Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-11
Harry C.dRAHOOE,
Another Veteran Union Soldier and Pio-
neer Settler Farmer.

| HARRY C.4RAHOOF.
Another Veteran Union Soldier and Pio-
| neer Settler Farmer.
North of the city, near the cemetery in
little Hay creek valley on quarter Sec
tion of 26 l39 80, resides Mr.. s. H. Carahoof
and wife and two children. Harry" as
he is famliarly called, has history worth
reading. He was born in Logan county,
o., in 1917. At this time the kettedrum
was sounding the long roll for troops to
rally for the Mexican war. He was born
under war cloud. When he reached the
age of Is another war cloud appeared
this time nearer home and more terrible in
its threatening. Harry again heard the
Kettledrum and saw his neighbors' farmer
boys "rallying around the flag" He, too,
took his stand in the ranks of the lS4th
Regt Ohio Vol. Inf. land was vain enough to
think the vigilant eye of the examining Of
ticers would pass and muster him in. But
no. The officer placed his hand on Har-
ry's head and said: 'Too young and small,
my boy; you must 60 home" So Harry
and several other lads were marched to the
cars and sent back home. Two long years
rolled by and Harry, by working on the
farm, grew taller and developed more mus
Gle. The news came through old Logan
county that John Morgan, the renowned
southern raider, was on the war path,
bound for Ohio. Col. Ratitf, gallant
cavalry officer of the union army, was or
dered to organize regiment OF cavalry in
southern Ohio for three years service. Har-
ry could stand it no longer. He quit the
plow and Joined the 18th Ohio cavalry.
The regiment was ordered into Kentucky
and there Joined the forces that
TSr were ,,'l operating ting against Morgan:
locating, then fighting and trying to catch
the great raider. They met him at Mount
Sterling, and at Cynthian, Kentucky, the
SLY old fox fooled the boys and cut off
twelve hundred of the union troops and
Harry found himself prisoner of war. To
be prisoner to be captured by John Nor
gan in the heart of Kentucky, was not cal
culated to fill ones heart with enthusiasm.
Morgan at that time had reputation that
sent terror throughout the land, and Door
Harry, with his country cOmrade boys,
thought their time had come to be expe-
dlted out OF the army of the union into the
great unexplored. But the union troops
ana charged and counter. charged, and
hnally the prisoners were rescued and
Harry's heart settled back to it's proper
place, and with Col. Ratliff at their head
they showed fight and came off victors.
Harry was in all the cavalry raids and
forced marches that were made across and
back, and backward and forward through
Kentucky, Tennessee and Southern Ohio
from 1868 to the close of the war, 1855.
When at the age of 10 he was discharged
by reason of the expiration of the war
In 1868 Henry polled his first vote. 1t was
for U. S. Grant for president. In 1871 he
started for the west. and by boat down the
Ohio and up the Missouri was landed al
Fort Berthold. There he remained in the
service of the Indian department of the
government until '72. Then he moved
down to Fort Rice, where he renamed un-
til 1875. AT this time rumors of gold
in the Black Hills began to
with twenty others: made the
first expedition to the hills. They passed
through the heart OF the great Sioux ma
ton and prospected through the hills for
gold, and found it. They brought back
the first dust that was brought to Fort
Rice or Bismarck. For four years after
this he ran the express and mail between
Fort Rice and Bismarck. In 1879 he de-
cided to quit rowing and settled down to
| his first love on farm, and there to day
| with his family he is comfortably fixed
| He began gardening and says: II made
money at raising garden truck and poul-
try. Then opened more land and tried
corn; that did well; fattened hogs and it
! paid; then tried wheat and oats and that
did we'll. This was about the time of the
boom at Bismarck. then began working
In cattle. 1 have raised and sold, also
herded, and have done frstrate. The sea-
sons began to get dry. l quit wheat and
this time kept the hoe going IN the gar
den. l could tell by the high cold winds
in April and May what kind of year we
were liable to have, and If the indications
we're as above-the winds high and cold
| and dry, without dew, or no flood on the
river,I calculated on a dry season and
guarded against it by plowing deep, SOW
ing and covering deep: also running the
cultivator or drag as often as possible In
a dry year farmer must keep moving,
He must SHIFT the cut" as the boys say.
have not got rich, but no one has a string
on me. pay no interest and don't intend
to get into that condition if keep my
senses. have in crop this year forty acres
of corn, ten of rye, twelve Of millet. six OF
potatoes and four of garden truck. 1t the
corn does Well-and it is splendid nOw-l
will fatten fifty hogs. l have never had
but pony team until this season. have
three horses now and have. seventeen head
first COW cost 1856 cash in 1879 OF course
we have had good and bad seasons. The
best ever did in the vegetable line was in
1888 or 1881 don't just now remember
the year. raised 1880 bushels of pota-
toes OH six acres, and 40 year since have
been gardening has my yield Of potatoes
think the best land for potatoes is the sec
ond year after first breaking. The land IS
then very strong and just adapted
to potatoes. The potatoe crop is
good thing to subdue land-so is
millet; also corn to z clean land.
Railways have water on my farm. This
onrinu u II " q w nm toll
skif and 60 down to New Orleans from
my house. I don't take much stock in big
farms The small farm, stuck to and we'll
worked, is the best for the farmer and for
the country. ] want to see all the favora-
Bile locations for farms occupied by farmer
families; and the hill and hay lands saved
leigh County / have been able to get all my
wood by going after 1t in the timber on the
river, without cost. IS lgis