| Show the battle ground along the shallow ditches 0 er which we slowly pass in pensive mood what riches of starry flower and grass 1 the mound all verdure crested where little children play Is where the cannon rested on that remembered day no angry tear uncovers of all its ancient scars it beems a haunt for lovers and ignorant of wars elsewhere mayhap old ambera still burn and wake regrets not here bor man remembers but wise old earth forgets new orleans times democrat fighting in a fog I 1 had an experience in a tog my gelt said the major which was ex citing but disturbing our regiment was one of several columns convere ing on the enemy and of course we want to be behind the others the boys in going over the mountain chafed a good deal because tha colo nel kept his horse down to a slow walk and they coulden couldn t understand his orders to move slowly and to keep quiet as we went down into the val ley on the other side it was now day break and time to strike if we were going to strike between us and the valley there was a dense tog and the vanguard went forward into it and disappeared in ten minutes we advanced down the incline into the fog at the rear of the regiment I 1 could see not more than two of ane ten companies the others were donn somewhere in the fog in twenty minutes a man came running back with an order for the mountain howitzers to come to the front and as they went forward the tog lifted I 1 saw not only all our own regiment stretched along the winding mountain road but below in the val ley several regiments breaking camp the flags they carried were not like ours they wore gray instead of blue uniforms and it was clear to us that this division of the enemy had just withdrawn its pickets preparatory to leaving camp when the tog lifted and revealed our line in blue As their skirmishers advanced ours retreated and the whole column about faced and marched back up the hill the boys like this and the rear guard was very stubborn about going back one little dutch man was particularly obstinate and when there came a sharp command from above clear the road men jump to the side quick he was slow about obeying and the scattering shot from our t howitzers whizzed pretty close to him As he came creeping to the other boys he said what was dota and when he was told it was a jackass battery he lifted his voice and shouted in wrath checkers Ch eckess ch eckess battery beetle short tarn tools ch eckess battery he tear my coat tall off at this a great shout of laughter went up from the company and the pursuing rebels retired and their whole force moved off our other columns had been too slow or we had not been too fast and we tailed to bag the enemy some weeks later we captured some prisoners and much to our surprise one of them greeted dutch charley with hello checkers chec keas battery I 1 how Is your coat talla chicago inter ocean woman saw fierce battles yes sir this Is groveton I 1 reckon I 1 saw more fighting than many men who were in the army dead men lay so thick around here forty two years ago that you coulden couldn t walk in the field without treading on them I 1 bear the soldiers Is coming down here this fall I 1 hope none of them don t get killed this was said by an old woman who while she spoke stirred aphea in an open fireplace with a rusty bayo net gripped in her withered hands her name lucanda dogan this woman watched the course of the battle of bull run july 21 1861 she heard the guns of oyier s division when they opened on beauregard s left flank at the stone bridge she saw the columns of hunter and feint as they swept south from sudley to turn the confederate rear and seize the manassas gap railroad she saw the confederate brigades of bee and bartow driven from buck hill she saw the confederate troops swinging to the north from the fords along bull run this old woman saw the three divisions of mcdowell s army and the armalea of beauregard and johnston come together and she saw the crimson struggle on henry hill she saw the union troops give way late in the afternoon of that sul try bloody sunday her vantage ground was a hill at groveton a hun dred yards east of her dwelling and one mile west of the henry farm the focal point of the first battle of bull run her farm peach grove farm groveton was the central field of the second battle of bull run aug 28 29 and 80 1862 the old woman kept her house while the fighting went on at two and a half miles west on the second day was ordered from the field during the artillery ie to the engagement at grove tor with three children she found refuge at the lewis bouse 11 away to the crash of the fight and dodged stray shells she returned to her home at groveton as soon as pope withdrew toward cen trevalle in his retreat from the pa hannock to the potomac and she eav the field rf groveton in its gory horror are they sequoyah s lt nes G fancher of snyder haa dl covered an indian skeleton near hie mining claim which be believes Is that of sequoyah a famous cherokee chief mr rancher says late one evening as I 1 was corn ing in from my work a rabbit ran la front of me and disappeared in the of some rocks that bad been piled on the side of a small hill I 1 followed the rabbit and in removing the rocks found the skeleton and other things among them Is a sliver medal four inches in diameter perfectly round composed of two pieces of silver clamped together on the circumference on one side of this 1 in ralpd form a tomahawk and pipe with their handles crossed beneath them are two clasped hands representing the army and navy of the united states on one of which was an ameri can eagle and on the other three buttons to which stripes of colors were attached beneath are the words peace and friendship on the other side of the modal are the words around the border like the inscription on a dollar th jefferson president of the united baates A D 1801 in the center of the medal 1 engraved the picture of jefferson other things I 1 found were t flint lock rifle seven flints bars of lead bullet molds and bullet ladles a frying pan a pipe a buckle an ax or tomahawk an old fashioned hoe and some nuggets of copper from the investigations I 1 have made I 1 am inclined to the opinion that the dead man was sequoyah the chief of tho cherokees to whom was given this medal by the government tor forming an alphabet tor the cherokee Chero keo language it Is a known fact that only two of these medals were in ex istance and one was in the possession of sequoyah mrs keys who lives in vialta I 1 Is a sister of sequoyah and her statements to me bear out the blog raphy as contained in the book she says that he was born in georgia and was 65 years of age at the time ot his death lie was only quarter cherokee but was a chief ills homa was at tallequah tahlequah Tahle quah I 1 T in looking over the medal which I 1 showed her she discovered sequoyah picture dimly engraved beneath tha cross formed by the tomahawk and the pipe she Is positive that the re mains are his and has made me larget offers for the things I 1 have in my possession new york herald how young s men went to chapel when gen young was in command of the northern forces in luzon with his headquarters in vigan the chaplain came to him one day and complained general the cavalrymen won t attend chapel at all I 1 feel quite discouraged cou raged about them could you use your influence with them I 1 will post an order at once replied the general no protested the chaplain I 1 don t want men to be compelled to come to my services it must be vol unitary but you might post an order excusing the cavalrymen from infantry drill on sunday who attend ices but we dont have drill on sundays and I 1 don t want to begin now I 1 know smiled the chaplain but you wont need to have any drills it you word the order as I 1 say the order was tried and next sunday the chapel was crowded by the cavalrymen fighting fourteenth s reunion a annual reunion and campfire lre 0 the veterans of the old righting fourteenth known throughout the civil war as tho hed legged devils was held at the clarendon hotel washington street brooklyn severah noted army officers present and made addresses the fourteenth of brooklyn and the ninth of new york are the only two organizations of the new york militia which went into the war for three years and which have maintained their intact ever since they were dolg bated by the united states govern ment as the eighty fourth and dal ty third new york volunteers lively but they always clung to their militia numbers and took up their places in the state militia as soon p estered out of the united state service saved corporal tanners life william A shute a veteran of the civil war who saved the life ot coi tanner on the battlefield died recently at his home in marlboro mass at the second battle of bulf run shute lost a leg and was left on the battlefield as was tanner who had both legs shattered and wag helpless when tanner was made pension commissioner he gave shute a good position in the pension department i general dead gen andrew 67 years old died at cincinnati ohio may 12 he rose from captain to bri gadlen general in the civil war and was a famous commander of artillery in union army after the war he waa civil engineer of cincinnati and tor the past thirty years president of the cincinnati gas and electric company he was lieutenant governor of ohio from 1880 to 1882 |
