American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-12-07
CAMP DOUGLAS, CHICAGO, LII

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CAMP DOUGLAS, CHICAGO, Ill.
November 7, 1864.
Ny Dcar- | generally have difficult
ty in finding news enough to enable me
to write as many letters as you claim to
be your due, and as have some news this
morning, will send it to you, although
you are not really entitled to a letter at
this time.
Last night about I o'clock, ! was de-
tailed as field officer of the guard or camp,
and ordered to throw out pckets, as we
did when the Convention met here. and
to take measures for the defense Of the
camp &c. AboGss midnight Col Sweet
ordereda detail of fifty men and two Off
GERS, who were ordered to arrest a Mr..
i ash, living on the edge Of Douglas
| Grove, and TO search for ammunition etc.
As field officer OF the day, l went with
the party, and we quietly surrounded the
| house aud then walked the family mp to
enquire il they were all well. They at
first refused to open the door, but wc coax
cd them to do it by calling on three or
four men to apply the butts Of their mus
kets to the door In we went. three Off
GERS and half dozen men with bayonots
| fixed. The old gentleman asked, what
in Goods name could bring us there at
that time Of night!" and a very hand
some daughter standing on the stairs, cx-
claimed, good God, what is this world
coming to-" In short, the whole family
assumed an air Of injured innocence.
We put parrot bracelets on the old
| gentleman and hissou, and sent them off
to camp under military escort. We
then INFORMED the ladies that we had the
greatest respect for them. and would treat
them with the greatest Difference, but
that we desired to inspect the domestic
economy of the establishment by looking
and feeling in and under all their beds,
and looking into every closet, bureau,
trunk or box in the whole house from gar
ret to cellar At this the ladies, old and
yonng, scampered up stairs and in ID mo-
ment couple of gentlemen were seen
crawling out Of the window and clam
berng over the roof Of one wing of the
house. In moment one or two dozen
rifles were pointing at them, and two doz-
en- voices calling to them to surrender,
which they did Internationally, theywere
also honored with pair Of bracelets each,
and escorted to camp with military hon
ors. Shortly after we discovered another
gentleman calmly seated in a temple Of
necessity, situated in the backyard, ho
was treated with the same hOnors as those
before him. We then minutely inspect
ed the inside of the building and were re-
warded for our labors With the following
discoveries, viz:
Three hundred Reyolvers, largest size,
all iodoled capped and primed. One hun
dred and fifty double barreled fowling
pieces, all loaded with powder, and twelve
large buck-shot in each barrel. Fifteen
thousand rounds of ball cartridges fifteen
thousand percussion caps, two kegs of
powder, two hundred pounds buckshot in
sacks and lot of buckshot cartridges.
The following is an inventory of the
live stock captured
Brig. Gen. Charles Walsh, of the Sons
of Liberty.
Capt. Cantrill, of the Rebel army, of
Morgan's command.
Charles Travers, Rebel soldier
Gen Walsh's son, and the man found
in the Temple, whose name | did not
learn.
We got back to camp with our three
cart loads of arms and ammunition, about
3 o'clock in the morning, just in time to
receive the following lot of Democracy,
forwarded by detail of one hundred
men, whom Col Sweet had sent up to the
city during the night;
Col. st. Leger Grenfell, Morgans Adj
jutant Gen.
Col Vincent Marmaduke, brother to
Gen. Marmadukc.
j. +. Shanks, an escaped prisoner of
war, from camp Douglas.
Judge Buck Morris, of Chicago, Treas
urer Of the Sons of Liberty, an ten or
twelve others whose names | did not learn.
This morning about sunrise, the party
in the city, sent down twenty men more,
most of whom had some article of Con-
federate clothing on them and some of
whom were dressed in full Butternut uni
form. Theparty in the city alse captured
two boxes of arms.
I will forward the morning Tribune, on
the first page of which you will find dis
crlbed the way in which some men came
to be here.
We have now learned that the inten-
tion of these Rebels, and Copperheads is
to attack the camp on tomorrow (elec-
tion) evening.
Whether our discovery of their plot
and arrest of The leaders will cause them
to postpone their attack or not, | cannot
tell day or two will show.