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with that of his epauleted but treacherous namesake who threw away his valuable life in so ignoble a cause.

All the men being ranged against the walls, Colonel Wilson, with a drawn sabre in one hand and an American flag in the other, stood forth uncovered, and addressed his men amidst deafening cheers. After a short adjuration to the flag, for which he declared his devotion, he called upon all

Commissioner Deciding a Question of Age. Commissioner, (a young lawyer, looking very grave and dignified): "Well, Sir, how do you claim to be an exempt?" to kneel and swear with him. Waving Applicant, (an Irishman, in the prime the banner and flourishing his sabre, he of life, with a bewildered look): "I am knelt on one knee. All present knelt with forty-six years old." him and repeated the oath which he put to them to support the flag, and never flinch from its path through blood or death.

"Where were you born?" "Don't know."

"How old were you, when you left Ire- He said he would lead them to Baltimore, land?"

"By Gorra, I don't know."

and they would march through it or die; at which they all arose with a tremendous

"How do you know you are forty-six yell, flung up their hats, and brandished years old?" their glittering knives, amidst prolonged

"I am grandfather of four children."

"I don't see what that has to do with your age."

"By Gorra, I believe you don't know much about it (eyeing the Commissioner contemptuously, as if he were a boy).

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Billy Wilson's Zouaves-Extraordinary

Scene.

Billy Wilson's Zouaves composed a regiment made up from what are called the "Roughs" or "B'hoys," of New York city, and were formally mustered at Tammany Hall, the evening before their departure for their encampment at Staten

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Island. On this occasion the following and frantic cheers. He then denounced extraordinary scene was enacted:

The men were ranged round the hall three deep, with Colonel Wilson and the other officers in the centre of the room. The men had all clad themselves in the gray shirts and pantaloons which had been provided for their uniform, and which was completed by a common brown felt hat, brogans and leather belt. They carried a short knife, about seven inches in length, between a sort of bowie knife and butcher knife in shape. Many also had revolvers, -one or two being intended for the arms of each man, as well as a slung shot and a Minie rifle.

death to the Baltimore traitor secessionists and Plug Uglies, and said they would leave a monument of their bones in the streets of Baltimore. Amid yells of

Death to the Plug Uglies!" he said, though he might be the first man slain, he had but one thing to ask, which was that each one of his followers should secure his man and avenge his blood. That they would do so, he again called upon them to swear, and marched around the hall holding up the flag and his sword, and accompanied by two officers, the one on the right bearing a banner inscribed "THE UNION BATTALION OF ZOUAVES: DEATH

TO SECESSIONISTS!"-while the other officer, on his left, held up, in both hands, a bowie knife and revolver. Wilson shouted to them to swear, and they responded with shouts of "Blood!" "Blood!" "Blood!" "We swear!"

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Governor Tod and the Applicant for Exemption.

A good thing is told of Governor Tod, of Ohio, whose labor in the great work of suppressing the rebellion may be characterized as of the heartiest and most telling character. An old lady, between fifty and sixty years of age, entered the Governor's office, and made an effort to induce that personage to exempt her husband from the draft. Mr. Tod looked at her an instant and exclaimed,

"Why, the old gentleman is exempt, isn't he?"

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Ah, but he ar'nt an old gentleman," added the applicant, "he's only 35!"

"In that case," said the Governor, "I can't do anything for him, but I'll tell you what I'll do for you; in case he's drafted and gets killed,-I'll marry you myself."

This seemed to satisfy the old lady, and she accordingly departed.

Quite the Youngest Recruit for Uncle Sam. One of the principal recruiting factories was once on a time enlivened by one of those amusing episodes which help the appetite and spirits.

"So, Sir, you've clapped your dirty sojer trappings on my husband, have you?" Who is your husband?" asked the

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Billy McCurtee, an' shure, an' a bould boy he is, so plaze ye. But it's a dirty thing of ye, my pretty man, to take him

from his wife an' childers."

"Can't be helped," said the officer; "it's too late now."

"Then take the baby, too," she cried, as she forced the little one into the arms of Lieutenant Adams: "Take them allI'll send ye four more to-day."

Quite the youngest recruit for Uncle Sam.

unfortunate officer with the squirming and squalling recruit in his arms. Doubtful of its services to Uncle Sam, he sent it home by its father.

Happy Ending to a Sad Mistake. One day, during the stringent pressure for men to fill the ranks and the rigid activity to prevent the draft being baulked, Captain Maddox, of Brooklyn, New York, sent a provost guard to arrest a German, a deserter, whose name sounded very much like Ferral, and who was at work somewhere in South Second street, near the residence of Mr. John Ferral. The guard took it for granted that Mr. Ferral was the man they had been sent to take into their custody, and straightway made known to him that his bodily presence was required at the office of the Provost-Marshal. Mr. Ferral, who was just in the act of sitting down to a most toothsome dinner, which it seems had been prepared with especial pains, "didn't see it;" he thought there must be a mistake or a joke somewhere. He was told that it was sober earnest. Then he said he would see Mr. Maddox very cheerfully, but-he

Off she ran at a rapid pace, leaving the must see his dinner first. But the guard's

instructions were positive, and nothing | said, "You will pass, Sir; a dollar, if you would do but that Mr. F. should go forth- please." "But, doctor," said the man, with. So he was duly marched off, ac- "let me run down stairs once more, and cording to the manner provided for de- then try me." The doctor said "Oh, yes;" serters and similar culprits, between two the man ran down stairs again, but this muskets, down to the office of Captain time with such increased velocity that he Maddox, of whom he demanded an ex- forgot to come back.

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Western Zeal in Volunteering.

Soon after the formation of Camp Morton, in Indiana, an old man of sixty years of age, with gray hair and flowing white beard, presented himself at head-quarters, full of the fire of patriotism, and offered himself as a volunteer soldier in defence of his country's flag. The officer in command was obliged, however, to refuse the old patriot's offer, on account of his advanced age; whereupon, quick as thought,

Unintentional Trick taught by an Examin- he went to a barber's, had his beard crop

ing Physician.

An applicant for exemption in one of our towns, on account of physical disability, informed the examining physician that he was troubled with heart disease. The doctor told him to run up and down the stairs leading to his office once or twice. This the applicant did, when the physician, after listening to the motions of the heart,

ped, and his hair and beard dyed, and again applied for admission to the coveted ranks of his country's defenders. Not being detected, he was at once received, and being asked his age, for enrolment, modestly replied, "Rising thirty-five." At the same camp might have been seen a young man on horseback, looking wishfully upon the scene before him. Speaking to

the crowd he said: "If I could only dis-emy's country, two miles a week shall be pose of my wife and children, I'd go in a the maximum, and no marches shall be minute." A gentleman who knew him made except the country abound in game, well stepped up and said, "I'll look after them!" "Hold my horse," cried the other, and with one bound he was in the camp, and a volunteer.

Wisconsin Body-Guard for the President.

"Brick" Pomeroy, an editor-and wag -in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on being invited to assist in forming a body guard for President Lincoln, after due consideration decided to "go in," provided the following basis could be adopted and rigidly adhered to throughout the war.

The company shall be entirely composed of colonels, who shall draw pay and rations in advance.

Every man shall have a commission, two servants, and white kids.

or if any member of the regiment object. Kid gloves, gold toothpicks, cologne, hair-dressing, silk underclothes, cosmetics, and all other rations, to be furnished by the Government.

Each member of the regiment shall be allowed a reporter for some New York paper, who shall draw a salary of two hundred dollars a week, for puffs, from the incidental fund.

Every member shall be in command, and when one is promoted all are to be. Commissions never to be revoked.

Roiled because he could not Fight.

James Leonard, of Upper Gilmanton, N. H., who had been rejected as a volunteer on account of his being over fortyEach man shall be mounted in a cov-five years of age, thus expressed his views ered buggy, drawn by two white stallions. of his own case and the et ceteras pertainUnder the seat of each buggy shall ing thereto :be a cupboard, containing cold chicken, "After accepting several men over pounded ice, and champagne, a la mem- forty-five years of age, and several inbers of Congress and military officers at fants, such as a man like me could whip Bull Run. a dozen of, I was rejected because I had the honesty to acknowledge I was more than forty-five years of age. The mustering-officer was a very good-looking man, about thirty-five years old, but I guess I can run faster and jump higher than he; also take him down, whip him, endure more hardships, and kill three rebels to his one."

Each man shall have plenty of cards and red chips to play poker with.

The only side-arms to be opera glasses, champagne glasses, and gold-headed canes. The duty of the company shall be to take observations of battle, and on no account shall it be allowed to approach nearer than ten miles to the seat of war. Behind each buggy shall be an ambulance, so arranged as to be converted into a first-class boarding house in the daytime, and a sumptuous sleeping and dressing room at night.

Poor Jeems ought to have been allowed the chance of trying his hand-at least on the last-mentioned class.

Mrs. Smith's Husband to be Exchanged. At the battle of Ball's Bluff, one of the gallant boys of the Twentieth Massachu

The regimental band must be composed of pianos and guitars, played by young ladies, who shall never play a quickstep setts regiment was taken prisoner, and except in case of retreat.

Reveille shall not be sounded till late breakfast time, and not then if any one of the regiment has a headache.

confined with many others at Salisbury, N. C. His name was-say Tom Smithand he had a wife and children living not a thousand miles from New Bedford.

In case of a forced march into an en- When it became pretty certain that there

would be a general exchange of prisoners, | sea. He endeavored to pacify her, and some kind friend, desirous of relieving the left home for a time. On his return, findterrible anxiety of the wife, called and in- ing her in the same melancholy frame of formed Mrs. Smith that her husband mind, he threatened, in jest, that if she would probably be exchanged. "Well," made further reference to the matter, he said the lonely woman, "I love Tom, and would enlist voluntarily. -the children love Tom, and I don't want him exchanged. I won't have a rebel husband, so now." The poor woman thought the exchange was a swap, and that she was to have some chap from the South in lieu of her real husband. Tom, however, reached home by-and-by, to the great delight of Mrs. S., who was afraid that exchange, in this case, was to prove robbery -and worse than that

Mrs. Eastwick, doubtless laboring under some hallucination, or uncontrollable operation of her mind, seems now to have resolved upon the sad act of mutilating her son in such a manner as to prevent his being accepted for military service, whether as a volunteer or conscript. She deliberately pressed a burning coal upon his right eye, while he slept upon a lounge, and the optic nerve was thus destroyed with but a momentary pang of pain to poor Stark. He became entirely blind. It may well be supposed that this unfortunate issue A deed to make humanity shudder was from her fears did not contribute to the enacted in the neighborhood of Terre mother's peace of mind. On the contrary, Haute, in connection with the drafting of insanity took hold upon her, her sane morecruits for the army. Mrs. John East-ments being marked by melancholy regret wick, the wife of a respectable farmer, was at her frenzied act.,

A Mother Puts Out the Eyes of her own
Son to keep him from the War.

It was little more than three years ago that I met him for the first time. Alike

the mother of seven children, all boys. In the early part of the war, two of these My Gift to My Country. enlisted and served with General Buell in From more than one heart-yea, from Kentucky. One of them, the eldest, Ezra, multitudes-came forth the same sweet, died of exposure in camp, and his brother sad sentiments of domestic love mingled Thomas soon after suffered an amputation with patriotic self-sacrifice, which utter of the right leg, from injuries received in themselves so earnestly in the following a cavalry skirmish. These casualties sentences:operated upon Mrs. Eastwick's mind to such a degree that she lost all fortitude and presence of mind, and sat during in thought, feeling and action, we seemed whole days weeping and full of forebodings. Among her premonitions was a curious one, namely, that her third son, Stark, would also die in battle. As the war advanced and conscription began, Mrs. Eastwick's fear on this point grew intense. Finally, the first draft came; the State had filled its quota in almost every district, and Stark promised his mother that, under no circumstances, would he go to the field. But a second draft being projected, the mother's fears and excitement augmented. She endeavored to persuade her son to leave the country and make a voyage to

exactly united to each other; at least, we thought so; and hope painted the future with roseate hues. Our home might be an humble one, but love and confidence, with a mutual trust in our Heavenly Father, and each other, would well make up for the lack of worldly fortune; and many a bright hour did we spend together, dreaming fairy dreams of the future. But, thank God, we did not set our hearts upon them, for both of us had learned to say, "Thy will be done!" Together we studied God's holy word, and "walked to the house of God in company "; together

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