Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — Hoosier Straightforwardness. [ARTICLE]

Hoosier Straightforwardness.

An Indiana chaplain at one of the camps near Corinth selected for singing the hymn commencing: “Shaw pity, Lord; oh, Lord, forgive; Let a repentant rebel live.” He had scarcely uttered the last word of this line, when a soldier earnestly cried out: “No, Lord, unless he lays down his arms." While the clergyman was offering the concluding prayer a rifle shot was heard as if from our pickets a mile beyond. The report of the gun was Immediately followed by an exclalmatlon from the same Hoosier. "Lord, if that’s a Union shot, send the bullet straight; an’ if it ain’t, hit a tree with it, oh, Lord.”