The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-05

big upstairs and what time did have:
Mr.. Tibbts and his wife came home and found
the lot of US all asleep; some on the floor. some on
the bed but all of tipsy and sick from the wine
Was there anything doing then? should say yes!
This whole lark was laid at my door. wac locked
in room to be kept until Monday, when l was to
be sent back home to my parents. 1 did not dare
go home as father would certainly have tried, at
least to whip some of the meanness out of me, for
1 had about used up his patience So after the
house had got quiet at night dropped out the
window and hiked for Lansing They were then
recruiting for the Sixth Michigan cavalry.
told the recruiting officer had no mother or
father, that sold papers and did odd jobs for a
living, and swOre l eighteen years old. Sure
he knew better, but they enlisted regularly as
bugler and assigned to Company G., Sixth
Michigan cavalry. was twelve years. three
months and twenty-thTee days old, and was in my
third enlistment but this was the first time was
mustered in Aft Madden enlisted with me.
was sent to Grand Rapids where the regiment
camped while being recruited to its full
strength We mustered into the service
there. The life that led the officers of Company
G was anything but pleasant
In Washington, we camped for a time on Meri-
den hill from which place made first hike
And tasted war, when we went to Falmouth
and skirmished with Moseby's guerrillas, We had
the opportunity of trading coffee for tobacco with
the Confederate pickets. white handkerchief
on the end of saber the signal to stop
shooting while the trade being made between
the ''Rebs" on the Fredericksburg side of the Rap
pahannock river and 'Yanks" on the Falmouth
side. must say never knew of any advantage
being taken to shoot a fellow while the trade
being made In the early spring of 1863, regi-
ment kept more busy than the Sixth Michigan
looking out for Moseby and his We always
had them, but got them to any great ex
tent. MOseby wonder
From then to the time l taken prisoner
we were in eighteen battles and minor engage
ments between June 80 October IL, 1868. The
Little Bugler lost day, but did lose lots of
meals in that time
On October II, 1853, at Brandy station, my horse
was shot from under me, and was taken pris-
oner. Our regiment charging through a regi-
ment of enemy cavalry that had got in between
the main column and the rear guard, when my
horse was struck by piece of shell between the
knee and hoof, throwing heels over appetite
some feet over his head. was cut and bruised
by the feet of the charging troopers. who be-
hind When l finally got up it to look into
the barrel of what appeared to to be cannon.
but in fact was only As Colt. and a fellow in a
gray suit was telling to strip He took my
either of them he was so much larger than L
to Richmond Va, but the way had traded Of
nv blouse for something to We divided
up in punches after arriving at Richmond. Destiny
sent me to old Libby prison, and later to Belle
Isle
had no pants, shoes or hat. One OF the older
men had given me an old coat. The guard would
issue US a few sticks of wood in the evening. We
burned our fires long possible and when
the fires had burned out to Goals scattered the
Goals the ground to warm it. and then would