Show lost a valuable belle when the tha army of the lotom Po AC la in the spring of 1862 moved into the fortification at manassas Manas and centre ville the boys spent much of their time gathering ta relics from the battlefield os of bull ba RI run to send home to their friends one day a gawky member of the fourth new york brought in an ones ed plodded boded bomb and started lo 10 extract the load before sending bending it away he should have hare taken it to an aa artilleryman but in sta took too k it to a blacksmith shop and with a hammer har rimer and cold chisel sat down on the floor took the bomb be ba ewein his legs placed the brass braes screw at the point and gave it a heavy blow the next instant the atmosphere was wa dense densa with disintegrated blacksmith shop A section of the batting root had business over tn la another conday and a chunk of the side wall went down to visit vidt the neighboring camp pieces of iron and steel that were werd once tools too took it an immediate vacation I 1 and fietto fled to parts unknown when the boys rushed to see what wall vaa the matter there the man sat eat bolt epright in the midst of the debris with his bis lega stretched out a hammer in one hand bd and a chisel in the other goshi he taid eaid as ag he be slowly crawled t to 0 his fik feet 1 I guess the folks follst it homell home 11 have to get thoat th that at shell tho the only injury that anat bad been done dona him was the singeing of his bis har hair ind and whiskers he even very much b frightened till the next day now hew york recorder corder Bc |