The National tribune., 1905-11-09
GREAT POPULATIONS.
Pursuing Price Through Fire and Snow.
Voting for President-Over Old Bat
tlefield2.

Editor National Tribune: Corp'l G..
Abba, Iowa, in The National Tribune
relates incidents of the Price campaign
in Missouri in 1854, and of voting for
President
The First Brigade (Buckland's) of
McMillen's First Division (Tuttle's Nc
Arthurs), with Gen. Joe A. Mower
commanding, was on that campaign
from Memphis to Devall's Bluff and
Little Rock, and on across the plains,
Arkansas and eastern Missouri, chasing
Prices army, losing the trail as Price
went up around by way of Springfield
to western Missouri. We went to Cape
Girardeau on the trot, for rations, liv-
ing the last two days on the bray of
the mules and songs of the bullfrogs.
From Cape Girardeau, with Gen. A. j.
Smith commanding, we went by steam
boats to st. Louis and Jefferson City.
Gen. ]. A. Mower went to join Gen.
Sherman at Chattanooga, and Gen.
John Macarthur joined us at st. Louis
How many Of the old brigade, I'D
and 95th Ohio 93d Ind, Hath ILL.,,
terry &c, LIST Ill. Art.) are still living?
We had that kind-hearted General,
VIM. s. Rosecrans, commander Of the
Department, with us for several days,
as we marched towards Lexington, Mo.
After that long campaign into Kan
through fires Of the prairie grass which
had been set on fire by the enemy to
keep us back-we returned towards St.
Louis During that campaign, while
near Sedalia, Capt. Thos. Bennington,
Co. X, 95th Ohio, with 80 men, was
sent out 20 miles for some purpose.
They came back after marching nearly
all NIGHT arrfuinO q the a
starting out at daybreak. They
marched with the command all day.
making 25 miles and As miles for
them in 38 hours-on foot Yet now
there are old men who were old
enough and able-bodied at the time to
have enlisted, but did not, who will
say that the soldiers did not suffer
many hardships!
The memory Of IL inches Of snow
fall and of the extreme cold; following
that rain: then snow, and the night in
the woods, with great log-heap fires,
blankets and turning constantly in
their efforts to cool the roasting and
thaw the freezing sides of them! The
next days march through that snow
the crust on the snow would push the
mems pantaloons up and cut the skin
off the legs SO that blood was left on
that snow crust! That was near Otter
Vile. Two days thereafter the snow
began to melt and deep mud was
tramped through.
Nov. 8, near Jefferson City, we or
ganized an election board and cast
votes for President. The judges and
clerks of the election in each regiment
and battery were seated in an ambu
lance, and when the command halted
the men and boys cast their ballots.
Every one voted and no questions were
asked about age or naturalization. /
believe there were 16 votes cast by
men of the 95th Ohio for Geo. B. Nc
Clellan for President.
Do any Of the old brigade-72d and
95th Ohio, sd Ind, Hath Ill. and the
Waterhouse Battery-(the 10th Mimi.
was added to the brigade afterwards)
remember the position held on the fir
ing line at the siege of Vicksburg. and
the position of our camp; Of brigade
headquarters and Of division headquar-
ters; the Warehouse Battery; the
spring from which we got water; the
enemy's line in our front? What bat
terry was on our right? Did each regi-
ment Of the brigade hold separate po-
sition, or did We crawl up the hills and
take positions promiscuously? We did