The National tribune., 1899-07-06

: ,yees-aE fooled about that, for know every
foot of this cave, for was in here wild John
A. Murrell many's the year ago, whin he
was in the horse business"
We had to coax joyce to get him out, for
the ecommis5ary fluid was dying in him, and
he was becoming obstinate and loluacious,
while our ca adles Were burning lower all the
time. He really hal the best of us at last,
and it was only OF an invitation to go to
D9lerty's room and have a god time that
he colssnfs1 to move. Poor Joyce was a
- ncharaeteE- ~ The first time that, 1 met him
was at Murfreesboro in the Spring of 1853.
He was telling big yarn about his ex-
periences on a raid with Wilder's Mounted
Infantry Brigade.
""Ahs. said he, q like thin I4ightnin'
BrigaIe boys. They're as good a set o.
MN as egsr rliya1, al u M damned if there's
shtifl widin 20 miles but what they'll find
it, ] looked at the little fellow as he de-
taiie1 TO al aimrlng audience his plan of
iitSsalfd asfiosigh his headswastoo ferrstts to
',bas Aapoleenie, yet his tongue made up for
sail eyanial deficiency. go
NEWSPAPER MEN WITH THE ARMY.
90 There were a-goo1 many newspaper men
with the army. w. ID. Bickham. now of
the DAYTON (O) Joura1I, and Whitelaw
Reid had left us; but Griswold, "The Fat
Contributor" of the Cincinnati Times; Nc
1ChIaya,,iof the Cincinnati Commercial:
Furay, of the Cincinnati Gazette, and
'otafsrs warA still with the army. On one
OCCASION Joycs and Griswoid had terrible
row. 1t was char 5si by Grish at tine gave
joyce bgn3le of manuscript-ale letter-to
mail TO the Cincinlati Times, and Joyce
sent it to tie 1Gu-5tte and received pay and
ere lit fo- it.
JoYCE'S ADVENTURE WITH REBEL
"a ------ -''',a-'s. CAVALRY
.iThsy tsHi that joyce accompanied Will
der's Brigade a raid and upol returning
via -Deciard; Tenn, ne took too much
liquor, and falling asleep in house was
left by the briga1e. Soon after some Con
prisoner. Tney supposed him to be a spy,
he being in citizens clothing, and TOOK him
before Gen. Pat Cleburne, VINO had been try
ing 10 Intercept the r2iding party with a
division of infantry. Cleburne a sked saw
agely how he came to be with the Yankees.
etc, where he was from and what he was
do ng. Joycs. t-e nolgng, aa1 just recover
ing from his iamborea, had lost nothing Of
his hsalile5s. He responded promptly
that he TAS ns5jpaper reporter and was
with the rajd;rg party.
~ -Ah, SAID tls General fiercely, "you are
one of those scoundrels who malign the
SoItherl people, beiittle their cause, and
cast as soerSiol on their women
NO, sir, Joyce responded quickly "Rade
that and he pIllei a copy of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer from his pocket and
fa1dei IL 10 'Gen. Cieburne That's the
paper | write for
Nov, Joyce was connected with the Gin
sinnati GIzehe at that time, red-hot Re-
publican paper, and the copy Of the En-
quirer he handed 10 Cleburne he had kept for
the purpo5e Of pitching into in his next
letter. As C!e5urne read his severity re-
lase1, the copperhead tone of the paper
sutte1 him, and he said: "Ah, now, that's
more sensible. What did You say your
name
Joyce, SIR" promptly responded the willy
little rascal.
- Cieburne read the paper awhile, then told
Joyce to take a seat, and soon had some
liquor brought 10 him and entered into Il
lengthy cnat Joyce answered all his
questions about Rosecrans's army much to
his qualification, and he finally told .Joyce
that he was too good a man to keep from the
calling he was following. He gave him {,
horse, and after bidding him adieu. sent
him forward through his lines with an
escort. . ,..s..t
Joyce made good time over 10 our lines
and to Tullahoma, where Rosecrins's s
Headquarters We're. He presented him
SELF before the General and said that he had
valuable information 10 communicate for
si00; as he had just come from the Con-
federate lines, and upon promise OF pay de-
tailed all he had seen of the Confederates,
embeiiishlng good deal SO as TO give full
value for the pay.
SO"Pio VI .ctaiS NdIus3, III Tile
Winter of 1S64-5, went on board a steamer
lying at Graveiiy Springs on the Tennes-
see River unloading forage for Wilson's
cavalry command. Passing over the tops
oi some sacks OF corn, friend with me said,
Hold on; what's that?' pointing down
between the sacks. | looked and saw a
little red head protruding from between two
huge yellow shouldeF-straps.
We reached down and punched the head,
anu soon up rose Joyce. He had got
drunk down the river, and had crawled into
tins corn cave To try TO sober up He said
that he was a Second Lieutenant in sSShtew-
arts InJianny Cabalry. be Jases," and ac-
'cepted aninyitation to drink in the liyeliest
manner.
The next time heard of him he was
Mayor aud City Judge al Hays City. KAN
IN 1867, and had Wild Bill as City Marshal.
But ne evidently reformed afterwards for
met hin IN 1870 in the Indian Territory at
Little River; in the Seminole Nation, ne
companying Elder Hoag, Superintendent