Show THE SEVENTY THIRD volunteers FOUGHT LONG AND WELL A aco 11 it st jackson at i lines and no glory at gettysburg mild nal it a I 1 all rent peat lif 1 arms at it by Arn erivan prea irl j ast alip aloa look elehia riseri vall VERY now and then home igno agno kainu who never liever 14 bild alie tit good 14 sense toreco KUHe nibe r Z his hi proper iru ir placebo place to 4 die when he be at jt lt uses I 1 to explain that the lie civil war veterans whom bill e lets anti anil father tinie time have bavo kindly 1 spun d to lo enjoy elz I 1 tho the lionora lio iKiri of ll 11 the p naoi w oty to io any fl tins to ut ot show in lilt 1 iran li tit alij achim iea s hylt hysterical ay iy Y ervelli ervel lt and ill sow you nt housand that never haw it i rebel or show me one ill thit it was nax n ax at Antic antietam tam or or chattanooga or atlanta and ill prove thil that liis his pr thence there wit was an accident ind lie never rot got caughlin caugh c lug lit tin in another I 1 lint ht lini Kine ine this trying it I 1 bolster ill up liis his cito case by cross e it survivor of the seventy third ohio ohia 1 regiment vv ilich if it lid did not anh to inina arnis in ina nt at the first cill call was vi long enorah in sery 1 ice to rr novt arid and start ou oil ter tann I 1 11 arid saw enough fighting to swamp sit such ch calculations as ignoramus sets storo store n pon at the first show of its record ignoramus to ohio veteran say you bee acce fighting of any account in the war seventy third ohioan that depends ends I 1 dont know what you yon would call cross croo keys kcf 4 and sis G gand and wan hamble hattilu hat thlu resaca iund atud new hope church kenesaw kenesan and all ALI inta or little B dnton won ville it here joe johnston got gol his final do at iiii up lip ignoramus nut but did yon i cally get close encini it for the th rebels to lilt hit you hard had atey atcy wanted to sei seventy enta third ohioan well stranger I 1 didul carry carry a in lite war arany or any thing like that only a musket and didi stop to drive down stakes tor for the esplan lion of history but tit lit manassas SOU of Us amt in and were hit 40 of them so lard they bever got up again aud and 30 were anade prisoners at gettysburg although wo we did not compete with pickett in his araud chai chat chaie ge e of us got in our best work and HI were hit 39 of them ketting their laba catill then it at wauhatchie hatch hatchie te R he e naca an aud d so bo on still debbe it franke you as of any account as it all de ends ignoramus will discover all at once that something hard has bas come between ins his pate und and the soft which is so congenial to it ind anil in despair will next dext proceed to prove that the war was a myth and the geee veterans rans ars are a lord hordo of impostors whose empty trousers legs and happing flapping sleeves aro are souvenirs of th thrashing machine accidents and railway smashups smi sma meanwhile people of sense and feeling will applaud the modest ohioan and others like him and listen to his story of 0 the days ha be trudged with gun and knap knapsack back through virginia wastes and over georgias barren mountain fremont pope andreade and meado Meade with hooker thomas andS and sherman lierman it was waa an air incident rather than an accident which drew my attention to the career of the seventy third ohio when the grand army men talking up tip gen hurst a few weeks ago for commander in chief II 11 I 1 turned casually to his war record and found th thit tt his fortunes had been with this regiment an organization with ith it a history arid and of which he was alie third thir d and lust last colonel having started at the foot of the roll as lieuten lieutenant nut in october the file seventy third was organized in fit tile the fall call of from detachments of recruits that rendezvoused in tire the camps tit in koss county in tho winter and marched mir ched and countermarched counter marched in the tedious ind and prosaic movements of the armies in west virginia Vir KiniA and in the shenandoah valley winning no do glory but hiving having a rough time of it nevertheless campaigning for snow and rand rain without au an inch of shelter other than the forests if no blood wit was shed and little adv antaR was in aliese marches it was no affolt fault oft of the henien men they stiffened stiff ered eredio in alie cause and rid would lid have died it e upon at cross cros keys in may the lite regiment reKi ment hall had a taste table of war anti and lost 5 killed in it skirmish b on oft ik 1 t k 1 I 1 rr J 1 t 4 1 F 14 nix i U I 1 6 vhf V adv W ill AXI A N D GO CO DAM tile field sit nt cedar Motin mountain tain in august angust it ft WM was ready read v 0 to o I 1 alit ht but bill ia nas ordered to retreat hii t na as anvil ell fori wits vaa simi aneil ed eil to dacil elsewhere anil and to boine pit i the lay day of fiction ame cagne to the seventy third ut tit man or second nl bull run nun on AUK ang sl coil lei her in lii gale 1 or co ps it il biped to gale K stonewall Ston cwill jacki ons ermy llie lite it ever en dried the fruits of howe ver afro ere never garnered ille champion of the llie seven seve 11 ty third may lie be excused for his pride in alic ti ricord of his regiment ent ut tit manassas Mann ss is ev even e in thon 11 that ini ik not a glorious adl guiou u the bullets had th the e mine sting sling thera that they iid dill ou oil inore le ie led d abid amry r killed there avns avils one kasto light at gettysburg or if in a little journel history lii story of lili his reg dekl 1 I geri feurst lis has given a plain story af the llie part talca by tile lie stan uty third sn n any aj ll it came caine into position lot in ill front of A wood ni here the enviny was in assing troops for a cli arge gen ell littria says wo u matched Mut clied with terrible angilly one to tio thice g s ere ell to paes into iilo elioso it moods and then wo knew abat th it evenly thild uh kulil 0 liall IIII C just JUL then their there e emerged from rom the woods halt hiffa it mile little out on our left flank it men in column colum nand and they bore down dovin steadily upon us ajie enemy til our move in concert with th those se conour on our llin flati now comenout come out of tile woods their line marking maskin gand and overlapping our own ohp ill moment t they bey ciner ged from the timber our regiment and the whole left or of I 1 aliu in ill gide pouted into them thein midi stich it murderous volley lolley that they retreated to the covert or of the woods again and now from their par bial covert they opened ire fire on oa it us arid and tho the corn coll bit bat grew fierce indeed it wits the ibe ill larit t real earnest open field line of battle fight ins vve had I 1 done dona and the llie ent selmeg to it scalf viell anti and so without tiny deft nse w hat evert he bat butt alloa stood up and fiel hered ill ii ire fire most effect ively shouting rc itna cli HS as they saw huir the lite enemy waver nud and KO go bick into inlo tile lh woods in thi i simple piece of business 10 of the rem r were mortally hit bit a and rid 73 were wounded tind and recovered iy ay alie forture of alio seventy chiri wa Wars exempted from hiravy lohsen ses until gettysburg was fought ten gifter ati lia at gettysburg it was wa ID ilea stein mahrs division of the eleventh carpi and get ina in a shot in Itcy It eynolds noldi I 1 air anil how d ards rights of llie lite fiert day nor I 1 in it sickles battle on oil the second davy daiy neither in the re pulse picketts Pickett lk charge matli Ilan II ancock on the third lay day its position during tire tho battle was on cemetery hill overlook overlooking I 1 it tile tho town and that happened to be ju just st I 1 the lie point that general lee argeta kwell ewel I 1 to a ai i tault sault with stonewall lackson jackson i olt old corps amicks were made by ewell at points on oil this line but the seventy third was urt touched by them only took t the be avera aige ac hull falls to a regiment under fire of shot shiu nud find bullets on a I 1 battled ehId ald its rinks of lost in this wayze way 29 mortally hit and IM wounded and recover recovered red if it tailed failed to get into the famous actions of the held field it helped to defend cemetery hill which if lee iee had carried it would lavo lave given hin all he was fighting tor for after gettysburg the regiment went with fighting jot joe hooker and his new nev tho the eleventh anti and tw twelfth irti corps to help out Sh errman at chattanooga nud anti fortune at last brought brong lit glory to itt ill lian ban cera 0 one A vrillo hooker vaa teelius his way around the confederates on lookout mountain ono one of his divi divisions no under der C gen A ell geard I 1 was as I 1 isolated h so as to invite a 1 1 1 1 15 K V I 1 IL A t A 41 A 1 f 7 w f aa A I 1 1 CLIMBING AT sudden attack and was f furiously u assailed by one of veteran divisions division tho eho tc sc S enty third went with its abrl brigade ado to succor geary and on oil the march to the front was suddenly fired upon by some confederates confederate on a hilltop far in gearis rear and between him and his supports the regiment was then their not quite strong sandwith and with the thirty third massachusetts 11 assa chu was ordered to change front arid and RO go up that hill and drive out the enemy the two re regiments numbered about in all and stretching retching bt their line so as to cover one slope tile t lie men pushed their way up a steep of about SM yards the hillside was covered with heavy timber and underbrush anti and in many places place the met men lind to pull themselves up hand band over hand by seizing onto the routs and hushes above then fit at this stage stae the ene mys ire fire passed over tho the heads of the daring assailants but its as soon as tiley they reached the bammia tire the cl clear ea r moonlight re baled them to tho the confederates at short range tho the I litter were sheltered by breastworks anti and opened it a murderous fire lira upon the advancing line the seventy third was alone I 1 for a time little aai forged forced its wiy over tree tops rocks anti loa ip to tha confederate in ina ft few minutes tile the massachusetts meu men alio ns and rid a grind aarand rush of the tha F hand band toned fored the enemy to tho hillside this cleared the roa road d tor for sup hup poi tt to reach geary I 1 anti and abandoned lis his attack geri gen grant pronounced this action determined the result of the battle of tc lile its as geard ue irys Is fl lesht bt is cali ad ono one of I 1 ahe be must most darin darlng fets feats of arms iu u tho the v viar ara I 1 the set enty third lost gi killed anti and wounded resulting in 10 deaths deahl all told thus thu s it cost the less it in noble blood to win in immortal fame in an in incidental fi ht at t han to div daae e long arid and tul born battles dinall m an ol ob seme sailie corner of tile fit at mani s mid and gel gei kburg for the deliver aure of the iho capi tal of tin the nation after the relief of Chatra arid and rf of knoxville which soon followed th thu S seven vea ta t llred was reorganized its as a rete veteran ran r regi i ment by it re enlistment of aj of tile the 30 ong iii the ilia addition n or of some recruits the alio regiment ent stained on shermans Sher mans atlanta campaign ItHer it served ved in ahe lie twentieth cors corps forin vil by consolidation of tire I 1 iier icv anth and twelfth oo on the way iown down to at balita it was cn anase ase in many lunny brilliant lie bious lit it rel sac saca a i new lope church kenesaw culps parin Ii irin arid and pencil peach tice creek its deaths in bittle battle in the running up to tom rs A ith about IM wounded in ill addition theu then it started n the great march to the sel sei on 91 tile way up tit through tho caroah carolinas 1 as I 1 to 0 join durec villi grant sho Sh iman linan ha had I 1 alt but t one gerlous anti and that with only a portion pm llou of liis his troops the loft left ving un der geri iilo cuin inch uen gell joo john stork attempted to overwhelm at benton villo march 19 it wils was a sharp ganke of 0 tu and then turn on Sheri nans other wing und arid em bere t hitt the r urn in ill defending its gromad agrain st repeated ri ari tho the sev enty third faced the most terrific nitis ketry lire fire it ever endured and III lard ed tit the las last t of its axt run ciok of in return for til tely ly it a co boering ering of fidao the linen iren it a percial yet it lo lot lost t au aa k aled and ami blinded olin ded 11 dicing belli the elie hull final lil tins this its in en ca aper llie lulal delith in hatt beltle letO to aind the wounded vol ludell unil 1 to ilu or 01 tit nil lill aint tit of 1 1267 nc uiles S in tin tho oril only ll 11 five olibo iu in t aliv lie exceeded alir t tit SK third in tic 1 dillrd in it bill batt luand leand ill ilk vt of lilard to tile islik 01 lI 1 klemek |