Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1867-12-06
VOLUME 30, NO. 4.

IL - oo's'- fcndergast (f4miliarly
called % fendy-') Penay raised himself nm
and said (aot good. naturedly), What
are % many Of you Ioafers thrashin- ,ho,t
here IN the dark. stepping on fosks forp''
The nan answered: Perhaps yoa doat
know Who am Wen.- said Pendy.
Il don't care who you are; Il you dom,
keep away from here you will sad out who
| an The nan answerod--ssYounr man
n yoa are not careful hos you talk. / wi1
come back and shake you out OF your boOts.
sirl' We perceived then who the man
was- It vas Col. Colgrove. Of The T-sn-
ty-Scvcnth lndiana Regiment. SO the con-
vcrsation went no further. All quiet ex-
cept some suppressed laughter at Pendys
expense.
The night wore away az last We had
beard the seoels cutting trees and whaekinr
round AL night; bot there was no firing. In
vas then sunday morning. May 18th. a.
lovely AMI quiet a morning a. ever dawned
on mortals- We washed and cooked break
last. all as quiet As any sunday At home.
Alas many a poor fellow ate his last break
fast that morning. We learned something
Of The light Of The night before. Il appeared
that old Johnston. the afternoon before. had
conceived the brilliant idea Of turning our
ieit flank. and for this purpose he rnassed a
large force against two divisions Of the
twenty- Third Corps. Gen. Scbo6eld's. and
Gen Stanlcy's division Of The Fourth Corps.
Gen. Howard's Che last named division)
had come down through Dalton that very
day. and hal joined on 20 Gen. Scho6eld's
+ ieit. thus forming the extreme lek Of our
I hrc- That division vas the one which h.d
been leh AZ Rocky Pace Ridge and had
harrasscd the rebels al the way down. On
The east side Of tie mountain. Their po.-
ition a. that time brougbt old Johnston's
htaviest blow agains; them. and thcv had
given way. That was The state Of tbinrs
when Gen. Hooker (called "oId Joer)
came % tbe rescue. We expected TO fad
a great many dead Johnnics and much blood
where ihe enemy we're the night before;
bat strange 10 ten, mary a reb" or
drop oi blood could ne ind. Il i the
opinion Of the writer OF this. that Col. Rob
inson and bis brigade scared the rebels
away don ! think many Of them we're hurt.
They we're not used to being met in 50 sud
den and ia such fierce manner; they
probably turned and run for fear they would
get hurt.
Everything remained very quiet all abou:
Z O'Clock, when our Regiment was ordered
20 hunt up the Johnnics and see where they
lad gone and shat-they were doing. That
Els nice httle job. We started. two con-
panies depioyed a. skirmishers. enc on eth.
er sile Of the road. one IN The road. in col.
urnn. led by Col. Cogswcll. the other seven
companies 10 column about tEcnty PAGES
back. Passed over the ground where the
Johnnics were thc night before. entered tha
woods. marched slowly ard silently along
F perhaps half mile when. " Bang-bang
bang" B8ileis vhizzed by us one cut
! OF t~ig near Col. Coss~cil's bead. a. be
sat on BIS horse. Two men were wound
Cd in Company q. Coiouel CogsuclI Wheel
cd and gave ihe other '''Bo,,f face ,-for-
r1-i mr-t, - So We marched out a-ain
open field; soon fen in and we're apparently
gong the sane rout over again. Got about
BALI wy 10 the woods when Capt. Thorno
came riding down. and spoke 70 the Colon
e. Again We counter marched and halted
ln ;he open 6cld. Drew rafions. Not a
gun was beard an the While. We pounded
coffee ard dii various thinrs The bovs
spoke to each other about a calm before a
storm, Sc. IL appeared % us that Gen.
Sherman bad tired the rebel lines au the
day before hc found them ready Tor bin AZ
every point Zone time they were saucy %
nourh to come oaf Of their works in great
noubcrs and assislt us. % We concluded
Oh Billy (as Cen. sherman Wa calledD
so1iI pitch into them in earnest that day.
oar convictions of al intended attack we're
confirmed. by seeing 90 Joe riding rouni
from point to point. having little couver-
slf.ru uith one olh-er. thcn 81 to another.
We kncu something was up. Our corps
va bob reserve pretty much AT fbe day be-
fore, it v91ld bel Eke'y to bc our turn %
open thc uav t,at dav. Do was very proha-
hie De- va the uan vho bal ordered our
U.-tne-f 1n r. recon1oi.arcc in thc morn
ia- ard as ~c hai readily found the en-
rrr. re ,toa1it Oh Joe woaH cali on
th--B ia iic afternoon, With BE- vhoie cops.
We talked t.cse things over. did up our
rackaees snu-v. snl usrei ior tbe rcssit.
-fourI N0x Ponuh
An .ateu.geat woman from tbe "oaii
country. ~ once remarked that sie thoughi
-..r-f. ...rrrf-sfrf a coed winters work