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During my absence in New York the Second Missouri had moved from Chickamauga to a camp near Lexington, Kentucky, so that it was at the latter place I rejoined it. Our brigade at this camp (called Camp Hamilton) consisted of the First Territorial, Second Missouri and Third Mississippi regiments. The First Territorial was a regiment consisting of companies from New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma, and was well officered and com- petent. The Third Mississippi had officers commissioned by the governor of Mississippi, but the soldiers were recruited principally from New Orleans and Chicago. Hence this regiment was a sort of conglomerate mixture, and caused considerable trouble to our brigade officers. There were two other brigades encamped at Lexington, the three composing the Third Division of the First Army Corps.
The Kentucky camp was a splendid one. It was situated on several estates about six miles from Lexington, in a locality famous for blue grass pastures and turnpike roads. The camp was established with particular care as to sanitary requirements; this, together with the season of the year, quickly restored the hundreds of fever-stricken soldiers brought from Chick- amauga. Lieutenant Cravens had contracted typhoid fever at the Chick- amauga camp, and this developed soon after the arrival at Lexington. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital in Lexington, where after several weeks he fully recovered.
I have neglected to state that at the Chickamauga camp each infantry company was furnished with two four-mule army wagons. The dealer in mules who furnished such animals to the government was Charles Seifert, an old Springfield man, and a friend to many of our boys. Through his friendship, my company was supplied with eight large iron gray mules, well matched and of such extraordinary appearance that they soon became coveted by other officers. Much of my time was consumed during the months that followed in keeping these mules. Every device known was resorted to, but the eternal vigilance of Quartermaster Emmett Newton prevented them be- ing juggled away from us.
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Considering the horses of our mounted officers, the staff and ambulance requirements, our regiment was equipped with something like one hundred and twenty-five horses and mules. These animals required a corral, and were attended to by permanent details from the various companies. At Lex- ington the corral was quite near the regimental camp, which fact, on one occasion, was unfortunate. Those familiar with the arrangement of a regi- mental camp will know that the tents of each company flank a "company street," facing it. At the upper end of the street are the officers' tents, while at the opposite end is the commissary and company kitchen, with the various cooking apparatus and utensils. One October night, at Lexington, the ani- mals in the corral took the notion to stampede. They broke down their bar- riers and, after the manner of all stampedes, made a mad rush to the worst place possible. This, of course, in our case, was the row of twelve company kitchens, and it was along that row that more than a hundred frenzied mules and horses took their way. Guy-ropes, tents, ovens, kettles and like paraphernalia were torn, scattered, mixed and demolished beyond descrip- tion. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the incident furnished excitement, which, considering the wearing monotony we endured, was welcome in most any shape.
Our camp at Lexington was wholesome, and those who had suffered from Chickamauga maladies soon convalesced and became strong. In Octo- ber we received orders to prepare to embark for Cuba. Mantanzas was the place assigned to us, and we looked forward to a period of garrison duty on foreign soil. But this was later denied us, for we were soon ordered to take up winter quarters at Albany, Georgia.
A glance at the map will show that from Lexington, Kentucky, to Al- bany, Georgia, is not so very far, that it should be not more than twenty- four hours by going directly there via Atlanta and Macon: But in our move to Albany occurred one of the many inexplicable features of army transpor- tation. We were loaded on trains and, after many seemingly useless delays, started, not to the south, towards Albany, but north, towards Louisville. From Louisville, via Bowling Green, Nashville and Birmingham to Mont- gomery, where we hung up twenty-four hours behind a wreck. The ad- vantages of this route were never made plain to me then, nor have I ever been able to comprehend them since. No officer familiar with the task relishes the custody of soldiers on a railroad train at all, and each unnecessary minute of it peeves him, and every meal on travel rations reduces the patriotic ardor of any soldier and renders him less susceptible to the sense of quietude so essential to the peace and pleasure of the officer. The peace and pleasure of that trip,-or the lack of it,-will remain with me always. I will always contend that the forty-eight extra hours of extra tribulation should be
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charged up to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, whose haul of us could be but the result of ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.
Our sojourn at Albany but little differed from that at Lexington. Camp routine did not vary. The soldiers were provided with Sibley tents and stoves against the cold blasts of winter. It was not until in February. 1899, that we suffered from cold weather, but in that month for one day. I believe, the thermometer went to zero, a rare thing in that latitude. We had advance information of the storm, and were fairly well provided for it when it came. The same storm dropped the mercury to twenty-six degrees below zero here in Springfield. While zero weather is rather "airy" for tent life, we endured it for the short period with but little discomfort, although my first sergeant, Minor Massey, contracted a cold that later developed into tuberculosis, from which he died some years later.
The Second Missouri regiment was mustered out at Albany on the 4th day of March, 1899, and just in the nick of time. As was learned later, the war department seriously considered revoking the muster-out order, so as to send the regiment to the Philippines, where trouble had just begun, but con- cluded to let us go.
There was but little change in the membership of Company M since its organization. Some of the men had been discharged by special order, some had been transferred to the United States Signal and other corps. One had died and three had deserted. Two of the deserters were recruits not from Springfield, the other was. The Springfield deserter, ignorant of the amnesty proclamation of President McKinley, hid in the remote hills of Greene county for five years, thinking a price was on his head, but later, learning the truth, yielded to the lure of brass-buttons again, and managed to get on the police force. Most of us looked upon that as a sort of species of doing penance.
It is proper to indulge in some reflections at this time. One-half of the civilized world is now at war, but our country is at peace. The fact that we are at peace is due to the moral courage and character of our President and his cabinet. To men entrusted with the grave responsibility of government, and with the lessons of other wars before them, the idea of conflict is one not to be trifled with. On our southern borders we are harrassed by turbulent Mexican factions. Not long since a score of our marines were killed at Vera Cruz and our flag dishonored, and yet we have no war. I cannot but con- trast the feeling now with that prevailing seventeen years ago. Murmurs we have, it is true, and much criticism of our President, but there is no such cry for war as in 1898, though the provocation is equal, if not greater. There are reasons for this, and some of them are the lessons from the Spanish war.
The true patriotism of the American people cannot be doubted, but it is often sorely tried. Nothing so dampens patriotic ardor as the after-knowl- edge of the uses to which it was put in war. War is, and has always been
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the opportunity for Inubug, where great men may appear small, and small men may appear great. It has never failed to shelter chicanery or to subject worthy patriotism to unworthy profit. Nothing has so far prevented our war with Mexico as the memories of our war with Spain.
The short duration of the Spanish war; the case with which the foc was beaten. and the political aftermaths, all combined to make it appear a sort of joke. Those who called it that, however, are those who did not parti- cipate. A joke is, or is not a joke, according to the viewpoint. The viewpoint of the civilian pursuing his daily avocation differs from that of the soldier being shot at. lying in a fever hospital or chafing under the monotonous re- straints of an idle army. What seems a joke to the civilian seems quite dif- ferent to the soldier. There are yet living some two hundred thousand men whose enlistment to serve against an untried foe was no joke, and they are a little sensitive about hearing it mentioned that way.
What the American people have gained by the war with Spain is not territory or wealth, or even any especial fame, but is wisdom. That wisdom rife in the same generation, has warned us to that state of mind that has so far held us aloof from armed conflict at a period when half of the civilized world is hurling itself to destruction. Who can say but that for our little Spanish war, happening when it did, we, too, might now be plunged into something perilous to the nation's existence? If it has served to save that, it has amply justified all it cost.
OFFICERS OF COMPANY K.
Captain-Diggins, Archibald B. First Lieutenant-Benedict, Charles W.
Second Lieutenant-Durst, Harry D. First Sergeant-Sansone, Charles Quartermaster Sergeant-Anthony, Robert L.
Sergeant-McCauley, William R. Sergeant-Cunningham, Thomas P.
Sergeant-Roberts, William J.
Sergeant -- Hardin, William R.
Corporal-Kirkpatrick, Harry F.
Corporal-Price, William R. Corporal-Walker, Isaac G. Corporal-Wood, Jr., Henry N. B.
Corporal-Banks, Frederick O.
Corporal-Ward, Edward L.
Corporal-Austin, Albert M.
Corporal -- Alderfer, Wilbur J.
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Corporal-Newson, Clifford S. Corporal-Ferbrache, Presley E. Corporal-Gilbert, Ransom R.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Cook-Kurtz, Louis Musician-Harcum, Glen E. Musician-Crenshaw, Thomas T. Artificer-Lilly, John M. Wagoner-Fallin, Walter A.
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PRIVATES.
Alder, Rolla C.
Beaty, Werner C.
Bremer, John L. Brown, Daniel K.
Campbell, William F.
Cater, Theodore T.
Coffland, James W.
Costello, Edward J.
Drager, Albert W.
Durnell, Benjamin F. Fain, Fred O. Fallin, Wilburn M.
Gardner, Homer E.
Gregson, Carl A. Hardman, James C.
Anderson, Lynn N. Benjamin, Mortimer.
Heacker, Jr., Frank A. Hopkins, Homer C.
Bronekamp, Edward T.
House, Amos B.
Campbell, John P. Casebeer, Archie B.
Jenkins, James E. Long, Leslie S. Linsley, Walter T.
Dacy, John F.
Marsh, Myron C.
Melville, Charles J.
Moore, Arthur E.
McBride, Clarence L.
McCall, John B. McCracken, Benjamin N. McLaughlin, Liberty U.
Dooley, John L. Doolittle, Oscar F. Elliott, Randle. Emmerton, Charles A.
Guthrie, Sidney E. Hansell, Milton L. Hale, Joseph.
Hannon, Edward F. 1
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Smith, William M. Stoughton, Benjamin W. Thorn, Claud G. Thornbrough, John L. Weaver, Campbell J. Welch, Charles O. Boyer, William P. Carlisle, Robert J. Curry, James T. Haydon, William W. Orchard, Jesse
Tracey, Chauncey I. Boyden, George T. Baker, John C.
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Jones, Thomas R. Kelly. William J.
Krafft. Theodore J.
Lamons, Henry T. McMurry, Loyd E. Penticost, Fred W:
Phelps. John S.
Palmer. James G. Roberts. John P.
Porch. James Il.
Pryor. Oscar A.
Rankin. Guy D.
Smythe, Will L.
Reece. Walter S.
Spore, Patrick
Richesin. Marcellus.
Spore. Nick
Wallace, Lewis E.
Walker, William G.
OFFICERS OF COMPANY M.
Captain-McAfee, E. C. First Lieutenant-Towuaha, G. H.
Second Lieutenant-Cravens, J. D.
First Sergeant-Massey, B. M. Quartermaster Sergeant-Newton, Emmett.
Sergeant-McElhany, Ralph. Sergeant-McAfee, Jr., C. B.
Sergeant-Campbell, E. H. Sergeant-Gatts, WV. E.
Corporal-Hennery, U. S. Corporal-Arnold, A. L. Corporal-O'Daniel, J. C.
Corporal-Angel, Lucien O. Corporal-Hazzard, H. W. Corporal-Sampey, A. F. - Corporal-Symington. J. M.
Corporal-Lawrence, E. E.
Corporal-Mckinney, O. A.
Corporal-Ball, W. B. Corporal-Gentry, R. C.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Cook-McClintock. A. L. Musician-Blain, E. R.
Schlemmer. Julius J. Shriver. Fred M. Wimburly. Runzy
Wishart, Dow Heacker, Joseph J. Sawyer, Robert M1. Baker, James E.
Brown, Harry C. Morrison, John D.
Starr. Frank A.
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Musician-Mullins, F. C. Artificer-Thompson, E. A. Wagoner-Morris, O. W.
PRIVATES.
Ables, H. Bays, J. E. Bryant, J. H.
JcAdoo, Joseph Gold, V. R.
Bates, F. R.
Burnett, George
Cass, L. W. Coss, C. E.
Burson, Leon Burton. C. J.
Butler. J. T.
Diringer, F. Mckinney. E. E.
Camp. Herschel
Skinner, S. G.
Debo. J. H.
Arnold. Oscar
Dick. Charles
Braswell. W. F.
Emmerson, W. D.
Campbell, Abner
Farley. John Frasher, J. W.
Clay, John R.
Coffland, C. A.
Frasher. O. A. Gault. Clyde Gibson. Thomas F. Lemon. W. A.
Cotton. G. IT. Davis, Frank Gilliland, Jesse
Lewis, M. E.
Glen, W. F.
Keech. W. M.
Hampton, A. Harmon, W. H.
McCoy. A. McCoy, Charles
Harris, Joseph
Howard, W. F.
Jener. W. A.
Lawson, A. M.
Mack, Charles E.
McClure, C. L. Scott, J. F.
Smith, A. E.
Phelps. W. G.
Smith. W. P. Snyder, J. J.
Ritchey. L. V.
Rogers. Charles Sams. J. R. Styker. H. A. Stewart. J. A. Siler. J. P.
Spratley. A.
Stratton, H. Stokes. J. W.
Thornburgh. J. Van Vant. E.
Mckinney, M. B. Mckinney. R. G. McNaught, L. Q. Marr, F. Matlock. N. W. Miller. F. A. Pebit. Joe
Choat. J. E.
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Willis, Clyde Tandle, W. H. Young, H. C. Wade, Ross Rush, Charles R. Wallace. J. D.
Barton. W. E. Arbuckle, Jud. Alar, William V'an Geison, O. AcQuitty, W. D. Overshart. F.
CHAPTER XII.
HISTORY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN SPRINGFIELD.
By Prof. Jonathan Fairbanks.
All through the years 1830 and 1831 new families of settlers kept arriving in the Ozarks. They came weary with their long journey by ox teams from east Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina, and when they reached the "natural well," and the Fulbright spring, and met the hospitable men and women who had preceded them, they were only too glad to cast in their lot with them.
That all these earlier inhabitants of Springfield were of the best type of the American pioneer, is well proven by the fact that while the little settlement in the Ozark wilderness still lacked several months of being two years old, a rude building was erected and a school opened for the children. Thus from the earliest years of its existence Springfield has striven earnestly for the best obtainable educational advantages for the children. It is doubtful indeed, whether any other city can show such active work for the training of the young at as early a date in the life of the place as can this.
It was in January or February, 1830, that A. J. Burnett built his little one-room cabin of poles on top of the hill where now stands the Frisco office building. That little cabin was the first white man's home in the territory now included in the city limits of Springfield. And in much less than two. years after Burnett made his settlement here, the first school house was built and occupied.
That first building was, however, strictly speaking, not in Springfield, for it stood some half a mile or so west of the present city boundaries. But in the next year, 1832, another one-room cabin was erected "of small logs," on the site still taken by a building that served many years as the house of worship of the First Christian church, and that has now been for a long time a private residence. This stands on the northwest corner of Main and Col- lege streets.
This first school building in Springfield was naturally a primitive affair. One who was a scholar there has left on record that "it had a loose plank floor, a door shutter and a stick and clay chimney." All of which modern conveniences the building west of town had lacked. From these humble beginnings has grown the magnificent plant of twenty modern edifices, in which the youth of our day receive free training for the duties of life. And
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great and costly as these buildings are, it is doubtful whether, taking into consideration the number and wealth of the community, they represent a tithe of the sacrifice and effort put forth by the fathers which resulted in those two log cabin school houses in 1830 and 1831.
Those early schools were of course not public schools in the use of that term today. They were "pay schools," and if there were settlers who could not afford the modest tuition fees, their children had to do as best they might with such learning as could be imparted at the mother's knee. As the community increased in numbers and wealth the schools grew corre- spondingly better in equipment, larger in attendance and with a more ex- tended course of study. Still such a thing as a public school, maintained at the cost of the entire community was not thought of. The schools grew in size and importance : one at least of them aspired to the name of "college" and caused the title of "West street" to become forever after, as it is today, "College street," but the time for public schools had not yet come. Then the tempest of civil war broke upon the land and for four stormy years most of the schooling was in that institution of which "experience" is the head master and where in lieu of books and teachers the principle accessories were sturdy enemies with guns in their hands.
.At last peace returned : those of Springfield's citizens who had been away fighting for the cause that they loved, returned to the little war swept town. New men by scores and hundreds came in and the sun of a perman- ent prosperity began to rise over the "Queen of the Ozarks." Even then it was nearly two years, in the turmoil of those busy days, before men found time to plant the seed that was to grow into that great system of free, public schools, which today is the pride of every citizen of Springfield.
FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
In the spring of 1867 a movement was set on foot for the establishment of public schools for the youth of Springfield. Before the Civil war, there were excellent private schools, but no public schools in this city.
Several citizens joined in a movement to establish a system of public education. Public meetings were called, plans discussed, pro and con, in regard to the movement for not all were in favor of such a step. Some very influential citizens opposed such a plan with their might. One gentleman in a speech on the public square denounced the movement as illegal, unjust. infamous and declared he would oppose it to the end. Nevertheless, those in favor continued the good work, and in the fall an election was called to select a school board, which resulted in the choice of the following gentle- men : James Baker, W. C. Hornbeak, Charles Sheppard, Dr. E. T. Robber- son. J. M. Kelley and William R. Gorton. These gentlemen called a meeting
SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.
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to organize. The result was, Judge James Baker, president; W. C. Horn- beak, secretary: Charles Sheppard, treasurer; Dr. E. T. Robberson, J. M. Kelley and Win. R. Gorton, constituting the board of education.
This board proceeded to select site for buildings, determined levy for tax and how to procure money for erecting buildings. Suitable places were procured for schools in the meantime in rented buildings and were opened September 9, 1867. The high school in Matthias building with sixty-eight pupils ; the primary schools in Phelps Hall with two hundred and four pupils. The colored school in the colored Methodist church with forty-eight pupils. The school year was seven and a half months, afterwards increased to nine months.
At a meeting of the board held February 13, 1868, a committee was appointed to select a site and at the next meeting on the 18th of February, a suitable place was reported at a cost of $2,000. The site and cost were satisfactory and the board ordered two hundred bonds of the denomination of $100 eachı, $20,000 running ten years, drawing ten per cent. interest, be issued to meet the expenses. The board reported the purchase of the Burden property, corner of Jefferson and Olive streets, for $2.000.
A committee was selected to purchase a lot for a colored school. This body selected a site on Washington avenue near Center street and $5,500 in bonds were authorized to pay for lot and building. This building was com- pleted June 7, 1872, at a cost of $4,867.52. On January 3, 1873, the board of education purchased an additional lot of J. H. Shaw on Olive street to add to the grounds of the old Central building erected in 1871, which lot cost $1,850.
In 1874, the western part of sections 14 and 24 of township 29, range 22 was added to the school district of Springfield. On May 8, 1880, twenty bonds of the denomination of $100 each, bearing ten per cent. interest were called in and new bonds bearing six per cent. issued in their place and payable after five years.
June 1, 1882. the board purchased a lot for school purposes in the third ward for $735 and contracted with Thomas Conlon for building the third ward school house at a cost of $5,996.90. May, 1883, the board purchased a lot on the corner of Mt. Vernon and Grant streets, fourth ward, for $850. On May 23, 1884, the board exchanged the old building on Drury College grounds for a new building erected by Drury College on southeast corner of Center street and Washington avenue. That is now the Lincoln colored school building.
A SCORE OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
June 10, 1884, the board awarded the contract to Smith and Anderson for the sum of $6,800. June 5, 1886, the board purchased two lots at the
M'DANIEL SCHOOL.
CAMPBELL SCHOOL.
PHELPS SCHOOL.
BOYD SCHOOL.
M'GREGOR SCHOOL.
WEAVER SCHOOL.
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corner of kimbrough and Cherry streets in the first ward and had erected a six-room building by Everett Smith and Anderson at a cost of $8,000. But to make a long story short, Springfield has now twenty school buildings, for which she owes a small bonded indebtedness, say $28,000. Her buildings are as follows: Old Central, sold in 1910; Bailey, erected in 1882, at a cost of $8,000 : Campbell, built in 1884 at a cost of $8; Phelps, built in 1886, at a cost of $8,000; Campbell addition, built in 1900, at a cost of $6,632; Phelps addition, built in 1908, at a cost of $3,400; Bailey addition, built in 1800. at a cost of $2.950; Bailey second addition, built in 1895, at a cost of $8,000: Lico coloro $5, ored addition, built in 1887, at a cost of $4,000; Berry, built in 1887, at a cost of $5.321 ; Berry addition, built in 1901, at a cost of $3,970; Weaver, built in 1887, at a cost of $5.321 ; Weaver addition, built in 1895, at a cost of $5,000 ; Rogers, built in 1872, at a cost of $15,000 : Rogers addition, built in 1891, at a cost of $9,450; Waddill, built in 1898, at a cost of $5,321 ; John McGregor, built in 1905, at a cost of $7,500; John McGregor addition, built in 1910, at a cost of $11,500; Douglas, built in 1892, at a cost of $3,808: Dr. E. T. Robberson, built in 1905, at a cost of $7,500; Judge M. Bowerman, built in 1906, at a cost of $8,800; Waddill addition, built in 1911, at a cost of $3,400 ; Robberson addition, built in 1912, at a cost of $13.000; Mary S. Boyd, built in 1912, at a cost of $13,000; Pickwick, built in 1908, at a cost of $7,000; new high school building. built in 1893, at a cost of $100,000; new high school second addition, built in 1906, at a cost of $35,000; new high school third addition, built in 1914, at a cost of $120,000; J. E. Tefft, built in 1914, at a cost of $40,000; Fairbanks, built in 1906 at a cost of nearly $8,000, and in 1910 an addition was built at a cost of over $4,000. Many thousands of dollars have been spent for repairs, alterations and furni- ture not accounted above.
The school property now, in 1915. is worth at least $650,000, all paid for but $28,000, due in 1921, on bonds.
Teachers .- The first teachers employed in the schools when first opened in 1867 were the following : D. L. Gorton, principal, at a salary of $100 per month: Miss Amanda Cowan, principal of grammar school, at a salary of $50 per month : Miss Slocum, assistant, at a salary of $40 per month; Mrs. D. L .. Gorton, principal of primary school, at a salary of $50 per month; Mrs. M. S. Boyd, assistant, at a salary of $40 per month: Miss Sallie Gates, assistant in high school. at a salary of $50 per month; Mr. Scott Hayes, colored school, at a salary of $50 per month. These seven teachers enrolled the first year three hundred and twenty pupils, two hundred and seventy-two white and forty-eight colored, being an average of forty-eight to each teacher. Cost for teachers, $2.785 or $8.75 for tuition for every pupil enrolled. In 1870, Mr. and Mrs. Gorton having resigned, a Rev. J. H. Nixon was chosen
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