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WAR SI Sherman in Ge Ii? J. Massey, M. 1 On the 29th of November, 1864, just thirty-seven years ago, Sherman's army first entered Milledgev?le, Ga., then the State capital. For three or four days previous to this time, straggling parties came through the town, some positively asserting that Sherman was not coming to Milledge v?le. but going directly to Augusta, from Atlauta down the Georgia rail road. The next party would probably say that he was going by way of Ma cuii iiii'i ?Luke lho South Carolina line below Augusta. Probably the third party would with an much as surance assert that Sherman was com ing directly to Milledgcville. This kept the town in a great state of ten sion and bewildering excitement. When, upon Friday, the 18th, posi tive information was received that General Sherman was in a very few miles of the town, heading directly for the town, of course every one left who coulu I immediately telegraph ed Surgeon S. H. Stout, medical di rector of hospitals of Hood's army, then located at Columbus, Ga.: "Sherman reported bearing down on Milledgev?le in heavy numbers. What shall I do with Brown hospital and the patients?" In a very short tiuie I received in response: "Remain at your post, surrender your hospital, ask protection for your sick and wounded, assistants, nurses and help. Send to rear immediately orcry pa ??*?r t able to travel. What stores you un .ut tited, all the assistants, nurses and help you can dispense with." I had "at that time, iu the six differ ent wards, something like two hun dred sick, wounded and couvaicsceuts. 1 -rent to each ward in person, notified each patient of what was about to happen, and that if he felt able to get np and get away he might do so. All left but forty-eight, and something very remarkable, there were at least some fifteen or twenty who had not been off their bunks, except when helped off, for the last threo or four weeks. They at onoe got up, dressed and left. They crossed the river and, so far as 1 know, they are walking yet. I have never heard from them. The river was about half a mile from the hospital, and the general impres sion seemed to prevai that Sherradn would not cross the river, but go down it, after saoking Milledgev?le, into a better section to gather sup plies and horses. So, overy one who was able to get aoross the river felt that he would be safe from Sherman's army. I learned that a squad of cav alry from General Howard's division was about to enter tho town Sunday afternoon. In consultation with Dr. J. It. Bratton, in oharge of Midway hospital, two miles off, we decided to go out and meet the cavalry. He met it in front of the executive mansion. The company was in command of Captain Duncan, of Reward's scouts. He very politely asked us what we were doing there. Wo told him that we were under orders. He asked us -whose order. We answered, under ! jthe orders of the medical director of jhosuitals of Hocd's army. After thawing him our orders and jcommissions, he demanded to sec our I hospitals. In this connection, it might be well to remark that I held my commission from the governor of the State of Georgia. P-,. Bratton i held his from the Confederate States. .Captain Duncan, in looking at my commission, remarked that it was the first and only valid commis sion he had ever see*, down in Dixie; that Georgia was a sovereign State, recognized by the Unilod States, and 0 commission or paper signed by the governor of the State' of Georgia was valid and in force everywhere, re marking at the same time that Dr. Bratton's commission, which was from the Confederate Convention, was worth about the paper it was written on, but nevertheless, out of courtesy, he recognized it. He usked me to* show him my hospital. I did so, first taking him into the office. Before entering tho office I said to him: "Cap tain Duncan, bring in two or three of your best friends with you." He did so. It was a cold, misty November day. They had been riding without their dinner. I had a large, old-fashioned log fire in an old country fireplace, which made the room very warm and comfortable. After seating them I called to my office boy to bring out the brandy and sugar. After -jncjrking the first bottle I said to him:' "Captain Duncan, help yourself, sir ? in and your friends. Hero is some itbiMs 'T have been saving you for Some 1 time:" My older readers will readily recog jij?ze/what I mean when I aay the su gpft was the loaf sugar in cubes. The .v?ptau; readily poured the brandy out WIES. orgia's Capital. >., in Sunny South. into four glasses and Bweotened it with sugar, ile and his three com panions certainly enjoyed it. After talking with thcin fifteen or twenty minutes I told Matt, my boy, to bring out another bottle. (I had only two bottle.-, but I did'nt intend for them to know but what I had several dozen.) Said I: "<icntlemcn, before inspect ing tIie hospitals, help youi elves again." Thai buttle Boou went to keep com- i pany with the first. Thereupon Capr tain Duncan warmed up and proffered me any and every assistance 1 might need during the stay of Sherman's army. Without further inspection of the hospitals, he reported to General ! Howard that he had examined my hospital, and that I was all right, and 1 asked General Howard to see that I 1 have whatever protection might bo necessary. Within an hour or two the cavalry retired from the town. Next day, early, there came in several hundred bummers, who committed all kinds of vandalism. They took ev erything they could fini in sight that could bo carried away, and searched for many things out of sight. Brown hospital was thoroughly sacked. Not a particle of butter, flour, chickens, eggs or anything at all I had for the sick was spared. 1 was left fiilly twenty four hours with forty-eight sick and wounded meu without anything at all for them to eat. As soon as I could get to General Howard's headquarters, which was a mile out of town, I did so. Ho respectfully referred my papers to General Sherman, and asked that I be given everything that I needed for my patients. When I reached General Sherman's headquarters I found the mayor of tbe city there, asking for protection for the town. Sherman was in no very amiable mood. To the mayor he dealt out many expletives, such as I have heard ascribed to Sher man before. Several old gentlemen were there, past arm-bearing age. To those Sherman was kind and consider ate. A couple of young gentlemen were I present, whoso clerical avocation ex empted them from military duties. They were non-combatants. When these gentlemen presented themselves General Sherman, with a withering soowl, Batd: "Young men, you aro worse than traitors to profess the principles you do and shield yourselves behind such an exemption; it is worse than treas on. You should hang your heads in shame and are unworthy the consider ation of any honorable gentleman or lady," and most summarily dismissed them. I then presented my papers. General Sherman, in a very pleasant manner, ordered his adjutant to issue a requisition upon tvo medical pur veyor f^r whatever medicine I might need for my siok and wounded; also ono on caoh of the quartermaster and commissary generals for whatever stores in their departments I might need. Issuing a further order upon tbe provost marshal to give me eight men twioo daily to Kuard my hospit als, with further instructions that those men obey me implicitly in pre ference to any of his officers. I carried these requisitions to the various officers. They were promptly honored; my patients were very com fortable, and as long as his army re mained in Milledgeville were well pro tected and guarded. In this connec tion, I will state that before leaving General Sherman's office there oame in a courier with a despatch. Sher man read it. He became very muoh exoited. He paced up and down the floor of the office three or four times, then stopping in front of us, said: "Whilst you aro here, begging me for help and provisions and protec tion, Wheeler is hovering* on the outskirts of the city ?od murdering my men. Here is a dispatch where his men have just murdered twenty two of my men. Your man Wheeler gives me more trouble than all of Hood'sarmy." We were pent up in tho city, cutoff from all outside communication, and really did not know that General Wheeler was within 25 miles of us. We were glad to know that help was so near. Ono of tho young men above reforrcd to, whom General Sherman gave such a tongue rasping, made bold to approach General Sherman and asked him if it was true that General Wheeler had killed so many of his men. The general, pointing the index 'finger of his right hand in the young man's face, said: "Yes, sir, ae3 be fore to-day's.sun shall go down twen ty and two young men liko you, sir, , (emphasizing you) will atone for it." This was a poser to tho young Ssan. In after life, if t??a matter was ever referred to, it was a sore point to this i .gentleman. Since that time, in conversation with Mr. W. C. Dodson, I learned ! tllat on that very day Wheeler's cav- j airy did kill fifteen within threo miles of Milledgeville. He was not present, and only got it from other members of Wheeler's cavalry. I have since met Col. J. P. Austin, late of the Ken tucky Confederate cavalry, who was under Wheeler at that time. Ke re members distinctly the eiroumstanoe, but being a.Texan, not acquainted with the geography of the State, he was not aware that it was so close to Milledgeville. At a house there were gathered some dozen or more women, white and colored. A party of Yankee soldiers had made an attack upon them. Those who could rushed ont, screaming, in all directions. They attracted the attention of a equad of Wheeler's men, who went immediately to their rescue, and commenced firing upon them, killing them right and left, some ou tue beds, some under beds, sum: in the house and some under the house. Colonel Austin says only fifteen instead of twenty-two were killed. Colonel Austin says that during four years of the Confederate war he was in scores of engagements with General Morgan, General Wheel?r and General Breckinridge; that he wit nessed numbers of acts of bravery and heroism, but that on that day he wit nessed the sublimCst act of heroism in a woman that it ever befell his lot. A man came running out of the house, holding a woman before him, so as to protect him from the lire of Wheeler's men. Of course, they would not shoot, fearing that they would kill her. She shouted, "Shoot, shoot; I'll suffer death that vengeance' should be wreaked upon this Hes sian." About this time, in an adroit manner, one of Wheeler's men shot the 'brute through the head, spat tering blood and brains all over this woman. It has been stated that the last act of Governor Brown before leaving Milledgeville was pardoning the peni tentiary convicts, provided they would help Quartermaster Ira It. Foster get oil the quartermaster stores belonging to tho State. It is true they did help the quartermaster general, and through them General Foster succeed ed in saving several hundred thousand dollars' worth of quartermaster stores belonging to the State. But my re collection of the last act of the Gov ernor before leaving the town was to pardon the convicts, form them into a military oompany, making the cele brated burglar, Dr. Roberts, oaptain commanding. The governor then made them a neat, beautiful, patri otic speech, referring very tenderly to their pardoning, restoration to citi zenship and their duties as Southern patriots. This oompany wont to tho front and part of them remained faithful to their duties during the continuance of the war, but some de sorted. Govorner Brown left the city about 4 o'olook Saturday afternoon, with his family, and went to his plantation in Dooley County, on which a part of the ouy of Cordele is now built. After the war ended, some unscrupulous correspondents paraded before the public oertain stories concerning Gov ernor Brown's oarrying off largo quan tities of his own personal effects and leaving property of the State to be de stroyed. I was present. Such was not 'he case. These correspondents eveu went so far as to say that he loaded a oar full of cabbages from his garden. A great many unkind re marks were made about Joe Brown and his cabbages. Even there were some very cruel verses paraded through tho prints in regard to this matter. The fact of the case is, Gov ernor Brown's good old mother and her old cook, Aunt Celia, wishing to provide something for them to eat while they were eut oamping, gather ed only . two basketfuls of ordinary, old-foohioned blue-stem Georgia col iards. For the many aots of kindness and courtesy that I received at the hands of General Sherman's provost mar shal. Colonel William H. Hawley, In diana infanrty, I have ever felt grate ful, and now, whether it was owiug to my commission coming from a sover eign State, or whether through Capt. Duncan and the two bottles of brandy and sugar, or my being a non-combat ant that I received so much kindness and pretcotion at General Sherman's hands, I am unable to say. I think, however, the brandy was an important factor in the promisos. Before leaving, I was ordered before General Sherman. He told mo that he bad twenty-eight sick men that be wanted to leave in my charge, and to make a requisition for all the medi cines and stores I needed for the hos pital. I did so. I asked him what I must do with these men whou they recovered. His reply was: "If they die, give them a decent burial; if they live, send them to Andersonville, of course. They are prisoners of war, what clso oan you do? If I had your men I would send them to pris on." Among the modioal stores sent me Iat this time bi the.medical purveyoi Was 10 gallons of old rye whiskey, which at that time would have sold at $150 a gallon Confederate money. After Sherman had left, I found that this whiskey belonged to o'.d man Frank Huson, proprietor oftheMil ledgeville hotel. Before Sherman ' came in he had buried it about 10 feet i deep in his cellar. The negro who ' buried it, to get on good terms with Sherman, unearthed itand mt.de tho general a present of it. Loarning the facts in the case, after Shirraan let: c, I returned it to my old friend '.iuoon, who to the day of his death never tired of thanking me for it. m m m - FORREST AND A BULLY. How the General Saved Himself From Humiliation. In the summer of 18GS the Tennes see d-de-gates to the national Demo cratic convention which nominated Mr. Seymour.for tho presidency, met at Nashville and proceeded north in a body. General Forrest was a delegate from Memphis, and it was the first time he had gone north since the war. Sectional feelings were intense at that period, but no one of the party felt any concern for the safety of even G encrai Forrcst. The war had ended and there was no occasion for alarm. Beaching Louisville, the Kentucky delegates joined the Tennessecans, one of whom was General Basil Duke. General Duke had not met General Forrest be fore, but after making his acquaint ance the two sat opposite in the sleep- ' er chatting pleasantly over the events of the past. While in Louisville General For rest telegraph^ the ticket agent at Cincinnati, askiog him to reserve a section for his use in the New York sleeper. The operator, ^ike everyone else at that time. was familiar with the fame of Forrest, and gladly.shared with his friends at other stations the news which would afford them an op portunity of seeing the great cavalry man. At one of these stations there lived a man who had been for sometime a terror to his neighbors. He was known to have killed several men, and everybody at his home gave him the right of way. He was a man of Herculean build aud wore a scowling expression. He preferred war to peaoe, and ? sought every opportunity to pick a quarrel. This desperate fellow happened to hear that Forrest would pass on the "train,, and went from plaoe to place telling t-hoee ho met that ho intended to take the dammed rebel from the train and drag him through the street. Fully 2,000 people collected at the little depot to ceo him do it. -The big ruffian grew more furious as the crowd was augmented, and the operator who gave out the news deem ed it wise to notify General Forrest and suggest that he remain where he was and await the night train. The conductor on a southbound train was told to state the fsots to the conductor on the train bearing the delegates, and say that a great mob had already as sembled to witness the humiliation the bully proposed to inflict, and to urge General Forrest .to turn back. These facts were communicated to General Duke, who felt much delicaoy in relating the story to Forrest,* but deemed it his duty, and, therefore, ex plained the situation to him. The train was near the stationt and whatever was decided on must be done quiokly. The oonduotor accompanied General Duke and urged General For rest to get off, that he knew the man to be very desperate. General Duke simply stated what he had been told and said: "General Forrest we will standby you." For rest thanked him, but said: ''The man does not know me, therefore, be oannot have any quarrel with me. It is .all talk, and I am going to remain in this oar." * The Cm V/e are showing this season a They are the latest in style, t manship, the lowest in pri?e, We sell all styles Low Dc See the big stock on my fl The traiu slowed down for the sta tion and the crowd surrounded the' platform. No one could tell what the next few minutes would bring forward. As soon as the train stopped the big bully burst open the door and smashed the glass in the upper part of it as a herald of his approach. He strutted down the aisle, oalling for the damned rebel to stand up. General Forrest was eating an apple, and the only person in the oar without evidenoes of excitement. The bad man finally sired him up and made toward him, oursiog and oharging. General Forrest, quiok as a flash, grasped him by the throat and had thrown him headlong from the plat form of tho oar to the ground. The general made the air blue for an in stant, and when the bully regained his feet he was on a dead run. Forrest quickly realized the ludicrousnesB of the affair and burst into a laugh. The train soon pulled out. and the crowd whioh had assembled to see the damn rebel dragged through the street, ; was waving hats and handkerchiefs and giving cheers for Forrest.?New Orleans Picayune. Not the Girl for Him. The father was quite anxious for his son to marry, and on every occa sion he was picking out wl it he thought was a suitable girl. One <night at a dinner the old gentleman sat next to a very attraetive young woman, and on his way home he was loud in his praises. "My boy," he said, "she's the very girl for you." ? "Not much," replied the boy with peculiar emphasis. "But I say she is," insisted papa. "And I say not," insisted the son. The father became teity on the subject.' "You're too hard to please. You don'tiexpect a woman to be perfect, do you?" "No." "Then why isn't this just the girl for you?" "Because," replied the young man with an effort, "she's for some other fellow She told me so last night." ? If a mrrried woman knows whioh side of her biscuit the jam is on she will never repeat the fool things her husband said during their courtship. f The man who can hardly crawl, and has just strength to get through a day's work, has no strength left for family life. He wants to be quiet ; to be alone, out of sight and sound of everybody. What a difference between such a man and the healthy, hearty man, who romps with his children and rides his laugiiing baby to "Banbury 0088.'' What makes the difference? 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