The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-24
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken From St. Paul Papers
of May II, 1865

exclaimed, upon GD0 stage Ol TOTu
theater:: Il am avenged In the
leap upon the stage the fbule, the
small bone of the leg, was frac-
tured. For ten days and nights the
forests and swamps were his home,
with pain and dread and anguish.
When discovered the barn was fired;
before him sea of flame ready to
engulf him; and in the grave still
greater sea of flame awaiting him.
And at that instant he received his
peculiar. his wonderful wound from
the cavalry revolver. His entire
body, except his brain, was para
lyzed. His mind was clear He
suffered the most agouizing pain and
begged to be killed. He lay thus
for four hours before death relieved
him. Was there not in it all the
hand of an oyerruling providence?
The chief item of business at the
provost marshal's Office these days
is attending to deserters, who are
reporting under the president S
proclamation, now that their SER
vices are not needed. Tt is really
wonderful to see how patriotic the
stockholders have become. Their
country could be deserted in her
hour of peril, but now to save their
own precious necks they can en-
dure marches of so miles day.
The bold rebel privates in arms
against the government will have a
comparatively honorable record,
while these miserable deserters
will be despised by north and south
for all time to come, and the treachery
and cowardice will cause the cheeks
of their children to blush for years
and generations to come. To-day is
the last day that these small speci-
mems of humanity can avail them
selves of the presidents proclama-
tion of pardon. At latter date we
will publish list of those who have
availed themselves of an offer of
pardon and of those who have re-
fused it and are to be disfranchised.
1t will be useful to refer to in after
years, and in fact, every year about
election time,
The lynching of John Campbell,
the half-b at Mankato, last
week for participation in the mas
sacre of the Jewett family recalls
character of historic interest. His
grandfather, Colin Campbell, emf
grated from Scotland in 1887. He
at once came to the Indian territory
and established a trading post at
Prairie du CHEN. Capt. zebulon
M. Pike, who established Fort
Smelling, mentions him in his me-
moirs, having been entertained by
Mr.. Campbell in 1905 on his voyage
IN the Mississippi.
His son, Scott, the father of John,
was interpreter at Fort Smelling for
Is years, and also clerked for
Messrs. Steele, Kittson and other
early traders. Prior to 1843 he
moved to St. Paul, and lived on the
site of the stone building on Third
street now occupied by the Ameri-
can express, near the Presbyterian
church. Here he claimed twenty
acres which he sold out to Mr..
Hartshorn in 1847. He was buried
near the residence of Mr.. Wheelock
on ST. Peter street, at what was
then the Catholic cemetery. His
widow, Sioux, married trader
named Patolle, who was murdered
by the Indians on the first day OF
the massacre of 1862, near New Ulm.
John, the subject of this sketch,
was born near Mendoza in 1888. He
was well-known to Mr.. Larpenteur,
Mr.. Irvine, and other old citizens.
In 1861 he emerged from his haunts
among the Indians and enlisted in
Company A, Brackets battalion.
His conduct in the army was such
that he spent much of his time in
the guard house.
All but four of the numerous
forts about Washington are to be
Immediately dismounted, their gar
r;conc withdrawn and dismissed