Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-03


calculator. A strolllng phronoloeist from
England came through there md cstab-
llshod school. His name was Charles II.
Whittorn. love 70 think Of him. He
was tho best sphooltoncher l ever saw. Ho
built up II reputation MS man who could
teach arithmetic, There wore three grown
men In that class, and was little boy,
and they all made pot Of me. am going
TO toll You about two of those men, maybe
n third one. When tho war began, thore
was man IN that class of the name Of
Orvlllo ID. Young. l want his name TO go
down in this record, and IL will go down
IN history before get through with him.
lie was 80 years OF nRe. He studied for u
month 20 sec whether he ought to become
q minister Of tho gospel in the Christian
church. yuglarly known as tho Campbell
ito church, or whether he ought to enlist
In tho Federal army In defense Of his
country.
"Hc finally decided that he ought to en-
list In tho Federal army us private sol
dier. He enlisted In John NJ. Harlan's
Tenth Kentucky infantry after Rousseau
and Morgan and Wolford had taken out
tho dnredeylls. This was after Stewards
90 days picnic was over and when the
lawyers and merchants left their bust
ness, and farmers left their farms, and
mon left their wives and little chill.
drcn TO join tho army. Young went to
Lebanon aud enlisted and was accom-
panied by his brotberin-law, Squire
Land, who went along with him to take
back home tho horse no rode. Young was
going to marry Lands sister after the
war, II he lived Land got drunk. When
Young held up his hand to DO sworn in,
Land held up his hand, and thus he got
sworn in accidentally. Tho next morning,
when he found hs was In tho Union army,
he said, as he was in, he would do anything
in the world except charge breastworls.
Finally, when they were down nt Jones'
boro when they were ordered to charge
the brcastworks Land went back TO the
suffers wagons. Young served his three
yenrs. He was tho man who first placed
tho Union flag on the rebel works at Jones
boro Congress passed resolution giving
that mnn gold medal FOR heroic conduct
on tho battlefield, General Sherman sent
for him and wanted to nuke him a cnp
tain, and he said, 4 did not come into the
army for an Office, and l am going out
after have served my three years He
did not talSo 1t. Talk about obscure
hor0esH Why, n mnn like that was flo to
have his name enrolled with Huyeloc!I Us
the Christian soldier.
Talk to mo about border mcn'-'ob
scurc hcroosp ! want to tell you about
another fellow IN that clGss-big Isaiah
Golfer He was 0 feet 6 inches tall and
looked liko an Indian. ! think he must
have had Indian blood in his veins, for his
hair was as black as a ralon's wing.
love to think about him. flo pettcd mo
when / was a child a man who IL kind
to n Child is not bud man. He enlisted
in that organization known as 500 Nun.
days guerrillas, MS they wero called in
Kentucky. 40 loved that predatory war.
fare. Ho had 30 In his command. Finally,
when Qunntrcll came to kentucky, when
they got my II Munday's gang they
hanged them. They barred them from tho
rules of warfare, and never thought that
was fair,
FINALLY, whom Qunntrell got killed at
Shelbyyille, Big Isaiah was with him and
got shot right square through the body
with mimic ball. He know that II they
caught him they would hang him, SO he
made follow tako n ramrod, tic n silk
handkerchief at tho end Of 1t and shove it
clean through his body in the track of tho
ball. Then no put Knots ON each end and
got on ono of Aloxanders thoroughbred
stations and rode him 30 miles to where
his aunt lived, aud there contracted pneu-
monin and died. Talk to mo about obscure
heroes That country Is full of thcml
Il said that Hnrlnn's regiment was
mado up Of q different class OF people. Ii
was mndo up OF mon who had come to the
conclusion that tho war meant something
men who went In to fight. They went
In deliberately to stay their three yeara
They served undor George IL. Thomas.
And want to say incidentally that more
injustice has been done to George IL.
Thomas by the war writer's than to any
other man who took part in that great
conflict. love TO go up to Thomas circle
aud look at him on his horse. / took my
littlc boy up there and taught him to adj
miro ard to speak OF General Thomns on
his horse, l did 1t for two reasons. In
the first place, that is the only respectable
bronze horse in the city of Washington. In
the second place, it has got Thomas on 1t,
and Thomas saved the Union at Chickn.
manga. He was the Rock Of ChlcLamau.
ga II Thomas had not boon Virgin.
ian, II ho had not been border man he
would have been the general in chief Of all
the armies. They wrote him down, but
they shall not keep him down. Haran's
regiment was in tho bHttle OF Chiokamnu.
ga and to show how pugnaoiuus tho Ken.
lucky spirit IS will tell you an incident
Tho chaplain Of the regiment was minis.
ter named Vince Nush Harlan had been
wounded, and Hayes was commanding.
He ordered Nash to 60 back among tho
wounded, but he wouldn't do it. He
rushed up to the front, whore the fighting |
was going On, and ho shouted, Boys awe |
them hi, as Colonel Hayes says.
"Obscur. heroesl Why sir, very few Of
tho mon who joerod at mo on tho other side
tho other day had ever heard OF John Sc. |
yier or Isaac Shelby or men like them.
Now, Mr., Chairman, what does America
owe to such monf Arc they obscure and |
does any man blame mo for being proud
OF the fact that was born and reared
among such people as that-tho people |
that are found in West Virginia and Mis-
souri, and Tennessee and kentucky and
Kansas tell you, l could ycruit more
men In my county today to 20 and ilght
the battles OF this country, II it wero In
arms against the world--I could recruit
more men, j say, Democrats and Ropub.
lieans, the politics makes no Ginorenco-I
could recruit more mon IN that ono great
historic county OF Pike thnnSyou could get
In New York and Philadelphia and ali tho
money centers OF tho country. These peo,
pio do the lighting all tho time. And bo.
cause they do the lighting they havo
night TO have something to say about how
tho country shall BIO run when it is NOT
fighting