The National tribune., 1883-10-04

organized an escape and made break for Lit
tie Rock, $50 miles by an air line. They wera
barefoot, ragged and destitute of rations tho
rain having spoiled the little meal they started
out with, but striking field Of May Pops"
one of the party called out. Boys, here's sal
walton" and so they staid their famished stom-
sehs and kept on. In nine nights they reached
the Texan woods, Captain Dill, who had
given out, having to be carried aboard the RATS
upon which they crossed the river. They
were terribly cut and lacerated, by passing
through vast plains Of eacti, having avoided
the settlements for fear of capture. Striking
sweet potato field, delverance seemed near.
when q pack of fourteen bloodhounds came
down upon them and they were captured and
taken to a plantation house. Their caDtOrs
was company Of Confederates on furlOugh,
who were out deer hunting, to whom the Colo
nel-in behalf of the ragged party, standing
with bleeding limbs and feet swollen and
bruised from the cactus thorns-said: For
Gods sake. help four poor devils!"
The soldiers treated them kindly, taking
them to church after supplying them with
good meal, and afterwards returned them to pris-
on sixty-six miles away where, three months
later, they, with $40 others, were exchanged
The colonel is now register of deeds IN his own
county and with his pipe his. cane and hi
stories, is an Indispensable adjunct to every
Campfire and Reunion in the county. On thG
summit Of Jones Pass, 1900 feet high, Colo
mel King built Snow man for his little girl,
she having requested him to make her q snow
| man IN the Rockies.
ONE OF THE OLD GUARD.
We came across one of the men iInnaortalized
in Jesse Fremonts "Story of the Guard, in L.
ID. Underwood, Junction City, Kan. member
/ of the Fremont body-guard- He enlisted from
st. Louis, IN 1861. at the age Of nineteen, his
/ home being Cincinnati, Ohio In the terrible
| fight at Springfield. Mo-, October %, 1851. he
was wounded in the left shoulder with musket
! ball and three buckshOts. Afterwards he
/ served as lieutenant in company 3, First regi-
| ment, Virginia light artillery, and later as
captain Of company K, Tenth Missouri cavalry,
in which ne was brevetted major. Since the
/ war he has held responsibilities Of trust, serv-
/ ing as probate judge. Major Underwood Ia
| very much interested in WOman's Relief Corps
/ work, and tells how it was owing to the earnest
/ opportunities OF a nurse in the Springfield
| hospital that his arm was not amputated after
he had been carried by that exhaustive mule
! train from the battlefield at Lyons TO thss
place.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO THE COMRADES.
Owing TO the loss Of valuable memoranda
| there remains some things unsaid which were
| better said and some stories untold that are as
strange as all strange things in truth which
I sUFpaSs the widest fiction To the inquiry
often put forth, How did you learn so much
of the country through which you travelled p"
| the reply must be, :" 1t was because I had the
| whole Grand Army as my special reporters"
They were TO me both eyes and ears, and to
each and all, in behalf of the thousands Of
| comrades who read THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
cordial and sincere thanks are extended.
KATE B. SHERWOOD.