Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-08

sssafst ts>ua on TIE GNs-t "a AAse t&AkA. a8st
! brought inside OF our hreasiworks
wf,sre was reforming the rest o
the regiment aud the brigade. Gen
| Matthias being wounded, was ie9
in command OF the brigade. / tiIeT
/ placed him in command Of the regi
/ Inent. which remained inside OF tns
works that night, and ON the -6if
and 18th marched in ptrsait Of the
enemy a. far "a GRANVILLE, Georgia.
You may thus see that on tina
dreadful day, when the two sons o
John R. Sparks, the sons OF Rubber
| Lauienb..ck, Adjatant Byers, and
scores Of other equally brave lows
lads fell into the rebel hands, most o.
them 10 mise rsssly siarye IN theii
ssockades, what WAS saved OF the nc
bic 9Th Iowa was brought Ina BY the
cool gallantry Of Col. Sampson. See
report OF Adiutant General Baker
for 1874, page 49,.
What he was az man is vel
shown in the report Of Col. Sampson
himself, Of the operation Of his regi-
ment IN the rear of Eicksburg. May
18th, 1862. After describing the
marches, skirmishes aud battles, in
which his command had been engag-
ed. he closes as follows;
:. / cannot close this report withou.
bearing testimony to the uncomplain-
ing ana seif-sacrificiug spirit that has
continually manifested itself among
the men of my command, during all
OF our marches, trials and sufferings,
many OF them without shoes, all FIRE
quently without provisions except sn-
gar and meat, pushed forward thro'
rain and sunshine, they bore their
hardships without murmur or COM
plant, willing to endure every hard
ship and peril for the success Of their
cause. Uoping Hey may re dband-
uatly reUarcied. for their socrifces and
kaJOrg, | beg leave to subscribe my
self, Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
Il. S. SAMPSON.
See Adj't Generals report for 1868,
page 1872.
Not a word to say for himself; no
praises to lavish on his brother Off
ce!s who might be expected to return
the compliment; his concentrations
are all for the common soldier, who
had no means Of telling the country
Of what they had done and suffered,
and wrote no reports in which they
could return the praises they re-
ceived.
What a contrast this with the re-
ports Of many officers, and among
them Of one who Is now a loud Anti
Monopolist orator, but about the same
time made report as the Colonel OF
an Iowa Regiment, closing by a
glowing tribute to the gentlema an
ly department, GOODNESS and conspic-
uous bravery Of the Brigadier Gen
eral commanding the division during
all the severe fighting" with more Of
the same kind OF stuff.
II at any time during the war
Col. Sampson had fallen, his family
would have been left In INDECENT cir
C instances. But he was spared and
soon called to the labors and respons-
Utilities Of District Judge; has for
nearly eight years travelled over the
district with means of becoming In
timateiy acquainted with the circum-
stances, wants and needs Of all classes
of its citizens, such as could he had in
mother employment. AS witnesses,
litigants and spectators, you have all
become acquainted with him, and
where Is the man who claims that
his feelings have not always prompt
ed him to favor the cause Of the weak
against the cunning and the strong,
so far ~ the law permitted him to
show feeling.
His opponent is Mr.. f.. n. Gates,
who was from one Of the New Eng
land States and first appeared In pub
lie life AZ moneyed and money-ma-
king lawyer, in Ashland county,
Ohio, where, for many years, rs Que
of the staunchest Of Democrats and
shrewdest Of financiers, he drew
from his law practice such additions
to his wealth that he became the
owner OF some two thousand acres
of Jasper Co. land, while he was yet
Il nonresident speculator, and still
active in the practice Of the law.
And when he did come to cast In his
lot amongst US, it was not to break n
farm and build house, rs most of
you have done. This is what far
mer would have done if he had
owned thousands of acres Of land,
but not so Spectator like Mr..
Gates.
Times were hard and money scarce
when Mr.. Gates came to Iowa, and
many Of the early settlers were com
PEELED TO sec their homes sold under
the sheritf's hammer. One of the
most desirable homes near our city
had been sold at public cutlery to Il
New York merchant, under mort
gage foreclosure for less than third of
its cost, aud Mr.. Gates stepped in to
take from his brother capitalist the
property at the same price-a middle
man preferred to the producer In this
case; forty acres of choice land near
town for which the owner had paid
e, 600 In 1855, which he had fenced,
and erected two story brick house,
aud planted trees on at an expense
of $4,000 for improvements. was
bought by farmer Gates for Sl73O
in 1868, and there he settled I'm luxu-
rions comfort to rest from the fatiguas
of n law practice of twenty-five
years.