Show the spirit and peculiarities of the american soldier benjamin F taylor of the chicago journal is writing from the army of the cumberland sketches of life in the camp and field which IN aich surpasses in i h id coloring any we have seen here is apic a picture of the battle of chickamauga Chiea Chica mauga the rebel forces ft aiom oin the east fou fought bt with a gallantry allied to desperation and I 1 I 1 lo do not wonder that our boys were proud to say when asked to a horn bom they were opposed longstreet Longst s men I 1 lie rebel fashion of coming out to battle is peculiar had QU ou seen them streaming out ot of the woods in long gray lines into the open field you could have likened them to nothing nochim better than to streams of turbid water pouring through a sieve and an d wa waiting i ti n g of I 1 valor al or lc let t m me e say that t ii at alie ill 0 difference difre ren cc j among regiments consists not more in the material I 1 of the bank and file than it does docs in the coolness I 1 judgen judgment ent and bravery of the officers and the faith I 1 ahe lh soldiers so diers repose in them the faith has hag a magic j in it that tones men up and makes more and nobler 1 of them than there was before it is the principle I 1 recognized by the great frederick N when ben he be ad liessa his general 1 I send you against the enemy with sixty sity thousand men but sire said baid the officer there are only fifty thousand ali ah I 1 counted you as ten thousand was the inon aichs wise and quick reply I 1 have a splendid illustration of this in an incident which occurred on the sunday nt at Chicha chickamauga mauga it was near four on that blazing afternoon I 1 when lien a part apart of general division of the reserve corps bowed their heads to the hurtling storm of lead call as if it bad been rain and betrayed signs of 0 breaking the lino line like a great flag in a birath of wind they were a as splendid material ns is e eer er shouldered a 1 musket but then imbat could they do in such a blinding tempest gen steed min lode up A great beai ty man broad breast ed cd broad shouldered f ft a face ii mitten all ON oer er IN with ith sturdy sense and stout cou coinage tage no ladys man to make boquet for snowy fingers and sing dg meet me ine by moonlight alone like some gome generals I 1 could name but realizing the ideal of my boyhood when I 1 read of the stout old morgan of the theRe rei alu tion well up tip rode Steed steadman nian took the flag from the color bearer glanced along the wa cring front and I 1 ith that voice of his tha eliat t could talk against a 1 small rattle of musketry cried out go back boys s go back but the flag cant go with you rasped grasped the stair staff wheeled his hoise boise and rode on must I 1 tell you that the column ca closed 0 sed up tip and grew firm and moved long along a like a great strong rii rh or er and sin sept ept down upon tile the foe and ildea accord that shall live when their graves sue nic as empty as the cave of I 1 |