Show 0 PIT r SKETCHES SOME GOME mhd HT FOR THE THC VE VB ERANS I 1 on the an c a liew tee roe zeloa zai 0 WT war Cerr correa peo al lair ats IT ore la thu the BO a aly a of 1 I ibal UP old favorite bert se written WrItt Mi by julia ward flow ow during th the civil ar r gugig un to the air e of john drown m r 1 1 filoon un 0 yea yee b hay ave seen the story ot of tb h comine ing et of I 1 tb b a lard ila II 11 I 1 a t auk the vintage wh 41 the ali crape of wrath rath are stored II 11 harat baah thi lowa the th fatal of III terrible SAM sword orl ills III truth to I 1 marchin marching on X lav seen tn him film in the ot of a hundred al rolins catulla ls abe tn have build anni 1 an altar r tn in the th elave oiling de devio and damp damps I 1 can read ills III righteous sentence a by 1 b aim dim and ir lamp lamps ilia day is 1 marching mar chint on I 1 I 1 have rj mi r a flery goodel writ in tura ave lital r ros we ot of steel As A y ye deal with my oon eo to with thee the lily alp kraw liall el deal let the tb hero born ot of woman crush the tn serpent kh ith HI ilia iel hoal since god to I 1 marching on OIL it ha has unald wounded un ld forth th the trumpet that hall nr mier rail call retreat rt ret i lie ile in to sitting out the th hr heart of 0 mn men bor before itis 1 judgment Judg niMit amt beet oh be 2 f t my ul 1 to ani awer be toe jt kab 1 1 my fet fe our aad Is 1 marching on tn in the beauty ot of the illies christ wae was born the sea with a elory in III bosom bi iora that trans transfix fig ures you and me As he h died to make men holy let ua us die to make men free IN hilo hl god Is I 1 marching march oil tai f p on the at the battle of f 11 odder river sergt Pende Fende rend was air inick k by ahme abr bullets in a Is ats than ae as o 0 mar and 6 a a ped practically unharmed kirst bo be bay says a shot glanced off the aide side of my boot and truck struck my rifle just in front ot of my face ailing filling my eyes with duit dust and splinters I 1 role up a little when another hot shot strack the middle finger anger of 0 my left hand I 1 got on my knees when a it bullet struck me fair in the chest on the buckle of my haversack breaking it through the center and causing a slight puncture of the skin and bruising bru leing my chest cheat I 1 have been congratulated on belne being the luckiest beggar in mir battalion one of the american soldiers eold lere in the trenches before manila Sl arilla had a till still moie astonishing escape from sudden extinction one bullet crazed grazed the top of bis his echt ear a few seconds later another took a microscopic slice from the lobe of the left ear while a third bullet flashed along the top of his head removing the hair in a perfectly straight narrow iline line As the soldier put it in a letter to his parents it as ver veri kind of them to part my hair eo so beautifully for me and it will save me a lot of trouble tor for some time to come I 1 on ono of the most remarkable of recorded experiences was that of a corporal in the late frontier campaign in india i after several hours of fighting during which the bullets had been flying i thickly around him he was lating himself that he had not even been touched when on an removing his helmet be he saw a small perforation in fr front jut which could only have bea r mile rate ate by a bullet on turning heldt round to look for the point of exit of the bullet be he found not one but two holes and could only arre at the incredible conclusion that two separate bullets must have struck his helmet at exa fly the same point and made two separate openings for I 1 their exit each bullet in its passage through the helmet must have gone literally almost within a hair hairs breadth 0 of f the top of bis his bead one of the men wounded at bad had a still narrower escape from death A h I 1 illet entered ono temple and came out at the other and yet the man has made a complete recovery and ruffers nothing from the tho terrible beyond an oc cis cas onal oual headache I 1 I 1 told ily BY tl e orderly i the orderly was as telling the story I 1 scared why I 1 was n er so I 1 cared seared in my life but I 1 had to sit up I 1 there on that grave and make a bluff that I 1 t afraid my feet ere so cold that they would have froze siow snow i balls bills the old man deployed the corn com pany as skirmishers the dring firing was so hot that tt ly couldn coulden t advance but laid donn down behind a rice dike and kept a blazin away until the big gun guns could get up and drop a few shells the old man fixes the men so they re all right then he goes and sits down on a grave on the hill just back of the company X well ell of course be couldn coulden t have got any place where the augles could have got a better chance at him dut but he just sets there cool like and lights a cigarette uell el I 1 m the hot hat stuff ordery with a reputation to sustain ao 10 bo I 1 have to put up a big front an aul sit down him on the same grave and it a cigarette too the bullets corar a flying around there end dug up the ue dirt and went pop pop overhead and say hone honest st the orderly was scared to death hut but the old man puffs his cigarette and he says says I 1 gue guess they are a hooting shooting at us and the orderly he says leuer I 1 air and you ought to have beard heard bt his teeth a rattling then the old man frays says orderly and I 1 say bars dessir X ve a don doa t care do we order lyt eay says the old man and the orderly bays 6 ays no sir air he ile was ast a holding himself by the shoulders to keep from getting up rolling and down the other side of that hill orderly says the old man there ala aln t a bullet made could hit you or me Is there no gir 1 bays says we orderly and hill feet were 0 so o cold they almost froze together then the rugles fired another volley tolley end and a it bullet went through the old inane man a hat and another one spun past the orderly a ear a orderly I 1 says the old man say the orderly WM was so ut ar deed by that time that be could just grunt sir orderly ays tte old roan they dian didn 11 used to have hare ballots bull tn that could hit you or me out but I 1 RUM a making a new kind now we will get off our perch I 1 and the old man climbed lown down from the grave and ion ought to s ei the orderly roll up tip anil has hug that rid dike bit E it cold feet say y boneet honest my feet wont won t thaw out until next turn bum mer tribune an I 1 alf Cv hip in contrasting the 1111 ol 01 the present pree press censorship jn t the 11 a trans Tran raal with the lax I 1 methods pura ilea duang the rebellion former state senator I 1 I 1 T I 1 a ariit 1 W heu helt a responsible place on oil the staff of gon rawlins during the civil war a few row day ance ince the tb following loci dent I 1 one d lar my before vicksburg th thi correspondent 0 r r es p on tnt 0 f a V p rc h kapci el cr decint ta went 0 u t t to 0 0 an 1 S 10 t 1 path tin general pondered for an all took me ing one ong side take thi this auni maa man be he sali pill up to of those trenches tren the within a of th abi enemy take him up there and lost lo 10 him I 1 don t care what happens un der I 1 aid said I 1 did and acid we started through the kinec noth both of ua us wort mounted I 1 pointed out a crest over looking tho the enemy and told him be h could eel get a good view lew from that pint ain alit t you coming with me he aked no I 1 replied I 1 know all I 1 want tc know I 1 bo so be he started A As eoon moon as ft th the top of hie his hat bat and the tip of his hi mulct mule ean ears showed above the creat there cam came a volley of musketry 10 yard yards wide that cut the air like a blade th the crown of bla his hat hit was sliced off oft as a with shears he managed to drop to the th ground in but the persevering persever inq mule waa was literally filled with lead after the dring ceased th correspond corr pond ent crawled to the spot where I 1 was did you learn what you wanted te tc know I 1 ailed asked eh eap gasped tin the correspondent ipinza his face and looking at t hi his hand hands to see whether they were bloody what I 1 want id tc know oh oil yen of course the one my are over that ridge all right when wo vve return returned eil to headquarter oen gen Itaw lins saw aw ui us and hailed me I 1 went inside him 1 tent 1 I thought I 1 told you to lose that copperhead cor cur respondent somewhere he be sald testily I 1 did the beet best I 1 could air I 1 answered he ile camo came back but I 1 have the honor U t report the mule a total loss iru lawtis hc h ann C during the early year years of the CIO nar ar a party of young men walked oil ot of a theater in new luck ork utter after the performance for mance manee of 0 an opera then popular standing head bead and ders above his hi companion companions henry W lawton then a captain of the thir indiana was as perhaps the most conspicuous of the group lie ile had only recently been promoted from the first lieutenancy of the ninth indiana and lie was on an a short furlough to new now 1 I ork he ile grew enthusiastic over the th performance he ile bad had not nut been able in indiana to see much of opera and together with its natural liking for mu sic the martial spirit of don cesar do d basan completely won him the bedol on occasion was an excellent one and the yung ung captain was wa taken with the famous solo beginning I 1 es let mo me like a soldier fall upon ome some open field at the conclusion of the many en cored caal lawton lamton turned d to nil hit friends frie iida and remarked that the song ex pressed hia his sentiments in their entire ty ac As lawton walked out of the the ater be he tried to the words but beyond the first few ho he could rom re embe little achen NN hen he returned to bis his regi ment be went sent to the bandmaster and asked him to get the music and to learn the piece upon which bis his fancy bad had fallen uben ben tuc we selection arrived the bandmaster was dismayed to find that it was almost strictly a tenor solo nevertheless so persistent was capt lawton that be he turned the solo into a which the band I 1 played as one of the fir ferrite farj rite pieces ol 01 the regiment and during the con sinuous rise of capt lawton through the various grades to that of colonel of the regiment he never lost his lovo love for that bit of song after the war his lore love for the piece continued until among his friends it became known as lawton a song st loki lojis Is globe dem th llodra ballet the modern ino derti r ac de while it greatly in range accuracy of fire are and general effectiveness its immediate predecessor says a soldier Is to not so 0 o likely to kill at certain ranges as was the old springfield A or a krag hrag drills an exceed ingi mall ruall and perfectly clean hole and there have been many instanced instance of men being wounded and remaining unaware of the fact until long afterward one major in the dattle that preceded the capture of manila was knocked beels over oner head heid in a trench but immediately got upon bis his feet beet and atter after making a minute examination of his person could find no evidence of a wound there wasu t much time to speculate just then on the cause ot of his stumble but he was certain that he had not been knocked over by a shot that night however when und he discovered a hole in fa bis his trousers between the knee and hip and close examination revealed reve aed a corresponding one in tle me rear he ile then for tho the first time became conscious of a slight stiff nets in his leg A surgeon was called in and his practiced eye discovered that a blauser bullet had gone clean through the major majors e leg but he never suffered in the slightest degree from that wound I 1 only give you that as an instance Ini tance of a mauser wound that under my personal observation but the medical records of he war abound in cases of received far more curious than that it ady tart tet an ali instance of tact and wit used in 4 5 an excellent cause li Is given in war memories of or it chaplain one of mv my chaplain friend friends was on an arav transport trane port going mouth with of officer and men from various regiment regiments thi 0 meers were playing cards in the cabin from morning to night when san day came the chaplain jok a good I 1 supply of reading nutter matter from his cab call in and WM was on band hand with it as u the breakfast break fAtt table wa was cleared off and the off leers were getting reada to pla rard cards an a usual stepping to the head of the table bmat aalde good natu gentlemen emen trat are today and its it e mv my deal I 1 all right chap lain the officers responded I 1 give u a hand the books boo and papers were given out no aara are placed thai that lay the chaplain had hie his opportunity 4 unhinge ed because he showed tact in n Us lis way of presenting prea enting ilk case |