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CRAWFORDVIL1 4 ■> gh DEMOCRAT
7.
A STORY OF THE WAR.
Joaquin toll* toPtoUdoto.i.
5 eut, looking ns if luid missed the
train iu the progress of this life; ns
the world had gone by and left
liim hopelessly behir.d~..o Un isrnas
turkey lor him this year; not for the
twenty years past. I reckon the old
Confederate soldier (who limped About
awkwardly, for he had o lot of leadi to
carry) told me the stoiy, the other day,
in the Shenandoah, it it is untrue or
dull, blame him, not me. 1 only give it
as l got it. .
Gen. “Jeb” Stuart was banging on
the Federal flank. His midnight camp the
was pitcned on the hillside. Fp
hill a little way my a faint
house $ two th.ee Iwtocl*
hung upon the hillside. The wornout
horses fed there and nodded their
drowsy heads to the hay. AIL around
#0 the ground under the trees iu camp
the troopers lay—black men, white
men, brown men, men who were gray
:.u A, little lads, boys who had seen
. hardly yet
a dozen battles and as many
years, a mixed and molly lot ; ragged,
wretched, hungry. They lay-on then
bellies before the fire, munching roas¬
ted corn, gnawing it off the cob greed¬
ily, husking it, roasting it, rolling it in
llie ashes on the coal, singeing it in the
blazing (ire of old Vliginla fence-rails.
Now and then a shot rang out m the
clear still night away where t.ie tired
pickets met too closely for peace, and
now and then better disposed men on
the picket lines, Or more favored and
fortunate, met together, and
leached each Other on their bayo¬
nets tobacco and old lagged newspapers
in a sort of exchange j>£ prisoners ot
war. The moon rode high and white
iu the great blue sea above, and all the
stars of heaven looked down in pity and
m peace. Jburst out. , Tlie, black
Then a song with
inen singing louder, sweeter, moie
pathos and memories of home, than the
white men. It was a sad, grotesque,
weird and unique picture. Suddenly
uart stood in the midst of toe ragged
a ;d uproarrious lot.
••Discipline! Look here, Sergt Zeb.
I want discipline or death. Discipline,
i sav! Do you expect me to fight bat¬
tles and win victoiies with a howling
mob like this and the enemy right there
waiting to recoil on us the moment we
give him a chance? Discipline, 1 say.
Hang your blacks and shoot/ youi
whites, or have discipline!”
itLENCE OVER THE WHITE AND
IJLA«K.
Silence in a second! And the long,
lean men and the sleep! hg lads pulled
theinselv -s together and tried to look,
act like soldiers, while the Hacks, at
the suggestion cf their being hung up,
melted Arnck fr m the tit tel
embers into the nigln, usjf tiiey were
a part of it. *'l ’1 ief threw
Tiieii the weary, bgiml d lies d Jtt hand
iinself oil a Iteap he loosed
- ml foraot his Harness as
;,i)nu over tiie fwiviched group ot
p.Mir rVliows gathered theft for a little
rest under Hu* oaks.
“Bovs, L’li* hungry—hungry eat?” as a
Wolf. 'What, have you got lo bait-dozen
A dozen men sprang up, • 1
young, beardless Hoopers vushe tor
ward, and from out the bight back
Under the trees their*, ennve lriauy Black
forms. And each «nttf eVnry •»**«?« Ulack
men and white men. old r ' 1111 "' 11 1 H
boys if adied dp anti thrust into the
chieftains face, with generous alacrity,
an car «. if roasted coni. Some ot these
bad a few teeth marks in them,
being^Almost entire intact.- Others
again were pretty well gnawed down uiike
In the cob. JJut they were all
offered with- prompt generosity. Confederate criief
••ConiP’ and the and sickly
(=1,001 his head with a grim himself;
smiled as he muttered to
'■OJi-n, biled Corn, roasted corn, raw
corn white corn, red corn-all KiHdsJof
cbm. No, no, boys, I’m hungry, but
T can’t eat corn any more to-night.
The men mailed back in respeefui
silence into a broad circle, And there
suddenly, somehow in the centre ot
that circle, stood a ehild, a little boy
who had been aroused from his sleep on
the pile of saddles in the comnfiotiem
that attended the ehieftians coming.
And now, wide-awake, witii a little toy
flag iu one liana and a red apple in tiie
oilier, this little toy stood there in the
midst of these wild and lagged men
with cheeks as rosy as the apple he held
in his dimpled little hand.
THE INNOCENT’S RED AFPLF.
“If yer hungry, mister, capten, gen
real, here'i my yed apple,’’and with
this the little boy toddled right up and
almost . between t tne
stood _____ surprised soldier/
booted legs of the
•-Sergeant Zeb, where m al. Jericho
did this child come from r is it
yours? I won’t have children around
me here. I left my babas at home;
can’t you do the same V”
“ ’Taint my poor little cluckie, Wen.
Stuart.” mother, „ than- ..
“Then take it to his
dered the Chief.
“its mother is dead, General.
“To its father, then.”
“Its father is dead, too, General.
“Dead ?”
“Dead. Killed the JhaAle ... yester
in
day, when you led over that storm
fence by the farm house on the
sah.” .......
The Confederate General bit bis
Thec,mutterringlohimsef asjberosenp
and turned half away: • bc ‘‘‘ ea 31106
farm hou«; where I led. some poor
farmer 0 D defending^ a S ^bmhome ana m
“Please sir, Mister General, won’t
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA., FREDA Y, JANUARY 11th, 1884.
Here the child reached’ its little flag,
li ving hard to make friends with the
-««?«'[,'£* »“j"* *“'««
come flow.
-Had it in his hand when » * j * 4 .
sail, and lfe. won t give it up, san; says
it father gave it to It fdr the Fourth of
July,juh. bolf of J. y, „ I P lf '
waving the fiVe-eeiit start ana
Strips overhmd theft Is midst
of,,the dark ai d g< g
ot soHiers under tll ^ kS ‘
1 Ur ‘^v fito * tooped ooed and " ,d
ca “£"t the cl ild in his am.
Keep youi pretty little flag, and
wave it when and w N 6 rtj 5 Wl like. You
done wish I kno o.ia * t 1 kno " J' lie difference* dl “? rer :^
gw ^illSVSher i . b“ cb “i
yesterday; Let’s take care of it. We
ri«to‘TlSd!%S»* us luck. What do you say, boysi
tub infant of thb regiment.
The wild shout that shook the leaves
of the oaks overhead startled the advo¬
cate for discipline, and, turning to
Zeb as he strode away in the night for
another part of his camp, he shouted
“Silence 1 and, Zeb, discipline, dis¬
cipline! Damn it, discipline or death,
I say !” and he was gone.
They gather about the wide-eyed, little
rosy faced orphan with its aud flag
and red apple, and many a black
white and not over-clean hand reached
out to toy with and stroke the hair of
gold that hung heavy as corn silk in
summer time over the lad’s shoulders.
“I fotlnd it in tlifl ffence corner,”
said ZeOj “all a shitrering’ arid its
daddy and itS mammy dead, shot
down by stray bullets when we storms
ed ttie place.” dar rabbit right
“Yes, and war a
aside ub him,” said a black face back
in the dark, over aiiother man’s
shoulder.
“An golly, we kotched and eat der
rabbit.” chuckled another black man.
“VVal, we’ll keep the kid ; keep ’im
till the cows come home.” And with
a grunt of universal approval from all
as they gradually melted away, old
Zeb hoisted the little one high up on
his Colossal shoulders, and turned sud¬
denly to ldbk and to listen, for there
was a shout doWri the hill ana a sud¬
den sharp volley of shots aboTe, beyond
the hay stacks. It began to look as if
this little squad of raiders laid got into
a*bite. ShotitS of the enemy down the
bill j shots of the enemy up the hill
beyond the haystacks. Which way
should thri surprised and panic-strick¬ old
en soldier’s fly. The colossal Vir¬
ginia Sergeant, with the .Child on his
massive shoulders, was the otily officer
in charge. The blacks were hiding
about bChirid trees, behind each other,
under Saddle*, blankets, anywhere.
The shoiits from ttie advancing enemy
UHines loud and The cloar from lielow song'of jyid
very near. campffire, the
This t!ft S A ^
S 2 Sr,«-as 3 fS'Sii’asss
time over old Zeh, the tall and airga
lar old Sergeant.
Alums AND 11 .UII UNHAND.
The old Sergeant came near throwing
It away With the heap of negroes hid¬
ing away finder tire saddles. Where
Stuart ? The Sergeant put his
| uilld p 0 ins car and leauCff tW listen
ua j le could, between the sliarp
vo i| e j 8 from behn*, that wefA ruining
t| le piositccts of the next year’s De tfould acorn
cr0 p j u tn e treeb overhead.
| u ,. u . ttie c i a ttef of iron lioOfa on tins
( . l . j l t „ West. The moon waft
aeiidu g large- and ibuiul and low. Over
the bare crest ot this hill and against
tiie moon he could see the Confederate
cavalry pouring in impetuous flight.
Stuart, the cautious aud wary leader
••Gome, men 1 We must follow our
General on foot—any way to get out
of this. Co Hie 1 Up by the haystacks
and on over the ridge ” the
The strong man started up stony
hill to pass the haystacks. The child,
as if it was affaid it might fall, wound
its little left ihiti affectionately about
the great gfay shock of hair, And
that little act saved it; that acciden¬
tal show of affection won the old fel¬
low's heart entirely. Why, be would
not now have pitched it aside with the
terrified negroes for gold. swiftly, the
Up the lull he led men
following in groups, knot3, singly,
armed, unarmed, limping, leaning
erect, in all mauner of ways, only so
as to escape ferocious Federals charg¬
ing up the hill frotri below. They
could| 8 ee the points of shining bayo
nets entering tlieir camps by the light
^e burning fence rails as they fled
otrt 0 f ^ an( j the black color haid near
a lf faded .from the flying Gonfeder
a tes as they Deared the haystacks, oid Sergeant 1
Here the gray-headed shoulder, paused
^hef child on his
f or a moment right under the hay-
8tacks to ge t, k j S bearings. The moon
haid fallen down behind the crest of
b be hill It was nearly dark now. Tiie
Federal bayonets were only a few
steps in tiie rear/ Tiie ragged aud de
moralized Confederates huddled close
and j, a ipiess up and after the tall and
grizzled old giant, who stood there
mogjug oU t which wav to lead them,
the cMld 6n i,i 8 gboulder.its little
a f 0 f hugging the great shaggy gray
bead, its right one holding the flag,
Tne tall, gmf soldier threw up his
great) h eavy hand to his brow and
looked oat under ins broad palm to try
which way to lead.
death in front and rear.
Suddenly tbe haystacks blazed out
And now as they stood there, huddle*
together and helpless as sheep, they And
StoH,.m, “bSS
dlpii- Vt
was a matchless and magnificent
•«££ .... „ so hi "lit rid sun
j It pieaswl the child,
excited and delighted it. What could
it care for the long line of gleaming .iu
^ , g Jeveletl onlv ^ ;l few rods away
^ , Whii UiJ it know of tlie
death hiding down iu every gleaming
gon barrel of that compact mass of un¬
informed men just before? Nothing
at all j te i, u i e |, eal t leapt with
der delj<rllt discipline, at t |, e beautiful uni
forms, this the quick action
into which every gun was brought in
stantly to the shoulder. The bayonets
»«• W^tl-tb. Btamiug tosmtf.
tlSVrSto V 0 think t bi 8 a
=»« [ »t .b, fttfl*
)e3S of Hi delightf just as the
bfficer drew his sword and was giving
the word “Fire 1” the child, holding
tight Oil tb ti.e great grizzled head
With its left hand, and as if to cbntrlh
tite its yart to the celebration, waived
its little flag there iu the glare and
light. And in that awful stillness
which comes always before any dread¬
ful catastrophe, piped out in Us shrill
little voice, as it raised itself higher
for the occasion :
“Foff of July 1”
Put it upon record in gold and red
that the Federal officer lowered the
point of his sword. The heavy breech
es of the guns struck the stony ground
with a thud. The line of blue div ided
and the old gray Oonf ederatb with his
little Charge dn his shoulder still waiv¬
ing the little flag, passed on through
the line, while cheer after cheer shook
the bullet-riddled leaves of the oaks
overhead.
And this is the story of the old Con¬
federate soldier of the Shenandoah, who
had missed the train on the line of
Progress dowu in old Virginia.
A lilttie Gold was Spent.
Mr. Z. A. Clark, of Atlanta, Ga., in
peaking of Sis '*.00 in gold, desires to say
to the readers of this paper, that the whole
of the above amouut was spent In a fruit
ess effort in finding relief from a terrible
Blood Poison affecting his body, limbs and
nose—presenting ugly running ulcers. He
Is now sound and wed, having been enre.it
by the most speedy and wonderful remedy
ever before known, and any interrested.
party who may need a' Blood Purifier will
learn from him that three Bottles II. B. It.
restored bis appetite, healed ail ulcers,
relieved bis kidneys, and added 2 t pounds
tef Iris Weight it* 30 days. decl4jut
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There was a midnight wedding in
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Two weeks more and the comet of
1812 can be seen with the naked eye.
It is now nearly as bright as a .star of
tire fourth magnitude, and is rapidly
growing brightei. ,
Tlreie were 1.775 violent 1 deaths in
Philadelphia last year, and >10 of
the victims have never been identified.
Seventy of the latter were infants, the
others were men, and all White but
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Only nine of the thirty-ef^ht fttates
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