Arizona republican., 1898-03-26

town and each one got out what was called an extra It was not much like the extra of this generation. The news of the firing on Sumter consisted of less than 200 words, was printed on small slip of white newspaper and was set in the same width as the col umns of the papers which issued them. There was no advertisement or other news on the slips. These extras sold for 25 cents apiece. From that time until the close of the war that was the sort of extra that was issued by the napers in the town where I lived.
 "A long time afterward I heard talk about the man who rode the horse and who spread the news. He was the son of the town miller. I never heard where he got his information, but as soon as he heard it he mounted the horse that had been hitched to the rack in front of the mill and carried the news of his own accord. There were four boys in that miller's family. They enlisted early for the confederate cause Not one of them returned. The one who spread the news was killed somewhere in the Wilderness; at least, he was known to go into one of the agements of that series of stubborn fights and never came out. His body was never identified.
 "I recall that at the time of the fire on Sumter many of our people were still 'on the fence,' as we said The Lincoln electors had received few votes in the town It was a Breckin- ridge section. I remember that the tendency was in favor of the preserva- tion of the Union, but the people were afraid of Lincoln. At that time they believed he had been elected for no other purpose than that of freeing the niggers and stealing the horses. And SO it happened that negroes and horses were locked up often at night together, not in the same room, of course, but often in adjoining rooms in the outhouses. I have often
 thought that, if the people had un-
 derstood Lincoln in the beginning of i the war as they came to know him lat i CT, many man who went south would have fought for the Union. And if
 am correct in that, would the war i have lasted as long as it did?
 T remember a gathering at the house of my father one evening in
 which the military genius of Gen Scott was discussed. Some present had been with Scott in Mexico It was the consensus of that gathering and this was before the Bull Run fight that Napoleon came first and Winfield
 Scott second. What an impression that made on my mind. I remember hearing one of the Scott enthusiasts
 say that Scott would end the war ir
 one fight.
 'I shall never forget the news o1
 the first Bull Run fight. My people had arranged to leave the town on {
 short vacation, but this news kep
 them at home. The second days new:
 gave more particulars. It told of tht
 rout of the Union army. And then
 saw something in human nature whicf
 I had never seen before, of which
 knew nothing. I saw the fence clear , ed, to take up the old metaphor. Ant
 every man and family came off to joil
 the southern cause. recall that Scot
 was called granny. and very soon af
 ter his name was forgotten. The frs Bull Run made recruits for the south Several regiments enlisted in my tow and county. Success of the south il } the first engagement of any conse quence carried with it the doubters ; And in nearly every instance of thi life which I have observed, I hay
 found that, as soon as success is es tablished, those who shook their head became followers, and yet you and have known some successes to tur l out failures, paradoxical as that ma , | SO1nd