, 1889-09-12
SPOKANE REv1Ew THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1a, 1885,

Around the top of the room runs an
ornate fi'leze of high colors-.two blue
ribbons fostooned through laurel loavcs
and bearing the record of Logans bat.
ties, AT the ends of the hall this is held
IN plaae by the co1t-of-arms of the
United States and Illinois, and at the
sides it Is caught up by two black eagles
Below the friezc hang the little straight
sword that Logan carried as aiutant of
the First Illinois Volunteers in the Mex.
lean war; the Enfield rifle which he
carried at Bull Run, when, a member of
Congress, he Joined Richardson's Michi
gan regiment on the Held, and two sabers
which he wore ut Atlanta and Vicks-
burg. "lie never wore an officers sword
II he could help it, said his widow, 'he
always preferred a cavalrymans ordi.
nary saber,"
Near by hangs poor likeness of him
when he
MARCHED TO THE MEXICAN
war, red and boyish, and IN tho corner
his mother has proudly written his
name, and added, "agcd twenty years,
four months and seventeen days.
Then there are are q large photograph
of Logan and his stall at Nicksburg, the
well-known picture of 'Shcrman and
His, Generals" and the vivacious col
ored lithogruph of the "Murch to the
Sea. ON one of the large book cases
are his field glasses and holsters.
Around the walls and on the tables are
arranged the tributes Of grief and re-
speot sent to Mrs. Logan after the gencr-
ats death. Thirty or forty of these arc
marvels of high art, beautifully emhcl-
liShed and framed or bound at great oN-
pense. Single books must have cost
hundreds of dollars. Two of tho finest
Of these are from Oakland, Cal, and
brooklyn, n, y. Tho veterans Of Chi
cago sent an oaken easel, elaburatcly
carved with the generals portrait, and
ON IL u sumptuous volume Bearing their
rcsolutions, \ door of tho room Is
lianked with two Rags--his regimcntal
banner and the standard OF the Army of
the Tennessee. ono of the large book
cases contains ten volumes of personal
Letters which the general received urging
his nomination Tor president; twenty
approving of his Hit2-John Porter
speech, and about fifty scrap books of
current comment on himself from news
papers and magazines, All these arc iU
beautiful orler-indeXed throughout Nv
Mrs. Logan hand.
! turned to the record of his quarrel
with Colonel Lowe of Alabama In 1879
Lowe, 1t will be remembered, stated In
congress that Logan had raised soldier,
for tho confederate army. When he
heard OF 1t Logan remarked; at is lie,
and Lowe il liar" a challenge came,
To the bearer of il Logan said: ~ will
not fghta duel,
LOWE ~ a LIAR,
and you can tell him / say so, and you
can tell him to mind his own business
and Keep out oi my way
They never met but once after that
said Mrs. Logan to mo; "that wa, ON a
ssf nj. 4
near Colonel and Mrs. Lowe ON guiug TO
breakfast, but none of us noticed each
other. was delighted that IL ended so.
For Lowe would have stood no chance
in duel. Why, just see here, turning
and opening mahogany box on u little
sidc-tablc. Here are the general navy
reyolvers. They originally belonged to
the great shot, Bogahl,is, but DARLING
won thcm for being the best shot I'M
America. | have often seen INN
set one of these littlc cap boxes, about
as big as a cent, up on edge on thn hcnd
of little dnrky we had, and shoot II oil
at twenty-five PAGES. IL troubled me,
though, and got him TO give it up.
The little darby used to tease the gen
cral to shoot at him some mo- but
there had been enough OF that sort of
fun. / think Lowe didn't know what
sort of man he was scnaing challenge
to-"
The generals working library IL up-
stairs-a great room walled with books.
These are mostly public documents,
every bureau and service seeming 70 find
Hero he wrote "The
Great Conspiracy and "rhe Volunteer
Soldier In u closet adjoining, about
tive feet square, with twelve shelves
reaching to the top on threc sides, Mrs.
Logan has collected and classified the
written and printed Work of his life.
Here are copies OF an his speeches, hi.
bills, his books, his magazine articles.
and a mas. of partly arranged mann,
script that has never seen the tyne.
'iIe had bogin 20 write his life and ex-
said Mrs. logan. whose
clever and orderly hand was visible here
rs in every corner of the house,
~ IooAS's s,vep,>. poo,,
ru.aa'aLa,.a a.. - ,.'. '9''
was SHOWN ms uresSlhs case, hand
sonl9 aililue alIalr OF nlGbaster ana rose
Moou' WniVh was hu,t'uilhnS M inc
,ouIt ol St' Jaihes' ~ was u present
rom 'lat Prcsiueht Whoh ne had
hviPvvu 10 eject -,
~, nv ulu the general like 10 read
'eat ! ashSu'
ilc wa. ihe ioiuest oil wars ana great
y yutticS' nc wars ol NieSander ana
'ulus Iiesar ana rrederiGk were fas-
llnatihg 70 nun; ne c0uld nave reset in
lliii,y array Nalerloo ana Auslerllt2
lhu " aeram anu Crecy. MAcnulay was
u9nGhi To hlm' Among novels, he
'ehu DlSkoiis over ana over ana often
iited ms iayorltc characters. He
Ji thls uccAuc ana read some parts OF II