Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-11

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=" You never will fully understand II IN yor
| yourself leave the Democratic party, whicl
day VIII surely come; but then you will
see II plainly enough" We'll, have fount
| out
knew the public charges made against
Logan, and know personally what atrocioui
lies many Of them were, and could not con
ceive that partisan malignity could 20 any
farther than II went In the coinage Of them
But now do see. These letters | have re
ceived charge me with being rObber, an In
cendiary and murderer These chargct
they make 10 describe my career and record
as a soldier. Can be blamed, then, In view
of such abuse as this, for departing from
my resolved purpose OF privacy, and pub
licly burling back upon their authors all
such accusationsY Tremendous applause. I
Let me refer TO some Of these charges
briefly. l will not be long, although find
my time is far too short for telling II all, and
don't want TO weary you. They say stole
cotton, and made money by 10. It's lie.
lApplause1 ! say 10 with that word because
that is the word. lGreat applause | cap.
tured but two lots Of Confederate cotton, as
II was callod-cotton belonging to the Rebel
Government turned IL over and took du-
plicatc receipts for it-one of which | sent
to the Secretary of the Treasury, where IL
now is, and the other kept, and now have
It, ! never made q cent In cotton, and never
tried to do II. | make short work Of these
charges, because that Is all there Ia Of 1t.
They say speculated in gold while at the
head OF my command. The Wall street
brokers were running up the price OF gold,
specnlnting on the fast Increasing perils OF
the Republic, saying, that Vicksburg could
not be taken, and that therefore the Rebel
lion would be victorious. They did not
scruple thus to speculate even IL 10 was de-
stroying the credit Of the Government, and
helping the COnfedcratcs. Wall street and
the rebels were together then--as they are
now, Immense applausel, and they bet
against us. That was all there was of t.
We knew we could take Vicksburg and knew
when IL would be taken before Wall street
did. We knew the Mississippi would 20
down, so we could land on the rebel side
1--WE had already landed on the other side)-
and knew that when we did land on their
organized together, a number Of our officers,
aud formed club, tlaughtcr,l and drew our
pay, and got all the money we could. put
In all this money, and everything that had,
and borrowed every dollar that / could
:, We all put In this money, our pay as sol
diers, and made purse of II, and sent a
man to Wall street to sell gold short at sell
er's option on ninety days, and put up our
money us margins. IL was simply bet on
our part that we could take Vcksburg, and
that we would do IL, and bet on Wall
streets part that we couldn't and wouldn't.
bet We did take Vicksburg. [Great cheer
ing, frequently rcpcatcd.l We won our bet,
and Wall streetlost. [Laughter.l We made
money; ! made money, lots of 1t, and | am
glad of 1t. II served good purpose to the
Union, too, as well as to our pockets. 1t was
not knowrthe day our gold was sold whose
II was. But the next morning 1t was an
nounced in the New York press that it was
the money Of the Union officers before
Vicksburg, their bet, virtually, that they
would take Vicksburg In twenty-four
hours gold went down to fifteen cents.
-Cheers.l Some of tpe noble men who fell
N the capture of Vicksburg were in "the
,lub," and their families to-day are saved
rom poverty by the profit of this soldiers
)et with Wall street. You may call it bet, |
md morally wrong, If you choose | am will. |
ng to accept the responsibility Of this as it |
$. lApplause.l so / did speculate in gold, |
while / was actually at the head Of my divis-
on. That one charge Is true. [Laughter.l |
Another charge Is that am a house-burn-
r. The news that | have left the Demo. |
ratio party seems to have got way down in |
he old rebel country, and some one down |
IN the lower Mississippi writes TO st. Louis |
'aper, wondering If am the Gen. Tuttle |
whose troops, on the march from Millikens |
Bend to Grand Gulf burned so many fine |
louscs on Lake st. Joseph, among them the |
NEST residence in all the Southern country |
that OF Col Bowie the inventor of the |
amous Bowie knife" l am the mani Much |
lughter and applausel. The same Gen.
.uttle, who, with all his boys, went along |
here Nearly all the houses were burned |
cfore my company cane up. The Bowie |
mansion was not. | wasln it, II was the |
randest house | ever saw or read about. /
he house and furniture are said to have
ost S5OO,0OJ. The upll, STEERING was grand |
eyond description. / found number of |
Jnon soldiers in the house, belonging to |
fnnl'S division "a nm tng nj x.fI
nine: They were lounging around in their
muddy boots, enjoying the luxuries. sent
hem on to their command, and passed on
nth the head Of my division My command
'ns probably five miles long along the road |
Ifter about half Of the division had passed,
nd i was about two or three miles away, |
ooRea back, attracted by an immense hiaas,
nd the Bowie house was gone.
suppose IL was burned by some of my
oys do not doubt it. Some of nv sol
iers-oi Iowa regiments, too--were just out
rebel prison, with all of its torturcs
resh In their minds-and this was their first
larch. They remembered well, and they
robably knew something about It, Our |
rders were all against burning the houses.
suppose we could have prevented their
urning, too, II we had made II speciality.
Laughter. But we had another specially
n hand just then. [Renewed laughter'1
his is my record as a house-burner.
Ihey charge Inc, too, with stealing wood,
nd name the amount-twenty cords The |
mount is right. [Great laughterl 1 got
lewood. lRenewed laughter. Philo there,
pointing to Mr.. Case, the drummer Of the
aItial band present sitting at one side,
Id was drummer of Co. D., of the Second
,wa), knows about that. Also Mr.. Moore,
ttlng there, (polnting to Mr.. w. s, Moore |
the Second), knows about it too, and was
ere: Both Of you helped load the wood.
ir. Case-Thats So The circumstances
ere these.
was ordered to take my regiment and
'oeecd to Paducah and join a fleet going
the Tennessee River, TO take Fort Henry.
Cairo learned that Fort Henry had been
ken, My orders were changed TO proceed
Smithland, and join the fleet going up the
1mberland River TO Fort Donelson. The
hcers OF the steamboat that was on, with ,
regiment, were bitter rebels, and sought
cry opportunity to delay us, so that we :
uldnt reach there In time. When we ar a
1ed at Smithland the fleet had been gone
< hours. The Captain of the boat said he :
ID no Cumberland River pilot, and couldn't /
up the river. | forced him to 90 at the
INT OF the bayonet and placed file of sol /
ers in front Of the pilot house with orders :
t TO allow the Captain and pilot to live a q
mute II any accident happened to the boat. I
heers. Capt. Mills, of Des Moines, after. =
Irds Colonel, was officer of the day, and =
d charge of the squad, and all who knew 3
~ noble soldier knew that he would have 4,
rformed his duty. But we had not been
ing long till one Of my soldiers, who was =,
old steamboatman, told me that the Cap =
n was "playing it on me,n that there a
snt half \ cord of wood on the boat alto II
her, and that the purpose was to run out ?
wood at some point beyond the reach of =
u, and SO prevent our getting TO Fort Don. !, !,
on. 81
began to watch for wood. [Laughter1 o
on ! saw some-this same twenty cords. | 3
Tered the Captain to land the boat for the I!
cd. He protested that he didn't need il, u
i he had plenty of it. ! told him he eI
lid pull ashore or pull hemp. [Laughter.l 3
landed the boat. [Cheers A fussy old -
el was on the spot, the owner of the n
cd. The Captain asked him II he would 4,
it-with rebel wink. The owner of u
lrse said we would take 1t without making ~
argain. He said we couldn't take it. I :,
lied perhaps We couldn't, but we would u
/. lLaughter.l We tried, and every man o
The regiment, officers and ALL were soon ..
ding wood, and IL was on the boat speedily. 81
}, every soldier in the lot helped me TO do Pl
I stealing lLaughter,l The owner want 81
to know, as we were leaving, who was go 10
TO pay him for the wood ! told him that
ldn't know, and that all knew was that %
were bound for Fort Donelson, and no
els were going to stop us on the trip If we ~