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VAK si A-Tl Old V A tlau h'. Wheo in JiUmpkin, a few days .since, it was wy pleasure to meet with j a number of old veterans who had at- j tcuded the reunion at Memphis, and they vere full of war reminiscences, j and their recounting the hard fought ! battles of Malvern Hill, Manassas, ; Fredericksburg, and Sharpsburg, re called to mind a "close call*' related to me some few yearn since by (?eorge W. Ard, an old soldier, of the Second , '?corgia, who was desperately wound- j cd i ii thc fight at Antietam. It is a queer coincidence that in nearly all its great battles the Third Georgia encountered the Ninth New York regiment, known as the Hawkins o Tl.A ?.r.,. -_:-i" 1_3 -_ /?UutirLo. luv ? ?M i nilli ici ii ula v; -V " pcricnccd such desperate fights with each other as to command not only a mutual respect, but profound admira tion. I have often heard the lament ed Col. licuben B. Nisbet narrate ? "the close calls" of his regiment, thc j Third Georgia, with the Ninth New ; York. Some years ago this regiment, I thc Hawkins Zouaves, entertained the ' Third Georgia in New York city, and a cordial greeting they gave our boys of the gray. Subsequent to that, the Third Georgia when they had their re union in Athens, entertained the Hawkins Zouaves. It was a matter of profound regret to my old friend, George W. Ard, thc one-legged veter an, that he could not attend thc re union at Athens, and his expression of regret indicated such a deep sorrow that T knew there was something be hind it, and 1 insisted that he relate it. He told mc this story : "I belonged to the Second (Jeorgia, company Iv, Toonibs' brigade. I lost my leg in the battlo of Sharpsburg. 1 was on the extreme right, where a few of ?B were stationed to holdthc ground and prevent Burnside from crossing tho Lower Stone bridge. Thc light was on; a ball passed through my thigh, and while lying helpless on the ground another ball passed through my right elbow joint, just as our men were leaving the field. Tho federals rushed across the ercek. aod wounded as I was, it was a great sight to sec those thousands of well fed, well clad soldiers occupy the grounds so recent* < ly abandoned by thc few ragged and hungry Confederates. Tho contrast struck mc, almost dead as I was. A regiment of federals halted near whore I was lying. The ofiicor in charge made his men a short but enthusiastic speech, which was loudly cheered. Amid all this, I beckoned to an officer who was near me and requested that he would drag me around on the other side of a large tree near which I had fallen. Ho at onco stepped back to tho linc and brought four mcu who gently picked mo up and placed mo behind thc tree, hastily spreading a blanket for me to lie upon. I request ed to know whom to thank for thc kindness. The reply was: 'Wo belong to tho Ninth New York regiment, Hawxins' Zouaves.' Immediately thc four men stepped back to their places and thc command from head of column came: 'Forward! march!' And Burnsides' corps passed by. It was a trying ordeal to see the enemy pass beUrocn me and my command and to realize that I was a prisonor of war, and perhaps, fatally wounded. "Very soon a federal army surgeon carno near mc. I called to him. I was a Mason and he was one. He said his name was Humphries, sur geon of thc Ninth New York. Dr. Squires, the assistant surgeon was with him. I asked thc surgeon if he could render temporary aid, as he had many of his own men lying across the creek who needed him. His reply was that he was under as many obligations to mc as to any man. He said he had been a surgeon in the Crimean wi>^ and with his experience he hoped to do something for me. "Ho examined my wounds. Ho administered then and there chloro form, and when I became conscious my leg was ott and my arm bandaged. I waB surrounded only by my comrades who had fallen around mc. Thc doc tors had gone, and that, too, without stitching together thc flaps of the amputated leg. In that fix I lay be hind the tree. Shot and shell from Confederate batteries were tearing up tbe ground around me, outting through tops trees, hurling great branches in every direction. I thought every minuto was my last. "Just before nightfall the firing ceased, and Dr. Squires returned to mc and stitched together the flaps of tho amputated limb. Here I spent the long night. My wounded com rades were not far from me. i was on . " r_i. i :_i T_l J i- .i. _ - . C iivun nui. DHU x v<vutu usai luvu' t?nds call in desperate tones for wa ter, "'ator. "Tao weathor was hot. My suffer ings, mental and physical, wore agon , izing. li tatt of blood created intense ' thir . L ar >y thu rippling Antietam UKI L?. .lon nial. crock wa.s (lowing gently on, and its laughing waters seemed to mock my calls for -.valer which came not. The agony of that night! it was a Geth semane to me. 'Late in the night I heard voices and weary and worn and exhausted from loss of blood, us a last resort I again called out aloud the grand hail ing sign of Masonic distress. I was heard. A federal soldier responded and brought water, not only lo me, but to my sufferiug Confederate com rades. "Thc next morning about sunrise an ambulance came and the driver said I was the man sent for by Dr. Hum phries, i wuH taken two miies to a farm house, where Hr. Humphries most tenderly cared for mc. Ile brought a younjj mau whom he called 'Mac' und said. 'Mac, I commit this young Georgian und others to you.' I fouud this 'Mac' to bc Paul J. Me Locklin of the Ninth New York regi ment. "In some two weeks we were remov ed to a field hospital. My friend 'Mac* continued to wait on mc, and six other Confederate soldiers, as long as 1 re mained, until January 24, ?HG?. A nobler man than Paul .J. MoLocklin never lived. While in the hospital I became acquainted with several mem bers of tho Ninth New York, and I was under care of Dr. Humphries un til bc went to the front, and Dr. Squires was put in charge. In time I was moved to Frederick City, and sad ly missed thc men of the Zouaves. On thc 115th d^y of May, 18G3, I was taken from Frederick City to Ralti morc, thence to Fortress Monroe. Here I was transferred to a large steamer, thc 'Willow Leaf,' and to my joy, the guards on board were Ninth Now York men. Une-leggcd uud maimed I was troubled to know wheo I reached City Point how I should climb the hill to reach the train that bore thc exchanges to 'Dixie.' There was a great rush to get on Vir ginia soil-among them 300 of Mor gan's mon, hilarious over prospect of liberty and home. But the Ninth New York men deserted mo nob but gently picked me up, carried mc up thc stoop bank and placed mo on tho train, thc fcdoral offioor (a Hawkins Zouave), kindly taking my crutches for mo. "There I bade adieu to the last of tho noble Ninth Now York regiment it has ever been my pleasure to meet. It was eight years, after many ef forts, that I heard from the noble Paul J. McLooklin. Finally I receiv ed a letter from him. Wo kept up a correspondence for many years. Hie letters ceased to come. I wrote time and again. The postmaster at West Winsted, Conn., wrote me that my friend 'Mac' had passed into the camping ground of thc dead and that wo must resume our chats of Antietam iu the great Valhalla beyond. But, I have his picture. It is in a nice frame, and hangs on the walls of my bedroom.' Such was the story as related to mo by George W. Ard. Since then, ho too, has gone-ono of th-.t lessening band-to that lone op.mping ground, where his compan ions have grounded arras forever. Georgo W. Ard was a true soldier, a true man. Kc, by honest toil, went j to work after tho war to redeem and glorify his land. His daughter, Miss Annie Ard, is postmistress at Lumpkin, Ga., assist ed by her youngest sister, while Miss Sallie Ard is the accomplished book keeper of thc Bank of Lumpkin, of whioh W. L. Mandro is cashier. The old soldier lives in his children, and their charm of manner, modesty of demeanor, are but manifestations of ' those virtues of character which so I strongly drew the soldiers of the Haw ! kins Zouaves to their noble father. JAMES CAM.AWAV. A Close Call at "The Crater." In many of thc close call reports scenos are brought before my oyos so plain that I think I am looking over tho grounds mentioned in reality. I shall endeavor to give ono dose call that I experienced at the orator before Petersburg, Va., and ono at Jackson, Miss. I bolonged to Company F, Twenty third S. C. V., N. G. Kvans* brigade, Longstreet's corps, Bushrod Johnson's division. I will give the Jackson close call first, as it was a year before that call at Petersburg. After the campaign of 1862 in Vir ginia, cur brigade *ras Ordered to Char leston to recruit. On our way to Charleston we stopped at Goldsboro, N. C., and gave Yankee General Foster what "Paddy gave tho drum.'' Arriving at Charleston wo went in camp on Sullivan's Island. Karly in ; .Ju ii?- we wer?; ordered weat to rei n , loree General .Joseph K. Johnston's army concentrating at Jackson, Miss., for thc purpose of cutting Pemberton out of Vicksburg. .Marching in Virginia was tough, but nothing to compare with Missis sippi. ID Virginia good water could be had anywhere, always cool breezes, hard I roads, etc. In Mississippi there waa no watf.r. Cisterns were either poison* I ed or filled up, even the old stagnant eattle ponds were ditched off; there had been two or three armies passed over thc route that wc went and made away with all the water as an impedi ment to tho enemy behind. We pass t ed through lanes five miles loDg, hedg ed in with osage orange so thick a rat could not have passed through, the sun coming down like fire, and could not sec your file leader for the dust. In one of these laues a great many men dropped dead from heat and dust smother. Wc finally went into camp on Kig Black river from the 4th of July until thc morning of tho Gth. Long roll was sounded at 1 o'clock a. m. on the otb of July, l*t&, and we started on our trip to make Grant turn Pemberton loose. Wo were in linc of skirmishers (our brigade was) looking for Yank?, at every step. About, 3.30 or 4 o'clock orders extended along the line "by the left flank dou ble-time, march," apd that order waa never revoked. When daylight came wc could see our main column, at tho same business running parallel' with us. There was not much slack up un til wc got in the breastworks at Jack son, aud when we got there- old Te cumseh Sherman was in sight and slinging shells at us. I witnessed a charge there that the enemy mado on Breckenridge's division. They wero certainly well drilled and had spunk as well. Our Virginin Yauks could bc made to go back In their holes with one or two well directed volleys and as many yells. Not so with those Buck tail Ohioans. They were like a crab -como at you in all shapes. My close call. This was on Sunday evening about sundown. We had drawn our supper, a few hard tack and a little English mule. I was sitting with my head near the breastwork joking and laughing with my brother about something. In a twinkle-I'll tell it as it was told to me-it seemed that my head was in a big iron pot and tho pot collapsed. I saw a lot of blood and that's all. Tho next thing I knew I found a man standing ovei me working at something in my head that gave me pain, but my ears- wert ringing so I could hear nothing. ] soon found out that I was in the hos pital tent two miles from where I wac hurt. A percussion shell had struct the top of the breastwork just over m3 head. The concussion waB within lesi than one inch being near enongh t< have killed me outright. It did me 1 good turn after all. As our army wa: going to evacuate Jackson, Dr. Mur ray said if I had anywhere that I couh go in the State until I got well h* would give me transportation. I ha* an undo and aunt near Grawfordville Lowndes County, so he sent me t Macon hospital. I was handy to m; good relations and imposed on thei hospitality a great deal. In Septem ber I reported to my command at Sui livan'a Island, Charleston, S. C While there I saw the torpedo boat John Hunnly, the night she went ou and blew up the receiving ship, Hom atonick. The recoil from the torped blew the Hunnly to tho- bottom an stuck her fast. She was gotten up a: ter the war. All the crew 'ht perished were hauled to tho top wit her. Petersburg close call. Our brigat wore in tho or. enobments in front < Petersburg near what was once Jo dan's house-Jerusalem plank rot was half mile to our right. We wei on the brow of a big hill, the enem was down in the ravine. This wi the place of the orator. We wei thero from tho 16th of June, 1864, u til September. By we, I mean Evac old brigade, 17th, 18th, 23rd and 26 Holcombe Legion, all S. C. V's. 001 manded then by Colonel Elliott, Fort Sumter fame. The onemy could get close on to beforo we could see them. We ma aged to get some vidette pits ( onough in front of our lines to obsor their movements in their main lir (i. e.) we would know where th<jy wt going to come for us. We reliev each other at night. My close call ht pened on this line of gopher hob Wo had orders to connect these ho for convenience, to get water fri the branoh to drink and be benefit many other ways. We tr >u ? spa< and shovels out with un that nig' Noxt morning I told my holoma that I would dig firat and that tl could take a nap. Out there was a graat relief to all, for in the main line thoao dem alizing mortar shells were forever co ing. If one went in a well to tak< nap they wonld come there, too; so I pits in front were not signifiai enough to waste a bomb shell on, o> sequontly, everything from both Iii passed far over. I had worked about 15 minutes s was getting quite a pile of the 1 dirt thrown up hotween me and 1 Yanks. I heard the old Ynuks' l.~> iucher gu off. I was congratulating myself as io luck, being on the picket line thc day they were going to use ' that big old thing again. Tho first j thing I knew I heard swish, swish, j HW?HII; it fell just over me, went in the ground and exploded and threw up more dirt ia a twinkle than I could have done all day. I was never so surprised. I thought thc thing went ol? before they got it trained proper ly. However, I concluded to keep an eye open for the next Yankee bad shot. To come the same game it bad to come over a tr.ll big pine in align-i ment with me and the mortar. Away she goes again, away up toward ?.be sky. I spied it coming. At first it seemed not larger than a number four shot, but how rapidly it grew. I scarcely had time to jump out of the way, and I jumped right ever the dirt I had thrown up in plain view of the Yanks. They w?re ?ll standing, up watching the circus, everyone of them laughing. They yelled to me : "Get back, Johnnie, we'll give you a show?" I kissed my hand at them and meant it too. The last shell broke my shovel and spade, and they might as well be broken, for I wouldn't shovel any more that day. K. Y. LECKIE. Columbus, Miss. How the Cowpunchers Soothe Their Restless Animal Charges. "There is an indescribable sense of strangeness about the great plains at night," said a visitor from Texas, chatting in thc lobby of his hotel. "When a man rides over them alone the very vastness of the landscape will awe him to the heart, and his nerves will gradually get on such a tension, without his knowing it, that the yelp of the coyote or the howl of the wolf a mile away will make him jump near ly out of his saddle. That is especi ally true of nights when there is just aslico of moon in the sky-not enough to render things distinct, but enough to fill the whole plain with vague mysterious shapes that you seem to distinguish at one moment and lose the next. I shall never forget aa ex perience I had under such conditions when I first went into the cattle coun try. I was visiting a ranchman in middle Texas, and one day went out with some of the cowboys tc a remote camp. The night proved so beautiful, although there was very little moon, that I decided to take a fresh horse and ride back. As might have been expected I lost my bearings, and after wandering around for several hours came to a standstill pear a line of low, rolling foothills I couldn't remember ever having seen before. The weird half-light gave everything an air of mystery;, the pr ai sie was alive with strange, shifting shadows, and I was staring: into space, falling more and more under the spell of the place and hour, when I was almost startled out of my wits by the sound of a familiar hymn: " 'Nearer, my God, to Thee I Near er to Thee!' "The words were perfectly distinct, sung in a deep, powerful barytone, but I could not for the life of me tell from where they oame, and before I recovered from my first shock the chorus was taken np in what seemed to be every point of the compass : " 'Nearer, my God, to Thee! Ne-e-arer to Thee t' "It sounds foolish to tell, but my hair bristled on my head, and the wonder is I didn't fall of my horse. Luckily at that moment a cowboy came riding around the shoulder of the nearest hil), and in a moment the unearthly ohorus was made plain. He and his companions had a big bunoh of cattle in a sort of natural corral at the other side of the rise and wero simply Binging to keep the restless steers quiet. It is an old trick on the range, and I have heard it done a thousand times since, but never amid such impressive surroundings. The cowboys put me on the right trail, and I waa soon at the raneh house, but my nerves were shaken for a week. It is strange that singing will quiet cattle, but . it does it almost every timo. Thoy tell me it is one of the mainstays of the stock boats, where without it the poor brutes would get in a panic at the first roll."-New Orleans Tintcs-Dcmocrat. His Third Set of Teeth. South Macon has one of the most unusual men known in this section. He ia Mr. John Larry, who at 77 years of age is as strong and vigorous as a man of 50, and he has eyes that have not been dimmed in the slightest by age. He sits hour after hour reading his Bible, the print of which is as small aa one usually sees these days, and he has never worn glasses. Tho most remarkable peculiarity of Mr. Larry, aside from the faot that he was never beyond the limits of the State, is that he is cutting a third set of teeth. His second teeth were shed Some time ago, and he had to "gumit" for a time, but recently new teeth have been coming through to take laoo of the others, and these are ^nabling him to chew hie food as well a he ever could.-Macon (Ga.) Teh graph. How the Heat Kills in New York City. It is difficult, almost impossible, in deed, for ono who has never actually ^sperienced it, to conceive tho su preme distress of a hot spell io New York-mental as well as physical.' The great town is, on the whole, like a flat, sun baked island, crossed and recrossed by numberless deep, steep-sided ditches-the streets. In these ditches no breeze can or ever does stir. Indeed, the air which til!-themis so heavy and moist and inert.that thu poisonous breathings of the panting thousands in the ditches hang close to the bottom and sides, as smoke clings to thc earth on a rainy day, and the fre,.h light air above, with its life-giving oxygen, cannot de scend to relieve tho suffering caused by its lack. Superadded to this, the rays of the sun, beating down, strike upon noth ing but bare walls and bare pavements - there being never so much as a sin gle tree to break or soften th? glare, save in those little green oases-the parks. The walls and these pavements fairly radiate bank those rays and so, from beneath as well as from above, still, overpowering, and all-pervading heit is given out. lb addition to tho physical distress which is thns caused, there is also a mental' anguish-a sort of despair- 1 whioh is perhaps eve n worse. The sufferers of that v;.:.>, beehive feel/ ab they cling to f?ro esoape landings, where the iron work is almost hot enough io blister ibo hands, and the walls breathe forth hot air, or squat on the roofs, all shimmering in the heat like a reflection in troubled waters, that they are in a hopeless situation-that there is no esoape for them-that the night will be as bad as the day-that the afternoon, the evening or the morrow will bring no relief. So, unable to find relief anywhere, unable to rest, or to sleep, or to get for thsir panting lungs a single draught of- cool, fresh air the va?i multitude struggles pitifully through the hot spells, and here and there people, the weaker, give up the fight and fall-sometimes in dozens, some times in hundreds. These terrible seasons fortunately do not last long at a time-two or three days or a week. Else all would perish. Just about the time that the limit of human endurance is reaohed a swift wind comes sweeping down from New England, or from off the broad Atlantic, dearing out the streets, and giving to the multitude therein another chance at life. Picked Qui Iiis Own Coffin. "A man entered my sales room some time ago/' recalled a St. Joseph (Mo.) undertaker in a recent chat with a loeal interviewer, "and said that he wanted to select a casket and shroud. I asked what siaed casket he wanted, and he answered: "Well, you can measure me, if you want; I want the eaaket for myself.' I wus taken by surprise, and he noticed it, but be ap peared to think that there was nothing unusual in his request. (I am six feet tall,' he said. Without further delay I began to show him our different cas kets. He. was very particular about it-they all are-and it took him about an hour to choose what he wanted. He then selected a shroud and other necessities and gave an order for four carriages. When we were through he asked the prioe and I told him $15U. He paid over the cash and I gave him a receipt for his own funeral. The man waa apparently strong and robust at the time. Six weeks later I re ceived a telephone message from one of the hospitals in this city announ cing that my customer had died and that he had given instructions to have me called. The details of the funeral were carried out just as he had plan lieu lociu. 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