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Iida.Buying His Own Sacks.)nt-leidtitnt5liidQ-s,to^didle3rire?yirleree-!1y11gwieiuleDear Laitor Sunny South :—I will give you a lit Lie incident tiiat on-urn .iV'n* ^,UrrefHU,nt U1 C e r,,!AUtr ‘Ut- * lt;rst Tenne^ee re-i-ineiit Lad loilowed ihe rtuu o federdcavary under General Carter andUoloiiei l»iru round through K ,st Tni. nessee they were camped at hrioxviilt* Qt ' a short time ior the prnpose of re.^uiiu-in | up their horse*, anu wiiiie in lainiSmere a citizen came in w.th a wainei well loaded with peaches, apples amicider, which he proposed selling to our boys for corn sacks, with wh.ch ourcavalry was usually verj well suppli d.as ! W lien the shelled corn was shipped toat ; us 111 sack* each cavalryman gmeralivk ' gvi about as many as he wan eu u,carry along and bartered them oii to Some citizen lor ‘‘^ruu.”r_ j The old gentleman drove up and an--! | nouneed to the soldiers that ne uoV,d]v take sacks 111 lead of the Comoh ru,currency, which was then floating al a Very low ebo. This seemed to clin% (he bo^s no lit lie, for wa, ii not tne currency of our country? We souu ;i.w irom his talk Min.t lie was a Union 1 ,]lU and had very little coiiiidenee inVur money, and lione at ail 111 the coineil-erate soldiers. We thus cunciuut-d to nave a lime fun at the oid m. n ,*x.peiise. Uc Was perched upon Lhelrunt end of his wagon, whicu was pan-ly covered with sheet and i, vm and began measuring out hia cider by the tin cnpiui ana me sacks »eg-au coming in. Tiiere seemed to be 110 end to them. The old liiau thought mat he Was doing a slashing busings with me boys, as they kept him busj, out he was buying Ins own sacks; ior ill less time man it takes to tell 11 the ooys nad snaked every sack 01 bis apples and peat hes out through Uie crowds of solaiers to their lems, emptied tueir Contents out, and appeared again before me old man wan the sacks fur sale. As he would pa\ iur a sack ii 1 cider, he would give it a whirl 111 tne air ovr his Lead into the back end ot the wagon. It would hardly tali before it was grabbed up bj some one ol die boys sta ding round and presented to liic dealer aga n, and me ciuer was pourd out and tne sack lock another whirl over bis head into the back end ol the wagon, only to be snatched up bj some one, as before, and presented again.1 lie soldiers soon found out the joke that was being placed oil on tlie oid man and gatLtied round to .-ee the fun. When he finished up Insbarrel of cider he went to the hind end of his wagon to count tne sacks. Heboid ii is chagrin and surprise when lie couhl not discover a peach, apple in- sack in s giit.“W ell, said be, ‘that beats an} tiling I ever saw before.”After having all the fun they wanted they brought the old man’s sacks up, as well as almost loading his wagon with sacks. *“Well, boys,” said he, ‘‘one thing I am confident of: if you are as skiliful in handling your enemy as you have been in handling my sacks 1 am satisfied that there is no one regiment in the yankee army which could hull their hand with you ”The old man went home well pleased; not, however, before he t ad made several very uncomplimentary r-marks about the (’onfederaej and her soldier.-. This was one way the boys called having tun and innocent amusement, and rna lt;y time they would indulge injokes of this kind.H. L. Ukdgcotm.• Confederate Home, A ustin, 7V.r«.v.
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Atlanta Sunny South
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Jan 27, 1894
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