The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-01
4 SOLDIER HITAoUT SERVICE.

A SOLDIER HIThOUT SERVICE.
His Peaceful Career or Enlistmcnts Under
Roth Flags.
At q select dinner party in the Morningside
settlement, one Of the topics was the late civil
war. The man who gave the dinner was prop
eriy modest until one of thesguests asked him:
"Were you In the warI
The host replied that he was in 1t In q way
that he ~despised.
ION which sidci'' was asked.
both sides.' and the answer naturally start
led the curiosity Of all present. Il lived in Mis-
souri, at the time. To BIO explicit, in st. Jo-
seph-it was always called Sent Joe. The town
was a hotbed Of secession. The only outspoken
free-soil man in the place In the beginning Of
the trouble was a long-haired chap who was a
picture maker. They didn't call him an artist,
because he was from Massachusetts, The first
defiant ac' to the Government In Sent Joe was
the capture o. this man for his opinions. We
slashed his sunny1ocks, put him in n skiff, and
told him to row for tho Kansas shore opposite.
II do not know how many rebel regiments
! were enrolled in Sent Joe. But there were
more than from any other part Of the State.
The population of the town was composed of
families from Virginia. Maryland. and Ken
lucky. There were several boys in most of
tho families. Sent ZOO always had the name
of having moro boys than any other town ON the
river. Nearly all of these boys enlisted in rebel
companies.
81 was the only boy, in fact the only child,in
our family. and l was full of fight. Like most
boys of my age: : had q sweetheart, and she was
a rebel, and her brother was u rebel soldier,
and my first impression of a woman's will dates
from her ultimatum that II l loved her I
would fight for the South. But, gentlemen.
this is not u love story.
MY p.eceptor before the war was A. ".
Slayback. I mention.his name because he was
afterwar a conspicuous soldier in the Confcd-
crate army, and after the war he was a most
successful! lawyer in Missouri, and was killed
In an alteration with Col. John A. Cockorill.
later of Now York. S~layback mustered his re-
cruits In the woods. All his pupils who were
able to do soldier duty enlisted in his COM
pany. BY some sort of strategy / managed to
get into the camp. The company started to the
front. Price was moving OH Lexington. where
Col. Mulligan held a Federal post. The call
was maao for help. The Mudsills. as the Yam
KEGS We're called; were to be driven from the
sacred roll Of Missouri and thrown into the
night. After the second days march a man
friend Was had s a yySnfident RTGl'ittl talk. 1 ,Rs r M"iGn os
which caused a REDUCTION Of orc in the ranks,
downcast son left the camp and returned to
Sent Joe: ,..o r,o ,o.n.. Gov. To-,
between two OBI fires: The Vans Kansas Say jaySewkors
pil!aged and scared one day and the Missouri
b bud ,hsS nIIi.r came nnd in .c on the folio following nns day day
and a buishwhacker. the 70 mer carried the
But the ain OF both was the same.
There is a horse in this story. The ANNA!
the tayhawKers. That was an Invasion OF tho
southern. rights of our family. The result Of
that theft was the consent of my family to
. contribute ono recruit TO the southern cause
was the victim. There were few IL any reCu,
lar Confederate troops in Missouri at that time,
scattered in the Southwest. and kept on the
move. To rcach'anS detachment required tact
and some mouey. Tho state was ovcrrun with
Federal troops. While / was endeavoring to
dodge through the lines near spEingt, ID, No
perhaps, II my captor had not been q German
cavalryman who was unable to speak Eng,isl
a flow OF profanity that made my Southern
~ was sent to 81. Louis. I was a prisoner Of
war, ! was in Gratiof street prison. q place
which became famous in Missouri during tht
war. ] became a mark for a prison enidemiS
much to my disgust, u bond w"s''execu'ed II
whie h my father Iledged everything he ha.
ermcnt nor in any way give aid or comfort t.
About that time men OF all sorts were get
ting scarce. None was LEFT able to get South
The Union enItstment' had Trimmed ont tn
; H I;ss %aSs o Ths dr far aS1l'ioMsS; Large RE 'H %",
who had charge of the draft in sent Joe WAS tn,
fatherif-law OF Gen. Ben Loan. l mention hi
name because he was the worst-hatcd man. b!
? Southern per ple. in Mis- ouri. He was n maj
} OF brains: an able lawyer, but. one who.e firm
! ness ami determination made him the terror o
: aon-C nionists.
( socially in the first days OF tho war by the +
+ vs. Of Sent Joe. He Wa i" ca1tankerous ok
Q chan. and dcspiseI hy u" arccsh. He was j
= bis glory w..Gn he wa aoeigncd T.! run the draft
| Win tho i.ssir.anro ~ his willy son-in-law
| Loan, bo naninuiaten the drait in such n man
ner that every southern nan who was capubl
> OF bearing arms and who had money WAS caugh
|, In the mpsh. He knew that such people woul
. hire substitutes, and there was aiways a sus
? pic!on in the minds of the secesh that tho draf
l. master was a beneficiary IN the bounty business
3 81 was drafted into the Yankee army. ]
. caused n conmotion. After more trouble tina
q / shall explain, n substitute WAS foAnd. II
was a strapping fellow. He had been in tn
|. Prusslan army, and his price was 5000. I wa
present when he WAS examined and heard tn
n questions. They concluded that he had SOM
ailment that would unit him. Then there wa
q he conforecs. When 1t was over the Prur
/ sim was accepted. saw him march away.
q kent track Of the regiment to which his con
pnny WAS attached. and ! know At was cut
o pieces in n notable engagement In Georgia.
"Ccntlemen. some Of the soldiers on the 0tht
!; side. In the engagement ] speak Of, were r
& ,ruits in Slayback's company. Tho first con
pany IN which | enlisted, or in which ] trie
To enlist, was in the flht in. which my SUI
stitute on tho other side was killed"
a A FOUR-DOLLAR GOLD PIECE.
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