The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-11-09
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts From st Paul Papers Of Oct
%, 1864.

Excerpts From St Paul Papers of Oct.
%, 1864.
DR.. Murphy, of this city, surgeon
of the Eighth regiment, just home
from the Indian expedition, is yet
lame and sore from an encounter
with a buffalo on the prairie near
Fort Wadsworth. In the march
across from the Missouri the doctor
had killed seven buffalo at different
times, and was in a fair way to have
counted his eighth victory over the
lords of the prairie when he was
thrown from his horse. The doctor
had wounded the buffalo and was in
pursuit when his horse got little
ahead, just as the rider was to fire
again. The maddened animal made
lunge toward the horse, which
jumped to one side, dropping the
doctor on the ground. Ina moment
the buffalo was on the doctor, gored
him in the thigh, bruised his body
with the pressure of his head and
then rushed over him, trampling
upon his body and legs, when ball
from the doctor S companion brought
him down.
Hardships of the draft are daily
illustrated by the pitiful tales of its
victims. A poor woman with an in
FAINT in her arms was begging in
lower town Thursday. Her story
was that her husband was drafted
last summer, and sold or mortgaged
all of his effects to raise the $500 to
exempt himself, and that shortly af-
forwards he took sick and died,
leaving her totally unproyided for
among strangers in strange land.
A young woman living here in ST.
Paul learned on Thursday of the re-
cent death of her brother, and few
hours after of the fact that her other
brother and two cousins were draft
ed. One of the cousins came to the
city in hopes of hiring a substitute
through mortgaging his farm; the
other cousin and brother had fed
from their homes, and no one knew
where they had gone. Thus, at a
single stroke, she is bereft OF all her
kin.
A great dread has taken hold OF
many of our people at the thought Of
being drafted. In some townships,
it is said, there are no able bodied
men Left and hardly a county in the
state but has lost a large portion of
the working population the last year
by their going away to escape the
draft.
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Drafted men who are encamped at
the fort, in what they call the bull
pen" have made complaint concern
ing the quantity and quality of their
rations, saying that their coffee is
only black water, and their soup
dishwater. Officers claim that the
complaint has no grounds; that the
conscripts get the same food as the
volunteers; but that their ignorance,
in preparing the food gives poor re-
suits. The whole affair is evidently
the work of St. Paul copperneads,
who undoubtedly drew it up to suit
themselves and sent it to the fort for
signatures in their desperate efforts
to make political capital.
Prisoners in the guard house at
Fort Smelling held an enthusiastic
democratic meeting Tuesday night.
They secured several canteens of
MENDOZA whisky" After knock
ing down the guard with spade a
great deal of cheering was INDUCED
in for Mcclellan and JEFF Davis.
Then the windows were smashed,
the stove kicked over and the tables
and benches broken. At this point
the guards fired into the windows,
seriously injuring one man. The
alarm was sounded and company
of soldiers hurried to the scene and
soon restored order.
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Capt. Isaacs, Company I, Fourth
/ Minnesota. went into the hattie of