An
Arkansas colonel has the following order for mounting his men:
First Order — Prepare fer terr git onto yer creeters.
Second Order — git!--
Leavenworth Conservative.
good work.--A correspondent sends an account of the gallant conduct of
Henry Shaler, of Indianopolis, Indiana, at the
battle of Gettysburgh, written by a son of Daniel Noble, to his mother, which deserves wide publicity.
Young
Shaler has more than equalled the mythical performance of the Irishman who “surrounded” a half-dozen of the enemy and captured them.
We are proud of him. His parents live on
South-Alabama street, in
Indianapolis.
They are Germans.
Young Noble says: “Harry is a brick: he did more, that is, he took more prisoners, in the
battle of Gettysburgh, than any other man in the army.
He took in all twenty-five men; one lieutenant and eighteen men at one time; he took them by strategy that
was strategy;” he surrounded them, “and they had to give up. On the morning of the fourth he went out with his poncho over his shoulders so that the rebs couldn't see his coat, so they thought he was one of their own men; he went up and told them to lay down their arms and come and help carry some wounded off the field; they did so; when he got them away from their arms he rode up to the lieutenant, and told him to give up his sword; the lieutenant refused at first, but Harry drew his pepper-box, and like
Crockett's coon the lieutenant came down without a shot.
Harry then took them all into camp.
He took a captain and five men at another time, making twenty-five in all, which is doing pretty well for a little Dutchman; and he deserves to be remembered for it.” --
Indianapolis Journal.