The Washington herald., 1910-02-20

then follows "He attended school II ths
summer and taught school in the winter. %
or vice versa. Further on is the infpr-
nation that he left school o. college 70
Join the army. sometimes the Union,
sometimes the Confederate. according TO
the locality where his subject Of the
sketch lived, for while the veterans q
the civil was are fast dying out. there
are still living many who entered that
great struggle as lads. The Congressional
Directory contains number Of such bic
graphs and among them is that Of CO.
RansdeIl, whose title Is one of courtesy.
+ by the way, a tribute 10 HIS empty
sleeve.
Born in Indiana.
Col. Ransden was born on a farm In
Marion County. near the city OF Indian
apolis. more than sixty years ago His
parents. sturdy people, were both from
Kentucky. His mother was born Mary
Grubbs, a daughter Of the weli-known
family OF that name In the Blue Grass
State His father was a Baptist preach
/ er. an excellent preacher, too, il Is said.
noted for the number Of times he per
formed the marriage ceremony FOR the
/ Hoosier young people OF that day. aud
as good a farmer as ne was a preacher.
/ Daniel was named for the famous hero
/ Of the lions den and was much like other
Western boys who lived tn the middle Of
the last century He attended the COM
mon school in the country in winter.
worked on the farm in summer until he
was sixteen. when he entered Franklin
College, studied there during the winter.
and taught school in the summer for
three years and until the great call came,
when, in the face OF the disapproyal 81
his father who was as ardent a Demo
crat as he was a Baptist and an oppose-
OF the war, he enlisted as no1commjS-
stoned officer in Company of the Sew
enteenth Indiana. Of which Benjamin
Harrison was colonel
The young soldier served with his rogi-
ment until he was invahded home afte,
the battle of Roseca. where he lost his
right arm, and made as redouhtable q
soldier as his father was a preacher
Brave. valiant fearless. he was always iu
the thickest of the fight. always whcr,
the danger was greatest. but ne escaped
! unharmed until the engagement al
Roseca Mountain. which was fought on
May II and Is. 1861. whore he lost his
! arm
Arm Is Shattered
The catastrophe that befen him thcr,
fixed the details of that historic action
firmly in his mind. and when In remi.
iniscent mood Col. Ransdell tells many In.
teresting stories Of that engagement
when the Mimic bali struck me. shat.
tering my right hand aud arm. expert.
enced." says Col Ransien. what CVcrs
soldier has at some time felt While we
were engaged knew no fear. hut tho
moment I was disarmed the great danger
IoverpOwered me II would be Impossible
TO describe the awful feelings Of the next
half hour and until l got under cover
Friends falling on all sides. the testl
shrieks of my schoomates resoundins u
the air, blood and carnage everywhere
made scene ! can never forget We lost
Ione-half of the company 20 which I he.
llonged Five were killed outright. twenty
one were wounded some of them dyinl
afterward, and two OF MS lost an arm
But that terrible carnage was the last Of
the fight at Reseca; the enemy retreatet
that night"
Col Ransdeli came to know Gen Hsf
rison when he served under him IN th,
lSeventeenth Indiana The friendship
formed then laster uninterupteily Gnui
the death of the latter. and RanEdell ha.
ioften been called Hsrrison's Beswen y,