Omaha daily bee., 1885-06-12

Clellan in West Virginia. In November,
1851, was commissions captain and assist
ant quartermaster, and by order of the secre-
tary of war appointed chief of all United
States military telegraphs, with headquarters
at the war department. | remained in charge
of the telegrsphs until mustered out, after
the war in 1865.
q Do you know whether or notthe plaintiff
was at any time during the war in the service
OF the United States government, and If he
was what was he doing? State as fully as
you can the services Mr.. Rosewater had to
perform!
A. know that Mr.. Rosewster was EN-
ployed at various points as military telegraph
operator. The exact places and dates L do
not now remember. / know he was en-
ployed in the war department while | was
there. 1 should say some months. His ser.
vices there were in the receiving and trans
mission of official dispatches by telegraph.
O. State whether or not If you know, Mr..
Rosewater wa, ever in any way regarded as
a confederate spy?
A. l never knew that he was regarded as
q confederate spy
Q, State what, il anything you know in re
gard to Mr.. Rosewaters loyalty during the
time you knew of him.
a. l believed him to be q loyal man.
became acquainted with him first in Ohio be-
fore the war, and would not have had him in
the military telegraph in any capacity, much
less in the war department Office II l had had
any doubt whatever about his loyalty.
The plaintiff offers in evidence the Omaha
Daily Republican of December 90, % and %;
Objected to; the papers dated the 2Oth and 22d
are admitted.
The plaintiff offers in evidence transcript
warrant with certificate of policeman, com
plant and recognissncs of bill of the state of
Nebraska vs. Casper +. Yost and Fred Nye.
Objected to as immaterial irrelevant and
not being against the party to this suit; sus-
tanned.
The plaintiff offers in evidence the petition
and answer in this case, but the court decided
that it was unnecessary to offer them.
j. W. VAIL,
sworn for plaintiff, examined by Mr.. Simeral,
testified that his business was telegraph
operator; was employed q. Omaha in the
Western Union office; have known
Mr.. Rosewater since 1868. knew
him at that time in Washington
as in the government employ; his duties were
transmitting messages and receiving them;
never heard anything against Mr. Rosewaters
partment as to loyalty; / say it was good
Cross examined by Mr.. Thurston.
Think was there about q year as near as /
can remember, did not know him up to the
time that Grants forces occupied Nashville;
was not in that part of the country: do not
know what his reputation was down there; do
not know what it was in different sections of
the country where he worked before he went
to Washington,
Q. All you know is that among you tele
graph operators at Washington there was
nothing seid one way or the other about that
is not that it?
A l do not remember of hearing anything
in regard to it whatever.
MIR. Simeral-State whether or not there
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nected with that department?
A, Yes sir.
@. If there had been any disloyalty or sus-
picion of disloyalty it would have been found
out would it not?
Objected to.
L. H, KoRTY.
sworn, examined in chief by Mr.. Simeral:
My name is L. III. Korty, my business is
have been in that business about
twenty five years; was connected with the
military telegraph corps; never met MIR. Rose
water during the war; knew him by reputa-
tion.
Q, What was that reputation as to loyalty
Objected to; withdrawn.
=, Is there such an organization as the vet
Grams of the telegraph corps of the army?
A, There is society of the military tele-
graph corps,
@, Who are the officers of that society?
Objected to as irrelevant and immaterial.
q, Did you know his reputation among
those who knew him during those years as to
loyalty?
A. never heard his reputation questioned. |
Q. Did you know what his reputation was
at that time.
A. So far as know it was good.
9. What was that re eputation, good or bad.
Objected to.
MIR. Thurston-Where was you during the |
war?
A. 1 was in the southwest
Q. Did you know Mr.. Rosewater at that |
lme?
A. No sir.
O. When did you hear of Mr.. Rosewater
at all?
A. heard of him in the southwestern
army as late as 1864; I heard of him before
that.
@. DO you know any of his immediate as.
jociates In the army where he was-in other
words did you have any way of knowing what
lis reputation was in the army where he was,
ls to his loyalty?
A. The means that had was through the
acquaintance with him of comrades of mine,
ghom have heard speak of him frequently;
hey were associates of mine in the telegraph
corps: they knew him during the war.
Q. (Mr. Simeral). What was that reputs-
ion for loyalty, good or bad during the war
A. It was good.
StOsb-bAhtltueu ny hlr. luuTbbOH.
q. Did you ever hear any talk about his
.eputation one way or the other before his
capture at Nashvlle-as az to what his reputa-
ion had been for loyalty?
A. No sir.
c. The comrades from whom you heard did
not know what he had been doing?
A, think not
DIR. WARREN
sworn, testified.
/ Reside in Omaha; know Mr.. Rosewater;
nave known him since the spring of '5S; first
knew him in Cleveland, Ohio; at that time
my business was telegraph operator; MI
Rosewater had just graduated at commercial
college and was seeking situation as book
keeper; met Mr. Rosewater in the south, at
Stevenson, Ala; think it was either in the
fall of go or go; it was few months previous
to the celebrated Charleston conventions;
knew him for several months right along un-
til l left Nashville; left there at the breaking
out of the war we were intimately associated
on the same line, worked at Murfrees-
borough, Tenn, where he had
formerly worked and they called
him an aboltionist; think it was in the spring
Of 1861 that 1 left Nashville and came to
Cincinnati.
9. Did you know his reputation at that
lime?
Objected to.
MIR. Thurston - From December, 1860, |
after that time was you living in the same
where he was?
A. was living at Nashville part of the
line; | cannot tell as to the date.
q, During any of that time between those
iates were you living in the same community