Show READY WIT It may ml seism e m rather trite trU to 10 go back balk to Civil war time for tor a story but all th time the tales tale tal of that memorable time have not Men been told and as II this one was wal a persons personal experience of oC a relative of or mine I J can vouch for tor It I t have never seen lINn It II In print nor heard hard anyone else 1 tell It ItI My I uncle Maj IJ Thomas was a R surgeon attached to tn 0 Ion flea Grants I a start clan It WM was after the of ot Tho The tulon forces fora had entered en Ired the t he pity city I tf and end much mu h mm merrymaking making and nd entertaining was wall going oln on One Oil night a dinner dimmer was 11 In III progress at hh h many Inan northern officers officer and end a large lar number of ot southern Indie were pre present e nt lun Many toasts had been pro proposed proposed rn posed oled and end drunk trunk all ull of ot them Tactically practically in honor honer of the Ihl s es of ot the lILlon army and th Ih men responsible for tor them Finally lly sue one or of the Ih southern lOuthern ladle n R great and noted for her hr infamies partisan flUn fer ing fur for r the south arose aro and Mid aid Gentlemen n may I 1 propose propone H It tact With natural and a II little irp the tile ranking officer said ald Cot Certainly N Well Hell 11 then gentlemen I give fIve you The Th Southern Confederacy It U was an in embarrassing situation nut Rut with hardly a IL moments hesitation one tine of ot the northern officers officer relieved l the tension Down with It II gentlemen he cried and th the glasses were drained without em embarrassment m and without disloyalty |