| Show W old glory from islands asleep in the tropical deep past shores where the b hows are beat ing oer hill capped green and fair val leys between speed on when the dawn smiles her greeting 0 er broad fertile plains where the god plenty 0 tr mountains snow crested and hoary sweep westward but know that where ever vou go the sunrise illumines old glory through golden gate flee to the isles of the sea its folds are still rippling before you wherever you roam that fair emblem of home lei as light to the day that shines you it gleams on the seas a promise of peace but flaps er the battlefield gory at liberty s call a protection tor all tb sun ever shines on old glory wherever it waves there the sl ackles of slaves must crumble and vanish to ever the country whose winds kiss its colors it binds with ties that no foe can dissever its blue and its stars tell ot liberty s wars and all men are learning its story it floats round the world like a new hope unfurled the sun never sets on old glory J A edgerton in national magazine mementoes of the war john browns soul goes marching on and seems destined to until the end of american history while rum caging maging through an attic the other day judge rufus G fairbanks came across come evidence from company E of medway and a reference to the john brown affair not previously published the letter is dated Charies town va march 9 and Is as follows friend calvin As you like to hear from me no doubt I 1 now take this opportunity to drop you a few lines our troops are in this town ana corn pany E Is quartered in the court house and I 1 now write this letter in the very toom where john brown received his sentence 0 death ou will find one of the many letters found in the county clerk s office and a bond of a rebel sol dier and you think what you will of it it was only one of the same sort which was feind in the office of the country club I 1 am well and hearty and we boys are getting tired of waiting for a brush with the rebels company E went out the other day with one indian corn pany and got barrels of flour from the rebels and came home from it but the rebel pickets were thick as grasshoppers in the hay time but they ran like thunder when they see us fellows answer soon P S I 1 did not know but you would like a keepsake of the john brown affair so I 1 send in this letter a small brass plate I 1 took from the jury door in the court house also a sample letter the sample letter 1 as follows to the clerk of court dear sir I 1 have wrote you before but I 1 now take the liberty to write again it john brown be injured he shall have vengeance by the god of war he shall have vengeance he may not live to see it but he shall have it sooner or later he may be hung but vengeance he shall have houses and barns shall be burned and gov wise shall have his neck rung or later and when he does he shall be put in mind of it and before he dies I 1 shall tell him what he dies for I 1 shall be hap pay to die in such a cause and so shall john brown please tell the people that it may not be right away they may look tor me for I 1 shall come upon them un alares remember what I 1 have said this Is the instrument I 1 shall use A pen drawing of a pistol here Is another letter of local inter est CULPEPPER va aug 14 1862 mr calvin fairbanks dear sir I 1 am well and have a pretty hard time of it so tar passed through without trouble how do things go with you please give us all the news you know we had a battle on saturday but we were not in the fighting front of the field but were close enough to have shell scatter among us so we had to george H ide and herman spar row were killed and seventeen wound ed tom casey hutch and mons and warren cook are likely to lose their arms bert dark Is wounded in the thigh jim may Is wounded dave mock and sid alien are wounded in the hand with buck shot sam matthews leg is broke bad charles whitney a as hit with a spent ball john coombs Is here my respects to all your folks send us nine recruits it you can write right off respectfully yours AARON BROWN GUSHING NEILL ADAMS OSGOOD BATES PICK ERING BERT WILEY CO direct to ad regiment M V M care of capt quincy col cordon s regiment washington D boston herald peculiar mortal wound speaking of what cannon balls were capable of doing while seeming ly harmless said dan R anderson brings to memory a strange case of an ohio soldier at the battle of mis flonary ridge nov 23 or 24 he was brought to the general field hoppl tal army of the cumberland and was put ina tent near the commissary tent so that I 1 could hear him groan in his agony his groaning was ex and something bom ething altogether un usual much so that it caused me to go to him I 1 met one of the con tract surgeons coming from the tent and asked him what was the cause he said there s nothing the mat ter at all he is playing off and I 1 am going to send him to his regiment I 1 went in to the sufferer asking him where ha ft as wounded he said all he knew about ft was that as he was going up the ridge a shell from a rifle cannon had passed in front of him so close that it took him off his feet knocking the breath out of him and that when he came to his senses he experienced the most unusual uain in hie bowels and that there was no let up to it there was no visible discoloration his pulse was normal and the only thing to indicate anything wrong was his respiration which was like that in a cise of lung fever I 1 called the doctors attention to his way of breathing ard they all except the major in charge who was not pres ent said malingerer and one of them took hold of him in no gentle manner and tried to pull him the cot and said mean things to him I 1 can see now the agonizing look the poor fellow gave the doctor pleading all the time that he was mortally hurt and he died while yet the doctor was tugging at him and in the pres ence pt more than a dozen persons one of whom was mother bickerdike was mother bickerdike indignant well I 1 should say she was and there were others that were and there is one who chasn t got over it yet and who spoke ais piece at the time in honor pf americans I 1 will say that that assistant contract surgeon was a canadian and further that it he will call at my address I 1 will give him the best in the shop the soldier was not long dead be toe to e thea doctors had him on the av pu tating table holding a post mortem I 1 was allowed to be present and saw one of the most unique cases on ree ord brought to light the man had sustained a complete disintegration of his small intestines torn all to pieces and et there was no swell ing of the abdomen to indicate any such condition that canadian got bis walking papers that day the facts in this case can be found in the official papers of the general field hos pital army of the cumberland on file at washington and jt this should meet the eye of any of those present at the time I 1 would be pleased to hear from them the commissary ser geant of that day is very much alive yet chicago inter ocean beun on at manassas va the thirty sixth annual reunion of the society of the army of the poto mac of which gen horatio king is president was held at manassas va on may 10 and 11 forty years ago the soldiers of the army of the potomac on their last march from appomattox crossed bull run on their way to the grand review at that time they were so impressed by memories of the field where they took their first lessons in actual war that they marked two historic spots with rude monuments which they solemnly ded with imposing ceremonies to the memory of their brothers who fell in the beginning of the conflict it is an interesting fact that this battle field the nearest to the national capital was the only one thus marked by the soldiers themselves before they went home the citizens of manassas invited the society of the army of the poto mac at its hartford meeting last year to hold its reunion for 1905 on their historic plains this invitation was unanimously accepted the apprehension that manassas could not properly accommodate the society was entirely removed by the erection of a new and beautiful hotel which has recently been opened the corps and society business meetings and the pub lie exercises were held in the new court house on grant avenue public exercises were held the first day may 10 with a campfire lre at night the next day may 11 there was a drive over the battlefield with a luncheon at the henry house the kev isebell dwight hillis D D pastor of ply mouth church brooklyn was the ora tor for the reunion three years without drink benjamin mcgraw a civil war vet eran has no use whatever for water as a beverage despite the statements of scientists that five pints of the fluid per day are required to lubricate the human system mr mcgraw always thought pretty well of water until august 1902 in tact he consumed enormous ties of it drank so much that people used to refer to him as the human tank although he never tasted a drop of intoxicating liquor in his life on that fateful day in 1902 mcgraw took his last drink of water for some reason it did not taste good to him the next day he tried to take another drink but even the sight of water caused nausea from that time to this he has not tasted water or any fluid within the last week mcgraw be came and physicians were called in after an examination they declared that his illness was caused by being off the water wagon for so long phy declare that if he does not drink water soon he will die dun bar penn correspondence chicago inter ocean marked andersonville Ander sonville stockade mrs elizabeth A turner past na president of the woman s pe alef corps and who has done such wonderfully good work in the matter of the andersonville Ander sonville prison site re turned recently from a visit to ander sonville and reports everything there in excellent shape her visit this time was for the purpose of marking the lines of the stockade with white posts there is a growing interest in the site of that old torture pen among the comrades and their auxiliaries new york press deserving of recognition when ex gov perham of maine first suggested the granting of a pension of 2 a month to soldiers orphans the objection was made that there were a large number of minors who thus come in for a share of the pen sion fund why said one man I 1 know of the widow of a private sol dier who has ten children well said mr perham if the widow of a private soldier has ten minor ch illren she ought to have the extra 20 per month let her have it to aid in clothing and educating the children of a patriot I 1 lt i I 1 1 |
