The National tribune., 1883-10-18

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hard tack, preserved since the regiment was in
Salisbury, North Carolina, in July 1866 and
another bit of the old flag torn from the staff
when it fell, struck with a piece of shell at
Nashville. The soldier whose coffin John Nc
Lain, of the Pioneer corps, made at Glasgow,
KY, was on hand, he having concluded not to
fill that coffin.
THE TRIBUNE AMONG THE BOYS.
A number of the One Hundred and Eleventh
are regular readers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
and, as is the case with all readers of the great
soldier sheet, they were ever so much more
wide-awake in all matters pertaining to the &.
a. L. and soldier history than their comrades
who have not such privileges for the inter-
change of soldier views. Several of the COM
rades waited upon Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, who
is the wife of their colonel for information as
to Relief Corps work. the Fremont boys being
particularly anxious to organize.
Speaking of the One Hundred and Eleventh
boys who read THE TRIBUNE, reminds your cor
respondent that Gen Sherwood indorses what A.
A. Phillips, comrade of the One Hundred and
Eleventh, writing from Ivy City, Ohio, says of
Colonel John f. Bonds action at the battle of
! Rocky Face, in informing General Hascall of the
| situation. Colonel Bond and Lieutenant Colo
| mel Sherwood were both on the advance-line
| and mounted, the former remarking: Now
| I've got this order, let US ride up and look at
the works" They rode up and found
| terrible place, an impossible rocky barrier,
| harder to climb than Kenesaw Mountain.
"What do you think of it % said Colonel Bond.
! Sherwood replied: | think there wont many
| Of us get through"
They turned their horses towards the lines
| Colonel Bond remarking: 81 shall report this
to Hascall," which he did. Colonel Bond was
| as brave a man as ever handled regiment"
adds General Sherwood, but, like all brave
men, he hesitated about making useless sacri-
| fee of his men,"
Colonel Bond was the first coloneIof the regi-
ment and commanded brigade through sew
eral of the battles of the Atlanta campaign. He
| has been dead some years, his body resting in
the beautiful Forest cemetery, near this city,
| Forsyth Post having erected neat monument,
| properly inscribed, to his memory.
Among TRIBUNE readers is Captain John w.
! Smith, of company H, now in the Toledo post
office, with his brother-in-law, Captain 2. II.
Bowling, of company C, who is the postmaster.
! OF those who have fallen from the ranks of
this regiment since the war, are the faithful
| Surgeon L. A. Brewer, Major Y. G. Norris and
Sergeant Ad. Fulton, who saved the flag at
Franklin, :" the bravest man." says General
| Sherwood, 81 ever saw"
HISTORY OF THE 111th.
General Sherwood president of the associa-
| tion, in introducing the programme, said of the
| One Hundred and Eleventh, which was re-
cruited at Toledo:
More than twenty years ago we marched down
Summit street past this hail amidst the aecama-
tons of thousands and tens of thousands of people.
We left here with Less men, and were mustered
out with little more than 400 men. am glad to
see so many of you back again with your wives
| and children. There is one thing have done in
my life that will, always feel proud of having
DONE and that is to have commanded the One Hun
dred and Eleventh regiment.
Turning to g Ohio in the War;" we find that
| in addition to the 1,055 men the regiment re-
ceiyed eighty-tve recruits, and that at the final
| muster out but 401 responded to the roll-call
The records of the regiment show list of cas-
ualties greater than that of any other Ohio
regiment save one, and that one the ill-fated
Seventh o. V. !. The fighting luck seemed
to be the portion of the One Hundred and Eiev-
enth, and 452 of its members sleep on Southern
battlefelds. Some lost their lives in Southren
prisons, and very many came home to die of
wounds and disease contracted in the service
THE REGIMENT AT FRANKLIN
At the battle of Franklin the regiment bore
very conspicuous part which the Nashville
Times, of December 8, 1864 commenting upon,
said This regiment was on ouFleit wing, where
many instances of bayonet fighting occurred.
Many of the old soldiers made almost miracu-
lous escapes, having their knapsacks and clothes
riddled with rebel bullets. The rebel loss at
this point was frightful. An officer informed
us that many of the rebel wounded were actu-
ally trampled to death by their own men in
the various charges, Wnile tneP cries ana
groans were most appalling"
FAMOUS GENERAL ORDER.
It was after this same battle that Col. 0. H.
Moore of the Regulars, commanding Second
brigade Second division, Twenty third Army
Corps in complimenting the conduct of the
brigade, wrote as follows:
HEAD'QRs, ID BRIG, Cd Drv., 2Sd ARMY CORPS,
NASHVILLE TENN, December 2, 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS No. T.
1t Is with feelings of the deepest gratitude that
the commander eongratulates the gallant officers
and soldiers of the entire brigade upon the great
victory achieved the battlefield of Franklin,
Tenn, November so, 1854 An unhroken line of
steel, composed of the Eghtieth Indiana, One Hun
dred and Eighteenth Ohio, One Hundred and
Seventh Illinois, Twenty-third Michigan, One
Hundred and Tweniy-ninth Indiana and One Hun
dred and Eleventh Ohio oregiments, was formed with
the entire brigade front, without reserve, TO en-
gage the rebel force, which from three to five
times their number and. which advanced TO the
charge in three lines of battle extending along the
whole front The repeated desperate and deter
mined charges of the enemy were every time sue
cessfuily met and with heros1n unsurpassed in the
annals of the war. They advanced but to be driven
back with terrible slaughter,-they advanced upon
a line of steel The heroic spirit which inspired
the command was forcibly illustrated by the gal
liant One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio infantry on
the left flank of the brigade when the enemy car
ried the works their left, and they stood firm
and crossed their bayonets with them holding their
ground.
BY command of Colonel o. FL. Moore, command
ing Second brigade
II. II. HALL, Capt. and A. A. G.