Excerpt from Backlog Ballads

Captain David A. Murphy, Editor of The Oxford (Ohio) Herald, is a veteran of the Civil War, and he has won seven marks of distinction in life's battle.

1. He was a newspaper contributor at fifteen and a newspaper editor at twenty years of age, at Portsmouth, Ohio.

2. Selected out of three armies for Clerk at General Sherman's headquarters, Acworth, Georgia, June 7, 1864, and still has that detail.

3. The daring soldier who captured two Confederate muskets on the firing line in the battle south of Resaca, Georgia, in 1864, and was therefore promoted for good conduct on the field of battle.

4. The Editor of The Danville (Ky.) Tribune when Garfield was shot, and his famous telegram to Secretary Blaine, "We tender hope for the President and hemp for the assassin, " scooped all American editors.

5. The soldier-editor who, with The Danville Tribune as his battle-ax, compelled the Democratic Party of Kentucky in 1883 to take down the legend from the Statehouse doors at Frankfort - "No ex-Union soldier need apply."

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