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Show before I sot loose. Myhorsa jumped over a small log:, which I caught with my arm and pulled off ray boot, thus saving myself from being; dragged to death. I lay by the roadside until I was rolled over and searched several times by the fleeing: Johnnies, feigning all the time to bo dead: but when I heard our boys raise a shout in the rear, I raised on my elbow to see what was en mine, and at the same time Gen. Forrest's staff was but a short distance dis-tance to the left of me, and one of his oflicers drew a revolver, pointing it at me, and with an oath that 1 shall never forpet, he told me to get up, which I did as quickly as 1 could, for I did not care to take tiny chunccs on his carrying out his threat. Just at that time two more dismounted dis-mounted rebels came along, and ho told them to take me along, and to shoot mo if they had to leave me (words that were not very comforting to me just at that time). They helped me along for a considerable distance, when I asked them to leave me to die, as I could go no farther: which they consented to do, and I crawled under THE CAMP FIRE. P A5ICSISG INCIDENT WHICH 0C-CCKRED 0C-CCKRED IX MISSOURI. IVIIhou Raid General Warren Increase of ray I'rlconer of War Something Some-thing Abuui Ieerier Kte. When the disabled veterans of the National Home are fighting the battle o'er again, says F. Hogge, in Toledo Blade, I am always an interested listener, list-ener, ready to catch the drift, for I dearly love a war yarn, even if it flavors fla-vors just a little of the late Baron Munchhausen. The following was told by u one-legged warrior from "Illinoy," whose word is never doubted doubt-ed by his friends that gather around him in the smoking room. This is how he told it: 'Boys, while the big guns on Island No. 10, down the Mississippi, were slinking nearly all tho glnss out of the windows s in Cairo, and scarin' most women into fits, mo and some other follers were skirmishing around for grub in tho rear of JSew Madrid. o hadn't been soldiering sol-diering very long, you know, an' wasn't used to hard tack an' salt hog, you soo. We had mot with some luck durin' the day, but had lots of room in our crazy old wagon. Towards evening we struck the Aikens plantation, planta-tion, 'bout half way between Madrid and Sikeston. Golly, boys, but I shall never forgot to my dyin' day what a powerful streak of the darndest luck we run into right there! Christmas couldn't hold a candle to that! Pigs squealin' in a friendly way, half a dozen young fat calves bellerin' for all that was out; whole trees full of chickens, just fixin' for the night; bee gums all round the yard, and more corn than you could shake a stick at. "For a spoil we didn't see a single cuss, white or black, about the farm. No, not till Joe McMillan, who was chasin' a big, fat socesh hen, crawled tinder a great long crib after her. " -llello, Joe!' says I, a-gittin' down on my knees; 'have you got her? " 'No,' says he; 'tho crazy critter's got away somewhere.' "All at onco there was awful doin's goiu' on under tho blessed crib. My hair kind o' raised straight up under my hat, for thinks I, Joe's struck a nest of graybacks, sure as I am a sinner, sin-ner, and our cake's dough.' " 'Lordy, massa! old missus dono gib mo dem red-top boots, kaso she's 'inazin' 'ticular 'bout her niggers!' "While I was lookin' round, kind ' bamboozled, Joe came crawfishin' out from under tho crib, draggin' a greasy-lookin' young duffer, with a face blacker than the ace of spades, after him. " 'Now darn you and your red-top boots. ' says Joe. 'You've nearly scared the life out o' me under yonder, and besides that, you black devil, you caused me to lose the fattest hen in a oig pine log ana lay mere until our boys came up, when a comrade, whom I would liko to hear from, assisted me back through the lines, where we found Serg't Miller looking for the missing or wounded of , his company. He got me on ' his horse, and after leading him to where my dead comrades lay, took me back to where the wounded were at a farmhouse, farm-house, whence we were taken toPlant-ersville, toPlant-ersville, and left on cotton beds in Eb-enezer Eb-enezer church. Remained there a week or ten days, during which time we received a visit from Gen. Forrest and his body-guard; he having escaped es-caped being captured at Selnia, Ala., took the back track and called at the church where we lay. I hoard him tell tho surgeon in chargo that he shot a captain and one private in tho fight at Bogue's creek. C. W. Sherwood. Sher-wood. 17th Indiana Mounted Infantry, in National Tribune. rserler. My experience, says the Secretary of War, confirms an observation obser-vation which I made ono year ago that "tho pith of the whole matter (desertions) is to mako the service worth seeking, and then enough "good men will seek it and bo glad to stay in it." The pay of Second Lieutenant is $116.67 per month, and that of a First Sergeant only $22, and unfortunately unfortu-nately this difference in pay largely regulates the actual distance between their relative positions. It would be a 6tep in the right diroction to increase in-crease somewhat the pay of the noncommissioned non-commissioned officers, that every man who enters the service may find in it the possibility of a modest mod-est future. With a view to the same end I would recommend a change in the law relative to the selection of enlisted en-listed men for appointment to the grade of Second Lieutenant. Practically, Practic-ally, it is now possible for company commanders to give these valuable appointments ap-pointments to young men who have enlisted en-listed for that sole purpose. In order to insure exact justice to all, and give full effect to tho beneficent purpose of Congress, the initiatory step should be with the men themselves. Any enlisted en-listed man of two years' service, who all Missouri. By , I've the all- firedost notion to skin you alive!' "Down went Mr. Nigger on his knees, a-beggin' anda-prayin' sohard that 1 told him to git up and not make a baby of hisself. The shoes my partner wore wore awfully holy big toe lookin' out o' ono, hoel out o' tother and Joo swapped them off, even up. Tho nigger had a stavin' good bargain his life and a pair of Uncle Sam's no-'count shoes, ard as the red-tops didn't fit Joe's feet at all, but fit me to a T, of course I had tho best of them both." Gen. Warren. A bronze statute of Gen. G. K. Warren, Chief Topographical Engineer En-gineer of the Army of tho Potomac under Gens. Hooker and Moade, and afterwards commander of the Fifth Corps, is to be put up in the Cemetery of Evergreens just as soon ns tho Grand Army Post in New Yrork City bearing his name can raise tho funds. Henry Baerer, tho sculptor, has a miniature model of the proposed statue molded in clay. It represents Gen. Warren discovering Hood's Tex-ans Tex-ans about to occupy Little Round Top on tho second day of the batt le of Gettysburg. Get-tysburg. The head is well thrown back, the field-glass in his right hand has just been lowered to tho level of his breast, and his left hand is apparently appar-ently trembling with excitement. Tho uniform is that of a Major-General. Gen. Warren, when he visited Little Eound Top on that eventful morning, found his signal corps gathering their flags and preparing to leave tho hill, and discovered Hood's Texans. who had got around Gen. Sickles' flank, advancing to take that advantageous position. Realizing the damage the Texans could do the Union army if they gained this point, he ordered his signal corps to wave their flags boldly, as if tho hill were defended by a large force, while ho dashed off in search of troops. Ho met Barnes' Division of the Fifth Corps, and, on his own responsibility, detached Vincent's Brigade with Hazlitt's battery, and led them up the heights. They reached tho summit just as Hood's men came up the other side, and a fierce hand-to-hand fight occurred, resulting disastrously dis-astrously to Hood's men Nat. Tribune. Trib-une. Wilson' Raid. Seeing an account of tho Wilson raid, written by Capt. AV. E. Doyle, I would say that I am more than pleased to hear from him, and can vouch for the truthfulness of his account, ac-count, ns I was a member of his regiment regi-ment (17th Ind.). and was in the front , four that charged ihe battery at Ilougo's Creek, receiving three severe wounds in the fight. I was within 15 feet of Capt. Jamos D. Taylor when he was, killed by Gen. Forrest, and claim the honor of sabering Gen. Forrest in the arm, and was shot from my horse an instant later. The foot of my wounded leg fastened in the lirrup, and I was dragged a long way is a citizen of the United States.should, under certain fixed rules, be permitted permit-ted to compete for a commission. The Prisoner. R. B. Dunn, Company I, 59th Ohio, says he was fourteen months a prisoner, pris-oner, and while in Richmond was in the Pemberton, and saw the rebel guards arrested tho morning after the oflicers made their escape through tho tunnel. On Feb. 17 he, with a number num-ber of others, was taken out of Pemberton Pem-berton and sent south, soon arriving j at that hell-hole, Andersonvillo. They were tho first prisoners to arrive at the stockade, which was only half completed at that time, as the south end was built after their arrival. They wore confined ; there until Sept. 7. Then he, with others, was sent to Savannah, where they remained 20 days, and started forMillon. The train stopped at Law-ton Law-ton Station and tho prisoners were ordered off tho curs, where they remained re-mained until Nov. IU, when they again started for Savannah. They were paroled on tho 20th of November, Novem-ber, and sent down tho river to our flag-ship. It is utterly impossible to toll how happy they were upon seeing the Stars and Stripes onco more. Nat. Tribune. The Itenowned Win. II. J. Peters, Co. E, 126th Ohio, having seen something about "fresh fish," says in the Nat. Tribune, that he was at one time a "fresh fish," but 15 months in tho different prisons caused him to become somewhat stalo, and he expects to keep that staloness the balance of his life in the shape of chronic diarrhea and kindred diseases. Ho was captured at Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, 1803, and was about two weeks in Libby, two months on that cold, miserable bar on Belle Isle, a few weeks in Pemberton Castlo, and, on Feb. 22, was sent to Andersonvillo. He was nearly shot one day by Wirz, whom he asked for something to oat, whilo Wirz was counting off the prisoners. pris-oners. Wirz pulled ono of his revolvers, re-volvers, placed it against tho writer's breast, and said, "You tammed Yan- kee. if you bodder mo somo more whilo I kounts deso men I puts a hole through you sluist as shure as dor is powder and lent enough In der Confederacy to do it." A Wine rrrrantlnn. Col. Grey top "Miss Upton. I would like to introduce an old friend of mine a soldier one of the Balaklava Six Hundred." Miss Upton "One of th elx hundred! Oh, Colonel, hadn't better see mamma first?" |