Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-26
INCIDENTS OF CHIOKAMAnGA.

INCIDENTS OF CHICKAMAUGA.
The Chicago Journals correspondent
furnishes the following thrilling incidents
of the battle of Chickamauga:
But here is little story of something
that came out of the leaves on Sunday,
whence, as from first meridian, they yet
reckon at Chattanooga. had it in mind
to tell dozen letters ago, but it has slip
ped out of sight till now. At one time
there was a lull in the battle at least it
had gone shattering and laundering down
the line, and the boys were as much "at
ease" as boys can be upon whom, any
moment, the storm may roll back again.
To be sure, occasional shot, with now
and then cometary she'll, kept them
alive, but one of the boys ran down to
little spring, and toward the woods where
the enemy lay, for water He had Just
stopped and swung down his eanteen,
when tick-a rife ball struck it at an
angle and bounded away. He looked
around an instant, discovered nobody,
thought it a chance shot-a piece of lead,
you know, that goes at a killing rate with
out any malice prepense--and so, nowise
infrm of purpose, he again bent to get
the water Ping-a second bullet cut
the cord of his canteen and the boy "got
the idea :" sharpshooter was after him,
and he went to the right about and double
quick to the ranks. A soldier from an
other part of the line made pilgrimage
to the spring, was struck, and fell by its
brink. But where was the marksman
Two or three boys run out, to draw his
fire while others watched. Crack went
the piece again, and some keen-eyed fell
low spied puff of smoke rolling out from
little cedar. That was the spot, then;
the rebel had made him hawks nest
in choice Indian, a Chattanooga, in the
tree, and drawing the green covert around
him, was taking quiet hand at "steeple
shooting at lang range. g
A big, blue-eyed German, tall enough
to look over into the third generation,
and sharpshooter withal, volunteered to
dislodge him. Dropping into little run
away, that neared the tree diagonally, he
turned upon his back and worked himself
cautiously along reaching point peril
ously close, he whipped over, took aim
as he lay, and God and his true right
hand "gave him good dsliyerance. ,"
Away few the bullet; an instant elapsed,
the volume of the cedar parted, and
" like big frog" as the boys described
it, out leaped a gray-back the hawks
nest was empty, and a dead rebel lay un-
der the tree. 1t was neatly done of the
German man grown. May be live to tell
the story thousand times to his moon
faced grandchildren.
The "idea" that the first boy at the
spring got" might be pleasanter when
the notion that somebody is making a
target of you creeps with Its chilly feet
slowlysup your back, you can hardly help
shrinking into yourself just little, though
you may not be quite ready to own it. /
recall in this connection an incident de-
rived from the Division Surgeon, who
played part in it. He was riding ac-
cross field where the battle had ragged
fercely, but just swept on, and was max
ing his way slowly across the drifts of
friend and foes-the blue and the gray
together--when wounded Federal soldier
asked for water. The Surgeon gave him
the draft, when voice from gray heap
near by said, "Won't you give me one,
too, Doctor p j" Certainly WILL" and
he was Just raising the rebel and bring
ing round the canteen slung under his
arm to put it to his lips when cannon
shot from rebel battery struck the earth
on one side: second bounded by on the
other. The man looked upinto the sur
geon's face with half smile, l am
afraid they mean as Doctor" At that
instant third shot hat the target, and a
headless trunk fell from the supporting
arm, There was another dead rebel Oh
truth they did mean u.s." and the sur
geon hastened away.
Shell are queerly behaved things, Of
ten harmless against all probabilities,
and, when you would think they must be
deadly, only patching thunder. If a
shell passes you by only q few feet be;
foreit bursts, you are pretty sure to be
good for the next one that comes, since
each fragment takes away its share OF
the motion and flies. If shell shows
symptoms of making a landing" just
to be toward and past the she'll, but how
rapidly one could run in that direction
l have no means of knowing, having
never seen the man that tried it A solid
shot is the most deceptive, of projec-
tiles. 1t may seem to move lazily, to be
almost dead, but 80 long as it moves al
all beware of it. Just before the battle
ON artilleryman received his discharge
for disability, but delaying, for some
reason, his northward journey, he wa'
vet with his battery on the eve of the en-
pagement, and true to his instincts, tool
his old place beside the horse and was
lust preparing to mount, when solid sho
came ricocheting across the field, bound
ed up and struck him in the lower par
of the body, Crying out, t. I've got th'
first ticket boys T. he sank down, AM
only added, with that strange dread of
. little hurt a terribly wounded man alway
seems to feel, "lay me down by tire,
where they wont run over me" The
complied with his request, fastened int
position and saw him no more. Tn
! poor fellows discharge was confrme
by Heaven. Now that fatal ball, whe
having finished its work there, it leape
, lazily on, pushed out the skirt of the al
{ tillerist's coat as a hand would move
curtain, without rending it.
? They have the strangest pets in tn
army, that nobody would dream Of "tal
;. ing to- at home, and yet they are lit
: touches of the gentler nature that CIV
'. you some such cordial feeling when u
see them as am told residents of -Botl
4, bon county, Kentucky, habitually expel
ence at so much q gallon. One of t
y. boys has carried q red squirrel throui
"thick and thin" over thousand mile
p Bun" eats hard tack like a vetera
and has the freedom of the tent A
n. Others s affections overflow upon q slo