Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-06-20
SIOUX CITY. IOWA, SATURDAY. JUNE co. 1863
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Dear Ianay:-I am happy to inform
you that have gone into The Wholesale
RAid businsss, and am doing uncommon.
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I now ride three hundred miles and
bura . couple Of railroad bridges every
morning before breakfast. gt. .',4,axs
0risraon goes with me. He is . very,
very hunky boy, and one Of the very best
raiders ! know, having been in the busi.
ness = long time, and possessing rather
extensive facilities. ~r,> ,,.r'7-:.
|, used TO do little 10 that lire ooca-
sionally during The Italian War, bus the
county Was too email rsmsmber, once,
Garibahi and vent out for Q bit Of ,di>
version, and nearly got into trouble BY
riding over into Sardinia before 70 knew
it ,4... ....:.......s.., ,s..t ~.
A.. (And indeed, last week, extending our
operations tri6s further than usual, l
and Gnerson destroyed railroad culvett
10 tho upper part Of California, supposing
We were still in Aississippi.) ~-,I-,...
Still, the raid ia not > stranger to Euro.
pesn warfare. It vas known many years
ago, to both furious Frank and 6ery Hun.
You secollecs Csmpbsll's reference to it
in "Hohenlinden'- ~
''By torch and trumpet fast RAID"
Here, We use neither torches nor trum-
psts; they are old and almost obsolete
weapons now. Carbines. sabres and pis-
tolls, have superseded them. -.
Speaking Of Implements Of War. il 10
surprising how many troops Of Flying
artillery the rebels have, out here. In N y
various pedisions, lately, have seen no
less than . hundred troops of artillery,
and every Que of them was Flying. :
Aud it Was the same with their other
troops ....a ..t
The only man have lost, in al these
operations, VAS one whom had court
msrtialed aud executed. ... ..z u.
Just ~ he wss led out to be shot, be
turned to me and made . remark: ..'
d, General, what am / shot for?'' saas
"For sleeping on your post." ..r:.,,:
Then they ought to shoot you worse
than me. only slept su my post while
sou sleep on, ,yoas Fosr post y '--s,. 70 u
\ This was .. playful ..allosisn = ny been,
fital caooAts sbelAsAd, pssasptsd = ma by
tho editors OF ~ Chicago Tribune fos
telling mora trs.h in Eve consecutive let.
.ers than their War correspondents did 10
q, !, gently eh;d hiu for issting when on
the bripkfof tlss grave and he sssmsd to
realiae his coadiiion. 49,. ,....>, . veg. .
General, he said, inpressivsly, "can
Jon grant mera simple rsquest-tbe last
| shall ever ask Of yos. Consider that I
spsak ~ : dying man, and do not, oh
do not rsfsse my plea" .4.
p Ny eyes dimmed. ...-..:
IT is granted" l said. 5..
Promise me-"
II promise"
"Then, General, will you be kind enough
to have the muskets loaded Nth blank
cartridges :" .,.~: @~.......t7.
81 had promised, and . McArone can
not tell lie. l ordered the muskets
loaded with blank, but took my man out,
afterwards, just back Of the camp, aud
hanged him. a. ...- ...-.-"...
Grierson had jdst come in from small
undersized raid.
He brought in q mile and half Of rail-
road, With embsnkments and all complete
he tells me that he buDped two canals
in Eastern Mississippi. An intelligent
counterfeiter, with whom he conversed,
informed him that the backbone Of the
rebellion Vas broken; at leaet such was
the opinion Of eminent military authority
in Richmond, last week. '"~'
Perhaps the most important raid have
made personally, was when l tore up the
Raritan & Delaware r. R. went tearing
up that road one bright night, =, sas rate
George Cooper said) of "Sev'y'y.fi' miles
n our" 7@ a5 ."a ...r-5@ @-s: e.
We both rode on the COW catcher, but
being mo railroad man." "didn't know
my danger Dick Rierson didn't either,
though he does now. He was my Chief
Engineer, then-but, poor boy, be got
killed. Or something, at the battle Of Jer-
sey City. - a. : -.*w ,s&-~...a.s. 81
The natives along that line Of country
are harmless but conspicuous people,
They don't object to the Old Flag, nor to
invisations 10 drink. Some Of them sve
clsrgymen. That ID good profession,
but - = rule prefer the railroad fellows.
However, cAdg'sn a sor gous. 80 4a~a
II any assivs Of that couasry has found
that hat ! lost that night, and will return
il, | will rive him the cold ! got on tho
same occasion. a= r." ez< 10
But trscs to this Aippancy. The stir
ring peal Of the bugls calls to boots and
saddles. I must start on my afternoon
raid. n r#.@@Hs@
-Hos can't g.ess what shau scrite about
iH NY sezt letter. Remember these words,
and look sharp. Mark me- Lay low And
keep dark. There is something 70 be ex.
pected. McARoxE.
? "Weli, Patrick asked tho doctor, ''how
do you tesl to.dsy1" "Och, doctor dear,
l enjoy very poor health entirely. The
rumatics are very distressin' isdads when
/ 60 to slaps lay awake all the night,
and my toes is swellsd - big ~ goose
hens egg, whiu stand up I fall doTn in.
nadiato1v -v.. a.u@nta,