Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — General Cyrus Bussey. [ARTICLE]

General Cyrus Bussey.

The Indianapolis Journal of Tuesday lias the following concerning Genera 1 , Cyrus Bussey, .the gentleman aAo will address the people of Rensselaer and vicinity this evening, in the place of Hon. J. M. Build 1 : , ■ 2. ■-'* i- ■ ■ • . '-* • ,*» < ■ General Cyrus Bussey, of NeAV York, opened his campaign iri this state at NeAV Castje yesterday, and will speak at Liberty on .Wednesday. Gen. Bussey speiit twenty years.of his life in Indiana. His father, Re% Amos Bussey, was for twenty-five years a ininister |of the Methodist chnrh in southleast Indiana. The General served through the whole Avar, having | gpDe into service as Colonel of the i third lowa Cav-alry. He participated in. the Arkansas campaign, commai;dipg a brigade at the Battle of Rea Ridge, where, the Indiana brigade, composed of the Eighth, Eighteenth and Twentysecond Indiana, Infantry,, and First ludian’a Battery, so greatly distinguished themselves, x He afterward commanded that, brigade. Gen. Bussey also hada.brigadp in General HoVey’s division, in the district of eastern Arkansas, and during the Biege of Vicksburg Avas chief of cavalry, undgr Gen. Sherman, participating ip the second campaign against Jackson with Gen. Hovey, He j therefore able to j.of that distinguished officer. He is well informed on the tariff quesItion. He was for six years presiident of the Chamber of Commerce |of NeAV Orleans, and hSs giy : the tariff aud American cotmneree | much attention.