The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-07
The 18th Tennessee Regiment and Its Gal
liant Colonel.

liant Colonel.
A gentleman, entirely disconnected with the
army, writing in the shelbyvills Banner Of
recent date, after giving the official list OF
killed and wounded of the 10th Regiment OF
Tennessee Volunteers, at the battle Of Muir
freesborough, pays tie following tribute to
the worth and merit Of the Regiment and its
brave commander. COL JOHN H Savage. The
claims of COL s., like these Of many other
meritorous officers, have been entirely ever
looked, and his juniors in rank, and in some in
stances his interiors in talent and soldiery &C
auirements, have been promoted over him.
We sincerely trust, for the good Of the service,
that the authorities will consider the claims Of
Col. s., and not force him, out Of selfrespect,
to resign his commission 10 the array:
will here take the liberty Of saying few
words in regard to this Regiment and its able
commander, Col. Savage.
At the beginning of the war, this Regiment
was made up in what 10 known as the Noun
tain District of the State, and without opposi
ton Col. Savage was selected as its leader. II
was sent immediately to Northwestern Virgil
MIA, where it made it's frat campaign amid the
mountains and SHOWS of Allegheny, which is
known generally to have been the most severe
caapaign of the war. Here this noble Regi-
ment, amid hunger and tell and much of the
time without tents, stood the severest test Of
that most inhoSpitable cline and country with.
out murmuring at their lot, and with that un-
conouerabIe resolution that becomes true sol
diers and Tennesseeans.
After worrying there with the enemy for
several months it was sent to the coast Of
South Carolina, where it remained on almost
constant duty, picketing and skirmishing with
/ the enemy for near four months. and then join
ed Gen. Beauregard at Corinth, Miss. 1t made
the campaign through Kentucky, losing two
hundred men out OF about three hundred and
seventy at the battle of Perryville. Thus it is
seen this Regiment has boxed the compass in
its service, and from disease and battle its
ranks have been decimated until now compa-
ratively but few faces Of the old 10th can be
seen among its tents. Brown and weather.
worn, they only stand as spared relics of that
once proud Regiment of thousand mountain
men.
As to the merits Of Col Savage need say
nothing. His courage and conduct as display
cd upon those hard contested fields need
no mention here, The living and the dead
speak for him His repeated experience in
the service gives him many superior adyanta-
ges. He was three times engaged in the Unit,
ed States service. When the neutrality of the
United States was threatened in the war be-
tween Mexico and Texas he volunteered under
Gen. Gaines 10 repel any invasion of our soil.
He served through the Florida war and this
war with Mexico. In the war with Mexico he
went out as Major Of the 14th Infantry, and
after the battle Of Molina del Ray, where he
was severely wounded he became 1t. Col Of
the l4th Infantry from Pennsylvania, Virginia
and New York
Is not merit entitled to its reward2 What
Colonel in the army has seen more service, or
who has more COOL calculating courage, than
/ Col Savage? He has never, to besure, har.
raised and annoyed or even asked this State
or the Confederate Government 10 promote
him. He has not yet been guilty Of this seem
ing virtue, and therefore he has been passed
: apparently unseen; while his juniors in many
respects have gone up around him. His friends
aud countrymen now ask his promotion in view
T Of his tried fitness as superior commander
aud for the sake of the general service. The
Mountain District has furnished several Gnt
regiments, whose ranks are now Trimmed anC
gone, but as yet has furnished no general t
lead them" OBSERVER.
Yankee Humiliation and Confession OF Cow