Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — ONE SUMMER DAY. [ARTICLE]

ONE SUMMER DAY.

WHAT TWO MEN HID. Harrison on ttie Field of Battle—Cleveland In a Buffalo y • Saloon. Time, 3 o’clock in the afternoon, July 20, 1864. Place, Peach Trse Creek, Ga. Gen. Hooker to aide: command.” * Time, 3, o’clock in the afternoon, July 20, $64. Place, Buffalo, N. Y. Entor three persons into a saloon. To, barkeeper: “Where’s Grove?” Barkeeper: “He will be here in a few minutes.” Time, 3jlo- in the afternoon, July 20, 186 L Place, Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Harrison to Hooker: “Where shall I put my command?” “Yonder on the left, in -taro lines.” ; •. Time, 3:10 in afternoon, July 20, 1864. Place, Buffalo. Enter Grove. “Hello, hoys, what will you have?” Time, 3:20 in afternoon, July 20, 1864. Place, Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Harrison to aide: “Say to Gen. Hooker, the enemy is moving heavily in my front.” Hooker to aide: “My compliments to Col. Harrison, and tell him to double his skirmish line.”

Time, 3:20 in the afternoon, July 20,1864. Place, Buffalo. Grove- “ What shall we play?” The boys: “Seven up.” Time, 3:3.0 in afternoon, July 20, 1864. Place, Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Harrison to aide: “Say to Gen. Hooker, the enemy is advancing in heavy columns on my front.” Hooker to aide: “My compliments to Col. Harrison, say to him to withdraw his skirmish line slowly, and to hold his position at all hazards.”

Time, 3:30. fn afternoon, July 20, 1864. Place, Buffalo. Grove: “What’s the trump?” Time, 6 o’clock in the afternoon,. July 20, 1864. Place, Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Harrison to Hooker: “Gen. Hooker, we have driven the enemy, with great slaughter at every point, and are in full possession of the field.” Hooker, with a mighty oath: “Col. Harrison, you have won your star by ill is day’s work, and you shall have it.” Time, 6 o’clock in the afternoon,July 20, 1864. Place, Buffalo. Grove:'“l have won the game and drinks.” Bartender: “You cau’t be beat at seven up.” Enter newsboy greatly excited: “Evening paper. Great battle- in Geoigia! Our side wins!” To Grove: “Buy a paper?”; Grove, with a sweep of his hand: “Go away, don’t bother me.” “O, men of America! Proud of your country, of the glory of its past, and of its promise for the future; O, citizens of this grand State, for whom will you vote? For him who won his star at Peach Tree Creek, or for him who won the drinks at Buffalo?” ——- —