Show song of the drum do you hear my summons ham ner through the era me and ahr clamor do you feel my throb and thrill when I 1 meet the smell of powder oh my mercy note grows loude and my song shall not be stil follow eibl beside his fellow neath the vapors gray and yellow W idly checri g sternly dumb and rumble rumble rumble when abe smoke wreaths toss and t abie YOU shall hear the rolling drum fol low the drum men forget the fears and tollies as they face the blinding vo leys and the young rec ailts they come with the simple ant faces from the quiet country t laces 10 the call of me the dr m come plowboy lad and carter and your i 1 te blood freely barter for the bullet sure for some and rattle rattle rattle through tl e din and roar of battle you shall hear the ro ling drum fol low the drum when the boys that follow there drop aside and fall at ladt from the surg ng 1 nes of led then no more of pomp and ruffle my notes awhile I 1 muffle and I 1 n oan and moul n the dead but the los ng battle needs me and the wh skiing bullet speeds ne through the reeling ranks I 1 come and clatter clatte clatter where the broken regiments scatter you shall hear the roll ng drum fol low the drum pall mall gazette about stonewall jackson few generals genei als were so beloved and revered by their soldiers as stonewall jackson the great flanker was by his his simplicity strength dading skill and indomitable will endeared him to his troops while his successes roused their admiration whenever great cheering was heard in jackson s camp those who were detained from being present at the occasion would sai here comes either jackson or an old rabbit while in camp and winter quarters jackson s soldiers indulged in jocular etorres camp stories as they were styled made up by them about their beneral stonewall died ran one of these stories and two angels came down from heaven to take him back with them they went to his tent he was not there they went to the outposts he was not there they went to the prayer meeting he was not there so trey had to return without him but they came to heaven they found that he had made a flank march and had reached heaven ahead of them another story was this the soldiers declared that gen jackson was greater than moses h took moses they said forty years to lead the israelites through the wilderness with manna to feed them on stonewall jackson would have double quacked them through it in tree days on half rations at one time when jackson s camp was on the southern bank of the pa hannock and that of the federals on the northern bani of that river a friendly intercourse not only con fined to the exchange of coffee and tobacco existed between the outposts of the two armies and friendly greet ings were often exchanged across the river one day when jackson rode along the river and the confederate troops ran together as was their cus torn to greet him with a yell the ed eral pickets shouted across the river ing what it was about stonewall is coming was the reply and am mediately to jackson s astonishment the cry hurrah for stonewall jack son rang out from the federal ranks thus the voice of north and south prophetic of a time of renew ed unity mingled in acclamation 0 a great soldier los angeles times A farag ng inc dent of arse said dan R anderson the most trying duty tor a soldier was standing picket on a stormy night with a skulking enemy in front for aging required nene of another sort but it required also readiness and re while we were at me term joe cahill 1 I have heard he in chicago and myself were out foraging and came upon a field of sweet potatoes and melons on a hillside some distance from the road I 1 suggested that we go over and dig some of the potatoes on shares and we were soon at work we had dug about halt a bushel as fine sweet potatoes as you ever saw when a rifle bullet struck the ground between us we saw where the smoke came from and we saw also a house not tar away believing the bush whacker would run to the house we decided to get there before him As we turned the corner of the house at a full run we came face to face with the bushwhacker gun in hand caught in the act he was greatly disturbed while we were in great good humor As he had had the privilege of shoot ing at us we took the privilege of certain things found in and about his house e took half a bushel of onions two hams some butter in a crock it would have been better for us to have had it in a bottle half a dozen young chickens and loading up the old man bith his owa goods started for camp about half way to camp the bush whacker threw his white man s bur den on the ground and bolted As joe was carrying the gun with half a dozen chickens strung on it over his shoulder I 1 dropped my load and gave chase I 1 caught him brought him back to the b irden persuaded him to take it up and we reached camp without any further trouble there we turned the bushwhacker over to gen nelson who well pleased at the capture asked no questions as to why we were outside the lines chicago inter ocen in a wart me cave of the thousands of acres of nation al parka and military reservations owned by the government the one at vicksburg miss is the only one which has a large cave an under ground home which was used by cit eizens as a place of refuge during the civil war there were others of topse aves in faan 1 es lived during the siege but they have disappeared with the growth of the eft and tl is one in the park Is the only one remain ing and now tl at it has fallen into the hands of the government it will unquestionably be for ages a rel ot the a surrounded as tl e cave is by some of the old entrenchments and fortifications it is made do ably attract alve to the visitor the large loor cut into the stone and earth and neatly closed with wirework screens extend ing out and under dense masses of un der growth and vines giving it an in appearance piled on either side of the door are a number of can nor balls and shells were p eked up and saved from the ands which fell from the guns of the union army during the two months siege in 1863 there were many more of these but they were earned off by visitors and in recent years james lewis who owned the land and the cave found it necessary to have a close watch 1 ept over the cave ana the relic the passageway to the cave is fully three feet wide ana twelve feet long and atte getting into the main room chich Is about twelve by sixteen feet one can enter a smaller one which was used as a store all closet during the occupancy of the cave the floor and walls are smooth and the ceiling about bine feet from the floor but there is no venella tion save from the door entrance and there is no light it is in tar better condition now than when used as an emergency home for the safety ot women and children during the war and it is dif to realize that families spent weeks and months within this dark place of course it was necessary to do most of the cooking outside of the cave as there was no outlet for the smoke and the work of the culinary department was performed in a little shut in cove just to the east of the cave one of the young women who found a home in the cave had her piano removed to it and it served not only to give forth music but as a din ing table and a bed on this same piano while in the cave a child was born and another died and this while the patriot shot and shell fell and ex plodded throughout the city and nun deeds of women ard children sought shelter in this and other caves col mosby in luck col john S mosby who was about as bad a rebel as the united states had to deal with during the years of the civil war but who was a mighty good rebel soon after the wars close when he became a federal of may get a sum from the united states treasury to add to that which he has been drawing as a re constructed bolder during all the years since appomattox it is impossible to say definitely whether or not all the awful tales that are told of the destruction of union property by mosby and his men are true or not but that they tore things up generally is a fac set down by history s own hand mosby was a terror to every farmer along the line of his raids and it Is barely pos sible that it the senate would con sider some of these farmers claims for damages it would be hewing more closely to the mes of justice than it is in allowing a claim of col john S mosby against the united states to go to the court of claims for ad judica alon after mosby s career of raiding was ended a northern officer captured about 8 pounds of tobacco belong ng to the guerilla chieftain mosby sad nothing for a long time tor there was a certain adage which had to do turn about and fair play and he thought presumably that people would think it fitted his case but the years have gone by and from the senate s action n passing a bill which gies col john S mosby the right to go to the court of claims tor pay ment for the tobacco confiscated by the government it would seem that the old rebel chieftain Is to lead one more raid before he dies chicago post fa r play in war forward march was the next order and off they tramped the colo nel at their head until the field which they had despoiled of its fences was reached halt the colonel commanded and they sheepishly obeyed having some time since begun to smell a good sized rodent order arms and down went the rails to the ground now boys aid wallace I 1 want to say a few friendly words to you it is one thing to spoil the enemy and quite another to steal from a non combatant what mr blank s private opinions are I 1 do not know ne ther do I 1 it my business in the least but he has nev er done the slightest thing to annoy us I 1 do know to the contrary we have received considerable kindness at the hands of his family and only last week his wife sent a pitcher of fresh mill every morning to one of our boys who was sick now boys replace those rails and make that fence as good as it was before it you make it somewhat better I 1 think the union of the states will bear the strain for the people of our country both north and south and all the bravest and best soldiers believe in fair play margaret S burke in na magazine on gettysburg battled eld a war department has entered into a contract tor placing upon the battlefield of gettysburg a bronze and granite structure which will point out and commemorate the spot upon which lincoln stood when he ered his memorable dedicatory ad dress on that bleak november day aa 1863 the memorial will be twenty two feet long with two bronze tab lets and a bronze bust of mr lin coin the base will be of red gran ite and upon the tablets will be the words of the address in raised letters |