The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-03-13
ARREsTING THE POLICE.

No apology Is needed for reproducing the
following personal letter from Comrade G. J.
Madden, i02d O. Y. l., whose regiment was
stationed at Bowling Green, KY, at the time
the editor of the Woman's Department went
down to see that the boys Of the 111th O. V. /.
were condu cting themselves like soldiers and
gentlemen. The editor recalls a good many
incidents connected with that memorable win
ter of 1S62-'63; also, how the boys of the 18th
Kentucky, encamped in the valley, and the
II1th, on College Hill, christened their dog
tents" one evening in early spring by coming
out at given signal and Joining IN prolonged
bark throughout the entire camp She also
recalls TO mind a certain poet Of the 18th Ken
tHcky (where is be now2), who celebrated all
these occurrences in heroic verse Also, how
in the Spring all the water dried up, and how
the dust rose on the red-clay roads when the
cavalry went down to the Big Barren morning
and evening; and how she drank water thick
with deposit and tasting of the water tanks,
and warm and sckish, and went home, when
the regiments were ordered down to Tennes-
see, to wrestle with camp fever, and in the
deep deIirium fancy herself telegraph box,
with connecting lines with the army, and each
nerve a wire, upon which the messages went
to and fro, and at the end of three months
awoke to find her hair falling out and herself
weak and limp as an infant. All these, with
the yellow smallpox flag at the hospital and the
DIealD Oh UOnGySuCA1bS, ana Iu6 DflEaue on
dress parade, and the doing court house
square, and the old prison with the Johnnies
at the bars, and through all the sweet, heroic
face of dear Grandma Hobson, mother of GEN
eral Hobson and Colonel Hobson, and grand
mother of Colonel VIII Hobson and Major
Motley Whose kin-folks always were loyal"
God bless them all u, come up in Kaleidoscope
confusion after the lapse of more than twenty
years upon reading Conrade Madden's letter,
which, follows below:
URBASA, o., Dec. 80, 1888
DEAR MRS. SHERWOOD:
Your very kind letter came duly to hand and
tn : mention of Bowling Green brings the autumn
of 1862 vividly to mind. Do you remember the
corIi-stalk city of the l02d Ohio? You know we
had no tents, and passed over half that winter
without them. At Bowling Green carried
rails for two miles and made rail pens aud COW
cred them over with corn-fodder. Our roofs would
get very dry, of course; then spark from one of
our numerous mud chimneys would kindle dis
astrous blaze for short notice. Then the 1ith
would yell Frei Fire 70 "a The 1o2d is fire. -
! &C., and "Cone TO our assistance Oh we had
more fun in those soldier days than you could
shake a stick at.
| want to give you little reniniscence of two
OF General Sherwood's boys that perhaps he never
heard of. Their names were CowdryLand Bury.
The latter, George Bury, understand is in the
milling business in Toledo. at Columbus awhile
before We were mustered out, Sunday,
the two cleaned themselves up and started for
| church Being early. they took q walk and got
into portion of the city occupied mostly by for
eieners and a copperhead element too who see-
ing two lone Yankees in their vicinity, four of
them pitched into the boys and gave them terri
BILE whipping. kind Union lady opened her
! front door and called 10 them TO run in there
which they did, and passing out the back door got
away ard came back to the barracks, eyes black
! ened, face bleeding. and badly miissed up gem
| orally. Five six of sat around reading and
/ writing when they in and reported. We
arose at once. put acceuterments put bayo-
nets guns, and went Il Cunning expedi-
ton after the assailants. We searched the neigh
borhood but could not find them. Two policemen
unsatisfactory and salcy replies and several in
whole affair and encouraged the outrage by their
our part SO we arrested the police duty psey
We're, formed hollow square, put them r the
center, and marched them two miles To t)s bar
| racks and put them in the gard-house.
The mayor of The city tried tc raise big excite
rnent and fuss about such an unusual proceeding;
but Major Sisiles the commander of the barracks
after ipquirng ato the matter stood by us and In
| spite Of the mayors threats, Go, we kept then,
there three days and nights II en- Sixties sent for
them, and gave them such taxing To as no one
but he could, and let them go.
might mention that we didfaot treat the two on
their way 10 the guard house f,sy too kindly For
fear tSey did not know how ! felt to be struck
out straight from the shoaldef.n every few minutes
one OF the boys would give ths IN sample Of what
he could do when he was in earnest. and meant
every wcrd OF it."
| do not remember Che fapturing party now
J entire but isaao Carr. LIZ. 9. VI and Milton