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WAR SI -A_n Incident at the I Mar A i lo ttt a In my last war story, "Tige Ander son's Brigade at SharpBburg," I men tioned bursting a cap at the heart of a color bearer, and afterwards finding him wounded on the field. Ile told mc he was the color bearer of thc First Minnesota regiment. Through thc Atlanta Journal (and everybody reads the Journal) I have learned his nunn: and residence, and on thc '?\hh anni versary of tho battle of Sh 2rj>^burg, September 17th, I wrote him a long and friendly letter, to which he replied in a most interesting way, which I think will bo equally interesting to thc many leaders of that vaiuabie pa per, thc Atlanta Journal, and which I will give in full: S ri l.l.WATEU, MI NN., September 28, 1.101. Mr. W. ll. Andrews, Sugar Valley, Ga.: Dear Friend Johnnie-Your kind and interesting letter of the 17th in stant, the. 39th anniversary of our first and last meeting on thc bloody battle field of Antietam, Sbarpsburg, Md., has been received, and to say I was surprised and pleased would be ex pressing it mildly. In fact, I was more than pleased to hear from tho boy in gray that I laughed at for dodging a shell that was in search of him. "Why, Johnnie, it became second naturo to us all to dodge those vicious iron bumble bees that had a very dis agreeable way of disturbing our quiet ness. I was also very much interest ed in your account of tho part your brigade took in that day's work. It was a terrible day for both sides. I have often wondered What ever be came of the pleasant, manly sergeant with whom I chatted so freely on that occasion, and who I felt sure was a true soldier, hence my surprise and extreme pleasure in receiving your letter. I am also glad that you arc among the living, and that the little brown-eyed best girl did i.ot go back on you for a stay at home, but pre ferred the boy in gray in 'Tige' An derson's fighting brigade. I am also glad your gun missed fire when you was so anxious to down me, for I am confident by what you write I must have beon your especial object, for the First Minnesota was on tho ex treme right of our lino at that time, while yours was on the extreme left of your line. "Now, will you kindly tell me just whero it was that your gun snapped. Was it beforo you changed your posi tion further to tho left while yet in tho field, and bofore you tumbled over the fence, or after? It must have been before, because while wo were at the fenoe at the edg3 of the woods most of the boys on my right were down be hind the fonoe, but those on thc left were up and attonding strictly to bus iness. I was standing up resting my flagstaff on tho fonce in front of me. Directly in front of me only a few Johnnies were visible in the corn field, but they were send ing in 'their compliments to us rather moro freely than was desirable to wo'una. . Sergeant Bloomer sent me a three-column clipping from thc Still water Daily Gazette, in which is a most thrilling account of his awful fate on that bloody field, which I will copy frets. It says; Thc Minnesota regiment was in thc thick of tho fight during tho entire day and was located at thc extreme right. Sam Bloomer was thc color bearer of the regiment and early in . the forenoon, about 9 o'clock, while he was resting the flagstaff on a fence in front of him and the boys were lying down so tho bullets and shells from the cuemy's guns could get by without hindrance or delay, a minie ball strick his right leg just below thc knee cap. passing straight through. At thc place of ogress thc bullet left a ghastly wound. Sam snys that's the nature of a minie ball, that'.s tho way they ari built. Just about this time our Hue was broken, at least drivcu back about half a mile, leaving it? faithful color bearer to his tate. Sam crawled to the foot of a big oak tree, organizing himself with tho tree between him and the robel fire, but as our men fell back and thc rebels occu pied tho place, he found a change of base desirable, and went over to thc enemy so to speak. At least he crept painfully and slowly around the tree to nvoid the fire from his friends, which carno pouring in thick and dead ly. Tho rattling sound of musketry and the crash o? artillery were in his cars. The shells hurled oyer his head with long, wild screams, while the smoke rolled through the leakes: Bui Ms whistled in tho branches and nip ped at thc trees. Limbs from tho tree, some of them of goodly, eixd, and many leaves came sailing downy while a mighty song of clashes and cracke went bweoping through tho woods, Battle o?" Sharpsburg, fland. Journal. One shell coming from thc Uuioo side buried itself iu the tree. In the meantime Sam had ripped away his j clothing, bandaged his wound the host ; he could and kept it bathed with wa I ter from his canteen. As the blood i flowed profusely he bound his leg above the knee with the strap from I his blanket to prevent a fatal loss of blood. Several days thereafter when strap was out of sight, enveloped in the swollen flesh on either side. "Not far from uoon," says Sam, "a rebel soldier, who I long afterward learned was \V. II. Andrews, first sergeant Company M, First Regiment Georgia regulars, came up, his regi ment not being engaged, and learning my condition and of the fact that I was between two fires he and some of his comrades piled cordwood around mc to protect mc from thc shots. 1 have no doubt more than 100 bullets struck thc barricade of wood during that day. Early in the evening Stonewall Jackson came riding by. Ile halted a moment, spoke kindly to mc, asked to what regiment I belong ed and ordered the men who had charge of a lot of Union prisoners to supply our wants and make us as com fortable as possible. A captain in a North Carolina regiment came up a little later, stopped and chatted with me, gave me a drinkfrom his canteen, spoke kindly und encouragingly and rode away. "Previous to this, however, a rebel officer appeared whose conduct and conversation were quite unlike that of General Jaokson and the North Caro lina captain. He reviled me with bit ter words, called me a 'nigger thief,' etc. T had a revolver and a short sword under my rubber blanket ou, which I lay, and in my rage I at tempted to get at the revolver, intend ing to shoot the fellow, but he had his eyes on me and immediately shouted: j 'Disarm that mau.' The soldiers, of t course, obeyed, and all I could do was to protest and also volunteer thc re mark in a most indignant tone that in my opinion nothing but a d-n dirty coward would io3ult and rob a wound ed prisoner. I hated to part with tho sword as it was a present to mc from Captain Louis Miller. "It is a long time since this happen ed and time softens our animosities, and I don't know that I would harm him if I should meet him now, but for many years after the affair I beliovo I would have shot him on sight if he had been in church." Sam lay there on the ground until the evening of the 18th, which was Thursday, when the rebels carried him to a little barn surrounded with straw stacks, where he lay another night Uko a warrior taking his rest with his martial cloak around him. Martial cloak sounds a little moro like tho chivalrio days when officers wore suoh garments, but as a cold faot Sam's martial cloak consisted of a badly crumpled rubber blanket. Ho was not alone, for there were more than 100 other prisoners in the hands of the rebels, whom it was their intention to parole, but didn't for several reasons. Didn't have time, anyway, as they had urgent ?business south of the Po tomac. Next morning, the 19th, Sam and three others were conveyed in an ambulance to tho Hofman barn. Sam was obliged to sleep on the ground an other night, however, as there wero hundreds of others awaiting treatment by the surgeon. Next day, Sunday, Dr. Pugsley amputated the injured leg. In describing this, Sam indig: nantly remarked that ho did not at tend church that day. lt is necessary iu order to preservo the chain of this somewh'. complex uarrative to go back to the day of thc great battle. At the time Sergeant Andrews, of the Georgia regulars, visited Sam in his bivouac at the foot of tho friendly oak he was not'aware that ho was protecting and caring for thc very ] man he had coolly and deliberatoly essayed to kill a fev hours before, ^n a communication to Sergeant Bloomer Sergeant Andrews scys: "Bead tho newspaper clippings ant uote toe date of this letter, September 17th. Just thirty-nine years ngo t .?-day wo met at Sharpsburg, Md., one qi the blood est battles of thc civil war. You gave us a warm reception foran early morn ing call. You should have been neighborly and let us get in position -at least allowed us to get over tho fence in a dignified way. When wo tumbled over that fence we had not had anything to eal io nearly threo days, so you- see wo were hungry and mad, too. My first shot was aimed at a color bearer's breast, but my gun snapped. "I have always believed you were tho man, but will leave that for you to decide. "How 1 wanted to see the colors faK and how small I felt when my gnu missed lire. But fate favored, you, J und I thank God it was not my bullet j that struck you. We were fighting for what each one of us believed to be right. At thc same time thc North dubbed us rebels and traitors. "If you had been io my shoes would you have turned your gun on your own fireside and those you held dear? No, you were too brave a man for that; you would have fought for home and kindred. So you seo I have no apolo gies to make, but under thc same con* ditions would do so again. "Near thc same place a short time after thc 6cenc changes. One of thc boys in blue ia reeling against a large oak, wounded in the knee with his clothes ripped up, bathing his wound from his canteen. "On his knee in front of him, was ooe of the boys io gray, holding an earnest conversation with him. All enemies, but civilized American sol diers who believed in extending a helping hand to an enemy in distress. At that moment, however, the shells from the Federal guns were burst ing around our heads like firecrackers. "I have thought of you many times and wished I had done more for you, but I have never been able to make out what that would have been. The southoru cross went down in defeat, but not dishonor. We put up the best fight the world -ever witnessed. With nothing but honor left, we still had ono consolation. We give you boys hell while it lasted. But times have changed, and the south with it. To day we are are-united people; no north, cast, south or west, but one com posed of many. Thc south is now as loyal to the union as the boys who wore tho blue. "I would like so muoh to see you and grasp the stroug right hand that held the Stars and Stripes steady and erect on that bloody field 39 years ago. Continuing Sergeant Bloomer writes: My friend Andrews, I quite agree with you and think that the people of the south are to-day as loyal to the old flag as any people can be. They have demonstrated that by their ac tion in the Spanish-American war. And trod knows, and we know, that better and braver soldiers than the boya who wore thc gray in 1861-?5 were never born. And such a thing as war and strife will never again be known among our people. Nothing in this world would please me more than to meet and grasp yours and that no ble captain's hand in the deepest and most sincere friendship. I will send you a shadow of myself taken about ten years ago to put in your Yankee picture gallery. So you can see what a specimen you would have spoiled had your gun gone off whefiffiu were so anxious to bring me dowJfrflwHh those colors. Would be pleasely? receive your shadow and to hear from you again; also to know how tho'world; or the people in it, used you sinae you came over that fence to soe me. Hungry, mad and with blood in y?u.- eyes on that memorable 17th day of September, 1862, 39 years ago, I am, yours truly, SAMUEL BLOOMER, . Ex-Color Sergt. 1st Minn. Regt. . I take off, my hat to Sergeant Bloom er. He is both generous and brave. How ho must have suffered during those four days and nights. Nothing less than the horrors of tho damned. The famous Union general, W. T. Sherman, in his definition of war, said: "War is bell!" Our new president says: "The time has come when wc all can admire the heroic deeds'performed by the Ameri can soldiers during th; civil war. whether he wore tho blue or the gray." W. n. ANDREWS Sugar Valley, Ga. MOTHERHOOD Ia a natural instinct which shows itself in the girl as soon as she is big enough to play the mother to her doll. Unfor tunately thc womanly health does not always keep j?ce with tho motherly in stinct, and when -(*>j?"^VS rca* motherhood h?^!$i3i} comos it often comes to mothers who suffer intol icrably during ma ternity and who arc unable to uurs?i the wenk: Iinji child which frets und moans in their anns. Motherhood i? prepared Tor and provided for by i the use of Dr. I Pierce's Favorite Prescription. ' It,. **uri's nausta, tranquilizes t li e nerves, juives a healthy appetite and promotes rest f'ul sleep. It makes the baby's advent practically painless, and gives the mother ulm mian t strength to nurse her child. Accept no substitute for N Favorite Pre scription." There is nothing "just as .goori "' for weak and sickly women. ??? fc'?w? year? ngo I Was very sick and began taking your ' Favorite Prescription,' ? writes Mrs. Ea. Hackett, of Chardon, Gcaugn Co.. Ohio. "When my baby boy came he weighed twelve pounds and n ha?f. Have had ?cod health ever since, until about three weeks ago. when weaning my Iwby. 1 contracted a heavy cold. Am toking your 1 Golden Medical Discov ery.' I am thankful that poor sufferers have such n grand chance to regain their health by using Dr. Wercc's medicines, lt would take pages to tell thc good it has done in our family, ana in rt great many more mmilics under my observation. ?I thank you for your kind medical advice." Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser in paper covers is seut free on receipt of ii cents in one-cent ?tampr io pay expense of thmlinc o?/v. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Et?ffalo, N. 'Y. . 1 Hard to Explain Away. "I gave you a parrot as a birthday present, did I not, Matilda?" he ask? ed. "Yes; but surely, Albert, you uro not going to ?peak of your gifts as if-" "It was young and speechless at the time?" ''Yes, with increasing wonder; "and it has never been out of the parlor." "There are no other young ladies in this house?" "No, there ere not." "Then why-why when I kissed your photograph in yonder album, while waiting for you, did that wretched bird imitate your voice, and say, "Don't do that, Charley; please don't." Stricken With Paralysis. Henderson Grimctt, cf this place, was stricken with partial paralysis and completely lost the use of one arni and side. After being treated by an emi nent phyfiician for quite a while with out relief, my wife recommended Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and after using two bottles of it he is almost en tirely cured.-Geo. R. McDonald, Man, Logan county, W. Va. Several other very remarkable cures of partial paralysis have been effected by the use of this liniment. It is most wide ly known, however, as a cure for rheu matism, sprains and bruises. Sold by Orr-Gray <Sc Co. - - o m - Self Extinguished Obligation. Joseph Reed tells a funny story re cently narrated to him by Governor McCorkle, of West Virginia. A col ored man was telling a white friend about another negro who owed him two dollars and refused absolutely to pay the debt. The creditor dunned and dunned him, but all to no pur pose. Finally the oreditor went to his white friend, who is a lawyer, and poured bin tale of woe into his ear. "Well," said the lawyer, "if he pos itively refused to pay you, what rea son did he give?" "Well, boss," said tho colored man, "he said he had owed me dr.t money fo' so long dat de interest had dun et it all up, and he didn't owe me a cent." Old People llave Their Troubles. Mr. Franois Little of Benton Har bor, Mich., is over eighty vears of age. Since 1865 he has been troubled more or less with indigestion and constipa tion and has tried almost everything in us J for those ailments. Last Au gust he began using Chamberlain's Stomaoh and Liver Tableta and was noon feeling much better. In a recent *etter ho says, "I have used three boxes of the Tablets and now think I am well." These Tablets improve the appetite and invigorate the stomaoh, liver and bowels. For sale by Orr Gray & Co. An Unexpected Retort. An emiuent American lawyer, bow deceased, was sadly given to intoxica tion. On one oecasion he entered a ehuroh whilst the minister was holding forth on ?b? future punishment of the wicked. Fixing his eye upon the lawyer, who was reeling near the door, the pret.cher exclaimed: "There stands a man against whom I will bear witness in the day of judg ment." At this the lawyer folded his arms, planted himself as firmly aa he could, and addressing tho man io the pulpit, he electrified th* whole congregation after this fashion: "Sir, I have been practicing in the criminal courts for 20 years, and I have always found that the greatest rascal is the first to give state's evi dence." - Our good deeds slip away easily; our sins ride us with whip and spur: - Love may be blind, but it has a delicate touch. Trade at the BUSY I ANYBODY that watches the c eold. Watch the bees aud you will ric dous stacks of Goods daily piled at DI to prove that the peoplo know where t< They buy BAGGING ' does, and for the same reason they buy BARLEY, that havn't got a particle ol They just know that DEAN ?fe ] J lowest, and ihe quality of their Goods They believe that, no matter ho' g?t, they will hundi? their orders just had. That's what makes DEAN' ?fe I iu trade circles, and the high-cock*a-loi - They've staked their reputation declare they've got the neatest, newest, ried tu stock. Their Ladies' Shoes pT< give you one of those regular "old stn Common, ordinary HATS 1??^ just opened up. ?*? There's on!y one place to huy goo RATLIFFE'S, and the best Flour DEAN'S PATENT, and don't you fe AN & ! I The Stoto where people trade, an ? are now being sold. Hurry up Time for Enjoyment. He is a young man whose unbound ed assurance has' ever been hi? chief characteristic. When he proceeded to talk to the practical old nan about, marrying his daughter, he was evi dently prepared for the usual ques tion: "Do you think you can support my daughter in the style to which she ?as been accustomed?" The parent spoke with the air of a man who thinks he has uttered a poser. Thc suitor looked him in the eye. "Let us talk the thing over," he said. "Do you think your daughter j is qualified to make a man a good ? wife?" "Yes, sir. Her mother and I are both practical people, and we have given her a practical education. She cannot only read Greek and play the piano-she practices three hours every j day-but she can cook a good dinner, and do the marketing as intelligently as an experienced steward. Moreover, her ability with the needle is not con fined to fancy work. She's a treasure, I and wc don't propose to have any j doubt about ber future." "You were asking me if I thought I could support her in the style to which she has been accustomed." "I was." "Well, I could. But I don't pro pose to. After she marries me she's not going to practice three hours a day on tho piano, nor cook dinners, nor bandy words with market people. She's going, to have all the sewing done outside the house, read what she enjoys, whether it is Greek or Choc taw, and go to the theatre twice a week. It's time that girl had some' enjoyment in life*". - Dootor-"Well, Johnnie, don't feel better since I gave you the medi oine?" Johnnie-"Yes, I forgot all about being ill." Doctor-"That's what I thought; and it wasn't bard to take, waa it?" Johnnie-"Well, it was rather, for it took two of us boys to hold Carlo while we gave it to him." - In Norway before a woman can marry she must show a certificate that she can oook, darn. etc. The first thing a woman in that country does after Cupid makes a target of her is to go into the kitchen and darnery to qualify herself for matrimony. You Know What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50c. -- Simkins-"Bilkins, junior, strikes me as being a very promising young man." Timkins-:"Yes; more prom ising than paying." The Best Prescription For Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio. It is simply iron and quinine in a taseless form. No cure, No pay. Price 60c. - When a man starts a fight be fore taking the measure of his adver sary he may have his own measure taken by the undertaker 'ater. Constipation is the rock that wrecks many lives; it poisons the very life blood. Regularity can be established through the use of Prickly Ash Bit ters. It is mildly oathartic and ttrengthen* the stomach, liver and kidneys. . fivana Pharmacy. - The body, of an Indian was re cently discovered in an ancient disus ed eopper mine in Chile. It was in a $tate of perfect preservation, owing to the antiseptic action ol1 the copper salts. The style of thu dress, etc., indicated that it had lain there prob ably since about the year 1600. To Care A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo-Quiuine Tab lets. All druggists refund the mouey rt it fails to cure. E. W. Grovo's sig nature is on each boxv ?5c. - Women in Austria are never put in prison. A female criminal, no matter how terrible her reoord, in stead of being sent to jail, is convey ed to one of the con venta devoted to that purpose, and there ' she is kept until the expiration of the term for which she.was sentenced. :rowd knows where the most Goods are \H where the honey grows. The tremen 3 AN & RATUFFE'S store door? pro :> get the most of their money. there because everybody else [ those pure SEED OATS, RYE and F Johnson Grasa in them. RATLIFFE'S prices aro ns lo* a* the ?re above suspicion. w busy DEAN & RATLIFFE may as though it was th? only one they over iATLIFFB tho Czar of all the Ru?sias rem of the bargain ranch, on their SHOES tnia benson, and cleanest line of Shoes they ever car rtect the feet as well a* the purse, and ie'.'fits. : like thirty cents beside their new line i v "'v. :. ?:. 4lip d FLOUR, and that is DEAN & to buy in season and out of season ia irgetit ??TUFFE. d where Grain Fertilizers of all kinda and catch up with thc crowd, -tea fl ifaOf Iff golf *afiunta and Children, similating the Food andReguIa- m ~~ # ?ngu\gStos^a?alBo^3Qf ? S?SXS tllv m \ Promoles Digestioo-Cteerfur- M *g y?F ness andRest-Contains neither M nX? JSL M % 9 Onium.Mojpliine nor>fineral. jffi Ul ^Ii ll* 1 .CW PunifJoii S etti-' v ft V lg Six. Sew ui * I SB KW a s?^?to. / I f\ air* sn *^5=_J ?TH ll op ? perfecl Remedy for Constipa- il . ? ?p "v? Hon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea II l?jr ? 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