The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-09
JOHN A. LoGAE'S CONVERSION.
A NEW CHAPTER ADDED TO
80, MS WAR RECORD.
Another Version OF How Ills Patriotism
Was Fired by, the Battle Of Bull run
Before ina lie opposed iAncoin
and Had southern sympstnies'

was Fired by uhe batue VI
-Isefore mat TIC opposeu -
and Had southern sSmps'"es
go. In
The attitude OF Zen. Johh a. Hvso"
the exciting days Immediately ollowl
the frst election Of Lincoln and the outbreak
- = C,.I W. hos heen the subject of a
- H., -, l,.o,so,or IN which n writer
for the Illinois State Regfstef Oh oPfms-
Acid III. has lust contributed an inter-
astinn chan,or
'' ....or,s Encvolopedia
ACCORDING 10 Hpp,.s O. Loan was
OF American biography uen. D IT,.
from the frst an aroeht suPPoi'e'
coin and the Union. 1t says:
so,,ho a., ,nt;mation of coming trouble
oh,"e u m"S.,I daolo rcd that In
from the SCUM he hosa"I NLsah.n Tin-
the event OF the election Oh noiaa -
him inaugurated."
Further on the encyclopaedia says:
"In July, 1851, during the extra session
Of Congress called by President Lincoln ne
lLoganl left his seat in Congress tnat ne
| might oyertake The troops that were march
| ine out OF Washington TO meet the enemy
and fought in the ranks of Col. richardson
regiment in the battle Of Bull Run
With both these statements the wrner
In the Illinois State Register taxes issue;
| Describing himself as a warm friend and
did not sympathize with Lincoln at the
start and Was not favorable to the cause OF
| the Union when the war began.
He further says that while Loga : p1p, {,
otism was fired by the roar OF the BUN Ituh
guns. the story that he left his seat IN Con-
ssrass 70 oyertake and fight In the ranks OF
| The Union army at Bull Run Is erroneous.
He saws:
THE history OF Gen; John a. Logan
is a family one, and the ooJect OF tne wri'el
is TO correct that history with no intent or
aino 70 nl,ick from the brow of one of Ameri-
cas- brayest a single laurel to which he
IL entitled or to wrong his memory IN the
| slightest degree. But the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, as the
oath goes. is this:
"JoRn A. Logan was not favorable to
the Union side when the Wal of the Rebellion
| commenced, and those who claim that
| he was not only do him put themselves
sOn the contrary, job A. Logan de-
no,nced the war as q damned Abolition
scheme TO free the Niger and went so
far in his denunciation Of the Lincoln party
as he termed It. as to denounce Douglas
saLd and AT his home. On the train upon
which Douglas and his wife were going
To- Chicago, he declared in the hearing Of
hundreds OF people: .r
marty, but III he damned II he can deliver
the goods =,
"sHe was SO enraged at Douglas he would
not 20 TO Douglass room In the American
House in Springfield, although Douglas
implored him by saying:
9'John' come up TO my room and let
liz talk this thing over
oh, talk the devil said Logan, I've
talked with YOU and been led by you, until
Won have led the Democratic party into
ruin, IN be damned il you lead me any
more
He would not listen to the speeches
made by Douglas at Bloomington. PONTIAC
and Joliet al which last place Logan got on
the train and Douglas went on to Chicago,
where he died the June following.
aJohn A. Logan had been elected 10
Congress. as had old Col. Dick Richard
son, as everybody called him. Col. Rich
ardson on the day before the battle OF Bull
Run made up n party OF six. four TO go in
a carriage and two on horseback. 20 witness
the battle. They arrived near there on
| the evening before the battle and could
get no place 10 sleep, until one OF the party,
Col. r. +. Goddell of Denver, Col, i'm
provised a camp by taking sheaves OF oats
from a field near by. upon which the party
| slept that night.
"The party consisted OF Col. Richard
| son, Col. John A. McClernand, Congress
mar from Springfield; John A. Logan,
the Hon. Burt Cook, Col. X. T.. Goddell
and one other to he remembered. The
party were soundly sleeping in their oat-
sheaf bed when the sound OF a cannon
was heard and Con. McClernand exclaimed:
NV God, boys. il IL the beginning OF
the tug-of-war! Get up and let US hurry
.Ra NlA