Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — Wouldn’t Obey Orders. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn’t Obey Orders.

“During the rebellion,” says the Cleveland Sentinel, “a well known Cleveland Colonel observed one of his soldiers wending his way to camp with a fine rooster in his arms. He halted him and wanted toknow if he had been stealing chickens. ‘No, Colonel,* was the reply, *1 just saw the old fellow sitting on the fence, and I ordered him to crow for the stars and stripes, and he wouldn’t, so I confiscated him for a rebel.” Ex-Senator Ferry will soon sail for Europe to spend a year for the his health.