The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-30
M Old COmmissiOn.o

me Captain Richard Carter, the
ex-Mayor of Dodgeville, at the depart
ment encampment. He was recently
appointed a member of Governor Up
hams staff. with the rank Of Colonel.
II is not a matter Of very great i'm
lortance. but it makes ME recall a
pair of young fellows of the long ago.
Maybe some of the results of the recall
will afford two or three minutes of
pleasure TO the Times-Herald readers.
III try them. anyhow.
In 1861. as . a they could get into
the service after Lincolu'S first call for
troops. a couple Of boys. n in Racine,
where the encampment met last month.
and the other in Grant County. were
soldier material in the Second Wiscon-
sin Infantry. the late General Fair
child's regiment. The Racine boy was
William II. Jpham. now The Governor,
and the Grant County boy was Richard
Carter. now Observation-Disclosures gen
eral all-around good citizen of Dodge
Vile. congratulate both. Upham left
the army az the end of seven or eight
months 10 20 10 West Point. Carter.
Private Carter. stayed until the end of
the war and vas a captain when he
and generals on governors staffs. he is
pleased with his commission. but it
means ever SO little when compared
with the yellowing paper given him in
h VAR days that says he is a captain
that he Won the commission by faith
full service in actual war Ask Colonel
Carter to trade his old captains COM
miSSion-to obliterate all record of his
war service-for any kind of a modern
cOmmiSSion-thaJ of Governor. minis
ter 10 ST. James. Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, or even
President and see how quickly he
will place the yellow commission over
his humping old heart and say:
Thank you: o if you We're 70 make
NE ruler Of the world-to give me the
Bank of England-not if you were TO
pass TO my keeping the treasures of all
OF the governments Of the earth
| have not o~verStated.
From what | have said does the new
generation GET an idea of the satisfac-
ton with which soldiers look back up
on their service in the war that gave
the world lis greatest. promising.
best government: I hope SO, FOR that
is the object in writing Of the old cap
tain and the new Colonel.
Ask any volunteer who helped 70
make up the vast Union army what
would induce him 70 have all knowl-
edge Of his ~Soldiersh!p removed from
muster rolls and other records in Wash
ingtun and ar his State capitol. so that
il might never be known that he had
a part in the struggle under Comman-
der-in-ch!ef Abraham Lincoln. and see
what he would do, what he would say.
Our brigade newsboy got hold OF
some Baltimore and Washington pa
perS and brought them up TO the line OF
battle the third day IT gettysburg. He
was sitting on his horse counting out
Il selling papers as fast as he could
take the change. When the great ar
tillcry duel that preceded Pickett'S ia
nous charge began he happened 10 be
on Cemetery Ridge. nea the archway
in the cemetery. Solid shot and shell
flew about him as thick as Green Bay
flies III June. The little fellow threw
away his papers, wheeled his horse and
pretty nearly outflow the Confederate
missiles. When asked why he depart
ed thar day SO abruptly he said ne had
forgotten his revolver and went back
70 hunt for IL and that on the way TO
the front General Meade had halted
him and told him 10 stay in the rear. as
MS army could nov afford 10 lose any
more OF lis best men.
Il want You - look az this old Tesla
WeIt. said c &. Aubery. There is