The National tribune., 1899-01-12

When we halted to feed, we tried to
| catch 40 links of sleep while the horses
were eating. The country people gath
cred around the sleeping men and soothed
their slumbers with Rally Round the Flag,
| Bovs' In view Of the fact that none of us
had more than one hours sleep out of each
"a during the three weeks of the raid, it can
readily b. imagined that our patriotic sere-
naders could easily have been dispensed
with; but their songs didn't bother Us, as we
were too deep in the land of nod - for such
| trifles aS few hundr ed people singing at us
| to be disturbed, and the If sing ing served the
! useful purpose OF keeping the weary guards
| awake.
| 1t is related Of Gen. Hobson, trnthfuIly,
| nodoubt, that, being exhausted by the strain,
| both mental and physical, induced by the
responsibility of the command and t he hard
! ship of the march, with hardly one hours
| ,leep ont of each ii for three weeks he had
| leave Of absence for n few days at the close oi
| the raid, and went to his home to recupera,e.
Arrived at home. one oftbe first things that
greeted him was household servant singing
Rally kound the Flag Boys" The Gen
erals nerves were on edge, and lie called out,
= Stop that singing; | have heard thousand
miles Of Rally 'i,ound the Flag and don
want any more OF it for a few days, any
how u
| Pretty soon the General was in a ftful sleep,
from which he awake, saying he clock IN his
room was ticking Rally Round the Flag
| His wife stopped the clock, and the General
rested quietly until evening, when he became
a little dclirious, and surprised his wife by
| telling her that ,y-thousand katydids had
followed him from Indiana and Ohio and had
swarmed into their yard, where they were all
singing Rally Round the Flag" He III
sisted that she 90 ont in the yard and stop the
katydids singing this song. He was only
quoted by oslng the doors and windows,
shutting out the songs of the katydids.
Although it has been nearly thirty years
since the occurrences / speak of, / can hear
them singing 'Kaly Round the Flag, Boys, y
| yet, and have never had longing for fried
chicken or black berry pie from those days to
this
1t must be borne in mind that in Morgan S
tsweep across three States, a distance of nearly
900 miles he swept his line of march, and
for some distance on each side, almost clean
of horses, giving his own command frequent
remounts, and almost daily rem0untS, and
leaving us, his pursuers, to secure our re-
mounts with extreme difficulty. Boiled
down to a Jew words, Morgan's force had
two horses for every man, while Gen. HObsOn's
pursuing column had two men to each sadly
worn horse. M0rgan's force when it started
from the Cumberland River was exceed
ingly we'll mounted, having some of the best
blooded horses from kentucky-horses capa-
BILE OF long and rapid marches. He set the
pegs for us, and set them high every day.
The longest march made by Morgan's com
mand at one stretch was nearly 1UO miles in
IS hours-this being the jump he made from
a point III Indiana west of Cincinnati tC
| Williamsburg, o., east OF Cincinnati.
| At Vernon, Ind, Gov. Morton had posted
a strong force Of Home Guards to meet the
invaders. Morgan made a demand upon the
commander OF this force for surrender. This
was refused, and two hours time asked in
which to remove the women, children and
non-combatants. Morgan very generousl =
gianted tie time asked for; but while the
women and children were being placed out
OF danger Morgan had made a detour around
Vernon, and at the expiration OF the two
hours was eight or 10 miles away.
On this big l00-mile march in the rear OF
Cincinnati, Morgan passed through Glen
dale, O., one of the beautiful suburban vii
| lagos where many Cincinnatians have their
homes. This suburban village is within five
miles of the corporate limits of Cincinnati,
and Morgan's men could plainly see the
city lights, or, if it had been daylight,
could have seen the city spires.
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