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C. J. Lahue, of the Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry, now living In Lanital, Kan., is in the city on his way home from the Columbus encampment. He is enthusiastic for (■encral Harrison, and relates thefollowing incident, illustrative of the character of the man. “I ran away from home,” said he, “when I was hut sixteen years of age, and joined the army. While a volunteer scout,at Huntsville, Ala., I was captured by the enemy sept. .*!, I MM. I was taken from one Southern prison stockade to another until April 12, when 1 was paroled at Vicksburg. On April 21 I was put on the steamer Sultana, and started North. On the 2lt;th of tin* monththe steamer exploded, and I floatedeight and a half miles on a raft. I was badly hurt, and was nursed two weeks at memphis. When I recoverd sutflciently I was sent from there to Cairo with some forty survivor*; and as soon as I couldmake the'’trip, reported at Indian-a polls. I was alone, and reported to General Harrison at the State-house, told him I desired transportation to Jeffersonvilie, and he said It
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Farmland Enterprise
Farmland, Indiana, US
Fri, Sep 21, 1888
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