Show from alio mobile Tn bUjic no ath ASA IS TAKEN PRISONER ONEIL J acu icu ESQ sly dear boxer I 1 am a conquered province a subjugated in the beautiful b c and lingo of the army I 1 am gone up in mole moie ways than one asa hartz is a prisoner of war and so is clubs that you may know my dear bow bower or the full history of this lamentable affair I 1 have concluded to overhaul my journal and give you the particulars through the mobile ti tribune abune beginning ginning with sunday july the mounted the poop dock deck of a horse that had been impressed from the undertaker by the laziest lieutenant in the service and was going b 0 toward the rangers at the rate of a mile an hour sent clubs ahead as an advanced guard with ansti notions to reconnoiter and find out if the enemy were cie near clubs is ti a 0 genius my bower keenly alivo alive to all on the board and on this occasion played his liand hand beautifully so well indeed that wo we will both have an all opportunity unity to spend the summer and tall fall months where the delightful bitzes of eric 1 icke ake will fan our brows clubs went ahead and as soon as out of sight made a brilliant dashing inand in 0 and successful raid upon a farmhouse daily capturing 0 without loss a pail of buttermilk the gobbling pio process cess so BO far as the buttermilk was coliCelli concerned ed was coly over who when t two wo very eloquent gentlemen ent lemen in blue made their appear appearance ance at dairy door mud and persuaded clubs to come out 0 that and mount clubs would willingly have declined the invitation my iny bower but the cai cless handling h of a sabie and two served to im iiii pless him with the necessity of at once accepting 3 and clubs was led off a captive v C in the siv sweet act innocence of i ignorance n norance re regarding 0 ardin 0 the fate of poor clubs I 1 rodo rode on my bower until a sudden in the road brought me sacredly n near C ar a few hundred illinois and mis jonii cavalry finding I 1 had surprised them on their right billit 0 flank the stra getic idea at once occur occurred ced to me that it would be a domond good joke to turn back and by making a detour sc them on their left at least I 1 supposed they surprised I 1 know that I 1 was very much so my bower the movement was doubtless a good one oae if it was carried out but there wore were two obstacles to it s accomplishment ment first a chronic indisposition to move on the pait of my stood steed second the peculiar winning and persuasive 0 style in which a couple of the gay and festive eidels with teutonic accent suggested 0 the propriety of my coming on 14 and that d d quick too tool I 1 by way of doing 0 away with any mistake in regard to the direction I 1 was to take two cal cai bines were placed in horizontal positing tinn the little end of each bearin bearing z directly upon a point six inches above my horses eais cais by which I 1 understood that my line of march lay directly in the direction occupied by their big ends the attraction was so intense my bower that eliat I 1 found it impossible to turn my own or my horses lead head aiom them and accordingly went on oil the following conversation took place gay an If etive rat hauler der who you was aw aa hartz I 1 amasa am asa hartz hart hauler vot ran rank la ia hartz major and A Q Z of the Laps tono gaii kangris Kang 0 cis cosmopolitan corps wanted to know if I 1 lind had any arms told liim him no and hurt him for anything in ill the world begged him not to bo be afraid but to lead the way ivay to the boss of the laid carried me up to major fullerton who told mo me to make myself at home that lie was on a little pleasure excision and was only waiting for me to make up the pait pai ty 31 was wined over to major montgomery mont oln of the oth missouri cavalry a gentleman and a soldier my bower and woi thy of a bettor better cause and that was the way in which I 1 was taken in out of the wet monday 20 fh by tacit agi a 9 cement it was conceded that I 1 was not a pi hiis is oner but had captured the alio entile party of i adders and I 1 immediately took command of the expedition advance of the column clubs to prevent 0 11 ling gling 0 demain cd in the rear p unit any one to leave the line dining dm ing the alio to t go wo into melon molon p patches atchis oll oil 11 no 1 stopped at night with a patriotic old fai fanner mor whose sole concern was simply a desire to know if we were iverc able to pay for what we got in greenbacks green peon backs told we would patriotic old fannof r was satisfied satis lied Tuc tuesday day slept last iii night D lit in in a bed feet feel badly tin this s coining mo ining the farnic ils institution to the number of twenty or thirty mount liol ses beloi belonging 1011 1 to t 1 I 1 farmer irmer fi and asserted their now new f freedom cl E ai b y taking position in the rear of the column observing little miss granddaughter grand daughter of pati patriotic biotic farmer stood at iho gate and as the family servants and family hoi ses filed past the lachrymal 0 of her fust st young streaming 0 down her innocent hill cheeks checks wednesday 11 ednes day slept last night nig ht between two doctors of the federal federal persuasion and feel grateful crateful rate ful that I 1 am alive this mainini mo moi ining ninI 0 entertained some doubts of the latter proposition until fully satisfied of the fact by K clubs who alio introduced to my favola bi c consideration a b glass with a little sugar sugar 0 and water and something in it am introduced to several ni major J OD r brigadier t g colonels captains etc was IV Is told to make myself comfortable for table and every practicable arrangement ran 0 gement ement seems to have been made to r render ender the accomplishment of that object easy casy mom thc jhc federal generals dont live any better than the ichel generals genc rals iny illy bower thursday aug prepare pregal c to go go to vicksburg by railroad start to Vicks vicksburg bilig by railroad wall walk four miles and a half through the liot hot sun and see the ga cat ulysses S playful playfully I 1 ly and facetiously called old un conditional surrender ask to bo be paroled and b go 0 o back into dixie nary parole except the limits of the city A walk around this famous bone of gaii r iain my contention my bower reveals sonic some curious facts and alouies some special recollections hole lie holes in the bleus wherein the Lap stones sheltered themselves froni from tho the fion storm or peacefully sought to eat in comfort their rations of the last mule and the last borg 11 by the way my illy bower that last doig speech of my illy uncle berton is a k a lie ile never made it itis it is doubtless a fabrication of my undo uncle jake to get up lip a sort ofa of a dime and t a half alia enthusiasm in the minds of outsiders and induce ci ebulous people to believe that the Lap stones had some respect for berton you have doubtless heard too my iny bower that vicksburg went up for want of piu pio visions j that story wont do jaque for I 1 saw with my own eyes the lc levee IT 0 so far as the eye could loach covered with commissaris commiss arys stoics and plenty of boats waiting to more I 1 was astonished too to notice what a tremendous change had taken place in public sentiment duain aming 0 one short month days ago ago my bowel this place was filled with soldiers I 1 who ho shoie kwoi c by jeff davis and now would you believe it man you meet is a son soil of a gun diessel in blue and thinks abe lincoln is boss of the alio concern this is a curious fact andi am ain going to bed now to upon it 1 1 Y A hoary week of fever has clasped clashed my bower since my daily journal of events was touched the quick and constant rush of liot hot blood through my veins has left me in the language an 0 ua e ol of alb clubs powerful weak 11 in til the intervals of delirium I 1 have caught call 0 lit si sight lit of a female fagni fig in 0 escapini esca pink fl oln my illy room and know that some minis boling g angel of file female fel lialo style of architecture has been attending nie me in 1 my fly illness illanes i god bless the ike women left vicksburg on oil the steamboat hope with about six hundred companions iu in misery upon faiolo not to escape had the freedom of the boat and gratefully acknowledged the courtesy and kindness of captain kagin nis and all the other officers of tho the steamer reached the heights 0 of can 0 took the railroad raili rail oad load and in d ran rai i through 0 ai the states or of illinois indiana and ohio faster than ihan you can 0 go go bioni patriotic to jackson meridian n I 1 wish you would to old blizzard Bliz zaid my illy bower and tell him that asa hartz is gobbled bobbled I 1 am in sandusky city waiting in for the boat to take me across the ba baa y to johnsons famous isle where I 1 will meet about a thousand of righteous they are arc to live hive me there my bower and I 1 will write you often if they will lot let me inc yours as far as I 1 call go ASA HARTZ S SANDUSKY au august aist 1803 1863 |