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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY 5, 1898.

*GOOD OLD TIMES.” lsire tells of the good old times 2nd siopsa now and then to sigh, Bue low anys tiat this era of frauds and crimes Mawes him yearn for the days gone by. Bod he makes me foel, while the teardrops el Tw my eyes as] mourn my fate, Fis

my ill starred birth brought me on to (hia earth % .leoade or +o too late. Bi~ wd is of the actors who trod the stage— ‘Feey didn't need scenery then— axa./ : him good to recall the rage a t biic wen. “Pex: negiect to display respect Dy e end profound, ta nseemly haste La gia § ing round z Je world is moving and toiling still,

if lovimg and laughing, too,

Aru Lonest purpose bends with a will lw ide work that it finds to do.

Mm rrightty mer wield the sword and pen, Ans the lig):tning leaps forth to bear

Beck Granth in turn that the world may learn Ms beasome from everywhere.

Aad ea, 25 I think, it occurs to me That eeme day my turn will come, Ween «x bygone glorics with comments free PU meskes my posterity glum. FL wii him some day when my grandsire gray © er Chose *‘ good old times’’ may moan, Thar cheese we'll find when they're left behind Ave the best old times yet known. — Washington Star.

THE COWARDLY 17TH

BY CHARLES B. LEWIS.

led not take men long to learn com- paey and regimental drill after being ealSei into the field by the outbreak of eivil war, and it was only a question of weeks when every soldier knew how to tubes sare of himself in camp. It was gtaeri auoterial for an army—farmers, miners, mechanics, clerks, day laborers— weet of brawny and men of pride, and such wae the rush at first that the recruiting eikeews would reject aman almost on ac- sow of an old scar. When the raw ma- @rinl «was drilled and disciplincd and harismad up, every man was a fighter. A grace mistake was made by the company ami ergimental officers in the very begin- Bing, and, though rectified in most in- stazecce Delore the year was out, gross in- juctiics had been done to thousands of brave sien.

‘Tinewe was but one officer in the Fourth infantry who started in right. He was Shfiexticd and burlesqued for months, but tiem proved his sagacity and brought him his premotion. He was the captain of Coameany G, and his very first move was @ iamow every man in his command by mucce. His next was to study each man by bimeeelf. Company G was made up of ali aerts of men, from the sturdy farmer of #43 te the boy of 20 who had always been ecuhiieias a pet. Nota man had ever Buewe sander fire. Not 10 out of the 100 had ewe fad their courage tested. Taken al- tugetiner they were a fine looking body of ame. amd after six wecks of camp life they shwered up better than any other company. Mex: captains would have been proud and satietied and boasted a little. Captain Witte was simply pleased. Camp life was butithe picnic preceding war. There would Be Gemg niarches, and he went at it to fonygieos hismen. Every day, rain or shine, ey searched in squads for so many miles. Ties wero taught tho easiest step; their fuucie erore gradually increased; their feet were hardened by dexrees.

Wiaem the Seventeenth was brigaded wit ae, everybody spoke in praise of its staiscart eapk and tile. No better material cania@ Yhave been found in America. <A eoayin of weeks, however, showed the co)- amvi te be an egeotist and a drunkard, and Rew «x the regimental or company officers semeri anxioas to give him credit. One dup the Sevontconth came out tv relieve the Maorth on the outpost duty. Not a mame«x them had ever fired his musket, @ef, 2 man had ever seen a Confederate, g2a¢ « sxan had heard the ping of a bullet. Canspanies were detached to cover a long front sod to guard a bridgeand a railroad cmuewiag. At midafternoon 100 Confeder- @@e cawairy, divided into squads of 25, at- tefaet four full companies of the Seven- fame at about the same moment. One @ietvarge of carbines, followed by a yell, dial tine business in each instance. The sane £00 cavalry then fell upon the reserve af tte Seventeenth and routed 500 men at adash. Uno thousand men were beaten, rumen and disyeaced by 100, and all be camae the officers had not coached them duet a week later 50 men out of Company @ feaaght 450 Confederates for an hour and grrervernved them from burning a bridge.

Ebet was the beginning of the Loodoo of Giwe tSeventeenth. lt had disgraced itself ami Clisgraced the brigade, and nothing thext of oa gallant fights wou!d restore its presage The ofiicers cursed the men fcr cuemards and skulks, andthe men lost con itheoce in themselves. Two wecks aite: ft* Siegraceful rout tive companies wer exet out at night to drive a score of Con tixierate sharpshooters out of an old mi)! mie Cano possession. The major in com 4 haa scarcely Loon seen by any of th mmon efore. Ho hardly know one of the cayisos by name. He swaygered erewnded, and the 500 marcheG cut.

€#inpahios would have marched in open @ram, ready te support each other. Thi wrayer had no sense. He marched his 5

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t «solid body, with a tramp to be heard Ss mweaway. The »harpshooters heard thi temp of infawtry, suspected what was

eoranng, and 15 of t! Mine fhe

em went into ambush road and at a proper moment epesrsd fire. ln five minutes the five com- peses were defeated and flying back to cammege, leaving a score of dead and wound of Sm the enemy's hands. Officers and taem ade afoot race of it, and as they “ero streaming into camp the brigadier amrod out the major and shouted at him:

“My God, sir, but you are .a contempti- Bie woward, sir, and this is another dis- graesonthe brigade! If you don’t put youre resignation in my hands within half um Gear, I'll borsewhip you out of camp!"

‘K4xe anajor complied and was glad to get @uG. smd next day the colonel followed anit. New officers were appointed, and to there thy brigadier said:

“thempomen, the Seventeenth has got as eve. Oghting blood as there is in this «2, wut it has disgraced the brigade. Geat ipand work your men up. If you sacudee Ghem right, they will fight; if you oS teow smirch the reputation of this

tains retaliat | night after a week or so Captain White | marched Company G out of camp and an

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The officers at once set about the “ work- ing up’’ business, but how was it done? They insulted the captains, and the cap- don the rank and file. One

hour later had possession of the old mill and 28 prisoners. ‘Lhen the brigadier said to the new colonel of the Seventeenth: “Think of that, sir! Go to Captain White and learn how to handle your men!” But the colonel would have resigned He called his officers together and aid thav must cive the men double drill. and that inthe next fight they might shoot

conipanies cut on the parade ground and looked savage and swelled out their chests and shouted:

**You are a laughing stock in this bri- gade! You have had two or three chances to win glory, but you have run away like beaten curs. In our next fight I will shoot the man who even turns pale.”

And every private in every company re- membered that when he ran away he fol- | lowed his three officers and was not able to overtake them. A month later, at 9 e'clock one summer morning, the Second brigade swung into battle line on the left center. It stretched across a cotton field, with its right aid left connecting in the woods. The fight began far above us. That meant waiting, and it isthe waiting that makes cowards of brave men. Down the lines of the Fourth, Seventh and Twelfth went the company officers, and when they reached a white faced private whose musket was trembling in his grasp and whese chin wag a-quiver they.laid a

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**Come, Tom, but you want to brace up. | That’s a h—1 of a racket up there, but it’s , mostly all noise. We'll have the enemy in | front of us pretty soon, and we'll go for him heavy. Can't scare us with their bluffing, old man. I'll bet dollars to cents ' you'll win the stripes of a corporal in this fight.’’

Those few words braced Tom and the other men up like a drink of brandy, and | pretty soon they began joking and were allright. Over in the Seventeenth it was | different, however. The ofticers were at | the regulation distance in rear of the lines, and the men had nobody to brace them up. Totalk toeach other made matters worse. We were quite prepared for what | happened. Of a sudden the enemy opened fire on our front with artillery, and as the | first shell exploded in tho ranks of the Seventeenth the full thousand men broke back like a flock of frightened sheep. A / second shell completed the business, and there was a stampede which carried them a mile to therear. A few of the officers | tried to stop the rush, but most of them | went with the men. We lengthened our iines to fillthe gap until another regiment was brought up, and we saw no more of | the Seventeenth until next day. Then the oificers of the regiment were paraded and the major general said to them:

‘I know the bistory of the Seventeenth since its first skirmish. You are a dis. grace to your state, to the army and to : yourselves. I shall recommend that th« regiment be wiped ont of existence!"’

On the morning that the order of dis bandment arrived the officers were ordere: to report at headquarters for instructions sue 2. ebtcenth was in charge of a senijcr

hand on nis shouRer and whispered in bis captain, aita sonie or the coiapanifs Tad ; no higher ofiicer than a second lieutenant.

All except two or three were at headquar- ters, ten miles away, when a Confederate column which had cut loose and marched by night through field and forest, burst eut of the woods upon the camps of the detachments along the river. The sur- prise Was complete, and without a check the enemy swept slong down the stream. At the first sounds of battle the men of the Seventeenth turned out of their tents. There were no cflicers to give them orders. They had always run away. Vhey werea pack of cowards. A few had already start- ed to move off when there came the thun- der of hoofs from the west and a woman rode into camp. No man of the Seven- teenth had ever seen her before, and to this day her identity has not been estab- lished. She must have. been the wife of some officer in camp above, but what bis rank or name has never been made known. She was hardly above 20 years old, fair

| baired and handsome, and every man | thrilled as she pulled up ber horse and

cried out:

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“We have none.”

‘What regiment is thig?”’

‘*The cowardly Seventeenth.”

“Then God help them upthere! I had hoped to find men here. Don’t you hear them? They are fighting for life. Oh, if they had but another regiment!’

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