. What I remember of the Great rebellion . tationedat Camp Nelson. Their scouts had learned ofour condition, and their commanding officer,Colonel Luther Trowbridge, sent to CrabOrchard two hundred horses to help our poor,suffering boys on their homeward march. Thehelp was timely, and many a silent blessing wasoffered for the instigator of this generous act,bringing to our minds the truth of the old adage : A friend in needIs a friend indeed. Among the many who brought the horses toCrab Orchard, that I remember, was one Jeffer-son Kent of Company H, ioth Michigan Cav-alry, who has since then be
. What I remember of the Great rebellion . tationedat Camp Nelson. Their scouts had learned ofour condition, and their commanding officer,Colonel Luther Trowbridge, sent to CrabOrchard two hundred horses to help our poor,suffering boys on their homeward march. Thehelp was timely, and many a silent blessing wasoffered for the instigator of this generous act,bringing to our minds the truth of the old adage : A friend in needIs a friend indeed. Among the many who brought the horses toCrab Orchard, that I remember, was one Jeffer-son Kent of Company H, ioth Michigan Cav-alry, who has since then been an invalid fortwenty-five years, resulting from injuries re-ceived during the various engagements whichoccurred in East Tennessee. It is morally impossible, after thirty years,for me to preserve a perfect picture of all ofthe brave boys who scaled the rugged peaks ofLittle and Big Log Mountains, forded theClynch and forced their way onward to the BigBroad of East Tennessee. But it gratifies meto be able to present the photograph of one. JEFFERSON KENT,loth Michigan Cavalry. THE GREAT REBELLION. 43 who still lives and is among the well-knownand respected citizens of Shiawassee county. We reached Cincinnati, Ohio, January 25,where the regiment was mustered and paid off. Freshly clothed, we took cars for Detroit,where we were furloughed to our homes. One man, a citizen of Antrim, of CompanyD, whose name was Martin Decker, sufferedterribly from chronic diarrhea and the generaldebility that necessarily follows from a length-ened attack of this disease, more especially inthe months of June and July, in Mississippi, andalthough he knew it was my wish that he shouldgo to the rear hospital, he, like many others,desired to do his duty as a soldier as long asnature would permit. I secured Decker early in November, at BlueSprings, leave of absence for thirty his leave would expire before the reg-iment reached home, I wrote to him from EastTennessee, telling him to rest cont
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