. Recollections of the civil war and going West to grow up with the country . fivethousand one hundred and seventy seven. A day ortwo after our arrival mj- new-made friend, his brotherand I left Yankton for a trip up the James river tolook over the public land in the vicinity of our way up the stag-e road we made General Camp-bells place on Dawson Creek, now adjoining- Scot-land, for dinner. I had never known the g-eneral be-fore this meeting-, but I learned in the course of ourconversation that he organized and took to the field. GKN. T. CAM HSr THE LAND OF THE DA
. Recollections of the civil war and going West to grow up with the country . fivethousand one hundred and seventy seven. A day ortwo after our arrival mj- new-made friend, his brotherand I left Yankton for a trip up the James river tolook over the public land in the vicinity of our way up the stag-e road we made General Camp-bells place on Dawson Creek, now adjoining- Scot-land, for dinner. I had never known the g-eneral be-fore this meeting-, but I learned in the course of ourconversation that he organized and took to the field. GKN. T. CAM HSr THE LAND OF THE DACOTAHS, ViVi rthe First reg-init-ut of Pennsylvania Light Artillery,subsequently commanded by Colonel IJobertM, West,my old friend and brig-ade commander before Rich-mond, Va., in the spring- of 1864, and it was not long-before we felt that we had known each other fromthe outbreak of the civil war, and here I turn asidefrom my Mill town journey to paj- a tribute to onewho in his way measured up to the cl-as-s of which ithas been written of a member, ^Nature made but one such man And broke the die in moulding- Sheridan, I quote from an article contributed by me to theMonthlj South Dakotan of October, 1901. In 1863, Brigadier Charles T. Campbell, who af-ter g-allant and meritoric»us service in the army of thePotomac in its campaigns from Yorktown to Freder-icksburg in Avhich he had been several times severelywounded, was assig-ned to duty in the Northwest, andin going- north from Yankton in that year crossedDawson creek about a half a
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