Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-10-10
WARD
HILL
LAMON,
His Friend, Intimate and
BodyGuard

tiOnS, arms, camps, etc, TO the regular
army The man saw that Mr.. Lincoln
was right and determined to have JUS
tice done. Always after this we We're
treated equally well and just as the
regular army was in every particular.
This brave, Just and humane act in be
half of the volunteers at once attached
officers and rank to him as with hook
of steel"
When the army reached Dixon the
almost universal discomfort of the men
nad grown so manifest and so ominous
that it could no longer be safely disre-
garded. They longed FOR the fieshpots
of Egypt" and fiercely demanded their
discharge. Although their time had not
expired, 1t was determined to march
them by way OF PawPaw Grove to
Ottawa and there concede what the
governor feared he had no power to
withhold
"While ON our march from Dixon to
Fox river" says Mr.. Orwin, 'one
night while in camp which was formed
In square inclosing about forty acres,
our horses. outside grazing, got scared
about 8 o'clock. and a grand stampede
took place. They ran right through our
lines in spite of us and ran over many
OF u.s. No man knows what noise
thousand horses make running unless
he has been there. 1t beats young
earthquake, especially among scared
men, and certain they were scared
then. We expected the Indians to be on
us that night. Fire was thrown, drums
beat, flies played, which added addi-
tional fright to the horses. We saw no
real enemy that night, but line of
battle was formed. There wer2 no eyes
for sleep that night. We stood to our
posts In line, and what frightened the
horses is yet unknown.
During this short Indian campaign"
continues the same gentleman, 1--WE had
some hard times, often hungry, but we
had a great deal Of sport, especially of
nights, foot racing, some horse racing.
jumping, telling anecdotes, In which
Lincoln beat all, keeping up constant
laughter and good humor all the time;
among the soldiers some card playing
and wrestling, in which Lincoln took
prominent part. I think 1t safe to say
he was never thrown in wrestle.
[Mr. Irwin, 1t seems, still regards the
Thompson affair as "a dog fall.'1 While
in the army he kept a handkerchief
tied around him nearly all the time
for wrestling purposes and loved the
sport as well as any one could. lie
was seldom ever beat jumping. During
the campaign Lincoln himself was al
ways ready for an emergency. He en-
dured hardships like good soldier. He
never complained, nor did he fear dan
ger. When fighting was expected or
danger apprehended Lincoln was the
first to say, Let's go.' He had the con-
fidence of every man of his company,
and they strictly obeyed his orders at
word. His company was all young
men and full Of sport.
A Wise Hog.
"One night in Warren county a white
hog, a young SOW, came into our lines
which showed more good sense, to my
mind, than any hog l ever saw. This
hog swan creeks and rivers and went
with us clear through to, l think, the
mouth of Fox river, and there the boys
killed 1t, or it would doubtless have
come home with us. If it got behind In
daylight as we were marching, which
1t did sometimes, 1t would follow on
the track and come to US at night. 1t
was naturally the cleverest, friendliest
disposed hog any man ever saw, and
its untimely death was by many of US
greatly dcplored, for we all liked the
hog for its friendly disposition and
good manners, for 1t never molested
anything and kept in its proper place"
On the 2Sth OF May the volunteers
were discharged The governor had al
ready called for 1000 more men to take
their places, but in the meantime he
made the most strenuous efforts to or
ganize small force out of the recently
discharged to protect the frontiers until
the new levies were ready for service.
He succeeded in raising one regiment
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