Salt Lake Tribune | 1887-03-13 | Page 5 | An Uproar in the Camp

AN AM UPROAR LN TUE CAMP now irow the fourteenth army corps hoard the peace news kow distinctions OF RANK ABOLISHED arid anil BI 11 uail hands III glorious old cpr ao 10 lid on fr lili lincoln fall fallu the th joy 1 r tit H af A of at loss 1 l ilaf cidot I 1 tho the yearn of a lifetime are anre too few to efface froin memory a scene jirene la IQ which I 1 WM was an all active night more tanu lhnn twenty years teara ago go la in the wilds vida of east tenna oes writes it a correspondent of ifs is tt tho speaker wl was in an old volunteer gonad ken at through tho the war var in an regiment lie tied seen a great deal ot of war or in all its chanen itjin it jiM anil and had been once se e herolt wouna oli at time he wn has n nf fit a party of friends trl nil who were talking over ever thoe stirring iteli belne pressed klo to tell the story at atthe the night in quention nui tion ho he continued 1 I 1 belonged bo loneil to the old fourteenth corps arety aniie of the cumberland when sherman sharman laid calil atlanta in ashes slid nud pulled out with alve corps for sin savannah annuli he sent bark back tho the fourteenth anil and twenty third unter under old pap Parl Thoss lion on to take cato caro of 0 hood and who by a wide detour noton ru to the and ulet had firmed up on the Toon emeli river anil and was threatening threat INaR hOlle the e of hood at franklin followed t agals two weck its road later ater by tile the magnificent victory cnorr of its at nashville almost destroyed the confederate army from tile the do da those dern demoralized I 1 lazed remnants re crowed the rive river r no never neer looked into the 01 inola muskets red battalions were gath gathered eted tp lart alid sent to tha edt where they their olied the th forces of 0 joe johnston Johns loil wad who was tryl neto to help 16 out by dalaly to oppose the northward sweep of sacr binau through the carolinas Car olinna TUB till END COMING between Ch anil and now new years this was in IBM titomas thomas abandoned the those oro ton tough gh times for tho the boys I 1 can tell ill yon marching in almost constant iwa rain and in alie he mud without shelter ot of any kind nith scarcely arcely Bc anything to eat except if parched 1 relied corn r for or al all hint t a it WM was I 1 1 1 0 happl it pleat crt holiday week ot of our hies f ie a eat ti t diio 0 months in lazily guarding a wn r a most image imaginary aar 1 0 on dees the railroad bet between w ala I 1 hunts barna anil and chattanooga then in ila march ill isitt came a hasty order for or thac the corps to pac nark up anil and go to knoxville packing was as a small job ia the days very ly tow few knapsacks knap Mcka were to bo be been amona among tho the sold jars a ot 61 anil and 62 61 alde ado from rom his musket maii keti cartridge box and haversack harer Mck every man carried alt all lila ilia belongings la ia chiq blanket which he rolled up like it a big anti threw oer ver hla his shoulder oh lAo tt 0 atop 0 a at t knoxville Knox Tillo but went on a al ed miles further furt ber nearly to dills gap cop 1 n a wore were told that loo lee was wa being borely pressed b by grant and it was pt abl a that he night break conquered or the NN fl cot by thin thill route we were not dot likely to have any violent duty to perform per Corin anle lee should come that way it if lie iw did we would have all that we could at tend end it to wo IVA lind had scarcely ruen men T tho b a twenty third corp had some borne we aweeka e ks before been soot nut around to north orth carolina Ci rolinA audias and wan pounding 11 anway at fort fisher I 1 have bate said lil at all i chiy his no 1 ht you may understand how abat o were away up mong among tile the mountains ot of halt east ten denson late ono one evening there camo came to us n news own that threw the campi of tile tho a nouh brigades and divisions in th tho uproar no language 00 of f mine can convey more the than 0 a taint faint conception of 0 tile ro reality allty no nobody body ever iian or heard ot 0 f anything like it 11 before nor pro probably bitely over ever will again a i n I 1 dup you ym 1 want to know what a t i it t wits waa fill all a about be ut it was near I 1 tho he middle ot of april darkness tied down oserthe our tho great bronac bl ionne the bugled end mantled led tile alio matoil tho the grizzled Yet veterans erans who tied liven talking a er the scenes of p the find and von dering ohen han tin the war would be over ot 0 hall had knocked the ashes from their pipes and cravit led michla their little pup tents or their shelters bough fl all MH as still save MO the measure niro aural bonilla trend tread of the nent as they paced to 0 and tro fro upon their boats beets around tile the sleeping army ine LONG roll suddenly there came a cattlin tho the clear night alar a souni sound 1 that hat roused every eiery an taul wo hail often heard it before anil and it always meant bugin mR it was wag the be long roll at head ON A and such a long roll as it waif th the a drummer handled lila his sticks OB as it he wire were pounding for ills hla i ery brylke eryl life Ke ti IN hen a 11 hears beets the alie lonis long roll he liner waits tor for orders it Is so aa alarm that has but one meaning I 1 ng ill ilin duty Is to get ills his tr trapa crapson apson on and L take big hl place in line grid and to bo be very lively about it too tito drums at the headquarters ot of each brigade took up tho the sound and the piercing blasci of oc bugles joined in the chorus startled from their sloop the sold ierg kicked oil blankets blan kela anti anil it a minute till I 1 the companies wore were formed e 0 cry maa also with his a ac c coutre menti buckled on OIL and hill musket at a about alini il ler rr iu in response to tile tall fall in of 0 tile tho orderly ser see coln cinta A abdin in tile the drums a and rid bu bugle 11 gontis tid ad gon hounded d the a companion marcho marched to the color line and the regiments were ready tor for action it was a moonless and tile darkness of 0 the oak night we woods wai wag but feebly diR polled here and aboto by br the weltering JUc kering light of 0 the Etory body inquired of 0 ever body olio aliat the matter mailer wui an wo we had not dot supposed there was wan auy any considerable force at 0 trio enemy within a hundred miles of ifa hut but such alarms hail bail always betokened some borne great aud the thought of 0 nothing but a night attack upon the camp every ear mas strained rained Bt to catch tho the rattle of 0 shots on the picket line xo no sound was 1 I 0 ard save date tho the bustle ot of the assembling troops and tho the voiced of the officers as an they gave the necessary commands comman dH it was VM one of 0 those ra niome mento ot of acx ions that ewt U at the courage of 0 the bravest vote ire teran rall LEE IUD SUIt RENDERED an ali orderly from torn brigado hea quartiers quart tirs pra up tip and banded ft a piper paper to the lh colonel of out re line OU A ill bit of 0 candle we wan a aund n ant anil by a puttering light th tho colonel to a al glanced lanced at the in 90 jumping in about a tit forty feet la in the air he boons one wild it piercing yell trial that A an apache ache 1 act I CI chief might strive in vain to rival V gall e all thought h for or tho the main moment that lie ho had bull zone one crazy when ho b came a down he ado handed d the paper to the adjutant letting le oft off another yell and told lit bilm to res read the ine copy of it a telegram front from secretary stanton announcing the surrender 0 of less leeo army tho the staci a no that followed DO words worda can caa adequately tie de the colonel and adjutant that rl late hate and danced around a and nil fairly every and soldier in the regiment anil and every other regiment did the same lamo tiling thing Well we hoard earit and jelling before and had dono done our fill full bearo it on but berer like that which greeted grated tho h 1 loo ren I 1 of this dispatch from 0 one end ot tile HIB camp chiri to la the other ether tho the confusion and uproar were prodigious mon moa laughed and ua danced arid od hugged one n another anoll nT and rent the air lr with willi every kind of union noine possible to the human hamao voice rolce pitched in its lilg hoat key it wu was as if the inmates of a mori mire M ori of lunatic asylums had boon been turned loevia in thone Toun eases wood IN hen the yelling had la in some flome deffree ree subsided eun sided from sheer vocal ex faustian fa the soldiers began to cut cast about for other means meana to iv make in like a noted nol it matter what it was wa tile the more discordant the better belter only so eo that it helped to swell dwell the awful din all tb e brass brais band babilt were playing though nobody could tell what lit the luni were abe of cifes fifes aud and rattle of drums urucu wore hoard on story hand and the buggers buglers strained to make themi themselves elves hear until unit it 11 as a 11 they would blow ill holy bea libal off then the artillery arUl tory open opened fifty gun Un affa after ertan pin joined in the in I 1 chorus hurt until tit vera every 1 battery I 1 e at I 1 in tl the corps I 1 was fending nd eiffe forth ltd thunder ivan d to allio among tio mountains regiment after regiment began to fire their maikela mui it kela 1 11 is tito men took tile tho cart tram 1 1 their boxed poured in tile tho powder rammed down the paper for wadding find baar blazed anway if clr bells ilni alicy alrow upon the lie gratin it ther wail no DO it arther use for ur them ou can imagine the din but IV ita more fort akely you vou cant A hen tile tho soldiers clail 1 I aid alint bay away their cartridges they baut ell up all tile cabill kettles an ind tin and beat them furiously with sticks tail and stones still and na as fast its ha tile clity to could kaeller atea enough to do ito tho he amp wm wax it a literal flooded with wood mood tho the fires blazed alrh nil th forell WM glow with light likht GIVE ITE A DOUBLE RATION did the th rals try to top stop the riot not a Evne bit it ot of it they felt elt just juat as ili I 1 arious onil and yelled as a louil loud as A Y I 1 e there or was no rank in lump I 1 t hat at tit lit friders and mini men johnd a ill in t the a appall appalling ing racket vied tie ing ng with one a another in a producing tho he most ot artlin effects halt an hour four aft after r tho the trouble bebart bazan an orderly from rom howl qUaTt is r 3 fought brought around an order it said mental commanders roin mondora will issue a ration of w whisky to each cerand find ulan man ia P S clive lira out it double ration tho the army was mall not exactly a temp tein pil perance ranco society pledged ph to total sh ab Still onrO and you MOY may well bellow believe 0 that this order was received lerol ved with great enthusiasm it aftan aa not ion long till the was rach pach roan man receiving lite ills portion in his caute ell or tin tie cup an colonel moul mounted atOd a stump slid aud tie lie he held up ilia hla canteen declared that a man who nho mould nt got get drunk that love aco and and if f any hiaam ina in his regiment should bo be found sober eaber in one four by the watch lie to would donld be tried on tile tho pot 1 by y drumhead drum head bead court martial lie ort t aliea ion lot an C to by emptying his canteen at a a agle pull cuilo bile tho the cheered with tremendous vigor or inder berthe the exhilarating influence atthe 0 tin liquor t tho h 0 din became simply hu are infernal infera ean it that word seems wear slid and meaning meaningless lest t to describe such buch a scene ane there was no ll olence no fighting everybody had hail had enough a of drifting that thai it was wag simply dimply a happy drunk all arouni around thousands of voices joined in tile old or army ta son 1 fl battle attle cry of 0 I 1 I re lied e I 1 halo and lilun trania Tra ramp nip tramp romp john browns IW body y and tile tho rude parodies of dixie and Illo honor ally BI bauo no itha if harmony 1 was lacking tb abo deale deficiency alagi ell was aso biado 11 up a hung hundred I 1 rel old fold in et alic bhea vat vast vol I 1 line or of sound now and then somebody Bom would start vo u ali doxology praise god from rom whom ithe in all damning bless blessings flow t to 0 if alio 0 t tune 11 aay of 0 old handrail and 16 chono leather lunged veterans would ting slog I 1 it t as lidier sung ing before there a 1 thought t of irreverence Irre veronce about it alfar they sung it with tile spirit find aud avith the understanding al also be and trula as e er did the worshipers at a Methodist camp meeting WAS DRUNK men ien dill all sorts of grotesque ero tesque and ridiculous filings they limbed climbed trees anti and yelled from among tho the branches bran choi they made heroic breeches from log and aad stumps stu nipa they turned their clothes clot lic ineido out thoy they rode one another on poles thoy lid did everything that great fertility erti llly of resource in fit this direction could sugg st at the hoad headquarters quarters of our rigaude a horie bucket lull full of eggnog egg nog son n made and the general and his stall indulged in conlous libations after several iio renil arounds they sallied skilled forth unit anil mired eizel the of 0 tho the band anil and for or a parade through tile the c the general headed the ith the bais drum wit which ho he pounded tied so furiously that he be broke rn in ane one of the heads tho the staff officers with horns horn blow blew the most 7 wildly hilly ills mordant int blants As they marched ninn hod hither either and thither regimental unit and ell company in a n Y 0 me a and hundreds of p sold soldiers I 1 fe fell it I 1 in a behind the general still and his stall staff until tile the COlu laft of howling was mao a quarter of a mile long now there are re no doubt in title tills present year of our lord many most t people who lie will say that the soldiers of the fourtin corpt did a very rory reprehensible thing tn in getting drunk that tit nlelio H I 1 lnla perhaps te alln 01 ol iel elot agreeing with them on n g u principles I 1 will say bay that no human belog log kiili i lie lias ia 3 bren been there cart can ribota riboto elih to the full comprehension of such anch an all occasion occA it was before tho the days dats of the temperance crusade and the provocation was extraordinary extraordinary it if tit there ever was since the world t m ans a cre created aled an excuse that hint would hold we far tor for a temporary lipe apes from BO brlity it was and there four acar killing knit and sull suf forIn ering bitch a others othera know not of weary tit marches ches a and TJ a by tin day a and ill night tit through 11 berce I 1 CIL heat 1 and I t beating eat g 0 storm arm of at facing tile the pitiless till 9 b bullet I 1 and acre screaming am 11 billel amidst awful scones of death an andi human anguish anguish inh long months and years that had ad thinned regiment regimen of a thousand men down to a buti hundred llred all wore were past pait the enil end had come and before the eyes of carreal car redl end and war worn wora veteran peterana vet erana arose iu ia a moment blessed pictures pictured of pace and hornet do you wonder that they indulged la in these wil wili I and extravagant demonstrations of joy added to theno them were the glad clad fedeli of victory at last after all tho the bia blood and wretchedness and the patriotic rejoicing over a nation saved by their valor and flem lot lonsk me ask it if yon lw ril have been very likely ahel to you make a fool of f yourself for tho the timo time b being aing it if you had been titers there let us hops hope that the recording angel i filled her face that THE FELLOWS A HO KNOW IT two menta were stationed at a gap more than a mile from the main camp in the excitement caused by the dispatch dip patch they were forgotten when the riot broke out with tho the sound bonnil of the