Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-11 | Page 4 | Harrison's War Record

S WIt WAlt V V How General Harrison Kon turned his hili back on all an fitly fair prospects and deter doter determined mined I ln to offer ills his services eB to his coun tilt tho opening of the Ihu t war hub hits been told as n follows tIme the Dee Moine Leader J V I 1 vent ono day to 10 nice eo Governor Mon Mor Morton Monton ton with Mr Wallace to seek lieu an nn ap nil appointment ns liS lieutenant for fur a 1 young mun nian in mum the lie part of or tIme till State tc Alter Estter gottin through with this busl busi ness Governor Morton Invited me tue m Into an jun Inner mum He thieve there spoke u of ot tho the call and of ot tho response being made malle thereto The Time governor g seemed quite discouraged nt at the apathy of ot tho time peo itco people IlL Ilk and amid pointing over Oel the hal Oal bull lup block where when wh Tl men inca were vere dressing stone remarked that men muOn n WHO mole moie In It their oWn On business than thanIn V In iii V the V s fet safet of or the nation I eald valli right there Governor If It I 1 can cnn he be Of f to my country I am tail ready to togo toso togo go so goHe solIe lIe He said You cnn can you can nn an raise mise a Ih iii this dIstrict He lie went on onto Onto to 10 say You have a good find amid it 11 would be I too much to lei ask S you to give Ilu It up ip I i but you get up till the amid ami amiNO NO wu cnn can find fine someone else l r to take It Into the time Held I said Buhl Nd NiI If IC I make a recruiting speech and ask fisk men to 10 en enlist enlist enlist list I J propose to go with them thorn and to toI stay as nR long lOll as us they the do to If I live hive that I long Well Seli said tho time governor you youcan I can command the tho regiment I said Hahl I r dont know that I 1 want wont to 1 I have no military experience cx We can calm set see about i that After this conversation Mr Ir Harrison proceeded up tip the tho street with Mr Ir Wal Sai Wallace al lace and amid bought n a military cap rap they got out hand bills hili for tor a n war ar meeting hired a life and In drum nod hung hUllS the tho Hag out of oC n a window Mr Harrison took out lut a n second lieutenants recruit recruitIng recruitIng recruItIng Ing commission in July Jill 1862 1562 and raised amid took the first company A M of the Seventeenth regiment Into camp and andIn In Jim less than Ithan thirty days clays from the date of ot the time first recruiting plon ho he was In Kentucky with 1010 men having been first promoted to n a captaincy and then th to a It colonelcy This Thu was the tho first regiment r In the tho field under tinder that call The Tho record of ot the Seventeenth Infantry was n a notable one ono amid the story of cit r the battles battled of anti Punch Tree Creek and General Harrisons conduct con for Cor bravery con comm constitutes one of the tile Inspiring pages of or orthe the tho history of ot tho war ar