The National tribune., 1900-02-08
OI.2.TIME ENEMIES.
One of Them Pays Tribute to Another ant
the Comrades with Whom He Soldie-ed.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: When
read the article six Hundred Miles Of
Fried Chicken" by Theodore +. Allen. Of
the 18th Ohio Cav, my mind reverted to a
cold, dreary morning in November, 1853.
when | was soldier in gray and the gal
liant and accomplished Allen, soldier in
blue, was Il prisoner of war in the hands
of the Kentucky Confederate cavalry to
| which belonged.
This was at Rogersville, Tenn. Allen
was the Adjutant of his regiment. and in
| the gallant fight he made before surrender
| ing was slightly wounded. Gracefully ac-
cepting the situation, the young Adjutant,
| only 20 years old, by his gallant bearing
challenged the admiration of his Kentucky
captors, who accorded him the treatment
| due an ideal beau sGbreur, which he evil
| IDENTIFY was. SIdriter an mOdo, fOrtiter IN
| re, was written on his youthful brow.
But notwithstanding our Kentucky hos
| pitality and the CLOSE attention we gave
him, he pined for other scenes and the com
radeship of soldiers in blue who were not
RebS" in Dixie land. By clever rlLse de
guerre he effected his escape during the
darkness of the night succeeding the morn
| ing of his capture.
Our Kentucky boys fought Allen and his
18th Ohio Cav. on many fields-Bull's Gap,
Nolinchucky River, Blue Springs, Jones
boro, Henderson'S Mil, RheatoWn, Pugh s
Hill, Blountville, Carter's Station, Zollicof-
fer, Dandridge, Bean Station, Morristown,
Blain's Cross Roads, Strawberry Plains,
Maryyile, Sevierville. Farewell and Bris-
tol, in Tennessee, and at Cynthiana and
other places in Kentucky during Morgan'S s
last ride through the State
Allen was the notably gallant young Of
ficer who led the charge which captured
the Licking River bridge cutting off our
attempted escape from Cynthiana by that
route, Sunday morning.. June H. 1864.
From the foregoing it will readily be seen
that Alien, the superb cavalier. and the 9TH
Ohio Cav. were no strangers to Morgan's
men.
During the Encampment of the GAR.
at Cincinnati Col. Allen, now prominent
business man of that city, gracefully in
vited "Morgan's men" to he the guests
Of the 18th Cav. at the Chamber of Commerce
during the Encampment. The Southern
cavaliers accepted the generous invitation,
and were received with welcoming cheers,
surprising to ''Morgan's men, who invol-
unfairly and spontaneously responded with
the rebel YELL" so familiar to the q Buck
eye boys" in bygone days down in Ten
nessee and over on the old Kentucky
shore.
The dashing Allen. after serving as Ad-
jutant of his regiment, became Captain,
and subsequently was made Colonel
by breyet for dash and bravery on the
field of battle.
Col. Allen is versatile man. Although
prominent commercial man on Vine
street, Cincinnati, his home is in Coving-
ton. His literary attainments are of a high
order. He Yields a fluent pen, writing
prose and poetry. A pleasing orator, he
frequently appears on the lecture platform.
Universally loved by his old comrades,
officers and privates, he is in demand as
an orator at their reunions, and when a
comrade passes over the river" he un-
failingly, at any sacrifice, visits the sad
dened home and feelingly delivers brief
and appropriate funeral Grafton. In Col.
Allen is illustrated the-fact that the brave
are the tender and the loving are the daring.
The fighting days of the blue and the
gray are over. Thousands are sleeping
&C. over there" under the shade of the
trees" The survivors are marching with
halting step, their faces turned toward the
setting sun. With muffied drum beat and
arms reversed they are following the COM
rades who are =" crossing the bar.o-GEo.
DALLAS MoSGROvE, 4th KY. Cav, c.
S. A.