Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1913 — CAMP FIRE STORIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAMP FIRE STORIES

B/friLE AT SAVAGE* STATION Part the United Btatee Artillery Took! In That Fight—General Bumner Led Brigade Himself. I was a member of Battery A, 4thj U. S. Artillery, and was In the seven: days’ battle. ” When we Just left thei breastworks, our supply depot was burning. We continued on to the peach ' Orchard, about one-half mile from there, writes Rody Landugan, Battery A, 4th U. 8. Artillery, of Greenwood, Cal., in the National Tribune. We went in battery, and ten minutes after taking our position we } saw three rebel brigades advancing. We fired about twenty rounds of canister at them and repulsed them several times. We had no Infantry support then, as It had gone on to Savage station. De had to limber up, as they were fiahking us. We came on a gallop to Savage station, where we .met General Sumner and the Irish brigade. Sumner said: “Hazzard, you have done well. Take a position here, and hold It until you get orders from me.” Sumner led the brigade hlmsblf at . Savage station, and In less than ten minutes he was coming back, the enemy being too strong for him to hold his position. We stayed at Savage station all night,-as we got no orders from General Sumner to retire. Whdn our captain got up in the morning and saw we were surrounded by the enemy,; he said, “They have sacrificed my battery to save themselves,” and, calling to the men to stand to gun, commenced to fire. We fired about six rounds, then limbered up andi went on a gallop to White Oak swamp. The bridge was burning when we got there. Our captain led the way across the burning bridge, and we all got safely across. We went into battery with the: Irish brigade to support us. We commenced to cook our breakfast, and about the time our meal was being eaten two batteries opened, on ur. A stampede followed of the pontoon wagons, sutler’s wagons, baggage trains —most everything was driven from the field but our battery and the Irish brigade. In the stampede our cohorns and the majority of our men were taken away. We still had the six guns and the limber chest. The captain, General Meagher ahtf myself manned one piece. The captain was wounded, and gave orders te the battery to retire. The Irish brigade was then retreating. Our battery and the Irish brigade were all that were engaged at Peach Orchard, Savage Station and White Oak swamp. i * After our captain was wounded I took him to a white house in the rear of the battlefield, where we had to leave him. ’There he wrote a note to General Lee, telling me to take It to the road and nail it to a tree. He gave me his pocket handkerchief, tellJng me to wait there until I saw a rebel and wave the handkerchief at him and point to the tree. I think Captain Hazard was a graduate of the same class at West Point as General Lee. We heard afterward that .General Lee had him sent to Richmond In an ambulance. He was exchanged after he got well. No braver man ever commanded men than Hazzard.

He Didn’t Get It. In 1863, after the fall of Vicksburg, a man came to President Lincoln seeking an office. He had known Lincoln in the early ’6os, but had drifted south. He claimed to have always been a Union man, altfyoggh compelled to hide his sentiments until Vicksburg fell. He wanted an office and a good one, and he was very important “John,” said Mr< Lincoln, “when I was a young man I was invited to a dance. I remember that I bought a good new hat for the occasion, and I was very proud'to wear it to the dance; Well, I enjoyed myself so, much that I stayed very late, about the last one to leave, and as I was ready to go I said to the man rtho had charge of the coats and hats: ‘Zach, I wish you would bring me my hat.’ He brought me an old hat that had been worn for a long time. ’This isn’t my hat; I wore a new one,’ said I. ‘But, Mr. Lincoln,’ Bald he, ‘the new ones were all gone two hours ago.’ ’’

y Politics In Wartims. “Is Alderman Clancy a friend of your family?” asked Mrs. Flynn. “He Is not," answered Mrs. Groogan. ‘‘Before ellctlon' he promised to git me b’y Patsy a Government Job. and after the ellctlon he directed me boy to a recruiting office.” — i ' .. n .■■■ # • Why Pat Refused. “Why don’t you carry a knapsack. Pat?” “An’ phwat for should 01 carry a knapsack?” “To put your clothes In." “An’ go naked T An Irish Recruit’s Height. “What's your height?” asked the recruiting officer of an Irish recruit. “The man that measured me tould me ut was solve feet tin or tin feet foive,” replied Pat; “I am not exaotly ■ore which.”