Show from the chicago L evening aning jo journal orrial chattanooga CHAT A flag of truce incidents of the conference friendly pickets picket s our knowing rebel neighbors Neigh boic bois A liftee D drama short rations BY BENJAMIN r TAYLOR did you over ever go out with a fla flag of truce if not lot mcgivn you a touch of a new experience A group of rebel approach our pickets on anthe tha kos road with a white nag T they are re halted wheeled about their backs to the Fe federal doral lines their theil rank demanded and a messenger messenger dispatched to headquarters announcing the arrival and asking if the flag will be received if disposed to grant an all interview a federal officer of equal rank with the boaler of the message is sent out all and if fortunate you accompany com pally him li edit col fullerton gran brangers grangers Gr angers eils chief of staff is the flag officer and you cannot well got get in better IT 1 company As yon ride up tip it yo you 1 a I little to see each salute the flag 0 surprises you moie to see that they shake hands and smile like old fi tends friends I 1 surprises you most when a aebel officer produces a bottle of wine and challenges his vis a vis visto to a stinus cup the officers bearing and receiving the message dismount move anait and con confer flor the errand may bo be to pass a lady through i our conr 1 lines in es to the bolth or to propose a four boiu and an anty hours or coplay a caidor two in tile the game of bragg nin 11 1 dysthe if ithe last bastas fas was the caso case just before aty ridge the beal or or of tile the cal caul d is a trifle boic stiff and stately and the good gad cheer is not forthcoming foith coming but usually the little side confer once over the gi groups coups meet and mingle minto t on oil that lands hands breadth of ground spend a few moments in con coil apparently fice and frank salute each other and wheel away returning cadi to ins his own the white flags have hardly flickered put of si sight lit when blow great buds gansl I 1 lookout 0 at may growl and moccasin point crack a merry whip while the interview continues the pickets loan lean upon their muskets and look on dark blue clusters watch it horn the ts of forts in sight and the enemy crawl out of their rifle pits like brown abild geay rats arid and look on oil too it is a grateful breathing spell for all colors colonel fullerton and a rebel officer are talking of old days they alie 7 were once neigh neighbors Lors and friends in st louis they belonged to a young mens club in that city there wele thirty of them among ahem them wele flost now major general in in reb and john moi Mo morgans galls igans brains to wit basil duke twenty six of them turned traitor colonel fullerton and the three other true hearted comrades stood by the alie old flag evon even your correspondent lias has two classmates over yonder on mission ridge 0 one of them it a colonel from the palmetto state the other risen to the infamous d dignity i it y of a i ebel general also for alic LIW days that are no more I 1 A wonderful change has been W wrought rought in tho the tone of these bearers of the white flag wi within thin beigh eighteen teen months once they were sure and defiant now they are arc desperate and wolfish it lias has been colo colonel 1101 fullet tons fortune to have large experience ma chico con coil y ferencek feren ces and almost always to meet friends of auld lang sync 11 and the alio waning of tile moon was novel so ap faient P a as thea dwindling 13 of their hope in one of his latest views at chattanooga tano oga a robot rebel officer who a year ago breathed lire and smoke as if james watt had made him lungs and all admitted that ho he believed the grand dream of tile the confederacy as a power on earth had gone up 11 but 1 I toll fell you saul said 1 lie we mean to die hard we shall fight it out fla flags s of tiace and tile bearin bearing 9 of hostile ostile li pickets toward each other always puzzle a civilian lie he cannot imagine liow low men can call stand with fiant to front f that r may turn upon each cadi other any hour even as the upper and nether millstones and grind out life and heart like grain and not bear man mail to mantho deadliest liate late and yet nothing can be farther from tile right eight on the evo eve of the battle federal pickets contentedly munched biscuit that 1 c abel neighbors in law had tossed to them and an examination of ol 01 many a plug of indian weed in a pickets I 1 pocket would lla have c shown the tooth at one end and a yankees at the other the small currency of gibe and joke passed as freely adiong among 0 them as it does docs around a steamboat Jand landing ingin b in the piping times of peace and I 1 half fancied that a sort of rou rough ii lude friendship might have 11 up among some of them thein perhaps I 1 told you that on oil monday the day of our I 1 0 in force I 1 when lie the federal wa linc m moved ve 1 r d buethe ou t c rebel pickets stood leaning i IP ot O t L i guns and looked 9 ay upon them thein and not till our adevai was tipped with vi th fire did they seem to got get the idea that seli aeilous with wood and death in it was actually beginning now arid and then a 1 little human virrile brightens tens wais wails grini grim visage like a flash of sunshine in an angry P day I 1 bone one that I 1 wish I 1 could daguerreotype the amenities of battle abc so 1 f 1 ny how pl alocious ocious they become I 1 lat let me give you that little touch of nature that makes tho whole world kin kill A few months ago the ad ohio belonging 0 to staci sti eights b ats command entered a town en route for richmond prisoners of war worn VOI 11 down famished likaits heavy and have isacks light they herded 11 ll like ike dumb driven cattle to wear out the night dight A rebel regiment the 5 ith virginia iboina ibeling camped near by many of its men came sti ollin oiling about to see tile the sorry show of poor poo r ciless iless yankees I 1 they did not ethic long oil but hastened away to camp and ca came inc streaming amin back with coffee coin bread brea d and bacon tho the best the they y had and all they had and straightway little fires began to twinkle bacon was 1 ilg I 1 the martyrdom of the alio saint of tile Gli gridiron diron and aroma of coffee rose like the fra fragrant rant cloud of a on bring g loyal guests and ichel hosts wele ining mingled led our hungry 0 boys ate and satisfied batis fied and for that one night our common humanity stood sto 0 acquitted of the heavy charge of total depravity with which it is bl blackened a acken 0 d night and our boys delai ted fed together the prisoners in iii due time were exchanged and arc now encamped within in i eifle kellys f fbi eny i y on oil the bank ban of tim the tennessee but often around aleca mp I 1 I 1 h ave lidard he aid them tall tali Z rs of tile fifty fourth virginia that p 1 roved 7 bv themselves so immeasurably be better t ter than a bi kotlier abair off 11 heard them wonder where aher 0 they were and discuss tho the chance that ahby might ever meet when they de denounced the damnable johnny robs of ocono J lon 0 le ament you may be sure was tucked aw away ay in in a snug place quite out ofilio range danl ne of hard words and now chimes the sequel eliat makes a beautiful poem of tile the whole of it on the day of the stol of mission ridge among the prisoners wax was the fifty fourth virginia 0 and on friday it trailed adv away ay across the pontoon bridge and along the mountain load nine miles to kellys ferry an aniced ived there it settled upon the bank like wasps awaiting tile boat A week elapsed and your correspondent followed suit tile major of the thild coded me to the baim hospitalities of liis his and almost the fil fust A tiling hill lie said was you should have been here last friday you missed the denouement nou liou ement odthe of the beautiful little drama of ouis whose first act I 1 have told you you will you believe that tile virginia lias has been hero here some of our boys were on duty at the landing whon when itan it ived what is this they asked and when tho the icely was liven given they started for camp like and shouted as they i in and out among the smokey cones of the Sibl Si bloys cys tile virginia ginia is is at the ferry V 1 tile the camp sw swai in three minutes treasures of cohee bacon sugar sugar beef preserved pic pie served paa all cipry thing n turned turne dout out in foice all d noumay be believe lievy they y want laden with piercy I 1 at quick to file felly 1 I 1 c tile same old scene and yet liow low sti angely chabi changed ed the twinkling 0 fires tile grateful il incense the hungry lit ingry captives but guests and hosts had changed places the stai lit folds flo floated tit aloft for the 11 bonny blue flag a debt of 0 lionor honor was paid to the utmost farthing 0 if they hal a of arms at chattanooga hearts were ti turnips knips at Kel kellems kelleys leys ferry and it was that horrid war smiled a lieiman hum an smile and a grateful gentle light 0 flickered for a moment 0 on 11 alic t alio poi point nt of the bayonet and yet should tile virginia 11 return tomorrow to morrow with arms in i their hands to the tennessee tile ad ohio would meet them on oil the bank fight thern them foot to foot and beat th them oni back with rain so pitiless catli 57 1 1 abr would itin inn red no elbow pagans in a little villao village 0 at tile hateful age of gossip who phodi di vine each others bicak fast by tho the smell of tile kitchen smokes ever knew more of their neigh neighbors bolls bus business iness than the houles hol do on oil mission ridge rid c and lookout seemed to know of buo ouo ours rs on oil sunday ni night lit tile battle rations of bardo hardtack tack and eighty ei 0 I I 1 ty lounds 1 of ammunition had been issued it had a serious look and aupied 0 work on oil monday morning that tha t very cry sunday night an all indiana re regiment 0 ii nent went out to picket duty and the first salutation I 1 biorn t om the 1 obel lebel line was iio liol 1101 you yon yanks think of fighting fightlin do you got eighty lounds did you and haid liand blead to match matcha 11 7 thele welo five thousand loyal men in chattanooga 0 ga at that moment to whom it would have been the fi echost of news I 1 have I 1 told you liow how I 1 tried to got get out of sight of lookout one day 6 continued it I 1 cited to ebuy ibeth th page chattanooga an t at v tah ithma tu turned it ii could ulane not e 0 W you ostrich andai d your you lead in thol tho alund pana m ins his wod alev lle fell asleep I 1 climb to tile the half of lookout and one tho top that involved the debels ini minute mystery aitery my nat anat knowledge of our domestic leis T Is i idis polled at once chattanooga za with tile the top off you chicken pic is 1 a I ok down into it like tho the father of tile the fam family ily at a christmas dinner gain im tile crest of mission eidge 11 cioll me and sec ing how aloni it the file debels could lla hal chattanooga with tile the gull uns that wo we fo found und lying t lazily at ros tile the wonder grows grows not sa so laau much li V that they driven from their as that they did not I 1 anbarc ground clear out the chicken pie pic to the bottom crust but they fatally upon their formidable deap defenses natI and art had alpi expired 1 red to 0 make thom strong a and nd stupid for t the ic stoby y of wal wais s abundantly proves prove that the very bastions shelter to one army lend 0 soul and sinew to tile other mot boic 0 than this thele can call be no doubt that the hie ichel Z generals fancied they had us at it t ir aur n 4 cipoli upon ua bore on one 6 hundred all and d t twin en ty ahlee miles from our base of supplies by tail lail tile the distance c led out on oil thit tanty ty miles of I 1 liver iver by lilt ev co feeble little boats and finished off at last biti nine miles of mountain load it seemed to them that bat somehow they ard perched like one of the fatal stai s upon the mountains and jhb they could cut and then they would have us like a dead shriveled in ill tile shell bild I 1 must own to you now it is past that things for fora a hilo wole a whether lose arl ad alra aira to the mon men t go 0 about like so many atlases At lases with one one or two staily on oil filkil not become me to irate oven even if I 1 knew but down in the ignoble icahn of the of danl and file ua night after night a as to tile file morrows moi rows din dionci rici let lct lie give you ono or two facts cl dossing 01 sing the baid budge 0 o into chattanooga 0 yuu lookup at a bold promontory that see my jn to ail 0 vl y as raped escaped breaking bie aking the levei s baal by bringing 0 up lip choit on its bank tho the crown of that mountain was sprinkled tilled with a little hock flock of tents lookin looking like patches of bilty snow the camp of the illinois tow 1 for fbi two tio days chos besong of did duty upon par Ghedi acorns IN liell the hot ses and mules anatia an anatomical to collection had thou their noses tin in in the morning food feed of corn tile hicy y wet acie 0 only sul C of what they had in actual punishment under the grind rind cis for soldiers would file filch it away by land nay ilay pick up tile the atla grains out of the dirt to help on oil tile day 1 ay and this sharing of f lati lations with the be beasts abts that wag checked at last for they aboy locked cled selli up the corn with a bayonet I 1 A k IY paced beaole tile noses of tile the rimes anu a and heiso champee champed chani ped cluel as this looks lak at if liest thought it aa was 8 done in doicy to tile anny and with an ail eye silar single 0 w t al salvation for an ail ammy it ni yvel without blasts of burden and draught d rang it is as aa feeble as a host without banners manya fanya fany a soldier has nicked a bone out of tile 11 pip of offal in of tile store at ca chattanooga occupied by cott e tt keen company hidden it ia under his coat and slipped if away as lie had bad been a thief sul CIT I 1 need n il possibly 1 I not lot to write mule but I 1 beg you think when you sit ait down to your now year dinner and in may you partake afi seventy more ind and good 11 1 aaion giai oil appetite me ti it chiou tin ough oh all of the ni f lean gil days aa and thank god that at chattanooga 1 you au can call those men as the roman did f friends countrymen and lovers w who in ill those times uttered d not one com complaint faint la int they went to chattanooga C a not to ca eat t but to fight and to win I 1 |