Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1879 — Bull Run and Gettysburg. [ARTICLE]

Bull Run and Gettysburg.

When Gen. Getty, commander of the garrison at Fortress Monroe, received Capt. Wise and the Richmond Blues, with a band of music at Old Point the other day, as soon as the music struck up it frightened the team of a countryman, consisting of a runt of a bull hitched to a stick cart, to such an extent that he ran into and demoralized „ the entire command. When order had been somewhat restored, Capt Wise wittily remarked to Gen. Getty: “Another Bull Run, General.” . “Yes,” replied the General, “a regular rout: but 1 promise when you get inside the fort you shall fare better at Gettysburg.” And they did, too. —Richmond ( Va.) Baton. Pboctob, the astronomer, will return to this country next winter. Is the knot in a porkers tail ft pigitye?