The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-05-23
AN OHIO BOY AND HIS PONY
Adventures OF an Orderly on q Generals
Staf.

| STAN.
| EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / will give
q brief account of my experience in the war
and that of the pony that, / think, went
more miles than any other horse, either
| North or South. If anyone can beat it,
shall be glad to hear from him.
/ enlisted at Lewis Center, o., in Co. G,
45th Ohio, under Capt. John Humphrey
afterward Colonel. We met at Camp Chase
about the 11th of August, were mustered In
on the 10Th, and on the Goth started for the
front. We went to Cincinnati, and then to
! Cynthiana, KY, about the time that Kirby
Smith gave our men such q hard fight at
Richmond. He came on to Cynthiana, VIXEN
we were compelled 10 burn our supplies and
retreat to Covington. This was the time
that the Ohio squirrel hunters" came to
Cincinnati with anything they could get in
the shape of gun.
After this we went to Lexington, KY,
and went into Winter quarters in Camp
| Ella Bishop. This camp was named after a
beautiful young lady who foated Union
flag from third-story window while the
rebel troops were marching through the
| streets.
In the Spring of 1863 our regiment was
mounted and assigned with the LIST Ky. Cav,
under Col. Wolford. We had several small
fights around in Kentucky, the first to
amount to much being at Somerset. The
latter part of June we made a raid into
Tensessee and while near jamestown John
Morgan got after, us and ran us to James
town, KY, where We got reinforcements.
The next morning, the Fourth of July, he
went around us in the direction of Lebanon,
where we overlook him, and where Calvin
ho-non Tohp'c l;1laJ
We chased Morgan to Brandensburg, 40
miles below Louisville, where he crossed the
Ohio River. / never did believe Morgan
intended 10 make raid into Ohio or Indi-
ana, and if the boat that he crossed on had
been stopped, we would have captured his
whole command.
We had to wait on the river bank over "a
hours for a boat, the rebels having burned
the one they crossed on. The first day Of
our ride in Indiana ! captured pony. /
rode him through Indiana and Ohio, TO the
Ohio River at Chester, where Dick Morgan
surrendered 1850 men to our regiment.
Here in this skirmish / fred eight shots at
rebels in the State of Ohio, which few men
can say.
From here we guarded our prisoners down
the Ohio River to Cincinnati, where we
turned them over and went by cars to Mich
olasville, KY, where we took short rest.
We next went through Cumberland Gap
into East Tennessee, in time 10 see the
bridge burn at Loudon. Here ], with ID
others of the 45;h Ohio, was detailed as
Orderly or dispatch carrier for Gen. Has
kell, of the Twenty third Corps. We went
to Knoxville, where we were besieged for 81
days, and thought that wheat bran made
very good bread.
Here at Knoxville, in front of Fort San
ders, the next morning after the Jchnnies
made their charge, the dead and wounded
lay as thick as in any place ever saw them.
From Knoxville we chased the rebels into
western Virginia, l riding that same pony,
rs don't want you 10 forget him, and back
to Greenville, Tenn. where John Morgan
was killed in Mrs. Williams's cabbage patch.
From here / went to Bulls Gap, where, on
the 9Th of January, 1864, l was kicked by
the horse Of Capt. Kerstetter, the Adjutant-
General. 1t was about o'clock in the
evening, and / crawled into pup-tent,
where l lay without medicine, fire, or doc
tor till 9 o'clock the next day with an in
jured back, double hernia, and smashed left
shoulder, all of which injuries / have to this
day.
Returning to Knoxville we Is Orderlies
were detailed as scouts, serving in that ca
pacity until the next Spring. We all had
passes to 60 outside the lines day or night,
and we had a variety of adventures, some
amusing as well as thrilling.
On the LIST of April we went back to Gen.
Haskell, and started for Lookout Mountain,
where we entered upon the Atlanta cam
paign, in which the fighting lasted from
about the 9Th Of May until September. The
l.., - f.
22d of July in front of Atlanta, when
carried verbal order from Gen. Sherman
to Gen. Mcpherson 10 fall back.
i was in full view of the rebel artillery
for abou. so rods, and their shells fell thick
about me. / reached within 100 yards of
Gen. Mcpherson, only TO see him fall and be
carried away. Through all the Atlanta
campaign ! still rode that same Indiana
pony. When Sherman divided his army
and sent Thomas back to Nashville we went
with him. ] was all through that cam
pagn, in the battles of Columbia, Franklin
and Nashville, and after the utter defeat of
Hoods army we chased the Johnnies over
to the Tennessee River, where we took boat
down the river to the Ohio, and then up the
Ohio to Louisville and Cincinnati.
There we took cars for the East. ! had
been transferred to the staff OF Gen. Couch,
and when we arrived at Columbus the Cen
eral gave me seven-dsys' leave of absence
to stop and see my girl. This was my frat
visit home.
/ reported at Washington in due time,
and was soon on the move again, going to
Baltimore, thence down the Chesapeake and
around the Atlantic to Goldsboro, n. G.
There we joined Sherman's army, and
started for Richmond, as we supposed.
After a few days concluded that the war
was about over, and l therefore asked Gen.
Conch TO relieve me as Orderly, in order
that ] might return and be mustered out
with my regiment, which was then at Nash
vile, Tenn. The request was granted, and
then it was that i had to give up the pony
which / had riden ever since the Morgan
raid, through all that raid, through the
sc0utings and marches in East Tennessee,
through the Atlanta campaign, back to
Nashville, and then clear around through
the North down TO Carolina.
j started on North, and while ut the depot
in Harrisburg heard the news of the assassi-
nation Of our noble President, Abraham
Lincoln. ! reached Nashville in time to be
mustered out with the old 45th, and re-
turned TO Columbus with the boys, June 16,
1S65.-GEo. w. Loop, 1857 North High ST.,
Columbus, o.
THEY GOT THERE.
WI