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WAR i Staarvation in Wa Atlanta If General Lee's army oonld have been sufficiently, and regularly sup plied with wholesome food throughout the campaign beginning at the battle of the Wilderness, ?o that the men could have badi something 'to eat and a cup of invigorating coffee or tea, before and after each arduous day" and night's duty, whioh? hard duty was continuous every day fer several months, exposed in heat and cold, there is no doubt that the results of tho campaign would have been differ ent; at least the extreme haggard features of the end would have been different. 1 do not think there are many of the veterans of General Lee's anny who participated in the retreat from Richmond and Petersburg that can give a olear diseription of the in cidents that were within their view during the retreat,' for, besides being morely pinohed with hunger, they wore stupefied by the want of sleep, so much so that many not feeling willing or able to bear up any longer, would stagger off to one side and fall down io sleep, to be quiokly awakened by parties of the enemy who were hover ing around and near us. If the men had had opportunity to MICUp UUU XO?7V, JL doubt if they wo UIU have borne up as well as they did with the lack of food during there treat, for their stupefied condition in some degree kept their thoughts and feelings from their extreme hunger. The disappointment and dejeotion of the men was most pitiable on arriving at a certain station on the line of re treat, where we were expecting to find a suppiy of food, but found tust by some mistake it had not arrived, and would not. . . Nor did wo get anything to eat until we arrived at Lynchburg after the surrender at Appomattox. There we found our commissaries in possession of our late onemies, who gave them to us liberally without weight or meas ure, giving to every one as much aa he was willing to carry, but as we had no transportation we oould not take more than we could oarry on foot, whioh would last us only a small part of the way home. There is little truth in the story that General Grant's -army divided their food with us. They found a small remnant that had not been issued to their men on the marbh and gave it to us. I remember my share was less than a small spoonful of ground coffee and nothing else. The individuals of General Graut's army doubtless had a plenteous supply of provisions in their haversacks that had previously been issued to them, but as the men of the two armies did not mingle together they had no way of dividing with us, even rf they.had not needed what they had for them selves. When the army. surrendered at Ap pomattox our (Benning's) brigade was formed in position across the road leading towards Richmond and a strong force of the enemy had come up with us and formed in Uno of bat tle very near in front of us, or rather in rear of us, according to the direc tion our army was trying to go and there in a very few minutes would have been some bloody work when the armistice stopped their advance on us. After the armistice was proclaimed the young and dashing Federal Cavalry General Custer, rode through our line, coming from the rear of the brigade as we were then formed, and going out towards the force in our front that had formed to attack us, each of his numerous escort holding up a email twig in their left hands with white handkerchief a attaohed as a sign of truce. Later on, when General Leo had finished the arrangements with Gon eral Grant and was leaving the sur rendered army,. he started for Rich mond on horseback riding at the head of his Federal escort through our line) en the same road that General Ouater had ridden a few hours before. 80 that it happened at the end of the long war B?nning'? Georgia brigade were tho lost organizod troops of hi a army that General Robert E. Lee ever saw. When we received our provisions of flour, piokled pork and beef At Lynch burg, as bofore mentioned, from the generous hands of our late enemies, we went out of tho city a short .dist ance isle thc country, in tho direciluu of home, and struck camp and prepar ed s9 best we could to cook our supper and though wo had plenty to eat for the time being such as it was, there was no good ohoor among us, no songs, no glee. We did not seem to bo like ourselves in camp life. , Though wo were making our course that way we were almost afraid to think of our borneo. We knew not what our future was to he. We-were covered with tho, mantle of gloom, whatever that means. TORIES ko of Lee's Army. ; ./.Of., - Journal. for as yet we did not comprehend the terms of the surrender, v It will be. perceived that I am only mentioning Borne of the experiences of Benning's brigade. Doubtless oth ers had similar experience. When we left our camp near Lynchburg, though nnarmed and without flags, we were still an organized brigade following General Benning, though his and the Other officers' ?authority to command and power to enforce obedience wore surrendered also at Appomattox. General Benning expressed a will ingness to continue with the men and do the best he oould in assisting them to procuro provisions ou the way and lead them ieto Georgia. But the men know ho had no means of assisting them and felt that it would be wrong to impose a burden on him that he was uuable to bear, and that it would be better on him and for them to scatter into small parties and souf fle the best they could for subsistence/ on the way. The Bmall party I was with seleoted a route through North Carolina that would have taken us considerably weet of Charlotte, for we desired to keep as far from Johnson's troops and other returning soldiers as possible, suppos ing the people on this rout o would not be so badly "ate out," and that pro visions would bo easier to procure. But after passing through two-thirds of the State, I felt such an overpow ering desire to hear some news, espe cially after hearing a rumor that Pres ident Lincoln had been assassinated, that I prevailed on theothers to bend our course dows tc Charlotte, for at that time there were no railroads nor mails in that part'of the State, nor any traveling, for the people were afraid to leave their homes. . When our little party had advanced some distance into North Carolina, and after our Lynchburg supplies wore Bpent, we arrived ono day at what ap peared to bo a large tobacco planta tion, owned by a generous looking Southern gentleman of the old school, who requested us to stop and rest until he could have dinner prepared for us, though he did not invite us into the house. ; But we easily accounted for this by finding about twenty-five other soldiers scattered about the place that were previously stopped and were anx iously waiting for their dinners. We were hungry and it seemed to us that they were so unnecessarily long in preparing the dinner we were expecting a substantial and fine re past. At last our dinner was brought out to us under the trees in several kinds of vessels. Buckets, great pans and little pans, and it consisted of a disproportionate small quantity of well baked and good tasting corn bread, and any quantity of the tops only of a [ large coarse kind of scullion boiled; and, if there was any seasoning in them we oould not taste it. There were no explanations or apologies made. Probably he supposed wo would understand that it was the best he oould do for us. But I did think they might have put in a few of the roots of the scullions. I ate with a mingled feeling of thanks and disgust a small pieoe of the bread, which was all I could get, and tasted the scullion tops for manners sake: but others who, perhaps, were hungrier than I was, ate them with a seeming relish. I But, arriving farther on in the ! State, we fared better, where the col lege girls expeoting us had ready pre I pared a plentiful dinner of substantial j and good things for us in their own j dining hall, and waited on us during the meal, whioh was the first equare and orderly meal we had had in many months. We were told they served all the returning soldiers that came their , way in like manner until all were ! passed. It may bo that none were at fault for the soanty provisions furnished the soldiers during the latter part of tho war, though the men. did feel that they might be given more bread at least. But not one. not even the more fractious among them, ever complain ed of or laid tho blamo for it on Gen eral Leo. Every one realized thai with Buch a small force he had more than enough on his mind in continu ally combatting and holding in check Buoh overwhelming numbers and re serves. Some have claimed without blaming him that since it was iii General Leo's power to do so, that it would have' ' been better if he had compelled tho Confederate cabinet tc abandon the struggle earlier and put an end to so much suffering. But others ohim that this would not have been wise not even meroiful when the effect it might have in tho future is oons'dored, for, they say, that a considerable part of the South ern people would have been dissatis fied, sud that the heat ?f contention over it afterwards might bring on a future conflict, and that the only way to convince and satisfy the whole of the people and insure future unity was to*continue tho Biruggie to the Ditter end. A Battle. Nobody sees a battle. The common soldier fires away amid a Bmoke xniat, or harries on to the oharge in a crowd which hides everything from him. The officer is too anxious about tho performance of what he is especially . ?arged with to mind what others are doing. The oommander cannot be present everywhere, and seo every wood, water course or ravine in which his orders are oarried into execution; he learns from reports how the work goes on. It is well; for a battle is one of those jobs which men do without daring to look upon. Over miles of country, at every field fenco, in every gorge of a valley, or entry into a wood, there is murder committing-wholesale, eontinuous, reciprocal murder. The human form, God' s image, is mutilated, deformed, laceratod, in every possible way, and by every variety of torture, The wounded are jolted off - in carts to tho rear, their bared nerves crushed into maddening paiu at every stone or rut; or the flight and pursuit trample over them, leaving them to writhe and groan without assistance; and fever and thirst, the most enduring of pain ful sensations, possess them entirely. Thirst, too, has seised upon the yet able-bodied soldier, who, with blood shot eye and tongue lolling out, plies his trade; blaspheming, killing with savage delight. Callous when the brains of his best-loved comrades are scattered over bimi The battlefield is, if possible, a more painful object -of contemplation than the combatants. They are in their vocation, earning their bread. What will not tuan do for a shilling a'day? But their work is oarried on amid the fields, gardens and homesteads of men unused to war. They left their homes, with all that habit and happy associations have made precious, to bear its brunt. The poor, the aged, the sick are left in a hurry, to be kill ed by stray shots or beaten down, as the oharge or counter-charge goes over them. The ripening grain is trampled down; tho garden is trodden into a black mud; the fruit tre?. J, bending -beneath their luscious loai, are shat tered by the cannon sho', churches and private dwellings are used as for tresses and ruined in the conflict; barns and granaries take fire, aud the conflagration spreads 09 all sides. At night the steed is stabled beside the altar, and the weary homicides of the day eomplete the wrecking of houses to make their lairs for slumber. The fires of the bivouao eomplete what the fires kindled by the battle have not consumed. The surviving soldiers march on, to ast tho same scenes over again else where; and the remnant of the scat tered inhabitants return, to find the mangled bodies . of those they had loved amid the blaokened ruins of their homos; to mourn with more than agonizing grief over the missing, of whose fate they are uncertain; to feel themselves bankrupt in the world's stores, and look from their children to the desolate fields and garners, and think of famine and pestilence, engen 1 dered by the rotting bodies of the half-buried myriads of slain. Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child in an attire of whieh kings and queens would be proud. I will build a scbool house on every hillsido and in every valley over the whole earth. I will build an academy and endow it, and a college in every State, and fill it with able- professors. I will orown every hillside with a place of worship.conse crated to the gospel of peace. I will support in every pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the ohime on another around the earth's wide cir cumference, aud the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven. mm ? pi Small Pox. This dreadful disease is now very prevalent iu all parts of the country, and, as exposure to its malign int breath is liable to occur at any timo no matter how careful we may be, it behooves everyone to take proper pre cautions to prevent the germs from affecting the body. The doctors say that puro blood, good digestion and regular bowel movements materially aid the body in resisting attaok, hence it is the course of wisdom to purify and strengthen the system without delay. A most effective remedy for this purpose, ono that combines the necessary properties for purifying the blood, strengthening the kidneys, ton ing up the digestive organs and for cleansing and regulating the bowels will be found in that well known sys tem tonio and purifier, Prickly Ash Bitters. This' valuable remedy is tho right thing for putting tho body in abape io resist che enect of exposure to Small Pox. No one will knowing ingly expose himself to this disease. The exposure usually takes place when it is least expected, therefore the need for precautionary measures is' the more urgent. It is safe to say that the frequent use of Priokly Ash Bitters while the disease is so preva lent will keep the body in such fine physical condition that no ordinary exposure will affect iL Evans Phar macy^_ . _ ? _ -- ww?mir hK&o C?7C ui i?sci? and the devil will take care of yon. Do Fish Ever Sleep? ? - 1 Do fish ever sleep? This question 1 has been puzzling the experts at the < United States Fish Commission for ? the past week, and some of them aro I i not yet absolutely certain whethe* ' fish indulge in slumber or are sufferers j ? rom insomnia, says a writer in the New lork Sun. Several amateur anglers had a dis cussion in the lobby of an uptown hotel the other day on this phase of the life of the finny tribe, and buiug unable to decide the matter to their satisfaction they made an appeal to the Fish Commission to aid them in their difficulty. A messenger was sont with a note to George M. Bowers, United States Fish Commissioner, asking Inn opinion on tho subject. Mr. Bowers was ab sent from tho desk and thc messenger was referred to thc various scientists who have made fish culture a study with the siatement that they wero tho proper officials to whom to apply for j this information. . Mr. Bowers, it wan explained, beiug ! the executive officer of thc commission and not a close student of tho habits and customs of fish, was naturally limited in his knowledge of tho ways of these denizens of tho water. He had hauled in many black bass from the Potomac River near his homo in West Virginia, but was not an expert on the life of the many varieties of fish over which he has supervision. When the question was plaoed be fore the scientists of the commission there was a long, painful pause, and hurried questioning glances were ex changed between them. After a great deal of Ii ?J H illili JU a discussion, wats started at the end of which these wise men were no nearer an answer to the question'than the propounders of it. Whether fish indulge in peaceful slumber, the same as human beings and terrestial animals, was a problem that had cot received careful consider ation from the experts. f?overal opinions were expressed and mans theories advanced, but argument; failed to prove them. One of the learned men, upon thc impulso of tho moment, declared that fish did not sleep because they did no* oloso thoir eyes. A colleague callee the attention of his brother scientis to tho fact that fish had no eyelids consequently it was i u possible fo them to conceal their organ of sight This seemed to explode tho tb cor; of the first learned man. Finally tb scientists "acknowledged their inabilit; to answer the question off hand, bu asserted that a correct solution woub result. Before a practical test was mad an absent member of the commission' staff returned from a business tri and rescued the experts from the diffi oulty. He declared that fish slop and forthwith presented his argu ment. He said that the first thing to cor sider was the meaning of the wor "sleep." That had to be definitel determined. His notion wes that i all living creatures there was more c less activity, mental and bodily, whio necessitated reBt and to secure propc rest sleep was indispensable. Fish were aotive and for a grec part of their lives were moving about whioh required a certain amount c rest from physical exertion. As r< gards mental repose this expert ws not in a position to express a decide ! opinion. If there was any mental exhaustio 1 imo rig tho finny tribe ho said it might >o confined to their efforts tc resist he temptation of. swallowing the bait )ffored them by the anglor. Ue aoout )d tho idea that fish did not sleep be cause they did not close their eyes. j In support of this position ho ar rued that human beings have boon ?uown to sleep without dropping tho eyelids. And among animals it was io uncommon occurrence for them to deep with theil eyes wide opon. Continuing, the expert said that he 'lad observed fish in au aquarium whioh lave every evidence that they were indulging in sleep. They would re main for a loug time at tho bottom of & tank, resting in au upright position upon their tails, which, while nota comfortable attitude, was not unlike that of certain human beings at times. In other forms of reposo fish lay ou their sides ard also rested their bodies npon moss and shrubbery in tho tank. Thc habits of catfish, bullhead and Bunfish were mentioned as another illustration of sleeping fish. Durlug tho winter Beason these spocics go to thc bottom of tho water and flounder about until they become encased in mud and there remain during tho cold period. This was certainly sleep in dulged in by them, and it was a natural inference that othor specimens of fish were compelled to obtain rest in the nature of sleep. 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