The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-13

reach. with the corn high enough to hida
| the fences.
| We fell to talking and being an en-
thusiasttc Republican boy 1 made my po-
sition clear. The man said ne was a Re
publican but he didn't think he would
vote for Lincoln. 1 expressed to him in
good plain western words, my opinion OF
a Republican who would not vote for
Lincoln, but my Indignation did not
seem to offend him. He was good ma
tured and dry in his talk and this. of
course, spurred me on to persuade him
into sense of his duty.
Eventually We reached Alton. where
some OF the passengers left the train to
take the steamboat for st. Louis, others
| remaining TO go to East St. Louis. A
new conductor came aboard and said
GOOD, morning, Mr.. Lincoln, will YOU
| take the boat or stick to the tramp
My company said: L have a good seat
mere with my young friend and l believe
LII stick to the train"
After we had got out of Alton a little
ways, 1t occurred to me that the conduc-
Tor had addressed the man as Mr. Lin
coin, and l remembered he had got on at
springfield Then I began to look him
over and as he looked something like
the pictures had seen of Lincoln be-
gan 10 suspect who he was. 1 said to
nm nm: l noticed the conductor called you
Mr.. Lincoln
es, that is my name" said he. Look
ING MN IN the eye, I said: rs il Abe?'s
y eS, he said. lit is Abe" I shut nm
Ihen ne went to work in a way that al
ways made me think him the finest and
klndeSt man / had ever met and drev-
me out and got my boytsh tongue raj
LlhS AGAIN and kept me chattering until
we approached East ST Louis Going
over on the ferry to st. Louis he made
me promise that If he was elected and
l should be in Washington L would come
TO the White House and see him This
l promised. but said l was going way OUT
west ana would never see Washington i'm
my life, probably. He shook my hand
warmly as we stepped ashore and said:
II am elected you are just the kind
OF boy that is Hkely to be in Washing
he meant
OFF FOR THE WAR.
In March, 1861. left Kansas to go to-
Boston, TO sail in May for Europe / was
taxing my time and making visits to
relatives on my way and was in Canada
VIslIng, when got the news of the fail
Oh Fort Sumter. L Immediately went to
my uncle's house, got my baggage out
and without biGding the family goodbye
hurried TO the depot to catch the train
TOT TOT DetF3It, TO go to the war. lacked
Two or three days of being IT, but L had
seen some service in Indian and frontier
scr1mTnages and knew how to handle a..
gun and was hot for war. Half an hour
later L was on the eastern train to hit
the United States line at Niagara Falls
where arrived about dark. / found the
place in turmoil and that night went
on to Batavia, where I heard two regi<
time in the telegraph office, 1 read ALI.
the bulletins, and on the 18th of April
which was my birthday I heard Of the
attack on the Sixth Massachusetts in
Baltimore. I didn't wait any longer for
Batavia, but took train for New York
or Albany, rather, where 1 caught tho
New York Central boat for New York.
and landed at Cortland street on the 2Gtn
driving from the pier direct to the old
armory on Seventh avenue and Thirty
seventh street, where / enrolled my name
with Ellsworth's zouaves, and so marched
out of New York in the last days OF
ADrl in the first volunteer regiment that
left the state and the first volunteer reg
iment that arrived in Washington.
A LAST MEETING.
A few days after our arrival, Mr.. Lin
coin, Mr.. Seward and Gideon Welles
came up to the east capitol grounds to
see the regiment and shake hands with
each Of the men. When he saw me he
knew me in a moment, and called me by
name He said, Il knew you would be
in Washington" and asked me why
had not called as L promised and again
invited me to come and see him. L got
as far as the White House gates two or
three times and then backed out, and
never again saw Mr.. Lincoln to speak to
him. But I am sure if 1 had called I
would have had just as good and honest
q haudshake and welcome as a major
general or a governor. Mr.. Lincoln was
q man of the people. and I believe, the
greatest that ever grew UP on our soil,
bar none.