La Junta tribune., 1913-07-05

pound OF meal and flour. and ear OF
/ corn and fodder. oats and wheat that
can fall In his hands. fall trees be-
fore him: burn every bridge: hang
upon his front. flank and rear. and
I let the ring Of your shotEuns and
rifles accompany him every foot Of
Ills retrssA.''
We will simply remark right here
that this blood and thunder order
vas literally carried out
/, waS rebel to the front Of Us.
rebel to the right Of US. rebel to
the left Of US. rebel behind US. vol
lied and thundered.' But not with
standing all this. we have tn. salts
faction Of knowing from their own
official sources that we killed more
Of them than they did Of us. Most
OF them were armed with shotxunx.
such ~ the people Of that country
was no doubt mortifyinx to them
TO shoot handful OF shot into n
union man and then see him walk
off as II nothing bad happened. But
when a union soldier shot rebel
he general got a minnie or musket
bali tha, made him as auie, and
peaceable AS would ten grains OF
morphine
These men who were really guer'
-ilas came loaded for birds when
they should have come loaded for
bear
The road most Of the way was
quite marshy and It Was a fearful
task TO haul the wagons. and especial
is the cannon through the mud The
cannon In many places would sink
down TO the axle. and the men would
have 10 III, them out by their own
I strength Tn. road was lined In
some places. ou both sides with n
thick underground OF canebrush. the
/ like OF which We had never seen be-
/ fore nor since. and In this the guer-
rillas or as We used to call them.
"bushwhackers, would conceal them
selves and shoot our men off their
. horses as We passed along the road.
I One day as the sun was going down
We oamped by creek and one OF
my fellow comrades was shot by a
hushshacker from the opposite side
OF the creek. not fifty feet from
where | stood. The canebreaks We're
I Immediately shslled by our howitzers.
These little dogs OF war generally
make a scattering among the John
niex.
In one place ~e encountered a
blockade OF at least ten acres. The
army Of course had TO stop and make
new road or remove the falling
/ timber We passed through Angus.
Ia. town of some 500 inhabitants.
most of which had deserted. and
from thence on 10 Cache river where
I We Ntn 'hs onlN T'hi ihhi va az
march Before We reached the river
We campcd In larg. cypress
swamp The place was solemn and
I the night gloomy enough Neither
officers or men cared to sleep. SO
impressed were they with the weird
novelty Of the place and time.
They gathered in knots and talk
ed over the events Of the day or
I related events OF the campaign. and
no, a few spoke OF home and It's
sad memories.
Up to this time not day passed
without more or less fighting. but
non. OF I, rose To tn. dignity OF u
battle
batil. and after the usual amount
OF reconoitering and diminishing the
mos, Of the army safely forded the
Cache river. About two y. m, heavy
firing Was heard IN front. and soon
stragyierS were met saying the whole
Of Hindman's army had attacked the
advance. Gen. Hovey has,.n.d for
ward and found the cavalry and ar
tilicry firing and falling hack.
Al = glance he took In the situation
and ordered the retiring advance
guard or column to fall back ~ far
~ possible. and NJ the same time
ordered two regiments of infantry In
to corn field just beside the
road and behind = hlxh rail fence.
They had M sooner secr~seti them
selves than the r~be, cavalry appear
I'd In solid column. charging down
the roAd. and seeing our advance
guards stili r~treatine they were go
ing TOR them. When the head os the
rehri column had nearly psssed the