Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-23


/ It was over we had heard nothing from
| Johnson Then Hancock made another
demand and said if I did not surrender
he would march his army up the valley
and devastate il. ] could not surrender
/ honOrably because l did not know what
johnson was going To do disbanded
/ my army. and started for the james
/ river. Before getting there l heard
/ Johnson had surrendered, and I went TO
my fathers house near Lynchburg. Gen.
/ Gregg was in charge there and through
/ friends he began negotiating for my
/ surrender. Gen. Gregg telegraphed to
/ Washington, and was told TO receive
me and give me my parole. This was
/ brought to me, and on the day agreed
upon l went TO Lynchburg in buggy,
and went to my brothers law Office. For
/ safety I carried my pistols with me, and
| laid them down on the table in the Of
4 fee. then sent word to Gen. Gregg
| that was in town and ready to sur
render. In the meantime Gen. Gregg
/ had been instructed by Secretary Stan
/ ton to arrest me- and send me on. Gregg
was an honorable man. He knew that
/ ] had come in on his statement that
would be parOled. and he sent man to
me telling me of his subsequent orders.
4 The man said something about arrest
ing me, and picked up my pistols. say
4 ing: l came here TO be paroled and not
arrested, and I'll kin the man who tries
! to arrest me- The man left with
/ peculiar smile, and | got out of Lynch
/ burg. Gregg did not modest then, but
4 twenty-four hours later sent squad to
arrest me. They went to my fathers
/ house, but of course ] was not there.
Gen. Gregg finally got an order from
Gen. Grant to parole me. Then l went
in and gave myself up. l became an
admirer of Grant, and ought to have
/ been. / have been censured for it, but
not by those who know the story.
With my parole | went to Warren
ton, Va, and sat down to law. Every
4 time l would leave the county some
/ petty provost marshal would arrest me.
1t was a ceaseless annoyance, besides
being a constant source of anxiety to
my wife and children. Ny wife left
home for Baltimore, and in passing
through Washington, without my
knowledge, decided to call on Presi-
dent johnson. Her father and Johnson
had been bosom friends before the war
and had been in the same congress. She
made herself known to Johnson and he
not only refused her request but r-ated
her very rudely.
'As She was leaving the White house,
my son, Beverly, seven years old said
Go and see Gen. Grant Mrs Mosby
did go and see Gen Grant. He received
her kindly and treated her with the
| greatest courtesy. When he had heard
her through he wrote me a passport
which was ever after protection, and
l have that letter now in Gen. Grants
own handwriting in my trunk in San
| Francisco.
Then in 70 when Grant and Greedy
were before the people, Grant was ter
rible abused and l took the stump for
him to refute the abuse, and these were
the only political speeches / ever made.
l never accepted anything from Grant,
because | promised the people in my
speeches that | never would.
How many times We're you wounded"
the colonel was asked
six times, and carry Yankee
bullet in my thigh now"
Were you ever captured?"
''No, but / had two or three mighty
narrow escapes. In December, 1864,
after some hard fighting with Illinois
! troops, in which we were scattered, |,
with Tommy Love, one of my best men,
4 stopped one night at a Mr. Lakes. nearg
/ Rector's Cross Roads. Our horses were
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Yankees in passing saw them. They
surrounded the house and one of them
shot at me through the window. The
ball struck me Ia the side and passed
around to my backbone. / knew | was
i hit hard, but before the Yankees came
in my coat was under the bed | had
put my hand on the bloody wound and
smeared it over my mouth, giving the
/ appearance of an internal hemorrhage.
1 The Yankees did not know me. They
! thought | was one of Mosbys men, but
they were unable to prove it. l looked
as if ! We're done for, and after taking
my clothing and boots they left /
! knew that as soon as they went into my
| pockets they would find out who was
and come back for me, so ! got the fam
! lily to put me in an oX-cart, cover me
with fodder, and a Negro drove me
away. Soon after was gone the
Yankees came galloping back. They
had found whose clothing they had and
they wanted me. But ! was safe in the
mountains" The colonel hesitated a
second, and then with a peculiar smile
remarked: And do you know that
Negro ran away the very next day
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