Show JOHNNY REB JOKES stories from the other side of the ta late EIsan guinea chum chasm chattanooga times once gen hardee came across 1 a I straggler and ask him why he be did not travel faster and keep up with his comm command and the soldier wished to know what hat in the duce he bad to do with it only that I 1 am gen hardee th alie commander of this department I 1 was wes the reply ob you wrote a book on tactic di did drou you 1 11 I did faid the general well said the private 1 I have been taught ac according cordin to your rules how bow to double doub I 1 e chofu column nin at half distance now I 1 wish you would tell me how to double iu dis tance on half rations I 1 gan gen hardee stock stuck spurs to his horse and traveled on early in the war one of the men in a south carolina brigade was on n picket duty so called near manassas there was not a ya yankee within twenty miles of us a at that time the next day there was to bean be an inspection and our hero here had bad taken his gun to pieces and was rubbing it up so as to make a shine the next day when specter spec ted while BO so doing gen B barham arh am who was unknown to th the e soldier who was a new recruit rode up what are you doing there said gen B oh I 1 am a kind of a sentinel who ara ars you anyhow oh I 1 am onava only a kind of a brigadier general was the ans an ewer hold on wait until I 1 get this darned did old gun together and I 1 will give you a kind of a present said the sentinel een tinel but gen barham did not wait he ile went off and reported the luck less soldier who in a short time found himself a lind ofa of a prisoner in a kind of a guardhouse and had to do a number of extra hours of duty as a kind of seap en tinel on one occasion a man from georgia had bad been very persistent in in personal application to gen lee for a furlough one the general ask his tormentor if he understood the posit position ton 0 O of f a soldier the latter said he did he ile was ordered to assume it gen jen lee then gave the command IM right 19 bt about face forward march As he be never gave the command to halt the georgian kept on marching until he got tired but this little hint bint cured him and his next a application I 1 was through the usual usual yon channels when gen mahone malione was waa wounded at sit second manassas gome some one to comfort mrs mahone alabone sa said id oh dont be uneasy ita its only a flesh wound mrs mahone through her tears cried out oh I 1 know that is impossible there is not flesh enough on him for that I 1 dont know whether thesis this is I 1 a I 1 joke on the general or the private A day or so after the old first reached manassas junction in august 1861 one of the men wh who 1 0 did not clearly comprehend his position had the impudence to ask gen beauregard where certain big guns that had just arrived from richmond would be placed the general replied young man if the coat on my mv back knew the secrets of my heart biart I 1 would cut it in piece pieces s 11 on the peninsula the gallant and jolly gen Bankhead Magruder had ordered a meal for himself hn and d staff A bunag hungry reb and who ever aw faw one vi who 0 was not li hungry came up to the farm house e espied aed the nicely filled table and without v zo ut leave or license sat down and began to anni annihilate halate things thing 9 just then the general and friends walked iu in escorted by the host all were surprised hall said fiery magruder Ms gruder in terms more explicit than polite do you know whose table that is you are eating at no sir air said john reb with his mouth full whose is it gen Magr Mag udera ruders sir air the corn com mander of this department 1 all right general with another ot her big mouth mouthful full these war times I 1 aint particular where I 1 eat or who I 1 eat with sit down and make yourself at home the foraging private was wits unceremoniously fired out but not before ho be had nearly gotten outside of a pretty square meal |