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a‘ rKTKOU M \ . NAS1JY. |I i C111 | »—*■ * %**3^ • ■•*«•»* -•»•*• Irable A ••S\V5tiii|» Angel” Incident. ;i in' A Morris l^)anlt;l correspondent of thojUp*! Philadelphia inquirer auy* : jami j Colonel Surell of tho New York I!u- lues.* gineeis had the charge of the construction \! ul the “{Swamp Angel/’ and being of an j *re of! energetic constitution himself, and not j bing afraid to enter swamps, you can imagine ippa- his surprise when one of his nontenants, was; whom he had ordered to take twenty menVn ing and enter this swamp, said that he “could t ftp- ' not do it—the mud was too deep.” Col-j tting unci {Serrcll ordered him to try. lit* did man so, and the lieutenant returned with his The ! men covered with mud, and said:man j “Colonel, tho mud is over my men’snes, ! heads ; 1 can’t do it/*id.— | The Colonel insisted, and told the lieu* i ^ , and tenant to make a requisition for anything ! ‘eoin* that was necessary tor the safe passage ays. I of the swamj). The lieutenant made his s the i jeijuibition in writing, and on tho spot.— type.' It was asffollows: j *tight “1 want twenty men eighteen feet long a 1C- I to crosH a swamp liftocu foot deep.” also j '] i^* joke was a good one. It secured,however, not a cubit to the stature of thei eb(0\N1S1pei i-a8uwlieutenant, but rather his arrest for uiore* d in | speet to bis superior. The battery, how-laina j ever, not a cubit to the stature of the lieu-bun- I tenant, but rather his arrest for disrespect i has to his superior. The battery, however, he was built with tho aid of wheelbarrows]1 ] ii and sand. Like donah's gourd, it sprang j 1' the up in a night, and Kouuiogard withered. ' bjeet umlfi* it in his modern Nineveh}, which! ‘ i will be destroyed. * • jj j ;
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 10, 1863
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Michael M.
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