Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

crates fought the bravest fight ever
known in history. The boys of the
Spanish-American war have told me
that their chief regret was that they
had only Spaniards to fight, while the
veterans of the Union fought men who
were Americans through and through
and as brave as themselves. Is that
not pretty tribute to those who wore
the blue in the eos?
Lee was the first by precept and
| example to accept the decision of the
war. He led all others-by appeal
and exhortation to the South to lay
down it's arms and return to the fold.
If for nothing else his statue should
appear at Gettysburg"
Where He Was Wounded.
At the Confederate Veteran camp
meeting, held at the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, last month, a group were
exchanging recollections in one cor
ner of the room before the speeches.
One of the group, a man connected
with New York bank, was asked by
comrade where he was wounded, for
the banker has a noticeable limp.
MY lameness is the result of q
forgery" he replied
Bank episode. eh?" asked one.
NO" was the reply. Not exactly.
I reckon l may as well satisfy your
curiosity.
About six months after my enlist,
ment under Gen. Sterling Price of Mis-
souri, 1 was sent to the hospital for re-
pairs. War was hell to me right in
the beginning. l was left in farm
house, and as the Yanks were hot on
our trail 1 had to be moved
Il resolved to get back home, and
by various stratagems l succeeded. 1t
was quite a journey-from Arkansas
to the northwest corner of Missouri,
where my people lived. 1 got home
by night travel
81 found the old town in possession
of the Federals. Old Col. Bob Smith
with his Sixteenth Illinois infantry
was holding the place. and every road
and hog path leading to the town was
guarded. 1 had to run the pickets to
get inside.
Things were getting very warm in
the old town. 1t was under martial
law. An order was issued that no
man or woman should be permitted
to leave the town without pass,
signed by the provost marshal and the
officer of the day. 1 obtained a pass
and got on the train, where | encoun-
tered an officer
4 left my seat cautiously and went
out on the rear platform. The train
was running about ten miles an hour.
There was no brakeman about r
caught the iron handle of the platform
and jumped from the train.
Il thought 1 should never touch bot
tom. When l tried to pick myself up
l found 1 had broken a leg. In that
condition. drenched to the skin, in
he
back to my fathers house. l think if
I had had pistol l would have killed
myself.
Il must have crawled six or seven
miles-maybe more. l reached home
just before daylight. My fathers old
family doctor was called, and he was
sworn to secrecy. of course. 1 shall
never forget how my old father told
him he would kill him if he betrayed
us. But. of course. he never would
have done that. An operation was
necessary to save my life. 1 have been
lame from the effects of it ever since"
Daredevil Combination.
Champ Clark's first glimpse of an
army was at Mackville, KY, near his
boyhood home. He was telling a
caller recently about it. Some one
had charged him to take a bunch of
fine horses to a neighboring thicket
for purposes of concealment.
Il was astride a sorrel'' said Mr.
Clark, when | happened to turn my
head to the west. There 1 saw some
thing that surprised me. 1t was
Morgan and his men riding down the
hill at furious pace and up another
hill of the gravel road. 1 didn't pro-
pose to miss a chance of seeing that
army, If it cost every one of our
horses. So l waited to see what was
going to happen. Suddenly out rode
seven horsemen. who began firing
within pistol shot, at that advancing
column 1t was as reckless a thing
as l ever Witnessed. When the smoke
had cleared away I saw six of the
seven horsemen riding on They had
killed one of Morgan's army.
Years afterward, when was
teaching school, the children of
George Gibson who was one of those
seven horsemen, were among my
pupils. 1 asked him how they had
ever dared to attack such superior
force in broad daylight, where every
chance YVES against them.
Well said he, we were mad and
full of whisky ''-washfngton Post
Want Monument to "Jeb- Stuart.
The yirginian veteran survivors Of
Gen -Jeb' Stuart's Confederate cav
airy, have voted to petition the state
legislature for a site in Capitol