The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

ington, and helped burn Little York undel
Gaines was at Lundy's Lane under Scott anC
Brown, and under Wilkinson al the battle OF
Chryser's Field in Canada, and wintered a
French Mills. Wilkinson was of no account
/ "Yo were in the Mexican war;"
Il was in three campaigns in 1916, 1S4i
and lS4S. | am now IN my nlnetie,h year
and ain had a fight for two weeks with some
+ of these fellows. / can floor man as well
as ever could, and - me, am willing TO
90 it, Everybody knows that | was born in
gong to join my comrades on
THE FOURTH OF JULY,
Aud am going to march, too. was in the
pope's celebration, and rode till got cramp.
ed ont and tired. I'd rather walk On
sight than to ride. feel better when | walk
frequently walk up to oSn rather than to
ride. BY -, can make forty miles day.
want to 90 back 10 old Nlrgina-to see
Washington's tomb. | want to see the place
where was born But suppose Will find
all gone. / made 80 miles one day in the
Mexican war on foot"
You saw some fighting IN the Mexican
war;"
IN crossing the plains was second.lieu-
tenant in Capt Elihu Shepard's company,
and his book Will tell you how | crossed the
Rio Grande at the head of the regiment
when the ice was passing down in large cakes,
and with my clothes in one hand and arms in
the other waded across in less than fifteen
minutes
what is your fighting weight"
81 now weigh 2ll pounds
You seem to have a strong hold on life,
Major, and would be hard man to die?"
You can tell them | am hard man to
whip too. have whipped every man here"
Then, Major, your voice is still for war ?"
Il wish could see another war LIT amt
outrageous to be kept cooped up here. There
is plenty Of fighting gong on amt even
with the British yet. When prisoner IN
Montreal they gave me the meanest bread In
the world. Scott never failed TO come and
see me; Gaines, too, and now both dead, and
by - am here, and no fighting gong on.
! must have fight before long
OR ill SPOIL
/ have fought everything, even down TO ,tct
Niger. | was in niger insurrectice In
Southampton county, Virginia, and helped
put il down. The first house we rot TO was
Mrs. Whitehead', The old LADY ard four or
1--WE of her girls had their, threats cut, and
two negroes were lying dead inside the house
and two outside who We're defending the
house, killing their own race. The next
house we came 10 t'as Mr.. Walters school,
where sixteen yorAg ladies were murdered,
their throats beng cut from ear to ear. The
next house was that of Mr.. Burroughs, who
was found dead inside the house His wife
was shot in The hip out IN the garden, and a
child was found murdered in the cradle.
Burroughs fell clinching the stock of his rifle
after TIE breech was broken off We were
calico out by the mayor OF Norfolk, and were
oct tgentyone days. The captured negroes
were tried by court over which Gov. Giles
presided, and we hung them regularly"
After about twenty-five minutes interview
with the major the up train for St. Louis came
along. The major ran out to the crossing
with red flag, and the reporter boarded the
train. Meeting with DR.. Hill, he said he had
known the major thirty years; he was "a
good square man, an honest man. and was
a member at the same time with him of the
first city council.