Show ba 1 0 u L THE LOST TRACK WW ou hav have 11 and erth earth grown auak wh beh i 1 i lam PH far upon the outworn verge cf time tl en n my h in ln I 1 WAY VA longer fird tl 1 I v vou ou in any clime I 1 I 1 but drini your iteli by hill 1111 or r hollow ha has left iti ito echo failing on the wind I 1 will arise art mod xeni myself and follow though I 1 be blind or r if nar clear sighted cil I 1 ahan but discover di rover taut in he aw tf w lit at jawn your too prints lie hir through long fatu the hustling hist ling of the plover come comes like a fish val n I 1 should thy they imil lefta me do lon n to death a what part did michigan tau tale in the battle of gettysburg the crowning victory of the civil war mar and what was her loss of 0 the ev enteen loyal states engaged her loss was as the third in numbers anil and the first in the proper lion to the numbers engaged tae the following Michi gari organizations numbering 4 34 men were engaged at the battle of Getts gettysburg Get burg first michigan infantry third michigan in fantry fourth infantry I 1 hath fifth michigan infantry sev bev anth michigan Mich lizan infantry six Ali Michl can infantry and twenty fourth michigan infantry companies C I 1 K ana 11 I 1 derdan a sharpshooters battery 1 I birst ar tillery michigan brigade of cavalry under the gallant custer consisting of the first michigan cavalry fifth michigan cavalry sixth michigan cavalry and seventh michigan caval ry michigan had killed wounded sounded and missing 1131 killed many died aftem afterwards ards fruin from wounds recel od 1 in 1887 the legislature of michigan 20 for monuments to be erected on the battlefield in tho the what Is regarded as one of the tall cat eat bluffs on record furnisher capt edgar russell chief signal officer in the during the In insurrect tion with a etory story which ho he tells as an example of western nerve I 1 wo we were outside of manila in dome some little scrap said the captain and about seventy fire ate natives were lying in a trench ahead of us shoot ing away merrily but cot tot bitting hitting any body by annl an I 1 by I 1 noticed a little dis tur banco in our front presently four montana troopers tro opera trotted out of our lines and shartel straight for the till everybody looked at them with wonder onder and waited to see eo them all billed killed bullets whistled all around them but they never halted baited slowly just at a trot they logged jogged mack river aed by the rex rocks I 1 mer boar the th Ps sola hart OW na mod it coall and body quiver I 1 witt will wd wade to 0 irrol beyond the tb at t tho the croas g it mum be no i wt ner not tram I 1 race only strange stud on ague of 0 grawzo era tossing and the th id 14 space on i I 1 eternity bilth ith world worlds to t v inder i IL soul among the unknown of men and 0 my heart no clue no footprint I 1 onder abat hat then hat MICHIGAN AT gettysburg dt different terent positions held by th elt organizations the infantry rest regi m aunts ants monuments lost each 1350 1 the sharpshooters each the be bat lery tery 1 COO and tho the cavalry brigade one monument cost tb the e I 1 uret michigan monument la Is loomed on what Is know on the battle battlefield beld aa as the loup the third Mi michigan chlan in fantry in the peach orchard the fourth michigan infantry la the wheatfield the fifth michigan in fantry on cemetery ridge the sixteenth michigan MIchl gan infantry on I 1 ittle atti round top the twenty fouth michigan infantry in reynolds grove near willowby run the sharpshooters on I 1 little ittle round top ane battery moritt ment on ou cemetery ridge the bonu ment of the cavalry brigade loca located teI on runnel s farm about three miles east ot the village of gettysburg the monuments were dedicated on tha th of june 1889 1899 they are a credit to our boblo state and the people of michigan can taki a just arido in her volunteer soldiers who fought in this thi elo loua battle and the granil grand monuments erected to their memory on the battlefield of gettysburg D 0 crotty in detroit free press A MONTANA BLUFF on toward the enemy the native motives fired and fred but for some unknown reason did not hit on and on went tha 1 quartet disdaining cover at last there was a about and to t our utter astonishment we beheld the seventy five kill pinos jump out or their trenches and take to their heels in mad flight the nerva of toe tae montana troopers was too much for them when they had all fled their rifles asay a ay as they ian fan the troopers came back their arm armi full of guns that Is what the army bat ha come to call a montana bluff lis its a bort of nervo nerve that leto a man oen open a jackpot on a pair of deuces new york tribune nothing Is so great an In instance of ill manners as flattery swift GIRL MADE GOOD SOLDIER A etory la Is told that while the union army was at and near chattanooga col cot burke of the tenth ohio ex changed a large number of prisoners with the rebels the colonel noticed A particularly natty young soldier among those ho he received the soldier gave the name num eFrank frank henderson and he belonged to the nineteenth illinois it developed that this soldier as a young girl and that she and her brother at the outset of the war bad enlisted in the ile reventh illinois the pair were orphans and were devoted to each other she could not bear the thought of being separated from the brother who bad been her only companion from babyhood at the expiration of her enlistment for three month to in this regiment she aas as mustered out and next enlisted in the th third illinois where her sex van wait not mint discovered la in that regiment eho she made a most excellent record tint bat being wounded in one of the engagements she as again discharged and sent home only to rc re enlist li to th nineteenth illinois she served in all the battles of col cot gomaras OVI araa r ciment and finally was as taken prisoner at holly springs the girl soldier was taken t ti 3 atlanta oa ga there in attempting to escape she was mas shot 1 li 11 1 the leg but even in her confinement to the prison hospital her sex was aas not discovered after recovering from the wound inflicted by the prison guard she he was aas sent to gradoville Gray oville where she was exchanged she bho was gent sent to it llin home WHEN STEEDMAN LAUGHED among the ohio democrats who were in the army early said the captain was cen ben james D B steedman and he has a monument at toledo Stee druan had been a canal contractor and a and was given to rough usage of men and when his regiment the fourteenth ohio was organized tho the boys did cot riot take kindly to their colonels col onele rough language and ready profanity on one occasion he order ed a sergeant on duty to remove a pile of cracker boxes from a lar spot IQ in camp and to do it as quick as the I 1 urd ord would let him as its he had decided that ills his own tent must stand just where some infernal internal idiot had placed the boxes the erevant sergeant irritated but not frightened fright ered looked over the ground round ic returned tainted saluted and asked where will you have the boxed put colmond co lond cl the colonel rose in his wrath and told the sergeant he was as a blanker blank fool tool tae sergeant lerg cant tainted saluted again and said bit where will yu have the boxes put colonel Slee st oilman siman roared take them asay an ay nai I 1 don dont t care where take them t ti hell to this the imperturbable so leant replied with a salute excuse me colonel but would rit they be noro out of your way and less filkel to trouble you again it i I 1 took then thew to heaven St tedman was amazed bu he turned hia his back on the not to td laugh in the face of his adjutant as he murmured take him awty aay THE FOURTH ARMY CORPS oie O ie of 0 the most famous eions in Vai hington on the occasion of the grand army encampment was the fourth army corp corps the corpa corps wag was distinctly a fighting machine it was lb born orn of a great battle it obtained its amo same and splendid birthright tron from the consolita cone con ollda solida uon of the twentieth and twenty first army corps which haa ha been re ducal in nunn tire on acce account of dis dl came and battle lwi after chleota manca no body boo at of iSe futer of the ulloa saw aed and ben ban orlef of this tb bawit of the ta far proof nek that tIsh oral it consisted of seventy six regiments of infantry and nice bat diries alea of artillery who bore their colon colors to the front on many a hotly contested field the states represented in tl tac corps were as follow follows illinois indiana kentucky ohio mie mis bourt cabras and the three divisions of the corps wele e corn com rounded by major generale Oen erale devid S stanley phillip 11 II sheridan and thomas J wood WOOL grancer oon was gave arc aba to cleo 0 0 howard aad and to qua jha hewton newton |