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•«wrg.• u f-.-iMiss TOlle Neuendorf la visiting iney.adaominChicago. 'Miss Blanch Booker is visiting friends in Valparaiso.Miss Emma Tanke is here from Chicago to Bpend her vacation.Mrs. Albert Brinkman and children are visiting in South Bend.Miss Nathalia Swanson of Chicago is visiting Miss Anna Johnson.Emil Spunter went to Rochester this morning to spend several weeks.Misses Lizzie Forrey and Blanche Bunton are visiting friends in Chicago.Miss Mellwood Smith of New Carlisle is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. W. King.Mrs. Wm. Vogt and baby went to e*a* | Mishawaka last evening to visit for a few days.re* ’ Mrs. Caroline Schultz and Miss Matilda Schultz are visiting relatives at | and friends in Tyner.ingingagovri/.vW'-uv.-*vember General Bnrbridge with one brigade at Camp Fairriew, wm at-theica-REBELUON REMINI8CENCE8.1 is len-Wrltten by One Who Participated Inthe War.Promt ReHATHThe Itravthin ConIzed henTheWe concluded to spend the night, however, in our present hotel. We s a I slept soundly until morning; when we lt°n I arose and joined our company in time for reveille. We began to look around ave I then, for our everlasting gum cable.” i to I What was our surprise, for the first time since leaving Berwick Bay” our ned 1 telegraph had played out. We soon 5er. solved the problem, however. General Franklin was looking for a battle hereabouts; and had very generously sent the old tried Thirteenth Army Corps ahead of the Nineteenth Army Corps, well knowing that the Thlr-0 18 I teenth was composed of wild western ^rs’ | men, who never shrank from a prospect of fighting, while the Nineteenth lter I corps which had been raised in the Mrs. J ]ap 0f luxury in the East, cared but little to be the first to mix in a com-ned I bat of life and death. We prepared ome I our morning meal, and awaited orders. In about an hour we started, line I marched about a mile, to a nice grove ViiS:3 of timber, halted awhile, then march-nd.(uliatacked by the enemy and had a severe engagement, for several hoars, when our division went to their support, and Boon dispersed the enemy. Burbrldge lost heavily In killed, wounded and missing. The Sixtieth Indiana were almost all, taken in out of the wet” Nov. 6th we went back to Vermillion Bayou and rejoined the Nineteenth corps, under command of General Franklin. We staid here 11 days, horse racing from morning until night. On the 16th the whole army marched back towards New Iberia, camping at night near Lake Tias, a beautiful pond three miles wide and nine miles long, skirted by a beautiful grove of timber, In the center of a fine prairie. Next morn ing we moved on and camped at New I Bec^i° Iberia On the 20th at 4 o’clock a. m. Perso1 we marched out to Lake Tias, and remar quietly surrounded a rebel camp at natior daylight, and took 120 prisoners. On the 21st the Twenty-fourth went out Uonal with some other forage trains across | ®Bayou Teche. The advance foragers I were fired into, and came running by 1116 11 our train in wild confusion. We fell cratic in line of battle, under command of iBn°r Major Grill, and waited one hour cnt f when everything became quiet. Men ot th' never heard anybody say, What caus- cause ed so much stampeding? Certainly a iBSuei few shois fired at random were not I ever sufficient inducement. The next day the forage master of the Nineteenth I ° *?. corps was descried, driving a large flock of sheep, across the prairie, in I decla the direction of our camp. The sun two I was Just sinking in the weBt, when I sttioo they came near our camp. About 100 lor o men from the Eleventh Indiana, and the same number from the Twenty- been fourth formed in line of battle, await-1 £08efi ing (like Don Quixote) the charge of mutton. The forage master became alarmed, but as his route lay right through our brigade camp he attempted to shove his sheep through. The , oarti boys of each regiment made a dash I !mo, for the sheep. Every man secured a fine sheep, and some got two. The man in charge of the sheep was pow-1 With erless. He reported it to General moniDemias in mentConeTh.umec unusi a peed through it and camped, in one of I Frankliu s headquarters. Next morn- an(* Jis a her,aberthe most lovely spots our eyes had ever rested upon. In front of us, the undulating prairie, whose hills and hollows rose and fell as gently as the tbSs I mighty ocean’s waves on a calm,clear day, and, which was dotted here and there with nice, snug, frame dwel-re I lings, with lowing herds of cattle that Miss ] roamed untrammeled and unterrified by the fierce waves of rebellion. Then, [rue-1 in our rear, the pleasant open grove, ;eks’ j every tree covered with huge overcoats of gray Spanish moss, formed ,p]jn I a picture which time will never en-the j tirely efface from our memory .We very naturally styled this spot, “Camp Fair-view.” We had succeeded in stackingarms, making a detail, for foraging purposes, and our officers were quite busy In laying off our camping grounds, when a mighty noise arose in our front, followed by the rapid discharge of small arms. We instantly dren fjew to arms, and awaited the onset ’ vis-1 with eagerness. The combatants were hidden from our view, owing to build-nnie J ings that intervened. We were not lend- J long permitted to remain in doubt, however. For soon our entire foragefrom Itrain. consisting of several wagonsChi-: histheroadthe.’illiecagoandRreb-and ambulances, came madly dashing around the corner of the plantation fence, half a mile in front of us, and, as teamsters are seldom armed, it was supposed by them to be a life chase.ing General Franklin sent up Colonel Grills “to have his regimental quarters searched for mutton, but no mutton was found,” Colonel Grill reported No mutton in our quarters found, for the marauders had anticipated such a move, and run their mutton, ready dressed, up their brick chimneys. Soon after the mutton was disposed of, along came a captain and guard, with search warrant for mutton. Halting at the writer’s tent in company F, Twentyfourth Indiana. My comrade, Harry Watts, was lying on his cot reading. “Have you any mutton in this tent,” inquired the captain. No sir! said Watts. But we have a fine case of smallpox; don’t you want to look at it? taking hold of the oil blanket to show the patient, which in reality was a dressed mutton. No sir! by G—d I don’t. The captain never stopped until he was again safe in the Nineteenth corps. Our brigade had erected a fine music stand about 10 ft. high, near the center of the Eleventh Indiana parade grounds. Tied to the studding that supported the platform were about 30 of the captured sheep. The Nineteenth corps sent down a squad of men to bring off the sheep. On their blustering order to let the sheep loose, out came 100 Zouaves, with saber bayonets ready to protect their mutton in pros'd to withhter.polls,mily.stelleuestsStoneThey had been charged upon by a j pective. They reported their failurejphin?landJohnHer-areWa-5 andatroltalliesJ. S.cago,augh-s for-epted mil-augb-irnediveral’8 SlS-merly oe to tiome, ter of have rrlval Scha-gang of guerrillas, while busily engaged in foraging on the aforesaid plantation. The enemy halted before they arrived in reach of our rifles, evidently imagining that they had succeeded in giving the boys a big scare,” which was very true. Our cavalry mounted, and instantly went in pursuit, but the enemy had fast horses and would not stay to see the fun. Still, regular firing was kept up all day at intervals. We had heavy picket firing here every night, until the 21st of October, at which time we moved up toward Opelousas and soon found the Johnnies. We had some severe skirmishing with them in forming our lines, when we advanced and drove them two or three miles, they unceremoniously leaving us to the tune of Yankee shells. We marched through Opelousas and camped, eight miles out, at Barre's Landing on Coutheau Bayou. Here we found plenty of water, beef and sweet potatoes. We tore down many deserted buildings, and put up nice quarters,for the rainy season had set in in earnest.Oct. 29th we marcehd back to Opelousas, through mud, boot-top deep, and rejoined the 2nd brigade under Colonel Slack. The rain fell in torrents during our exercises In pitching tents. We went to the woods and collected moss for beds. Then the rain ceaBed, the weather cleared up, the wind arose, and everything bid fairfor a night of extreme coldness for the season. We worked very hard during daylight, to secure wood enough from an adjoining thicket to run the Institution all night. Building an extensive fire In front of each tent, we managed to Bleep the Bleepof the juBt all night.Nov. 1st we marched back to Carrion Crow Bayou. On the 3rd of No-to General Franklin. To say that he was not roiled would be putting it tame. Within an hour he sent a detail for both regiments entire to report to his headquarters for extra duty. We all started as escort for a long sugar train, each man bleatinglike sheep. Arriving at General Franklin’s headquarters, the Eleventh asked: Who stole the sheep?” Ourboys replied: The Eleventh Indiana.” Who helped steal the sheep?”The Eleventh replied: “The Twenty-fourth Indiana.” • Our wagon train composed of 150 wagons then went out seven miles for sugar. When we arived at the refinery, we were alldrawn up in line. Colonel Grill commanded the regiment and Major Darnell commanded the Eleventh. Each of the above officers told us that General Franklin had given orders not to allow any foraging, and they also instructed us not to help load the sugar except the foragemaster would pay us well for our trouble. We then stacked arms. The Eleventh Indiana took out after a drove of fine fat China pigs. As fast as they could catch a pig one would hold it and another would cut its head off with a saber bayonet. Our boys collected all the sweet potatoes, sugar and molasses they could 'find, and in this manner we made our way back to camp, our officers dismissing us 400 **** yards before we arrived at headquar-ters, so that each man could get safely Into camp with his forage.BERGHANT I* B. JESSUP.(To bo OonttaaoD.rapid point Istrai unde enaci redult; ly efl ensui legis 1b su turec debt the f •1,31 amoi gove recteragifnsterentDemeldernineretirfromcal jbeenamoi000ernndituifor tcivilwillcontpeardollsTheIiplatllicarhasThethisthethe (of tlGreineyfron22, 1sal a:Mr.nry,as I For 31 For 31 For 31 For 31 Froi 22Tfourarysidiitheyeaitheiwasaveithe•tatIHere we are suffering for rain, and in several states crops are suffering from excessive rain.There is said to be np such thing as international free trade.worcsaleaudanehiswoipootierJ .
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 11, 1904
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