The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-25
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one corps, the best and one division. you
know and the Old Brigade. Some will
remember the ecstacy of the old German
staff officer as he beheld the onward sweep
of the line in ono of the charges in the
Shenandoah Valley, when he exclaimed, be-
side himself with delight, Look ut the
second division the1second division cannot
he beat !" There will be, too, the men who.
brigaded with brethren from other states,
found brave comrades, and side by side
with them fought good fight for the
common Union. Some of these wooden
nutmeg boys that used to stand up to the
work by the eighth in Louisiana, and after
wards in the valley, ought to come up and
trade for some gum; they will be heartily
welcome.
Besides the above "cornstalk militia"
there was the second brigade the nine
months men that Doubleday wondered, the
night before Gettysburg, "what in -
they had been sent to him for Losing
tells what, when on the third day of July
Picketts brave Nirgnians on the grand
assault, stood on the topmost pinnacle
reached in all the rebellion and the Union
toppled at their blows. ''At the same
time STANDARDS Vermont brigade, of
Doubleday's division, opened destructive
fire on Pickett's flank, which broke the
spirit of his men, and very soon twenty
five hundred of them were prisoners. and
with them twelve battle flags were cap
tured Three-fourths of the gallant brigade
were dead or captives Wilcox, who
failed to attack until Pickett was repulsed,
met similar fate in the loss of his men,
being struck in the flank and ruined by
STANDARDS Vermonters." Who in the bri-
gade does not remember the moonlight
night at Emmettsburg when the last June
breeze came cool and fresh from the west
ern mountains What band was it lulled
us to sleep by its serenadc at the clustered
walls of that convent? Were there anv
monks or nuns there after all or was it all
a medieval scene set in vision before the
sleeping army, token sent from the days
of chivalry to modern times to grace the
eve of the mighty battle !?
Not all of the brigade, though, was there
to share the glories of that day. Part OF
us were counted out before we were count
ed in. And talking of counting reminds
us that the boys thought Adjutant Poland
of the fifteenth wasn't much of mathe-
matician-relatively Poland knew lad
dition," but they thought the adjutant of
the twelfth knew division and silence" as
well. For when the two regiments were
passed by Sckles corps, and Sickles or
dered the regiment strongest in numbers to
follow him to the field, we of the twelfth
expected to 90, of course. But our adju-
tant reported last and the boys never
could see through how they came to he
outnumbered. Numbers were nothing.
however, when we had such men as the
major and the quartermaster That major
is going to provide the rations for this lit
tie party at Rutland, as it happens, and if
there isn't a good time it will not be his
fault. The major missed it, though, that
he did not take commission in the cavalry.
Yet on the whole the quartcrmaster was
the better horseman. Well do we remem-
Der crossing a stream in the midst of which
that maj cstic form, like sweetness, sat en-
throned. We the more distinctly remem-
Der the scene from the fact that, as the
steed drank, the quartermaster asked us if
we wouldn't take something. As quarter
master he had charge of lots of things that
were handy to take on march,
After all Adjutant Poand's little episode
about the counting didn't get his regiment
into Gettysburg The way part of the
brigade came to be in and the rest out was
explained very concisely by one of the outs
| in this way. The order was given to
''strike for our country and our homes. {"
| The rest of the brigade struck for'their
| country and we struck for our homes. We
are entitled to go to Rutland all the same,
though, and mean to do it.. Everybody is
going, and the rest had better fall in
| Hontpelier Freeman.