Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-11-26
Siout Git9 8rpister
OFFICIAL PAPER Of THE COUNTY.
ALI oyerToWn and County.

ny. MUSTERED OUr.-Last Wednesday
afternoon tho Sioux City Cavalry was
music red out Of service. This Company
was raised here under special order Of
the War Department, for the frontier ser.
vice, with the privilege Of furnishing their
own horses and equipments. 1t was mus.
tered into the United States service on the
14th of November, lS6l-A. J. Millard,
Captain James A. Sawyers, lst Lieute'
nant; J. I. Copelau, 2nd Lieutenant
Lieut.. Sawycrs served with the Company
about one year, and rcsigned-to accept
the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the State
Troops. Lieut.. Copelan was promoted to
lst Lieutenant and Orderly s. II. Casady
to Cd Lieutenant. These are all the chan
ges that have taken place in the Commits
stoned officers of the Company during the
three years.
The men went to good deal of trouble
and expense tc provide themselves with
in the Spring Of 1868 we will venture to
say that it was the best mounted company
in the United States service. When the
9TH Iowa Cavalry was organized in 1863,
the Sioux City Cavalry was designated as
Company a. of that regiment, and by an
order Of the Secretary of War, aud III
violation Of the expressed terms Of their
enlistmets, the men were compelled to dis
pose Of their own horses and receive gov
eminent horses. thereby reducing ;helr
pay SO per month. AS m ght have been
expected this created great dissatisfaction.
When Gent. SulIy started on his expe'
di,ion in the Spring Of 1868, Captain
Millards company was selected as the
Generals body guard, and during the ex.
petition as we'll as on all other occasions,
it acquitted itself with honor, and received
the mme ndation Of the General. Altho'
the Company has never seen much fight
ing, it has done an arduons amount Of
guard and patrol duty, and was always
ready to 60 where duty called it. Our
citizens have always felt great interest
in the Company, which contained so many
fellow citizens, and welcome its members
back to civil life.
eD- Had HiM.-The papers are full Of
kes from the army, but We don't remem.
Der Of seeing anything better than the
following: When General Sully left here
last Spring with his Expedition, Captain
p. was placed in command of the Prairie
Battery" consisting of four mountain
howitzers. Now, the Captain did not
make any pretensions to being an expert
artillery officer, but like a gallant and
obedient officer, as he u.s. he was disposed
to do his whole duty to the best of his
ability. When The command arrived in
the vicinity of the Indians and battle
was expected at any time, the General
thought he would examine Captain p. on
his proficiency in artillery tactics, and
perhaps have little fun at the expense Of
the Captains ignorance. SO when the
command had halted, and large number
OF officers were near, the General says:-
p. suppose we should get into fight
with the Indians, and they should attack
our flank where your battery was station
ed, what would you do?' "Hand my
Horse to an orderly, and get into an am
du1ance, Sir, was the prompt reply. The
examination was adjourned to take e
DIX.
pc The draft in Council Bluffs took
one Of the editors Of the Bugle, who, on
leaving for the "front' speaks to his
friends as follows:
"a Card. Having been so unfortunate
as to draw IL prize in Abraham's Lottery
and demanded to surrender my money or
my life, | give that of which l have the
most Being forced to leave my wife,
parents, home, and all that is near and
dear to me on earth, | take this opportu'
nifty of saying Farewell to all my friends,
and rendering to them my most sincere
thanks for the many acts of kindness
shown me in this my hour Of reed. And
l sincerely hope that my misfortune may
never be theirs. Then, once for all, fare
well. c. II. BABBlrr."
~ PASlc.-Tuesday nights dispatch.
es quoting gold at S2,lO created decided
pants among the gold dus, buyers. For
some days there had been quite lively
competition and dust was run up to a
price that left but a small margin with
gold at $40. As one of the buyers re
marked after reading the 81, 10 dispatch
it made them sick. We heard Of one buyer
trying to 'come it, over another who had
not seen the dispatch, by offering to sell