Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1869 — Duties of Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Duties of Soldiers.

A crbtain Confederate reviment that served during the war in the Western De partment Was etotamanded until after the battle of Murfreesboro’ by a colonel who was a foreigner by birth, but a soldier by choice and education. He never learned to use good lint ha had a short way of exprei ilag himself in impetuous exclamations that wasquite as effective in conveying his eonelusioia as his practiced sword wm in disabling an adversary. This anecdote is attributed to him: Once, when some general officers were hesitating about making an important but desperate movement, on account of the loss of life it was likely to involve, he; happening to be present, bawled out: “ What, kill sol dier I What soldier made for ? Soldier paid to be killed, py tarn!” At the battle of Murfreesboro’, when a certain brigade was ordered forward, bn Wednesday, to assist in the attacx on the Federal right, the regiment commanded by the foreign officer referred to, met with such a furious reception from “ the boys of the WesV’-as they prjded in calling themselves, that it wavered, and was oa the point of felling into confhsion, when, it is said, be Instantly brought the men to a sense of their duties and responsibilities bv dashing madly along the line, brandishing hu sabre over their herds, and shouting at the top of his voice: “Go up tab, men! Go up tab ! By tarn, da you want to lice alw*y» f n —Drawer, Harpcft Kagaaino.