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BECOMES A
OFF. T0 . CALIFORNIA AGAIN, VIA THE ISTHMUS.
(COrTKIGIIT.)
OWARD THE
end of July, as be
fore stated, all the
family weut home
to Lancaster. Con
gress "vvas still in
session, and the bill
adding four Cap
tains to the Commis
sary Department
had not passed, but
was reasonably cer
tain to, and I was
equally sure of be
ing one of them. At
that time ray name
vvas on the muster-
roll of (Light) Co. C, 3d Art. (Bragg's),
stationed at Jefferson Barracks, near St.
Louis, But, as there was cholera at St
Louis, on application I was permitted to
delay joining my company until Sep
tember. Early in that month I pro
ceeded to Cincinnati, and thence by
steamboat to St. Louis, and then to
Jefferson Barracks, where I reported
for duty to Capt and Brevet-Col. Brax
ton Bragg, commanding (Light) Co. C,
3d Art. The other officers of the com
pany were First Lieut. James A Hardee,
and afterward Hackaliah Brown.
PKOSIOTED TO CAPTAIN.
Kew horses had just been purchased for
the batter', and we were preparing for
work, when the mail brought the orders
announcing the passage of the bill In
creasing the Commissar' Department by
four Captains, to which were promoted
Captains Shiras, Blair, Sherman, and
Bowen. I was ordered to take post at
St. Louis, and to relieve Capt. A J.
Smith, 1st Dragoons, who had been -acting
in that capacity for some months.
My commission bore date Sept. 27, 1850.
I proceeded forthwith to the city, re
lieved Capt. Smith, and entered on the
discharge of the duties of the office.
Col. K S. Clarke, Gth Inf., com
manded the department; Maj. D. C.
Buell was Adjutant-General, and Capt.
W. S. Hancock was Regimental Quar
termaster; Col. Thomas Swords was
the Depot Quartermaster, and we had
our offices in the same building, on
the corner of "Washington Avenue and
Second. Subsequently Maj. S. Van
Vliet relieved Col. Swords. I remained
at the Planters' House until 1113' family
arrived, when we occupied a house on
Chouteau avenue near Twelfth.
During the Sjwing and Summer of
1851 Mr. Ewing and Mr. Henry Stod
dard, of Dayton, 0., a cousin of my
father, were much in St Louis on busi
ness connected with the estate of Maj.
Amos Stoddard, who was of the old
Army as early as the beginning of this
century. He was stationed at the vil
lage of St. Louis at the time of the Lou
isiana purchase, and when Lewis and
Clarke made their famous expedition
across the continent to the Columbia
River. Maj. Stoddard at that early day
had purchased a small farm back of the
village of some Spaniard or Frenchman,
but, as be was a bachelor, and was killed
at Fort Meigs, 0., during the war of
1812, the title was for many years lost
sight of, and the farm was covered over
by other claims and by occupants. As
St. Louis began to grow his broth
ers and Eistcrs, and their descend
ants, concluded to look up the
prajorly. After much and fruitless
litigation, they at last retained Mi. Stod
dard, of Dayton, who in turn employed
Mr. Ewing, and these, after many years
of labor, established the title, and in
the Summer of 1851 they were put in
possession by the United States Marshal.
The ground was laid of!) the city survey
extended over it, and the whole was sold
in partition. I made some purchases,
and acquired an interest, which I have
retained more or less ever since.
"We continued to reside in St. Louis
throughout the year 1851, and in the
Spring of 1 852 I had occasion to visit
Fort Leavenworth on duty, partly to
inspect a lot of cattle which' a Mr.
Gordon, of Cass County, had contracted
to deliver in New Mexico, to enable
Col. Sunnier to attempt his scheme of
making
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WRITTEN BY HlHSELE
BANKER"
THE SOLDIERS IN NEW MEXICO SELF-SUP-POKTIXG,
by raising their own meat, and in a
measure their own vegetables. I found
Fort Leavenworth then, as now, a most
beautiful spot, but in the midst of a
wild Indian country. There were no
whites settled in what is now the State
of Kansas. "Weston, in 'Missouri, was
the great town, and speculation in town
lots there and thereabout burnt the
lingers of some of the Army officers, who
wanted to plant their scanty dollars in
a fruitful soil. I rode on horseback
over to Gordon's farm, saw the cattle,
concluded the bargain, and returned by
way of Independence, Mo. At Inde
pendence I found F. X. Aubrey, a noted
man of that day, who had justmade a
celebrated ride of 600 miles in six days.
That Spring the United States Quarter
master, Maj. L. C. Easton, at Fort
Lirion, 1$. M., had occasion to send some
message east by a certain date, and con
tracted with Aubrey to carry it to the
nearest postoffice (then Independence,
Mo.), making his compensation condi
tional on the time consumed. He was
supplied with a good horse, and an order
on the outgoing trains for an exchange.
Though the whole route was infested
with hostile Indians, and not a house on
it, Aubrey started alone with his rifle.
He was fortunate in meeting several outward-bound
trains, and thereby made
frequent changes of horses, some four or
five, and reached Independence in six
days, having hardly rested or slept
the whole ivay. Of course, he was ex
tremely fatigued, -and said there was
an opinion among the wild Indians that
if a man "sleeps out of his sleep," after
such extreme exhaustion, he will never
awake ; and, accordingly, he instructed
his landlord to wake him up after eight
Gen. TAYi-on.
hours of sleep. "When aroused at last,
he saw by the clock that he had been
alseep 20 hours, and he was dreadfully
angry, threatened to murder his land
lord, who protested he had tried in every
way to get him up, but found it impossi
ble, and had let " sleep it out" Aubrey,
in describing his sensations to me, said
he took it for granted he was a dead
man; but in fact he sustained no ill
effects, and was off again in a few days.
I met him afterward often in California,
and always esteemed him one of the best
samples of that bold race of men who
had grown up on the Plains, along with
the Indians, in the service of the fur
companies. He was afterward, in 1856,
killed by R. C. Weightman, in a bar
room row, at Santa Fe, N. M., where he
had just arrived from California.
In going from Independence to Fort
Leavenworth, I had to swim Milk Creek,
and sleep all night in a Shawnee camp.
The next day I crossed the Kaw or
Kansas lliver in a ferry-boat, maintained
by the blacksmith of the tribe, and
reached the fort in the evening. At
that day the whole region was unsettled,
where now exist many rich Counties,
highly cultivated, embracing several
cities of from 10,000 to 40,000 inhabit
ants. From Fort Leavenworth I re
turned by steamboat to St Louis.
In "the Summer of 1852 my family
went to Lancaster, O., but I remained
at my post Late in the season it was
rumored that I was
TO HE TRANSFERHED TO NEW OELEANS,
and in due time I learned the cause.
During a part of the Mexican war Maj.
Seawcll, of the 7th Inf., had been Acting
Commissary of Subsistence at Kew Or
leans, iheutlic great depot of supplies
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for the troops in Texas, and of those
operating beyond the Bio Grande.
Commissaries at that time were allowed
to purchase in open market, and were
not restricted to advertising and award
ing contracts to the lowest bidders. It
was reported that Maj. Sea well had pur
chased largely of the house of Perry
Seawell & Co., Mr. Seawcll being a rela
tive of his. "When he was relieved in
his duties by Maj. "Waggaman, of the
Regular Commissary Department, the
latter found Perry Seawell & Co. so
prompt and satisfactory that he con
tinued the patronage, for which there
was a good reason, because stores for the
use of the troops at remote posts had to
be packed in a particular way, to bear
transportation- in wagons, or even on
pack-mules ; and this firm had made ex
traordinary preparations for this exclus
ive purpose. Some time about 1S49 a
brother of Maj. Waggaman, who had
been clerk to Capt. Casey, Commissary
of Subsistence, at Tampa Bay, Fin., was
thrown out of office by the death of the
Captain, and he naturally applied to his
brother in Kew Orleans for employment,
and he, in turn, referred him to his
friends, Messrs. Perry Seawell & Co.
These first employed him as a clerk, and
afterward admitted him as a partner.
Thus it resulted, in fact, that Maj.TVag
gaman was dealing largely, if not exclu
sively, with a firm of which his brother
mi3 i puiuiui.
One day, as Gen. Twiggs was coming
Old Barracks at
across Lake Pontchartrain, he fell in
with one of his old cronies, who was an
extensive grocer. This gentleman gradu
ally led the conversation to the down
ward tendency of the times since he and
Twiggs were young, saying that in for
mer years all the merchants of New Or
leans had a chance at Government pa
tronage ; but now, in order to sell to the
Army Commissary, one had to take a
brother in as a partner. Gen. Twiggs
resented this, but the merchant again
affirmed it, and gave names. As soon
as Gen. Twiggs reached his office he in
structed his AdjutantrGeneral, Col. Bliss,
who told me this, to address a categori
cal note of inquiry to Maj. Waggaman.
The Major very frankly stated the facts
as they had arisen, and insisted that the
firm of Perry Seawell & Co. had en
joyed a large patronage, but deserved it
richly by reason of their promptness,
fairness, and fidelity. The correspond
ence was sent to "Washington, and the
result was that Maj. "Waggaman wa3
ordered to St. Louis and I was ordered
to New Orleans.
I went down to New Orleans in a
steamboat in the month of September,
1852, taking with me a clerk, and, on
arrival, assumed the office, in a bank
buildiug facing Lafayette Square, in
which were the offices of all the Army
departments. Gen. D. Twiggs was in
command of the department, with Col.
"W. "W. S. Bliss (son-in-law of Gen.
Taylor) as his Adjutant-General. Col.
A. C. Myers was Quartermaster, Capt
John F. Reynolds, Aid-de-Camp, and
Col. A J. Coffee, Paymaster. I took
rooms at the St Louis Hotel, kept by a
most excellent gentleman, Col. Mudgc.
Mr. Perry Seawell came to me in
person, soliciting a continuance of the
custom which he had theretofore enjoyed,
but I told him frankly that a change
was necessary, and I never saw or heard
of him afterward. I simply purchased
in open market, arranged for the proper
packing of the stores, and had not the
least difficulty in supplying the troops
and satisfying the head of the Depart
ment in Washington. ,
BECOMES A BANKER.
About Christmas I had notice that
my family, consisting of Mrs. Sherman,
two children, and nurse, with my sister
Fanny (now Mrs. Moulton, of Cincin
nati, O.), were en route for New Orleans
by steam packet ; so I hired a house on
Magazine street and furnished it. Al
most at the moment of their arrival also
came from St Louis my personal friend,
Maj. Turner, with a parcel of documents,
which, on examination, proved to be ar
ticles of copartnership for a bank in
California under the title of "Lucas,
Turner & Co.," in which my name was
embraced as a partner. Maj. Turner
was, at the time, actually en route for
New York to embark for Sau Francisco
to inaugurate the bank, in the nature of
a branch of the firm already existing at
St Louis under the name of " Lucas &
Symond?." We discussed the matter
very fully, and he left with me the "pa
pers for reflection and went on to New
j York and California,
Shortly after arrived James H. Lucas,
esq., the principal of the banking firm
in St. Louis, a most honorable and
wealthy gentleman. He further ex
plained the full program of the branch
in California; that my name had been
included at the instance of Maj. Turner,
who was a man of family and property
in St Louis, unwilling to remain long in
San Francisco, and who wanted me to
succeed him there. He offered me a
very tempting income, with an interest
that would accumulate and grow. . He also
disclosed to me 'that, in establishing a
branch in California, he was influenced
by the apparent prosperity of Page,
Bacon & Co., and further that he had
received the principal data, ou which he
had founded the scheme, from B. R. Itfis
bet, who was" then a teller in the firm of
Page, Bacon & Co., of Sau Francisco ;
that he also was to be taken in as a
partner, and wa3 fully competent to
manage all the details of the business ;
but, as Nisbet was comparatively young,
Mr. Lucas wanted me to reside in San
Francisco permanently, as the head of
the firm.
IlETURNS TO CALIFORNIA.
All these matters were fully discussed,
and I agreed to apply for a six months'
leave of absence, go to San Francisco,
sec for myself, and be governed by ap
pearances there. I accordingly, with Gen.
Twiggs's approval, applied to the Adjutant-General
for a six months' leave,
which was granted ; and Capt. John F.
Fort Leavenworth, f
Reynolds was named to perform my
duties during my'olrsencc.
During the stay f my family in New
Orleans, we enjoyed the society of the
families of Gen. Iwiggs, Col. Myers, and
Col. Bliss, as abb of many citizens,
among whom was the wife of Mr. Day,'
sister to my brother-in-law, Judge Bart-'
ley. Gen. Twiggs was then one of the
oldest officers of the Army. His history
extended back to the war of 1812, and
he had served , in early days with Gen.
Jackson in Floridaaud in the Creek
campaigns. Tie had fine powere of
description, aud-;often entertained us, at
his office, with 'accounts of I113 experi
ences in the earlier settlements of the
Southwest. Col. Bliss had been Gen.
Taylors Adjutant in the Mexican war,
and was universally regarded as one of
the most finished scholars in the Army,
and his wife was a most agreeable and
accomplished woman.
Late in February I dispatched my
family up the Ohio in the steamboat Tc
cumseli (Capt Pearce) ; disposed of my
houseand furniture; turned over to
Maj. Reynolds the funds, property, and
records of the office; and" took passage
in a small steamer for Nicaragua, en
route for California. We embarked
early in March, and in seven days reach
ed Greytown, where we united with the
passengers from New York, and proceed
ed, by the Nicaragua River and Lake,
for the Pacific Ocean.
The river was low, and the little steam
canal-boats, four in number, grounded
often, so that the passengers Tiad to get
into the water, to help them over the bars.
In all there were about 600 passengers,
of whom about 00 were women and chil
dren. In four days wo reached Castillo,
where there is a decided fall, passed by a
short railway, and above this fall we
were transferred to a larger boat, which 1
cwe
Lake Pontchartrain.
carried us up thercst of the river and
across
the beautiful lake Nicaragua,
studded with volcanic islands. Landing
at Virgin Bay, wejode on mules across
to Sau Juan dclSur, where lay at anchor
the propeller S. S. Lewis (Capt Part
ridge, I think). Passengers were car
ried through the surf by natives to small
boats, and rowed, off' to the Lewis. The
weather was very jhot, and quite a scram
ble folio we'd' for: statc-i ooms, especially
for those Qirdeclc Isucceeded in reach
ing the Purser's office, got my ticket for
a berth intone of the best state-rooms on.
deck, and, just as 1 was turning from,
the window, a ladywho was a fellow
(passenger from $ew Orleans, a Mrs. D.,
called me to secure her and her lady
friend berths on deck, saying that those
below were unendurable. I spoke to
the Purser, who, at the moment per
plexed by the crowd and clamor, an
swered : " I must put their names down
for the other two berths of your state
room; but, as soon as the confusion is
over, I will make some change whereby
you shall not suffer." As soon as these
two women were assigned to a state
room they took possession, and I was left
out. Their names were recorded a3
"Capt Sherman and ladies." As soon
as things were quieted down I remon
strated with the Purser, who at last gave
me a lower berth in another and larger
state-room on deck, with five others, so
that my two ladies had the state-room all
to themselves. At every meal the
steward would come to me and say,
"Capt Sherman, will you bring your
ladies to the table?" and we had
the best seats in the ship. This
continued throughout the voyage, and
I assert that "my ladies" were of
the most modest and best-behaved in
the ship ; but some time after we had
reached San Francisco one of ourfellow
passengera came to mo and inquired if I
personally knew Mrs. D , with
flaxen tresses, who sang so sweetly for
us, and who had come out under my
especial escort. I replied I did not,
more than the chance acquaintance of
the voyage, and what she herself had
told me, viz., that she expected to meet
her husband, who lived about Moke
luraneHill. He then informed me that
she was a woman of the town. Society
in California was then decidedly mixed.
In due season the steamship Lewis got
under weigh. She was a wooden ship,
long and narrow, bark-rigged, and a
propeller; very slow, moving not over
eight miles an hour. We stopped at
Acapulco, and, in 18 days, passed in
sight of Point Pinos at Monterey, and at
the speed we were traveling expected to
reach San Francisco at 4 a. m. the next
day. The cabin passengers, as wa3
usual, bought of the steward some cham
pagne and cigars, and we had a sort of
ovation for the Captain, Purser and
Surgeon of the ship, who were all very
clever fellows, though they had a slow
and poor ship.
Late at night all the passengers went
to bed, expecting to enter the port at
daylight I did not undress, as I
thought the Captain could and would
run in at night, and I lay down with
my clothes on. About 4 a: m. I was
awakened by a bump and sort of grat
ing of the vessel, which I thought was
our arrival at the wharf in San Fran
cisco; but instantly the ship struck
heavily, the engines stopped, and the
running to and fro on deck showed that
something was wrong.
In a moment I was out of my stateroom,
at the bulwark,holding fast to a stanch
ion, and looking over the side at the
white and seething water caused by her
sudden and violent stoppage. 1 be sea
wa3 comparatively smooth, the night
pitch-dark, and the fog deep and im
penetrable. The ship would rise with
the swell and come down with a bump
and quiver that was decided iy unpleas
ant Soon the passengers were out
of their rooms, undressed, calling
for help and praying as though
the ship were going to sink im
mediately. Of course she could not
sink, being already on the bottom, and
the only question was as to the strength
of hull to stand the bumping and strain-in"-.
Great confusion for a time pre
vailed, but soon I realized that the Cap
tain had taken all proper precautions
to secure his boats, of which there were
six at the davits. These are the first
things that steerage-passengers make for
in case of shipwreck, and right over my
head I heard the Captain's voice say in
a low tone, but quite decided : " Let go
that falls, or, you, Pil blow your
head off! " This seemingly harsh lan
guage gave me great comfort at the
time, and on saying so to the Captain
afterward, he explained that it was ad
dressed to a passenger who attempted to
lower one of the boats. Guards, com
posed of the crew, were soon posted to
prevent any interference with the boats,
and the officers circulated among the
passengers the report that there was no
immediate danger; that, fortunately,
the sea was smooth ; that we were
simply aground, and must quietly await
daylight.
They advised the passongeis to keep
quiet, and the ladies and children to
dress and sit at the doors of their state
rooms, there to await the advice and
action of the officers of the ship, who
were perfectly cool and self-possessed.
Meantime the ship was working over a
reef. . For a time I feared she would
break in two, but as the water gradu
ally rose inside to a level with the sea
outside, the ship swung broadside to the
(Continued on sccoud page.)
LOYAL KENTUCKIANS.
Formation of Homo Guards in the
Eastern Part of the State.
MISSING A QTJA-HRT.
Cerro Gordo Williams Led a
Band of Johnnies to Defeat.
"PENITENT REBELS."
End of the First Campaign Un
der Gen. Nelson.
BTT T. W. PAESON3, CO. P, lira ICY. CAT., 3IT.
STEELING, KY.
(Continued frcm last week.)
EN". NELSON
left us, and went to
hi3 camp on the
Pidge, called Camp
Davis, in honor of
Hon. Garrett Davis.
From there he sent
the 2d Ohio, a com
pany of cavalry,
and two pieces of
artillery against a
rebel camp at "West
Liberty, County
seat of M organ
County; while he
moved tne main
forces up the old State Road to Hazlo
Green, a village also then in Morgan
County.
Davidson had gathered most of his
old company, and went to Camp Davis.
Maj. Hurt also went there, but returned
to camp late on the afternoon of Oct 21,
called the remnant of men into line, and
said he was entrusted with an expedi
tion the destination of which must be a
secret for the present. He asked all who
felt willing to go to step to the front.
Map Showing Opeeatioks ix
The whole line, 60 in number, stepped
forward. We then got some citizens
to guard the cr.mp, and everything
standing just as it was the morning
Nelson scattered us was left with them.
Just at sundown we started for Rag
land's Mills, 10 miles, in the direction
of "West Liberty, by another road from
the one by which Nelson's forces had
gone. "We expected to meet Capts.
Carey and Barber at the Mills, with
portions of their companies, and cross
Licking River at that point and go up
Yocum Creek, which is a regular canyon
or mountain pass, some 10 miles long,
the road running up the creek between
purpendicular cliffs from 100 to 150 feet
in bight.
The object of this move was to
SURPIUSE AND CAPTURE
a rebel outpost at the pass coming out
of this creek, but when we reached the
Mills neither Barber nor Carey had put
in an appearance, but a cold rain had
set in. As we had no cartridge-boxes
to protect our ammunition, and our re
inforcements had failed us, Hurt or
dered some guards put out, and the
remainder of the men to find such shel
ter as they could, add we would await
the morning.
About midnight Capt. Barber arrived,
briuging only two or three men. Carey
came to us next morning with 25 or 30
men; but our plan of surprising the out
post at the head of Yocum had miscar
ried. We changed our plan, leaving
our small wagon, in which we were haul
ing our rations and some extra gun3 for
the purpose of arming such recruits as
might join us. "We packed what rations
we could on horses, and took along the
guns, and proceeded up the west side of
the river some three miles, and crossed
at Alley Ford. There being no water
craft there, we had to be sent over on
horseback, which occupied some time.
AVhilc this wa3 going on some of the
men who were away from the noise of
the splashing water heard Harris's artil
lery at "West Liberty. Hurt, who knew
all Nelson's plans, understood what the
artillery meant, and ha was like a
racer champing his bit and wanting to
be ofF.
AVhen wo wero all across the river
and in, line he made' us a 3hort speech
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to the point "Men," said he, "Col
Harris is on them at West liberty,
"We have
HEARD HIS ARTILLERT.
" If we get into a fight to-day, which a
quite probable, I want every man to do
his duty, and not run until he seo3' caa
MfesA
They Fled Pell-Mell.
run. The first man who starts to mrrl
want shot down, for one coward can.
stampede a whole regiment"
He then placed an advance-guard
under Lieut. "Wm. jtforris, of Carey's
company, and a rear-guard under com
mand of the writer, and we took up our
line of march. "We kept up the Lick
ing River for several miles, when we left
the river, following a dim trail, con
ducted by a guide, across the mountains',
till wo came into "West Liberty road
just above the head of Yocum, at night.
Isut 01 course our game was gone.
Union citizens who lived near told ug
that when the Johnnies heard the artil
lery they took to the bushes. "We found
their campfire still smoldering in a de
serted log cabin. "We replenished their
fires and built others, over which wq
cooked our suppers.
Our 60 men had been augmented iri
number till we now counted about 15
many of whom were Union citizens witbi
Eastern PAr.x of the State.
I their old squirrel and deer guns. Afiei-
supper most of this class returned to
their homes to bear the glad tidings of
the capture of West Liberty- Soma,
guards were put out, thinking we would
remaiu there all night we were surely
tired enough, but soon Maj. Hurt came
among us and said :
" Men, I have a proposition, to malca
to you. I know you are tired, for I am,
but we have not enough provisions for
breakfast, and I think we can march
better with full stomachs than empty
ones. I propose that
WHEN" THE 3I00N RISKS',
which will be about 10 o'clock, we talca
up the line of march for West Liberty
which is 10 miles off. We can reach
there by daylight Col. Harri3 is there,
and can furnish us with plenty of ra
tions something we cannot get on thia
"We Started vor Raglaxd's Mills.
almost-uninhabited road." There wefa
only two or three dissenters, and they
fell in with the rest
After one of the most wearisome
marches the writer ever experienced la
two Avars, we reached West Liberty at
little before day, and dropped down on
a vacant lot near the Licking, at the
lower end of town, footsore and hungry.
As is already understood, the towa
was captured the morning before, Oct.
23, 1861. Col. Harris moved frora
Camp Davis on the evening of the 25$,
and made a night march, by the direc
tion of a guide, across the country by'a
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