Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
CHAPTER K.

! long lines of blue-coats could already be
seen climbing the ramparts, over which the
stars and stripes were waving.
SIS he killed, or shall / find him among
| the prisonersa" Luke asked himself, as he
| entered the works at the head of his regi-
| ment.
Long he searched among the living, then
the dead, and finally went among the
wounded Confederates.
"FOr whom are you searching" Gen.
| eral Grant asked, coming upon the young
| officer who had saved his life at Belmont, as
he was making some inquiries of wound
ed prisoner.
ga very dear friend, General
''How do you know he was in Donelscn?"
| the silent man of iron asked.
II recognized him in yesterdays charge"
SIS he relative?''
mo, but an old schoolmate, the play
| fellow of my childhood, the friend of my
manhood and one whom loved"
General Grant was not man to give
| much outward expression to emotion, but
he had warm, sympathetic heart. That
| very morning he had met an old class-mate
and army friend, taken from him his sword
| and made him prisoner, and he knew what
| it was to be Inundated.
$50 find him if you can," said the Cen
eral, and turned away as if he doubted his
ability to retain his composurc longer.
Luke continued his search, and at last
met wounded Confederate who belonged
to Albert Neff's company, and he said that
he had escaped from the fort on the night
before with Generals Pillow and Floyd.
"He didn't want to co." said the soldier.
| "Captain Neff' s brave as lion, and would
have staid if he hadn't been in Floyd's
command and forced to obey orders"
"Are you sure he was not killed in yes
terday's fights"
"Thank Heaven for that!'
"He's friend O. your'n, is hea" asked
the Confederate.
Eyes"
"He's brave man, Captain, an worthy
o. bein' any mans friend. His men would
| have died for him.
"Who was your Colonel!"
"Colonel Henry Morgan. His son Joseph
Morgan is our Major, and only twenty He
| was wounded in a scrimmage we had in Mis-
souri, last September. If it hadn't a been
for a friend O. Captain Neff's we'd been
| killed or taken there"
"Was you one Of the six with Captain
Neff who was in the woods Oh the hill, after
that fight in the peach orchards"
Eyes, slr.''
81 was the man who found you and led
the cavalry from you"
"Why, give US yer hand, Captain, we
'uns hev never forgot ye, and yed fare well
if we ever fall in our hands"
"Do you know this Morgan family9"
"Yes, know '0m like a book. Twas Colonel
Morgan's overseer, and had been fur twenty
hve years. When he lived in Tennessee
was his overseer, and four year ago, when
he sold out IN come to Missouri, l came
with him, cause he alters said l was the
best man to manage nlggers he ever saw
Never had dny trouble with but one o. his
niggers, who was great big Teller named
Pete. He owned him in Tennessee twenty
| three or four vars ago. Pete was stubborn
and whipped him. He tried to kill me, an
his master to punish him sold his wife n
child, n Pete run Off An the strangest
thing is yet - come. Captain; I'm hanged #
didn't see that niger last fall, after l list
ed in the sarvice."
sit was only striking likeness"
"Wall, that's what Colonel Morgan said,
but I'd bet hundred dollars it war that ar
same Pete.'
"The Morgans are very strong Southern
ers, are they not!'
"Reg'lar fire-eaters. From the old man
down all war Confederate. T. tell We the
truth, Captain, 1 war kinder on tn fence my
self long time. Didn't like shootin' at the
OLD flag, but they turned we N hundreds o.
others"
"Colonel Morgan has q daughters''
"Yes, Elsie Morgan, an the pizenest lit
tie rebel We ever seed"
~ met her once and saved her from ar
rest and her house from being burned"
"Her mother died ten Vars ago, az she
wouldn't stay up in Missouri when her
father N brother come South"
"Was she in Fort Donelsonr'
eyes, till we larnt you'ns war comm an
then she went to Nashville"
"She will soon have to move from there,
for General Grant will not stop at Fort Don
elson."
sit do seem IS # you'ns hev a way O.
goln' just wherever We want to. But if
Buckner ID a had command at fust instead
o. Floyd an Pillow yc wouldn't q got in here
so easy"
"Were there any other ladies here from
Missouri in the Sanitary Corps!"
Eyes, a hull passed."
"Did you know others than tho Nor
gansa"
"No, except the Jennings women, the
Ryans and Oldhams."
Luke thanked the wounded man for the
information he had given him, hoped that
he might soon recover. learned that his
name was Dick Sneed, and promised to see
that he was well cared for.
On leaving the hospital an orderly in
formed him that he was wanted ut brigade
headquarters. On reaching General Nc
Clernand's tent he found him surrounded
BY his stan and 30 busily engaged that 1t
was some time before he was recognized.
AT last the General saw him and said:
captain Mason, your regiment - In .