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Identifier: reminiscencesofs00loga (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923
Subjects: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923 Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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from hisadjutant-general a particular paper which he was to use, andI told him that I could go over and get it as well as not. Istarted over, and as I passed Colonel Stolbrands tent I sawhis clerk was tied to a tree which stood almost in front of it.Poor Crutchfield looked so unhappy, having just recoveredfrom a debauch, that he touched my heart, and I ran into thecooks tent, got a butcher knife, and cut the ropes to free him.I told Crutchfield to go to his tent and hide himself as soonas possible. Colonel Stolbrand was on duty somewhere anddid not know who had cut the ropes to free Crutchfield.Colonel Stolbrand was a fine specimen of a Swedish officer,with his ruddy complexion and sandy hair. He wore thered of the artillery, and altogether was rather a flamingspecimen when he came rushing into General Logans roomin a towering rage, reporting to the general that somebodyhad freed Crutchfield, whom he had tied to discipline andsober up, insisting that he could not find out that it was
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> o H h4 A SOLDIERS WIFE 133 anybody in the army. If it was they had got to be pun-ished, and if it was an outsider he must be driven from thecamp immediately. I had said nothing to the general aboutwhat I had done, and enjoyed very much Stolbrands indig-nation. A few days before, Colonel Stolbrand had been telegraphedto meet his wife, who was trying to join him at some stationabove Memphis. The general was not incKned to let himgo. Colonel Stolbrand happened to ask permission in mypresence, and I said to the general: Oh, let him go, he willbe back all right. After my pleading the general did lethim go, and Colonel Stolbrand was very grateful to me. Hewent, and, of course, got back all right. The incident involving Crutchfield occurred a day or twoafter Colonel Stolbrands return. I listened quietly to whathe was saying to the general, and when he had finished I said:Now, colonel, suppose it turns out that the person who cutthat rope does not belong to the army, and nobody has anyau

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