THE WILLISTON GRAPHIC — DECEMBER 31, 1903
IN A DENSE FOG ☆ So Thick That It Stopped
Cannon Balls and Created General Havoc—Next!
They were gathered around a campfire telling of the old times. The leading subject had been the fogs down south, says the American Tribune. After the others had tried their memory and imagination in describing dense fogs a little, nervous fellow, with a red nose and a red badge, told the following experience:
“Well, comrades, you may talk about fog for a week and then I can tell of a little difficulty that I had with the stuff that will overtop all you ever saw or imagined. If you had never encountered these dense fogs I would not dare to tax your credulity with my story, but after your experience I believe that here I will have hearers who can comprehend truth, and I will repeat a story I once embodied in an official report and thereby lost a fine chance for promotion, and worse than that lost the name of ‘truthful George,’ which had clung to me for many years.
We were down on the Texas coast, and, though only a sergeant, I was in command of a section of our vance upon us by the enemy, and I was sent out to the right with two companies of infantry and ordered to throw up a lunette to protect the guns and support. I staked out a redoubt and set the men to work; then went to a planter’s house in rear of position, where I took several drinks of peach and honey, and filled my canteen with the same.
