WAR
JACOB KRATZ
Second Lieutenant and
Organizer of Company "K",
8th Regt. Md. Vols.,
Killed at
Chancellorsville.
But the stone has fallen on its face, and, though I lifted it up the other day, I could hardly make out the words. I asked a young man passing by if Jacob Kratz had lived in Excelsior.
"Never heard of him—and I've been right here all my life!" he answered.
"Who's paying for the uniforms and so on?" asks I of Kratz.
"I am," says he. "You think I'm too poor? Well, I am. But I've sold the paper to Gorman. If we lose, I shan't want it. I'll emigrate. If we win I'll start a new one three times as big! Yes, I will. I'll set the type and pull the press, and carry it around to the subscribers myself. And glad to do it. Yes, if we
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