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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 2: (search)
us inclinations. Communication with Washington was very limited, but when it was found that volunteers were called for, as war had been declared with Mexico, astonishing numbers rushed into the towns to try to get on the rolls. I can just remember seeing my father borne aloft above the heads of the men who elected him captain of the company. He had enlisted to serve three years, or until peace was declared. He had been sheriff of the county, and probably was the most popular man in Williamson County. The moment he announced his intention of going many more than he could enroll volunteered to go with him. The town of Marion, where we lived, was on that day thronged with people. As soon as the roster of a company was complete the men elected my father captain by acclamation. They seized him, and, to the music of a fife and drum, they hoisted him above their heads, and carried him around the court-house, shouting and huzzaing, regardless of his attempts to be put down. I remembe
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 4: (search)
ry one in a state of excitement and apprehension. The very thought of civil war carried with it a heart-sickening terror, and completely demoralized the people. Senator Douglas had died very suddenly in Washington, and Mr. Logan was left almost alone to face the excited, reckless people of southern Illinois. Finally the day arrived upon which Mr. Logan was to reach home. J. H. White, later lieutenant-colonel of the 31st Infantry, which Mr. Logan raised; Mr. Swindell, sheriff of Williamson County; one or two others; and myself had canvassed the county on horseback. Going to the houses of the coolest-headed and most reliable men, we asked them to come to the town of Marion on that day that they might hear Mr. Logan, who was advertised to speak to the people in the public square; also asking them to be ready to protect him or to quell any disturbance should mob violence be attempted if he failed to impress them favorably. It was one of those hot, dusty days in that semitropi
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
on. The way to correct the war was to refuse to vote supplies, as the Commons in England were wont to check the King. If this would not suffice, then we should appeal to a higher and a mightier power — that of revolution. He was in favor of Union, but not the bloody one sought by abolitionism. You could not bring a herd of cattle to one of their number freshly slain. At the second stand, during this time, the Hon. Lewis Ross, Hon, Cris Kribben, of St. Louis, and Josh Allen, of Williamson county, addressed a crowd. The speech of Cris. Kribben was a violent secession one, such as the Hon. Cris would find it unhealthy to deliver at his home in St. Louis. He took the bold ground that the war was prima facie wrong, and that the Federal Government had no power and no right to coerce a State. It was such a speech a should have caused the ears of every Democrat hearing it to tingle with shame for listening to a moral traitor. Altogether the tenor of the assemblage was much m