The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-21

the present townsite. Two children,
Florence, who is Mrs Arthur Capper,
and George, who is identified with Mr.
Capper in the publication of the sew
eraI Capper papers, were born to this
union.
War Record Worth a Volume.
The war record of Samuel ]. Craw-
| ford would fill volume if properly
recorded. His fearlessness and ability
as a commander won rapid promotion,
and he was a brigadier general by
brevet at the close of the rebellion.
The estimation of the officers of the
western division of the Union army CO.
incided with the estimation of Major
Van Antwerp, an old West Point COM
mander. 1t was at the battle of old
Fort Wayne, just after Captain Craw-
ford and his company had charged
Confederate battery and were bringing
in the captured guns. Riding up to
General Blunt, Major Van Antwerp
asked: who is that young officer?"
Captain Crawford of the Second
Kansas answered the general.
IF that man had been with Ma
oleon at Lodi, and had done what he
did here today, he would have been
made a field marshal" said Major
Van Antwerp.
He Was a Hoosier.
Samuel J. Crawford was born in
Lawrence county Indiana, April 10,
1885. His parents came into Indiana
from North Carolina in 1915. He was
educated in the common schools, the
Bedford grade school and the law
school of Cincinnati. In 1859 he
came to Kansas and began the prac-
tice of law in Garnett. In the follow
ing May he attended the Osawatomie
convention and took part in the or
ganizatiOn of the Republican party in
Kansas. In September of the same
year he was a delegate to the Repub-
lican convention at Topeka, which
nominated state officers under the
Wyandotte constitution. Two months
later he was elected to the first state
legislature, which convened at Topeka
March 20, 1861. On May IA of the
same year he was appointed a captain
in the Second Kansas Volunteer In
fantry, and resigned his seat in the
legislature to join his regiment, under
Colonel Lyon for the campaign in
southern Missouri, participating i'll
all the battles of that campaign. in
Guiding the battle of Wilson Creek on
August 10, 1861. In March. 1862 he
was assigned to the command of Troop
a, Second Kansas cavalry, and soon
after to a battalion of the regiment,
and, under General Blunt, took an ac-
tive part in the hard campaign of the
winter of 1852.
More than a dozen hard battles were
fought by his command and two o.
three of his successful charges We're
HlSIOry-nakerS. ana he led attacks
which resulted in the capture of way
on trains, detachments of the enemy
and five steamboats,, loaded with Con-
federate supplies, on the -rkansas riv-
er. He also captured SAC. 600 in Confed-
crate money which was intended for
payment of the enemy. but in recount
ing that capture in later years was
wont to add that the Confederate SOL
dlerS didn't lose much Newtonla
Old Ford WAYNE. Cain Hill, Ball Peak.
Cove Creek. Prairie Grove. Van Buren,
and several other battles and hot skir-
mishes We're Won with his assistance
and although at least one of his
charges-when he captured a Confed-
crate hattery-was made without au-
thority from his superior officers, the
success of the movement was such that
ne received praise instead of repri-
mand,
Nominated While in Army
On Sept. 8, 1864, Colonel Crawford
was nominated by the Republican con-
vention for governor. On Oct. he was