The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-10-22

ners, who were the most independent fell
lows / ever saw, chose to work the guns.
The defense of the place was left entirely
to the individual efforts of those who
chose to defend it, nothing preventing its
capture but the fact that the enemy could
not cross the river. Very little loss was
sustained and the damage done the town
by the shells was immateral. We tried
to keep our men in camp, but some joined
in the fight, one only being hurt He vol
unteered TO assist in working one of the
guns ana had part of his tongue shot
off by riiieman upon the opposite bank
MORGAN AND DUKE IN A CANOE.
"The Chief in silence strobe before,
And reached that torrents sounding
shore
"About ) p. M, the FederalS seemed to
be withdrawing. The artillery was still
playing on both sides, the enemy still &C.
cupying the nights where their battery
was planted. but the infantry and sharp
shooters had disappeared from the low
land opposite the city. Desiring to as
certain certainly if they had gone, Col
Morgan crossed the river in a canoe. Un-
willing TO see him go alone, and having in
vain endeavored to dissuade him from
going at all, l regretfully accompanied
him. Several shells flew over the canoe,
one bursting just above 1t, and some of
the fragments falling in it, We landed
Just opposite the wharf, and stole eau
tiously through struggling thicket to
the position which the Federals had occu-
pied, and seeing nothing of them, We con-
cluded they had drawn off entirely.
was very much relieved by this reflection.
Such situation, without a horse, and
with no means of escape but canoe, if
indeed we could have gotten back to the
river at all, was not to my taste, and l
deyoutly thanked Providence that the enc
my had gone.
After remaining at Chattanooga a
week or ten days, we set out for Knox
vile. The greater number of the men
were mounted, and those who were not
had great hopes When we reached
was designated on the rolls of the War
Department and the Texas squadron
were encamped in close vicinity, and for
two or three weeks both were drilled
strictly, twice day, and greatly distressed
by guard mounting and dress parades
These dress paradcs presented i graceful
and pleasing spectacle on account of the
yariegated appearance of the ranks.
LIEUT.-coL. ST. LEGER GRENFELL.
Gust before Morgan left Knoxville to
20 on the expedition known as the First
Kentucky Raid he was joined by a gen.
tleman from abroad whose history had
been a curious and extraordinary series
of exciting adventures, and who now came
to see something of our war. This was
Lieut.-Col. st. Leger Grenfcll, of the Eng
lish service, and of all the very remark
able chara ctcrs who have figured, outside
of popular novels, in this age, he will re-
ceive the suffrages of our Western cav
alrymen for prominence in dcvil-may-care
:, eccentricity. lie had commenced life, II
believe, by running away from his faith
or hprprsn fba Ipt wnu1I
him to enter the army, and in dong SO
he showed the good sense that he really
possessed, for the army was the proper
place for him, provided it went to war
often enough. lie served five years in
some French regiment in Algeria, and
then quitting the service, lived for q num-
Der of years i'll Tangicrs, where he did
little business with the Moorish batter
les when the French bombardcd the place.
He served four years with Abd-El- kadcr,
of whom he always spoke IN the highest
terms as having been everything that he
ought TO be, except member of the
Church of England. Having exhausted
life in Africa, he looked elsewhere for
excitement, and passed some years of
his subsequent life in great happiness and
contentment amid the pleasant scenes of
the Crmean war, the SepOy rebellion and
Garibaldi's South American service.
When the war broke out over here he
came, of course, and, taking fancy to
Morgan, from what he had heard of him,
eagerly sought service under him. He was
very fond of discussing military matters,
but did not like to talk of himself, and al
though / talked with him daily, it was
months before he told anything of his
history. He was a thorough, and very
accomplished soldier, and, possibly, may
have encountered something i'll early life
that he feared, but if SO, it had ceased
TO exist.
Col. Grenfell became Morgan's Adju-
tant-General, and was of great assistance
to him, but sometimes gave trouble by
his impracticable temper, persisting,
smong other things, in making out all
papers in the style le mad learned in the
English service, the orders and resu!a tons
of the War Department to the contrary
notwithstanding. lie was always in a
good temper when matters were active
] never saw him hilarious but once, and
that was the day after the battle of
Hartsyille. He had just 'thrashed' his
landlord, and doubled up a brother Eng
lishman, in a 'set-to' about a mule, and
was contemplating an expedition on the
morrow, with Gen. Morgan, to Nashville.
He was the only gentleman l ever knew
who liked 10 fight with his fists, and he
was always cheerful and contented when
he could shoot and be shGt at.
After he LEFT Morgan, he was made
the terror of the entire front. He would
have been Invaluable as commander of q
brigade of cavalry, composed of men, who,
unlike our volunteers, appreciated the
military necessity of occasionally having
an officer 10 knock them in the mead. II
permitted to form, drill and discipline such
brigade of regular cavalry, after his own
fashion, he would have made gaps in many
lines Of battle, or have gotten his black
guards well peppered' in trying"
Col. Grenfell will appear prominently
further along in this story.
THE FIRST KENTUCKY RAID.
July 4, 1862, the bugle sound announced
that the hour had come for the march
from the hills of Tennessee to the allur-
ing blue grass fields, beyond the blue
mountains. in old Kentucky. The men
were in high feather and in full song:
'The sun shines bright in the old Ken
lucky home,
TITS Summer, the darkies are gay,
The corn tops ripe and the meadows in
the bloom,
While the birds make music all the
day."
Morgan had now about $40 effective
men. Sometime in the later part of June,
Col. Hunt, Of Georgia, arrived at Knoxville
IN command of a regiment of Partisan
Rangers" and requested permission to ac-
company Morgan into Kentucky
The bugle sounded again, and, Duke
with flashing eye and flowing plume rode
ont uy,0n the road ar tho head of tho Nor