| Show I Georgia Colonel Tells a aStory i Good Story of fit Old Days S 'S I Among the tho ho earlier arrivals of the Grand Army Im I'm men Is Cot Cal George Georgo P P. McCracken McCracken McCracken Mc- Mc Cracken a typical old Southern gentle gentle- man who served with I Lee ee along ulong th the Potomac He lIe belongs to the Geor Georgia la division To one on tile the lookout for tor Civil ChU war stories McCracken appeared to offer good material as ho lie stalked about the tile hotel lobby hobby a slight limp In his gait galt but with a military bearing He lie replied ed thus to the thc request for a aWant tale talc Want Yant a reminiscent story do clo you ou sonny Waal aal ah ahi reckon ah ab cud toll toil ou plenty plent of em It If ah alt hind had the thO time lime rou Pears to mo me that the best story o of the old wah days that nh ah know about Is 18 one in which me and anti old oM Johnnie Orth were the tho main actors down clown long the old Potomac In 63 Nevah Novah heard tell of Johnnie Orth Why In sonny he was the tile man who climbed to the top of General Grants Grant's in front of Vicksburg and dared the whole Confederate Confederate Con Con- Corr- Corr federate army arm to shoot at him Jes to fo dashed foolishness An thc they did They broke both his arms arnis and one ono leg leK lie He comes off tho the train every Christmas t time me to visit me down on my Georgia la plantation Je jes jeB as though we 8 fought each other like two wildcats wildcats wildcats wild wild- hadn't cats along the tho Potomac In 63 01 Old 1 Johnnie Orth II 11 come limping along and anti tell you now In a n couple a days das the story lies He's from Boston Doston and belongs to tho old Massachusetts division Ah Ahm 1 from froni Georgia and belonged belonged be be- That ThAt's a s show to General Lees Lee's arm army longed come comb to know each other Wo We how we ye both present when Grant and antI Lc Los Lee was other long the side each 10 long lay lav In 63 an wasted nough gunpowder gunpowder gun- gun Potomac and red blood to build a railroad rail rail- I powder road ond through h the 8 and start a ared ared ared red ink factory First Meeting With lIb comes across me under undera of shrubs with a couple of a bunch the Yankees In mah leg after had holes tone gone pell up the rivah with Seems we nebs right aftab them the only ones oneil left In tin th f two VO was V 8 the VU v s j I the tho d dead d and ana c nel hello HelJo IcHo neb Reb What's hAts matter Ji lie out and when ah on only I groaned g f called he lie turns me ovah oyah and ties tiP In about the holes In the le leg his hi shirt shirL while bout a friend ot of I the H all li he was wall M going to pt get r out of the thc his S Confederate s that jail meant with a r- r me good to fo ransom many Ah ii kneW kne with only i month H In th the Federal exchanged In ten or of being one Sr Reb lieb prisoner prisoner- r That Thal didn't look for a wanted to IfO go Iun lung good g L Lee to e me mc d and get Ah et Into Washington with with rest of oC i his hili army You i know soon sonn i the w. w sure we W was goh Colu we retake take wa the tC Yankee capital that tune time to SU 1011 I r ii I Iu r Tell yoU jou ou what ah Ahn 11 do tb nb nh 1111 say had fixed me tip lP sost BOst ah h Uti 11 j jIlt when lie he HorH on a lo lon lonto So with nab irge I Ito sit up to stop U. U thit Abc got sot a of or ca' ca cads cacis cis In mah mali pocket an all If it It Its It's square with you well we'll play pIa lay a little hand of to see you Oll leave lea me ins 1 1111 here until Leo Lee comes back anti and picks me mc up or ah eli goes with you OU as youn prisoner ner He lie pears lears to be satisfied and ancl ah nh shuffled tho tue old d deck ck and deals out n f hand We Vo took look ten pebbles pebble each cach felt foh chips Well sonn sonny It took almost two hours fo o that follow fellow to take mah utah ten pebbles anti and Je jes when hes he's scooped In inthe tho the last of em long came a bunch of I Confederate cavalry and picked us both up Ah l lost and ond won all eli at once and It didn't look like liko a n square deal for tor that Yankee We 0 both went vent to tIm the hospital Ah Ahsay say ay b both b because cause old Johnnie Orth didn't t e have sense enough to keep from up and something with tho tito bunch of ot He lie got a ba bayonet onet through the this lungs When iVhon we got out of oC the hospital ah went straight to Gen General ral Lee an told him about that game an alt au how Johnnie Orth didn't get Ket a square deal Ho lie laughed and wrote out a release fo 0 Orth and ah nit rode with Johnnie clear out to half hal way woy between n the Rebel nebel and Yankee o lines linn where we shook hands hans an ah Invited him to come an and visit mo me down In itt G Georgia Sure enough soon as os the watt wah ended endell Johnnie j came an nn an spent u it week with me me helpin mo inc get Ket tho the old plantation In order after Sherman done tear It Jt nil all to pieces In I his dashed clashed hurr hurry to get et down to the tho Atlantic before the Robs nebs Jumped on hum him from the rear Rr Orth's Orth heen been almost AVer every overy year Ah Au expect to meet him hero In iii Salt Lake next Sunday Sun Sun- lIlt they day and after the encampment both of ofus ofus I us Is s back to Boston DOlton seem It Its It's mah mali turn to visit him |
