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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
"FIGHTING JIM" JOUETT
His Daring Exploit at Galveston Har-
Dor In 1861.

His Daring Exploit at Galveston Har-
Dor In 1851.
Rear Admiral James L. Jouett, who
died during the past year, was one Of
generation of sea fighters that are
rapidly decreasing, says the New York
Evening Post. Fighting Jim Jouett
of the American Navy" as he was pop
ularly known among naval men, had a
long and distinguished career and was
one of the most popular men in the
service. He entered the navy in 1871
and passed through the successive
grades of the service to the outbreak
of the civil war, when he first saw ac-
tive service as a lieutenant on board
the United States frigate Santee.
Lieutenant Jouett's first daring ex-
plot took place on the night of Nov. Z,
1861. The Santee was lying off Gal
weston, Tex, and Jouett asked per-
mission to enter the harbor for the
purpose of destroying the steamer Gen
eral Rush, which was being fitted as a
war vessel by the Confederates, and
the Royal Yacht, a small frigate,
mounting one 80 pound gun. Leaving
the Santee few minutes before mid
night with forty men in two launches,
Lieutenant Jouett pulled boldly into
the harbor. The General Rush was
moored at wharf seven miles away,
and he had to pass the Royal Yacht to
reach the vessel which he first wished
to capture.
All went well, and success seemed as
sured when Lieutenant JOuett's boat
grounded and was run into by the sec
ond launch. The noise of the collision
aroused the crew of the Royal Yacht,
who Immediately opened fire. Jouett
saw that he could not reach the Gen
eral Rush and at once determined to
board the Royal Yacht Twice were
the boats hailed, but the little party
paid no heed. The boats came along
side the frigate, and Carter, Jouett's
chief gunner, sent shot from a IL
pound howitzer through the side of the
vessel at the water line and then
boarded her. The recoil of the gun
sent the launch back a few boat
lengths, leaving Carter alone to face
the enemy.
With some difficulty Jouett got the
launch alongside again and went to
his gunner's rescue. He barely reached
the deck of the royal yacht when he
was wounded in the arm and lung by
a bayoret dashed to pole in the hands
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

met me just after my arm was carried
away by a shell. This cannot be true.
because 1 received two wounds. both
with bullets-one through the forearm
and the other through the elbow, lodg-
ing near the shoulder. The bones of
the arm were so thoroughly cOmminut-
ed that an amputation became neces-
sary, and my arm was amputated in
the evening about $50 o'clock on the
day received the wound. in the operat-
ing room of the hospital above referred
to, on the hill DR.. Gabriel Grant met
me far out to the front and put on a
bandage. DIR. John F. Hammond OF
South Carolina discovered the nature
of my second wound. DR.. Gideon S.
Palmer of Maine, my own brigade sur
geon, who had come out with my regl-
ment, the Third Maine, superintendent
the whole operation of the amputation.
He caused me to wait from about IL
in the morning until $50 in the even
ing for this work, because he said 1t
was necessary for a reaction to set in.
Several men have said that they
carried me off the field. This is also a
mistake, for l walked off the field from
very near the Seven Pines crossroads
to DR.. Grants field hospital on the hill.
near the Fair Oaks station. 1t was
somebody else that was carried on a
stretcher 1t might have been my
brother who afterward became by
brevet General c. II. Howard, for he
was shot through the thigh and had
difficulty in walking a step.
ave took the first train from that
station to the White House and went
thence by boat to Fort Monroe, and
from that place to Baltimore by steam
er, and after a rough transfer of my
brother and myself in n hack from the
steamer to the railroad depot we were
taken to New York by the cars and
stayed over night at the Astor House.
Here Mrs Stetson. the wife of the pro-
prietor. supervised our needs and gave
us every courtesy and kindness until
we set out the next day after our ar
rival for Maine
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
HE GAVE UP THE PASSWORD
story of "A Negro sentinel and Gener
nj william Il. sherman.


nj william Il. sherman.
Booker T. Washington recently told
a gathering of negroes that one of the
great faults of his race was a DISPOSE
ton to exhibit knowledge under any
and all circumstances, and asserted
that until the negro learned not to dis
play his vanity he was useless in any
confidential capacity. By way of illus
tration he told story which, he said,
might be or might not be apocryphal,
but which was good enough to be true.
General Sherman had been told that
the soldiers of a negro regiment in his
command were lax when on sentry
duty and showed a fondness for pass
ing doubtful persons through the lines
just to indulge their power to do So.
To ascertain if this were so he muffied
himself one night in a cloak and tried
to get past a black sentry. After the
'Who goes there?" the "a friend"' and
the advance, friend, and give the
countersignr' had been exchanged,
Sherman replied:
"Roxbury"
mo, sahr' was the polite but firm
response.
"Medford."
"No, sahr'
Charleston" Sherman next tried.
''No, sab; no, sahv' said the negro de-
terminedly. Then he added: Now,
see heah. Yo' can go fru tn whole
blamed joggrafy, but Massa Sherman
he done say that nobody can get pas
me wifout sayin' Cambridge! Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
CIVIL WAR DESERTIONS.
War Department Data Fix the Num-
Der at About II7,247 Soldiers.


The actual number Of assertions
from the United States army during
the late civil war is unknown, but it
has been estimated by the record and
pension office, from the best data OBJ
tainable. that the number of actual
deserters at large at the close of the
war making due allowance for those
incorrectly reported as deserters) was
11T,247.
Many charges of desertion have been
removed by the war department on
the ground of manifest error in the
record under the acts of July >, 1884;
May II, 1886, and March ?, 1889, and
the acts amendatory thereof. No rec
ord has been kept showing the number
of cases in which the charge of deSer-
ton has been removed by the war de-
partment, and it would be impossible
to determine that number, even ap-
proximately. without examining the
records of the department from the
war period to the present time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
IN BLUE AND IN GRAY.

a New England Veteran Who Is
Member of n Confederate Camp.
1t is a strange anomaly that one man
should belong both to the Grand Army
of the Republic and the organization of
Confederate Veterans. James Ander-
son of Springfield, Mass, is, however,
a member of both bodies. On Memo
rial day he appears in the blue uniform
of the Union army, and he is the pos
SCISSOR also of a suit of Confederate
gray. But Mr.. Anderson did not fight
on both sides during the civil war. He
was with the forces of the north, a
member of the Thirty-first Maine vol
unteers. His membership in the organ
ization of Confederate Veterans came
about in another way. About four
years ago the Union veteran was IN
Petersburg. Va, visiting the old battle
ground. He was invited to a meeting
of Confederate Veterans and respond
ed to an invitation to make a speech.
So highly did he praise the bravery OF
the soldiers OF the south during the Pc
tersburg siege that he quite won the
hearts of the old Confederates seated
about him. The feeling of friendship
resulted in an invitation to the MEM
bers of the Confederate camp to visit
the G.. A. r. post to which Mr.. Ander-
son belonged in Springfield, Mass. The
southern veterans went to Springfield
in a body, and soon afterward unani-
mously made Mr.. Anderson contrib
uting member OF their camp. And this
incident is a striking illustration of the
union of the north and south.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

had ceased to fall as mother love
brought comfort to the wounded heart.
What if the world had forgotten? She
had Nellie left-Nellie with her IA
theirs bonny blue eyes and crisp curls.
Suddenly she started up in surprise.
The Bromley farm wagon stood at the
gate, and the Judge himself was hitch
Ing the horse. What could it mean?
kind er surprised to see me, amt
your he asked "Well, them fools is
taking things out to the cemetery, and
and 1 kind er thought twas time I
was doing some decorating myself.
Ford told me the other day how hard
you had to hustle, and it struck me it
would do a heap more good to deco
rate your pantry a bit than to put
flowers on dead mems graves. Them
folks is so took up with dead heroes
they kind er seem to have forgotten
the living ones"
what do you mean?' she said.
cit means just this" he answered
stoutly: Your pa and me weren't
friends, and took it hard that John
should have married you. But you've
made good fight since, and I'm proud
of your pluck. If you'll forgive an
old man, why-why''- His voice was
choked, but his open arms We're more
eloquent than words.
She paused irresolutely, but only for
moment. Then she stepped forward
quietly, and his arms closed around
her. AS his bearded cheek rested
against hers he caught the whisper,
For Jacks sake.' and knew that
through the dead the living had been
united.
When the supplies were put away,
The two sat in the little parlOr. AS his
big. brown hand closed over hers he
told her how his heart had yearned to
share his grief with her, but how
pride had held him back till Ford's
tale of her privations had conquered
his stubbornness. Hot tears rolled
down his cheeks, and it was the girls
tender voice that comforted.
Again the music sounded-the parade
was coming back-and the whistle of
the afternoon train added its shrill
notes to the familiar air of Marching
Through Georgia." But the two on
the big sofa had ears only for a lost
voice.
Little Nellie. playing happily on the
porch, heard the music stop short and
burst of cheering go up. Then the
band struck up again, but it could not
drown the cheers. Then down the
street they came-the Horizon hose,
the Rescue hook and ladder, the Grand
Army veterans and the MasOns. Nellie
came flying into the parlor, with cries
of Come. Conner and the two re-
luctantIy stepped out on the porch.
With her hand on the judges arm
Edith looked bravely up the street
Then she swayed and would have fall
en- If he had not supported her. A wild
cry burst from her lips. On the Shout
ders of four men was a strangely IA
miliar figure, and with blare of brass
never before equaled the Silverton
Cornet band played when Johnny
Comes Marching Home"
Edith Strengthened up and stood there
TRANSPORTED waiting till they would
give him to her arms. The old man at
her side cried, My boy" Then low to
himself, II am glad 1 came before he
did, for now 1 have a new daughter as
well as a son.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
The seventh Michisnn's Exploit.

The success of the brilliant move
across the river ut Fredericksburg
makes n bright page in the annals of
the Seventh Michigan infantry. Con-
federate sharpshoOters lined the Oppo-
site bank and impeded the wop& of
laying pontoon bridges. which had final
ly been abandoned. y call was made
for volunteers to cross and drive the
enemy out. Soldiers of the Seventh
seized some empty pontoons. rowed
rapidly across, jumped ashore and
drove the Confederates from the rifle
pits and from the houses. Two Massa-
chusetts regiments followed and aided
them in holding the position.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
SUPPORTING A BATTERY
Thrilling Story of an Artillery Duel
and Its Sequel.

ana ANS SeQueA.
at shall never forget the first time
was under fire. said Colonel Thomas
Crenshaw to Il party of veterans who
were fighting their battles DER again.
I'VE were supporting a battery and
had lain down on a stretch of ground
as level as ballroom floor. The Con
feds were beyond rife shot, but they
opened on us with artillery, and they
did everlastingly pillow up the ground
with shot and shell. Every old soldier
knows that artillery fire at long range
is not half so much TO be dreaded as
the rattle of musketry, which sounds
on the battlefield like Chinese fire
crackers in Il thunderstorm, but it is
Il good deal more 'Skcery' to Il novice.
There we lay for half an hour. never
moving Il finger watching the puffs of
flame from dozen cannon and the
shells coming tearing through the air
with their fiendish shrek. apparently
headed directly for our faces. l tell
you Il position of that kind tries the
very soul of your raw recruit. Give
him chance to shoot back, and he is
all right, but fighting is one thing and
waiting to get killed without striking
n blow is quite another.
but there was more ahead for US.
After the artillery duel had ragged for
some time Il regiment of Confederate
cavalry debOuched from the wood with
all the elaboration and precision of n
dress parade. They were mississippi
ans. tall, athletic fellows, who sat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

their horses like centaurS. They halted
and dressed ranks while the batteries
behind them hurled a perfect rain Of
shells over their heads. We could see
their colonel riding down the line and
pointing with his sword to our battery,
which was plunging shells in among
them with frightful rapidity, but little
effect. They advanced a step or two,
every horseman seeming to choose his
ground. Here they come, slowly, stead
lily, like a great gray wave, conscious
of irresistible power. The bugle rings
out sharp and shrill, they break into a
quick trOt, 500 sabers leap into the air
and the stars and bars stream out on
the smoky background like a porten-
tous meteor. On they come; 800 yards,
700, 600! Gads. has our battery gone
silent? Five hundred, 400i Charge!
Every spur sinks deep, the rebel yell
rises from every throat. and the col
umn leaps forward like thunderbOlt.
into the face of which crashes the
canister from our four 6 Founders.
Great ragged holes are torn through
the four deep column, but they close
instantly, and it comes on unchecked
"Now it is our turn, We are in front
of the battery, in the pathway of the
avalanche. We pour n vOlley into it
at eighty yards! A hundred brave men
reel out of their saddles. hundred
horses go plunging to their knees! The
line waversi Another volley and an
other! The line breaks and suddenly
retreats. while we swing orr caps and
cheer and hug each other for joy. And
that was warr'-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

lon were the easier to bear. And yet 1t
was hare to have them forget him so
soon.
Jack Bromley had been among the
unidentified dead at San Juan. There
would be no wreath on his unknown
grave today.
Yet he had been Silverton's only hero
Of the Spanish war. The town had no
militia, but when Jack went TO Carson
and joined q regiment there it was not
slow in taking due credit to itself.
Only Judge Bromley was missing from
the crowd that saw him OFF at the sta
ton. He had not spoken to his son
since the day he cursed and disinherit-
ed him-the day he married Alice
Chase. He could say nothing against
sweet Alice, but she was the daughter
of Hanson Chase his enemy, whom
even in death the judge still hated.
When the sad news reached Silver
ton, he gave no sign Of grief. He made
no offer of help to the widow and init
mated grimly that a government PEN
sion would make a very good life in
surance. She, poor girl, said proudly
that she would never ask for govern
ment relief. She had sent her husband
forth with a brave smile. Now, when
they told her that he would never come
back, she bowed her head in submits
sion. His sacrifice and hers had been
accepted. She would fight as bravely
here at home as he on the distant bat
tlefield. Only to him had come rest,
while to hero God, the days of heart
ache and the nights of weeping! But
f,H
head. The little mouth must be fed,
for city store.
At first the work had not seemed
hard, for she was surrounded by an at
mosphere of love and sympathy. Ev
cry one wanted to help "our hero's"
wife. Charity lost it's sting when
cloaked under the tender illustrations
of neighborly affection.
But before this second memorial day
came they had forgotten her. Hero
worship had lost it's novelty. Then
Willie Langtry, who had volunteered
for the Philippines, had been brought
home to sleep among his own people.
Here was an actual shrine for devo-
ton.
Those who gave a thought to Edith
idly argued that Judge Bromley was
more than able to support his sons
wife and daughter. If she did not ask
him, it was no affair of theirs.
She did not ask either from him or
any man. Pride had prompted her in
dependent words in the first days OF
her bereavement, and now, when she
found the struggle almost beyond her
Ia nj hnV. inc CO ,6ea
worked silently at the decorative work
furnished her by the father of an old
school friend. The house was Jacks,
and this insured her a home. Her work
paid for the rest. Only Ford, the Civ
err, knew how pitifully small the rest
was, and Ford-well, there was only
one man Ford told.
The music grew fainter as the pro-
cession moved on to the cemetery.
Finally it died away. The tears. too.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

The wounded flags! How proudly
They fiuttered in the days
When drums were drumming loudly
And flies sang warning lays!
How brave was all their glowing
Where fierce the war guns spoke,
Their stars forever showing
A beacon through the smokel
The wounded flags! We hail them
And reVe! in each hue,
Though age and time may pale them
And red blend into blue.
Though all grow dark and duller, -
Yet in every part ..
We see the living color
That thrills the nations heart.
Baltimore American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

an eminent English student of eco
nOmics. Professor Smart, regards the
trusts in Britain las in the main the
elimination of the unnecessary-th I'M
necessary persons. the unnecessary
process, the unnecessary machinery Of
production and distribution. They
mean smaller cost of raw materials,
the dispensing with costly advertise
ments, larger shipments, fewer middle
men and q smaller staff"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
THE
WOUNDED
FLAGS
BY W. d. BIT .

~HE wounded fiagsI They bear
them
AIoft today in pride
- The living ones, who share
them n
Alike with those who died yEA1
The flags that family futter s
In cadence with the drum :
As though they sought to utter :. q
Their joy that peace has come.
The wounded flags! We hold them
Far dearer than the rest;
Close to our hearts we fold them
The flags by tatters blest;
The flags with shot holes gaping, y
That tell their tale of strife,
Today are gently draping 2. a,
The ones who cling to life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

The Royal Geographical society has
recently acquired the boats compass
used by DIR. Livingstone on his first
journey down the ZambeZi valley in
1856.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
Qn0
kearny at
Fair Oaks
- ENERAL o. o. HOWARD, one

- ENERAL o. o. HOWARD, one
of the few army commanders
now living. says the Washing
ton Post, tells the true account
of an interview between General Phil
Kearny and himself which took place
the I'd day of June early in the morn
ing, near the Fair Oaks railroad sta
ton, Virginia.
Il had ridden down from the hospital
on the hill which is east of the depot"
said General Howard. Il sat up with
the driver of the ambulance, taking a
seat by his side, and had n very COM
Portable ride considering that my arm
had been amputated the evening be-
fore. My brother, Lieutenant c. II.
Howard was in the ambulance. and SO
was Lieutenant Colonel Fiske of Cen
eral French, staff. They were each
wounded in the leg and could not walk
or stand.
'I had aliphtpd and was STANDING on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

copyright, 1902. by the S. s. Mcclure
Company.l
TROM Main street came the strain
of martial music. Four-year-
old Nellie Bromley clapped her
hands and demanded that she
be taken to see the Memorial day
parade, but her mother only caught the
tiny form to her heart, and tears glis-
tened on the golden head like diamonds
in some fairy corOnet. Every shrill
note of the fife, every drumbeat, was
q stab.
Was it only year ago that she had
been persuaded by all her townspeople
to ride in the procession? The orator
of the day had feelingly spoken of her
as this young widow who gave her
best to her country and who shall ever
be our care" 1t had been a terrible
ordeal to the delicate. shrinking wo-
man. This-this loneliness and obliv-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
F 9 r A
L I v I n G
III F. r 9
BY COLIN s. COLLINS

copyright. 1902. by the S. s. McCIur,
COmDany
Milford chronicle., 1903-06-26
Making the bible De.IrnbIe.

The celebration Of the bicentenniaI
next October of Jonathan Edwards
birth reyives some interesting savings
Of the great preacher.
DO you believe in the absolute
truth of the Bible?" was asked OF him
at public assemblage.
THE Bible is faith itself and fun of
golden truths said the theologian
firmly.
Then why are people so reluctant to
accept those truthsY' asked the ques.
TONER
Because" and Edwards face grew
wrathful, "the book that contains the
truths has not golden clasps on It.
Golden clasps to hold together golden
truths! All, people would then steal
what they now will not accept"
Milford chronicle., 1903-06-26
Our Remaining Forests.

An official estimate made Of the for.
est area Of the United States puts 1t at
7OO,O0O,O00 acres. Had the forests been
intelligently managed the amount OF
merchantable timber in them would
be ten times as great. The science Of
forestry is now taught In more than
forty schools. Yale and Cornell uni
versities and the special college at
Biltmore. N. c.. have advanced classes
and give degrees in forestry.