St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-02
The Fair Grounds Camp.


Grams. A rundown collar licked with
cinders and black tie were about his neck,
and on the third finger of his brown LETT
hand diamond flashed. His eye has lost
none of its fire. and it shOne as black as jet
under the electric arc. He walked with
square firm tread.
Mrs. Logan walked beside her husband.
The brilliant leader of Washington society,
and. as some say, the woman who is the
greatest statesman of the family, was
dressed in plain travelling dress. A small
black bonnet covered but part of her
hair. which is silvery. Perhaps by contrast
with her husband her face seemed pale. and
as her hair was cOmbed straight backward,
forehead white as snow and Shapely as
statues could be seen. Her face has
motherly look, and one of great expression.
Her Jewels were diamonds.
EX-Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio. joined the
party at the Ryan. He has become sun
burned with outdoor life, since he was
here a month or two ago at the conference
of charities and corrections and had
healthy look as he alighted- at the Ryan
yesterday, with Mrs. Hoadly.
Gov. Alger, of Michigan, wore suit of
light colored clothes. His face was more
smoothly shaven than any of the gentlemen,
and with his tall figure and graceful car
rage he had much more of elegance in his
appearance than any of his distinguished
companions.
At twenty minutes past two. the party,
accompanied by Gen. Averill and Gen.
Sanborn, took carriages for the state fair
grounds, where an hour or more was spent,
the return being made at about o'clock.
The Third Regiment.
Members of the Third regiment of Mime
sofa veterans held reunion in Winthrop
post hall yesterday. Although the third
reunion held by the regiment since mus
tered out of the service twenty-One years
ago, many were in attendance who had at
tended neither of the previous reunions,
and for an hour previous to the meeting
there was an interesting scene OF cordial
greetings, hearty hand-ShakeS and congrat-
ulatiOnS. The Third is a regiment with
good deal of interesting history, having
been surrendered by its colonel against the
will of the men and part Of the commits
stoned officers at MurfresbOrO, and SUISSE
quently took part in the Indian campaign.
The meeting was called to order by Major
w. D. Hale of Minneapolis, president of
the regimental organization, while w. E.
Hale of Minneapolis, the secretary, was
also present. The chair welcomed his old
comrades in short earnest speech, follow
ing which half an hour was devoted to roll
call and obtaining complete list of those
present. Seventy-five members were found
to be present.
After a complete roll the chair introduced
Col. c. W. Griggs who read paper con-
tanning an official roster of the regiment at
its organization, and also an account of the
,do,. a +La hx-C NJ I octo OF
Murfresboro. over which every survivor has
been indignant ever since. At that time
MI Griggs was aforementioned, and his
brief account is as follows:
On the morning of July IL, 1852, Forrest ap-
peared in front of our lines with a command
composed Of Georgia conscripts, a regiment
of Texas cavalry and possibly other troops.
l asked Col. Lester to allow me to take one
company and proceed to the relief of our
camp guard, composed of twenty men in
charge of the sick and ammunition, camp and
garrison equipage, but this he refused.
Soon thereafter the enemy charged upon the
guard, drove it out and captured everything
in its keeping. About o'clock the entire
force of the enemy charged our line and was
handsomely repulsed with a loss of about 100
killed and wounded on the side of the enemy,
while we sustained no loss beyond the wound
ing of one man. / then called on the colonel
and urged him to go to the aid of the Ninth
Michigan, whose commander naQ sent US
word to come with all possible speed. There
was no good reason why we,should not have
done so, and had he acted promptly there is
10 doubt we should have punished
Forrest 1severely and probably cap
tured his entire command and saved large
quantities of stores which had been but re-
Gently received at Murfresboro. Forrest
asked for conference and Lester complied.
After bis return was called, together with
captain of a Kentucky battery, to confer with
him. AT this conference he gave his views
in regard to surrendering the command.
The captain of the battery expressed himself
favorable to the surrender. l stated that L
could see no good reason for it, but, on the
contrary, expressed the opinion that we could
hold our position until reinforcements
reached us from Nashville, and even if aid
did not come had such unbounded cofidence
in the charge of our men that l believed if
we were led against the enemy we could whip
him in a fair and open contest. 1 also stated
| that did not believe that there was an officer
or soldier in the regiment in favor of sur
rendering under the circumstances, as ] had
heard general expression of their opinions
during the absence of Lester when engaged
in his conference with Forrest. Lester then
called all the company commanders to cOun-
Gil. Here the matter was fully discussed,
viva voce vote was taken and nearly all voted
against the surrender. Subsequently another
conference was called, and officers were re-
quired to vote by ballot. Capt. Andrews ex-
pressed himself as opposed to the surrender
aud in favor of fighting to the last extremity,
and he was sustained in his views by Capt.
Hoyt and my self, l called upon all who voted
for fighting to do so with open ballots so we
could be rightly reported. A majority being
on the side of the commander this most
ignOminiOuS surrender was made.
After Col. Griggs' paper Gen. G. c. An
drewS read full and interesting history of