Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — HOW BOY FOLLOWED AN ARMY [ARTICLE]

HOW BOY FOLLOWED AN ARMY

Marching of Colorado Soldiers Across Plains Is Recalled by Veteran Living In Evanston.

Following a regiment in marching order has appealed to boyp as being the next best thing to being of the Marchers themselves. A long march from the mountains into the prairie land is recalled by W. B. Norton, 727 Foster street, Evanston, 111.

“I was a small boy in Central City, C 610., when the war broke out,” he said. “It went on for some time and my father, who had come out there as a miner, felt that he ought to join the army. He rode on his pony 40 miles to Denver to find out whether there was any sign of an end to the war, and he came back determined to help his country. A company was organized and he was elected captain. It became Company D of the Thifd Colorado regiment. The women of the town made a flag, though at first they made it upside down, and the regiment started east across the plains. | “All our family went along. My brother, fifteen years old, was a drummer boy, and-my piother,..my sister and I traveled in a wagon. We wqnt across the plains to Fort Leavenworth and from there to Pilot Knob. At one place our wagon was at some distance from the camp one night, as sometimes happened, and my brother wanted to come to see his mother. He slipped out without getting permission and did not get to the wagon until dark. He was afraid to go back through the nightafor fear of wolves, and so he did not try it until,dawn. He was seen by ah officer, who arrested him and put him in the guard tent, and there we found him when we caught up with the regiment He stayed there for three days. “Although we were traveling-through a country where there was more or less guerrilla fighting, we were not troubled until near the end of the journey. I have a distinct recollection that three bushwhackers were taken, stood up by the side of their graves and shot.”