Show TAI to blossoms faire fairs pledges ledges 0 a fruitful tree why d di you f fall a 11 so fast your date la Is not n ot so past but you may stay sta yet here a while to blush and gently smile sm Is and go at last what were yee borne to be an boure or halt half a delight and so to bid good night bitle nature brought yee yes forth merely to shew your worth and lose you quite but you are lovely leaves where we may read how soon things have their end though ne er so brave and after they have shown their pride like you a while they glide into the grave herrick sold er taken for a girl george W logan of salem va who came to the U C V reunion as delegate from hop dyole camp tells an interesting story illustrative of the belief of union soldiers that many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the confederate army mr logan was only seventeen seventeen years old when he was taken prisoner in an attack on fort cannon he ile was very slender but deep and very girlish in his appearance being fair with high color and wearing his long light lightbrown brown hair brushed straight back and taken to point lookout and later to city point he be attracted the attention of an officer of the escort the federal officer treat ed the youthful prisoner with as much courtesy as circumstances per bitted frequently conversing with him one day the officer asked to be told the truth regarding the belief among federal soldiers that many women were serving in the confederate army some of them being types of the best of southern womanhood mr logan said it was not true but he had heard in common with others that a few women had so served I 1 believe this was so said mr logan yesterday but I 1 do not think there were more than a dozen such instances and I 1 have no positive knowledge of any the federal officer was thoughtful tor for a while after the conversation re berred to and then urged the prisoner to forswear the confederacy and go to the officer s pennsylvania home I 1 can arrange it without trouble said the officer and my people will re belve you and treat you like one of the family A dozen times or more the officer urged the point I 1 subsequently learned said mr air logan that he believed I 1 was a girl and that it was for that reason that he wanted me to go to pennsylvania he ile never intimated such a reason to me but my information came in a way that seemed to be reliable and then it was that I 1 understood why be tore fore our conversation about women ho he had offered off ered to procure me a bath ing suit it if I 1 wished to go swimming at any time new orleans times democrat hooker at lookout gen hooker fighting joe as he was proudly called by his demoted followers and whom it was my pleas ure to meet and to know well after the m war ar was one of the brilliant sol diers of the union army says gen john 13 gordon la in scribner scribners s he had already been hailed as the hero of the battle of the clouds at lookout mountain and whatever may be said of the small force which he met in the fight upon that mountain mountains s side and top the conception was a bold one it Is most improbable that gen hook er was informed as to the number of confederates he was tp met in the effort to capture the high and rugged point lookout which commanded a perfect view of the city of Chatta noo ga and the entire field of operations around it his movement through the dense underbrush up the rocky steeps and over the limes limestone hone cliffs was executed with a celerity ana and dash which reflected high credit upon both the commander and his men among these men by the way was one of thoss those merry makers those dis of good cheer found in both the confederate and union armies who const buted themselves veritable fountains fourt ains of good humor whose spirits glowed and sparkled in all situations whether in the camp on the march or under fire the special role of this one was to entert entertain aYn his comrades with song and as hooker a men were struggling up the seg ol 01 of lookout mountain climbing over the huge rocks and being p aked off of them by the confederate sharpshooters this frolicsome soldier amused and amazed his comrades by singing in stentorian tones his ludicrous ludi croue camp song the retrain refrain of which was big alg little p g root hog or die the singer is now dr H S cooper of 0 col orado when gen swore during the month of october 1864 says john N morton of hamil ton mo hood s raid cut off all s ip plies of forage for atlanta the mules of the pontoon train army of the ten lessee at the chattahoochee river east of atlanta subsisted for weeks on weeds brush and the bark gnawed from trees when sherman marched from november 15 from atlanta the pontoon train was drawn by skeleton mules after crossing the first stream and the wet pontoons were loaded it was impossible for the amacia e I 1 mules to draw them A great uproar follow d when the next stream was reached and the pontoon bridge mules in the aar i ar an order was issued by aen en howard that gen dej tach teams from a division o idnani train to bring up the bridge A friend of mine who was dispatched with mith the order says as gen read the order he braced himself up majesty cally to his full bight and exclaimed veil vell I 1 pe tarn tam do chaneral Che howart dink I 1 my hand in my booket and pull out mules but the sturdy mules of the ordnance train had the bridge on hand in good time the boys of the pontoon train were not ma a ay days in recruiting some of the best mules in georgia and the boys went singing to the sea national tribune horse loved his mastor mast one of the strangest Inc Hents of animal devotion of which I 1 eve ever r heard was that of the favorite hors of my brother maj mal frederick W matteson Mal teson said mrs clara M doolittle a tenement inspector the other da dur ing the civil war alter atter my brother reached corinth miss as a n ajor in the illinois yates sharpshooters he was stricken with feer fever ani an I 1 soon died during my brother brothers s illness his favorite horse sahib was tethered a mile away from the wilder wilderness mess of tents in a small cleared in lu closure one morning the groom who visited the horse dally daily was unable to find it and after searching for hours ame to report the loss to my brother imag ine his surprise to find the animal contentedly standing in the tt tnt nt with his head touching my sick I 1 rother Is breast the horse had broken away from where it had been tied and found its way to the tent alone it persisted in staying near the tent and the soldiers moved by its devotion did not attempt to drive it away A few days later sahib without a bridle followed the ambulance which carried the body of his master for three days after my brother brothers s death the horse refused to touch food and was la consol able chicago inter ocean honor confederate deal for the first time a memorial service was held memorial day in arling ton national cemetery washington in honor of the memory of the erate soldiers who are burled buried there the services were conducted ly by asso clatious clat ions of confederate veterans and sons of confederate Vete veterans raus and 4 auxiliary societies 41 soon after arlington was established as a national cemetery many un identified confederates wen wert burled buried there and their graves have ever been kept green by the federal au T orioles recently by the authority of t congress the remains of a consid rable erable number pt pf confederate sol diers who had bad been burled buried at different ent baies in the north were removed to arlington and interred in a ser section tion of hat that cemetery it has been I 1 he cus torn ton annually for friends of lae the con federate dead buried at arlington to place flowers on their graves select ing a day following the Natio ial al holl bell day this year simple exer aises in connection with the of fl flowers wars were held alie little burying ground cut near fort stevens whore where lie ile buried of jubal early s troopers who ic lest st their lives when the famous attack on washington was maje in 1864 mas a al 0 decorated A scriptural or 01 at the second battle of B 11 ill II hun run r remarked a member of orio on of the new york posts the famous thirty fifth regiment from Jeffer jefferson Jeff ersol sot county new york kork suffered terribly and ef forts were immediately mad madi by the friends at home to fill its thinned r aks 1 among the first to pring to its rescue was one Au augusts gusis buel who aas mas famous as a hunter in johnbrown s tract and distingue dist ingul bed tor for being a capital fellow and a ai excel lent marksman his uncle deacon wetherby met gus a day or t no vo after he had enlisted and said well augustus I 1 understand jou ou have efi enlisted listed in the thirty fifel yes uncle I 1 have was the reply and I 1 am to start tor for the regi ment tomorrow morning ahat s my boy that s right continued the deacon I 1 am a very glad you have enlisted and you I 1 aye my prayers and blessings aid now augustus boy let me give you a little advice when you go into bat tie tle have your gu gun n well charge and in good order when the order Is given to advance on the rebels I 1 want mant you my dear boy to remember the scriptural injunction it is more blessed to give than to receive washing ton star confederate flag for 25 one of the most interesting articles irti cles considered historically that were put up at yesterday s sale of the I 1 im col lection at the fourth regin i nt ar mory according to the baltimore american was an old conrede i te flag of the montgomery design allowing showing the seven stars of the original crate erate states As the old banner torn by bullets faded and bedimmed bedim ed by age was brought to the stand and unfurled a wave 01 0 enghu spread through the I 1 all a 11 in putting it up auctioneer 0 A JL kirk land said that the flag was capter 1 by capt farber of the united state states navy prior to 1864 while in the block ade service the first big 25 thic was offered was not contested and the flag was knocked awn to the SmIth sn cn an in t 11 tite up for he bal turn un |