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TSRECITALS OF1CAMP W9 B*T-TLESarrltrors of tho Rebellion Relate Many Amulng and Startling Incidents of• •• • * ''A' 1 I s , • i *•'* ..' • • • / * «•*•**'*• • • • ••*•% »*•»*'.••* •* ***** • 1 •Marches, Camp JUfef foraging Expert-eace* and Battle Scones.Too Much for the Major*FTER the terrible slaughter on the battlefield of Gettysburg had ceased Col. A. S. Seifert, of New York,;ji:hq had gone to the front with the Thirty-nihth Regiment, was one of the men detailed to go over the field under a flag of truce to remove the wounded aud bury the dead. In going over the ground Col. Seifert, who was not, however, a,.-colonel then, came across ; a wounded Confederate, whowas moaning with pain and begging for something to stop his agony. Col. Seifert at once pulled out his whisky flask, handed It to the man, received a “God bless you!” from the poor fellow’, and passed on. ..i;Immediately after the eldsei ofv the W’ar Col. Seifert was made postmaster of Macon, Ga., under the tecdfisttifction act, and wrent to live in a boarding house. Here he had his first experience with a boycott. No ohe would speak to the Yankee, and when lie sat down to meals all the young w'omen would arise and leave the table with the men.He had grit, how'ever, and determined to do his duty, although lie felt mighty lonesome. One night, wiille seated on the piazza in silent meditation, a well-built man stepped up and . said:
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Cayuga Herald
Cayuga, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 24, 1895
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