The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-08-02

Serg't Bowers TO tie up the private The
Serg't. told him coolly that If he wanted
the man tied up he might do it himself
The 1t. tied the man to the wagon, and as
soon as his back was turned some of the
boys cut the man loose, as they thought
that il was an outrage that an innocent
man should be tied up while the guilty
went scot free.
1t. Hanna now reported the state of af-
fairs to the Commanding officer. firmly
believe that he wofully misrepresented the
facts, but he succeeded in having the boys
punished as above stated, while at the
same time he made guard duty heavy. If
there had been any discretion or common
sense used the whole trouble could have
been avoided.
We reached the South Platte River at
Julesburg on the 9th day. After resting
an hour or two we crossed over and went
into camp. Here we expected to draw ra-
tions to last us to Fort Mcpherson, but the
officer commanding at Julesburg, or Fort
Sedgwick, as it is called, thought he
would dismount us and take our horses
To accomplish this he thrust the returns
into his pocket and wanted to know Of
Capt. Hunlfreville If he was going to give
up the horses. The Capt. asked him to
produce his written order for the horses
On his replying that it was only verbal
one from Gen. Pope, the Capt. replied that
it was not worth a -, and coolly inform
ed the commander at Fort Sedgwick he
could not have a single horse, and that he
had not a sufficient force to take them. Capt.
Humfreville returned to camp and inform
ed us that we could get rations by giving
up our horses. This we had no inclina-
ton 10 do, and preferred to do without and
keep the horses.
This evening, the goth of June, will
long be remembered by the members
of the llth on account of the great-hail
. storm we had while camped here. The
storm lasted 10 or 20 minutes. The size OF
the hail was enormous. 1 saw many
stones larger than hen eggs. You can in
fer the size when it was a common sight to
see both horses and mules knocked down
by the hail. Some % or 80 head of our
stock broke loose and fled to the Bluffs for
shelter. Yet we were on our way before
sun-up, and by ten o'clock all the stock
had been recovered and brought to the
command.
On our arrival at Fort Mcpherson, al
though it was Sunday, we had no trouble
in drawing rations to last us 10 Fort Kear-
ney, which place we reached on the 9th
of June, having been 12 days marching s65
miles. .".
From Kearney to Leavenworth there was
but little that occurred worthy of note. On
the Little Blue River, we found the settlers
in great fear, as the Indians had commenc-
ed depredations on this beautiful stream.
The fears of the settlers were so great that
they had removed their families to the
thicker settlements on Big Sandy.
There is an extensive border region here
that is exposed to these rowing bands of
desperadoes. The crops of all kinds of
grain and vegetables exceed anything
have ever seen all through Kansas. The
harvest is abundant and the grain excel
lent, both of Wheat and Oats. The coun-
try is beautiful beyond description, and
looks as though it might be made the gar
den State of the Union, if not an "Eden."
We arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the
7th of july having been % days on the
way. Here we spent 9 days waiting pa
tiently for the necessary papers to be made
out. We were mustered out by 1t. Will
Hanson of the Regular army on the 18th,
and ordered to be sent to Columbus for pay
and settlement.
Yours truly,
VIM. MOONEY.