The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-28

Ul0SQue pennsylvania valley over thir-
~ years ago, announced to the cluster
ed troops within a distance of many
miles the crisis of the war was at
hand; SO in the seclusion of the Buff,
lngtOn1an clOiSter yesterday did these
opening remarks strike terror to the
trembling women and peace-loving men
VINO have wooed Ceres and disdained
Mars. Surely did it portend a conflict
which might rend the nation to it's very
pubic duties and feminine fingers
falntly fell from the rubber cushioned
Keys of the pneumatic-tired typewriting
machines in adjoining offices.
closing their ranks, where the sharp
corners or the Oaths had torn large
chunks from the symmetrical forces,
Judge Hicks resumed the attack.
III! smash your blankety blank face
Tor that" he shouted, as he charged
his left wing full for the front of the
defensive force. Right valiantIy did
the Bevans center hold it's ground
While its right advanced a double QUICK
meeting the Hicks party with a blood
curdling sound of heavy firing. Hicks
right guard moved forward, but Bev-
ans, by a swift flank movement, es-
capped much of the force of the attack
and his left this time made a savage
onslaught on the main body Of the
HICKS troop. Blood, rich, red gore.
stained the grass-green carpet of the
battle field, as the two forces drew
apart for a fresh attack, but in the
meantime flag of truce was hoisted
over the scene by Adjt. Gen. Muehl-
Derg, and the intervention of the DOW
ers prevented further massacres Of the
innocent. The way the thing all came
about was this:
Judge Hicks, whose illness for several
Gays has prevented his attention to his
Legislative duties, was called upon YES
terday morning, before he had risen
from his bed, by Maj. Heffelfinger. Of
minneapolis, regarding the LEGISLATION
TO appropriate money for the fitting
oedlcat1On of the monument at Gettvs-
purg to the memory of the "Old First"
when 1t met and repulsed the charge
OF P1cketts division upon that memoir
able End Of July, 1863
on this occasion the conversation
naturally drifted at once to the propo-
Sltlon TO take Judge LOchrens name
from the list Of survivors who were to
serve as the trustees of the appro-
priat1on to be made by the legislature
MAJ Hetfelhnger said it was wrong
to take Judge Lochren's name off that
commission for the reason that Judge
Lochren and he were the last two sur
wing officers who were in all the en-
gagements with the regiment at
Gettysburg. Judge Hicks explained
that he had assented and taken part
In the substitution of the name Of the
adjutant general for that of Judge
Lochren because there was little feel
ing, Which an attempt was being made
to keep down, due to the dfsappOint-
ment Of the adjutant generals office
in not having entire charge Of the dedi-
cation. 1t was proposed to keep the
matter quiet, and Judge Hicks had
made the excuse that Judge Lochren
was a very busy man and it would
probably be relief to him not to have
any responsibility for expenditures.
The excuse would have been a valid
reason, under ordinary circumstances
but there was feature in the substitu-
ton which upset all the plans for har-
mony. 1t was a rumOr, assiduously but
quietly circulated to the effect that
there was some doubt about Judge
LC chren having been at all at the
battle Of Gettysburg. Judge Hicks
repeated this rumor to Mai HeffeI-
niger, saying that he had heard it
from man who claimed to have served
IN the First Minnesota. Judge Hicks
then asked Maj. Heffelfinger for the
facts. He had served on the district
court bench with Judge Lochren and
knew him to be a man Of the highest
honor and strictiest truthfulness. He
had heard Judge Lochren describe
this great battle as he saw it, and he
remembered that on one occasion
Maj. Heffelfinger was present and
heard all that was said. 1t was then
that the fact was once more establish
ed in Judge Hicks hearing, that Judge
Lochren was one of the heroes of the
battle Of Gettysburg. Maj. HeffeI-
finger said
II was on the right Of my company
and Lochren was on the left Of the
company next to it. so that we were
not more than three feet apart when
we started to resist Pickett's division.
Any statement that Lochren was not
IN the fight at Gettysburg, Is q SANDER
or the worst character, and what is
more, the report of the battle in Loeb
ren's own handwriting is in the office of
this man Bevans, who Is circulating
the story about him. Lochren was act
ing adJutant of the regiment at the
time"
When Judge Hicks came to the capi-
toll yesterday, he went to the office of
the adjutant general and when he got
inside, he found the man who had told
him, within a week, that there were
members of the First Minnesota who
doubted whether Lochren was in the
battle Of Gettysburg The Judge had
not learned this mans name, but from
what Maj. Heffelfnger had said, he
supposed it must be Asst. Adjt Gen
Bevans.
rs your name Bevans?" was the first
question which Judge Hicks asked.
Col. Bevans acknowledged the cog
nomen, and then Judge Hicks inquired:
''Was you in the battle of Gettysburg?"
mo, I was not" said Bevans. II
never claimed to have been in the
fight"
''Then I'll tell you what I think:
Any man who was not in the fight
and who says that Judge Lochren was
not in the fight is a dirty
pup; that's what say"
II think you are a. liar"
Beyans replied to this remark.
Then followed, in language hardly
to be printed, a quantity Of pungent, if
not elegant conversation, back and
forth between these two gentlemen,
who are supposed to have done their
fighting thirty years ago. They neared
each other and struck out their bitter
est spleen. The adjutant general and
Mr.. Hoyt separated the two belliger-
ents and avoided Disagreement. Judge
Hicks without delay made his apollo
gies TO the adjutant general for his
rash words and hasty action and then
he M ruhf hn