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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-08-08

Two farmers, J. ii. Green and
Henry Haggard, of near Williams
town, are busily engaged in dig
ging for gold. A tramp passed
through their farm several weeks
ago and told them to dig in GER
tain place and they would find gold
in large quantities. They have
worked steadily at mining" ever
since, but not speck of the yell
low metal has been found.
James H. Smallwood aud VIM.
+ B. Lewis, of Greensboro, are de-
scendants of Hezekiah Smallwood
of Birmingham, England, who re-
Gently died leaving an estate of
SIS 100000. Smallwood was Of
fered 100000 by his Birmingham
agent for his share in the estate,
but he refused to accept it. Both
Lewis and Smallwood are street
car motormen in Greensboro.
Judge j. d. White has announ-
ced himself candidate for re-elec-
ton in the First Appellate district
next year. Judge j. E. Robbins,
of Graves and John L. Dorsey of
Henderson are certain entries, and
Judge Thos j. Num- of Madison
vile, and Thos p. Cook of Murray
are strong probabilities. The dis
trict contains thirteen counties in
the First district and five in the
Second.
Monday morning about 2 o'clock
some unknown parties fired fifteen
shots at, the family residence
of Mr.. 1. Bailey, general manager
of the Reinecke Coal Company in
Jacksonville. Nine of the bullets
pierced the house, several passing
through the room occupied by
Bailey and his wife, and others
passing through the room occupi-
ed by his little daughter. Mrs,
Bailey was i'll at the time and a re-
ward has been offered for the ar
rest of the miscreants.
Robert r. Hilton, of Warren
county, for twelve years an inmate
of the State penitentiary at Frank
fort, under sentence of life i'm
prisonment for murder, has made
his escape from that institution.
He walked away from the prison
lgate, where as a trusty he was for
Several years. Hilton is the author
of book entitled, Ten Years a
Convict" which he published on
May II, 1900, the tenth anniver-
sary of his arrival at the prison.
Many copies of this pamphlet were
sold.
The Princeton Banner of last
week tells of peculiar death as
follows:
Il
Last Sunday afternoon Mrs
Press Martin, who lives in New
Bethel neighborhood, was sudden
ly stricken with commissions and
remained in a state of unconsci-
BUSINESS for nearly twenty-four
hours, and then passed away.
"Her son Ollie and a neighbor
boy about the same age, seventeen
were seated on the porch smoking
cigarettes and talking. Mrs. Mar
tin laughingly proposed that one
of the boys make her cigarette.
He did so md Mrs. Martin, who
had never touched one before, took
a small puff from the cigarette and
Immediately fell from her chair,
unconscious and in spasms. A
husband AND six children are left
to mourn her loss"
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-08-08
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THE STATE.
Matters Of Interest and Import.
ance Occurring the Past Week,


shops at Paducah caused a loss of
$4,000.
The balance in the State Treas
ury at the close of business July
81 was S215, 39S.13.
George w. Ranck, the historian
and capitalist, of Lexington, was
killed by train near tn at city.
Russell Green, country merch
ant, was waylaid and perhaps ia
tally injured by robbers in Frank
lin county.
Miss Amelia Jackson was acct
dentally shot and killed by her
l joevy, Will Hubbard, of Clay
county.
The Democratic Legislative
Committee for the Fifth district,
composed of Lyon and Marshall
counties, met at Calvert City and
declared j. Boyard Wyatt the no.
minee.
When A. ID. Beauchamp. of near
! Uawesville, Ky, threshed his crop
! of seventy five acres he had thirty
five shocks, making in all twenty
four bushels. This is an indica'
ton of what the drouth has done
for the farmer.
The census bureau finds that
the female population of Kentuc'
XIV constitutes 46.2 pcr' cent OF the
@ tire population. The total pop
NATION of the State is 2,l41,lI4
and of this 50,249 are foreign
born. There are 264.a95 ne
groes.
Hon. Charles X. Wheeler open
ed his senatorial campaign III
speech at Tunnel Hill, in Hardin
county, Saturday. Judge Cantrel
end congressman Smith were also
there, but only made brief talks
Several thousand people were pre-
sent.
Gov, Beckham has pardoned
Glenn Steffey, of Hopkins county
who was serving life sentence in
the penitentiary for completely in
the murder of Hewlett Howton, a
victim of regulators. The petition
for pardon was the largest ever
presented at Frankfort in behalf
of a prisoner.
Judge j, ID. White, of Bardwell
has given out officially the state
ment that he would positively be
candidate for reelection as
Judge of the Court of Appeals
from this district. 1t has persist
emily been published and rumor-
ed that he would not be candl-
date, but he will. He will have
several opponents.
In cleaning out an old spring
within twenty-five or thirty yards
of his residence, Mr.. Chas. Rat
cliff, hardware dealer of Prince
ton, struck water which is so
strongly impregnated with oil that
is unfit for use. The oil, accord
ing to statements of experts, is OF
fine quality.
Incendiaries made futile at
tempt to burn the town OF Crit
tenden, situated on the Clnclhhatl
Southern, eleven miles north OF
Williamstown. They set fire to
the town at four different places,
at the same time, but it was extin-
guished before much Roadway had
been gained.
There is trouble brewing be-
tween the typographical union and
the newspapers of Paducah. The
union has demanded an increase
of one-third in wages, and reduc-
ton from nine and half hours a
day to eight hours: The publish
ers of the four daily papers met
AMI refused to acoede to the agree ]
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in 1861, lost III men killed, divided among
the regiments as followsi SD Pa, 2S2;
10th Mich, 247; 44th N. T., 1S2. In 1862
the Goth Me. joined the brigade, losing
lat men before assisting at the closing
scene at Appomattox; making total loss
in the four three-years' regiments of the
brigade of S5S, loss exceeded only in
one instance by an equal number of regi-
ments in eny of the famous brigades
mentioned Col. Fox.
To those comrades who consider it a
solemn duty to contradict every state
ment made by any other comrade, it is
only necessary to say that the foregoing
figures are Fox's and he undoubtedly has
by much experience become so accustomed
to seeing the accuracy of his figures de-
MED as to enjoy it; and l will only add
what he says in regard to the losses of
one regiment of the Third Brigade, but
will apply to all: "None of its losses were
caused by blunders; none occurred in dis
astrous routs; its dead always lay with
their faces TO the enemy."-W. ]. ADAMS,
Mason, Mich.
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A Young American.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Having
been n constant reader of your valuable
paper for many years, and seeing so many
words of praise from the old vets, l feel
few words of praise from Il young
American would not be out of place.
Although l am not soldiers son, two
of my uncles served during the whole
period of the war. One of them, Martin
Brennan, was a member of the gallant
both y. Y. He died of consumption
about IS years ago, and is now resting IN
the Catholic cemetery on the hill side In
Livonia, n. Y. His brother, Patrick
Brennan, was member of the G9th y. 7.
He was confined for many long months
in Andersonville prison, and died shortly
after landing in New York City, after be-
ing paroled at the close of the war. He
is buried in some cemetery at New York
City.
| take great interest in reading Rough
Riding on the Plains," by Robert Morris
Peck. He is careful and clever writer,
and proves himself to be master of the
pen. Truly his trials and haruships were
terrible to endure.
"Bugle Notes from Dixie" by George
Dallas MOsgroye, is q well written article,
and makes very interesting reading. His
numerous quotations are well and care
fully arranged, and are always placed in
their right positions. And Isl and Shorty"
is indeed a masterpiece, and proves more
than interesting, and we hope Shorty may
be fortunate enough to win the hand and
heart of Maria Klegg.
Long years have passed away since the
"cruel war was over" the old and few
vets who are left are fast answering the
last taps"
The North and South are at last united,
"Old Glory floats peacefully over all our
glorious Nation, and while thousands of
our Union boys were cruelty treated, and
starved to death in their Southern prisons,
yet
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red,
They banished our anger forever,
When they laureled the graves of our
dead.
Under the sod and the dew
Waiting the Judgment Day
Love and tears for the blue;
Tears and love for the gray"
JOHN H. RYAN, Conesus, n. Y.
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wards our Captain, and later Major, who
led the regiment on the famous ''march
to the sea" and the stirring and eyentful
campaign of the Carolinas.
My companions on the picket post at
the road were two men of my company,
Ario w Dawson and Robt. n. Lester,
both of whom have reached the long pom,
toOn and crossed over the river of death.
Peace to their ashes
Lieut.. Clay gave us our orders or in
structions for the night, to wit, "Watch
for the approach of any heavy bodies of
troops" the usual directions about chal-
lenging, and added: IF you shoot shoot
to kill" We began our weary vigil at
sundown. l caught FREELY and put it
under tin cup, so as to have his illum-
mated carcass to tell the time by watch
one of the boys carried. Lester went on
at . p. M, Dawson at 10, and the writer
at II, as result of getting the short
straw in a draw for reliefs
The night was starlight and quite still,
and at about ] p. N. / was wide awake
and sitting on fence rail in the corner
of worm-fence, and under the shadow
OF big, wide-spreading birch tree, when
L detected the suppressed hum of voices,
and looking east up the left, or Versailles
road, / saw, as l thought, little less
than million of Kirby Smiths men, who
were coming right on. / sprang into the
center of the pike and commanded the
supposed enemy to halt; but on they came
The second challenge met with like re-
suits. l drew back the hammer to my
huge French musket, with which we had
been recently armed, and which were said
to be warranted to kill at both ends. All
marching troops then went in a column
of fours front, and ] could see three
abreast, and / supposed the fourth man
must be in the shadow of the cedar along
the road; but the snap of the stiff main
spring, as | drew back the hammer. in the
still night air, was both heard and heed
ed, for the army of marching enemies
came to a halt, and that promptly, then,
as ordered. / sang out: "WhO comes
there" ] was afraid the supposed enemy
would hear my heart beat. it thumped
so loud. In answer to my last challenge
came the reply, yves black boys" They
were three slaves escaping to freedom |
told them to advance. They had all their
belongings. We kept them near us till
morning. Lester, who was the "Si Klegg"
Of our company, found some honey and
a chicken somewhere, so we were able
to give them very good breakfast. They
were soon duly installed about camp in
various positions, and a few days later
all the regiment will remember the uproar
amounting to almost riot, when n we'll
known "nigger catcher" accompanied by
the alleged owner of our new arrivals,
came 10 camp with an order from Gen.
Buell. to convey the black boys back TO
slavery. They failed to find the chatteIs,
however: they were safely hidden
CHAs. NJ. CASTLE, Co. d, 1921 H., York
town, Iowa
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"Recollections of a Foragar

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Comrade
Shaw's Recollections of n Forager are
read by me very soon after the paper gets
into my hands. In the issue OF Nav 30.
Jim's account of his first O. departure
from the path Of soldierly rectitude is truly
pathetic, and he makes very serious
charge against Shep Bodkin, who was n
king among the mule-drivers of the old
Fourteenth Corps. Among the very few
who were his peers was that whole-souled
prince of teamsters, Bob Dodds, peace to
his ashes; l would love to lay IA lily on the
grave Of Bob Dodds
| am 10th to believe that Shep Bodkin
was the cause Of Jim Shaws wandering
from the chalkline of soldierly conduct
laid down in the army regulation and the
articles of war A comrade who was
thar" intimates that early in Jim's SOL
dier career, while on the march from Mich
olsonville to Camp Dick Robinson, Ky,
he showed disposition to ''rustle" around
and get things to eat-and drinks. A.
Mcneil, Redwood, Ohio.
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Some Heavy Brigade Losses.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | was
much interested in articles which appeared
in The National Tribune some time age
concerning the services, losses, etc, of
certain brigades of the Union army dur,
ing the civil war
In Fox's "Regimental Losses" the tab
ulated losses of II brigades are given,
and in connection with them six other bri-
gades receive mention.
Special mention is given these brigades,
for various reasons, viz, heaviest loss nu-
merically, heaviest percentage Of loss, con.
tinuous service, and in several instances
because composed entirely of troops from
one State.
The greatest loss in any one brigade
occurred in the six regiments of the Yer
mont Brigade, of the Second Division,
Sixth Corps, as follows: I'd VT, 224; Sd
Vt, BOG; 4th Vt, 1872; 9Th Vt, 213; 9th
Vt, 2O3; 11th Vt, 164; total, LIP. The
greatest loss in proportion to numbers was
sustained by the Iron Brigade of the First
Division, First Corps, viz: I'd Wis, 23S;
9th Wis, pa; 7th Wis, 2S1; 10th lad,
179; 24th Mich, 1S9; total. i,131.
Butterfield's Third Brigade, First Divi-
sion, Fifth Corps, receives no mention, as
brigade, in Fox's book; yet the three
three-years' regiments which, with two
two-years' regiments. formed the brigade
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Sweeny's Brigade.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: 1 see in
The National Tribune a controversy be-
tween some of the comrades ia regard to
the formation of Sweeny's Brigade.
would say that Lieut.. Fish, of Co. B, SD,
is correct. / was a member of Co. f,
sd, having enlisted at Geneva, ILL.,, at the
age of II years. After the battle of
Shiloh | was discharged for sickness On
recovering l re-enlisted, Sept. g. 1862,
in the same company and regiment and
served to the end of the war;
l was with the regiment in all its en-
gagements, the march to the sea, and
Review at Washington. The brigade
consisted of the SD ILL.,, ID and 7th Iowa
and 66th Ind. The Goth Ind. Joined us
at Corinth, Miss, after the battle.
1t does me good to hear from the old
boys. 1 wish someone would write the
history Of the 52d ILL., - REUBEN
WHEELER, Co. 3, 52d H., 521 So. Tele-
maches street, New Orleans, La.
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"reminiscences of a 5th Ind. cava,ryman.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In read
ing 'Bugle Notes" about the campaign
in East Tennessee, / note some mistakes
in the Henderson Mills fight.
The writer says Fosters Brigade got
i'll the rear of u.s." which was a mistake,
as my regiment, about 500 strong, was all
that was in the rear; the rest of the bri-
gade failed to come up.
We fought them about two hours, when
they fanked us on the left, and we fell
back about a mile. 1t is all mistake as
to our falling back about three miles in
disorder. We fell back to the right not
more than a mile, and in good order.
He is also mistaken as to the name of
our Colonel; it was Graham. Graham
was our first Colonel, and was in COM
mand of our regiment all through the
Tennessee campaign. He was a splendid
soldier, never allowing his men to be i'm,
posed on by anyone.
fight Capt Loomis, of Co. Il, with a small
squad of men, rode right into the rebel
camp and captured their Adjutant-G Zen
eral. The enemy pursued them back to
our lines, where they halted and the fight
commenced. They drove us back and
then passed us; we followed them, and
had several skirmishes, losing several
men killed and wounded.
We were in all the fights in East Ten
| nessee, except during the siege of Knox
| vile, when we were on raid.
The battle Of Rheatown occurred Oct.
II, 1868. The Johnnies fought stubborn
| ly until squad of us charged their left
flank and drove them back. We held the
position. and they retreated We chased
J them about seven miles, and then went
| into camp for the night. The next morn
ing we continued the chase to Bloutville.
where we defeated and drove them out
| of Tennessee, following them as far as
/ Abingdon, Va. We then fell back to
Jonesboro, Tenn.
This is written from memory, and may
contain some mistakes; but in the main
It is correct.-M. A. HARBERT, Co. E,
9Th Ind. Cav, Findlay, Ill.
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Nigger-stealing by Co. E, 10th Ill.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | have
been reading Picket Shots" iii The Ma
tional Tribune, and l am deeply interest
ed in what the comrades write. l have
never seen anything in print about the
stealing of negro by Co. +, 10th Ill. In
January, 1862, we were on march in
Kentucky from Camp Holt, Ky. After
the object of our march had been accom-
plished we started back to Camp Holt.
As we neared the river some of the officers
decided they wanted a negro for a cook
or waiter. When we arrived at camp,
Co. had an athletic, good-lOoking negro
boy, l should judge about Is years of
age. His master soon arrived in camp
hunting for his property, but could not
find him. We had orders to pack up and
get aboard a steamboat to return to our
old camp at Mound City, Ill. We had
what they called wedge tents in those
days; so those who had charge of the ne
gro slyly wrapped him in one of the tents
and he was loaded on wagon with the
other baggage and hauled down to the
landing at the river. Someone in the COM
pany had given the whole thing away to
the nesro's owner, as 500 reward had
been offered for any information that
would lead to the recovery of the prop
erty. Our cOmpany's baggage was on the
boat, and we had moved on board also,
when an order was received from Gen.
McClernand to search Co. Els baggage.
The searchers knew exactly where to look.
They commenced on the pile of tents be-
longing to Co. u, and near the bottom of
the pile they found the darky nearly
smothered. Our Colonel (AIorgan) was
very anxious to know who had u hand
in hiding the negro, but he could find no
one who knew anything about it. We
were put on extra duty as company and
sent above Mound City to an old iron
foundry as punishment. The rest of the
regiment was sent to Birds Point, Mo.
We never knew to a certainty who told
the negros master where the slave could
be found. We supposed it was a fellow
by the name of "Jim" Mcclure, as he
seemed to be flush with money shortly
This same Mcclure deserted
while we were standing in line of battle
at Pennington. Miss, awaiting an attack.
At least, he disappeared. l have never
heard what became of him.. w. ARM |
STRONG, Corporal, Co. e, 10th ILL.,, Ran
lolph, Iowa.
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A NIGHT ON PICKET.
Kirby Smiths Cavalry Turns Out to Be Three
Escaping Slaves.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / have
been a member of The National Tribune
family since 1879, and in that time have
| written q few letters of reminiscence. 1
| will now tell the boys about my first ex-
perience on picket guard. 1t was about
Versailles Turnpike, where the road to
Georgetown branches off. 1t was early
| in October, 1862, when l had been but
a little over two months in the service
and half-month in the field.
l had dreaded the duties Of the ''lonely
picket" in hostile country, or l thought
that l would, and this feeling had been
somewhat intensified just before entering
the service by villainous woodcut in one
of the illustrated papers of that time, en-
titled Rebel Prowler Shooting a Union
Picket" There in the foreground was
the Union picket dressed and equipped in
all the paraphernalia of war, his musket
falling from his grasp, and himself fall
ing backward in the agonies of death, and
away in the distance, in the deep woods,
appeared the ugly face and slOuch hat of
a rebel bushwhacker with blazing gun.
The picture made deep impression on
my boyish mind, and it was with some
CONSERVATION that | heard the Orderly
about p. m. one day call out my name
as one of the details for picket.
We had recently marched from Louis
vile, where we had crossed the Ohio, and
our division, under Gen. EbeneZer Du-
mont, had pushed back some part Of the
rebel army and captured Frankfort, just
in time to prevent the seating of a rebel
Governor. 1t was then known that the
rebel General, Kirby Smith, was east and
south of us, with two divisions of Bragg's
army, and it was expected of him by his
chief that he would recapture the State
Capital.
The officer of the guard that night was
our First Lieutenant, Ii. Ii. Clay-after-
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With the 18th Ohio.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l read
the account of the death of Gen. II. S
Garnet, at the battle of Carricks Ford
W. Va, written by Silas Benhan, OF
Highwood. Conn. ! was there at the
time aud believe l know the facts. Gar
nett was killed on July II, 1S61-not on
the 18th. as Mr. Renhan states. Neither
was he killed by the 18th Ohio. The 18th
Ohio did not leave the State during its
three months service The regiment was
mustered into the State service for three
months mt Camp Jackson, Columbus, o.,
in April, 1861, and was sent to Camp
Dennson, above Cincinnati, where it re-
manned until the expiration of the term.
The regiment was reorganized under the
first call for three-years men.
As to who killed Gen. Garnett, it would
be hard to say, but my opinion is that one
of the 9th Ind. or 18th Ohio fired the
shot. The 1st w. Va. also claimed the
honor.
The troops that composed the com
mand of Gen. Morris, of Indiana, were
the 9th, 18th and 9th Ind; 18th Ohio, Col
James B. Stccdman; 18th Ohio, Col. An,
drcws: 10th Ohio. Col. James Ervine;
1st w. Va, Col. Il. +. Kelly; Co. A, 1st
Ohio l.. A., Capt. Carter, of Cleveland.
| will give my own military record. l
enlisted under President Lincoln's first
call for 9e-dals men, in Co. b, 18th Ohio,
Cdpt. w III. Nhldce. served through
the West Virginia campaign; was at
Philippi, June 3, 1861; at Laurel Hill,
July 8, 1861; at Carrick's Ford, July IA,
1861; was mustered out Aug. 80, 1861,
by reason of expiration of term of SER
vice. / re-enlisted Sept 8, 1861, for three
years, in Co. b, 18th Ohio, Capt Daw-
son. | veteranized in December, 1868, at
Strawberry Plains, East Tenn; marched
to Chattanooga, where | was mustered in
as veteran, Jan l, 1864; was trans
ferred to Co. e, 18th Ohio, Capt. David
Way; was mustered out at San Antonio.
Tex, Nov. q, 1865. l was in the army
four years, six months, "a days-HIRAM
X. BROOKE, Cos. B, G and Z, 18th Ohio,
Gibsonburg, o.
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'unsatisfied-like" condition. On such ex-
cursons the most satisfactory game to
be flushed was the mud lark Now,
the unsophiSticated reader must not think
the soldier was hunting for a bird that
sings in the meadow and rises with the
sun. Not at all. He is simply on still
hunt for an unpoetical, grunting, razor
back hog, which the Southern cavalier
calls a mud lark" Being the private
property of loyal citizens" there are
strict orders against the killing of the
"larks," and therefore the huntsman must
be strategetical and discretionary. His
modus operandi is in manner and form
as follows: He simply inveigles his clark
ship into some sequestered dale, where
he can be noiselessly dispatched, skinned
and chucked into bag, unheard and I'M
observed by the Lord of the Manor" This
proceeding successfully accomplished, the
defunct mud lark" is smuggled into
camp, and few choice spirits are in
vited to the festal board to enjoy a feast
like unto that Charles Lamb describes