The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 7

WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 30, JL923 should. served 'at one. were strung up togethoi I he EMPORIA rcpe 1'ioke with one, man, who had declaiod hit, innocence, pud FACET this proof tlilu he not sulltv, and begged for hi But another ought, this one didn't bunk Two prisoners stole some from T'iej cauht, placed aaoss the they" liad given i'r lashes with a An other, as punishnienl; fo stealing a tin was sev eh isslies. It thing for lu could getUHs the Confederates, but com- was.

Emporia Honors-''Men Who Saved Country in Crisis Euiporia's contribution to the CiHll V.J.Í, in numbers of men might havo expected of' the struggling frontier its surrounding to Con-, nelley's Life of-Preston Plumb, three companies' were organized In Emporla on April 27. 1S61 as follows. The Emporla Guards, 5ti men; P. Cioud. The Emporia Artillery, Andrew J.

Mitchell, captain. The Kmporls Cavalry, 20 men. May T3. additional men en- compelled to.surrender their charters, the remaining -members brought their cards to Emporia. Post 464, a second post organized iii Emporia and which flourished- many year's, alsq has joined its membership with: Post 55.

Probably" Post H5 is now the only one in Lyon County. Its membership is several of these members do- not live in An effort has been made to secure the military b'istpry of each member of.the of few Civil war veterans who are, not affiliated with the organization. Jh listed, and tlie next day" the' oral instances Guards offered their services to the- governor. They left ISmporla for Lawrence, May and Juno '20 became Company 2d Kansas Volunteer Infantry. This com- p.any was In the hotly contested battle of Wilson Creek.

In which four of Its number were killed 'and 11-wounded. Another company wak organized In Emporla tlial summer of and reported at Fort LeaVcn- worth about the middle of September, where the men were mustererl In nil Company II. 8th Kansas. The next spring this company wns transferred to the coming Company rnonL In August Preston B. was not secured, as the records in some cases arc.

incomplete. It ic impossible, of course, "to print the personal experiences of one, though there is no doubt each one would he of interest. matter. JACOB Jacob S. MarceliusYenlisted McLean County, b'er, i-l; 18G1; for or for.

of the; warY as a private -in Illinois Volunteer Hiram. M. P.hUJips wasYlijs company, commander, aiid. Austm He was into Chi- 1S61Y. cellus peceinher and re'enlisted the same company' and the next day, for.three.yearsVinpre or the.

"duration." was known so named Yates, of Illinois. 1 The -Yates Phalanx-left'Illinois October; 31, iprjs.ejght "West serving first. ihY General Shields's division, in' the Slienan- doah Valley. It Had a. the battle -of Kerjistown, ''March 21! UUIIUIVCU J-Utl UL ilUlta III which little black bugs had made an Twas ordered to.

the their, bpys'skim- fula-m. June of thatyear.raiTiving tnovi 'orr Just too late the battle nf ADAM UlTLiKIl Adam Bitler. who is the only charter member of Preston B. Plumb pi ing charter member, and Unit-is med off the bugs their, soup. Ttfp men' pint of In' 1 24 Sometimes rations of raw meal-would be issued, and Mr.

Bitlor's'bunkic got outside one day and carried 1 in fuirof'wood-. 1 They punched holes in au old piece of tin, they hold of, sifted the nie.il free from the pieces of built a fire on the ground and baked perfectly grand corn 'bread. They 1 sold were filled up. to such of their comrades as liad uipney, and took in that -way about five dollars. Finally, his bunlde 1 got into the prison 1 hospital as nurses, and here they got more food, but no better in quality.

Tho sickness und -deaths were awful. -The men lay-on the ground, without shelter or food or clothes or medicines, and they died like flics. The rec-j 0 men died in months, and said -to be the amb'ition of lumb Post No, 35-living Em- am Llon 8 other f' keeper, to kill; oil rmtnv.jnon prison tin John H. Watson, of Sau- Diego, in Company company wns, 10 ho- 0( Pfinnsylyanla Volunteer In- Jli," ph 11 it I TI )i t.i IH (III 1-I1L I camped near In prison as the killed In battle. The olot.hcs taken oft the dead bodies.plied In and! in Ir.iuIortAInto return trips by just too late the battle of Malvern Hill, it had to Peck's division the from the Peninsula, the ordered to; Suffolk.

it remained -a few months, ialer it was sent to assist the lst Brigade, 1st Division. 10th in December, Army of the'James. Mr. Marcelius, with regiment, took part in of Cacapon Bath "and Station. W.

Fort Wagner and PqrjLJMBiillric, S. -Drewry's Bottom Church. Bermuda: Hundred. Deep Bottom. Weldon -Railroad, Charles City Cross roads.

Darbytown Road (two battles) Siege of I-'etersburg, Fort Gregg and Appomattox Court House, Va. He in many minor engagements and skirmishes. The total -killed-- and wounded jn this regiment was 522'. The regiment traveled by cross roads. October by a gunshot which sliveroxi the.boui;.

He was in.a hospital at ho Monroe until, March, 'Q5 Plumb was authorized to recruit tl rec weeks, then went to Ports- .1 company from six counties, in-, Vlllc Va on the Potomac, whore see eluding his own; which bv this i tllc 1CI1 wcr drilled and organiz- nccc lime had been changed" from Tlloi fighting was llav When it seemed to the nurses necessary that a patient bath, they would non the name of tho county was to repUice the bridges burn-' it sejniod. out Confederates. 1'nson, and from that ll 8n had cnanped. ed by the Confederates. irum tnat August 16 1'lumb advertised In regiment wintered at For- Ll 'f 8 had an the Emporla News fo- 1 (TO men, and then came Antielam.

d- and that, war meet-1 where Mr. Bitler was slightly ii. ns IIIRS would he held that week In: wounded in tin; knee, which kept i wfiich cus and Council lus' contributed by Emporla cltl- rPil 1)a zens, and wns purely a local) Ho was the movement. Po lc Plumb In Leavon- lc worth with MO enlisted men. Six of tl nuide of Iron and couldn't be klll- -it i -ri The men had no soap, and all rc dir and fllth tc irt UlC slck ss 1 his first; thought to home Mr MaicoUus lay woundedi-'ali: riisht on the 1 and'many his comrades dlod for waht-of He received eaio in the hospital, but there hospital convan- lencei, and the building was oo opon that often in ihe moinint, the snow off his bed.

no aiiesthetits for 'jthe Mr. Marcelius contracted mountain' fever while healing, and ho left the hospital AVliile in tho'hqiyntal he tsiw Clara Avhb-eamo to visit the soldiers. was a number of his 34th. "Mr. Marcellus's father, Levi was'a member of Company Illinois, and his bi VTohh, Marcsllus belonged to the same command as did Marcelius.

oars, -10 men-lnsidp and -10 on top. After lo.wfrig the train they nftircbed to tho' assistanco of enl Buell aud hfs armj, but the imbulanLea bringing in the dead and wounded from the bat- tlelield George-, Plumb; of. Post enlisted in Company Stlu Kansas, November 13.18G1. was in respqns.e to the first call 'for '3-year enlistments pr the of the war. This regiment spent the -winter of 'Gl-'62 un 'vthe Kansas-Missouri border, with.freciuent Brushes with gueril- as; its camp being on' Sugar "reek, near Pabla.

-In, the -spring 'regiment ordered to -jeavenworth, where it 'ivas merged into -the and Company B. The Kansas Cavalry Uroka ip the gangs, of men were Nagroes, running them South. and. selling them to slaveownt'rs: -The kidnapers were' driv- out and the old warehouse near St. Joe, in which tKe Negroes were oncealed, was burned.

Plumb' was with the 'ex- icdition which escorted Governor Hardy, of Utah, across the plains, The mon; unused to marching- and with no 'drill, then set out oii a 400-mile "march, 1 and were four days and nights: reaching Loiilsr yille. 7'heir way over roads and fields deep in limestone dust under. the scorching Aiijnst sun, n.cl their driu king "wa tor frequent'-: ly 'came from ponds covered with greerii scum, which it. necessary: to 'push aside to get at the The big husky fallows gave out, many of 'and some died 'on the way. Mr.

lily's. a teacher, iiniisod. to' physical hardship, gave out, nnU Mr. Ray, 'who was by feinting, carried his load: These men. received thsir.

first driu at-- Their first bigYfight-i. was: at' r-eiryville, which lasted in the mc-rning until after dark. -The Ccnfederates we're next morning, it was about this time HIJA UT! S3IIU1 eavon- lc num nf worth with MO enlisted men. Six Kair O-iks w-is hi tho hi RrC irt UlC slck ss wa of these werb rejected because of vc nHs t' sec 1rv ralu 0 vege their but Plumb secured sec 1 sy- -n I tbc dlot and tllc men tl their. enlistment as musicians, Cold H-iriior insnn tl OTI After September 10, inj of these', arris HiilHnri For idm-n I rq on men were mustered into the ser-' and 1 ri0 nJ, )( fets tlie way to A vice of the Unlle-l States covern- i.pcterBlmrJ w- liin or tllc lc eating d0 rlir iu the remaining became Company of the lllh.

Plumb at this time was promoted to major and L. T. Heritage, who had been lirft lieutenant of Company B. ilth Kansas Cavalry, became captain of Company C. The- Ilth was made a cavalry regiment, following the campaign of 1SK2.

The Kansas quota of soldiers under tbe call of President Lin- Soldiers who dug out of prison were chased by men on horseback ar, una, to move the wore stripped of their I hands or feet, and sultiracl this for. money, inhuman treatment hours at a and the best of their clothing was su-etch. if a prisoner by ncy any i chance crossed the dead line ho coin in July. '(52. wns' throe regi-l 0 II ln ut ul tllc was.

shot. The guards, old 1 Hands of their captors, mcnts of Infantry, would; have made the proportion for this section of the stale much small-' er Uian the number enlisting. The total enlistment for Timporia and vicinity, for tho four years of tho war. Is given as lon mon. And the women who stayed at home and kept, the town on tbe map fouglit.

battles as hard as those experienced by the men. They bad Hl- coffee sugar were taken from them, but the Confederates kindly allowed them to keep their hardtack, air. Hitler's bunk mate managed to keep hidden a little coffee, which added to their prison fare. The prisoners were, kepi at Libby but a' few then taken to Belle Isle and held there a few )s and cultivated bar-, Iotlp whore they were put and broke the staff in two. Ho they were in con-1 al)0iir a train and taken to An- flag hidden from the ear of the'guerillas'and of i Prison, and later, were all the ft me he was i i I fi I A 'M ftli tie to live on, many of "them put wore marched to Char- In crops vested nlant.

fear the Confederates, who were continually (be Neosho valley, they feared Indian ou'l- brenlcs. they were lonely and-sad. yet their spirits' ivero undaunted. They "carried Uiaf. I IK rn com pellod to oath term had not.

(ben been invented steadily an'I courageously did men in the field. Knn- men and boys, that every timo they shot a Yank they were rewarded with a Mr. Hitler visited 'the Andcrsonviuc site a dozen ago, and declares ho found Ibero dcsccn- dents of the gray backs that tormented him in the sixties. A plucky little color-bearer at Petersburg. when ho know he must be captured, iore his flag from its ataff and concealed it, lakcn lo Mellen Prison.

Mr'. Bitler June 22, ISfi-l. was paroled November 2D of that but. was.not exchanged until March 'G5. Paroled prison- furnished moro men for tho Civil Wfir than she had voters, her losses wero Irtrgor in proportion than those of any other sin to.

Preston B. Post. No. 55, Grand Army of the Republic, wns oi-Ranlzetl in tho eighties. Its roll- book shows names, though never reached any ono time.

Jacob Marcelius recalls that, on his first Memorial dav in Rmporia. in ISSfl. a line of Civil War veterans three blocks long marched un Commercial street. As the posts in the towns contiguous to Rjnito- ria declined in membership and its membership that number nt that they would not lake up arms against, the Confederacy wlyln under parole. Mr.

Bitler was in Annanolis after his parole was granted until he was exchanged, and during this time ho was granted a furlough to visit his home, and the United Slates government furnished him 25 cents a day ration money, as it. did to paroled men. nuier had just ro- joinccl his regiment, following his exchange, and was at City Poipl, when came the news of the sur- icndor, followed quickly by tho' nows.of the assassination of Lincoln. Air. Bitler was discharged at and Was part of the Grand View in Prison fare was pretty bad, 1 says Mr.

Bitler. Cnrn-and-cob meal small finally, becnusf. their members, soup and a tiny bit of moldy bacon wero so few they could no longer made a meal, and they got about hold the organizations and the amount for three me-ils which in prison, and they never got their hands on it. Someone had given this youngster a new hat just be-fore Petersburg, und a Confederate soldier grabbed it off bis head, replacing it with bis own slouch The color-bearer snatched off tho slouch hat, declaring ho would go bareheaded beiorc he'd wear a damned rebel liat. He throw the hat on the ground and lumped on it, cursing tho Confederacy.

found a cap for him to wear before they started to prison. Bitler saw six Union men; hMifWf! in prison. Thoy had "ambling and had robbed am! killed some of their comrades. They'were convicted by a jury of their comrades, and sentenced by judge, from their own number. The convicted mon if they must be hanged they wanted the ii!) dono properly, and the Confederate authorities had consXruct- Marcelius rejoined his regiment at I'olors- burg, Va.

This was his only command. ho wasVm every battle in which it participated except Fair aud lilackwatcr. Ho was mustered out as a corporal at Norfolk, and received'his final discharge at Springfield, December IS, "When a man who says he has been in a battle tells you he never was' -sen red," says Mr. Man-ellus, "you just make up your mind'' ho wasn't there. isn't in human nature not to be frightened -at such a time, knowing any moment may be your last.

Being scared isn't an indication that a man a coward, and I saw mighty few tho enemy." Mr. Marcollns says the worst fright he ever got was his first night on' picket duty; at Hartley Springs, Va. Ho heard a sound as of a nuin'-jumpinc a 'felice, a rail tumbled down. 'and he thought the entire Confederate Army was after him. was a hound, however.

instead of the Johnnies, and when Mr: Marcelius discovered tho fearful noise had been made by a dog felt better. In tho retreat from sta- Mr. Marcelina was wounded -in the thigh at Churlos City men were not rendy to face marched miles, a total 6-163 miles. tion the Union men wadnd tlie Potomac the night of Jan miry 4, ISG'l, and then marched miles in their frozen clothing. They tcnrd a temporary shelter in some buildings, were driven out.

'I heir clothes- eventually thawed and dried on their' bodies. Thoy were cut off from their bad had no food for 24 hours 'before they waded the river, they had lost, all of their belongings in skirmish. It was -IS hours longer till they got food some which they made into cukes and baked on their campfiros. That Ihe longest period Mr. cfllus wns without food, but.

at Charleston tho mon for two or three days on row oysters-. After the- closo of the war. the was put on provost, duty at Norfolk, where they stayed until December, patrolling tho town One of conviclr. jumped from tbe platform and tried to escape in the crowd, but was seized and brought back. The order.

Mr. Marcelius says his-first thought he was -Hounde'd was wish for home, and Ire be- nd -which kept open, Ovor- and'mail route for hundreds of niles. His company is credited the adjutant general's repot: vitli baying saved these to he Union, by enabling the gov- this jnail route, to in teach with them. These fought with Indians and close watch on the Mormons, ui'lt bridges and 4aid out roads ud above all, guarded that im- 'Ortant mail route. was a scout for Gen- Bwins-in 1SGS, and after the ihantrill raid, went to help in he'dcfense ofTIumboldt after the of that town.

The four ompanies of 'Union men in Hi is ection were scattered, two' at iumboldt, one on the Verdigris nd at Osago Mission. It vasn't the number or the ability the Union men that kept tbe fores of Confederates from aiding the entire Neosho Valley, ays Mr. Plumb, but the fact that heavy snow kept the valley Ini- assable for many weeks. At 'the I'me of the sacking of Humboldt, Ino Emporia men rode all night of tbe town, und holp- to drive back the Confodcr- tes. In 1SG4 Mr.

Plumb asked General Ewing. to allow him to return to his regiment, tbe Hod River expedition was being planned; and Mr. Plumb wished to he In it. His request was granted This Red River c-xpcdiUon was one of the most interesting of Mr. Plumb's many Following this, tlie men were ordered back to the protection of tho.

border. Mr. Plumb was in many fights and skirmishes, many times was hungry and cold and rain-soaked, and was in hospital with an attack of mountain' fever while on the plains. His horh-e fell on him while charging the guerillas at Cowskin Prairie, 1. and his knee-cap was broken.

Ho never was wounded in battle. IV William B. Willis enlisted in Company isist Volunteer Infantry, in Melgs County, Ohio, and was mustered in September at Ohio. Two weeks la- the new contingent of soldiers was taken by boat to Charleston, W. the men were put to iuurding provision trains from Charleston to Meadow Bluff, where they struck the main army.

Tho Virginia mountains wore full of guerillas, out for iluuder, and they kept the Union oldlers busy. Mr. Willis took lart in many skirmishes, and one light helped in the capture of 25 guerillas, whom they took the icxt day to Charleston. Mr. Willis had some close calls A bullet went through his hat ust nipping his hair, and another struck the pewter frame of n's pocket mirror, and the mirror 10 doubt, saved his life.

Mr. Wilis's silver watch, given to him when a boy of 14, carries a bullet nark. "We navcr wore short of ra- ions," said Mr. Willis. "Ob yes, ono day and night wo had no food nit that was nothing, and didn't.

lurt us. We often made meal on green corn to which we helped ourselves as wo went along, and hose mountain farms had" acres ind acres of big long fel- ows. which we dug of the with our bayonets. The plantations on tho table lands on top of tho mountains were of interest to us. The big louses were surrounded -by the that General BiielU of eral Army, who also was a brother-in-law of Bragg, the Confederate commander, was replaced at.Columbus, Ky.

He waa n'erbaj half-wi-y between two p.jsts who the most that ever his oars, und stopped lit alarm. The noise con Mr. Edwards wer Ifirvftrd carefully to the next piel of, und together they tried to fig what tho'awful nols It were 50.13 trie or snare of the enemy, and whotl er or not it might mean trouble The two men waited awhile, an iinally, between, thorn and th sky lino, loomed up a grotosiiu fiRure. from which the noise safen ed to. come, was a mule 'suf fcrlr.g with distemper, asid hi jwiiiful- wheexos caused all th "Wo wore mighty gl.ul to so that mule, instead of somethiu more formidable," said Mr.

wards. "That was the one bi scare I received, cerl.aii.Iy had us guessing. I neve heard, anything liko it before, I never have beard anything jus like it since." enlistee I'. P. B.

Drydon James Jl. Kay General Rosecrans. After this change in leadership the Army of the Cumberland lost no more battles. Up to that time it bad lost moF.l of its engagements. Mr.

Hay waa with his regiment In all of Ha and took pan. with it in the battles of Stone River, was the Mission Ridgo of tbe Lookout Mountain engagement; Kenesaw and marched with Sherman to the Sea, his regiment HUmini; on this famous march Kingston. They wero-in two fights In North Carolina, the last battlo in which they were engaged being at Goldsboro. The dozens of skirmishes and minor engagements havo not been iT'jorded by the memory of them remains in (be mind of Mr. Ray.

His regiment was 15 miles from Raleigh when the news the surrender came. On thi- march to the Sea, rations often were short.and uomo- timcs the meals consisted of only a few grains of parched corn. Un- iucky were the hogs "and sheep that eanu; tho way of Sherman's Army. Mr. Kay was with Miuiiu Ohio know.i "The Fighting McCoolts," and he relates that Dan McCook, instruct ing his mon in buttle, Klioutod, "Don't shoot to kill- hit 'em in tbe legs.

Thon it will lake two to carry one man ol'C thu field." Following tho Sherman's Army, tired an rag'Bed. marched to Washington foi the- Grand Review. Their pack mnlas wero led by ragged, nlng darkies. blKJind litllo, and many of the Negrois. can-led game cocks soon cocks cabins, many of the houses were deserted, only Negroes icmaining as caretakers.

In some of the houses the wives children of the plantation owners liad remained, hut all of tho able-bodied men were in tho in the Confederate, some with the Union men some in guerilla warfare, from this border state." -MMKS H. James It. Ray enlisted in Company 52d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in at Now Philadelphia, Ohio, August 20. The men wore started that, day" to Columbus, where they were equipped in two days, then mnrched to Cincinnati. They went by boat down Ohio to Covington, from Cov.

J. I Utlt neves ihe in like to Lexington in freight top of their loads. camp was strin.k these would crow, (heir owners would form a ring and turn loose a pair of Ihe belligerent roosters. Cock fighting, was the principal' sport on thu march to Washington. Sherman's battlo-worn men madeia sharp contrast to tito men of tht; Eastern armies, who had had timo to rest and clean'up, and who were resplendent In new uniforms and bright buttons.

Bui the Grand Review it was generally admitted that the men "out. of the West" made the Play of purely soldierly qualities and Sherman's men have boon chesty about that decision ever since. Mr. Ray was wounded in tho right arm and shoulder July aw the arniy was forming'its lines preparatory to battle A battery of Confederates had planted itself on a hilltop, and Mr was ordered to take took' it. After was wounded Mr, Ray was sent to a hospital and then home on a day furlough.

Ten days W.T.- required for. the Journey each wav Ji) he had but ten days at home' his regiment sopiem- at Atlanta, which alrca.lv had boon He was dis- chiirged at Camp rjhasu Juno JO. 1 0 ij, u. Ilohert B. Edwards, a student in Clark Seminary, Aurora 111 loft school and enlisted in Coin- pany I.

1-11st Illinois Infantrv 1. 18G-1. Mr. Kdwnrds's service conslHtcMl mostly in helping out of Kentucky September 1C, 1SG2, in Com pan i'lst Illinois-Volunteer Infun try, at Greenfield, 111. His moni was in camp a few day a- a.

J'llizabetbtown, but dfd nc drilling, then was ordered out chase Morgan the raider. Mr Dryden was first under fire a and there threi of bis comrades were killed. In this skirmish Colonel Morgan, brother of John Morgan, the raid er, was killed. He rodo a white horse and wore a red am scimied to try to make himself a conspicuous as wa; avtarget for dozens of guns. Mr prydci: several men claimed honor of having fired the sho that Colonel Morgan, aiu says bo aimed at Morgan more than once.

Kis might have'bcei the bullet got him, but if; i wasn't, Mr. Drydcn says Jic lli'ai the satisfaction. knoxvlne ibu. be tried mighty hard to the g(2ni From Biizabethtown Uio'moi were scut by boat to Vicksburg but arrived too lale for the fun says Mr. as.

the city hat; surrendered. Then these men crossed the Mississippi and marched up l-ho Red' River, with frequent skirmishes with tha Confederates, and were In the big fight at Morganza Bail'l. The Union men' first drove back the Confederates, then tho Confoder- rallied and tbu Union men wore compelled to retreat. They made their way back to I.lie main command, hilt the Confederates followed them only a short distance. Sonn after this, Mr.

Dryden'H regiment was sent by-boat to New Orleans, then by boat, to Brown- villo, Texas, whore they wore for a ual.rolling the border. This grew mighty tiro- some, and the men wero glad when they were ordered back to Kew 'Orleans, and (hoi! to Mobil" Hero they took part in tho capture of Fort Blakely. in engagement tho greater of General Sloolo's command, Negroes, wore slaughtered, and llie dead wore lying so thick on the ground that one couldn't slop without thorn. From Mobile this regiment went up the Tnmblgbce River and into camp, where news of tho rendor-of Lee und the assassination of Lincoln reached them the day. Mr.

Dryclen ills- cluirgud in Alabama, and when he got to Springfield. 111., ho received his pay for the last two months' service, $32, and $75 bounty. He arrived homo on Friday, and as that tino the. Confederati- Army had I)1I8 10( fllrtll( He was- with 1'ayne's raid through Kentucky, and one (lav, VOn wcrc i s-h a heavy rain aft- a of guerillas. Ihe suddenly, turned on them and mg from tho (op of Millets, at) went over tho heads of uie Union men.

'and rir- lormc tl.e rulas were gone Mr. Kdwards says th-'i't was the or.ly mo ho was under Uro bu- was nothiiiK compnrod lo dio fnrbt 1-e cot one dark night n.rt..inK the rounds of the p'okK as orderly sergeant. In camp found bis sister had dlod thai. day. Her funeral was held on Saturday, Monday Mr.

Dryden went to wi.rk with a thrashfiii; machine out fit, and ho never has out of job when he wanted work. He was a farmer and gardener in Lyon county for m-iuy vears, and says he is well and hearty now except that his Ifigs havo gone back on him. Ho lives 215 Sylvan, and to walk to town eveiy day, but that Is about tbo extent of bis around. Mr. Dryden never received wound in tho army, but a bullet wont through his coat-tails.

Ho experienced some tough und helped a good many times to pull the artillery out of die sand v-'ilii i ope. Tho only timo he over for food was when the cMiippny was out with days' n.llors. and was gone fivj da'ys iiiutcf-d. "But that was fsiys Mr. Drydon, "when wu think of how thousands of boys si.ffored from hunger.

I wa- r-nlty lucky all the way'through." DA.VÍIÍL w. IIAINKK Daniel W. Hainer got into the big fuss as aoon possible after war was dedared between tlie Xortb and the'South. enlisted April 19, isoi. in the flth Indiana Infantry under Colonel Mulrov, in Michigan City, and was mustered into tho service once in Indianapolis.

Tho mon wero drill- fed at Camp Morton, near Indiana- polls, for two weeks, then wore to Graftpu, W. where they participated in thoir firsl engagement, the baltlo of Phillppl June I. ISfil, which was won by tho Union men. They followed the. Confederates to Beverly and Laurel Hill, both of which piares were evacuated by ihe.

ates. The opposing forces met Carrick's Ford, where General Garnet, tho. Confederate commander, was killed. Soon after this, his term of enlistment having expired, Mr. Hainer returned to Indianapolis, where be was mus terod out of the service July 2:1.

In tbe meantime the Indiana uattery was organized, and in this organization Mr. Hainer ri'onlisted September 5. Tho men taken at once to Louisville, and later to Munfordsville. where they wintered. They wei-o marched to Xashville.

und I heir first fight was at Shiloh. Then rame Corinth and Inka. During his terms of service Mr. Haiti-! took p.irt. In (he bar ties of) Franklin.

Murfrecsboro, Athens Perryvlllo, McMinnvule, Hoover's Gap, ChickamaoRa besides Innumctible Mr. Hainer; was wouodjifi-iMP head Stone 18fi2, and ivrt ear-drum; from the shock of the Mr. Halnor has suffered deafnosa ever since. manga, September 19, '63; shot twice through shoulder, and his was broken. Many of the were captured and taken but Mr.

Hainer managed capture running as far as ho could. He and taken to a field hospftsSs Saturday, and on pital was shelled. He-ifecit 'd tho hospital and the pike, where he was by an ambulance and. Chattanooga. Here he a cracker and halt a cup of 'Cfr This was Monday, and no food since morning, with other men, ho was taken acros to a hospital, and the ing thoy were loaded into wages and taken C5 over the They camp'ed one niglit way, and reached 10 o'clock at night.

Thursday, the wounds received the day wero teiilion given them exc( be could do himself, and mighty littlo. pr theiSi on the way to Bridgeport.hadifii god to bo left -by the- thoy could not enduro the: jblti of tlio heavy down to a was marked at men were Alai, where lhey were wall-tent', hospital. part docloi'Yin charge, velopedi Mr. Haiiier's aun. wlilch was discovered seven days afler reaching Stevensq when the-careless doctor was'r lilaced competent llalncr was transferred from lospltal' to Nashville; then Louisville, to Eyat yillo, Ind.

he bocame: ct tired, lospil.al,.:aiul.•.-'ru'ii away lo rojo lis was Jaiiuary- i bitterly coid 'day, aud ho wp July his shjrt and trousers und'tt lospilal blouse. Ho got on a'tral old his story to the conducto' vho hnd soldlp ind to charge up their ho government. At New Albai 10 croaiied the Ohio to the Thero was no'rfi ind no blankets and he, wii ither soldiers, walked the flor hat night to keep from freozin t'ho next day ho wont by train 1 Var.hvillc, and rejoined his b'a cry at. Chattanooga. At the expiratioii of Ills In Septembor, enlisted a third time, th imo for ono your or the duratlc if tho war.

The battery was-r irgaiiizod, and bo wan mnsterq Octobor ISO'l. Ho wan Miirfroesboro, at. the till if tho surrender, and was dl hargcd a ilrst Borgcant of a Illcry of tho -Hit-Indiana BaUori lo wua 21 at, the of tho wa lo reached, hpmo the. lutter pa July. '65.

KXOX John M. Knox enlisted in Cora Illinois lufuntrj i Henry County, Augut IS02, for years or th uration of the war. Ho WUB ered in at- Springfield, drllle lore 11 few weeks, then went whore the rcg iont guarded railroads and pr octed public property. Mr. Kno as first under fire at Thorn on's Mills, May 1, 'G-i, too art with his regiment auccosntv in the battle of Raymond, Mi capture of Jackson, May 1- aide of Champion Hills, May 1 which piuco men wen apt red from Georgl! eglmont, after, killing Its colone nd major, than its own rank limbered: For Mr.

Kno vas a sharpshooter In tho sleg the 12-Hh l)0ing ic thickest of the fight, ami a te. surrender July It. sharet the 1st brigade i he honor rst onterlug the captured city. Later, Mr. Knox was in 1 th lerldian raid, the siege of Mobile ichiding the.

capture of Spanisl ort Fort rjiakely, and in any minor eugiigenients ant finnishes, expeditions and raids The wan a self-raised reg and history of it record at "The regiment was one ie most fortunate In tho service. always obeyed orders, took and uld unflinchingly every position which it was assigned: nevo as repulsed, never retreated ep in tho face of the enemy, am over lost a prisoner In was the best drilled and incd regiment in the 3d Di on. 17lh Corps, and as such woi "excelsior banner" which was fcrcd as a prize. muster out at Camp Douglas. Chicago! uguat 1C, '65.

Mr. Knox was in hospital a (Continued on rage Six).