Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-25

wound and is being carried away to
place of safety by little grouI
of the officers in gray. Throughout
the entire field there is succession 0
similar interesting situations and groups
which, with the graphic descriptions o
the lecture, delivered with an earnest
ness far more fascinating than studiee
elouuence, lead an audience back into al
the terrible realities of the war, and re-
suscitate within the breasts OF many those
intense feelings of partisanship which Oh
vided and broke up families and nearly
the Union itself. Those who POLITICALLY
speak and write of the obliteration OF the
war line would be astonished to spend an
evening at this wonderful exhibition.
The deep-rooted prejudices and the
PRONOUNCED sYMPATHIEs OF MANY A
SPECTATOR
Are manifested by indignant Interrupt.
tons or emphatic denunciations which
compel the lecturer to stop for moment,
and frequently to entreat for silence. On
Ill such occasions the venerable Prentiss
is gentle and persuasive and very rarely
finds himself obliged to appeal to the
crowd. The lecture itself is an enjoyable
entertainment and is very generally re-
parded as the best and most reliable
description of the principal incidents al
Shiloh ever spoken or written. General
Prentiss is small, frail person,
scarcely over medium height, with
white hair and sunken cheeks, and an
almost toothless mouth The complacent
and amiable smile which is ever present,
however, renders his face q most fascin-
ating one, particularly to those who are
familiar with his true history.
After the lecture was over the writer
was presented to General Prentiss, and
was favored with most unreserved and
delightful interview, in which great
MANY facts were given which the lecture
had not contained. Among other things,
the General was asked respecting the in
cident at the battle of Shiloh which had
for time cast a shadow on the
RECORD OF GENERAL ALEX. McD. McCooK
From what appeared in General Grants
Century article. The writer, who had
always sympathized with General Nc
Cook, desired the actual facts, and be-
lieved the venerable lecturer competently
able to give them; and so explained him
Bell. lC1tloo OCCldlCu hdu
no axes to grind had no pets, and sought
no favors; and therefore could speak
candidly; that there were feelings OF
jealousy and envy among all of Buell's
officers as we'll as with the commander
himself, he never entertained a doubt,
he said and be believed General Nc
Cook had shared those sentiments.
''But don't you think" asked the
writer, "that the exhausted condition Of
McCook's command as result Of their
exposure to the rain and fatigue of the
night before was a very excellent reason
for their not entering into the heat of the
engagement when requested by General
Grant?'
81 think" he replied, "that if the Con-
federate soldiers who had been exposed,
in forced march, for three days and
nights, could keep up the gallant charge
which they made during most of the 9Th
of April, surely our men, who had suf-
fered much less fatigue and exposure,
could afford to help little. For my part,
would have felt ashamed to do less
than 1 was confident the enemy was
doing"