Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-10

garded him as the most pestiferous
officer in the Confederate army. This
was because he captured our supply
trains when we were hungry and rail-
road trains that carried our money
North. According to the stories told
about our camp-fres, he was generally
in about five different places at one
and the same time, He was a sort
of bugaboo to the foragers and strag
glers of the Army of the Cumberland.
If we went out in advance of the army
he was there. If we foraged in the
rear he was there.
HE used his cavalry to prevent us
from living off the country in our
front and to scare up out of the coun-
try in our rear. He was nearly al
ways just where we didn't want him
to be, and had no mercy on wagons
loaded with provisions or with the
mules drawing the wagons His men
burned the wagons and sabered the
mules and a good many teamsters
lived in the hope that in after years
they might tell Wheeler just what
they thought of him. l was on the
point of meeting him about the time
of the Stone River battle. but l had
no remarks to make. I mad been
were moving on Murfreesboro, and
was in the wagon train for transporta-
ton to Nashville when Wheeler's cav
airy interfered.
81 always believed that received
my wound from one of Wheeler's men
that night at Lavergne. We had driv-
en- the enemy from the town and were
establishing line of outposts along a
stream, in pitch darkness. The stream
was the only landmark to tie to-, and
the pickets formed along the northern
bank, with reserves little to the rear.
Pretty soon cavalrymen came to the
south bank to water their horses, and,
supposing they were our own men. we
asked after the health of Joe Wheeler.
This gave us away, just as informa-
ton came from headquarters that no
Union cavalry were south of the
stream.
Meantime our sociable cava1rymen
in front we're concentrating, and we
opened fire. They returned the fire,
and our reserves blazed away in reg
ular volleys. 1t was beautiful little
fight, but l went down in the begin
ming, and two days later was in a
wagon turned rearward, while the ar
my was miles to the front, in contact
with Bragg's army. My wound was
not serious, and 1 had just decided to
get out and sneak frontward, when
something happened. Wheeler's cav
airy came down on the train like a
scurrying horde of Arabs, and in a few
minutes we were told we were pris-
| oners. This didn't suit me, and
| climbed out of the wagon to take OBJ
servations.
| | soon saw there was no chance for
escape. Gen. Wheeler sat on his horse
not far from me. urging his men to
| quick action, giving his main attention
to a larger train near us, in which
| scores of wagons were burning. He
rode off in that direction and in not
many minutes there was a diversion
! Climbing into the wagon, l saw line
| of blue charging. 1t was magnificent
and before the wounded had been pa
rolled the train had been recaptured.
ION other parts of the line our men
| did not fare so well. Wheeler swept
along the rear of our whole army and
| was in line with his command in time
for the battle of December 81. He
was a scorcher. Later l learned to
like Joe Wheeler very much, and
| was glad when he was honored by
| President Mckinley and Congress, but
| in December, 1862, and in September
and October, 1868, 1 had no use fol
him. He was given too much to rush
ing in where he wasn't wanted. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
"Aunt Lizzie" Gone to Her Reward
Mrs. Elizabeth Aiken, better known
to many thousands as Aunt Lizzie
a name which was a synonym for gen
| tie ministration, for hands that ale
Waited suffering and words that ban
ished the fear of death among the
soldiers hospitals during the civil
war-who died in Chicago, Jan. IL
had attained the ripe, hallowed age o.