Show 1 VETERANS bans CORNER COH NEli SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE OLD SOLDIERS march of the grand irmy A I 1 oem mr NIT of oil I 1 I 1 if y 1 A IV wet is t rom rou 1 ito how 1 at I I lolin ihu hu A ai Loc dockerill kerill bil ened an 1111 ARK from frum fir far ott off lo 10 tho the distance comes a meas ared u red muffled ah bound sound Z i like a phantom arm marching march irig to the music of 4 4 the ground i y k I 1 6 0 so the harbinger of 1 14 battle nestled with that me measure aure I 1 trad tr id cime came and anti called them to their duty i wont went and loft left the heroes dead lead I 1 on the shining horle sparkling with metallic light felming lel ming guns and anti shinin chinin sh inin ibera abers to the eves ees a gorge gorgeous oui sight ihen ilien without a note 0 of music come the heroes of the war mar coine come the colliers sol hers liers grim ani tattered As the battle lags flags the bore theirs Is not for cos ces or splendor theirs no shining metal needs Is now non i a page illumined alth the light of ri Li hining deeds in n those c 05 es th thit it time Is closing stirring scenes are living lhing yet et burned into their lives are battles that them the never neer can forget he lie with grant and he with sherman heard the brazen cannon crash he lie with hancock faced tho the bullets he lie N ith sheridan did dish dash HP lie anith w ath footo foote and he math w lah porter fought rought with ith cothas gun and pike ile ie with nith Parr farragut agut hal shouted when they saw the colors strike an they march ind and soon tho the distance hides the duk du k forms from view n to join departed co conn lira comrades that anere ft ere tried and true dil a goes time each da fla transporting one unto the other shore soon the arm will be tenting where all troubles are no more my aly old I 1 in met tt captain richard carter the x mayor of Dodge ville at the department encampment writes J A bat alous in chicago times herald he ile a nas appointed a member of go governor uphams blaff with the rink rank oi 01 clonel it Is not a matter of ver ner reat importance but it makes me pair of oung fel fellens loNs of the long igo mabe alabe some of the results of the will afford t two 0 or three minutes it f pleasure to the times herald read rs III try tanni an andow how in 1861 as soon as thel could gel get into the service after first I 1 all for troops a cf v uple of bos one n racine where the encampment met ast month and the other in grant bounty were soldier material in the second wisconsin infanta tr the late general fairchild a regiment the racine bo be was nas william 11 upham low the governor and the grant coun boy was richard carter now nov a prominent banner law and general all around good citizen of Dodge ville I 1 both upham left the irmy at the end of seven or eight months to go to west point carter private carter stayed until the end of the war and was ana a captain when ho if a ame home it if he Is like other olo nels and generals on go governors lernora I 1 taffs ho he Is pleased with his commis lion but it meins ever so little when compared om pared with tho the bellowing iel lowing paper inen him in the war ar das daa that sas 5 Is a capt caption airl that he be won the commission by faithful service in actual a aar ar ask colonel carter to trade bit au ld captains commission to ito ite all record of his war nar bernice sen ice tor for iny kind of a modern commission that of GoNer governor nor minister to bt james chief justice of the united sta es supreme court or even een president and see how quickly he will nill place the yellow commission over oer his thumping old heart and sa th think ink luu oil not if vou oil were ere to mike male me at of the world orld to give ghe me the bank of ingland not if it aou ou were to pass to arv keeping the tre treasures of all the I 1 governments of the earth 11 l Il ackward I 1 have hale not overstated I 1 arum rum N ahat hat I 1 have said does the new generation get an idea ol 01 the satisfaction with which soldiers look back upon their lathe in the war that gave I 1 he world its grea greatest tet most promising 9 lest est goern government ment 1 I hope so go for that a the object in writing of the old aptilon and aad the new colonel ask an volunteer N who ho helped to mke nake up the vast nast union army what hat induce him to have hale ull knol dge igo of his removed from rolls and other records in Nas dashington hIngton anti at his stile state capitol so hat it might never neler be known that he iad lad a part in the struggle under corn com LIP manderle vi ln chief abraham and bee u what ho lie N ula do ni linc sr evl n V N would sa say hat t oui brigade bilg ide nos bo 0 got ani how some borne baltimore Balti alore a and 11 ash odil papers and ba beough ough thian un up ris line of battle the third day at to 0 G burg lie kit bitting bilig on 01 his I 1 counting out anil and BLI papers capers c h as he ile could take tahe ohp thing hall ge as the great art artillery liler duel that nr p pickett a famous chirgo began b b e bened to be on camett ri ridge tho tile kirchway la in itie cc ce meter shot and shell ito low about him al a tt as orcen bi ika in june thel fell fellow threw aay ma his hiep pipers pers 1 h I his horse ind pretty nearl hutfle out i confederate ente erat 0 IN hen lien asked he departed that day da po so abruptly said sald he ind had 1011 forgotten Otten his ills mol and went back to hunt illint for or it and anilia t cog on the all stiv to th fl 0 nt ile e 0 had halted him and tol I 1 him to s a the rear Js as hia his arm coull coul I 1 not natii al pil to lose an more of its best men ery fillen ced the man cad e nit marcer acer 0 abra 0 e according cording ic to tit the poet 3 f colonel john A cockerill CocLe rill during ihde trip agh japan ibous a byear ear ida cockerill was then acting as aa it cespon respondent lent of 11 ard eions gathered gi it at joi yokohama johama a bany 1 I them tourists and others on busl binam ao it was at this tills ame that cockerill Cocke efe across a cockney COC klie briton aho vho ho axi boasting bout about the proves proa ess sol 0 sel country countr and m making ikens rather sligh it 0 allusions to the unite 1 states hi lis ae I 1 marks aroune I 1 cockerill a a ar a th and he told the englishman that it i as much as the united states had ti ty the e whipped england it could probably 1 l so again nl oh ih ah m deah sah sail bill sail 1 ger er doughty briton ou ih ah listati to I 1 surel if I 1 remember member rc the history cr ro countr ne e took tool ah capi capitoli tolk i so egl burned it dont m knob ith I 1 cs es said cockerill 3 ou did allta ta I 1 allt lit capitol and it I 1 remember th kistoo of my countr li iou alsoto alsa jl dunker bunker hill but iou OM didat ta 1 I 1 it ver N er fat fai I 1 oi oil let go ot of to t 1 led of them liko like 1 a I red hot brick i 1 the e at list accounts the va ie g is I 1 in a our possession hut but let lot I 1 9 tall ou oil ft hat ft A e 11 do the next tl v led vo AO hao hane a var mar anith ou lnell ell ng oer there tott toni our snug little ba across the atlantic ind haul it up is ba to new nea york for a har harf in t the englishman did not con i r ah the argument it d story of a testament ed 1 I want on ou to look at this cd old T tf ja lament 11 said 0 D auber there ad m name written b teal A leach 11 second nermo eraci xa he ile bought it in washing on in P J 7 M S 1861 ind presented present cd it to m NU U it memories that testament brings bac bar 71 I 1 remember the hour he gae gaie it 0 d me hoft solemn I 1 felt ind and how faoa hom hl sick too how I 1 wanted to throws throw giri arms about my mother a neck and bi hi her talk to methe me the dear mother I 1 t r a aa from lieutenant leach was re christain Christ lin a real one ther there we c ire craters pra era in his ills tent ei every cry night i a morning and on sunday sunda there T a prater meeting I 1 v was as a boy of 0 alho vho had taken french arc aeh leae toga to go 2 the war ind needed just such ca tyl as lieutenant leach extended to z e ile give gave me that testament at t 1 N close of one of the primer meeting t ind with a hand resting on m hea be 1 T said bald my aly lad read something A that book ever dal da as long as T 1 no live IN e and ou on will nei never er get into be serio do 34 trouble I 1 read it dall until I 1 T I 1 made a prisoner until I 1 got into wh b ae I 1 thought was m as might serious trouble troll ble when it was a to fo me to re 1 I the bible bible agents didn dian t come dl ECO lee us is at libby prison I 1 guess r I 1 I 1 too stomach i d frequently v leant handed more attention than relli rel I 1 training and bible reading in 00 prison days I 1 in tent pra era in the soldier tens wt not infrequent general heaard RIO lh had prayers general lee Z pra prated ed and stonewall all jacabson sevc sever timea times a da P there was D le a company in the war aar that did 11 4 i have hale its praying men go with r 1 tonight through the company sw street i said private E C jones ot of whoa whom have hale spoken in these letters ea ne see what the tho bova bos are doing it ra about six months after the comp le had gone to the seit seat of war e wea v up one side aide of the and do 1 l the other in three of the tent th voices of 0 in I 1 night just before taps tars in seven w ten r in were nere heard the language of seve euchre poker came to our cara ears in tm the b ance of the tenta tents the soldier sta and arm commanders akere disc ing the best ma dav to settle the gre rt t family famil trouble into which ih ach the is and south had allowed themselves thenis eiTe be drai drawn n jones at that ime t at t man of piety he ile wa s howled few prayers ind and mu mush h worldliness orld liness the company com piny two tao years ears later W a could bosn ow Ms his pa at poker A CO other aan 10 ID quicker than thau any pin E ITO how one mn ian S aught ism A Menor rAnee mich drank a 0 lie aa sighed for famo fame ira I 1 of beer in one day rec recently ly koplof that wa na to achieve it |