Sharp County record., 1885-08-06
THE COLO4
Az Old Soldiers Agitation OF
His Former Comder.
"What has become of oir?"
eyes where is Lenoir

Army of the Republic, Regarded as
a downright grievance al to attend
meeting for the transan OF special
business, appointed at they inconVen-
lent hour of two in afternoon
They had responded to order under
protest, taken part in tlprocecdlngs
with an distracted ARMED at the
break in their daily rue, ostenta-
tiously consulted their WI hes with tne
anxiety of men who wereglectlng I'M
portant engagements, when the
meeting at length adjoled gathered
into cozy knots here { there ana
settled down fora comfdble chat and
the revival of old army linscences.
The first speaker, Jimewster, was
q lumber merchant whdad acquired
extensive tracts of land yered with
forest growth second " to the big
trees of the Calaverasnd Marposa
groves. He had so plpered in his
business ventures that hhame had be-
come identified with the tural product
be ruled in the commerll world, and
he had gained the sobriqt Of the Prince
of Redwood. He had lsly purchased
a large piece of land at foot OF Sixth
street, including within Is boundaries
that unsavory but clas.al region on
the banks of Mission eek known as
"the Dumps where tn Italian scaV~
enpers had from time memorial de-
posted the contents of leir carts, and
raked the putrid and dtaying masses
of paper, scraps of old ron and other
articles of commerce, S well as the
pieces of plate benevently dropped
into the ash-barrel by caeleSS servants.
Mission Creek, at nigh tide, is
for a considerable distace a navigable
stream, and it was genrally conceded
that Brewster's branc yard was a
shrewd venture, and wuld soon turn
the tide Of traffic from tB crowded thor
oughtare of Steuart street. The Prince
OF Redwood himself lad felt all the
glow of prudent mans complacency
over this evidence of his own sagacity,
but a stormy interview in the under
writers Office that noon had disturbed
the serenity with which he had hitherto
viewed his new acquisition, Meeting
some old comrades, men of his own
regiment, who had fought side by side
with him through the four years OF the
rfSlVil 'r"", ho oo,' aaidn the uernlnritias
OF the day and plunged With eager zeSt
into the animated discussion of past
4 campaigns, in the course of which he
Hmade the inquiry that heads this chap,
ter The question was repeated by an
echOing chorus.
"Lenoir?' The speaker who volun-
teered reply was member OF that
very agreeable and highly entertaining
class of individuals who are commonly
accredited with the possession of uni
versal knowledge, and whose informa-
ton is about as ditluSe and ineXact as
the average encyclopedia of biography.
"Lenoirs wife died just before he was
mustered out in '65. Broke him all UP
for awhile, but he rallied and went
down to Florida, invested in an orange
& grove, and lived on the fat of the land"
He was an odd fellowTLenoir,"
remarked gray-bearded veteran
who endeayored to reconcile his predi-
lection for powder and cold steel by
keeping a gun shop in Bush street.
"Odd! there wasn't nobler fellow
In the service. He was hero, if ever
one existed. " Brewster spoke with
such unwonted energy that the others
looked at him in surprise, for he was
generally regarded as pAlegmatic in
society and cold b'ooled in his business
relations. He cooled down a little as
ne observed the sensation his remark
mad created, and exchanged his enthu-
SlaSm Tor dry argumentative tone.
You know | was mere boy when
eenllSted' Some of our folks knew
Leholr; my mother spoke to him the
oay we marched, and-well, | could tell
you thing or two about the Colonel
that none OF you ever knew. I'm not
going to gush over the man, but Won
may be interested to hear of little in
cluent that happened in Eastern Ten
heSSee' You remember July, 1856,
Wnen we marched through the mount
ans and camped in narrow de6le
tuney called Rattlesnake Passp Bv
teorge' shall never forget the place
10 the day Of my death; shut in bv
sIeep' rocky walls, loose sand under
tooI' not green leaf or blade of Grass
20 De seen, outside of a scant Green
tEn, ttEEinge bordering the starveling brook
s,i sn"y t[ckIed along one side. noticed
tHcn tToi VhilngS and cared more about them
tbo t'ou ,, une older men. When Joined
onJ orG chn{} %Pln{ was just turned eighteen,
on,, onu clock-tuIl of patriotic fire, raying
to t,er as, .ne justice of our cause, ambitious
20 oI earn distinction, greedy for carpaUe
ana AM, 3Ioodshed, One year had cooied
me down in a wonderful way, and tbe
oil oiI't50 . intght nave gone to thunder for |
roi;l, ~di cared that night | would have
rta rel,ll4 ll4ulshed the goriest battle that ever
m"oan1g m"o alougnt to be back again on our
cooI nCTIIowland orN knee deep in the LONG,