConfederates at Fort Worth Texas two Grand Army of the Republic posts pitched their tents in the centre of the camp and there was an exuberant good feeling between the old soldiers who had fought each other The following interesting story is related II by a visitor to the reunion When I was at the G A R tents I heard a story I which impressed me as very dramatic A Union soldier named McNamee I was the reconteur with an exConfed erate named Strong It was at the battle of Pea Ridge and McNamee said I was with the battery which was crowning a slope the rebels made a dash at us and got the guns We came back at them and fought fist and skull in the battery pulling the cannon this way and that We got two of the guns back and the third one was jerked I up to the edge of a steep ravine One Johnny got behind it and gave it an awful I shove jumping on the carriage at the same time I picked up a musket with a I fixed bayonet on it and threw it at him The bayonet caught him in the shoulder I and went through but he rode that gun down the hill and when he got to the I bottom he shouted up tome to Do you think youd know your mark stranger if you paw it again asked Strong I dont know Well here it is and pulling off his shirt Strong showed the wound of the I very bayonet which the other had thrown at him I rode that gun down the I hill he said and pulled out that bayonet I I bayo-net and got safe in our lines Of course I the men shook hands and were sworn brothers from that time forward This is I but one of the many scenes which I have noted and which time and space will I compel InterOcean me to save for subsequent letters I |