Show ON THE battlefield BATTLE FIELD sonic idt ants bilat in tile jans of death from Fo nithe the century many humorous incidents occurred on battlefields battle fields A confederate colonel ran ahead of his K regiment at malvern hill and discovering that the men were not following him film as closely us its he wished lie he uttered a fierce oatland oat hand exclaimed come do yon want vant to live for ever file appeal was and many a poor fellow who bail latti lau laughed glied at the colon colonels els queer exhortation laid down hia his life burn after A shell struck the wheel of a tier ti field h pi ev toward the tha cl close ith f the 0 engagement at fair 0 oaks and slivering the ip spokes okes dis diarian miln tied the cannon ui U i itu su L lit I 1 t lucky that it dida cappen before we used up all ot hii remarked ed one of tin lilt artillerists adibe crawled tiara itom beneath the thi gun when gen pope was falling lack jack before lees adevai alvato adv ato 4 0 in the virginia valley his dwir soldiers thought liis his bulle bulletins tius and orders som somewhat strained in their rhetoric I 1 at it one ol 01 the tile numerous running engagements that marked that disastrous campaign a private in one of the western regiments was mo ail all Nuu tided by a shell se ebur he fie roans mans condition a chaplain knelt beside h him m and opening hii bible at random reid out Sam tons slaughter of the philistines with the tile jawbone of an ass he lad had not quite finished when as the twi story runs run the poor fellow interrupted interrupt ca the reading by saying hold on chaplain dont deceive a dying roan the name of john pope signed to that A column of troops was pushing forward over the long and winding road I 1 in thoroughfare gap to head off rl lee after hits hi retreat across the potomac after the tile close of the he gettysburg ty burg campaign suddenly if alie ie micnal officer who wild accompanied the jie in command that it some tf bf his men well posted on a high hill bill in the rear were report reporting ilig the tile presence of a considerable 1 baxly I y of confederate troops on oil top of all the blikh d to the tile r right ight i A halt was at once sounded and the leading brigade ordered forward to Uti uncover cover the tile position the neu L s were soon scrambling up the steep steel incline officers and men gallantly racing to fee ice f ee who could reach the c crest reat first A young lieutenant and some half do dozen ell men caned tile advance but at the end of what they deemed a perilous climb they were ere thrown into convulsions of laughter at discovering what elie signal men took for confederate soldiers oldie rs was only a tolerably large flock of sheep As the le leaders luters iri lit tins this forlorn hope rolled on the grass I 1 in a a paroxysm ism of merriment they laughed all A the louder at seeing the pale but determined faces of their bleir comrades who of course came up fully expecting a desperate hand to hand struggle it is perhaps needless to s sav av tl that at th the e brigade supped cupped on mutton that evening athe army was crossing south Moun mountain taia the day before the battle of antietam general bleckel mcclellan ian rode along the tile side of the movi movi ng tig column overtaking a favorite zouave regi menthe lie exclaimed with liia his natural bon boul hommie iommie ell oil and how is the old ath this evening first rate general replied one of the zo llaves but wed be better ofa on if we living go so to much uch on supposition sup supposition 1 i cioll raid the Ge Derill it in a la im puzzled 11 loi 1 d tone what do you in mean an by that its led easily explained explain ea sir you iee ee we expected to g get et our rations ratio nc yesterday but as ws we were living on the supposition that we did ah ali I 1 understand you shall have your ration 4 zou tonight replied the general putting spurs to hii horse to escape the tile cheera cheers of ilia his r regiment gible and I 1 he e kept his promise promise |