The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-04-26
Good Word for the twentieth COrDa.
. the Editor NArIoSA1 TRInrxE.

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During the war was a member Of company e
One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania vOlun-
tsers, Second brigade, Second division Of the Twef
tieth Army Corps General George A. Gotham coma
manded our brigade General John W. GTeaFy
division. and General Joseph Hooker the corps.
have been reading the articles in TIE TRIBVSE on
the signal corps and seems 10 that the writer
either never get to where the Twentieth Corps
was else both deaf and blind, since he neves
mentions what it did. In THE TRIBUNE Of March
- III describing the battle of Peach Tree Creek ke
says that on the morning OF July 20 1864, the
Armies OF the Tennessee and Ohio at Decatur,
the Twentieth and Fourteenth Corps were 2s
Peach Tree Creek He then goes on and tells who
came down Thomas, the = Rock Of Chicks
mauga,n and how Thomas repulsed them Now.
what I want to ask Is, where Hooker and the
twentieth Corps were all this tlme2 can tell
you where they were. They were ri sht along thas
Peach Tree Creek preparing 70 receive Hood wIt1
his picked men. That morning nay regiment was
ordered across the creek to strengthen the skiT-
mish line, General Geary crossing with to show
US where to deploy, but before had accom-
piished our object the rebels poured q voiley iEta
US, killing all of General Cfeary's staff and the
colonel of my regiment. How General Gfeary liTLl-
self got away was always mystery TO me. We
loaded and fired as rapidly IS possible, and getting
no orders, Stad right where were; for
never went back without orders. As the resuIs.
those who were not killed were taken prisoners,
and were hurried back to Hoods heHflq quarters,
which were about a mile in the rear Of the rebel
army. As soon as were out Of the way
lines opened on them with q terrific IRE, and they
went back much faster than they came Several
of number were killed and wounded by
the fire OF our troops, and the writer received q
wound in the left knee from piece Of she'll did
not mind the pain however, when that the
same shell had laid out about half dozen rebels.
The fight lasted until night. Our lines Gd-
vanced and took one line of the rebel workS and
about dusk were marched of, and we knsw
nothing of the fight except what we heard
from other prisoners. I want 10 ask, too, who -
that took the fort at Reseea after Thomas, with
his = Rock OF ChIckaHlnuga, had been rspuise6
and driven back by the rebels2 Who was it thas
charged the heavy battery at Dallas drove the
my from their guns and held them between two lines
under terrible fire, and captured the guns and
walked of with them? Joe Hooker and hts
Twentieth Corps
recall also that writer in THE TRIBUNE, lass
fall. in giving description Of the battle Of Look
out Mountain, gave osterhouse's division OF tha
Fifteenth Corps the credit Of capturing LOOkous
MountGin and planting the stars and stripes its
summit 1t was General Gearys division, the See,
ond of the Twentieth Corps We drove the re6eia
from the mountain, and the first flag that waved
from that point planted by Frank Guy and
John Eden, and was the flag of my regiment, the
One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania vOlun~
teers. As regiment was in line of battle. wa
did not leave the flag and go on, nor did we stay
simply to guard it until that charge was over bns
it was brought back into hnc, and we moved On
around the mountain. CHARLES A LoSG.
COcaEASrON PA.