The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-18
OCTOBER IS, 1863.
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ChIckamauga.
g HONOR TO WHOM HONOR Is DUE"

"Mr. ohanhb, the correspondent Oh tne
New York Herald" who, accounts news
psperial say, WITNESSED the two days
lighting"
After stating that the Army Of the
Cumberland had sustained > defeat
which would place it on the defensive for
some time to come, the said "Mr. Shanks,
correspondent of the New York Herald"
goes on to say ;hst Gen. Thomas corps
was really the only one that did any
fighting the first day; that McCOok and
Crittenden, on the same day, were both
badly beaten; and the enemy broke the
centre, driving Crittenden's men in every
direction that the defeat in this part
of tie line caused Thomas TO abandon
his position that on the first day Thorn
as had defeated Longstreet, and on the
second saved the army of RosecrAns
from annihilation; that from 10 to IL
O'clock on Sunday he fought he enemy
and repulsed kim in three charges, when,
finding assault in vain, the enemy push
ed forward on the right and centre, at
the first charge broke Crittenden's and
McCook's lines, routed their entire COM
mands, driving them in disgraoeful con-
fusion into Rossyille and Chattanooga.
Thomas, with his corps, still contested
the day, and was enabled, by the timely
reinforcement Of Granger, to hold his
position until nightfall covered his re-
treat 20 Rossvills.
Now, whether all this be true or false,
whether it is fabrication of mean man
for a mean purpose, or whether it is the
vague imagery of what "Mr. Shanks,
correspondent of the New York Herald"
scould haze seen had he been on the battle
field, is a question which Gen. ThomAss,
Gen MoCook's. and Gen. Rosecrans' Off
cial reports will determine.
As to the assertion that Thomas's corps
was really the only one that did any
fighting the first day will here state,
that we (Johnson's division of McCook's
corps were brought from the extreme
right, a distance of twelve miles, on The
morning of this first days fight, placed
on the extreme left by Gen. Thomas
himself, went into the battle about II
o'clock, made four different charges
against the Rebel lines, (eacb one success
| ful) drove them over a mile, and passed
over the dead and wounded bodies Of
dozens of Federal soldiers, whose com
rades, yet living and well, had been, but
a short time previous, repulsed and driv-
en- from the groundl This ground we
held all through that series of enfilading
fires and impetuous bayonet charges,
when night had cast her sable curtain
DER the scene, and the darkness was
lightened up only by the lurid flashes Of
fame which shot forth from the mouths
of seven Jattaiesl II is true that hundreds
upon hundreds of our heroic band were
sleeping the sleep that knows no waking
--thousa,Is consecrating their devotion
to country with their hearts rich blood,
but that gallant remnant of division"
which, under McCOok at Shiloh, Sill at
Dry Ridge, near Perryville, General
johnson at Stone River, and un-
der the same General on the extreme
left, where the hardest fighting was done,
at the late battle of Ohickamauga, had
been reduced by sickness, death from
camp contracted disease and from the
murderOus missiles of death, but in that
remnant" were no cowardly deserterE
from duty and the flag, and in the long
list of killed and wounded, whose bodies
lay on Southern soil, no bullet was found
in the back, no wound in the rear.
Gen. Willich was in command Of th'
Ist brigade, Col Dodge of the I'd, ADC
Col. Baldwin of the Srd, and shall herr
give you the casualties of Baldwin,
brigade with the remark that either o
the other two brigades lost as heavily Al
the 3rd
Col. p. p. Baldwin, 9th Indiana
, mortAlly wounded.
Commissioned officers killed,
wounded, 2
Enlisted men killed. b
wounded, 40
= captured,
making an aggregate of ga killed
wounded and captured in brigAd
which counted but 1910 electives th
? morning Of the first days fghtl Is
! possible for division TO lose 36 p'
cent Of its men, successfully resist thr'
Q fiery charges from superior forces, an
o draw off from their position at b o'eloc
u u in the evening Of the last days battl
n without ever having been in the fight
. II was this division that captured d
n rebel General Adams, aud il was the 8
Brigade Provost Marshal, Capt Rowlan
who guarded TO Chattanooga l20 reb