Show SOLDIER GOT HIS qa SHIRT R T 1 T wa was just jus t after the battle of 0 shiloh that tm C phipps a met the man who n collve and has lived ever once in his memory essl as die his silent partner 1 says the indianapolis star here la Is the t he story cry as mr air phipps tella tells it somewhere Sonio where that ninn man la Is probably living today he anns as hale bale and hearty appearing I 1 don t know him hint and never did know his name but III 11 bet be he ie Is the big man of the community where me he be cirps I 1 it bet every pen per ion lon that knows him 1 Is his friend fou sec see it h ripened like this after the light at shiloh most of the boy boys or a good many of them at least had lost nil all they had in me we way of equipment extra clothes and cuch such things A good many were wounded I 1 was as wearing a bloody torn shirt and I 1 wanted another I 1 wanted it bad too I 1 went out to forage for it I 1 baan hadn t lert left camp ver very Y far behind when I 1 saw a fellow cho chopping on a log getting firewood virl d bently I 1 started toward h hl hiro in and he on I 1 got ot closer tind I 1 finally stopped incur him and hatched watched him chop chop he kept right on did I 1 seem seen to gee see no me then I 1 pad to him partner look here see nay my shirt I 1 in lookin for another one you don t know where here I 1 could ge one do I 1 he ile had topped stopped as I 1 started to peak and when I 1 finished be he raised aa A V L his ax way up and it into the log lie ile let it tick stick there ripped off his ills coat threw it down and peeled off hie his shirt lie ile oed tossed it to me and put his coat back on grabbed hie his ax or nod and vent went on chopping he ile never opened his mouth never so much as did I 1 take that shirt well I 1 guess I 1 I 1 did that fellow was my el al i icat partner and he Is yet nu no 1 never met him azain I 1 looked back aa 1 I started for camp and he dlan didn t aern to hear mo me when I 1 thanked him just kept chopping chapping on an that log chop chop mr phipps baa has a peculiar distinction he ile has a grave on an tho the shiloh battle field which for or a time was marked with a rough slab bearing bis his name and the number of his regi ment Com commilee miles picked up the mi mated torn form of A a man they their believed to be him and burled buried it after the bat tie to the b surprise of the soldier who ho passed and saw the al lib ib thrust into the tile mound it wai near the spot here he had been bounded and too weak ta aa correct the mistake mr ays says he be looked at it silently a few moments and passed on an |