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"v mt Ut Mm wto to torn Seattle, ana foy ftte wiflow ana orpfomg." Washington, d; cg Thursday, august 9, 1894. VOL. XIII -NO. 44-WH- OLB m. 67& ESTABLISHED 1S77-N-EW SERIES. t durance of any other body of foot soldiers 1862-'6- 3. But a new generation is find out the cause of around you. These soon become ex- Williamsburg, and are now anxious to up their minds to FOR during the war. ,. now on foot, and few can, say, " wa soon hausted, and you slowly fall back loth show of what mettle they are m ade. The ffiHTHG I "EXCELSIOR!" it, and, pushing forward, were can never forget ihe stormy Feb- on this march." works, thus to surrender the field ; but your heroism opportunity soon comes, and in a gallant I climbing over the rebel we arrived at the site We here had an opportunity to resfd m with ruary evening that evacu- and heavy sacrifices have not been in bayonet charge cover themselves - YICKSBURG. being the' first to announce their .- of the village of Moscow, Tenn., on the We soon drew new clothes, consigned an succor is at hand. Kearny comes glory and win the commendation of the .. The Five Regiments that Composed ation. vain Memphis & Charleston Road, somewhere our old duds with their graybacks to the to the rescue, and the enemy soon give Commanding General of the Army for The loss in the brigade during between Memphis and La Grange. Noth- cremation, were paid oft and made the) Ideal Brigade. siege was slight, being one way before his enthusiastic and gallant of Yorktown What a 30th 111. Boy Experienced in ing but the ruins and standing chimneys sutlers happy. , troops, and the victory is ours. killed and two wounded. fa-cam- of the houses remained to tell in silent If remember right, we remained p is to lead The story the battle of Williamsb- the I Hooker's Division selected of the Campaign Against pantomime where the town had formerly near Memphis something like ono THE FIRST FIGHT. foe. urg-is interesting one to the soldiers in pursuit of the retreating Many an stood. know what had become of month, resting and cleaning R-b- el I not up. We march. The heavy of Hooker's Divisiou,-fo- r upon them fell Gibraltar. of you remember that the town or its people. Perhaps some got our hair cut, and got into a new suife descend- the brunt of the fighting. The reports There was No .Shrinking, No roads, the driving rain as night cavalryman could tell something about of blue uniform, new hats with feathery ed, and the comfortless bivouac in the of that battle did not do justice to our Baptism that. in them and brass bugles on ; and when "Wavering in the sink gallant leader. They were brilliantly FATIGUING WORK woods as weary and exhausted we But the absence of the town is not at Wil- to rest. colored when referring to other parts of ( of Fire what makes me remember Moscow. It 5, you the field, but here in front of Fort liamsburg. Early the next morning, May An Instance of "It is the Unex- was an experience had by a squad of 10 and you do not fail Magruder the vision of the author of resume your march, pected or a dozen of us fellows so similar to that commanding officers the report was obscured by the smoke of that Always to notice that your suffered by the great Napoleon once at SICKLES IN COMMAND. battle and the volcano of fire that keep the columns Happens." a town of the same name that regard whirled around the vicinity. I WELL CLOSED UP, it as a coincidence. so happened Col. Fox in his 'work1 on regimental It A. Daily Battleground and a' MAKING A WAY. that my company and that they have an air of expectancy losses says : " The battle of Williams- Terrible Array of Casualties. which does not usually mark their faces. burg was fought almost entirely STACKED AEM3 The rain is still falling, and the roads An Introduction which Devel- that evening near one of those houseless and woods are dismal. The air is heavy BY THE THIRD CORPS. chimneys, with its huge fireplace, hearth FOLLOW-in- g Last- HE with moisture and seems like a pall. At "Of the 2,239 casualties on that field, oped Close and and jams, all in perfect order, and our address- - was last we are halted, and as the noise of 2,002 occurred within its ranks, and Col. Nelson Tayloh, ing squad, or mess, immediately took clan- Third Regiment, . Commanded Relations. delivered by Col. jingling accouterments ceases, we hear three-fourth- s of them in Hooker's Divis- brigade at battlo of Williamsburg, Va., May 5, destine possession of it and guarded it Brigadier-Genera- John 1?. Coyne un peculiar sounds and reverberations. Our ion ; the brunt of the battle having fallen 1802. Promoted to l. until our baggage train pulled in and The regiments of BY B. F. BOEING, 30th ILL., SOUTH TERBE cheeks flush, and we begin to tighten our on the Excelsior Brigade and Jersey their gallantry. other threw off the tents from the wagons, the battlefield of and soon HAUTE, 1ND. belts and inspect our arms. We know Brigade, both in Hooker's Division." the brigade press forward, when we set up our big wall tent in Gettysburg, Pa., come in contact with the foe, and the what it in aus. Hooker, with the lead- Your proportion of the loss was enor- front of said chimney and fireplace. field. Night July 2, 1893, at ing brigade, has overtaken the enemy, mous; the 1st regiment losing 330 in euemv is driven from the The flies or opening at one end of the finds occupying Casey's old intrench- - j the dedication of and he is contesting our advance, and killed, wounded, and missing. The 3d you TO tent were tied back to the jams, a huge meuts, and the Commanding General DESIKE Gen. Jos. Wheeles, C. S. A. the Excelsior Bri- the increasing noise indicates that the regiment, 195 ; 4th regiment, 104, and constantly fire of logs and old rails 'were started, thinks you have done so well that he keep it a comrade from another command asked Monument. resistance is becoming serious. the 5th regiment, 143 ; a total loss in the before the minds of which blazed and roared like a cyclone. gade leaves you there' for three or four days, what regiment we belonged to, we would A7i ovn rki llioiuiyF airI rT rmr Tircf nnffln , four regiments in killed, wounded, and Our wet, muddy clothing, principally Col. Coyne is Sec- il ail ui nu vi siii ii3v uuttn men of the the readers of The . evidently believing that the shoes, socks, and pants, were removed and say, " Same old regiment, only got new my comrades, and our minds wander to missing of 772. , National Trib- retary and Treas- Excelsior Brigade are insensible to put in places to dry; coffee was made, clothes." coffee, une, and the old fatigue and hunger, and that sow-bell-y Winter soon became a thing of tha urer of the Excel in general, broiled on pointed sticks, and hardtack, and bacon are luxuries that survivors past. The cheerful rays of a vernal sior Brigade Association. His residence Slifc and on both sides, laid out on hardtack, and such a supper! they abhor. Gen. Sickles, however, Yum! yum!! The deep snow having sun aroused to action the dormant germs sNo. 38 Kensington avenue, Jersey City in all the move-i- n loses his patience, so the story goes, and that of the vegetable kingdom. All the Eights, N. marches, been cleaned away from where the tent J.: sends word to the rear that if they want ents, beauties of Springtime were ushered in. and bat- was put, pine boughs were carried in and On May 18, 1861, Daniel E. Sickles him to take Richmond alone, he will have campaigns, Pretty flowers unfolded their petals to tles of the grand spread thick over the ground floor for a was authorized by Piesident Lincoln to to go to and raise another bed, blankets spread on it in front of our view, fragrant odors freighted the in old Army of the organize a brigade for service the brigade. The hint was sufficient, for cartridge-boxe- s, breezes, birds sang sweet songs in the Tennessee, from its the cheerful fire, with guns, field. To this task he devoted all his that afternoon the brigade was relieved trees, and Nature seemed to smile upon, organization to its haversacks, etc., piled under our energies, and after surmounting many from duty at the fi'out. us. But of course such peaceful enjoy disbandment, heads for pillow3. All thi3 time a difficulties he completed the organiza- Though closely engaged with the en- the heavy fall of snow was burying and ments must necessarily be ephemeral uUili 111. was ever present or accounted of five regiments. ds tion emy two or three times during this battle, loading everything outside. while the dark war-clou- hung low and not-severe-,- for. The 1st regiment was organized with our loss was the brigade only Immediately after supper we renewed threatening all around us. Vicksburg It was the 30th 111., with the 20th Gen. Sickles as temporary Colonel. The losing 74 in killed, wounded, and mis- the fire with big, lusty wood, and turned the rebel Gibraltar of the Mississippi 111. as our right-bowe- r, that defeated 2d regiment, under Col. Geo. B. Hall sing.- . into bed, regretting only that the friends was just below us in bold defiance. Lieut.-Co- cavalry Britton's and l. H. L. Potter; the 3d During the month that we remained 10,000 Kuklux at Active operations were going on m Nelson, regiment under Col. Nelson Taylor; the on this field the brigade was called upon Lane. When Lord Admiral camp. The sound of the blacksmith'? 4th regiment under Col. James Fair-ma-n, to do almost constant picket duty, and of the English navy, sailed into the hammer and anvil chimed in with tha motto was and the 5th regiment under Col. the duty was arduous for us, as the French fleet off Trafalgar his sounds of Nature, shoeing horses, repair. " " ; but Charles K. Graham. The regiments regiments we wtould relieve were fre- Victory or Westminster Abbey ing wagons, etc., getting ready for an HI. Brit- were organized independently of all quently forced back by the enemy, and the 20th and 30th fought at other move. Heavy details of men from Andersonville State authority, and it was not until we had the line to retake. Thus it' was, ton's Lane for victory or the camps were made every day for five days before Dec. 5, 1861 long after they had been tjiat whenever we were seen going to the stockade. We were fatigue duty at the wharf, loading large mustered into service that orders were front, the comrades in other regiments Donelson. We dodged cannon-ball- s 47 steamers with ammunition, Commissary,. hollows issued by the "War Department for their would commence to" look to their arms, days in the entrenchments and Quartermaster, and hospital stores, bagy Sher- incorporation in the volunteer forces of and grumble about' Sickles's men always before Vicksburg. We "followed gage, etc. the State. It was for this reason that raising a fuss. Thus it became almost a man to the sea, and would have followed The boys were becoming anxiou3 te had said so. their numerical designation became so daily battleground for the Excelsior Bri- him across it if Uncle Sam get a move on. We were newly uru when Gen. Sherman cut loose high. gade, and our losses were serious. The And formed, had rested and spent our monej from his base of operations at Jack- The 1st regiment was mustered into Excelsior Brigade Trenches Near Twi Houses Oaks, Va., June, 1RG2 Twin Houses would often be filled with for extra rations, had written home and in at Fair Grange, and Grand Junction, the service at Camp Scott, our wounded, and the rattle of musketry son, La received letters in reply. It was gen- far-o- Col-kelso- ff homes where n Corinth and Miss., in No- on Staten Island, June 20 and 22, 1861. our our loved ones The brigade was commanded by as you pressed back the foe would echo Tenn., Iuka, erally understood that Vicksburg wa3 vision south along The 2d regiment, originally the Jackson are, and as the comes before us a Taylor in this battle, Gen. vember, 1862, and swung our next destination, and we were be- al Missis- Light Iniantry, was mustered by com- feeling heretofore unknown pervades our Sickles's nomination as Brigadier-Gener- the lines of the Mobile & Ohio and coming nervous in anticipation. panies at Camp Scott between June 20 hearts, and the eye becomes moist with having failed of confirmation in the sippi Central Railroads with 50,000 One bright, sunny in the fore Gen. W. T. Shebman. day and July 18. The 3d regiment was the tender reflection. United States Senate. This is no time men, the flower of the Western army, part of March, the order came from our mustered by companies Camp Scott The gentle breeze that brings to our to citicise the gross injustice of that act, in his abortive attempt to take Vicks- at at home couldn't see us and know how Sergeant-Maj- or to strike tents, pack up, between June and October. The 4th ears the noise of conflict unfolds our but we can remember the bitter resent- burg with a land force without the aid comfortable we were, and be with us and and be ready to marcl to the wharf at regiment, which was recruited as the 2d banners, and the motto upon them dispels ment we felt when our General was re- of the navy, and succeeded only in mak- help us enjoy it. a moment's warning. vision. lips become Chickasaw Fire Zouaves, was mustered between the Our coppressed, lieved of his command as we were about ing a graveyard on the But the toils and fatigues of the The whole camp was under marching brows knit, and the light the 30th 111. July 8 and Oct. 8 at Camp Decker, and our deepens in embarking for the Peninsula; and it Blufrs south of the Yazoo, wearisome day's march had barely van- orders, and soon on the road leading The sound of as as the 5th regiment was inustereu at Camp our eyes. battle increases, spoke well for your loyalty to your was along, bag and baggage, far ished into peaceful slumbers and pleas- into the city. As we began to enter Scott between June 30 and Oct. 6. and the atmosphere becomes heavy with country that you still remained true and Cofleeville, Miss., where wTe found the ant dreams, when, alas, for the comforts townpthe Colonel reined his horse from When the Excelsior regiments reached its smoke as we stand by the roadside faithful "soldiers. coflee too hot for us, and about-face- d for and enjoyments of the soldier's life, in front of the regiment, and, dropping Washington, were awaiting orders. the battle of this where our surplus bag- they placed in camp After Williamsburg Holly Springs, the ridge pole of the tent overhead back along the line, said : " Attention, has-be- in the vicinity of the Capital. Hooker's advance en severely act of injustice was repaired, and Gen. gage had been left on our way down. snapped in two from the great weight 30th! Right shoulder shift armsi" Late in the Fall, the Brigade was contested all the morning. Longstreet, Sickles was confirmed as Brigadier-Genera- l, On our return to Holly Springs we of snow on top of the tent, and down The Color-bear- er gent to the lower Potomac, near Liver- who has command of the enemy's forces and he resumed command of the found the road obstructed with the irons she come, burying us under the tent and GLOKY." Col. J. N. Coyne. s, UNSHEATHED "OLD pool Point, where it did excellent service on the field, has thrown into the contest brigade while we were encamped our baggage and wagon-train- all of at Regiment Brigade. Awarded the of something less than a ton of snow. First Excelsior ab- guarding the river. The regiments were regiment after regiment, and is fighting Bailey's Crossroads. Ccingrpssionnl Mednl-of-IIoii- for capturing a which had been burned during our There we were, half asleep, undressed, The brigade band struck up a lively desperately to hold where rebel bultleflug at Willininsburg, Va., May 0, march. regularly drilled in marching, bayonet the ground On the 31st of May we are .at Bot- 1SG1. sence by rebel cavalry under command barefooted, and in imminent danger of he has made his stand. The iron bolts in Gen. the same who The boys sang "Hoe your cakes and tom's Bridge engaged the usual routine through the wood's like a general engage- of Jos. Wheeler, both suffocation and conflagration, as a from Magruder and heavy musk- scratch your gravel, in Dixie's land we Fort the of camp duty, and looking forward to a ment. now occupies a seat on the Democratic portion of the tent was over and on the fire, etry-fire from masses of the enemy's in- Sabbath on sud- lower House the are bound to travel," and thus marched quiet the morrow, when You lost in these brief but severe con- side of the present of and no time was to be lost in getting out fantry have decimated the ranks of the through the metropolis city of Tennes- denly an Aid from Headquarters dashes tests, which included the engagement at U. S. Congress. and saving the tent from the fire, which gallant New Jersey regiments, who have see to the boat landing. Our regiment up, and soon the command to fall in Oak Grove and Peach Orchard, 322 The entire army returned from Vicks- we did instanter. There being no ladies been bearing the brunt of the battle up is " " lines as took hurricane-dec- k passage on the passed along. The assembly is beat, killed, wounded, and missing. burg along the same roads and present, it was not necessary to lose any to this hour, and they feel unless we steamer Doan. What other jregimenta that and the men hasten to form company. (To be continued.) it went down. I remember camped time in dressing, and it makes me smile succor come they will have to abandon With your usual promptness you are on the night of Dec. 31 (New Year's to this day when I remember how red or batteries were with us on this boat J the ground covered with the bodies of soon in line, and receive the first intima- A Fine JLcgal Point. eve), 1862, near a little town called Ab- the boys' naked legs and feet looked, and do not now remember, but suppose ifc Some their,, comrades. tion of the battle which has been raging North Dakota Jtepublicun. beville, in Mississippi, and slept that how their shirt-tail- s cracked in the was our brigade. time during the At this critical moment, about 2 p. across the Chickahominy, at Fair Oaks, At the party at Mr. IJoberts's the other night on the ground, without cover, as it bracing breezes that night, as they night the whole fleet pulled out, carry m., Hooker calls upon the Excelsior and of the disaster evening Maj. Baldwin rapped the company enough to need even ing us smoothly down the "Father of that has befallen to order and stated that a party had re- was not cold a skipped about in the deep snow and the Brigade, and soon the command, which Casey's troops. Leaving tents and cently come to his office and asked a ques- blanket over us. This camp was along storm, getting the tent off the fire, and Waters." becomes double-quic- we descended now a welcome one, is given knapsacks, you are off on the k tion on a legal point which he was unable a small river, whose name I have for- then pulling wet socks on wet, cold feet. As the meanderings of As and we move forward. and do not cease your rapid to answer. the District Attorney was gotten. OH, FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES this great river the beauties of nature present and as the question and answer Our arrival on the field is opportune. from this to tell the experiences of night ! and of Spring unfolded to the delighted would interest every pne present he would On our return march point that Longstreet has been heavily reinforced, repeat the question, which was: "Could a the "weather was an alternation of rain How the two extremes met. Only the gaze more and more. As for myself I and he has thrown forward several man in Nh Dakofct marry hia widow's and snow, with deep mud and slush First Napoleon could know how to real- had seen but little beyond the Ixaun&r regiments into a dense woods on our (mm, sister?" The District Attorney promptly sandwiched in. Our regiment followed ize and sympathize with us. les3 virgin prairies of Illinois, .except Col. "William O. Stevens, answered that he conld.ifhe wanted to, and Third RcRfuient, Excelsior Brijmde. Killed nt front and left, apparently with a view of pretty closely the track of the Missis- But the bo3Ts of the 30th HI. never the trip up the Tennessee to Henry jano Chancellorsville, May 3, 1663. the company concurred in his decision. But cutting off the remnants of the Jersey when the Major quietly remarked that this sippi Central Eoad, which we brought got into a place on top of the ground down the Cumberland from Dnnelson, exercise, and musketry practice, and Brigade. At this moment we confront was the ilrst timelio:had' heard that a dead along with us, or, atleast, left nothing but what they extricated themselves, together with our glimpse of .central passed the Winter in perfecting them- him, and we have advanced so far that man could marry there 'were explosions of behind us over which the enemy could and we got out from under that tent Mississippi during the past Winter j selves for the sterner duties that were to when his line emerges from the edge of laughter which costtimed for several min- snow all cut hence was in good shape to take in and utes. transport an army or its supplies. and that night the samey, follow when the Spring should open. the woods we are within short range. Bridges were burned, rails torn up and down a pine sapling and made a substi- appreciate this trip down the lower sir K gft You were now the Second Brigade of There is a moment's hesitation, as if the It WtWThero. heated and bent around trees, over logs, tute ridge-pol- e, put up our tent again Mississippi. the Second Division, Third Corps of the angel of death shrinks from the harvest iBostonHudaet. stumps, etc., rendering them unfit for and resumed our beds, and were enter- Of course, to one who has never seen injthe Union station wait- Army of the Potomac, or Sickles's Bri- before him. But more than human life Terence stood use. My recollection is that the ing dreamland the second time, when the castellated Rhine, the classic Dan- ing for the MedfortUtrain. The busy doors further gade, Hooker's Division, is at stake the fate the is Sergeant-Majo- Heintzelman's of battle were swinging it and out, and the people Mississippi Central was not left in a the r poked his unwelcome ube, nor the beautiful Rhone, ignorance Corps. wavering in the balance, and the duel is were bustling to the long and crowded navigable condition. This, of course, head into our tent, yelling out, just as if was bliss, and this trip a delightM one. On the 5th of April you were on to be a bloody one. Col. Wm. Dwight, trains. Suddenly a nervous man, with a we did to impede the progress of the we had been sleeping all night : The long hedge-row- s of blooming First Regiment, Excelsior Briicndc, comttinncllnj? natty grip and an lily, rushed in. Ho transports on your way to the Peninsula, The enemy now opens upon us along Easter pursuit an enemy, and not as strikers "Strike tents! Fall in I Fall in, boys! roses ; the long streamers of gray Span- recitnont at bnttle of Willintnsburp, Vn., Mny S, looked round in a dazedlway, while the lily of and on that dark and bloody ground his whole line, and we return his fire 1802. Promoted toBrigndicr-Gunern- l. Seriously or Pullman boycotters. On the advance to-da- y ! Fall in ! Fall ish moss hanging in graceful festoons wounded at Williamsburg, Vt.a Mny 5, 18G2. swayed with sympathetic emotion, and at you were to prove that the motto on with calm deliberation. The months of last he spied Tereude. He took the Irish- The toilsome march was continued in!" from the tops and branches of tall trees j march until you reach the field. The your banners was well deserved. drill and musketry practice on the lower man by the arm: under a cloud of smoke and through Of course it was a ground-ho- g case ; the globe-toppe- d China tree, a perfect shades night say, You were soon before the formidable Potomac give you confidence and firm- of have now descended, and "I my friend," and he pointed across mud and slush by day, drenching .rains we had to crawl out immediately, roll ball of beautiful pink bloom as compact: the battle has ceased, leaving the room, " iB that clock right over there?" works ness. There is no shrinking, no waver- the enemy snow-storm- s of Yorktown, and the brigade Terence gazed at the wall, and, dodging and blinding at night, on up our tent, put it in the wagon, and and pretty as a bouquet; the large in possession of Casey's intrenchmeuts, thick-bodie- was thrown well to the front, and was ing. You stand to your work, and with the lily, tumed;xoundwith a look of pity on through Oxford, Miss., and sometime in fall into line, and by daylight were spreading, short, d livfy and confident almost constantly engaged in building your deadly buck and ball soon throw of his ruddy face: February we struck the Memphis & making tracks again westward along the oaks running in straight parallel row? redoubts and intrenchmeuts or on the his lines into confusion, and they are SUCCESS ON TnE MORROW. ' ' "Begorra,-a,n4if- c ain't nowhere else, sorr." Charleston Railroad at & Charleston Road. through green, velvety lawns ; the low, . - ;- - La Grange, Memphis skirmish-lin- e. driven into the woods. . t Summer3'ke You were ever vigilant in At early dawn the battle is resumed," Moro ,Pyuct(calSueccstion. Tenn., from whence we started in Novem- I remember no other incident worthy cool, residences embow- the performance of this duty, and always Again Longstreet throws forward and the rattle of musketry is heard alt , Chicago Tribune. ber. Here we filed left, turning west- of mention during the remainder of this ered in roses, magnolias, and evergreens ready to take advantage of any careless- fresh regiments, and the contest is re- along the line. It increases .fit violence The statelysteamer plowed its way ward along said road, and pulled on for march, and late in, the afternoon of trimmed and artistically shaped up into ness of the enemy. Your vigilance was newed. The musketry-fir- e is terrific, on the Williamsburg road; aiuTthe onler through the blue waves of Lake Michigan. Memphis. 1863, facing a cones, cubes, pyramids, globes, etc.; the "Oh,v Hor'aoei" young Washington's birthday, moanedvthe bride, ng rewarded, for early dawn on the and Magruder lends its comes for clean, cozy-looki- villages of negro at Fort thunder you to move, forward. Gen., who a moment before bad paced the deck The fatigues of this campaign from driving snowstorm, footsore and weary, is weather-beate-n, morning of the 4th of May, after a night and hurls an iron hail into our ranks. Sickles now in command, and you bear with smiling face and iqve-li- t eye, the hap- marching through deep mud, up and ragged, hungry, and quarters that adorned the Louisiaaa of terrific artillery fire from the enemy, For hours you have held at bay thrice yourselves proudly as his eye wanders piest of the happy, " I'feel so queer ! Let down long and steep hills, crossing streams lousy, we camped in the eastern suburbs side of the river; the magnolia hill?, our enterprising comrades of the 4th your numbers, and you begin to find along your ranks. The 2d regi- me lean on your shoulder." without bridges, and the exposures of the City of Memphis, Tenn., after crowned with their groves of blooming "No, dearest;' do that!" exclaimed regiment, becoming suspicious of the cartridge-boxe- s empty and use ment, owing to detail don't magnolias, delighting the eye with their your a which kept Horace, hastily Lean over the side of the to inclement weather, rain and snow, having been out on the road and in all in those comrades who fallen filling the air with their fri i unusual quietness their front, made of the have them near Yorktown, was not with us at steomer." were unsurpassed, I claim, by the en the storms of the wet, open Winter of beauty and

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