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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27

brothers of Custer shared his fate, and
nephew, Artie Reed, who, with Bos-
ton Custer, was in the command tenn
porarily.
Gen. Clusters most fntuhful biog-
rapher has been his wife. 1t was near
ly ten years after his death before Mrs.
Custer could summon courage to give
the story of her hero to the world.
Writing of her initial effort in compil-
ing "Boots and Saddles" Mrs. Custer
says in q letter not hitherto published:
"I never should have had the courage
at all to do the work il had not longcd
to tell something of my husbands homo
life. 1t has always seemed to me that
few men who compel the admiration
of their country. lived so beautiful a
social life as my husband. He was so
unselfish, boyish and unaffected in his
own home that it used to seem in
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27

Obi this is my song to the Gray and Blue,
Who once were so many and now are so few,
The young ones, the bold ones,
The grim ones, the old ones.
The lighters who fought out those terrible
days,
Through the copses and dingles and dark
tangled ways.
Down in the Wilderness
Down IN the Wilderness.
It was over the river Rapidan,
And slowly southwark the march began.
Into the solitude,
Into the gloomy wood,
On, on, on, with wide, straight sound.
Grinding and jarring the sodden ground,
Down in the Wilderness
Down in the Wilderness.
All hushed were the bosket-flutes of May,
All sweet-voiced things had flown away,
Leaving Grant and Lee
A desert and Destiny;
What time their batteries houndered and
pounded
And the bombs through the timber bumped
and bounded
Down in the Wilderness
Down in the Wilderness.
Tossing and swaying, the hosts did so.
Blindly buffeting, blow on blow,
over the fen-land,
over the gray sand;
And far and near, amid brush and brier.
Cracked the crisp, keen musket fire.
Down in the wilderness
Down in the wilderness
Hither and thither dashing in vains
Columns soaked in bullet-rain,
Covered with battle-grirne,
Daytime and night time.
Stumbled and fumbled on through the
maze.
And charged by the light of their powder
blaze,
Down in the Wilderness
Down in the wilderness.
Each man a hero. cleaving his way,
Sheer through phalanS of Blue or of
Gray;
Back and forth, hack and forth,
East or west, south or north,
Plunging at death with a shout and shot
Where the ground rippled red and the air
painted hot,
Down in the Wilderness
Down in the Wilderness.
oh! the heroes who died and the brave who
came forth
Were the soul of the south and the heart
of the north;
And the strong sons they sired,
Stand by the guns they fired,
Build on the battle-spots altars of stone,
And one old minstrel goes singing along.
Down in the Wilderness
Down in the Wilderness,
And so take my song to the Gray and the
Blue,
oh! once they were many and now they are
few:
Here's to the bold ones.
The grizzled and old ones
Who fought through the solitude man to
man,
Southwark away from the Rapidan.
Down in the Wilderness
Down in the Wilderness.
Maurice Thompson. in y. Y. Independ-
ent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27

into three detachments, Gen. Custer led
the body of his regiment in that final
charge, in which afterwards the line of
battle of ii portion could be traced by
the dead men and horses as they fell at
the post of duty, and from which no
man escaped
Apropos of this sad history strange
story is related by the Sioux who took
part in that deadly ambuscade. They
talk of new plant which grows on :he
spot where Custer fell, plant the like
of which they never saw before, and
which bears flower with blood-red
heart. Its leaves are curved to re-
semble saber. and it's serrated edges
are so sharp that they infct severe in
jury to the unwary who touch them.
At the same time they are cold and
clammy, resembling dead hand. The
Sioux regard this blossom of the field
of death with superstitious awe. They
call it Clusters heart" and nothing
would induce them to touch it. And
they say further that if one of the
flowers is crushed in the hand it leaves
stain of blood that nothing will re
move.
Sitting Bull, who was the instigator
of the Custer massacre, escaped into
Canada, but under the protection of Ii
general amnesty came back to incite
he Messiah craze, and was killed at
it's conclusion, while standing in the
door of his tepee. Rain-in-thc-Face
claimed the distinction of being the
slayer Of Custer, but so also did Spotted
Tail and other "braves." Many of the
Indians who took part in the battle of
the Little Big Horn retired to farms
in North Dakota. and as warriors We're
heard of no more. No matter where
they were met with, these Indians were
10th to speak of the massacre, and IL Is
doubtful if any of the stories told by
them were literally true, Fear and
their natural craft led them to falsify
their part in tae tragedy.
Gen. Custer was Il graduate of West
Point, and his first service was at the
battle of Bull Run. He remained with
his regiment--rhen the Fifth cavalry
until appointed an aide-de-camp to Gen.
Mcclellan. He was promoted from
captain to brigadier general when only
60, and the following year married to
Elizabeth Bacon. friend of lis sister
Margaret, whose husband. Lieut.. Cal
aoun. was killed with Custer. Two
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27
WAS HE A COWARD7
Dread Bugaboo of the Black Cavalry That
Scared n COmrade.

Scared Comrade.
I reckon many of the members OF
my company suspect me of being
coward. Well, confess my actions at
the time of our first engagement at Rich
mountain, under Gen. Mcclellan, IA
vored such an impression. 1 didn't
think myself coward, and the looks
and whispered remarks of the men
Stung me. But it was funny.
We lad marched over from Grafton
to a charming valley threaded by the
sweet waters OF a mountain stream,
where we encamped. There were about
two full brigades of troops, mostly
Ohio and Indiana soldiers, and our
army seemed to us, unframed volun-
teers, to be immense.
On our march we had gathered infor-
matoa we supposed reliable from the
citizens that Gems. Garnett and Pegram
had fortified and occupied two almost
ippregpable mountain passes, Laurel
Hill and Rich Mountain, with formid-
able rebel forces. We had read in the
papers of the Black Horse cavalry and
Louisiana Tigers, and had the by no
means comforting notion that they
were demons incarnate.
But Mcclellan was our commander;
Gen. Lander, the brave Indian fighter,
was with us; Mai. Gen. Carroll was at
that time colonel of the Eighth Ohio,
and he was regular; Col. Kimball, of
the Fourteenth Indiana, hSd been in the
Mexican war, and, altogether. when we
considered the personnel of our army
and itS M larc HHnnt nf
carrying any pass, however strongly
fortified or garrisoned.
There was Rich noun tain right in our
very faces. Several men of my company
had with me clandestinely made an eN-
animation of the enemy's works hidden
from our camp by forest of great oaks.
We had seen the tents of the enemy, the
fort on their front, the mounted can
non, the batteries of artillery, the felled
forest trees in front of the earthworks
with limbs sharpened so as to form an
impossible barrier. Our stories were
told and retod in camp with all the ex-
aggeration usual in camp narrative,
and the great problem for solution was
how will it be possible to pass the tangle
of feled forest trees with sharp-pointed
limbs in the face of a fire from 10000 to
10000 muskets and 100 cannon?
Before the day of battle it was pretty
generally conceded that these figures
were an underestimate. The long-rol
occasionally sounded, and we all felt az
we peSer had felt before.
1t wasn't in any respect similar to any
feeling we had ever experienced a
home, surrounded by family ant
friends.
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credible that he was the same man
about whom admirers of his public
career flocked whenever we left our
hone. His relations with his intimate
friends, his family, his soldiers and his
servants were worthy of better pen
than that of his wife in describing them,
and so I told my story in describing HIM,
without having it presume to be any
thing as difficult as life. If had not
so grand subject L would not now feel
such humiliation that l could not do
better.
'If I can only learn to write more of
my hero and keep him before his co'ln-
try I shall not have lived after him in
vain"
Mrs. Custer has written several vol
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27
CAME DAsH1NG DOWN THE ROAD.


softly, very steadily, without drumbeat,
we marched up the road into the forest
on that morning of battle. Presently
clear bugle call rang out down the line
and at that instant our major came
dashing down the road, swinging his
sword aloft, his whole aspect beaming
with wild excitement. He shouted in
a shrill whisper: Back, men! Fall
back into the woods!"
Quickly as 1 could commanded:
Halt! Left face-Forward, march!
Get over that log!"
Such a scramble! 1t was a great oak
which required some eXertion to climb
over. All along the line in subdued
tones was heard the eXclamation: THE
Black Horse Cavalry"
Where our ma jor went or why he gave
the command 1 never knew. But after
we had remained clustered on both
sides and on top of our log rampant q
few minutes, the righteousness of our
position dawned upon us, and it was
then and there that my suspicious were
| aroused that some of the members OF
my company thought me coward.
So strongly did the feeling take hold
of me that L sought several occasions
afterward to give them a test of my
| mettle.
Well, that's all there was of the battle
of Rich mountain so far as we We're con.
cerned, except to soon after march into
the abandoned works of the enemy, who
had fled on the approach of thanking
force, led by the brave Lander, arount
the mountain during the night, ano
reaching their rear just as morning
dawned. We were not accustomed tt
bugle calls then, or we should not have
mistaken the call to halt for call o
the Black Horse cavalry to charge
down a narrow mountain road upon tn,
lend" of n line.-Nationa Tribune.
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umes since the first one. all exploiting
her hero, and this labor of love has been
received with enthusiasm by a large
clientele of readers. The charming
simplicity of her unstudied literature
appeals to the heart with the force Of
absolute conviction. And the value of
these memoirs has been proved by the
substantial aid they have given to the
widow of the hero, enabling her to livs
in luxury-a condition denied by the
sparse benefactions of the government.
Mrs. Custer does not hesitate to say
that much of her inspiration in writ
ing is due to her desk-which was the
generals, used by him all through his
frontier life, and now in her mountain
nest of "Caddice Case" which is one of
her numerous homes. For this very
clever woman has established herself1n
city and country where she finds her
pleasure in tent or in parlor, both being
included in her surroundings. She IS
now in the beginning of the serene years
of life, stilI very charming woman
with fund of story and wit to entertain
friends.
1t has been said of Gen. Custer that
every situation in which he was in
terested was in the superlative. His
own personality might easSy be respon-
siblc for that. He will always be a pic
turesque and romantic figure against
background of magnificent propor-
tions. He was born soldier. He be-
lieved in the. invincibility of a hsroio
will and sn splendid achievements. Fear
was unknown to bin, and, while he
revered God, he had an almost super
stitious belief in the star of his des-
tiny. His nature was large, kindly and
forgiving. He never harbored an un-
charitable esentment-even, against
those who had injured him, and on one
occasion when demonstrated with for
being too forsiving," said:
"Well, perhaps | am. | often think
of the beautiful expression uttered by
President Lincoln at the conservation
of the Gettysburg mon uInent, and feel
how nearly it expresses my belief:
With malice toward none, with charity
for ALL and hope this will ever be mine
to say"
MRS. NJ. L. RAYNE.
/
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"raIl inl" "Riobt dre,s,- A few

"Fall in!" Fright drcssl" A few
such words were spoken, q little march
ing and wheeling into line, and that
pleasant valley was transformed by
military pageant into "battle's dread
array" For two days the movement
ended with the formation of troops in
lines.
"What can it mean?" "Did our gen.
eral hesitate?" 'Impossible!" "Are
more troops expected?" That's it,"
"How humane not to lead 5000 or 10000
men TO certain annihilation!" were COM
mon remarks by the soldiers.
On the day before the battle the move
ment was more extended. We were
edge of the forest that hid the enemy
from view, and there, by whispered
commands, ordered to encamp for the
night For the first time we "slept
upon our arms" and what dreams of
heroic deeds we had that night have
never been written. Tomorrow would
witness deadly conflict between blue
and gray; or possibly, and many
thought probably, we might be aroused
for night attack.
Comrade whispered to comrade the
words to be carried to dear ones at home
in the event of falling on the field of
battle; plans were discussed for mutual
assistance and defense in emergencies;
methods of approach to the enemy's
works adopted and rejected; plans of
battle were laid. And so the weary
night wore on, while fitful sleep pressed
momentarily upon weary lids as the full
moon slid up and then down the arch
way of the skies.
Before the gray dawn had faded our
breakfast had been eaten and we had
crept into line on the one road that lei
into the woods. There we stood, won
dering how it would fare with the men
at the head of the column, and whether
they would carry the works." and So
make it comparatively easy and safe
for us to follow, or whether we should
be obliged to Chamber over piles of fallen
comrades who would be shot down in
order as they approached the dreaded
intrenchments.
While we halted, conjecturing, some
of us actually joking. in whispers about
the lend men," morning dawned, and
we found ourselves advancing, scarcely
having heard command uttered. Very
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27
THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
Memories of the Terrible Little
Big Horn Battle.
Personality OF the Gallant Commander
Who Led tho Seventh CarSlry
Against sitting Bull and
His Cruel Sioux.
Especial Detroit (Mich.) Letter.l

Twenty years will have elapsed on the
25th of June, 1896, since the battle of the
Little Big Horn was so disastrously
fought by Gen. George A. Custer and the
gallant Seventh cavalry, not one of
whom escaped to tell the tale of heroism
and venturesome daring, sacrificed to
barbarians.
AS one man often makes an epoch in
the worlds history, so one man over
shadows in the annals of history all
others engaged in that brief and des-
pcrate conflict where every man was a
hero. The personality of Custer made
of him distinguished figure in one of
the most sanguinary and picturesque
engagements the world ever knew
That he only was unmarried by scalping
knife or tomahawk shows how much
he was respected by his Indian foes. The
''long-haired chief" as they called him,
was sacred to their gloating cruelties
in death.
There was no expectation of n mas
| sacre when it took place. 1t was esti-
mated by Gen. Custer that 900 Indians
were ambushed awaiting the attack, in
stead of which at least 5000 of the red
skins received the onslaught of the de-
voted members of single regiment.
Then began that struggle which his
biographer, Mrs. Custer, so pathetical-
ly calls Our life's last chapter, and of
which no actual record remains. Lead
ing up to that dark door of death ends
the recital:
"Gen. Custer called halt as he ap-
preached the village, and summoning
his officers explained to them his plan
of attack, which was the same that had
proved so successful in the battle of the
Washita, in the previous history of the
regiment. He offered the lead to that
officer who should first report his com
pany for battle. In a few seconds one
of the highest in rank received this de.
sired honor. Dividing the command
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27
FROM MANY LANDS.
Big Attendance at the International sun
day-schoal Convention.

day-schoai Convention.
BOSTON, June 24.-The triennial in
ternational Sunday-school convention
opened at fremont Temple yesterday
with large attendance. The first ex-
ercise was a devotional service. After
some singing, Mr.. Moody read from
Luke XII, accompanying the reading
with one of his characteristic talks.
In the absence of President Lewis Mil
Ter, Rev, Randolph, of st. Louis, acted
as chairman.
Rev. DIR. Lorimey, pastor of fremont
Temple church, gave the address of
welcome, which was responded to by
Hon. S. II. Blake, of Toronto. DIR.
Lorimer was constituted delegate o
the Christian public of Great Britain
to give it the greeting of the Sunday
school public of America.
Committees on nominations, of re-
port of the executive committee and
ON resolutions, each having represent
alton from each state, territory and
province, were appointed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27
Worked Out on a Barrel Head.

Some time in 1860, team was driven
up to thb village store at Hazel Green.
III. The driver entered and told the
merchant he would take those hides"
While he waited for his purchase TO be
weighed and loaded in the wagon, With
a handful of corn taken from the bin,
he seated himself by u barrel aid
ranged the kernels as regiments and
brigades in line of battle, on opposite
sides, in all sorts of positions. He would
move his lines forward, or by the
flank, advancing and retreating, nanag-
ing thus both armies, and working out
his problem of attack and defense. 1t
was said that he would be absorbed for
hours in one of these studies. and never
quit until the mimic battle with his
grains of corn was decided one way or
the other. In this manner he fought
over the great battles of the past, and
imaginary battles of the future. The
quiet man with the stubby, sandy hair
and short mustache was Ulyssea s.
Grant.-Washingt Post.