Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-11-20

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tful over-confi,d ence chat II war u WAYS
/ presages failnre, because it, takes The
Iplaoso the careful i 81 para lion that
| insures success. Nc COX possessed d
peculiar open frankness Of manner.
and bonn homie that made him many
friends and he had many admirable
traits Of character. = = To Hazen was
given the co command Of the twenty one
hundred men who executed the daring
and Ingenious seizure Of the hills az
Browns Ferry, near Chattanooga.
which, with the advance Of Hooker's
corps, Wrested from Bragg his en1bar-
RAISING hold on the United line ST sup
plies. No coup Of the war was more
brilliant or successful.
At the battle Of Mission Ridge Ha.
zen's brigade, according to his own
account, was the first to reach the crest,
to capture Confederate cannon, and
turn them against their late posses
sors. General Sheridan claimed the
honor and the guns for his division;
and General Hazen devotes much
spaceto acalm, metho deal disc ussion
OF this controversy. It is certainly
unlikely that Hazen's brigade would
ever have got the guns if Sheridan's
division had been the first to reach
them, The guns we're voluntarily
brought to Hazen's headquarters by
their captors, and he retained them
in spite Of sheridan's imperious de-
mand. Sheridan made a sarcastic
alluslon to the matter in one of his
reports, but he was laboring under a.
misrepresentation as General Hazen
demonstrates by the official rep orts
Of both armies. "The splendid sue
cess OF Mission Ridge" Hazen saws,
"was due to the men rather than to
the Generals"
In the Atlanta campaign General
Hazen commanded q division OF the
Army OF the Tennessee, under General
Logan. '"There can be no impro-
prlety," he writes, Gin comparing the
Army OF the Cumberland with that Of
the Tennessee, as far as the differences
seem to me most noticeable. As to
the native character of the men and
their excellence in battle, there WAS no
difference; they were alike, and both
simply admirable. The general officers
Of the Army of the Tennessee were
much younger in years and in COM
mission, and were all acting under the
spur OF new zeal and in perfect har-
mony and good will; while in the Army
of the Cumberland the officers had
been denied the rapid advancement to
which their services in battle seemed
to e1tltle them. Such recognition is
indispensable in actual war. The re-
suit was that iealousies, dislikes and
dissensions were developing in the
Army of the Cumberland, while they
We're nearly unknown in the Army of
the Tennessee. As to discipline, in
struction and administration, the
Army OF the Cumberland was so far
the superior as scarcely to admit
OF comparison. From some cause
there had been in the Army of the
Tennessee a singular omission in these
particulars. Yet in battle no troops
fought better. 1t may then be asked,
Why make discipline so important?
would add, that all who were there
fought well; but thorough admins
tration and discipline enables g.
government to put sixty per cent. of
the troops who are ON the rolls and
under pay in the front ranks with
muskets in their hands-the prime OBJ
ject OF every enlistment-and it would
have enabled us to do so, while in fact
from lack of it, we we're able to put
only about thirty per cent. of the
troops in line of battle. Besides, it
would have been a saving of half the
cost of the war. Discipline is indis-
pensable to economy OF life and
money"
General Hazen describes the assault
and capture of Fort McAllister, and
this account is the best and most &C
cucs tie yet written. He also witnessed
the burning of Columbia, the capital
Of South Carolina. He attributes it,
not to the Generals of the Union army,
but to the hatred OF the State felt by
many of the men in ranks. He has no
doubt, from personal observation,
that it was set ON fire deliberately
in more than hundred places.
"No one ordered it and no
one could stop it. The officers Of
high rank would have saved the city if
possible; but the army was deeply i'm
bued with the feeling that as South
Carolina had begun the war, she must
suffer g. stern retribution. The idea
that South Carolina WAS in g. special
and peculiar sense the originator Of
rebellion is a very common but in my
opinion a superficial and mistaken no.
ton. 1t matters little where the first
overt act was committed. The egg
was laid by the importation OF slav-
cry. The age doonfed slavery, land war
was Inevitable" The South Caro-
linians impressed him as highly cul-
tured people. Their farming and
roads were the best he sew in the
South, and it was tho only part ofthe
the South where he found good maps.
Speaking Of the final grand review at
Washington, the General says tie men
Of the Western armies marched better
than those of the East, the long
tramps of the former having been q
kind Of drill. In passing the reviewing
stand the soldiers of the Army of the
Potomac cheered and swung hats,
thereby losing the cadence and their
military bearing. In the Army OF the
Tennessee "the cadence was perfect,
while the robustness of the men and
their even, swinging gait were very
striking"
General Hazen gives chapter to the
lessons Of the war. The Importance
OF defensive works for infantry was
understood long before the civil war
ended. AT Chickamauga the work of
logs begun after daylight ON the sec.
ond day sufficed 20 defeat Polk 8 corps
with comparatively little loss on the
Snion side. Security OF person gives
the soldiers composure and delibera-
ton. He aims carefully, and fires at
his mark; while without cover he is