Milford chronicle., 1895-01-11


ness and farmers left their FARMS and
men left their wives and little chi
dren to Join the army. Young went 20
Lebanon and enlisted and was accom-
nanied BY his brother in-lats, squire
land. who went along with him to take
hack home the horse he rode. Young was
Going to marry Lands sister after the
war. II be lived. Land got drunk. When
Young held up his hand to be sworn IN,
Tand held up bis hand and thus be got
sworn in accidentally. The next morning,
when be found he was IN the Union army
be said, as he was IN, be would do anything
III the world except charge breastworks-
Finally when they were down at Jones
boro. when they were ordered to charge
fhe brengtworks Land went back 70 the
suffers wagons. Young served his three
wears Be was the man who first placed
The Union flag on the rebel works at Jones'
boro. Congress passed a resolution giving
tbat man a gold medal for heroic conduct
op the battlefield General Sherman sent
for him and wanted to make him cap
tain. and he said, ! did not come into the
army for an Office, and / ann going out
after have served my three years. He
did not take It. Talk about obscure
heroesp Why, a man like that was iit to
bave his name enrolled with HaYelock as
the Christian soldier.
Talk to me about border men'-'ob
soure heroesP want to tell you about
another fellow In that olass-big Isaiah
Golfer. He was 6 feet 6 inches tall and
looked like an Indian. I think ho must
have had Indian blood in his veins for his
hair was as black as a raven s wing. /
love to think about him He petted me
when / was child A man who is kind
to a child is not bad man. He enlisted
in that organization known as 500 Mum
DAYS guerrillas, as they were called IN
Kentucky. He loved that predatory war
fare He had 90 in his command. Finally,
when Ouantrell came to Kentucky, when
they got any Of Munday's gang they
hanged them. They barred them from the
rules Of warfare, and Ineyer thought that
was fair
Finally, when Quantrell got killed at
ghelbyyille, Big Isaiah was with him and
got shot right square through the body
with a mimic ball He knew that if they
caught him they would hang him, so he
made a fellow take ramrod tie SIX
handkerchief at the end Of it and shove 1t
clean through his body IN the track Of the
ball. Then he put knots on each end and
got on one Of Alexanders thoroughbred
stations and rode him 80 miles to where
his aunt lived, and there contracted pneu-
monia and died Talk to me about obscure
heroesi That country is full Of them
Il said that Harlan's regiment was
made up of a different class Of people. 10
was made up of men who had come to the
conclusion that the war meant something
men who went in to fight They went
in deliberately to stay their three years
They served under. George H. Thomas
And / want to say incidentally that more
Injustice has been done to George d.
Thomas by the war writers than to any
other man who took part in that great
conflict love to go up to Thomas circle
and look at him on his horse. took my
little boy up there and taught him to ad
mire and to speak of General Thomas on
his horse. did it 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 Chicka-
mauga He was the Rock Of Chickamau-
ga. If Thomas had not been Virgin
ian, If he 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. Harlan
regiment was in the battle Of Chiekanau-
ga, and to show how pugnacious the Ken
lucky spirit is I will tell you an incident
The chaplain of the regiment was minis
ter named Vince Nash. Harlan had been
wounded, and Hayes was commanding
He ordered Nash to 60 back among the
wounded, but he wouldn't do it. He
rushed up to the front, where the fighting
was going on, and he shouted, Boys give
them HI, as Colonel Hayes says.
Obscure heroesl Why, sir, very few Of
the men who jeered at me on the other side
the other day had ever heard Of John Sc
vier or Isaac Shelby or men like them.
Now, Mr. Chairman, what does America
owe to such menf Are they obscure, and
does any man blame me for being proud
of the fact that 1 was born and reared
among such people as that-the people
that are found in West Virginia and Mis-
souri, and Tennessee and Kentucky and
KansasP tell you, could recruit more
men in my county today to 90 and fight
the battles of this country, if it were IN
arms against tho world could recruit
more men, 1 say, Democrats and Repub-
licans, the politics makes no difference
could recruit more men in that one great
historic county of Pike than you could get
in New York and Philadelphia and all the
money centers Of the country. These peo-
pie do the lighting all the time. And be-
cause they do the fighting they have
right to have 81 thing to say about how
the country sha be run when it is not
fighting.
% said / lived in Kansas. I will tell
you how it happened. went out there
with Mr.. Hudson, who sits over on the
other side Of the house, to practice law.
He and were in a In school together ]
went to Wichita, which is built where the
two Arkansas rivers come together, the
year after the grasshoppers had eaten the
state up. That year the blossoms fell on
the trees, and everybody thought the
grasshoppers were coming again. left
the state to keep clear Of them. A fellow
paid me $25 to write a speech at Kentucky
university, and that is the way l got out
Of the state. "
At this point Mr.. Clark incidentally re-
/ ferred to Jerry Simpson and praised his
earnestness in the cause of the people. A
member asked, Hadn't you better post
pone this eulogy until he diesi" and the
| speaker continued:
mo, sir. am going to speak it while
] ne IS living. 4ueL6 Is an OAu ulCbullg llh1
nothing about dead man except what is
good That maxim ought to be reversed
4 1t does not make any difference wha6 you
say about a dead man; be is dead, and you
can't make him any deader The saying
ought to be in this form, Say nothing
about a live man except what is good.
The first major general that ever saw
--one Of the hands0mest men that evel
livedg-was Lowell d. Rousseau. God bless
! his memoryl That man took eight or tel
/ daredeyils out Of every county in Ken
tucky-men who were determined to gel
into the war just as soon as a gun wal
fred He could not even drill them il
4 Kentucky. He took them across the river
either to New Albany or to Jelfersony ille
Which was it, generally addressing Nh
4 Sickles.
/ Mr.. Sickles-J effersonYille
General Rousseau, Mr.. CLARK con
tinued, formed those men into Rous
seaus Louisville legion. Subsequently h'
was elected to congress. While he wal
serving here he broke cane over soml
fellows head, a thing that ought to b
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