Show 1 10 0 since the demise of general john A logan numerous reminiscences of his early career have been pub dished ish d among others one from the pon pen of general grant ia is interesting when I 1 was WAR appointed colonel the 2 21 at regiment was still in in the ustate JS S tati tate service bays says Ge general grant dran 1 thili I 1 f is memoirs iii elino irs about the time they were to be mustered ered into the united service such of them as would go two of congress from the state McClernan ernand dand and logan appeared at the cap capital ifal ard I 1 was introduced to them I 1 had never seen cither either of them before but I 1 had read a great deal about them and particularly about aig logan A ti in the 66 newspapers boll boff were de democratic of congress and logan had been elected from the southern district of the state where be had a majority m of over his republican competitor peli tor his district had been originally settled by bf people from the southern states and at the time of the breaking out of secession th they sympathized with the south at the first outbreak of war some of them the southern sou them army many others were preparing to do so others other jode over the country at night denouncing the union and made it as necessary to guard aw h road bridges over which national troops had to pass in southern illi DIV dais at it 4 was in kentucky Ken lucky or any of the border slave states logans popularity in this district was unbounded he knew almost enough rot the people in it iby by I 1 their christian ch V as W a names to forman form id ola ordinary inary congressional district As be he went nent in poli tue so ad bis his district was ru cure adre to go the thi republican papers had bad been de ae bandiuk mand qan diuk mg to know where he alood ou on the questions chat that time engrossed g T aji ea the whole of public alou thought 9 fit some were very bitter in denunciation den Un clation of his silence logan was not a man to be coerced into a an fit el r a u c b bf t threasa th h rem reata H heid id however como come out in a speech before the adjournment of the special 8 x congress aich which co n by the president pres ident soon after his inauguration and announced his undying loyalty and devotion to the umon union but I 1 had not happened to see that speech so ahm when I 1 first met logan login my imbres sioda wre are those formed from read ing denunciations of him mcclernan J nd d on r the I 1 other hand had bad early taken strong grounds for the maintenance of of the union and ina had been praised accordingly by the republican papers the gentleman who prevented pre tented these two membern of congress asked me if I 1 would have any objection to their address ing my regiment ii I 1 hesitated hesitated a little before answering it a few days before the time set for mustering into the united states s ee servi euch of bf the men nen as were willing to vol sh three po years ears of the war I 1 had bad some doubt as io to the effect a fr delogan dm Logan might haye have but sliewa eiith whose P sentiments sentiment on the all questions quist ions of the day were well 1 known I 1 gave nay my consent mo mc demand s spoke P oke first and logan followed in a speech which be has hardly equaled since for force and eloquence it breathed brea thid a loyalty and devotion to 0 the union which i inapt aspi red my may men to such ft A point that they would have volunteered to remain in inthe the army as long as an enemy of the country continued to bear araia I 1 against t it the united slates states service almost to kh r man uen ben logan went wen t fo his fi ari af afie State and lind ga v e raising troops r the thia bwy er 7 men who it necessary ato w ess ary to g guard baid y the in southern Sout bern illinois be came defend defeno ts of abo unique sir logan logn entered himself wini wf as colonel ofa of a regiment and rapidly rank gea eral his district which had bad promised much trouble to the government filled every call made upon it for troops without retorting e othe w M aarn 0 call xiam i there were no not in atre re volunteers ee ra than thin there were called for that congressional dist district ct stands credited at the ni ent today to io day with furnishing more mea for the army than it was calica calla on to supply t |