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Mr. Jewell was beginning on a large colonization scheme by which eastern people were to settle in this part of the state and a great com- mercial and manufacturing city be founded. This plan was frustrated by the outbreak of the Civil war. On the eleventh day of August, 1861.
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he was elected captain of Company D of the home guard "Frontier Bat- talion, District of Ft. Scott." and later Gov. Charles Robinson of Kan- sas commissioned him Lieutenant-Colonel of the United Reserve Corps. On August 27. 1861, he was mustered into the service as lieutenant-col- onel of the Sixth Kansas Cavalry Regiment stationed at Ft. Scott, Kan- sas. On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, September 1, 2, and 3 respect- ively, 1861, the newly formed Kansas regiment narrowly escaped a great battle with Generals Price and Reins, who had concentrated their army of twelve thousand men in Vernon county, across the line from Ft. Scott, with Lexington, Missouri, as their objective point. Several skir- mishes were had, including the battle of Drywood, resulting in several fatalties on each side. This was the first awakening of the Civil war by artillery and musketry roar that Kansas felt in this section. Fortun- ately General Price took up his march for Lexington while General Lane withdrew most of his 2,500 troops from Ft. Scott to Ft. Lincoln and gave orders to Colonel Jewell to burn the city of Ft. Scott at once, to which the Colonel replied. "When General Price begins his occupancy of the city then your order will be obeyed." But General Price did not come and thus the city was saved from fire. During the fall and winter of 1861-1862. Colonel Jewell with the Sixth Kansas maintained head- quarters at Ft. Scott, guarding the Kansas border and insuring safety to lives and property of the settlers and routing or capturing roving bands of bushwhackers and confederate detachments which infested the border. Following in the spring in Colonel Weer's Baxter Springs, Grand River, Ft. Gibson and Tahlequah campaigns. Colonel Jewell was in the command of the Sixth Kansas, defeating and putting to flight by cavalry charge Colonel Standwait's command, and assisting in the capture of Colonel Clarkson's confederate forces and train of supplies and arms, and the Cherokee Indian Chief-John Ross-with the archives and treasury of his nation. After the return of the white troops from their successful "Indian Expedition" to Ft. Scott, followed General Blunt's "Lone Jack" expedition, in which the Sixth Kansas did valiant
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service and effective work against the retreating confederate forces un- der Colonels Cockrell and Coffee, who were driven from the state of Missouri, during the expedition. Again, after returning to Ft. Scott for much needed supplies and general recuperation of the army and while awaiting the enemy's movements across into his district, General Blunt ordered the campaign of southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas, which was begun in the late summer with Colonel Jewell's Sixth Kan- sas, participating in the battle of Newtonia. Missouri, and continu- ing in successive and victorious battles on to Boston. It was in Cove Creek Valley near Cane Hill, Arkansas, when near the close of a day's hard-fought skirmishes, on November 28, that General Blunt (first ten- dering the command to General Cloud) called for volunteer officers to lead a cavalry charge against the gathering confederate forces. Colonel Jewell promptly responded. Then in turn volunteer companies were called for, which instantly came forward and, their commander leading the way down the valley, the valiant soldiers charged in face of a four gun rebel battery and musketry fire. The gallant command put to flight the enemy and captured the battery, but for failure of support from infantry as had been previously agreed upon, the rebel reinforcements came up and recaptured the battery, shot down the Colonel's horse, mortally wounded and took him prisoner. With his captured comrades he was sent back to the regiment in exchange. The Colonel died of his wounds at Cane Hill November 30, 1862. His remains were sent to his family in Kan- sas under escort of the company he first raised and was given military burial according to the following order in a national cemetery :
Head Quarters, Fort Scott, Dec. 9. 1862. Special Order. No. 71.
EXTRACT.
I. The funeral ceremonies of the late Lieut. Col. L. Jewell. 6th Kans. Vols., mortally wounded in the recent battle near Cane Hill, Arkansas, will take place at 2 o'c. P. M. tomorrow, Ioth inst.
II. The escort in the absence of a sufficient number of Cavalry Companies, will consist of Cos. "E" and "F." Ist U. S. Infantry, and a Section of Blairs 2d Kans. Battery.
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III. The following named Officers are selected to act as pall bearers, Major Blair 2d Kans. Major Wright 2d Indian H. G. Cap- tain R. H. Offley Ist U. S. Infantry. Captain M. H. Insley, A. G. M. Captain Ayers 2d Kansas. Captain R. W. Hamer C. S.
IV. The National Colors will be displayed at half staff from 2 o'c. P. M. until Retreat. Officers casually at the post will join in the pro- cession in Uniform and side Arms.
V. Rev. R. P. Duval, Chaplain 6th Regiment Kansas Vols. will read the burial service.
B. S. HENNIX Major 3d Wis. Cav. Cmdg. Post.
The Colonel had the profoundest respect and confidence of his men and he for them had the highest regard, and looked closely to their every need and welfare. He never asked his men to go where he would not willingly lead. His memory ever lives in the hearts of his countrymen for whom he bled and died. Jewell county, Kansas, Pleasanton Post and Girard's S. of V. Camp are named in the Colonel's honor. The Confederate General Jo Shelby, who was the first Confederate officer to see him after captain, treated him with that fitting due respect becoming an officer for a fellow officer and has eulogized the Colonel by voice and pen.
June 1, 1872, his son Lewis removed the Colonel's remains from the National to the Evergreen Cemetery at Ft. Scott. Kansas, and in 1903 from there removed to their final resting place in the family lot in Arcadia Cemetery, where a fitting monument has been erected to his memory. Surviving the Colonel were his widow and only two chil- dren : Sarah E. and Lewis R. His widow married, in 1869, George A. Irvin, a Presbyterian minister and late Chaplain of the Eighty-eighth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and he died at Anaheim, California, Oc- tober, 1897. She now resides with her son's family in the vicinity of her first Kansas home. Sarah E. married Henry P. Ledger. Captain of Company L, Sixth Kansas Regiment, in 1864, and he died August, 1868. She married Louis Trower July 3, 1871, and she died April, 1874.
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FRANKLIN A. JEWELL, son of Lewis R. and grandson of Colonel Jewell, was born Junte 30, 1867, in Crawford county, Kansas, near Ar- cadia. He received his early education in the public schools and com- pleted his studies at the Kansas Normal College at Ft. Scott, Kansas, and later taught school. He served his apprenticeship on the farm and at the case, and edited and published the News (Reporter) prior to its sale to its present editor. In 1896 he was the Republican nominee for Clerk of the District Court, Crawford county, Kansas, and while the allied forces of Democrats and Populists defeated him at the polls yet he was given a very complimentary vote, receiving a greater number than any of his fellow candidates. Mr. Jewell is president of the Ar- cadia Town Council, member of the A. O. U. W., M. W. A., F. A. A., and Past Master of the A. F. & A. M., and a thirty-second degree Mason, having finished his last degree in April, 1905. At present he is engaged in real estate business and holds a railroad emigrant agency.
Mr. Jewell with a company of his friends tendered his services to Governor Budd to do duty in the Philippine Islands, according to the following letter :
May 10, 1898.
F. A. Jewell, Post Master Arcadia, Kansas.
Sir :
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram to Governor Budd, of date May 8th, tendering the services of a company of Kansas boys for Military duty in the Philippine Islands, and I am in- structed by the Governor to express to you his appreciation of your patriotic offer.
The first call of the President has been responded to by volunteers from the National Guard of California, and there are many thousand applications on file in the office of the Adjutant-General for volunteers in the event of another call by the President. However, by instructions of the Governor, your application has been filed in the Adjutant-Gen- eral's office.
Yours respectfully, J. M. TODMAN, Executive Secretary.
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Mr. Jewell is interested in the advancement of his city and offers liberal inducements for new enterprises to locate thereat.
LEWIS R. JEWELL, son of Col. Lewis R. Jewell, was born August 13, 1846, in Gallipolis, Ohio, and at the age of fourteen he moved to Kansas with his father's family. He worked on his father's farm until he began his studies at Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas. In 1864 he enlisted in Company L, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, his father's old regiment, of which he was made clerk. After being mustered out in June, 1865, he entered the mercantile business in Old Arcadia of which new named city he became first postmaster, and later in the pres- ent city of Arcadia, of which he was one of the prime founders and promoters. He was its second postmaster, being appointed in 1882. He was identified with every enterprise for the advancement of his town and country surrounding. In 1882 he established the first newspaper in Lincoln township, the Arcadia Reporter, and was agent for the lands of the Kansas City. Ft. Scott and Gulf Railroad Company, and con- ducted a general land, loan and insurance business : he was appointed United States pension attorney and successfully practiced before the De- partment in behalf of the Old Soldiers.
Socially Mr. Jewell was a Master Mason and had completed the de- grees of the York Rite : a member of the A. O. U. W. and the Fraternal Aid Association, also an active member of the G. A. R. Post and the Loyal Legion of Honor. He married March 25, 1866, Sophia N .. the daughter of Philip Wing and Elizabeth (Gregg) Hathaway. To their union were born ten children: Franklin A., Frederick L. (deceased). Susan E., Lewis R., William W .. Jessie M .. Lena M., Joseph C., Maude S., and Harriet A.
Mr. Jewell died February 12, 1899. of locomotor ataxia, due to diseases contracted in the army. His remains were laid to rest under the auspices of the Masonic order in the family burying ground of the Arcadia cemetery. He was a prominent politician of wide acquaintance and an exceptionally good entertainer. He, like his father, was a man of large physique and over six feet tall and of commanding appearance.
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