The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-08-08


coward has ssnt me an extract from
paper In Missour;--nsms of the pape
not giveo. bat the piecc cas out
charging mo with having murdered
man Ia Stewart, Mo-, and shouting me
after they had surrendered. AZ % th
hrst: That was an incident of our tri
ss We first went to the front. The tow
was on the Hannibal, and 81. Josep
Road. The Second Iowa was ths frs
Union regiment that made the tril
along the whole length of this line. :
Others had gone part Of the way, bu
the Second made the whole trip, M,
were the first Union troops that th
rebels down there had seen. AZ ",
came mp 70 this little town rebel faI
was streaming fron pole in a door
yard. 1t was the first rag Of the Con
federacy my boys had seen. and said i
must come down. Cheers. / antici
pated no trouble. but after tho boy
went up there 1 heard some shots. anc
than I went mp. A young rebel hs(
heard OF our coming 10 the town, anC
had raised the flag "a defiance aud 1
menace, and said il shonld float il b,
had 10 protect 10 with his life. He go
q chance. He said, with his revolver
drawn, ~ the boys came up, that tn,
first man who laid hands on that FAC
hs would shoot dead. Tho boys pro
ceeded 70 take the thing down-and
he got killed, HOW he,yss he killed
(pointing TO Mr.. Case. again, sitting
near by. holding the same old drum
that he drummed through the war;,
can tell you more about that than 1
can.
(Mr. Case-rhe fellow said he would
shoot the frat man who dared even to
touch the dsQ or oven the stafl, and
the boys went for il. He tried to shoe,
swapping his revolver twice. He didn't
get chance to try il again. His flag
came down, and so did he. fCheersl.
The 0eneral--well, that's the story
of IL. didn't SEQ that part Of il.
saw the dag after IL was down, though,
aud saw the foolish young rebel living
there dead. That's all know about il
and perhaps I am responsible. II so,
/ have nothing 10 take back. Our
business down there was 10 put down
the rebcl colors, and of course wo com.
mencei as sood a. We saw where the
work commenced. lChecrs. The boys
in taking down the rebels flag had to
shoot the rebel to do IL, and to save
their owe lives in doin IL, and 40 an,
charged with niurdering him.
SHOOTING REBEL pRIDoE BURNERS.
As to the shooting Of men after they
surrendered, these are tho facts, The
rebels had been bnrning tho railroad
bridges and tearing up the track TO
keep tho Union troops from getting to
the front. They were trying to throw
trxins of the track, and weaken bridges
40 as to let wholo regiments down into
cnts, chasns, aud rivers, hoping thus
to kill thsm. Well, sent Lieut.. Nc
Kenney NOV Gen. McKenny, who was
Company A Of the Second
thsp, as q gallant = soldier. and as no.
BILE. hearted n man as ever lived, but
who always meant business as much "a
any man I ever saw, TO stop these
murdcrous depredations. BY a little
strategy he managed 10 catch lot OF
them M the very act. Laughter. A
gang of them were tarring n railroad
bridge resdy a. burn il just before a
train, coming With large numbcr of
soldiers on board, had reached il. -
Well, in catching the fellows at it he
hurt some of them. Laughter and
applause.
The first reports 1 got OF the affair
were from some of the rebels. MAC,
after attending to this gang. had gone
on to catching others. The rcbels
came in whining. aud complaining that
my detachment Of troops had murder
ed some of their fricnds, or shot then,
after they had surrendered. / told
them TO wait while and would iu-
quire into it. Pretty soon "Mac" aud
the boys came in. saw that Mac"
had blood in his eye. I.aughter.l /
asked hin, what he had been doing. -
He said he had caught some. Of the
devils, and had stopped 'em. Langh.
ter. He had caught them tearing
down aud burning the bridges, aud
they had got hurt. daughter ] I ask.
ed II he had killed them. He said he
guessed so--as they didn't move any
afterrard. I asked il II was so. that
be had shot them after they had sur
rendered. He said il wasn't 80, that
he wouldn't let them snrrepder.-
lCheers. He said: do you think !
could let those fellows, who had al
ready murdered some Of our Union
soldiers, and were trying TO do IL again.
come up to me, with their hands all
tsrred over, i'm an attempt TO do 1t
again, surrender? No. sir. couldn't
do il, and I didn't. ODe lot of them
have stopped their deviltry now that l
know of, and more Of them will IL / can
catch them" [Applsuse. What did
say? Did rebnke MAC" and his
gallant squad2 said "Nou have done
right aud do il again. whenever and
wherever you catch any others NJ the
same sort OF deviltry." Those were
the fellows am charged with having
murdered after they had surrendered.
They did not surrender. Mac wonld
not let them. [Cheers. There were
no moro bridges burned on that line
while was in command Of that road.
soon after we left they barned bridge
and threw train into the water, kill
ing a numbcr Of women and children.
They tbooght they we're laying the trap
for soldiers train. But that night
the passenger train happened TO come
first and so tho soldiers Escaped. i
only wish that Mae" and his sluad
hal been there aud caugh, them setting
II on fre.
ANONYMOUS LETTERS.
These, fellsw-citiZens and neighbors,
are some Of tho many charges made
against me, and sent 10 me daily by
the score in anonymous letters. can
not refer 20 all of them. They can
prove up many like things ON me. and
any Union officer or soldier who was in
the war aud tired 10 do his duty. We
we're down there to make war--not
merely. like Ben. Hills rebels, to hug
the Constitution.
In having done my duty a. . soldier,
in my humble. and yet earnest and well
meaning wsy. am now called, after
have left the Democratic party. rob.
er, n burner of houses, a murderer
just IA Gen. Logan, honest. noble.
true harted and patriotic, was 40 stig
ma'ized sftes he mad left the satne par
". DO goa wonder gentleman, that
have bsen stung into making pablicly
the remarks that have hcre2 have
no abuse to make Of any one. / call no
one by name. state simply the gen.
eral facts that others may see as vel
as myself that the war and the bate n
Union soldiers did not die, as the 81
Louis platform says. II years ago.
TIRE ct. LOUIS CONVENTION.
The convention did no, look nj
though treason was an odious thing
nor that rebels wrrc any the less to b
honored than patriots. The gathering
proved again wha, the Democrati,