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land, he can walk fifty miles Ia a
straight line without stepping off
his own property. But he generally
prefers using his own private rail-
way and enjoys acting as his own
engine driver.
The million-acred and multi-titled
duke is not bit like the popular
ideal of a rich aristocrat. He gives
himself no airs and hates being fuss
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Had a Gard Up His Sleeve.

But the duke had a card up his
sleeve, and he has just played it.
He has presented Trentham Hall to
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ed over. He has no taste for cere-
monial and is all but unknown In
high court circles. Sport, country
life, and the duties Of a great land
lord suffice for his happiness and
his occupation. He loves, in the
homely Scots phrase. to dwell
among his ain folk" caring nothing
for society and its ways. For time
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before he succeeded to the title he
occupied a seat in the house of COM
mons. There he brought in a crOf-
ter's bill Of SO radical a nature as to
astound his friends and they mar
veled how he would act when he
came into possession of the family
estates. So well has he redeemed his
promises, placing great stretches OF
land at the disposal of his tenants,
that he is now one cf the most popu-
lar landlords in Scotland.
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of love at first sight has had the
faigy-story ending of happy ever
after
The literary achievements of the
duchess are well known. Though her
plav. The ConqueTor," which was
produced last year, was failure, it
vas a failure big with promise OF
success later on. From some remote
ancestor she has inherited q love for
wandering AS she herself confesses,
it is in her blood. Her nrst essay at
booi-making, How Spent My
Twentieth Year" showed very plain
" how alluTing for her were fresh
fields and pastures new; and even to-
day she would rather dwell in some
draughty shanty in California, tent
pitched on the banks of the Nile, or
a log cabin III Norway, than in any
Of her own sumptuous palaces.
Though, as far as pedigrees so,
with the blood of thirty generations
of Campbells of Argyll in her veins,
she might claim to be an aristocrat
Of aristocrats, she is the most demo-
cratic duchess in the kingdom.
When she found that her own BOYS
were learning little at the swell
school which they attend she sent
them for term to a parish school
which she had founded in SUther-
land for peasant children that the
young nobIemen might get the snob-
bishness knocked out of them and
discover for themselves that lads Of
humble birth were really better edu-
Gated than themselves.
1t is because she shares her hus-
bands strong aversion TO social
functions that she so seldom occu-
pies Stafford House, which has often
been described as the finest palace
in London Some idea OF the eff
feet which fits magnificence pro-
duces on visitors may be inferred
from the fact the Empress EugeR'e
OF the French. at the height of her
husbands power, took such a fans
to 1t that she wished to erect for
herself in Paris one precisely SINH
lar, On one occasion when Queen
Victoria attended a reception at
Stafford House she remarked to the
Duchess of Sutherland of that day,
Il have come from my house Buck
fngham Palace) to your palace"
The National tribune., 1906-09-27
Chnplains Killed in Battle.

Editor National Tribune: Some is
sues ago The National Tribune con-
tanned q list of Chaplains slain in battle,
some seven in all, if 1 recall the num-
Der correctly. Among others, one be-
longing to Wilder's Brigade. who fell
at Hoover's Gap. June "a, 1868. I was
a member Of the 36th Ohio. Gen. George
Crooks Brigade, Reynolds's Division,
Thomass Corps. Wilder's Brigade, of
our Division, had the advance, Crook
following in close support. Along well
in the afternoon as we were marching
along the road leading through the
Gap, the seth leading the Brigade and
nearly through the Gap, off to our right
front there was the most furious fusil-
lade of small-arms think 1 ever heard
before or since for moment or two.
1t was Wilder's men working their re-
peaters. We were ordered forward and
started to file off the road. head of coll
we met the wounded dragging them
selves or being borne from the field.
On an improvised stretcher was one
clothed in a Chaplain's uniform. 1t
was the Chaplain of whom The National
Tribune gave an account. He was lit
orally shot to pieces but yet alive. l
approached the bearers and asked as to
the wounded man. They told me his
name and regiment and that he was
their Chaplain, brave to a fault, al
ways with his boys on duty. While ]
had never forgotten the incident, the
Chapiain's name and regiment had long
ago escaped my memory. With my
minds eye I can see now, as distinctly
as then, the Chaplain and his bearers
and In memory hear the sound Of bat
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The New Market Races,

Editor National Tribune: I hope
that the request of S. e. Mccoy, 18th
w. Va, in The National Tribune o.
Aug. 9 will bring out many details OF
the New Market Races. 1 have tried
often, but unsuccessfully, to find more
than is told in the meager official re.
ports which show that Merritt on the
Strasburg pike and Custer on the Back
road chased Rosser up the Shenandoah
Valley from Fishers Hill through New
Market (whence the name) to Mt
Jackson, rs miles in all, capturing /
guns, two colors, 81 wagons and about
$50 prisoners. This was on Sunday
Oct. 9, 1864.
All that 1 can add personally is that
three days before, Oct. 6, the 29th Me.
in common with all the army, fell
back from Harrisonburg, burning hay
and grain and taking all the horses
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry that
could be found. Sheridan's design was
to make the Valley uninhabitable and
SO put an end to the legitimate and
illegitimate warfare that had prospered
so favorably to the enemy up to that
time. Those who call Sheridan a
"barn-burner" forget the great provo
cation which induced this line of action.
Thursday we marched 81 miles and
camped three miles north of New Mar
ket. Friday we were part of the rear
guard of the army. About noon the
picked up perhaps 40 or so stragglers
that had thanked" US in spite of our
best efforts. We camped late, having
marched II miles.
Saturday, the Sth, our brigade led
the Corps (Emory's Nineteenth),
marching at a. m. When near Fish
ers Hill. Sheridan halted the whole
army and sent our regiment up Round
Top to guard the wellknown signal
station there. We thus saw the be.
ginning of the fight which eliminated
the next day. We rejoined the bri-
gade in the evening.
Sunday it was very cold and windy
The smoke blew every way and we
suffered from want of clothing. In the
evening Chaplain Enders, 153d N. Y.
invited us to his prayer meeting. In
the midst of our devotionS came the
news of the great success of the cav
airy and of the excitement of Custer
who cried "a thousand dollars to the
man who captures that gun!-the
Only one Rosser saved.
1 remember the peculiar sound ot
our artillery that Saturday afternoon
1t was a sort of ripping, tearing and
pounding all in one, as If a solid shot
had struck the ledge and was richochet-
ting and rolling along the face of the
mountain three or four times longer
| than a shot usually flies. l have never
heard an explanation of this odd noise
Possibly the following clipping from
the New York Independent of Aug.
will explain why Comrade Mccoy:
Confederate neighbor doesn't write
about the races. 1t is from the pen OF
| a weIl-known Southern lady:
1.-The writer has never heard South.
ern man tell of a battle between the
Northern and Southern armies in sucf
way as to admit defeat. 1t cannot bt
done in our language. We have the
words but not that use of them: ant
it does not comport with our victoriou:
manners."-John NJ. Gould, Portland
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Stories Eminenty Worth Telling Of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle.

miles from here, but 1 got into an eX-
press wagon and came in. When 1 got
mere, to my appointment I found
that the ladies had concluded that they
had waited long enough. and had start
ed home on the mail boat at II o'clock
yesterday morning. 1 sent a dispatch
to meet Mrs. w. at the boat, and if she
gets it will likely return here this even
ing. and we will start for Perryville
when 1 got here last evening 1 was
about exhausted. The night before the
pattle hardly got to sleep any. March
cd all day. rode so far, and all that, wit h
little food and little water. The fight
was no doubt renewed yesterday morn
ing. What the results were it is not
known here, but l think We will whip
them.
az suppose you would like to know
my feeling during the battle. 1 think
mine was like many others have read
about. The first fire did scare me a
little, put that was soon over, and when
the battle was the fiercest, when men
were falling all around me and the
balls falling like hail, I felt perfectly
calm. 1 knew that my life was in the
hands of God, and that He, who had
numbered the very hairs of my head,
would be my protection, and 1 have
perfect faith that He always will be;
and. tho l yet may fall in battle or die
away from home, feel that all will be
well, and hope that you, my dear par
ents, brothers and sisters will feel so.
too. There are many other things about
the battle 1 might tell you, but I have
not the time. l did not see DR.. Lewis
after the battle; he was busy with the
wounded. / met Jim Theaker and Bill
Duff. who We're at that time unhurt
Who were killed and wounded yester-
day I have yet to learn. Direct your
letters via Louisville. I sent a dispatch
to Lewis last night, which you will hear
from to-day or tomorrow.
with much love to you and all nv
friends, 1 remain,
Your affectionate son and brother,
Duncan c. Miner
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eeeded IN sinking the Congress and tho
going @ be able to reach the rest OF
the fleet. but she struck a sHag when
the little Monitor steamed out 10 meet
her, sSd soon GfipPlea her so badly
that she was glad 70 fut back up the
river for repairs. We landed at Hamp-
ton Roads, and were soon on our way
to Yorktown and from there to Rich
mond. We took part in the Seven
Days Battle and the fight at Gaines's
Mill. where I was wounded. Our bri-
gade was defeated and lost heavily. Al
first we succeeded in driving back the
Confederates twice, but they concea-
trated their attack then on a brigade
which was a short distance above is
and broke through. We took in all of
the Seven Days Battle" and finally
wound up at Harrison's Landing. on the
James River. Virginia. We left Narri-
sons Landing on the 18th of August.
and marched by a roundabout way 20
Yorktown. where we encamped in the
Spring on the same ground we were on
before. 1t was a sad sight as with un-
covered heads we mourned the loss OF
the boys who fell in the fighting before
Thence we marched toward Manassas
where we could hear the booming "t
cannon as the fight was already on. VIC
made a charge on the enemy's lines in
a railroad cut, but were driven back by
the rebels with great loss to our brl-
gade. 1 was wounded and was sen!
back to Fairfax Station with n large
number of other wounded men, and was
taken from there to Washington. Like
many others. I rode on top of freight
car. This, to say the least, was very
uncomfortable. though 1t was undoubt-
edly the best that could be afforded.
arrived in Washington at a. m. on the
morning of Sept. 2. 1862. 1 was loaded
with the rest on number of ambu.
lances. and taken to hospital on Capi.
tol Hill. This hospital. known as the
Emery, had been used formerly as &
camp for a regiment of cavalry. The
| first man / saw from Michigan called
at the hospital on the morning of Sept
4, two days after the battle. and in
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THE 10TH MICH.
The First Days of the Army Of the Po-
tOmac-On to Richmond and Back tG
Manassas.

Editor National Tribune: Michigan
in 1861 sent some eight regiments.
which camped in and about Washing
ton. One of these was known as the
1st Mich. Independent. afterwards the
18th Mich. commanded by Col. e. 3.
Stockton.
This regiment encamped for about
six weeks on what was known as Meri-
dian Hill. From there we crossed into
Virginia. and camped on Halls IIll.
where we organized the Third Brigade,
commanded by Gen. Dan Butterfield.
This brigade was composed of my regi-
ment. the 1st Mich. Indp't, the 18th n.
Y, the 18th n. Y. the 44th N. Y. and
the SD Pa. In the Spring of '62 we
started for Richmond by way of the
Leesburg turnpike. We marched all OF
one day, shouting, "On to Richmond
Then we about-faced. and came back
to Alexandria. We took the boat here
for Hampton Roads, Va. BY the time
we reached Hampton Roads the Con-
federate vessel Merrimac was making d
desperate effort to reach the feet sta
toned there. We were so close that we
saw the smoke and heard the booming
of the guns, when the Merrimac Sue
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The Spies at Franklin.

Editor National Tribune: have Just
read your Chapter XXI of The A-Sly
of the Cumberland" In regard to the
hanging Of the two SPIES Col. Au.on
and Maj. Dunlop, have a very minute
account of the affair from Capt. Caleb
Boles, of the S5th Ind. Col. John P
Rai-d's regiment, who was sent after
the spies and who next day superin-
tended the hanging. 1t differs some
what from your account. One COM
pany of the SSth Ind. (Co. Al was
from my own County (Parke) in In
diana. 1 afterward became well ac-
Equainted with Col. Baird, recognized as
| the greatest lawyer in western Indiana.
He resided in Terre Haute. would get
on periodical sprees. and died in the
Insane Asylum about % years ago.
| Capt. Boles's version is this: Col. Baird
was in command of the post. These
pretended inspecting officers came to
him, apologized for their lack of uni
form, that their baggage had misc2r-
ried and was in an out-of-the-way
place, but relied on their credentials,
which they showed. At first Col Baird
did not suspect them. AS they were
leaving Col. Baird was leaning against
a post or fence smoking his pipe. in Il
deep study. Suddenly he called out:
"Ole Roles. blanked if there amt some
thing wrong about this. Mount and
take sorae men and bring them back"
Col. Baird was very eccentric, and al
ways called Capt. Boles "Ole Boles.
Poles Jverhauled the:c and brought
them back. Col. Baird convened a
court-martial and himself prosecuted
them. No man he ever cross examined
ever got away with lie in his mouth.
The prisoners soon broke down. "Ole
Boles'' was directed to hang them. He
told me it was the most trying task of
his life. Col. Auton told him: Il drew
my revolver to shoot you and run, but
it was so like murder 1 could not" He
gave Boles his watch to send to his wife,
and requested Boles not to tie his
hands. Boles said:
But you will unconsciously struggle
to free yourself"
NO, he positively would not" He
said he was a relative of Gen. r. p.
Lee When the cart was driven from
under him the moose of the rope caught
over his ear and was not choking him;
he raised his left hand half way to his
neck and pointed to the defect, which
Bolcs then noticed, and pulled it off of
his ear, when he dropped his hand by
his side and died without grabbing at
the rope. He told Boles that he was
doing a humane act as, had he got
through. the rebels would have cap
tured the post without the sacrifice of
a life.
Gen. Rosecrans telegraphed to send
the spies to him to be tried. Col Baird
replied: Il have tried them, found
them guilty and hung them
There is a man in the Treasury De-
partment, Capt. John B. Dowd, who
was Sergeant-Major in Baird's regi-
ment, who can tell you every detail of
this affair. He was later Captain of q
negro company. and Postmaster of my
home town (Rockville). Has been a
clerk nearly 20 years in Washington
John T. Campbell, Soldiers Home, Ind.
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auirea If there were any Michi9an soi-
diers there. I was pointed out. and he
anne over by my side. He asked many
questions about where lived and whsn
1 enlisted. He was familiar with Q great
many people around there whom I
knew. AS he left he reached into his
pocket and handed me two oranges ana
told me that IL I was ever in need Of
assistance not to be afraid to call on
him, as he had the honor Of bajnE
Zachariah Chandler. Senator from
Michigan.
Our regiment was also known as tHs
Fighting 18TH" it having lost more
men than any other regiment from
Michigan, and standing seventh on tho
list of casualties of any single regiment
in the Union.-Hiram Johnson. Co. n,
18th Mich, U. S. Weather Bureau,
Washington, D. C..
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big shells burst round about US and hear
them go crashing through the buildings
in the city; they were being thrown
from Uncle Sans guns in Charleston
harbor. -E2-s7sss ~ s,s---S--a.-I Sses.
1 do not wish to be understood that
there was no such thing as the so-called
Providence spring, but il must have
broken out after the big storm of Oct.
3. of which Comrade Howard speaks,
and not after the big storm of Aug. Q.
as many would have us believe If I
am not right in what 1 have said I
stand willing to be corrected.-George
Hollands. Co. B. 101st Pa, Hornells-
vile, N. Y.
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The Battlefield Of ch,ekam.ux,.

Editor National Tribune: I am this
son of Union soldier, my father serv-
ing in the I'D Ind. He was in the bait
tie of Chickamauga. I have Just been
down and explored that great battle
field. 1t is one of the most beautiful
places to be seen. I wish all the sons
of Union veterans could soc 1t. I don't
think many of them could vote for the
Hon. H. Clay Evans for Governor OF
Tennessee. Your paper is read with
great interest in our home.-V. E.
Knight. son of C. H. knight. Co. n.
73d Ind. Evansville Tenn.
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Ex-Prisoners of War.

Alanson Warner. 42d N. T., South
Haven, Mich, knows what 1t was to be
a prisoner of war. He was taken June
%, 1864, and sent to Andersonville. The
only thing he had to eat out Of was an
old turtle shell, but it was big enough
for all that he got.
NJ. NJ. Waters, I'D Ohio, Green
Springs, o., thinks 1t is a burning shame
that Congress does not pass the bill giv-
ing 81 day to all survivors Of rebel
prisons. He was a prisoner nine months
and 1S days.
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tie as it then saluted our ears. Wilder
made quick work and before We could
hurriedly traverse the short distance
between US thk sdemy had vanished.
as might a shadow, from sight, but had
not decaRped fog geo. for ne made ds
that afternoonlo night and next morn
ing before we forced his final removal.
John T. Booth, M. D., Sergeant, Co.
G, 36th Ohio, Cincinnati, o.
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argued over trifes-and shipped me back to
Pennsylvania. But maybe you won't believe it
by that time had sorter lost my nerve: l got a
notion in my head that every man who looked my
way spying l couldn't pass the time of
day with anyone who didn't seem to talk about
deserters. was afraid to get gold piece changed
for all the gold went out of sight about that time
and just to have suspicious. So what do
you think l did, l walked right into a recruiting
station and enlisted without getting cent. Rah
for the fag!' l says. Gimme gun. l want to
fight That in Pittsburgh"
The professors start too slight to break the
narrative but possible his watchfulness deepened
he leaned forward and his eyes held those of Budd
Yes" the cook continued in Pittsburgh Same
old band; same old handkerchiefs waving; same old
God bless you, boys!' l thought at first all
right and 'twould be the old game. but it
wasn't. They had spotted with lot of Others
and they kept guarded like parcel of wild
beasts, for all enlisted regular in the 12oth
Pennsylvania.
The aoth Pennsylvania" repeated the pro-
fessor slowly.
That's what l said!" Budd resented the inter-
rupton. And | tell you it way to treat
men. There must have been forty of shut up
in baggage with no light air but from
door open at the end, and there for days
and nights, and tough lot, too! Bounty and
substitutes and drafted truck, samming along to
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About an hour and quarter the first time
Budd replied 1t happened in New York. and
when I'd signed the roll they put me in squad to
march off somewhere to get our uniforms. The
geant was tall guy, greener than spinach who'd
drifted down from Maine week before, and didn't
know about New York than a bull calf
knows about the New Jerusalem; but he made
bluff and asked the Teller next me, whose name
Butch, to give him points at every corner. Well,
Butch directed and His Nibs kept on commanding
Column left!' and Column right! till we got down
to the toughest sort of dstrct-gas works and
lumber yards and such. l didn't know the game,
but dropped to it quick enough when Butch says
in whisper Here's chance! and it happened
to be the neatest chance beginner ever had.
You see, in those days when there was fire
pretty everybody welcome to catch hold
and help pull the machine, and there was always a
crowd that come along to boiler and keep up the
excitement Well, that's the sort of outfit we come
up against They filled the whole street yelling and
pushing, and a Teller either had to turn and
with them get knocked down. l didn't stop to
what became of the balance of the squad. l
sloped up one street and down another, going like
jack rabbit till found myself before ferry boat.
/ paid my fare and crossed the river, just to get
chance to think
Quite So the professor sympathized.
Il never meant no HARM the cook protested
not then There wouldn't have been much
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in going back, especially when there other re-
cruiting offices right there in Jersey City. l got
another three hundred but my sojer clothes was
night before we saed-and got drownded. Oh, it
was easy enough those days. before lot of buffers
took to the business. But it got so arter awhile
that professionals had to keep away from
cities and play the country stations Citizens Com
mittees, Womens Aid Associations, and the sub
sttute racket. Sometimes l did the farmer boy
with cowhide boots and hayseed in my hair, and
told about the mortgage the old place, and the
kid that expected and there wasn't anything
they wouldn't do SO 1 could leave the folks COM
Portable when went off to the Oh, those were
great times! In day. out the next!'
"And-and was the getting out easy?" his
nearer asked.
mot quite Budd admitted; but pretty near.
might be pass, little something to the sentry,
or brckbat in the dark if you could throw straight
gave Teller fifty to let me through once and then
the sucker peached me, the low down sneak!