Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-06
now MCPHERSON DIED.
His Last Hour ON the Battle
Field.
philadelphia Telegraph

Philadelphia telegraph
Generals Mcpherson and Logan,
who had been to General Sherman's
Headquarters (before Atlanta), rode
up to the rear of the Seventeenth
CORPS and dismounted in a clump Of
trees in front Of an open stretch, which
had probably been field at one time.
This was about 10 O'Clock. Shortly
after they had dismounted picket
firing had began on the left and APP
parently to the rear of the main line.
After listening to it for a few minutes,
Mcpherson said he would go out in
that direction and see what it meant.
Calling to Captain Kilburn Knox, Of
his staff, to follow, he mounted
"Blackie," his favorite horse, and gal
Hoped down the lane or narrow road
running in the rear ofthe Seventeenth
Corps at an angle Of forty-fve degrees
from the main line towards the point
where the firing was heard. General
Dodge, commanding the Sixteenth
Corps, had been ordered to the left
with instructions to form at right an
gle with General Baird's line, but he
had not had time to get into position,
consequently the firing could not be
on his skirmish line, which led to the
conclusion that something unusual
was going on. Hoods tactics being
we'll known to Mcpherson, he was on
the lookout for dashes, hence his anx-
iety. 1t was not more than fifteen
minutes after Mcpherson and Knox,
accompanied by their orderlies, had
dashed down the lane, until Blackie,
the Generals horse, came galloping
back with a wound in his shoulder,
from which the blood was pouring in a
perfect stream. The cry was Instant
" raised that "the General had been
shot" Closely following the horse
came Captain Knox and the two
orderlies. Knox dashed UP, and in
an excited manner exclaimed, He is
dead. Get an ambulance quick p
General William Il. Strong, now of
Chicago, and Captain d. H. Buell.,
ordnance officer, started at once with
the headquarters ambulance down the
lane, followed by several Of the
mounted men. Buell. rode ahead and
skirmished with the Rebel pickets.
keeping them back until General
Strong got the body into the ambu
lance. They drove back with all speed
TO where General Logan and the other
officers were. DR.. Hewitt hastily
opened his coat, and discovered that
the bullet had passed directly through
the helrt, killing him instantly. The
body was taken at once to General
Shermsn's headquarters from where it
was sent, in charge Of General
McPherson's ers1Dal staff, to Mari
eta, where It was embalmed and sent
with the same escort, to the home Of
his aged mother at Clyde, Ohio.
Captain Knox, who accompanied the
General, said they had gone but
short distance down the lane until
shot wss fred from an ambush, taking
effect in the shoulder of the Generals
horse. They refined up, but had not
time to turn until another was fred,
and the General fell heavily to the
ground. He neither spoke nor moved
muscle. After the fatal shot sew.
eral skirmishers made their appear
ance, one of whom rushed up ana
took the Generals waist belt. AS
soon as he retired member of the
Union Pioneer Corps ran up and
rifed the Generals pockets, taking
pocket book containing about 500