The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1862-09-26
VOL. XV.-NO.M5.
Zebulon Sawyer Once More,
HE RETURNS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR
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BY letter in the Journal of this week,
we learn that ZEBULoN SAWYER has re-
turned from the seat Of war, to attend the
extra session OF the legislature. On bis ar
rival in St. Paul, he sees a great many
shoulder straps, lurloughs, and other Off
GERS, and learns something of their wounds
and sufferings- Maj. CULLEN, who
is his old College Chum, and who is back
from the Indian War, /" Recruiting" his
health--learns something OF Major C.'s
Trials and Tribulations in War, his views
Of the Irregular Hoss Infantry Tactics
and describes some new % Hoss" Equip
ments and an "Ambuecade Saddle"
We quote what he says Oh the foregoing
subjects:
Well, when we got to ST. Paul, we met
at all the Hotels and saloons plenty OF mus
taches and shoulder straps, aud Leftenants
and gilt buttons, and Captains and fur,
loughs, and such like military officers, all
wounded and bruised and miserable, drink
in and iaughin', and slnokin' and telin'
stories to kindly smother their suferius.
One officer who had lately been made
some sort of q Aid to Volunteers, Il think
they call him q Cooperating Aid to the
Govner, with the rank of Captain,l be ha d
his constitution and gold snuG-box awfuly
shattered, by hGvin' his boss rare up and
kick up Just as he and The Govner was go.
ing to co operate.
Another officer was awiuly wounded in
his ieelins by a point OF honor, which Sibley,
when be went and took precedence" lett
sticking up, and which this officer went and
stepped on, and just entirely disabled hisselt
for fightin Indians
Major Cullen he was down, too, ruanin
around recruitin his health The Major and
l, you know, are great friends and went to
college together. Well, the Major comes
down recruitin, as said before, and to re-
pair his losses. Hesays that he found plenty
OF hogs and sheep, and cattle and turnips,
and ca6bages or the road as far as be went,
and that by This means be hasn't lost any
flesh, though he speaks Of the whiskey as
being most Internal, but plenty OF it. He
was in great many battles and lost his reg
ular meals more than onst. He give me his
notes, which be keeps of all of bis doins, o!
which / will write you something agin, as
have no space to tell it now.
Well, as was sayin in the first place, the
Major has come down to repair hisself. He
says be believes in the "Irregular Hoss In
fantry'' service, and that the only bother
he has found is ia maxim the critters move
aud turn and twist around and stop where
he wants um to and besides, too, the Irs
regular Hoss, he says, when they're manoo
verin will back agin and kick one another,
aud hurt their riders more nor bullets. To
get along with this. he says he is goin to
have every boss with his name painted on
him, SO all the Captain will have to do is
just to call out each bosses name, and have
his rider bring him about wherever he's
wanted; and, as for the kickin, he means
to put stop to that by havin every boss
sided up with good inch plank, just as they
put them iron plates on ships we read about;
and he has gone and made arrangement
with Qaartermaster Cobbs saw mill for
hundred thousand feet of plank to fix um
with.
But the Major said that his greatest
bother was about hisself. In the iust place,
he weighed two hundred and thirty pounds,
and he and his boss both had to have life
preserver to keep from mirin, and be was
gettln up kind of snow shoe for his hoss,
which makes tracks good deal bigger nor
an elephant. Besides this, he found that in
q prairie country he couldn't ambush bit,
for it be laid down his back would stick up
above the grass, and if be got behind hay
stack, he'd stick out on both sides on it, To
get along with these troubles, the Major is
havin what he calls an " Ambush Saddle I"
made, which is fixed with sort of wide
breastplate, made of sheet-iron, fastened on
to the hind end of the saddle, and standin
up about five feet high and four broad, so
that when the boss is turned, with his head
away from the enemy, the vital parts of the
rider will be safe from bullets or arrows
He says that at the right distance of, with
one of these saddles and good boss, one
needn't be afeared of any id Ipjins
Well, l baint got space to tell half of
what seed and heered among all these off.
GERS, as it wasn't the business that brought
General Donne!ly and myself down, and be-
side, our extra session of the Legislature
was agoin on, and we had to 60 right up
there.