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GEN. AMBROSE E. BURNSIDE. Position, Stonewall Jackson and of Memphis Had Opened the Mississippi Ston, and Hurlbut Was Holding: Mem¬ Longstreet Confronting Us TO A PENSIONER* TO UNION SOLDIER. If yoa draw nador Act of Juo 17,1800, If yn will oooa roaeh tho tf« of it, or ud will book toaok «c* of M, 68, or 70, .ft, or ft, or 70, iU do sot draw poo- writo for a Monk to Tbo Votioaal Trib- don, writo for o blaak, to Tko Votioaol aao, Wookiaftoa, D. C. Tribaao, Washington, D. & "> ii ">n "> "" " ""i ." ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21,1905. VOL. XXIV.NO. 12.WHOLE NO. 1270. army, traversing the State, after its vic¬ from any source. Grartt needed every of their line. When on the 13th we at Pea reached Helena, it man he could to hold his lines tardily advanced we found 50 cannon tory Ridge, get in and made It a permanent base. The capture around Vicksburg and oppose Joe John¬ GEN. AMBROSE E. BURNSIDE. position, Stonewall Jackson and of Memphis had opened the Mississippi ston, and Hurlbut was holding: Mem¬ Longstreet confronting us. River to the Union and trans¬ phis and the with Meade, with his gallant Pennsyl- gunboats surrounding country vanians had port^. as far as Vicksburg, and it was °n,Ly *'000 me". having stripped him¬ A Have Been a Good (he only about 5,000 planned to organize a movement from self far beyond the limit of safety to Pleasant, Kindly, Loyal Soldier, Who Would men), accomplished something.he al¬ Helena to capture Little Rock. reinforce Grant. ways was a good soldier.but he was Running parallel with the river, at a Prentiss found that the citizens out¬ Brigadier-General. left to be enfiladed by Confederate distance of about a half mile are low side his lines were prevented from artillery and crushed by Confederate ranges of hills with the slopes toward coming in, lest they betray news of the infantry.while the rest of us stood the river gentle and easy while on the advance. His scouting parties found idly by for want of fighting orders. farther side from the river the country the disloyal citizens unusually reserved JAS. F. A. Brevet U. S. V. F ranklin was far In the rear, as usual, is broken into other ranges of hills sep¬ and uncommunicative and the enemy's By RUSL1NG, M., LL.D., Brifidier-Qeoeral, with no real grasp of the battlefield, By JOHN Mcelroy. arated by deep ravines and gorges and scouting parties showed much greater From " Men and Thing* I Saw in Civil War Hays." and Burnside miles away at Falmouth, filled with dense growths of timber, stubbornness, indicating that supports and losing his head there. Of course, as his suc¬ we CHAPTER XXXVII. ment of Gen. Sterling Price vines and bushes. Transverse ravines were near. next the fell back after heavy losses, and the cessor. It was that the appoint¬ On My commander was Gen. Burn- already present in command of Confederates did not thev hoped cut this range of hills into three princi¬ Wednesday night, July 1, Prentiss side. Ninth and his second in com¬ pursue; THE BATTLE OF HELENA. ment of Price would bring an increase ravines learned a doubt Corps, wanted us to try It again. Here poor pal hillocks and through these beyond that the enemy mand as next ranking officer. £>lent.-Gen. Holmes la to Do of confidence on the part of the Mis- the main roads ran to Little Rock, were in strong force at Spring Creek, 15 Antietam was fought Sept. 16 and Oen. Bayard perished, struck by a Sparred Up sourians and Arkansans, which would ChnnKr of Commander*. Confederate shell while Something at Lout.He Makes Great Clarendon, Sterling and other towns in miles distant, and that the blow was 17, 1862; and Lee, dazed but not de¬ passing sitting strengthen the Confederate cause in the interior. Gen. Curtis built a sure to fall soon. He had under a tree in the midst of his staff, Preparations to Capture Helena, and strong, anticipated feated, fell back Into Virginia again. This change of our commanders, it those sections. The Confederate Secre¬ heavy fort upon the tableland at a point that he would be attacked at break of must be admitted, was not awaiting orders. He was a gallant Block Here he was allowed to rest and recup¬ altogether own the Mississippi.Overwhelmingly tary of War wrote to Gen. Smith, March where its guns would command all the day, and for a week previous to the satisfactory; and there was some talk Jerseyman; my old school friend; Defeated After Sharp 18, 1863: roads the hills. He battle had had the under arms erate, ad libitum, until Nov. 1, or of already distinguished as a cavalrj Fighting.Splen¬ of leading through garri^55n making Gen. McClellan military dic¬ did Conduct of Union Troops. "From a variety of sources, many gave to this work the name of Fort at 2:30 each morning. ^ thereabouts, before McClellan got tator, and of "marching upon Wash¬ leader, and worthy to rank with Sheri¬ which I cannot doubt, the most deplor¬ Curtis. the hills themselves he to him.a inexcus¬ dan, had he lived. He was to have Jefferson Davis the Upon C3en. Frederick Salomon. ready pursue delay ington and taking possession of the had, at least, able accounts reach this Department of built lighter batteries fronting toward able from every point of view. It is Government," and of pitching Lincoln been married shortly, and his last mo¬ merit of sticking tenaciously to his fa¬ the disorder, confusion and demoraliza¬ the but commanded from the The unusual completeness and ments were spent in speaking of hi« country of true, that "Little Mac" alleged his and his Cabinet and Congress into the vorites and evil tion everywhere prevalent both with the Inside by the guns of Fort Curtis. strength the fortifications of Helena etc. But this was confined to fiancee and of his beloved parents. through good report. armies and of that State. The were due to Frederick Sal¬ army was terribly bad off; short of Potomac, Meanwhile the rest the was true men who were a people In Gen. Sherman's first movement Brig.-Gem a few favorites and "feather-heads of of army had This of two General (Holmes) seems, river Helena had been omon, an able Prussian engineer and horses, short of wagons, short of ra- attacked in front of A burden and to him. Commanding down the strong¬ "Little Mac's" (the army, as a whole, Fredericksburg. disappointment while esteemed for his virtues, to have ly occupied and later these troops were architect. He had served in the Prus¬ was thoroughly loyal), and duly evap¬ mist hung over the river and the val¬ They were Lieut.-Gen. Theophilus H. lost the confidence and attachment of included in McClernand's Thirteenth sian army as a Lieutenant of Artillery, orated with the early departure of Gen. ley all the morning; but toward noon Holmes and Thomas C. all; and the next in command, Gen. Jan. 30, 1863, Gen. Grant or¬ but became involved in the revolution this lifted, revealing the Confederate Maj.-Gen. Corps. ^*f McClellan for the historic lines of Hindman. Hindman was a man of Hindman, who is admitted to have dered Gen. McClernand to garrison the 1848, which rendered it necessary Trenton, N. J. heights bristling with bayonets and shown energy and ability, has rendered of Helena with the Thirteenth to leave the country, when he took up cannon and swarming with soldiers. Davis's own temper; cold, merciless, post his It must be confessed, Gen. Burn- himself by alleged acts of violence and Corps and extend his hold on the river residence in Manitowoc, Wis. He side was not welcome to us; but we The key of the position was Marye'f ruthless. Like Bragg and Davis him¬ perfectly odious. The conse¬ southward. As Gen. Grant's move¬ happened to be in St. Louis at the time Hill, just back of Fredericksburg, and tyranny of accepted him and awaited his orders, self and Pobyedonostseff, the Russian quences as depicted are fearful. The ment against Vicksburg developed Gen. Lyon's operations there and as the best Mr. Lincoln could do under we were ordered to assault that im¬ was an ardent spirit in his support. He the circumstances. He had served pregnable height at all hazards and the 5th in w helped organize Mo., which creditably at first Bull Run, and won hatever cost. he became a Captain, and commanded distinction at Roanoke Island, without During the morning I had been sent a company at Wilson's Creek. The with a report or dispatch to Burnside'a Governor much real fighting or actual general¬ of Wisconsin recalled him to ship; and had just fought bravely at headquarters, and while galloping that State to organize the young Ger¬ if through a wood road my horse slipped mans there and he Antietam, not very skillfully. And raised the 9th Wis., here he was now in command of the on a root extending across the road, of which he became Colonel. He was Army of the Potomac.125,000 strong and fell heavily upon me. He was a promoted to Brigadier-General and large, jet black, handsome fellow, cap¬ commanded the First of the .a job requiring first-class brains. Brigade Now, what was to be done, and how tured at Fair Oaks in June, in the rush Army of Kansas, with which he fought of the battle there, and we both came at Cane Hill and Prairie was he to do it? Leutonla, Burnside sat still a few days, study¬ down so hard I thought my right leg Grove.
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