. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . g his browwith his sleeve: I wish toG—d I could git one of themthings. While at Murf reesboro Chap-lain Lozier was acting asDivision Postmaster. There wasno regularity in I he coming orgoing of the mails, and conse-quently the inquiries as towhen the mail would go outbecame frequent and answer this inquiry onceand for all, the Chaplain placed John Cowan, First sergeanton a piece of pasteboard in Co. h, Bath p. o., Franklinlarge letters: The Chaplai
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . g his browwith his sleeve: I wish toG—d I could git one of themthings. While at Murf reesboro Chap-lain Lozier was acting asDivision Postmaster. There wasno regularity in I he coming orgoing of the mails, and conse-quently the inquiries as towhen the mail would go outbecame frequent and answer this inquiry onceand for all, the Chaplain placed John Cowan, First sergeanton a piece of pasteboard in Co. h, Bath p. o., Franklinlarge letters: The Chaplain County. not know when the mail will go, and hung it infront of his tent. Soon after, while he was out on busi-ness, a fun-loving, but not overly-pious soldier, wroteimmediately under this, in the same kind of letters,Neither does he care a damn. One can readilyimagine the surprise of the Chaplain when he returnedand saw the amendment the witty soldier had made tohis notice. He could not swear, and did not feel likepraying, and simply took the notice down and after-wards answered all questions by the living 40 BISTORY OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH While at Muifreesboro, two men who had beenconvicted of murder at McMinville. Term., and wereawaiting- execution in jail, were released by Unionsoldiers who thought they had been put in there be-cause they were Union men. When the fact wasknown, they were recaptured and put in jail at Mur-freesboro, and after a time were hanged by the Thirty-seventh. How it became the duty of the military tohang these men I do not know, but the Thirty-seventhdid it. On the 5th day of June, 1863, the Regimenttook one of them, A. S. Selkirk, to the scaffold. Hewas placed on his coffin in an army wagon and takeninto a woods, guarded by a large detachment of theThirty-seventh Ind. There the gallows had beenerected, and a rope swung from a beam above. Thewagon was driven under this and stopped so that thehind end gate of the wagon, when let
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