The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-20
CAPTAIN BLACK
DIED YESTERDAY
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shipped aboard the bark May Dew in
Philadelphia, in 1919, and arrived in
San Francisco via the Horn. in April,
1850, when he was twenty years of age.
From San Francisco he went to SUIT
ter's Fort, QUILTED with three others
and went to North River and struck
gold. The quartet brought back about
$74 900 which was equally divided and
then they returned to San Francisco
and went back home via Panama. From
Philadelphia he went to Detroit, Michi-
gan, and being journeyman printer
he found work to do everywhere He
was employed on the Detroit Free Press
for some years until the war broke out
when he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth
Michigan Volunteers and served two
and one-half years as orderly sergeant
He came to Hawaii in 1865
His Last Interview
After nearly forty-four years resi-.
dence in the Hawaiian Islands, in June
of last year Captain Black went back
to his old home in Philadelphia. Just
before his departure, in an interview in
The Advertiser, he said:
~ made the mistake of my life by
enlisting in the army. should have
shipped in the navy and today l might
have been big man. l served in the
army until ] was worn out and was
twice wounded in the right leg. | got
! my first wound at Antietam, the blood.
lest battle of the war. got hit ON the
side of the head with the butt of mus.
ket, too. Our first experience was at
Frederick, Maryland, when our regi-
ment was ordered from Washington to
push Lee back. We dropped off the
train and were ordered out as skirmish'
ers. We drove Lee IS skirmisherS
through the town of Frederick, but We
were driven out again. Say, that song
about the old woman in Frederick
what's her names Oh, yes, Barbara
Frietchie--well that song is all humbug
We went through the town twice ant
never saw or heard anything of it. j
was a good patriotic song, but it wai
a piece of imagination, as sure as yoI
We're born
Once CourCmartia,ed
. ''When we were way down The PENN
sula, word came that Mcclellan ha,
been removed from command. We wer
pretty mad about il, and my captain
broke his sword across his knee. Blu
our regiment was ordered out to SUI
round part of Sickle Is command be
cause they had thrown down their gun
in disgust, wrote all about the Who'll
business to my wife aud she let a lot a
a il be printed In the Detroit Free Pres
!. That paper came straight down TO heaC
/, quarters and / was summoned before
c0urimartial. hut did not go an
: never attended the court, and nothin
y ever came sf II, could not deny III
!, letter when they questioned me.
"Ies, l was az Fredericksburg whe
/, we pontooned the Rappahannoek Rig,
y 50 that the army could cross, My reg
), ment went across during he aghl
{, put the ppntn0ns across,
!, well ! petered out ON the wa
/, back toward Maryland somewhere nel
d llArper's Ferry ! laid down alpngsis
o. the road aud gave np ennldn't mafs
=, any more was picked uh aud inh'
o on 10 Washington, When ! get back
4 Philadelphia ! am going on % Mashin
q ton 10 see about getting my pension i
a creased ! believe ought 10 gel mal
y Nas wounded tNiee and i las MAJ
ID nae limp ever slnee with Che lheum
, iiHnl and then ! am getting ald, n
. years arc going faaief With nae naNi 4
7 ain neaFlg siahlN
oams Hers feF Health
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