Courier Democrat., 1916-08-10

was to carry the colors After leav-
ing Pennington the company moved to
Clear Creak, Miss, and on account
of the line water camped there for
two months through the summer of
| 1862. \ battle was fought in Sep
tember at Tux. A short sharp fight,
not lasting more than an hour and
half. 1t was growing dark and the
fight was wicked one till it closed.
"We had Gen. Grant with US and
were victorious The last of Septem-
Der We moved back to Corinth, where
we had another short sharp engage.
ment on the =tth and 9Th of October.
We continued to work our way down
south with occasional little fights
until the spring of 1868, when we
reached Vicksburg and We're there all
that summer, the surrender taking
place of course on the 4th of July. -
The seige lasting about three months.
Mr.. Burritt describes alinutely the
months of labor drilling from the out
side until the whole city was under
mined by tons Of powder, sufficient to
blow it to pieces. When at last it
was thought that the Union was
sufficiently prepared in this way Gen
eral Grant informed General Pember-
ton of the fact demanding the surren-
der of the city or that it would be
destroyed The result was the sur
render, in which were included 45,-
900 prisoners and all the implements
of war. From Vicksburg the Mime
sofa regiment, now part of the
Sixteenth Army Corps, proceeded up
the Red River of the South to help
General Banks at Grandicose, on the
border of Texas, a march of between
three and four hundred miles. The
rebels thought they had them whip
ped, but after getting there they had
a chance to change their minds and
the army of The Union went away
singing. In commenting on this lat
ter engagement Mr.. Burritt says:
"We had Smith, (Andrew jackson
| SMITH behind Mower, before fierce
fighter and We saved Old Banks at
Grandicose. The water was so low
in the Red River of the South, that
they had to build dam in order to
raise the water to get their gun boats
out and had only a captain from the
lumber woods to engineer the work.
After this they marched back again to
the Mississippi river, where they
were given transports to Memphis,
Tenn. The boys OF the regiment had
been three months without pay were
in tatters, with pants ragged up to
the knees and IN most cases their
boots worn to shreds,
Veteran Hamilton Z. Burritt came
to Cavalier county. North Dakota, on
May 4, 1882. He with his three
brothers established their residence in
tent on the banks of the Pembina
river. They had looked the country
over on the porth and east side pretty
thoroughly, but had met no white
settlers. They decided to locate in
Harvey township, because of the
privilege of the river and the timber
near by with the excellent prairie
surrounding them for immediate crop,
which they proceeded to plant that
spring. That fall they built sod
cabins and later on log house was
erected. Although Mr.. Burritt has
no knowledge of any white settlers
living in the county when he came,
within a few weeks there were plenty
of them coming from other parts of
this state and from across the line in
Manitoba and from other states.
Soon every quarter section in the
vicinity was being held by or for
some one and within year the county
was pretty we'll settled, but with the
sort of settlers who come only to sell
out to the first buyer and get out with
a little money. A few of those who
stayed and made fine citizens he
quotes as Robert Scott, Robert Wat.
son, George w. Graves, James Nc
Dowall, James Mcintosh, Jas. Welsh,
Joel H. Williamson and others. The
old Indian cart trail from the Turtle
Mountains to Saint Paul, was in
those days worn deep and passed by
his door, and that first fall he had the
pleasure of seeing and conversing with
a large party of buffalo hunters, re-
turning to St. Paul with their long
train of carts loadeded with furs for
the city markets, Indians were en-
gagged to scout the party.
: When questioned about the mode of
living in Cavalier county at that time
the ''Old Soldier said that living
was very cheap. Hunting and fishing
were fine and anything that you plant
ed seemed to grow. There was no
local market for anything and they
were practically obliged to use what