The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-12
PROVES PATRIOTISM
ON VERGE Of
GRAVE
AGED MAN. MANY YEARS BRAND
ED AS DEsERTER, GETS HONOR
ABLE DISCHARGE VICTORY
OVERcOMES HIM.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May s.-After
suffering for more than forty-five
years the humiliation of being brand
ed, unjustly. deserter from Uncle
Sans army. Stanford s. Jared, a
private of Company X. Thirty-frst
Regiment OF Indiana Infantry Volun-
teers, now resident OF Paris, H., has
at last been set Alright. and there Is
not happier man in the whole world.
certificate OF honorable discharge
dated from Sept. 6, 1862, the day when
Jared. sick and languid. fell pros
trate by the side OF Kentucky road
and Major Buelrs command passed
him by, came from the adjutant-gener-
ais office in Washington last week.
and IL is now the most cherished of
the veterans worldly possessions.
Jarred's story. once he can be in
duced to tell ii, is remarkable one
story which exemplifes the prin-
ciple that perseverance In just cause
will be rewarded in the end. For
more than twenty years Che cannot re-
member Just when he started) the old
fellow lived with just one end in view,
and that was To get the honorable
discharge which he knew he deserved.
Claim agents from coast TO coast were
employed in the case. One Califor-
MIA man worked several years on It..
as did pension agent in Washington.
Other reputable agents devoted
much time TO the matter, all with the
same result: the word "deserter"
seemed TO be set so firmly after Jar
req name on the records OF the war
department that no eraser could wipe
IL out. Jared was on the verge OF
despair, and not only despair. but III
sanity, -forthe stigma had played so
desperately upon his mind that IL Is
believed he could not have borne II
much longer
However. relief finally came. Last
fall Jared put his case In the hands
OF Attorney Robert H. Catlin, OF this
city. Mr. Catlin, in turn. consulted
Congressman Holiday, OF the Fifth
district and through the latter's aid
the much-sought certificate was pro-
cured.
Jared, as his story went. and II has
been verified beyond all question. en-
listed in Company X OF the Thirty
first Infantry in Terre Haute. Sept.
5. 1861. TO serve during the entire war.
The regiment was In charge Of Col.
Craft, Lieut. Col Osborn and Adjutant
Ross. Charles Smith was captain OF
Company X. Jared. now a man OF
sixty-fve years. was then but eigh-
teen, a mere stripping He has an old
daguerreotype taken shortly after his
enlistment II Is that OF round
faced bog in full uniform OF Union
soldier.
After being quartered at the old
Terre Haute fair grounds for several
weeks the Thirty.hrst Infantry set of
for seeding territory Jared faced
the rebel cannon In the battle of
Shiloh and later at Fort Donelson and
Corringtcn. Miss. From Corrington
the regiment marched to McKinnville,
Tenn. Here Major Buell. made up the
forces which ne led into Kentucky aft
or General Bragg, who was threaten
ing Louisville and Cincinnati. The
Thirty-first Indiana became a part OF
Buelrs brigade and the march north.
ward started In the latter part of
August. 1S62. To Nashville and thence
across the Cumberland into Kentucky
Buell. led his forces in the hurried
march. Jared remembers we'll the
delay OF the army In crossing the river
on pontoons and the worry It gave the
leaders.
Before the campaign started Jared
had been ill., The rough army life
and poorly prepared food had shaken
HE constitution. He complained, bat