Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-12
WE'RE WHIPPEDw
The Thrilling Sight Witnessed by BuelPs
Advance on Shiloh.

The Thrilling Sight Witnessed by BueiPs
Advance on Shiloh.
Re. Hannafordin the Philadelphia Times.l
Nelson was never debonair while on
duty The scene at the landing (which
has never been adequately described, and
perhaps never will be- was well fitted to
excite the scorn and indignation of such
a combative nature as his; yet it may
we'll be doubted whether, if he were alive
to-day, he would not wish to expunge
from his official report the harsh state
ment that he finally ''asked permission
to fire upon the knaves."
sGet out of the way, you ID cow
ardsn' he exclaimed, furiously, as the
frantic throng pressed toward boat
whence one cf his favorite regiments
was debarking. "Get out of the way! If
YOU won't fight yourselves, let these men
off that will. Men, follow mel''
81 shall never forget says DR.. Brad
ford again, "the forming line on the
bluff at Pittsburg Landing. | doubt
whether on any other battlefield of the
war any set of men ever formed under
lust such circumstances. Most of our
batteries gone, thousand wagons gone,
nearly all our tents gone; our entire
force seemingly driven into twelve or
fifteen acres of ground; the enemy press
ing on with batteries and musketry in
front and cross-fre of cannon from
above, and ten thousand panic-stricken
men out of the fight crying: "We are
whipped!'' "Thc battle is lost" "It's
no use to form!' 'sThey're driving us
into the river,' etc. In this terrible ex-
tremity the command fell quickly and Or
derby into line, and at the word moved
CALAMITY forward. l could not resist the
temptation Of riding my iron gray close
up to the line and crying out, "Bully for
the Sixth Ohio!"
GAS we landed" wrote Col. Crosse,
with pardonable enthusiasm to his wife,
Immediately after the battle, ''there were
at least $4,000 of Grants panic-stricken
troops who had thrown away their arms
and were pressing to get on board the
boats, and as my regiment marched up
the hill we could hear the towards say to
nv men: you will get it! You will
come back! You will see!' and many
other such expressions; yet our men went
bravely up and formed in line of battle,
Generals Buell. and Nelson both with me-
While forming, the heavy fire of the
enemy was passing thick and fast around
us. Poor White was struck with CAMS
| ter shot and both legs were torn off, and
about the same time staff officer, ten
| feet in front of the line, on horse, be-
tween Gen. Nelson and myself, had his
| head shot off by a cannon ball, and fell,
a CHASTITY sight, before my regiment, at
seeing which few of our men nearest
the scene fell back a few steps, but as
soon as l commanded them to dress up
the line they did so promptly, and obeyed
the command to forward, march, in line
of battle We moved off about one huu-
dred yards to support one of our retreat
| ing batteries, and there we opened up a
severe fire upon the approaching enemy,
which, | think, was the first evidence the
rebels had that the advance of BuelPs
army vas arriving The fire of our regi-
ment checked the enemy for the night,
and, as everybody here says, turned the
tide of battle and saved Grants army"
Every survivor of the Tenth Brigade
will recall how the shocking death of
Gen. Grants aid, as mentioned by Col.
| Crosse, was talked about for weeks after2
ward. and the more because the same, or
a nearly simultaneous discharge, shot
away the saddle fromunder Lieut.. Graves,
a volunteer aid of Gen. Nelson, and then
plunging over the bluff, producing the
widest CONSERVATION among the fugitive
thousand there herded. 1t can not but
strike one as singular, therefore, to know
how completely this CHASTITY incident was
ignored by the contempOraneous accounts
of Shiloh Byron's famous satire on
military glory defined it as being killed
in battle and having ones name mis-
spelled in the official gazette. But what
shall we say of this case, where brave
man met the most tragic of deaths, and
his name-nay, even his fate-was not SO
much as limited?