Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-07


rhs TnaoaIsabIe Rnersy ef csi GarasId;;. n
How he Ptl0fos steamer ana saved his n
menfrOm starvariOH'
We would ike 70 be lnforned Of some hon 4
otaBls work tbat Col. Garfield can not do /
BE has been canAller, q lawyer, q preacher,
A teacher, Senator, and COlOnel-in the
front rank Of all Of them, too,-and now we
see by the following letter, published IN the I
Salem Republican, that not all the raging
waters of the Ohio food could sop him when
he wanted to carry supplies to his needy
soldiers
uAfter the victory at Pre3tonburg, our VIC
torioua soldiers were reduced 70 eXtremites
Tor food, The impossible roads preventing
supplies nom following as fast as II was
needful for them 10 press on in order TO meet
and overWhelm the enemy. Then the dim
entities Of supplies were augmented and rem
dered almost insuperable by the late terri
he Aood IN the Ohio and the Sandy. While |
tbe brave Col. Garfield, forgetful OF every |
| thing Int the comfort of his men and the
snooess Of the cause, was ss cool, as wise and
/ ss nluolrv on the flood as on the battlefield.
i Tba writer saws: when our little boat the
sandy Valley, on the Sandy came down from
Paintsville to Louisa, the captain was asked
70 drop down pour store boat, and land
said he. q can't GOT 'You can try was
tbe reply. a will be d--d If any boat can
goi was his reioinder. Then said Captain
Heston. Ieave the boat and will put some
o,a m bosrd of her that SDill take her up,or try
al least, BE replied, s'If you lose the boat
Won viii have TO pay for her. Very well,
one Door, starving soldier, Is worth more
than a thousand such boats
Can't H. put q new crew on board, and
loaded her. By that time the water was
twenty-hve feet and Wss.up in the tree tops.
The heart Of the new Captain failed him.
Then We tried another little boat, called the
/, aSorev Propeller,D or 'SSallie." Col. Gar
! seld told him that tive are going in his
boat. and that shs must 60 up TO headqusr-
, ters. as cur brave boys could not starVei
, after having escaped the perils Of the bat
1 tleD He said at paS utterly 5mPossl6R !
? No boat could stem such torrenu She will be
/ dashed iato a thousand pieces against the
4 rocks and shoals" Col Garfield replied,
4 with sll the enthusiasm of his noble nature,
trThen we shall be dashed with her, for am
ooing 70 pilot her mysslG and Capt. Hsato1
y IOiU commend her. You wiH obey his ordsrfl'
4 We loaded her and started upon the most
: turbulent waters ever witnessed in any
stream. The little boat trembled in all her
q timbers: but Col. Garfield being an old
; bostmsn, held her true to the stream, ma
: king only about three miles an hour against
! the current. Night overlook US, and the
a Oaptain Moore and his four men, en-
A treated us to 'tie up" to some. tree until
. morninR. GNo," said Col. Garfield, every
4 NAN staSS 10 his post Those boys must have
u something to eat" At last it got 80 dsrf
I. "a could not see our hands before Us, and
ot in one of those crooked bends in the river
/ mskinR an exact elbow, the boat struck
" the beach with her sharp bow, and the
: earth being sort Of blue quioksand, sh'
10 ran six or seven feet into the bank, snd
knocked us ell down. Here We were with
ut out a lantern, dark as Egypt. We reVers
le ed the wheel and tried to back out, but i
b. was no 60. .s .
e. We then went into the country, got mat
a. tocks and shovels and dug round her bow
in Tried again, but with no better SUCCESS. TheI
a Col, Garfield ordered the skiff lowered AMI
~ run over the river to pull her back by th
o. capstsu and line. The sailor said, Yo'
a. can't reach the shore in safety" The water
a rushed much like those below the Falls Q
a Niagara. Then Col. Garfield leaped into tn
of boat, and made the sailor get in with him
" and rowed over to the opposite side, but the.
o. were carried half a mile down the strean
L. before they reached the opposite shore; the,
ce then came back, bat could not take the rop
% over, the current was too swift. We the
ar tied enc end Of the rope TO q tree, and th
of other to the bow Of the boat, and made whs
,ir is called French windlaSs, with TIVE rsilE
re- after working for two hours, we got her ehoa
nd again. The current was so strong, rushin
m out of mountain gorges, that we had to sto
ell every half hour to get up an extra head
les steam to stem the current. Alter workin
to all night, neither giving sleep to our eye
", nor slumbe= to our eyelids, we arrived at th
IL camp at Psintyille, on Monday morning {
no Q O'Clock.
You cannot imagine, nor can descrit
os- the joyful countenances of the boys, whe
yl- they heard us coming. They ran down Il
to river, shouting, peal on peal, and lesped int
Ith the air, frantic with joy, with tears of graf
tude. "God bless you, was shouted frol
for a thousand voices. We had to guard the boz
m to keep it from being literally eaten upi-
Ool. Garfield is immensely popular with Il
are troops-al vie with each other "to do hi
honor"