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and the flight of old Jeff, and remember
the ye.Is of our boys and how they sang the
war songs. The Confederatcs were agitated,
and we could see there was something UNI
usual going on; they were continually
under arms and had the artillery trained
on us.
We heard that courier had been cap
tured carrying dispatches to Gen. Wilson,
and that the General was only about 80
miles from Salisbury, with two brigades OF
cavalry; and how they hustled us out of
that place and placed us on cars to take Us
away and out of his reach. My comrade
and myself happened to get into the la st car
on the train, and we were guarded by a de
tachment of Galvanized lanks," or men
who had taken the oath OF allegiance to
the Confederate States.
On each side of the doors OF the car
were placed guards TO keep us from escap-
ing. while on the top0f each Car were others
to fire on those who might make an attempt
to capture the train, ~ hich had heard was
to be done as we moved toward the Cataw-
ba River.
We had come to the conclusion that it
would be an easy matter TO push the guards
aside, as they stood at the doors, and Jump
out. The train, as Mt dew near the river
bridge, slowed up, and We heard the locomo-
tive whistle down brakes. We stood side
by side near the door Of the car, and at
a word both jumped clear OF the car, and as
good luck happened landed in soft mica
and gravel that had been used to fill in
a ravine across which the railroad ran.
The guards from the top of the car fire3
at us without effect and when we got up
on the railroad we were surprised to see
two more of our boys emerge from the
bushes on the other side, while about rs
yards down the track was another Union
soldier trying to get upon his feet. We
soon came up to him, and found that he
had been shot through the body and was
unable to walk. We carried him to a small
shanty at the top of the hill and left him.
Whether he lived or died l never knew.
We were fed by the negroes, and pilOted
toward our lines, which we made after a
circle of Salisbury, the stockade of which
we found destroyed. We overlook our
cavalry at Linconton, N. C. The 9Th Pa,
under Gen. Palmer, escorted us to Madison
Ga. From there went to Augusta and re-
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. of us, but we expected to guide ourselves
by hugging the Georgia shore.
Twas rowing, and keeping time with my
strokes of the oars by singing that good
den Page exclaimed, Look at the rebs :"
We had run into a picket post on the
South Carolina shore. They had let us
get within reach of the wharf upon which
they stood turned the boat very quick
ly, when they demanded our surrender;
but when they saw we intended to try to
escape, they poured vOlley of bullets at
us. One went through the bottom OF the
boat and two struck the oars; but we es-
capped, thanks to the fog, without a
scratch.
have before me letter from this COM
me credit for acting promptly on that oc-
casion, but says was the Heavy Villain
in the play, because in turning the boat /
placed him between myself and the Con-
fedeTateS.
Our camp life in Savannah was very short;
then came the march through the Car olinas.
After passing through Fayetteville and
nearing Raleigh, was, with some others
who were out foraging, captured by Co. q,
9Th Ga. Cav, taken to Salisbury Prison and
introduced To the horrors OF that institution.
i shall never forget the manner in which a
Confederate officer rode up to me and
snapped a pistol at my head, after had
surrendered. 1t appears he blamed me for
shooting his horse, which he valued very
highly, and am quite positive that would
not be writing these lines had his revolver
been loaded.
We were soon stripped of our shoes and
valuables, and they left me with blue
blouse and pants. We were received when
we entered the stockade by that cry which
all ex-prisoners remember, Fresh fish, !"
but we were not long in that place before
We became sailed to suit the taste OF all
concerned.
NY comrade was soldier of the 18th
N. Y, and we made our rabbit burow and
ate and slept the best we could. late my 18th
birthday dinner in Salisbury Prison, April
8, 1865. 1t consisted of about four table
spoonfuls OF rice, Is or 30 beans, two pieces
of salt horse, four chunks of corn bread,
and pint OF sorghum nolasses.
We soon heard of the fall of Richmond
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ON SHERMHN'S MHRCH.
Series of Adventures Which Befell 111th
Pa. Man.

Editor National Tribune: Sherman's
march will always stand in history as one
of the greatest achievements of the war.
and all those who participated in it will
never forget its effect toward fastening the
dawn of peace.
North and South Carolina than we did
going through Georgia.
SwampS and roads on the low grounds
had to be corduroyed, wagon-trains lifted
out of the mud and, along with the artillery,
they made the roads almost impossible
grumbling. The boys were living off the
country. Forging was quickly learned,
and that industry to some became a fine
art.
Humphrey D. Law, Co. G of my regi-
ment, and / had narrow escape from
capture when within few miles of Column
bla, and while foraglng. We had expected
to overtake our regiment before dark; found
that it was impossible, SO concluded to
stop at a house, feed and rest our horses,
and start early next morning to catch our
command. In the house were a lady and
her two daughters, who were Unionists.
We placed our horses in the W agOn-hOuSe.
Our saddles and blankets we took in the
house. About daylight next morning
Humphrey got up to feed our animals, and
he had not been gone more than 10 minutes
before my bedroom door was opened, and
MIS-. Smlth came INTO the room. She told
me that a Confederate officer with eight or
10 men were going to take breakfast, and l
must not show myself. 1t took The rebs
over an hour before they got through their
breakfast and away, but it seemed very
much longer to my poor comrade, who all
this time was squeezed under the seat of
an old sleigh that stood across the upper
beams of the wagon-house. 1t did not take
us long to get our horses ready. They had
been kept from discovery by the ladies,
who also filled our haversacks with biscuit
and fried ham.
My regiment was sent to relieve Rose
Grams at Chattanooga. We fought the
battle of Wauhatchie in the Lookout VAL
ley at night and defeated Longstreet in his
attempt to capture our train, while with
Geary's White Star Boys, we fought the
battle of the clouds. The capture of At
lanta followed; then that of Savannah,
which we took in time to give to Old Abe
as Christmas present.
While lying In camp at Savannah, Ga,
Herbert Page, of my company, proposed
that we should take boat and go down
the Savannah River to Fort Thunderbolt
and get some oysters. / readily assented,
and we started early in the morning through
a heavy fog which hung on the river SO
thick We could not see boat-length ahead
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Plea for Fair Play.

Editor National Tribune: Some of the
comrades say we can make our votes be
felt; yes, influence also. We have been
deceived as to promises of liberality to the
soldiers. If the old soldiers had practiced
half the fraud the Pension Office has
practiced we would half of US, be in the
penitentiary and the other half on trial
The National Encampment should issue
a preventive against the medicine we
have been taking. When a patient be-
gins to prescribe for the doctor the doctor
will begin to think he wasn't much of a
doctor after ALL. Jacks, Riggs, Mo.
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The Volunteer.

The Volunteer.
Editor National Tribune: Except for the
wall of mothers, wives and sweethearts
when regiment went to the front, there
has been little at home to remind us that
war was going on that interests us.
At the social functions we missed some
of our bestowed men, and found none to
fill their places, but the sharp pangs of
loss, absolute and inimitabIe loss, so
common and SO poignant in the sixties,
came to but few
The volunteer of to-day was not called
to fight father, brother or son. He went
to the field under no such dreadful night
mare, nor was he called to witness scenes
OF destruction and desOlatiOn in his own
land. Whatever the rights and wrongs of
the contest, the weight of it's horrors he
knew would fall upon an alien land. A
noble impulse prompted him-that of
succoring the oppressed. But oppressor
and oppressed were both remote from his
real home interests, and even If he should
fall in the struggle, he felt sure the right
would triumph, and only good result either
to his country or the one it has determin-
ed to make free.
He did not expect to conquer the army
or navy of Spain without paying dear
price for the victory. He fully realized
that the quicker and more complete the
victory the less would be its cost, and he
did his part intelligently, unfinchingly,
as becomes an American volunteer.
1t is the volunteer in whom the women
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One of the most serviceable watches
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We do not sell this watch without
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SONS OF VETERANS.
Loyal Young Men and Their GreaA
Order.
OREGON BROTHERS

The following officers were elected and
installed at the Ninth Annual Encamp-
ment held at The Dalles: Com, A. Q.
Desolt, Siiverton; 5. V. c., A n. Varney,
The Dalles; J. v. c., W. Ross, Eugene.
Council. L. w. Oren, Corvallis; III. Y.
Leoned, The Dalles; j. T, Reeves, Car
wallis.
The following were appointed members
of the staff of the Division Adj't, j. r.
Loughmiller, Silverton; Q. NJ, I. l.. Bower,
Silverton; Chap, L. p. Bennett, Mehoma;
Inspector, G.. Il. OTiai, Pine The re-
mainder OF the staff will be. appointed at
an early date.
The Oregon Division viii be well repre-
sented at the National Encampment at
Omaha Neb.
E. Hardesty, First Sergeant, Lincoln
Camp, Is, Silverton, writes "A great many
Sons of Veterans in the Oregon Division
enlisted IN the Oregon volunteers to as
slst the United States in the war with
Spain. Without detracting in the least
from the patriotism and love of country of
any volunteer, it is safe to say that there
is no more soldicrly and manly lot of Off
GERS and men than those who came from
the Sons of Veterans. From the inSpira-
ton they received from their worthy sires
they VIII eonduct themselves bravely In
the face of danger. They Will yield up life
itself rather than the honor of their country
and they Will be an honor not only TO
their State and Nation, but to the great
Order with which they are affiliated.
Lincoln Camp, Is, Division of Oregon,
has furnished three volunteers for the
Manila expedition: Brother Chas. Nc
kinley, who enlisted under the first call,
and Brothers Herbert Bower and VIM.
Mckinley, under the second call, and
number OF members are now making
preparations to enlist in the battery now
being recruited at Salem, Ore.
Lincoln Camp, IS, has forwarded her
first volunteer, Brother Chas. Mckinley,
Co. X, I'd Ore, a beautiful gold medal"
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wv E HAVE SECURED THE HISTORY OF
M the Great Rebellion, by j. T. Headley with
w whose graphic style readers are already
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battle
Heretofore this work has sold by subscription at 81 for
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Mr. Headeys treatment of the great subject takes the
preliminary conspiracy the struggles Congress the
tension of slavery; and finally passes to the firing Fort
SUMTER and the tremendous which followed All the
of the carefully explained and the battles
described.
Every of readers who served in the for the
Union will find depicted and incidents in which he
personally participated The work has the merit of being
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Deaths In Quincy Home.

E. L. Higgins, Adiutant, Illinois Soldiers
and Sailors Home, Quincy, reports the
following deaths; August Ringel, Co. ID, sth
Ill. Cav; Samuel Cochrane, Co. L, 1st Ohio;
Robert Borrill Co. E, SOD Ill.,; Samuel G.
Free man, Co. G, AID H.; James Co1ell, Co.
b, 12Sth Pa; John F. Myers, Co. X, s5th
Ind.
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ported to Brig.-Gen. Molineaux, who gave
me a pass to Savannah, where | went
aboard ship that took me to New York.
Joined my regiment, which in the mean
time had been consolidated with the 111th
Pa, and | was assigned to Co. G, and
mustered out July 10, 1865; but among
the very last duties done for the Govern
ment was that of being Corporal of the
Guard over Capt. Wirz, who was confined
in Old Capitol Prison.
In closing these recollections, would
ask that if these lines happen to meet the
eye of any comrades of the 2ath Ohio, 5th
Ohio. 18th Pa, or 33d N. j., who were in the
battle of Peach Tree Creek, they would
confer great favor by writing me.-John
M. Valleau, Corporal, Co. g, 111th Pa, 25
Sixth Ave-, Wilmington, Del.
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Small view Of the two magnificent volumes.
logical history without being abstruse. 1t is written in that
maserfu style for which Mr. Headley is famous The first
volume the preimnares and Is months of the
The second takes up the narrative beginning with the oper
atoms Of the Army of the Potomac in theSummer of 1862
and carries the story forward until the Surrender of Lee
Appomatox and the capituaon of Johnston put end
the fighting 1t is standard work which should be every
American library We do cell sewolumes but give
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Yeferansin the City.

Veterans In the City.
Harris Van Mehren, Reynolds's Battery,
Menden Center N. Y. Comrade Van
Mehren has just returned from a visit to
Virginia, where he has bought fine farm
for his son.
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The Flag will be sent by Express, the re-
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append extracts from letter from s. S.
Scott, of Erlanger, KY, dated in January,
1897. He was member of the first expedi-
ton.
:" If you remember" he says, "the men
were recruited as if they were going to Cali
fornia, but had such hints given them that
none need have been deceived. Mai Hardy
and myself recruited all who went from Gin
cinnati, and chartered boat to take us to
New Orleans, and at Louisville were Joined
by Col. 0Hara and % others from Shelby
and Franklin Counties, KY.
"You will remember about our stay in
New Orleans, and our embarkation on the
Georgiana for Contoy Island, and our uniting
with Lopez and the Others that came out on
the Creole. We arrived off Cardenas in the
morning and had to wait until night to land
Zone incident have always remembered
with pleasure, which you may have no,
known. The Captain Of the Creole (Lewis),
when the vessel failed to reach the pier, in
consequence of the tide running out, called
to the men around to know if any of them
would take q line, swim to the pier and faster
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28
a neat comparison but one expressly

a neat comparison but one expressly
fitting.
And now. strangely enough, this mad,
dest Of nights poor Florence could not
get those words and that tone out of
her head. She had flushed and turned
speechless away at the time. hurt to her
soul and indignant, too, but the train
ing OF her youth was strong. These
were people her father and mother had
taught her to respect, and though an
CRY. indignant remonstrance was in
her heart, she stified the words that
strove to spring to her lips.
Il expect I've put my foot in it again
to-day" reported Bux to his better half,
when he got home.
We'll, I'm sure I'm never surprised"
was the Iady's prompt reply.
II fear I've been rude to Col. Buxton,
Randy" faltered Floy. when that gen.
tleman came in from troop drill an hour
later.
You couldn't be rude even to Bux,
my darling" was his answer, as he
folded her in his arms.
And these are not types of the first
year welded" and the quarter GEN.
tury mated" love as seen in the army.
have known many and many a couple
who have risen together through every
grade in the line. loved, loving and low
ers to the end.
At one o'clock Florence had set her
lights in the parlor window. At two,
with that booming, gong-like sound re-
verberating in her ears, that incessant
repetition of BuXton's coarse words.
she had sprung from the chair in which
she had been brooding. writhing, shud-
dering for half an hour, and then, tear
ing down the shade, close looping the
curtains, she hurried to the hall and
locked and bolted the door. another
girl making fool of herself for mar
another grill" God! how the words
rang-resounded through her brain,
buzzed and whirred like angry wasps
in her ears, Kissed and ratified, ave,
stung like the venomous reptiles she
had learned to shun from early child,
hood. Making fool of herself for a
man who would leave her-so soon-for
that painted-yes-that padded thing!"
They'd soon learn that an army-bred
girl loved, indeed, with all her heart and
soul, but could hate, hate, hate as we'll!
fro BE CONTINUED
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The Long Journey.

In certain township not many miles
from Cleveland the good man of local
household was laid away in the little
churchyard on the hill. After the fu-
neral the relatives, both near and dis
tant returned to the family home and
the officiating pastor came with them.
There they enjoyed good dinner and
afterward gathered in the best room
for social converse. Naturally their
talk turned upon the serious event of
the day, and presently the good pastor,
drawing deep sigh, solemnly re-
marked: well, our departed brother
has gone long journey"
There was a brief silence, and then
the cousin Of the deceased, fussy lit
tie woman with an intense desire to
bear share in the conversation, sud-
denly remarked, in tone of profound
wisdom "Well, you know, brother,
thet they all say that travel is such an
eddicator! !"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.