The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-20
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RELICS OF THE CIVIL WAR

with them many mementoes Of fort.
field and siege. In many homes these
relics OF the siege can be found, each
year growing more valuable in their
owners estimation. But few of the vet
lection than Gen. A. L. Pearson. His
opportunities were widened by his act
i've career in the. war, and his friendship
with other officers enabled him to add
to the store, until it grew to = good
" size. Last night reporter
of the Commercial Gazette sat in the
generals parlor and looked over the
signs of military life that were scattered
about.
In the corner Of the room silk guild
on was standing. 1t is tattered and torn,
the blue field is almost all gone, and the
stripes can scarcely be distinguished.
Ii was the first Union flag Garfield into
Richmond after tho surrender, and was
presented to Gen. Pearson at q reunion
held in Washington after the war. At
the same time he was given another
cuidon, which stands facing the one
mentioned. It ia plain bunting flag,
on pole, surmoun,ed by wooden acorn.
Black with dirt and full of holes it
looks commonplace enough, but
when the remains of President Lin.
c,ln were bronze out of the
White House for the last time, that
guidon moved on the right of the line
and OH it the column dressed.
Above the guidons are two artillery
sabres crossed. One of hem Gen. Grit
fin, as gallant soldier as ever then
leg across saddle, carried at Malvern
Hill, when with his artillery he fought
that famous battle. 1t is plain sabre
of the regulation United States pattern,
a steel blade, wrapped leather haft and
brass handle, with an iron scabbard.
Gen. Griffin wore it through the battle
an: after it was over presented it to
Gen. Pearson. The other sabre was TAX
en- from one of Lees wagons after the
su rrender.
Below these sabres are two crossed
muskets, illustrative CT the old and the
new. One of them, flint lock, was
used against the red coats in the war of
1912, the other is q breech-loader with
all the improvements. A cartridge box
and bayone: picked up at Gettysburg
complete the group:
Standing against the mantel-piece are
Two guns. one a Spencer carbine. the
other Sharpe's rifle. The Spencer was
surrendered at Appomattox. the Sharp
Gen. Pearson captured himself on q
skirmish line at Gettysburg. II got that
rifle" the general said, "while obeyine
orders to feel the enemy considerably.
The adjutant- general told me to throw
my men out as skirmishers, giving me
certain points as boundaries. went GU,
ont and found the ground covered, SO
fell back to hold nv command for an
emeryencY. We laid there all night.
and III the morning was on a worm
fence wishing that the cold rain that was
falling would cease. Just then up rode
a group of officers, and one of them
asked me, ''Whose men are these?" and
l answered, "My men, What are YOU
doing here?" g Sitting on this fence
.Do you know who 1 am!' mo, and
don't care" He was pretty mad. and
he threw back his coat and I saw he was
a general officer. He told me be
was Gen. Skyes, and
crawled off that fence. We had
just been assigned to his division, and
so did not know him even by sight
but explained why we were there and
how saw no use in covering ground
other troops were on. He answered
sharply, 'l'll do the thinking; take you,
men and feel the enemy considerably
and keep on feeling until I tell you to
STOP was as mad as he was, and
started. The enemy was retreatin9, and
we kept gobbling up men and sending
men left. rode up to house and three
had that gun and pulled it on me. He
had it cooked and up. but 1 called out /
he fired he was dead man, reaching
for my revolver, and and one of the men
with him knocked the rifle down, saying
they surrendered. Just then an aide
rode up on a gallop and asked what I
was doing. I told him Sykes had told
me to feel the enemy considerable, and
I was doing it. where's your regi-
mentr he demanded. Most of it's gone
back with prisoners How many have
you with your Half DOZEN We'll
quit, for you're too far ahead That did
Inc, and went back. The rifle should
have turned in, but it had been pulled
on me and l gobbled it,"
As he finished this story of the Sharpe's
rifle, Gen. Pearson produced sand-box.
1t was little tin box, showing traces of
the green paint that it once bore, when
sand-boxes were used instead of blotting
PAPER. THAT box said the general,
was used at the surrender of Lee at
Appomattox. Gen. Griffin, who was one
OF the three officers appointed by Grant
to arrange the terms ofcapitulatiOn, gave
it to me-" With the sand box was q pair
Of silver epaulets found in his head QUAR-
tiers wagon. They are very handsome,
and probably the only thing of the kind
in America.
One of the most interesting things in
the collection is rebel battle flag. 1t ia
about 3 by feet, and was evidently
m de of old silk dresses. The field has
the seven stars of the South, and there
are two red and one white stripes. The
flag Was through many fight, as the
rents and holes in 1t testify. 1t came
when Lee laid down his sword ut Apo
mattox. Another relic that tells of
the sorest spot in Hartranft's record is
. volume of Byron's works taken from
Col. Pegran's house near Pittsburg, on
Oct. 80, 1864. Pearson with his brigade
of 1900 men, was called off line to let
Hartranft 60 in with his division. The
Johnnies sent Ha-tranft's fighters back
where they came from on a double
quick, and got into Pegran's house.
where the eharp.shooters had good
position. Then the little brigade went
III, whipped the men who had chased
Ha,tranft. and Pegran's house, with the
finest library in the south. was burned.
The Byron and q copy of" Little Dorritt''
were saved and to- day tell of how Hart
rant stood and watched a brigade do
what his division faxed to accomplish.
Punching Dean Stanley.
When Minnie Palmer's Company wal
playing at the Park Theatre, now the
Arch street (Phil.) Opera House, in the
season of 1880. Mr.. J. Scanlon, the
comedian of the company, was stopping
at the Continental Hotel, where the ia
nous English churchman, the late Dear
Stanley. was also sojourning at thu same
time. Now the Dean and the actor who
played the first old men with the Palme,
company was about the same age and
bore a striking resemblance to each
other in point of figure. 1t CHANGED one
day as Dean Stanley was going up stairs