The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23

afternoon fleeing from his master. He
was greatly frightened and fatigued,
and while painting and putting with the
heat, he inquired in half frantic tones:
''Whar's de cunnel?"
'"This is the colonel" said I, pointing
to him, sitting by my side.
What will you have, sir?" said
Grant.
-mister-cunnel rs had to
run'd away, sab! Massa's orful hawd
on me, sab! He's close onto me, sab!
Kin We help me, cunnel?'
Cant help you, sir; we are not here
to look after negroes, but after rebels
You must take care of yourself"
The discounted negro dropped his
head and exclaimed, as il half talking
to himself:
'.Lawd, rs Altered massa IL be onto
mel"
His eyes stood out fully an eighth of
an inch further than usual, and he
trembled from head to foot As he was
about turning away beckoned to him
to come around behind the tent 1
took him to our cooking department
and filled his pockets with cold biscuits
and meat and gave him half a dollar,
and told him to make for the woods
close by and steer northeast and not to
consider himself safe till he had
crossed the Mississippi river. He bent
himself nearly TO the ground in his
manifestations of gratitude. [ went
with him and passed him through the
guards, and his running for the woods
was after the manner of the driving
Of Jehu, the son Of Nimshi, and would
have refreshed the soul of a conductor
of the underground railroad
He had not been gone more than an
hour or two when his master and an
other man made their appearance, in
curing after the fugitive. To the
master Grant made about the same
reply that he did to the slave; that we
were not here ito look after negroes, but
after rebels.
The pursuers evidently did not relish
the reply, and were about to turn away
with angry mutterings. when Grant de-
sired to know whether they were op-
posed to the rebellion and in favor of
the Union They were inclined to be
evasive in answering that question, as
Grant had been in communicating in
telligence about the missing negro.
! They We're finally informed that they
could not leave our lines without taking
the oath of allegiance.
GRANTS FINE RELATIONS WITH
HIS REGIMENT. AS COLONEL.
There was a strong mutual attach
ment between Grant and the men of
his regiment, without any undue famil-
iarity. The colonel who had first been
in command of the regiment was one
of those jolly, registering, merry max
ing men whom the boys would call a
clever fellow. An Irishman once claim
ed that the candidate he supported was
by all odds the best man, because
he would drink, laugh and fight with
the poorest man in the country, and
drink as much, too. So with this col
onel. Hence, when Grant took COM
mand, he found his men almost in a
state of complete Generalization; each
man in the regiment having, apparent
! ly, as much authority as another. II
was a sort Of disordery mass. a hodge
podge of entanglements, an unsystem-
attic, unarranged, hurly-burly of officers
and privates. Not that there was, by
amy means, an unusual deficiency Of
moral and intelligent men in the regi
ment, but that these, from the nature
of the circumstances, quietly KEEP
themselves in the background. while