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■p■I wmmm♦\ KU.MIWISrUM N ( P’THK nvih \\ Ml TIM IN♦in looking over some old letters in his office, John Wesley Morton found the following letter he receiv’d from lt;’ K Boardraan, who was a member of Company C. 37th Illinois Infantry,whose regim* i.t was in the game brigube with the 19th Iowa, it referred to that terrible march of one hun-jdrcu and twenty-four miles in l»ss than four days from the old Wilsons, Cr*sek battle field in Missouri to Prairie Grove, Ark., over a roughand hilly country.Oregon, 111., Sept, 20. 1884 J. W Morton.mMy Dear Comrade; | have justfinished reading your letter in the National Tribune, I cannot help feeljing a deep Interest in reading any! letter or communication that appears occasionally in the National Tribune, wherein I also figured as on* man in said campaign, battles, etc. Itjis also gratifying to me to learn occasionally of one of the old veterenVwhereabouts. I was a member of Company C. 37th Illinois infantry. I•served thru the entire war.How well I remember that forcedmmarch to Prairie Grove, and the in eldents in the march, one of which 1 will repeat here. It was midnight j and we halted on a rise of ground, where the second grow*th of timber j was pretty thick and the leaves onthe ground were a complete mass,which made of itself a good bed j without any stirring such as our, 1 women folks give to our beds now a Well, you know when wohalted, no matter whore, we always dropped down and in a few minutes were fast asleep, especially at night, iWhen I awoke at this particular timethere was not a man to bo seen anywhere I was alone and the woodsall on fire about me, pretty close to my cat ridge box. 1 had lain down | with my gun slung across my shoulder, and when 1 woke up I was so startled at the narrow escape froiv the fire that I jus* started right on my journey to catch the regiment, without thinking whether I had had a gun or anything else. I walked |perhaps one and a half miles when II discovered I had left my rifle, or Ithought 1 had left It where I laididown. Ho I started back after the | rifle, tired to death, thinking as onward my backward step on paths Itrod, of tb* good home f had left;the kind father ami mother and thecupboard full of doughnuts and pies;and « nice girl over across the w tvfrom fathers, a heliering ult;»w and then for her soldier huckleberry that was off to the war that the African might live and enjoy the blessings of liberty of the sacrifices of your comrades ami In living perpetuate the memory of that issue ami the deadcomrades by voting the democraticticket, i tiad got perhaps one milt* on tlie return after toy rifle when i discovered that the darned thing was
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 23, 1919
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