Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — Confederate War tories. [ARTICLE]

Confederate War tories.

Representative John Allen has an inexhaustible fund of good stories, says a Washington letter to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Here are two relating to the war. With the first Mr. Alien illustrates the deepseated prejudice and contempt felt for the Yankees. A confederate soldier in a certain regiment had become noted for running away from every fight. On one occasion his captain found him in line as an unexpected attack opened. Standing behind him the captain drew his pistol and said: ••Now, John, up to this time you have run from every fight. You have disgraced yourself on all occasions. Now, if you stir from the line this time I intend to shoot you dead. I shall stand here, right behind you, and if you run I will certainly kill you.” John heard the captain through, and drawing himself up to an unusual height, replied: “Wall, captain, you may shoot me if you like; but I’ll never give any low-lived, low-down Yankee the privilege of doing it.” At Murfreesboro a confederate soldier'was rushing to the rear with all the speed he could command. An officers hailed him and sneeringly inquired why he was running so fast away from the Yankees. The soldier, without stopping, yelled back: “Because I can't fly.”