Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-08-10

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DrAa sgs-wxs highly grasised as<hea
receipt OF yours q The Sosh ais. LongI
experience has gissn no very different
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0tzse2 frdsh nose With which 1ts9f WesE
point, where a fsw mathematical loxm9
Las. aever 4ssa ~agtsrwsgdas and spsiEAss
branches OF sciense, wefe 6seft upon, 70
lhe utter exclusion oil the duties sad re-
xfonsibillties that wS ID oceapy our
Hnyes. Ii ID therefore highly gratifylng
that / hars The teskirnasy Of toe conapanv
sfoa Id arms that | made soras fsaends
among tba s9ldiers-a porEs0n OF human
~ where the tgaatneut Of the best -
measured ofsen BY abns The worst daaerye
aaa whom iEis easlsg % goyern by saie
thaEshssE rules thsn 10 4 trouble to nj
ertminass hsswsea good anq Dad, Afd ~
maks the profession easseg when pahsaols.
After the time al whfth soa wtika, ny
/ health Suffered terribly far years, nat
mnsh to the Improvement Of my .eEapes,
aud / remember With regrs& much harsh
| ianaaage and conduct towards men Ehe
themselves thsn ! eoSGitta soh Efa.s hy fssTs.s.
/. HoxeFer, always txied to be just In the
long run, and white the discipline and
good behavior Of Eny company vas noto-
1 rious, / hope | may say no man wa made
!. worse by service With me, aud many of
the boys discharged from mi company be-
came Taiuabie and industrious citixeps.-
/ never beard of one turning out badly
duFing many years ia New Mexico, and
learned that kindness gives . far more
I perfect oontral over tha haman as tha
brute races. than h~arshness and cruelty.
That you may have Is TITLE - possible
10 be ashamed Of serving With me. | will
I. give you q short account OF bow came
Into The Southern cause.
leans from Arizona, siek, in b sspring
of 1851. Stall il the country, In Vir-
gipia, my State, trying 70 get vel, and
/, found the war, to Inv bitter regret. vas
being started. All The highest Unised
lStates Army officers we're Tesigsing, ex-
cept General Scott, and hs published .
, letter that the United States would divide
iat6 four parts, thus showing thas be tho't
saIl was over. 4 United States Senator
said ha. Eauld march a Northern regfnasns
ID heIp tho South for every one sent
ii against Der. Nothing Was done with
either of these men, or with Others wspse
4 deeds we're ~treasouabla- A rueruber OF
Congress, from GaTifurnia, made q public
uaeeh calling upon the South 10 resist tbs
Z election OIL, MF, Liheole.
II K2R + found myself forced 70 ,GsAi
against my Hofbers ard all my nearest
and dearest reIatirssAagaihst my own
<4ststs, wheu mary ablsf fhqn than aayseli
-t~d0nteuaed che was right. By taking W
the side of che South, forfeited a hand
some p5sition, Hne pay, and the ezfnings
; Of twenty years hard service! al tbs
pay I drew IN fear yeatsfn tho Soath, was
4 not as much AZ one YEARS. pay 10 the old
faraiS, Thsgreatgst political fasoritism
. agaiust ns4@svef had, Nas from Dir. la
Wis, after the Mexican war. Ii Is h;rrd u
a account for mr. course, except from
: pasofnf sense of daty-I sag painful, Be
cause EibeIisve few we're fssre devoted e
tne old country than mgstlf; aEi abs
~grcafcAt objection h1d TO il was because
y az ms prediction for d stfoRge iSe. Nov
I Z sae persons who did whas cher eoal1 Il
= bring about the war, 10 high favor ia th'
Moth, boiling high oGcs, 10 was ilki
= a2 ~ FSase asrv from New Aexfco, In
a 1861, IVoianteered my services 90 Ggh
the Texans threatening d U0ited State,
post, and. wss careful To DO nothin,
against the Unnsd stsEss before rtsiga'
i1g.
y have asked to DO allowed 10 take fht
OATH Of allegiance ana return to fny datiel
As q citizen. see, though. that many
persons, aesise in the krst STEPS in bring.
: ing this var abont, ars At liberty, Will,
am here With no rery good prospect O
getting 6uts while uHT wife II under ar
! rest IN ST. Buis, and bas been since 4
, rrn, bur up to thfs fihae haS utterly Jailas
: even TO fnd out why she il arrested
Neither abs or myself have the slighsee
j IDEA OF the cause Of her arrest.
hgve given you a htnx letter ubba
myself. BECAUSE Of fhs frikndlY tcae D
your letter, and becauss | feel natpraii,
drawn toward fhos6 Nith whom | has'
Fstrved. / remain very respectfully SC.