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© THE CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL
BY JON GREENWALD
The Years of the Civil War Centennial are \ipon us.
That they will have a deep effect upon American society
§s almost certain. From what can be seen at a still early
‘date, however, this effect may well be deplorable.
© A few items will perhaps document this belief. Last
~ month several hundred young Americans dressed in
‘replica uniforms of the Northern and Southern armies
“performed an elaborate reenactment of the Battle of Bull
. Run, Tens of thousands of their countrymen brought
‘bleacher seats to view the spectacle. Still others set up
stands to sell programs and souvenirs for the big show.
Several dozen of these extravaganzas are scheduled for
the next three years.
= Within the-past year the television networks aired half
a dozen new serials set in the Civil War period. All of
these relied heavily upon scenes of fighting between the
e ~ contending armies. Yet, recent testimony before Congress
has deplored the fact that so much of television's
evening air time is devoted to violence.
Princeton University Professor David Donald, a noted
scholar of the Civil War era, commented in a story for
- the New York Times that the public’s interest in the
period was so great that a number of publishing firms
were devoting all their funds earmarked for history into
the reissue of memoirs authored by Union and Confeder-
ate generals. As a result, Professor Donald noted, little
or no money was available for the publishing of original
scholarly works on the Civil War or, for that matter,
any other aspect of history.
The Civil War was probably the greatest single experi-
_ence this country has known. The military aspects of the
conflict are certainly interesting, but they are also rela-
tively unimportant,
So many phases of the American story owe their de-
velopment to the period that it would be folly to attempt
- to isolate a few of them. But when we realize that the
‘racial question which was so important to Lincoln and
his contemporaries is, in only slightly altered form, still
one of the most challenging problems facing the
twentieth century, or that the indus$rial revolution of
the past century, was greatly accelerated and channeled
by the war, we see that.the maneuvers of Lee or Grant
5 at one of thelr many battles are little more than an inter-
esting sideshow to a truly monumental bit of history.
We can draw many rich lessons from the’1861-1865
‘period. Indeed, sober reflection on the lessons and
- examples of those years is essential if America is ever to
come to an understanding of what it is she is about in
~ this world.
But what is truly important in the Centennial can and
will be lost if battle reenactments and military memoirs
are allowed to dominate our interest. Study of the mili-
tary side of the struggle is rewarding to an extent. For
example, many of the follies of the First World War can
be better understood with a knowledge of the tactics em~
“ployed in the American conflict. But we must be very
- careful not to allow the battle smoke to blind our eyes to
the more important lessons which emerge from the war.
Our Civil War was not a glamorous incident in our his-
‘tory. It was a tragic period, tragic for our ancestors and
tragic for us. It did much to forge, and in some instances
warp, our souls. The Centennial is far too serious a mat-
ter to become a national hobby.
» + ANOTHER FLYER
© Hello, Mrs. Hicks:
ENJOYED. ARTICLE
Mr, Risley:
Enjoyed your story of your heli-
copter ride over Dallas and vicinity.
‘Perhaps you remember on June 4
I had a ride over Harveys Lake and
vicinity in Mr. Smith's seaplane,
“and enjoyed it so much,
“T'was surprised also, to see so
1% many ponds on people’s property,
and so much woods. We don’t real-
ize how much woods we have until
we see it.from the air.
“This' was ‘how I celebrated my
27th wedding anniversary, and next
: year 1 want to go again and pick
out ‘places I didn’t have time to look
“for fie: trip.
~~ Happy Flying,
Mrs. Esther Armitage
Our family enjoyed—The Seasons
— By Mrs. Mary L. Craig printed
Flv ato vey oh 0 fs So
Ie.
Always looking forward for your
paper. ..
Bincerly,
Mrs. John Montross
436 Main St.
Luzerne, Pa.
A close friend of ours was shocked
about his own death; in the weekly
newspaper. He promptly phoned the
editor, identified himself and said:
“There’s a story about my death
in your paper.”
“I see,” sald the editor calmly.
“Where are you calling from?"
# Gi re
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas POst
IT HAPPENED 30 vears aco:
A pocket of natural gas was
struck at Jenks, at a depth of 2,000
feet, pressure 750 pounds to the
square inch. The drill was lost,
halting operations:
Dallas Township issued a Citizens
Ticket, with these candidates: Mich-
ael Wallo, J. P; Curtis Anderson,
constable; Nelson Whipp, supervis-
or; Honeywell, overseer. of the poor;
Updyke, school director.
Officials started work on check-
ing of 490 county voting machines
at the Sheldon Axle Plant.
Trucksville women opened a can-
ning kitchen for processing of
fruits and vegetables for distribution
to the needy during the winter.
Work was started on a sidewalk
in front of Shavertown Methodist
Church.
Three banks failed in Wyoming
Valley, mostly due to mob psychol-
ogy. Depositors made a run on the
banks, with disaster the result.
No Back Mountain bank was af-
fected.
Two Wilkes-Barre women were
seriously hurt when the car in which
they were riding struck the stone
bridge at Outlet: Both Mrs. Russell
Taylor and Mrs. Claire C, Kohl were
admitted to Nesbitt with broken
legs.
Anthracite production in Wyoming
Valley was taking its seasonal up-
surge.
West Wyoming took Dallas 13 to
5.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Father Harold C. Durkin, pastor
of St. Therese’s Church in Shaver-
town, was written up in a Know-
Your-Neighbor column. This was be-
fore Gate of Heaven parish was
founded, and during the time that
Father John J. O'Leary was ill.
Dr. Schooley suggested a. com-
bination Fire-Hall and Community
Center building for Dallas.
James Franklin announced his re-
tirement from the post of secretary
of the 100F, a position he had held
for 31 years,
Kiwanis Club offered to equip
Dallas Borough school-boy patrols
with Sam Brown belts, hats, and
raincoats.
Ditching and resurfacing of Leh-
man Avenue was completed after
two months of work.
Madge Space became the bride of
Richard Johns.
Charles Hemingway and Bertha
Bender became man and wife.
‘Announcement was made of the
marriage of Florence Heitsman to
John R. Hughes,
Mrs. Herbert Lundy presided over
the first meeting of the season of’
the Dallas Woman's Club.
Lehman PTA made the final pay-
ment on band uniforms, clearing up
a debt of $1,000.
Robert Garbutt finished his course
in mechanics at Hickam Field, Hono-
lulu,
Millie Robbins became the bride
of Harold Evans.
Bill Snyder, with the Air Force
in Oklahoma, said drills were in-
creasing but that mone of the fel-
lows thought the United States
would get into war.
rr nappenep 1() YEARS aco:
Lake Township first grade, the
largest on record, made necessary
as a temporary measure opening
of the Loyalville School, an arrange-
ment which delighted many of the
mothers whose children were then
within walking distance of their
classroom. George Taylor reported
an overall enrollment for Lake-Nox-
en Schools above the usual number.
A 1947 club coupe stolen from
the Oliver's Used Car Lot was re-
covered at Red Rock,
Back Mountain Library Annex
was officially opened, with a lunch-
eon served to the Book Club.
The library authorized extensive
improvements, including painting of
both buildings, grading and seeding.
LaRue M. Swayze, Fernbrook, died
of polio.
American Legion, under Com-
mander Robert Williams, planned a
busy season,
Independent Republicans endorsed
Democratic candidates: Charles J.
Roberts for school director George
Shupp, Justice of the Peace.
Harold Major of Lehman, polio
victim, was making progress.
Redskins were ready for their tus-
sle with Dupont. Coach Bob Thomas
had nine lettermen back on the
squad.
Jeanne Tkeler was wed to Theo-
dore Reed,
Jim Huston started his senior
year at Brown University.
Carol Price and Joan Oliver rep-
resented Lehman-Jackson Home-
Making department at Athens.
Pennsylvania had the third smal-
lest potato crop in 51 years.
Stanley Post, 74, died in Sweet
Valley.
Mildred Disque, Pikes Creek, en-
tered the Air Corps as second
lieutenant.
Lyman Williams, 60, Harveys
Lake, died of a heart attack,
A feature story on Job Hadsall
related his experiences in over a
half century of store-keeping in
Beaumont.
Mrs. Lillie Fritz died at 68 at her
home in Noxen.
Basil Dennis, 24, a veteran of
World War II, died at Veterans
Hospital. .
SG 35
ETSI ANNI
_THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 1061
PICKETING PROGRESS
The modern supermarket is a
very efficient establishment for the
distribution of merchandise. By
having many outlets under the
management of a single chain or
corporation, a very large volume of
business is transacted. This large
volume makes possible favorable
purchasing contracts, a wide selec-
tion of grades and brands of a large
number of items, and a relatively
low cost of operating and overhead.
Particularly advantageous is the
sales system “cash and carry.” The
former eliminates much expense of
bookkeeping, having a lot of capital
tied up in unproductive bills re-
ceivable, and loss by unpaid bills.
The latter saves all delivery ex-.
pense, once a large item for local
stores.
But the supermarket, while very
good for consumers, is not the same
for the town as a whole as the
former individually owned stores.
Present employes, while courteous,
are simply cogs in a machine, here
today and gone tomorrow. The
market is usually run in a leased
property, likewise Hable to be gone
at any time. There is no continuity
of persons or business such as we
formerly had, when sometimes a
single family of prominent men ran
a store for generations. ¢
Now the country store, which was
the regular thing outside of the
cities, and to be found at almost
every country crossroads, is a mu-
seum item, and brand new ones are
being built to take in money from
tourists. Dallas was a trading cen-
ter from fairly early days, and over
maybe a hundred and twenty-five
years had a wide variety of stores
and storekeepers, most of them
being in a single block on Main
Street.
In his “History of Dallas Town-
ship,” W. P. Ryman, whose father
Abram, started a store on the
Huntsville Street farm in the 1840s,
states that he personally knew of
the following articles being brought
to the store to be exchanged for
‘merchandise: grain of all kinds,
butter, eggs, cows, calves, sows and
pigs, game of all kinds, fresh’ fish,
poultry, furs and skins, lumber,
shingles, township orders, horse,
yoke of oxen, beef cattle, and many
other articles. The local store was
thus a market, without which the
local people would have had great
distress as cash was scarce.
And the local merchant, outside
of a few who lasted only a few years,
was usually one of the most impor-
tant men in the community. Fre-
quently he was also postmaster and
justice of the peace. He acted as
a private banker, and held offices
in the municipality, the churches,
and other organizations. He knew
his customers and all their families
by their first names. When a young
couple got married he was quick
with congratulations and sometimes
a gift. He did the same when the
children were born, many times
making a practice of giving each an
orange, a few shiny pennies, or a
little gift at Christmas time. The
late John J. Ryman even gave
presents to graduates from high
achool, If a person died, the mer-
chant was quick to offer condo-
lences, and not infrequently sent
flowers. He was adviser to the
community on most items of busi-
ness. He allowed credit, a distinct
advantage to many.
This is already getting too long
to allow mention of individuals as
they deserve, but a few can be
mentioned, all resident taxpayers.
The Ryman family had a store from
about 1840 until after World War I.
John Ryman, remembered as the
last of the family to run the store,
was active in building ‘the first
telephone line in Dallas, was a sub-
scriber when the first high school
west of Wyoming Avenue was built,
signed the petition for the borough
and held borough offices many years
thereafter, was an organizer of the
Cemetery Association and the Wa-
ter Company of which he acted as
manager for a pittance, was a prin-
cipal stockholder of Dallas Broom
Co., was a trustee, regular attend
ant, and heavy contributor to the
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By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
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Methodist Church, served as school
director when the first old high
school was built about 1878 and
when it was remodeled in 1916, and:
held various other offices about
town.
About 1848, Jacob Rice bought an
existing store where the Boyd
White building is now and ran it up
about the time of the Civil War in
which he served as a lieutenant.
His common title, “Captain Rice”
was in the militia. He was a stock-
holder in the high school, a signer
of the borough application, ‘an
incorporator of the Dallas Fair, a
stockholder in, the Broom Company,
superintendent of the Sunday
School, trustee of the church, and
held other offices. Present genera-
tions of both the merchant Ryman
and Rice families do not live in
town. Residents of the same names
are probably related, not closely.
Ira D. Shaver, grandfather of
Claude Cook, Mrs. Carrie Caperoon,
and Mrs. Grace Rustine, and great
grandfather of some of the Harters
and Clare Winters, ran_a store in
the same location as the Rice store,
but in a newer building, for forty
years or more. He was a carpenter
and contractor who built the first
high school and many other build-
ings, treasurer in Dallas Township, a
stockholder in the high school, a
signer of the borough petition, an
incorporator of the Fair and the
Broom: Company, a borough council-
man, and Democrat postmaster of
Dallas in Cleveland's time.
C. A. Frantz, father of Marguerite
Frantz and Mrs. Harold Titman,
took over the Shaver ‘store about
the turn of the century, built the
new brick building, and maintained
the store until his retirement. He
arose early, drove a hotse to the
valley for fresh produce, and kept
personal charge of most of the store
operation. He served, as councilman,
was a trustee of the Methodist
Church, and was active in various
other public affairs.
Mr. Ryman was an early director
of The First National Bank of Dallas
of which two other nearby mer-
chants were also directors: Isaac G.
Leek of Ketcham and William R.
Neely of Lehman. - Mr. Frantz be-
came a director a little later, then
vice president, and upon the death
of George R. Wright became presi-
dent. x
‘We do not have men like these in
the supermarkets.
Exploding Satellite
Was NASA Sodium Test
Mr, and Mrs. William Richardson,
from their lawn on Oak Hill Wed-
nesday evening at around 8, saw
what they took to be an exploding
satellite, bursting into a bright red
circle twice the size of the full moon.
They saw the bright object, streak-
ing across the sky before it ex-
ploded.
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration fired into the upper
atmosphere from Wallops Island.
Virginia, at 7:53 DST, an Argo D4
rocket which ejected brilliant orange
and yellow sodium clouds.
Ejections of the vapor occurred
first at 118 miles altitude, the sec-
ond ejection at 230 miles. The
four-stage rocket contained a 145
pound payload, a thermite com-
pound ignited by an electrical
charge which vaporized the sodium.
A similar rocket had been shot
into the upper atmosphere before
daylight that same day,
Helen Gross To Show
Brush Stroke Work
Helen Gross will demonstrate
brush strokes and foundation paint-
ing at the Fall meeting of Esther
Stevens Brazer Guild of the Histori-
cal. Society of Early American
Decoration at the Treadway Inn at
St. David's,” September 21, 22 and
23. There will be an exhibit of fine
originals and decorated articles by
members and applicants September
‘22, 10 to 5 p.m.
Mrs. H. A. Smith Jr. will serve as
one of the hostesses. Herb ig one of
Mire. Gro star pte
Looking at
T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
Dave Garroway may return to
TV early next year. He has received
offers from two networks and has
been in conversation with another.
He is bound by contract to the Na-
tional Broadcasting Company until
December 31, but after that he is
free to work for any network.
According to Garroway, he is in-
terested in alerting people to where
we stand and how short the fuse is.
He says he feels guilty about not
doing anything.
He had an offer last week to
work on ,‘Masquerade Party.” He
declined because he is not interest-
ed in a show that is purely enter-
tainment.
° He may do some work for Edward
R. Murrow, director of the United
States Information Agency. - This
would be in the nature of special
programs for the Voice of America,
but he has no plans to accept a per-
manent assignment.
According to Dave, he would like
a program that would have elements
of his former “Today” show and ele-
ments of other things. He would
eliminate interviewing because he
considers it time-wasting.
“Every guest has a message or
a cause, and if anything he or she
says is challenged by the interviewer
then you have an argument. IT
would like to have a guest talk
directly to the camera for two or
three minutes while I sit off-camera.
Then I might put on someone with
a different point of view. In be-
tween I could ask a few questions.”
Garroway’s first mike job was
KDKA in Pittsburgh, where he
turned a routine special events re-
porting job into a tour de force.
Armed with a microphone and a
pack transmitter, he conducted a
one-man exploration of the Monon-
gahela River in a canoe, (it cap-
sized); announced a steeplechase
from the back of a horse (he
couldn’t walk for a week); explored
a deserted coal mine, (almost was
lost); and broadcast from a sub-
marine at the bottom of the afore-
mentioned river.
Born in Schenectady, N. Y., July
13, 19138; Garroway attended 13 dif-
ferent grade schools in 13 different
cities before his father, a trouble-
shooting electrical engineer, settled
his family in St- Louis. He attend-
ed high school and Washington U.
there. majoring in English and psy-
chology.
After college, the family went on
the move again, and since the gen-
eral direction was Eastward, Dave
came on to New York. For a few
months he dabbled in selling, first
books, then piston rings, the latter
with a conspicuous lack of success.
In four months of trying he didn’t
get rid of a single one.
He, decided to try radio, and for
the sum of $75 a month, he went
to work for NBC as a pageboy, at-
tending announcing classes that the
network makes available to its be-
ginning emplyees. Within a year,
despite the fact that he had placed
23rd in a class of 24, he was hired
by KIKA.
In the Navy as a lieutenant, j.g.,
during World War II, he started an
evening record show for a Honolulu
station and there began the develop-
ment of the “relaxed” Garroway
style. The Navy permitted personnel
to take outside civilian jobs in off-
duty hours, but after a day in the
Navy Dave was too tired to plot
out a show. Instead, he just played
records and said whatever came into
his head. 5
After the war he returned to
Chicago and began a midnight disc
jockey stint. When NBC television
opened its lines in that city in 1949,
one of its first presentations was
“Garroway at Large.”
In it, the Garroway technique was
translated into television terms and
a production resulted which took
critics and public by storm.
Years later after he began work
as an NBC page bov. Garroway re-
flects: “And to think that the only
ambition I had then was to be a
good commercial radio announcer.”
Charles A. Hayes, Ir.
Enlists For Army School
Charles Alfred Hayes Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alfred Hayes
Br, 78 Wyoming Ave. has enlisted
in the U. IS. Army for three-years
nnder the “Guaranteed School Pro-
gram’. He enlisted for the Photo-
qraphic Laboratory Operation School
| which is located at Ft. Monmouth,
EN.
Hayes will undergo eight weeks
of Basic Training at Ft. Knox, Ken-
tucky after which he will receive
a 14-day leave at home and then
he will report to Ft. Monmouth, N. J.,
for schooling,
Stamp Collectors
To Meet Saturday
{Stamp collectors will find a Stamp
Bourse, open each day of the two-
day Northeastern Pennsylvania Phil.
atelic ‘Society Exhibition at the
Scranton Chamber of Commerce
Building Saturday and Sunday.
The annual banquet is scheduled
for Saturday at 6:30 at the Scranton
Club.
Henry L. Jones 2nd., will exhibit
‘“Nyasso.”
Exhibitors from several States will
display stamps equal to those shown
at National Stamp Shows. Admis-
sion is free. Collectors will have a
chance to purchase stamps at fair
DALLAS. PENNSYLVANIA
From
Pillar To Post...
by Hix
After your forty-fifth wedding anniversary is safely in the bag,
you can afford to sit back and relax- Who ever heard of a fortysixth
or a forty-eighth or a forty-ninth wedding anniversary?
It takes five years after the forty-fifth, to get yourself braced
for the fiftieth.
For the years in bttween, you can afford to exchange modest
offerings of Klutch, heating pads, one-shot vitamins, and aspirin.
And if you are very, very smart, you will take off on your
Golden Wedding Day, leaving unobtrusively well in . advance, to
avoid having the kids gang up on you and arrange a celebration .
which will keep you in the kitchen for a solid week.
This is the correct procedure, followed by my father and mother
on their Golden Wedding Day. They saw to it that they were on
the road all day long, and never got to where they were going until
' that night, when it was far too late to bake a cake.
That, in the face of their having arranged an elaborate cere-
mony for Grandpa and Grandma away back in 1914, deep in the
heart of Maryland and bludgeoned all the living children into ap-
pearing in the midst of the hottest summer on record.
Maybe it was the thought of the thirty-six people gathered
around the table three times a day, and the drain upon the water
supply that caused Papa and Mamma to exchange glances and swear
a solemn vow well in advance of their own] anniversary.
They appeared at dusk that night, having negotiated the Cape
Charles ferry, and the long trip up through Delaware at a reason-
able rate of speed, far more slowly than was Papa’s custom. Papa,
leave us face it, drove like the classic bat. But this time he was in
no rush. The slower, the better. Mamma, for the first time in auto-
moted history, had a good look at the scenery, and enjoyed a lei-
surely lunch. ‘
Papa looked like the cat that et the canary when he barged in
just as the family rose from the supper table.
us a little snack,” he said, “we've had plenty to eat along
the way.”
Later that evening he relented and called my sister, up in
Chautauqua County, Katherine Mary bawled when she heard that
she had been foiled in her ambition to stage a celebration, but Papa
was firm.
He'd drive up the next day, he announced, but NOT if there
was anything like a party in the wind. He'd stay in Kingston, and.
go right back to Virginia Beach tomorrow unless she would promise
that he would not be led like a lamb to the slaughter.
Papa and Mamma didn’t like to have'a fuss made over them.
Their fiftieth school reunion had been a shattering affair, with all
the gaunt old maids and well upholstered married women giving out
with, “Well, who'd have thought it! I'd never have recognized you.
And as for you, Mary, you've taken on pounds and pounds.”
Folks in Chautauqua County tend to be devastatingly frank.
They consider it noble. No padding of sharp corners, no smoothing
of rough edges. You always know exactly where you are. No
comforting little white lies.
But brother, are the women good cooks!
Looking back at it, it seems a pity! that Papa and Mamma
passed up what would probably have been a neighborhood effort of
real calibre. They make a maple sugar frosting up there that melts
on the tongue lika whipped cream. Applied to a twelve-egg cake it
is irresistible.
I'm thinking of shedding a few pounds to make room for the
maple sugar frosting, and inviting myself up to Chautauqua County
when the hens start to lay again.
100 Years Ago This Week...in
THE CIVIL WAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week that led to the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
“Irish Brigade’ Falls
At Lexington, Mo. ;
Confederates Under Gen. Price
~ Crush 3,500 After 2-Day Siege
| LEXINGTON, Mo.—Sept. 20—A numerically superior Southern:
force today defeated the Illinois “Irish Brigade’ and other Fed-
eral units after an epic two-day siege.
Rebel troops totalling some 18,-
000, commanded by Gen. Sterling
Price, forced the surrender of the
3,500-man Union garrison on the -
grounds of Masonic College, in the
heart of this sunny Missouri River
town.
Southern losses were listed as
25 killed and 72 wounded. The Un-
ion forces listed 39 dead and 120
wounded, according to the com-
manding officer, Col. James A.
Mulligan.
Price’s men captured five big
guns, 3,000 hand weapons, 750
horses and stores with a value
estimated at $100,000.
They also seized some $900,000
in cash and gold that the Union
troops had removed from the Lex-
ington bank 10 days ago.
All of the Union troops were
paroled at once, with the excep-
tion of the 31-year old Col. Mulli-
gan.
He and his wife, who had been
in Lexington during the battle,
were seen leaving town for the
South in Gen. Price’s private car-
riage. Presumably, he was to be
held for exchange.
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GEN. PRICE
ing of Sept. 18 and the siege was
on:
Rebel riflemen captured the
makeshift hospital. From perches
on the roof and in windows, they
rained a hail of lead on the North-
» ern defenders.
FROM BOTH sides in the battle By this time Mulligan’s men
cane accounts of harrowing at-| were without water and with little
tacks, courageous defense and, |food. Fighting resumed at dawn
for Union troops, a crippling hun.
ger and thirst.
Mulligan moved his men into
the Masonic College, convert-
ing a nearby house into a head-
quarters and hospital, as soon
as their arrival here.
His “Irish Brigade'’ and support
units moved Aug. 30 from Jeffer-
son City, Mo., with 40 rounds of
ammunition per man and three
days rations, with orders to march
to Tipton, Mo.
There, they were to join the cav-
alry regiment commanded by Col.
Thomas A. Marshall, with the two
units proceeding to Lexington to
capture it.
tion worsening.
of surrender. Four voted to give
in, and the capitulation was ar-
ranged.
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Fremont’s Aide
Defends Seizure
aide to Gen. John C. Fremont de-
clared today that seizure by fed-
5 eral forces of funds from the Lex-
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MULLIGAN’S troops searched
for Marshall for ten days before
finding them—already in Lexing-
ton. Word reached them that Price
with his huge force was approach-
ing rapidly from Warrensburg, 34
miles away.
Union craftsmen set up a
foundry within the college,
dug up its grounds to provide
a sod fort 12 feet high and 12
feet thick, and dug in to wait
for Price.
The 18,000-man Southern, wedge
struck the town at 9 a. m. the -morn-
“absolutely legal.”
$165,659 in gold—was recovered
when Southern troops routed a
ington.
Confiscation of funds that pos- |
sibly could be used for Southern :
arms was well within the bounds !
of warfare and was being done all |
over the nation, the aide said.
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yesterday, with the Union’s posi- |
This morning, Mulligan polled
| his six officers on the possibility !
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Sept. 22—An
ington (Mo.) bank this week was
The money—§$960, 159, including :
Union force two days ago at Leg ‘
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