Show kf v I I Synopsis Syn of Preceding P C cr Norman licit favorite of an old Kentucky family is ig at Vest eat Point for fueling a 81 d is withdrawn by his bla father His h hID m coming in the winter of nf ThIO 1810 is I celebrated ted by an au Kentucky Christmas gathering Among the guests are Daisy Daay Lane daughter of Dr Holts H lawyer and J Burnett Maloy both of Cincinnati The latter brings brine letters letters of Introduction Lanes partner l r Mr Mcintyre and ard andin in Ii courteously received but arouses the Jealousy D Norman Holt by his atten attentions attentions attentions to Daisy Dalsy Lane Lan Malloy separates Miss Lane from flon the main party during a fox hunt and at the Christmas bull bell the theme same me evening affects an air of or proprietorship I distasteful to aisy and ob obnoxious noxious to his rival Norman Norm n Holt But Rut J all ill Ting is forgotten when at mid midnight midnight night all surround su round Dr Holt to drink the Christmas whA M k ceremony is in interrupted Int t by a midnight messenger messen er who announces the tile dangerous illness of Judge Ju e Mcintyre Investigation reveals his hl s financial affairs in a II hopeless tangle and andt andr the Holt t fortune dissipated ed Henry and Norman r enter e Dl Lanes lr law office in Cin Cincinnati Norman N l lan enlists as a private te in inthe Inthe Inthe the Ohio infantry Malloy through po political Utica influence is lieutenant in the same company and Henry Holt joins the con forces s Norman is iH ordered to conduct a skirmishing party under Cap Captain Captain tain tam Wing to Belleview in search of or prominent rebels rebel Belleview w raid falls fails Wing captured and Norman accused of o 0 ot treachery treachel t Train fever saves him from trial and takes him bim to the hospital Charges against Norman are art disproved by Enyart Norman NorMn No rejoins his regiment and a nd ml aids Sheridan in capturing Henry Holt Norman Holt Hoit drugged by Malloy while on picket duty doty is round found asleep at athis athis athis his post p M Court C urt martial convicts Norman who wh demands demand that Malloy Jr loy whose testimony testimony mony convicted him bim shall head firing party part on n the day of his deth Normaa orma is pardoned p by President Pre iden Lincoln sad and made madEt lieutenant of Kentucky Kentuck infantry Norman orman is accused by the Lanes of oC be betraying betraying betraying Theodoe Theodore who wito has deserted into the hands of ot secret SOt service men CHAPTER January 1 3 and neve since s the union of states was born did N Mew w Years day open to heavies heavier hearts 4 Bounds aoud amog un men never ed td the glad though conven conventional greeting Happy New Year YearN more like bitter hitter mockery En In the th east the t he Army of the tk Potomac potoae had been hurled back from the heights of F burg leaving by hundreds Its dead upon the th froen fields In III the west w st the old Ild ld Army of the Ohio new ne army of the Cumberland hafl grappled just the day before the last of the t old year with Braggs Rr s veterans vet ranz rans at blur Mur Murfreesboro rl r and a nd when the last sun SUD of or ori 1 t sank ank i to rest behind the cedars Of that now historic plain McCook and Sheri Sheet Sheridan dan da n they who fought so hard hanl at Persy P y ville two to months before and Johnson Jo ani Davis had bad been rolled up crushed together to ether pounded and driven until ral rallied rallied lied and finally reformed under the V tug of Thomas calm stern steadfast amid the th storm tonn Gallant Sill had down leading his old brigade yet fruitless charge Kirk and WillIch Tim v who ho held the far right were vere W re sacrificed Kirk dying Willich a captive A shell had carried off the head Mad of Garesche I brilliant and something had carried certain generals off otT their I Ift feet ft for i l ore fre than on came caine clamor canor clamoring canori jug ing i to resolute re ol te Old Kosey ROBeY urging tit that tithe he abandon the field eId fall tall back to the of Nashville and call for t r Not he The H new HeW W I was a lion in the light fight The Themen Themen men saw and realized his valor and took hok courage from his superb deter determination n raUn Well win or die right here was vas as the tle word and win it was wall for fo for Frag r had bad reached the limit Three days day later he Ii was in full though order orderly ordery ly y retreat hundreds of wound wounded ed foj to the mercy merey of the enemy and the Army of the Cumberland moved in and andt t tok ok possession and arid fell to binding up upi i wounds and those th e of moi mo than 2000 rippled crippled confederates whose command commanders ers frs made up in deep sagacity what they might lack in sentiment It lessened ened le their burden to leave to the north the theare theare theare are of the southern wounded besides the north could do it much better betterA A sad iad d and Almost st hopeless holiday v as hat that 1 of or Jn Jan 1 for Union lovers north and south sad saI as the Christmas just gone by had seemed to those who lingered ered still at Belleview recalling the of two to years agone and them with the desolation of today But Hut the north had bad not yet be begun begun gun srun to know the staying power of its ons The south perhaps was first to toI learn Karn I arn it I ITher Ther came a period Jeriod of or comparative I inaction i nJ tion after the midwinter battle in inthe InI I the I he mud mUll and rain Damages had h to be repaired rP pa Ired supplies renewed big bI gaps tilled filled in the ranks of or both armies but butin butin butin in one ont division at least there was no noJa noak Ja af ak k of incident and excitement Slier Sher Sh r men had much mu l to talk about and andas andai as ai for the Buckeyes Buckey s from whose e mus muster muster ter te rolls runs the name of Holt had iad ad adf f el dropped to accept promotion m mt n nO O Jet t 31 th tb they y the tM old regiment were in ferment and Gaffney and the Em Ein in their rIMY priory It all came about in this thiM way The brigade had bad been be n hit bit hard early in the first fl das da fight The line zigzagged through the cedars Sheridan facing nearly eat east ea Davis his neigh neighbor bur bor t tu the right ri facing south and Johnson farther south yet ret tar far out lapped by the southern southen line facing every which way ay Sill he noble sol aol soldier dier whom the second division so RO well knew kew and trusted had had to fall fan back to the command of a brigade thanks to the coming of a general eral whose star had risen ri n a few days earlier It was wa good for the brigade but bad for the rest of the tte right wing Swinging clear them from the south and west and ind nd enfilading tem Item em to the east eat the gray divisions ef of McCown leburne Cleburne and Withers with ith Norman Holts Bolts old West Vest Point commandant Hardee Harder at their head bore down on Johnsons scattered brigades brigade b es soon after sun sunup sunUP sunup up said nd crushed them out of cf existence Then Davis Dav commanding the next division with everything gone o his bis right found himself elf engulfed and swept onward with the tha tide And so t of McCooks corps the right wing was washed asbed away atay when Sheridan made his valiant effort to change hange front and stem the torrent It Itis Itis Itis is no easy y thing to change chanIe front froM for forward forward forward ward under heavy fire but it is a bag bagatelle bagat atelle atile at llE compared with a change front to the rear Ir the first fint case cae the men mena menar art a ar stimulated by the consciousness of advance of gaming gaining g inin on the enemy in inthe inthe inthe the second they the are depressed pres d ed by the consciousness of 01 o retreat THreat Once started with backs to ti the foe fue only nen jien nenor of or exceptional ex e valor or veterans of f a score of battles can an be readily halted haIt d don on a new line and faced about to meet meeta a charging yelling host God GOO knows the south could QuId charge and yell yen and antI and ami nd yelling both in over 0 v 1 gray torrent torr n t e s di lIi divisions i visions burst through the dumps of ce cedar I dar and swarmed on Sheridan And right In the of it all aU their plucky colonel wounded and carried ried from the field an inaudible u major majorin in command the Buckeyes Buckeye came floun floundering floundering dering through the mud of a shallow ra in ravine vine iDe and pressing pre toward the center where the dripping drooping colors still n waved Individually they were turning about from time to time as men reloaded on the move a nasty thing to lo do on a eo a wet day y with itha a long Ions torn tom muzzle loader and a flimsy paper cartridge then firing vaguely at the fast t following gray cloud through which the little red battle b flags fla were peeping The Th left lett brigade of the stanch division had halted faced about and nd quickly readjusted ted Its line general and colonels galloping to and fro O aId ard shout shouting shouting ing caution and encouragement Sher Sheridan idan himself fierce furious and brim brimming brimming ming over with th fight and aud energy point pointing lug ing i out the new line and a then the COIn com coming COIning ing lug roe fot fo But tie the next brigade and the next nert farther out among the misty dripping cedars were catching it hotd hot d shouldered sli him Mm in some some too ev when hen it U was known he ie had hadt thoughtfully t brought forward L demi demijohn john of rye for there were men that night who would have given gl n a months t pd f mi r ope one good drink drinkIn f fIn In the few days that followed folk wed the he early days of January it was the th cen center centor I tee ter and left that took up the burden of I the battling and Bragg beat at them I in vain The right wing rested and re reorganized r reorganized organized o and then when men were I wen filled again and had time to sleep off their fatigue officers began stroll I from battalion to battalion brigade de to brigade and by dozens j they drifted to the campfires of the I and looked up Norman Holt HelL To Te think that the man the ilie state ste te f I hd hp refused to own on to recognize or j I should be the man to rally j th t Buckeyes BUCkey es in the midst of the fight j jat Sat at would be said to this In Colum Columbus j bus ua and Cincinnati When finally pub j i es as sooner or later Hater it would be Every man knew that re report report port rt extolled lIed the conduct of f Lieutenant Norman Noman Holt Bolt as something beyond be ond j I praise Every man toad had heard that the I Ij j dashing little division commander had j I j I offered Cared of Holt golt a 8 billet bUlet on his staff and I Ithe the young officer had thanked him j I blushingly but begged to be permitted j I Ito I to serve with ills his Is regiment where al 01 already I ready officers and men they swore by Mm him And this was he whom a court I had d sentenced and a general ordered I 1 shot hot By more than one voice over and again n was echoed the chaplains cry God bless Abraham Lincoln I Some ten days after the battle came orders oderS down through military tary channels giving the Emmets to know that a general court martial was to convent at once for f r the trial of such prisoners as might properly be brought before it one of ot whom was Private Theodore Lane company C CIn in Ohio on the grave charge of desertion To summon and transport witnesses from the extreme front to Louisville or orI I even eYen to Nashville was far l legs ls s trouble troublesome I some and expensive than to ship lp the 4 accused straight to the field ld where if found guilty they COUld punished p tish d in I presence of the army No o doubt there 1 J ff t l 6 V I If s f J 3 VJ j 7 C i 3 f i J 1 C r rt I Id t d 4 4 1 V viv W fe r i w x m T C 4 AT SIGHT OP M 1 Del and has VY as they swung round north northward northward ward Far Fax out ot on the Tight right d flank k be b beyond beyond yond them everything seemed h gone to pieces for the exultant yells of the charging robs could be heard be between between between tween them and the reserves reserve No sol aol soldier soldier dier old or new is happy when out outflanked outflanked flanked Small wonder that the outer outermost outermost outermost most regiments its came caine in i on the run ron and on the flank ot of the Second brigade V t the Buckeyes Aides and nd staff of ol officers flers hoarsely shouting strove to tomake make nake them understand that here was 85 the place to tol halt liK tt whirl about and dress to the left They TIley had cleared un unmasked masked 4 s the military expression is the the right rl ht regiment of the brigade al already already already ready in its new n position and furiously it tt opened on ow the advancing line Ken Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky tucky was sending its ita compliments straight into the faces of Pat s lads from thiMi u r f south Now was wis was the time for the Buckeye yea to 40 halt and do likewise ebu but something was wu sore amiss either they or they hear and to the wrath rath of their then brigs briga brigadier dier himself the me colonel of a rival regi regiment regiment ment mont and in spite pt of the efforts of some sonic few company commanders comm and the mingled threats prayers and pro profanity profanity profanity fanity of or good old oId Gaff acting ma major major jor and to the ao of oC Sheridan just riding thither front fro the left iett of his line the Buckeyes were vere beginning be to break for the belt bett of timber yards too far tar farto farto to the rear and then who could save the left et e t Then then came cam the thing that kept the division in talk Wk for tor a 8 month Out from the rear of the Kentucky right wing sprang a tall slender lieutenant his new uniform dripping wet his sash belt and sword spick span and gleam gleaming gleaming ing hg his WS s dark eyes flashing his cheeks aflame A word to the major as liS he pointed to the disintegrating blue bat battalion tallon beyond them a nod from that appreciative fellow Kentuckian and the junior had sprung into the vacated saddle addle and away sped a startled astonished excited steed under the hand of or a 8 practiced horseman Straight for the thc scattering stooping half rat rattled tied ranks he darted heading them themas as skillful cowboy heads stampeding cattle In an instant in tant he was among them his new blade flashing even through the rain his voice Yoi ringing out above the clash and Imd clamor camor of battle Vehemently he be drove lila his horse Into the very faces fac s of the foremost and a sudden cheer went up at sight of him for these on the right were the Em Emmets Emmets Emmets mets themselves rind nd he in saddle was the lad they loved Halt where you are arc men Halt HaiL In Instantly Instantly Face about there I right face em m about Face Fac about bout all of you Dress to your left now no in command here Hur Hurrah Hurrah rah mb Gaffney old man nian Now weve got em Halt HaIt that next company Halt right here men Face em about captain Dress Dreas to the left Dress on onI C Up went another cheer for the I ninth company knew him almost as did didI I the Emmets and though men were dropping here and there along the new front with these the e two companies led and brought to bay the battalion had a 8 shoulder to lean on But the lieutenant would take no chances This was ho ml day lAY at Shiloh with a I disheartened di toe foe In front Flushed with triumph and gloriously i led the southern line Http came pressing on onIt onI onIt It took nerve and force It Jt demanded I I every ev ry soldierly gift gilt officer or man manI j I I could uld mute muster to stand firm against that Olat I I assault But company after oo J 00 company the Buckeyes Bucke es pulled up at t sound Sund of those Be 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