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I t An V 4 1 II 1 o Od 4 r OP Ot WIT I m v 1 fl r 0 g nAI J M 1 e m t j L T m 1 Ji f 9 l lAJ AJ Ci IHl r- r The Glory of of War The band is it leads swinging gayly as the big review But Wheres the little l tle drummer and h his drum r f- f The Thee The fifes e are all a chuckle and the flags are snapping too Y But who Is this that's t ats at's asking for his chum The cannons have been polished andS and S the stains are wiped away The fog rog of ot smoke has lifted and no nomore nomore nomore more Is drifting gra gray gray And that wasn't we can see the sun shining yesterday Is that a dirge that some one tries to toj hum j The orders orders speak of glory and of how we won the fight But BU who has seen the little drummer drummer drum drum- mer boy 11 anybody's battle till we crumpled u up up their right e f. f y You'd You d think he thought his drum a Christmas to toy F You Tou see the harness glisten gUsten with the polish on the straps traps You Tou wouldn't think these fellows had been e making I over Vet maps ft e Unless you o chanced to notice that the ranks are showing gaps Ills His mother said he was was' washer her only Joy sald It They've sheathed the clanking sabers and the flags again are furled But But- wheres the little drummer and andL L' L J 4 his drum rt- rt They They hey say a day like y yesterday will will- will will-in In influence in- in Th The fluence Ut boys the all f wonder world J r why h he doesn't w come i Its It's S strange eg that some ones one's speeches or ory y the thing of at a apen pen v c Can send us out to kill or to be killed t F t And b by when h other h o-ie o men men- war war Is is' is ov over r rAnd r they they will talk and n write again J The Th little drummers drummer's u hands ds are white 4 z and numb Therell There'll be an arch of welcome for the boys when we return They und fund him with his drum upon the od Tod But therell there'll be pe women waiting and their their- hearts will always yearn I ti c They laid the drum in with hin id ld the squad j Its It S 'S all a apart part of glory all glory all the banners they win 6 wave v And Tall all the ringing speeches made InY In Y honor honorof of the brave r And nd all th the songs songs but but glory hardly hardly ever ever J finds fins your grave God They left the boy to glory and to W. W. W D D. N. N in Chicago ago Tribune I Interrupted Wartime Wedding The The vicissitudes of war and the friendships of peace pe-ce are are strangely II- II iIi iri the lives of W. W J J. J Knight tc and William M. M Skillman two messen- messen messengers messengers gers sers in the office of the comptroller of f the currency who sit opposite each F other every morning and open the it h mail mall of that bureau In the civil war Skillman was one ODe one f I of Morgans Morgan's raiders and Knight a at t member of an Indiana regiment in charge of a detail of men captured him and a few of his comrades under circumstances that made their capture especially galling In 1893 the two men again met this time while each was drawing a salary time from Uncle Sam in the treasury department de- de and since then they have been fast friends although Mr Knight Knighty y 3 never tires of telling the story of the i Interrupted wedding festivities in f which his fellow messenger played his part W. W P P. Knight was sergeant of Co B D Fourth Indiana cavalry In September September Sep- Sep JF I I 1862 one battalion of the thel l Fourth commanded by Maj John A. A Platter wass at Madisonville Ky Ky- together with the Sixty fifth Indiana Indiana Int In- In t i diana diana infantry commanded by Col Cot r John W. W Foster afterward secretary of state Col Foster was was in command Jp of the Union troops In that region y About this time Morgans Morgan's cavalry i which had been making things lively for the Federal troops and Incidentally Incidentally Incident Incident- ally frightened lightened northern people living along the southern boundary of Ohio f and Indiana Indian was operating in this Y part of Kentucky t. t The sweetheart of the lieutenant ant of Skillman's company lived near Madl- Madl Madi- Madi Madisonville 1 sonville and this officer decided that he might might might-as as well get married then as ast asto t to Postpone It until later In the war i Arrangements were made and Invitations Invitations sent out to a limited number of r the the men of his company all of whom r Lt L- L V Flit r- r t I I tte o. o c a from that J 1 Morg Morgan n was camped about thirty miles distant from Fosters Foster's headquarters and the home of the bride was midway between between between be be- tween the two forces The fhe wedding ceremony had been teen performed and yielding to the persuasive persuasIve persuasive per per- powers powers of the blue grass maidens the twenty-odd twenty Johnnies remained to participate in inthe inthe inthe the dancing that followed This proved their undoing It was while this was going on that Col Cot Foster heard of the affair and ordered ordered ordered or or- dered Major Platter to capture every Confederate present Sergt Knight with sixteen men was detailed to do dothe dothe dothe the deed and Private Skillman h has has s never quite forgiven him for the ruthless ruthless ruthless ruth ruth- ruth ruth- less manner in which he p that wedding party The house was s surrounded and the lone stationed outside to watch the arms arm of the soldier boys was quietly v overpowered red and the fighting Implements removed to a convenient con con- spot where they would afford the wedding guests no service in Inthis this juncture The door Was forced open open and and the Johm Johnnies ies commanded at the the- revolvers revolver's revolvers revolver's revolvers revolver's vers ver's point to surrender A rush w was was s made for doors and windows dows but ev every every ev- ev ery avenue of escape was closed A Yank stood ready to greet t the e wedding wedding wedding wed wed- ding guests The fhe lI lieutenant bridegroom brid groom and his men surrendered as grac gracefully as the the circumstances would permit permit- but pleaded that that they be permitted to con eon Via ii b o to join in the merriment Here ere r was Vas where Sergt Knight for for- forgot got is orders r l rs but butas as alls all's well that en ends s well no harm was done The boys in blue placed a guard outside and then joined the boys in gray and for an an hour or more forgot the war and its horrors It was Skillman however who aroused them f from m their reverie Skillman had not been danci g with his accustomed hilarity he sat in a corner pleading illness but scheming all the time how he could get away and give the alarm to Morgans Morgan's com com- mand An opportunity as he supposed presented presented presented pre pre- itself and Skillman made a adash adash a adash dash for the window and for liberty but the dash was of short duration Knights Knight's men ceased to be dancers and became soldiers who knew their duty The Confederates including the newly wedded lieutenant were promptly marched off to Fosters Foster's headquarters headquarters head head- quarters as prisoners of war New New NewYork York Yort World Soldiers Soldier's Sense of Humor The late Rear Admiral Henry C. C Taylor often cited as an example of ghastly humor an incident that befell a young woman during the civil war says the Baltimore Herald She was good and kind he would say and during the war she visited the hospitals daily dally distri distributing fruits and flowers and tracts One morning on her rounds a ayoung ayoung ayoung young soldier immediately after she had passed him set up a loud laugh She turned and looked loo ed at him in surprise He seemed a pitiful case Nothing of him but his face was visible visible visible vis vis- ible on the little white bed and this young joung face was sadly thin and pale Nevertheless he laughed like one possessed pos pos- His mirth resounded through the room The visitor returned to him Will you tell me what amuses muses you she she- he said Why maam ma'am said he here you have given me a tract on the sin of dancing when Ive I've got both legs shot Washington Post off j dit |