| Show p jl y X long ng for a loved one in silent awe I 1 ew the western sky the gather ng clouds gold rimmed by setting sun now from the hi lit atop comes the p n g ht bird birds s erv all nature speaks another day I 1 la done while soft the evening breezes beat bear to me the sigh of one I 1 love and long to see soft p allowed llon ed on my couch sweet meet slun ber holds in calm repose my head upon her breast with gentle touch my eyel ds she e folds and soothes my wearied sp rit into lest iest and in the happy dreams that come to me I 1 clasp the one I 1 lo 10 e and long to se the sun is up the lark Is an the wing ing the linnet carols forth her tuneful lav the bird choirs now in one grand sing their grateful praises to the ne N born day and mingled with their music comes to me the voice of 0 one I 1 love and long to see the flowers bow the rising un qun to greet across the green swa d lengthy shad aws lie V vi hile blossoming nature breathes her perfume sweet and wafts it on the breezes to the kv anon each sparkling dewdrop dew drop brings to me A tear ot of one I 1 love and long to see won by S ckles during the recent reunion ot of the army of the potomac at gettysburg the following letter was read from gen james longstreet which will be read with interest by every veter an who served in the civil war and especially by those who fought at the battle of gettysburg washington sept 19 1802 1902 gen D E sickles gettysburg pa my dear general sickles my plan and desire was to meet you at gettys burg on the interesting ceremony at tel hepding iding the unveiling of the slocum monument but today to day I 1 find myself in no condition to keep the promise made you when last we were together I 1 am quite disabled from a hurt in one of my feet so that I 1 am unable to stand more than a minute or two at adt a time please express my sincera regrets to the noble army of the poto mac and to accept them especially tor for yourself your belf on that field you made your mark that will place you ou prominently before the world as one of the leading figures ot of the most important battles of the civil war As a northern veteran once remarked to me general sickles can well afford to leave a leg on that field I 1 be that it is now conceded that the advanced position at the peach orchard taken by your corps and under our orders saved that bat tle blefield field to the un on cause it was the sorest and saddest ie of life for many ears but today to day I 1 can say with sincerest emotion that it was and Is the best that could have come to us all north an 1 south and I 1 hope that the nation reunited ma always enjoy the honor and glor glory brought to t by that grand work please offer my I 1 indest sal stations to your governor and yo r fe low corn rades of the army of the potomac AIA ays yours u s signed tames longstreet Lon street lieutenant general confederate army effect of ot neat uniforms talking of the deflect a neat and clean uniform has on the soldier a veteran writes As an ill of some of the things I 1 have been saying let me tell an anecdote of the civil war aar as related by a volunteer officer we seldom saw regular soldiers during the war var there were a bev regiments of them always dulled drilled dis cip lined and in a way aay that no volunteers were we sed to laugh at it them ve didn dian t I 1 I 1 eve a sold cr or could fight any bette tor for hav ng his shoes blacked or that pre ision on drill meant better fighting in attle battle I 1 was in the tall tail end of a rout the army had gone to pieces A broken disorganized mob we were pouring along a road every man for himself in the falling dusk all at once the seething d colored crowd ahead paused swayed 1 roke and washed to the sides of the road and out stepped a solid body of dark bl bj e a regiment of the dandy reg clars the only unbroken regiment in our dl di vision going to hold the enemy clothes brushed every rap cap on at the same angle every et held at the same angle every set of fo rs irs the same distance apart every foot f fall all ing at the same instant heads beads up an I 1 to the front client quick a grea smooth r inning machine and they had on white gloves goms going out to d e in white gloves for man they pretta nearly all did d e but they held the enemy held ten times their number until help could come and saed sated the day yes we like to dress for the great occasions of life for dinners balls weddings alij am to die couldn coulden t stop sherman a bummers A good many tortes said the cap tain are yet to be told of the army foragers on one occasion on the march from savannah to goldsboro Cold the longest by the way ay evel made by an army in moden times the boys who had pushed far to the front inter cepter the correspondence b tween wade hampton ard general 11 t re feard gard hampton I 1 ad I 1 eez nj i e p I 1 to top sherman s army at all I 1 I 1 ai al Is and he fetui iel ti tier nith mth the to ir 1 A indorsement endorsement Indor all hell can t stop sher man mans s I 1 this showed s h appreciation on hampton a part that the bos bo rather liked him but they gale gaie him lots of double and dined up to the rep tation hp be gave them they pressed ton fon ard every day into tie enemy s counti nn I 1 became resourceful in organizing and le attack if they came on a campal y oi regiment legi ment ot rebel ca can airy alry the b immers d d not fall bad on the main force or scathe bedfor file rebels but acting on a s stem of then on onn formed a line and skir dished until re enforced more M re often than otherwise the foragers of one division i allied to the support of those 0 i ai at other and beat off the r bels be fore the adv aiice guard of tie army came ame p chicago inter ocean un que command there n as a little incident lucid nt that happened at cumberland gap that oat m ga gat Ir interest terest gome some of the boys I 1 said sala one of the members of an ohio post it was vms in the summer of 1862 1962 A great number of the refuges s would come into our lines from east tennes see and they were being rapidly or arto regiments both of in cartry and cavalry for service in tire lenlon army arms one sultry afternoon in august an infantry captain le longing to one of the tennessee regiments was drilling his company ht hi had his men in two ranks and wished to change them from that into four ranks either not knowing or forget ting the usual command he called out form two strings to four strings git youngsters should down brakes the way some of the fellows git tangled up said a veteran from mas achu as he managed to p ill him self together out of a crowd n near mr the treasure 3 during the recent encamp ment reminds me of the conductor cr who was elected to a captaincy of a company he was drilling a squab and while marching them by fla aks a he be turned to speak to a fellow boffl er far fox a second on looking around again toward his suad squad he saw that the were in the act ot of butting up into a fence in iris hurry to halt them be he cried but out down brakes dowa down brakes D it down brakes now I 1 think jome of theat these young fellows ought to down brake brakes when they see se a old chaps coming loi lot by curt n oae ojie of the pennsylvania old time fighters says that when the state was greatly excited over the threatened in caslon of the rebels everybody dered arms and was ready to rush in to the battlefield battle beld when the enghu spasm was at its height gen mcclellan had driven the enemy off and gov curtin le ie called the troops A young man who NN as deeply imbued with th the e sp nt rit of patriotism and religion was describing his own feelings during this period he was slow in coming to I 1 is decision but said I 1 sought the direction of heaven and heard a voice saying unto me go and I 1 was on the po nt of going when gov cur tin counte coi ante banded the order anecdote of benn agton dunn during the hard fought battle ot of benn ii ton two brothers fought side by side protected by the trunk of a fallen tree the older was a man of pray pram er but the other was not baum daum a indian allies in ambush picking off the americans when the older brother got sight of one of them and taking a long aim lifted up heart and vo ce in prayer saying lord have mercy on or that indian s soul and aured bur ed hs h s bullet in the redskin redskins s brain the other brother got a shot at another indian at the same mo ment and as his ball entered th head he bit off the en I 1 of a cartridge to load again and sa d there a another I 1 ardlan gone to bell A kel rel c of the war davis J hyndman a grocer in opening a case of peaches recently discovered a small package of manila paper ei closing a ZO 50 calibre ball with a dent in its side sho ving ervice on the paper was written this bullet was to fo nd in the th orchard and brought in the pad er would like to hear from it as I 1 live on the old ken mountain I 1 ittlefield attle field and would I 1 ke he to I 1 now who gets this relio of the ir I 1 1 the states wali walter er E pe refolds marietta cobb count r ga tl TI e b ilet will be placed alu wit i the rotes as its Us credentia g in wishing wi shing ton headquarters tr oute aute from an old foe at a re of ovil civil war veterans in wash agton iowa the old st s idlers had for one of their most welcome guests col josiah patterson wh com banded a regiment of alabama baval ly in the rebellion col patters in n de d e I 1 vered an address n which he said amid great cheering the agn ate adest at tribute I 1 can pay you if iv to bring you tl e message that in all the bouth south there is not one man mail who won d if he could deny the flag and dissolve the union I 1 many a bachelor has made a aum num her ber of happy by not manying them when a married man falls awn stairs he is sure to blame his wife for tl e 0 in shan if a n nan an loi loies es a girl more than tongue can tell I 1 e sho id show I 1 1 er his I 1 ocl ocle e I 1 col |
