Show TWO PAIRS OF REO RED LEGS the remarkable escapade of do union soldiers during duriac the he war A TALE TOLD AFTER MANY YEARS they alk T coolly walked into inlo the city of Pared ericksburg why they ecio not ot As ai rented copyright cop ye ml by A abr I 1 alir 1110 ilar or the fighting monr fluttered over falmouth heights freddi tc kburg Iburg to bo be tile tho of the not thorn dogs of war vc MB as plain ly liti blein fit tile mas ja in fa comack and of tho the army of the alapa ba bancik and ilia iraln body of theaon the confederates had sullenly retired leaving only a tow few straggling companies to bartile ism a the ibo union troops falmouth rali heights had been reached with mith little resistance stance dashing Di liln lieutenant decker with his sharpshooters had hurried forward rard fo too loo precipitator lie he vias aa ambushed am bushed and three saddles ills his own included eluded in emptied fit an ail instant this was wa however the lie only serious casualty which occurred on that bat elal glorious rious april morning in ISO 1862 below falmouth heights bridges were b burning and a little to tile the right battery B wa wai willing away at the retiring foe hemond fredericksburg andersons Ander sens division could be seen in motion for the fighting fourteenth christened ch risto tied red legged devils dolls by the confederates confederate the spectacle was ono cite to be forgotten in a few moments mcdower and ills his start staff mere seen hurrying to tho the front thou then came caino a math to the amazement of it big ned tile the gallant colonel of like fourteenth two red legs vere mere wen iren on oil tho the arong rone sido side of the nock ahey mere coolly marching arching iii toward This strange sit oclo had evidently attracted the allen llon 1011 of the gendral in ia command conini and llo lie it stopped alid Pl id I 1 I 1 I 1 car J 17 ar I 1 a I 1 I 1 ITH ins it calt ANGRY called for a field glass glai anti anil focus sod iton it on lie red leg legs 4 altogether unconscIOUS it the sc rutin they continued in I 1 notion mollon evary step stela taking them nearer to tile the place A aich it r seemed sheer insanity to approach tito tho held glass nas mas p bawd e d from one mem berof ot alio aalt to another P r but it was evilest ovll evil eyl ept that thai neither McDowell nor his bis aides could come to stay any satisfactory about the matter so they apparently gan ga c cup up tile tho problem and rode on in A few lao monts later bo however uever one ot of Mc Dovella orderlies appeared on Fal almouth lAuth heights m itu ith instructions to tile the effect that the roll at 0 tho the fighting bo be called immediately ImmediatA ly tills this 0 of course show not only auy any of 06 red legs acro era missing but who were more tho the delinquent arid nd foolhardy ool bardy wen men so tho the roll nai called it Is needless to bay that like iha affair bogano mote complicated than ever when han it was found that every namo name had bad been responded to nobody knew abit to make or of it for some time tile tho remained unsolved TIO the red legs seemed to have caused as ai much commotion in fredericksburg As athey licy lid did on their way there quite ac of 0 people awaited their approach and v m hen they digap disappeared p cared from sight it wat was manifest that hitt their arrival haj had canoed called something of 0 a sensation sone allon before nightfall nil tho the fourteenth had moved into camp and every member of 0 tho the corn com mind was about tho the strange of tho the Lo orning the men mei aho u he bad least to fay about bout it belonged to company U G lyhu they mere asked tor for an they theorized as readily us as anyone but professed to bo be as aa much mys anye filled as ail tho the remainder of the regiment ment iab 7 be night flight wiswell was well advanced m lien hen john and butt rily riley I 1 both members of company G strolled into camp attracting tr as they did so as lattio afton ion as possible they beack soon eoon star rounded by a group of exceedingly curl aus comrades com rAdos I 1 mail has soot soon all ail open secret all titer oer the caulp that thy they mere the owners of the red bors which hail had marched into fred e rick staurt A more irishmen Irl never breathed when the roll was fis called friendly rl cudly alers bad anci answered and it if the sergeant Serge aut who land had the abo roll lit in his hl hand knew of the deception he was good natured enough to keep his own counsel of courso course they were soon in the middle of a arod of interested liste listener nerg 1 iley wa an loan inan but it took 1 1 0 1 1 1 to tai loosen tile st strings ri ot of 1 1 longin lie readily reail ily told tile atoo of tile remarkable adventures of thedac the lay lit in all tile varied annals of etnar viar there 1 Is nothing nol hini like it it unas mas the oliu opinion lou of mr ir riley that tile th ariar aas uis a good deal too loo lionly anti lin hn told clr ir so fo mr submitted that thai it if lie was nas lit in such a linny hurry tapio nothing noll ilni to prevent him from making better time As 1 I i matter of fail fact lie he could I 1 go to the city all by liin Kelf it lie named to ill so if au lou mill KO go hillh file re rc marbod mr rilly unit aid U J hat ma tile bog luning of as strange ft an ail escapade osia pado as a haq a ever tit undertaken der taken it seemed like walking into tile the lion 8 ino ith bt bal t t neither nian mail miter what at wai v a q probably lit in jest mai hiis carried out in reality they slipped off otT eaily fit the mckibing mck ining crossed tho the glicr slid and protect lod toward the iho ell i cinc idea of it the reception MIMI af fit r A annval IAD HAD PONIE till OF ob A PI thern them las has already been giell timid seemed to bo be more that than anxious to announce annon nto that fredericks bikit bmg has us filing to sui it vias as not long before they were mere lit in the pro place of it tile mayor of tho the city they j boy had laughingly regi tood ed that hut the alicy did n t want mant tho the city that they simply imply canted a kind to set hat it was a like tito tho to a kindly benevolent old gentleman lie ilo seemed to bo be jur fit pressed m billi ith the idea that the sit of the avio union sold leis might be at al derided with good result to fredericksburg anil and was at faist disposed dispo bed to balien that they came caino sit in some official capacity 1 I 1 lie fait fact that I 1 hey mere c evidently iati of ot couise made this ihn but tho the only alternative wa wat t c to bello e that tile men sere lunatics and not 1 1 ot term to bo be deranged lian his 1 honor discoN discovered ered tile truo true tato state of affairs lie became angry and threatened to send Sh chattley attley and hlf his friend to pris aon this disturb flit urb either of tile red leps legs all right said riley to go ahead it if you do our boys mill shell the city for you thi seemed to be jasta Just what hat tho maor or was anxious lous to avoid ail and the tin cat empty b beidl oust as it was mas produced the llie do sired effect shanley loy and riley saw at a good deal of during their brief stay there they made friends v ith lh astonishing rapidity and there co coined filed to be little ur or no feeling against thou because they more horo rn nul bonns ins Is no duurt boi bolever Lowe vcr ever that I 1 2 1 s J f 1 LIE HE TOTT TK STOW or OF T OF tit THE E DA dar Y they were mere treated good because somehow they managed to eruvey convey the idea ido that thai thoy they wore privileged characters they not an fn a hurry to As shanley often slid said ards they took little bitne about it so there was no lie necessity for undignified battle it if like story of their exploit seems quenis to indicate this that hoaas a wall of limited intelligence indications were sere never more screed three or four let geuns ins in the legislature of tho the fotula tate where lie ho not nol only wielded much juwill once but here lio ile took real rank as the most able of I 1 lie iho lieutenants of ill leader when lie he was out of an clebit occurred not ilot more than a abrar par ago lie he was vas city clerk and am was regarded is as olin of tile most astute men v hoover beld the lie he left quite a handsome fortune and his popularity arity was mas unbounded those vt aho ito knew him III ID war days speak of him as a man u ho I 1 had tile tho 0 of a vo 0 aid lle IRAs anil a I 1 hie c ilear IK III 1 or f a ike it A 11 1 lie L returned e U n e 1 I to tile the camp fco lilic is ill t 1 t alicy ii e y hail had i Mil if nally tit tin refusal ul of 1 I city and tile cabiria mas HAS proud of its it pur pair or of Adventure ir in vic morning fali lnor m vii it s put out IN eiith tit a orkini patty tills mas as ail tile pun liim ashment lie ho received and it il turned out to bo be it a rood good thing for him 21 lie 1 6 developed which enado 0 ins as fis ianco valuable ablo to tho the of licer beer in charge of tile tho party and liter later on oil lio lie wa was to 10 ike engineer engi there lie ho v nil tho the regard of tho the beneral tro noral taho he had cd his red logs through tho the lidd glass and the result was wa that lie ho because a limite llant responsibility cured his hh put riley vho aho WIK also a returned to the city of chunias Ch after tile tho war ile ho filed died sonto years ears before and that city lerk clerk licad his land hand as ai lio ito at lay ay F dots DOBON ov |