The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-11-20

to the foe"
General Hazen sees at Chickamauga
several bad mistakes in the
ing of the army by RoseCrans and some
OF his subordinates. Bragg had fallen
back from Chattanooga for stragetic
purposes only. Our army for four
days, General Hazen asserts, was in @
position so false that It's disunited
corps were at the mercy of Bragg; and
Bragg's mistakes, therefore, were even
greater than those of Rosecrans.
Though rations were scarce while
Bragg held Lookout Mountain. the
suffering among the men was not
severe. During that time the election
for Governor of Ohio took place. The
town of Hiram had two voters in the
army, both Brigadier Generals, Gar
field and Hazen. They deposited their
votes in a cigar-box, with a slip cut in
the top. This was the first time Gen
eral Hazen ever voted. His next
vote was for Garfield for Presi-
dent. With Rosecrans, when he
vas relieved from command, went
McCook and several other Generals.
General Hazen writes: CATER Shiloh,
where his division fought splendidly,
McCook seemed pursued by a strange
fatality. He assumed a kind of boast
full over-confidence that in wal always
presages failure, because it takes the
place OF the careful preparation that
insures success. McCook possessed a
peculiar open frankness of manner
and bonhomie that made him many
friends and he had many admirable
traits of character" To Hazen was
given the command of the twenty-one
hundred men who executed the daring
and ingenious seizure of the hills at
Browns Ferry, near Chattanooga,
which, with the advance of Hooker's
corps, wrested from Bragg his embar-
RAISING hold on the United line of 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, methodical discussion
of this controversy. 1t 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 were 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
allusion to the matter in one of his
reports, but he was laboring under a
misrepresentation as General Hazen
demonstrates by the official reports
of both armies. '"The splendid sue
cess of Mission Ridge" Hazen says,
''was due to the men rather than to
the Generals"
In the Atlanta campaign General
Hazen commanded a division of the
Army OF the Tennessee, under General
Logan. 'aThere can be no impro-
priety," he writes, sin 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 wasno
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 we're 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 entitle them. Such recognition is
indispensable in actual war. The re-
suit was that jealousies, dislikes and
discussions were developing In the
Army of the Cumberland, while they
were nearly unknown in the Army of
| the Tennessee. AS to discipline, in
struction and administration, the
Army of the Cumberland al 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 inthese
| 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 a thorough admins
tration and discipline enables a
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 intact
| from lack of it, we were 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 accoant is the best and most ac-