HUMORS ON THE BATTLE-FIELD.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5028, 23 February 1885, Page 3

HUMORS ON THE BATTLE-FIELD.

' M»oy,hlcinibjro^.B incidents have .occurred on battlefields! A. .Confederate colonel ran abe»d of bit regiment at Malrern Hill, •^discovering; that the men were not followinghim as closely as he wished, he uttered a fierce oath, and exclaimed: //'•'; >• pome on 1 Do you want to live for ijhe appeal was irresistible, and many fellow who had> laughed at the Lionel's queer exhortation laid down his nlife"so^':after^--; ; ;.vVv;- .v \ ■./-_,_■ ' ■;:, :-\--'\\'-;A'ihell:'Btruck;itheV.-wheel;.of-a.lPe.deral' ' field^piecei towardsi the close lof theen- -';: Opfcs;l!and, shivering ' ?(thrip^ke»i disjQiantleiJ theicannon. /£-.-;«•;^^U; jan't itJucky that didn't happen before we used up all oar ammunition," Mmarjtediontf '-. of Uie artillerists, as he Jrom^beneaththe gun. •;- , v -i When General Pope was. falling back iteforeiee'i advance in the yireinia Valley, hit own soldier! tboaght his bulletins and / orders somewhat Btrained in their rhetoric. Aton^of thef numerous running engagementß that marked^ that diiastrous cam- ■ a one in of the Western : w^inientk V^ mortally wounded by a ? 'ihtf 1^ 48eeii»g the man's conditon, a cbap- ;; lain^n«lt beßi4eC him, and, opening the Bible atvtandom, read out i flanghtor of the Philistinea with.the jawHe hadnot quite finished ' wfieni as the story runs, the poor fellow -:. the reading by saying: ; " Hold bn> chaplain. Don t deceive a dying man; Isn't the name ofJohn Pope ■ftned tp.tbai."?:^:-:-;-'..:-/- '.^ A Acolumn of troops was pushing tor ward v ;oier the: long and winding Thbrottghftire^Gap to head^ off Lee after bU retreat acroas the Potomac at the close of tb^oeMy»hurg campaign. Suddenly the General in command discofered that some his tteii^ posted on a high hill in the were^reportingthe', presence of a considerable -body of o^iop 6f thebluflfeto thtfrignt. A halt ' 5 wat once Bounded, and the leading brigade; ordered toward to uncover the Bo6n^Bcranibling.;up, the- steep incline, officer* and men wloconld reach the crest first^ Ajoung « tenant ancl >«ome,half moei the^ advance, bu ft the end of they^ deemed aperilona chmb they ' Jew thrown intbconvulsiona of laughter l^SSering that what the, signalmen rSlefablyrlafg^floek of ibeep.^A»the -S in W paroxyam i)f merriment, they :^;;;^rat*l»tid<tb-hand;;,Btruggle i ;^-:^-i^^ piM^it^Sapß needlessrto^say^the brigade