Show t- t tr p El LIE Lm w TONS VINS Ts A B BATTLE WELL-KNOWN WELL GUES OF IN INDIANA INDIANA INDIANA IN- IN DIANA MINERAL SPRINGS HOTEL THE PROUD LIAR Capt II Sr S 8 S. Cole Cote Convinced tho the Advance Should 1 Be lie Despite Gen Ore Gregg Greggs s Order Order lie He nuns Kun the the Risk of Court Curt Martial l and Disgrace Hut Bat Victory Victor Saves Him Indiana Mineral Springs Spring Ind April April 11 Special Correspondence Warlike Correspondence Warlike dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches in the morning newspapers stirred up discussion among a unit hAlf score scare of ot gentlemen in a corner of the thet smoking room of the Indiana Mineral Minerai Springs Spring Hotel today Several veterans of the civil war who have been regaining health by means of the Magno Mud Had Baths Dath and Lithia Water here bore took a lively interest in the discussion Many interesting stories of tho the late conflict con con- diet were told In the campaign before Richmond Inthe in inthe inthe the last months of ot the he war Val said raid Capt H. H S S. Cole of ot Fergus ergus Falls Minn JL 1 was guilty of a distortion of an order that hud bud the battle which it caused been a defeat for forus us would have had bad ad sad results for me fortunately the falsehood I told Hold rescued us from a perilous position and we won a victory Capt Coles Cole's regiment was the famous First Maine a Cavalry which by special order of the War Department has seven more battles j on its colors than thun any other carried by any regiment in the Union army The Ibe First Moine also has the record of ot having baYing turned more moe of It its II troopers into preachers at the clo close e of ot hostilities than any other regiment of the northern I army while several of the tho men who have been governors of ot the Pine Ti Tt Treo eo state since 1863 1865 were at the front with the First Maine But Dut it was while he be was vas on of Gen Goo Chas F F. Smith who commanded a brigade of the Second Cavalry coi corps ps the head bead of ot which was W Gen D D. one of the best cavalry captains in the north or south that tho the incident happened Our brigade was vas in a de desperate condition condition condi condl- tion wild Paid Capt Cole when Gen Ion Smith sent me to ask Gen I ments I found the Pennsylvania fighters and delivered my message lIe Ho thoughtfully thoughtfully thoughtfully thought thought- fully stroked his beard Give my compliments to Gen Smith he be said and tell him bim he can cant can't t have a are a. reinforcement re re It was VIlS the first time I ever heard Gen McGreg swear w ear and I 1 was convinced that it was due to the serious condition of ot his command I Iwas was also convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced that our brigade should fight its way out out so when I galloped up to Gen Smith I determined to somewhat change hi his superiors superior's or orders W Ye Wh hat success i V i he asked Gen cant can't tend send any re reinforcements and desires you to attack I 1 said Ho lIe was surprised but the word was given given Inspired Inspired Inspired In In- by our pen peril we routed the enemy and gained a safe safe place Some time afterward I 1 told Gen Smith what I bad had done What happened asked one of the theother theother other veterans Drinks on the general said the man manfrom manfrom manfrom from Minnesota who added that with a afew afew few tow more Magno Mud Baths Laths he would be bein bein bein in a fit condition to take a hand in the impending impending impending im im- pending war with wit Spain |