Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1917 — Had Plan of Their Own. [ARTICLE]

Had Plan of Their Own.

One day soon after Pope’s defeat at the second Bull Run and Chantilly a private soldier belonging to an Ohio regiment sought an interview with his captain, and announced that he had a plan for a military campaign which must certainly result in crushing out the Secession. The officer very naturally inquired for particulars, but the soldier refused to reveal them, and asked for a chance to lay his plans before Pope himself. After some delay he was given a pass to headquarters. He did not get Td see Pope, but after the chief of staff had coaxed and promised, and threatened for a quarter of an hour, the Buckeye stood up and replied : "Well, sir, my plan is for John Pope and Bob Lee to swap commands, and if we don’t lick the South inside of 00 days you may shoot me for a patent hay-fork swindler I” When he returned to camp he was naturally asked what success he met with, and he ruefully replied: “Wall, they had a plan of their own." “What was it?" “Why, they took me out and booted me for a mile and a half.”