Show potatoes potatoes tasted good at Milledg milledgeville eville said capt fowler on the march to the sea I 1 paid 2 GO 60 for a peck of potatoes that was pretty steep but ve me were all potato imato bungay and the matter of 0 price cut small figure in the transaction aut after I 1 had secured tho the potatoes I 1 circumstances were against me we note waiting malting on the ills streets of MII ledger ille chete we could build no fires and where every house had a guard to prevent present intrusion by sol diers nil M cook vas mag absent without leave prid jand tor for the time being aaron catlin one of the company compan was mits looking after me irie with mith as he sald said tile hie honorable in fit intention of not letting me starle stane lie lins insisted isted that ills ilia oath and ills titu lion and all of ills by b laws lawa compelled com pilled him to see that those pota potatoes toPs ocic cooked lie he loaded a caknip kettle to the rouble muzzle with potatoes and a colored woman loman to take them our her back fence and boil them the bos mete betting 3 to 1 that would never see the po tatos again when the colored woman ap feared with the kettle hettle of steaming po and catlin recel receded Ned them hem with mith enthusiastic expressions of thanks lie was surprised and dis conceited when the woman sold said I 1 doehn t will lor for euthin salt catlin s ild of course not how much for bulling the potatoes 9 to the woman oman arl answered sered without hesitation three dollars sah thlu was mas a stunner but catlin was equal to the oc ore islon cislon ile he fished out of his pockets a con federate postage stamp and a 10 cent note federal Fp Fe doial detal mont 5 and tend tied the collection to the boil boiler r of pot puta toes unexpectedly she accepted with meagerness lea eagerness gerness arid and catlin brought the boiled rot I 1 aloes to headquarters where the offie cirs mess had a least I 1 neier neer had bien ben as potato hungry as I 1 way was on tint thit occasion and I 1 never tasted ani tiling quite as rood good as shohe boiled potatoes eaten with a scant ration 0 of f salt in the streets of catlin insisted that hat tile the old colored woman give him a nervous chill when she demanded 3 for boiling the pot polo toes but he soon that sh ahe 0 at random scarcely arceli sc I 1 the difference butlen dollars and cents before that campaign was mas over catlin and his chum chain wet e captured one wore more a pa pair r of neatly neaily new boots find and the other a pair of nearly new shoes they knew that the debs would levy on the boots and shoes as soon as an inventory was taken and d dur u r ing the night they concocted a scheme the next morning catlin wore more one boot and one slice shoe and ilia comrade wore wor e one shoo shoe and one boot the exchange give them the ap bearance pe arance of a job lot who in eitrem ity had pic ed up unmated footgear and neither was molested they were exchanged a little later arid and as soon its as leased le iele aged catlan wore two to boots as good as new and ills partner two shoes the rabel guards didiot t know what had bad happened to give thir th ir prisoners ft a more genteel appearance until the matter was explained to them and then alth a look at their oan well worn shoes they failed to express their appreciation of the trick chi cago inter ocearl ocean grant and buckner what may be called the he true birn ing point in the career of ulysses S grant general and president was the manner ira in which he forced the our bur render of lort DoiK Drat lson incidentally calling as pretty a bluff as ag a distressed soldier over ever made tor for the betterment of his position it was v an the correspond ence which follows that brought bi ought grant before the country as aa nothing else could and made rna de it impossible to sub eject lect him to the plots of his hia rivals in the tha future a radical change in attl atti tude before da light grant this letter from his hia enemy headquarters fort donelson feb 16 1862 to bi bilg ig gen it S grant commanding united states forces near fort clr in consid oration of all he go arning the tha present situation of at this station I 1 propose to the corn com mandi nig officer of the fe federal eral forces tho appointment of commissioners to agree upon terms of ca capitulation of the forces and fort under my oani 0 o roand inand and in that view suggest an armis itice until 12 10 0 clock to dav I 1 ari R sir air very our obe adient servant 11 11 B by buckner brig gen 0 8 A undoes not alpar that grant even topped copped to thanh before dispatching his bla reply cepl y reading g trust rusk jor r ai M headquarters army arm in th the e field itara arp fab 4 B U jar liner canted gatei ra tei r y I 1 d oura of this dat propos z and appointment of commas blonera to settle lerin of capitulation is luit jut col d no terms except an unconditional and immediate barren der can be accepted I 1 propose to move immediately upon your works I 1 arn am sir very respectfully your lour obedient servant U V S grant brig grit nor did it require any extended pause for reflection to persuade gen buckner to close the correspondence with the following headquarters dover tenn fob feb 16 to brig gen U S grant V U 8 army sir the of the forces under my command incident to an unexpected change of commanders com mandera and the overA overwhelming helming force under your command compel me notwithstanding the brilliant success ot of the confederate arms yesterday sester dav to accept the rons and terms which aou ou propose I 1 arn am sir your very obedient sern sen ant S B D Du Buc linor clitter brig gen C S A tho the two commanders had been at aest est point tor for three years together and they had the friendliest of conversations when ullon they met a few hours duel burl ncr who had just assumed command told grant he be would not have got up to donalson so easily it if he had had anything to say about it giant biant replied by baying that it buckner nii ckner ila had been in command he be not have tried to do it the way he did alil tim main point however ls that it 1 mas it a ctorn |