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LOGAE's LOYALTY.


Senator John A. Logan was at
pains in the senate yesterday to deny
most explicitly that he ever had any
sympathy with the rebellion, or had
any intention of joining the southern
side. Hc produced letters from dem
ocrats in southern Illinois, who knew
him at the beginning Of the war, to
prove that he had always been loyal.
He gave notice that he was tired of
caring insinuations that he had con-
mplated taking the southern side in
the war and intended to put stop to
it. He also produced letters from
Senators Lamar and Pugh, who are
very good authority for him when it
suits his purpose, bearing testimony to
his loyalty to the union and opposition
TO the rebellion. Jefferson Davis and
other southern leaders could do the
same thing. Logan made quite dis
play Of himself and general denial.
This he could do with the more conf
dence from fact afterward revealed.
Senator Beck, who was kept out of
the house of representatives at the
. close of the war by the efforts of Lo-
gan, arose and stated that he at one
time collected some papers rejecting
on the gentleman's action at the out
break Of the struggle, but at
the instance of Frank Blair he had
burned them before Logan's eyes.
The testimony, which probably in
cluded original papers, being destroy
ed, Logan is rather safe in making a
wholesale denial, although he is rather
late about it. If he at one time SYM
pathized with his democratic neigh
bors in Williamson county, Illinois,
who, as he states, mostly came from
the south, there is no stain or crime in
that. Many men on both sides near
the border wayered as to which side
they would take. In Tennessee we
had many union men at first,
who finally joined the Confeder-
ate army, and made the very
best soldiers. There is yet a lingering
suspicion that Logan cOuntenanced, il
he did not encourage some Of his
southern neighbors in their secession
proclivities. No doubt these same
neighbors, save a few who came south,
made as good union soldiers as were
in the army. 1t was nothing uncom-
mon in those days for western men,
both before and after they went into
the army, to declare that they would
never fight to free the negro. That
would be disloyalty now, yet
it was sentiment entertained
by democrats and republicans alike,
who afterward, as the struggle intensi-
fed and became general, bore the
brunt of battle on the union side in
the west and south. One fact we are
able to state which Mr.. Logan cannot
deny: The nucleus of company to
Join the Confederate army was formed
rly in 1861 in southern Illinois. 1t
Is, in fact, almost full company
and when times grew hot, the men
slipped out in squads, crossed the
river, reorganized on this side, and
became a part of the Fifteenth Con-
federate regiment of infantry, COM
manded first by Colonel Charles Car
roll, who lives in Memphis, and after
ward by Colonel r. Z. Tyler, who
became a brigadier general and wa'
killed during Wilson's raid at West
Point, Georgia. This regiment wai
aiterward consolidated with the Thir.
ty-seventh Tennessee, which, by {
singular coincidence, was raised BY
Colonel VIM. II. Carroll, of thil
city, a brother of the other Colone
Carroll. In the Fifteenth Ten
nessee regiment were two companies
made up of men mostly from the rivel
counties of Kentucky and Illinois
During the Georgia campaign tht
Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh Ten
nessee regiment as a part Of Tyler
brigade, Bates division, was more thar
once brought face to face with Logan
command, and the boys often re-
narked iocularly, and certainly with
out any malice or motive for misrep
resentation, that if Logan had no
backed out to get something better oil
NE other side, he would have been il
de Confederate army. This wa
their impression, right or wrong, anc
it was often talked Of in camp. TIL,
boys may have been mistaken, BUTT wa
not their fault, and really we mus
think yet that they had some groun,
for their honest belief.
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