Arizona republican., 1903-07-09

war his company was hurried on board a vessel named the Simoorr anu sent to Turkey. and later to the Crimea.
 Mir. Thompson's first battle was par ticipated in on the Alma river He Ia- ceived slight wound in th.s engage ment. The next conflict between armed men, and where they fought like tigers to the death. was at Balaklava. where the brave 800 rode through the valley of death.'' MT. Thompson raid today that his brigade was drawn in battle line across a great plain between the Russians and the light brigade. When Lord Cardigan obeyed the order brought bim by Iaican and gave the command to advance, Sir Colin Camp bells brigade swung into fours. clear ing gaps through which the brave 600 rode on it's way to death.
 ''I saw Lord Cardigan with the bug Ter near his side ride through the gap Of fours adjacent to mine.
 II saw the remnant of the 800 when they returned. but did not see the bug Ter. I supposed he was killed in that bloody charge. Yet I see by a recent copy of the Denver News that the bug Ter. Sullivan of the light brigade. still lives and resides in Denver.
 "I hope to live to meet him said the old hero. and talk with him or that trying hour"
 At the battle of Inkerman MT. Thompson said his company lay upon | the ground in a line reaching across the field. The commanding officers toll the soldiers to hold their fire until they couli see the whites of the enemies eyes. The command was 0beyed, and | then came a hand-to-hand conflict. where soldier tossed soldier like game | of shlttlecock. literally strcwmg the | field vi h the dead equal more in num- | bers than the survivors. After the I battle enc of the English generals saw | a Russian riding on a white horse a. a gre;.t distance. He asked the soldiers to bring the enemy down. The soldiers fired continuously at him, but without the desired result Finally. MT ThomL son and one of his Highland comrades decided 10 try q shot. They both fired simultane ously and the rider fell. ''The keen eye and the steady nerve of the Scot was the key to it all and ever will be- he said. ''as long as the glens and crags of old Scotland give birth and brawn to the human kind" It was afterward learned that the rider was a Russian prince. The captain of MT. l medal for Ihe deed.
 at one time this brave old soldier did guard duty before General Grant s tent. One afternoon the general noticed the military bearing of the guard, and asked him where he had served and re ceived his training. Upon learning that he had served through the Crimea- General Grant walked back and forth with him for long time listening to his story of that great campaign Finally Mir. Thompson told his com mander of having seen Mcclellan as a student of war in the Crimea. The general became so interested that he paced up and down with Thompson over an hour. MT. Thompson soon after was appointed sergeant.
 Speaking of Mcclellan reminded the veteran of the first time he ever saw him. 1t was in the Crimea, where Me
 Clellan and Beauregard were studying engineering and the art of war. He says he had seen them many time ir the tent of Sir Colin Campbell ex-
 cnanging notes like two brothers, anC
 then again in this country he saw then on opposing fields of battle trying tC outgeneraI each other. 'The mos
 thrilling moment of my life" said the old soldier today, was when lying be
 hind the embankments during the seige of Sebastopol I had previously [ received training in heavy artillery ana
 was familiar in every particular witf
 cannon, mortars, shot and shell. Wt
 were lying at rest at ease behind oul works. when suddenly a shell from the } enemy's guns fell in our squads midst There was a general scamper for shel ter, a pell-mell rush to get out o
 harms way. I looked at the shell. anC seeing that the hissing and sputterins fuse was of sufficient length to warran my attempt to get rid of the unwel . come visitor, I quickly grabbed th' 7 shell and threw it over the wall, where it immediately exploded without harm [ to anyone."- Rocky Mountain News. 1InLrcIN AIIrIo IAIcI1 A