Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1911 — Recalls Cherry Feast of Union Soldiers Forty-Nine Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Recalls Cherry Feast of Union Soldiers Forty-Nine Years Ago.

Lowell Tribune. .. Forty-nine years ago last Monday, we marched across the Blue Ridge, from Luray to Sperryville, Va. The day was about as hot as it was Monday. There were bushels of fine ripe cherries all along the entire day’s march and the boys had a fine feast. They would climb to the tops of the trees, which were quite tall, and with their hatchets, trim as they came down. Every man in that vast army had a branch of ripe, lucious cherries. It looked like a moving forest. The boys couldn’t tell a lie, but they knew how to trim a cherry tree full of ripe fruit. We venture to say that the farmers in that section didn’t 'need to prune their cherry trees for some years after that army passed that way.