The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-16

| pa Drama platform the respected
surgeon of the 1st Dav. 18th Army
! Corps, Or. Geo. f. French, remarked Major
| Hotaling. Gan veterans call the Colonel
Ma jOr.) He was Gen. Logans chief OF staff.
! Do you know thatw we burned over So, 000,-
| 900, worth ofour hospital property before
we broke up things at Atlanta previous to
| our march to the sea. Yes, and that is
not all, y said the Colonel. "We left the
! foundations for the Minneapolis OF the
South. which Atlanta has since become"
| Col. Goodnow joined the party and en-
| deavored to repeat the roster OF his 18th
Indiana, under his eye in line OF battle now
as then.
81 thought" said the Colonel, "there was
| only one battle of Atlanta but now | am
at II loss to know which is the real battle
! field, this or the one downin Georgia. And
! added the Colonel "our friend Frank
| DeGress is dead. l can think of him now,
his two right guns spiked, his men ordered
off for safety, and Frank standing between
| the two guns OF his lett section, lanyard
! in either hand and the shouts Surrender,
damn yoI, Surrender, and don't shoot"
Don't shoot the plucky little Yankee"
which came from the confederate assault
ing column the instant before the two
rushing charges OF canister tore through
their ranks caused q momentary check
that enabled Frank and Sergeant Wyman
to plug the vent holes with rat tail files.
Yes, Frank got away, n confederate bullet
killed Wyman as he jumped. The John
MES never fired shot from Franks big
rifles, although the ground was strewn with
| ammunition. In three quarters OF an
hour Frank had his guns again. The Gen
eral (LOgan) the old I'd Div. Mersey's bri-
gade OF Gen. Dodge's 10th corps and Gen.
Wood with his first Division of the 18th,
did the work. Five minutes after 90
FOUNDER shells were going out OF the guns
toward point where they were liable to do
most good(?) These same old guns, save
the one burst that afternoon by using dou-
BILE rations of percussion shells, made the
march to the sea. Savannah's fortifica-
tions suffered from them. The Capitol
building at Columbia, S. c.. yet bears the
shell mark OF De Gress' guns. Gen. Sher-
man said they were worth their weight in
gold.
MEMORIES OF THE PAST.
at was a beautiful moonlight night, that
night of the 22d, Hottalling" said the col
onel land in caring for my wounded, and in
looking to the welfare OF my boys | never
saw a field so thickly strewn with the up
turned faces OF the dead. Thought OF you
then, Colonel Hottalling. and of the order
you brought US that the Fourth division
must retake those rife pits if we lost half
our men in doingso." Twas in Battery A,
said Colonel Hottalling, land the general
sent me to Morgan l.. Smith, to aid him in
holding that line. was fond of Battery A.
1t was originally the Dearborn Artillery
Militia company of Chicago. ltwas with
Grant at Belmont, b and A comprised the
artillery there. Peter Wood had it at
Shiloh, it was with US at Vicksburg and
at Mission Ridge, was in battery opposite
Howell's guns. This day ! stood by the
right section, talking to Lieut.. Smyth
and thought we had repulsed the
massed attack. We had, but it was
only the first line. The powder and
smoke was so dense and as / was STOPPING
to look under the cloud when the second
line OF conieds poured over our works
and through the cut, gaining our rear. Our
battery horses were being shot down. Lieut..
Dutch took in the situation at glance.
Those OF his men who heard his order and
followed him, escaped. can't say precise
ly how did get off but one thing | do re-
member-that it occurred to me il l hur-
ried should probably go to Atlanta, SO
just sorter sauntered off, disregarding calls
for surrender, surrender, got into ra-
vine by the caissons and rallied some of
our boys, got them to shooting; then picked
up another squad so that by the time /
heard cid Col Mercey's Dutch profanity,
had perhaps couple ofhundred OF our boys
busy and Morgan l.. and Lightburn and the
other officers were doing the same. The
scene shown in the panorama describes
what happened immediately after, better
than can tell it. To me it is simply won
derful and feel every old soldier OF the
Army OF the Tennessee and his friends,
| il they knew what they would
see, would gladly travel hundreds OF miles
to visit the panorama. Sergeant Sweenie
| saws that one OF his gunners threw himself
across Lieut.. Robb's dead body, feigned
death and laid there until we drove the
Johnnies out OF the works. Then he
| jumped up and got a gun. The Rev. Sam.
| Jones and Sam. Small came in the other
! day said Col. Hottalling. 'They were both
| too young to remember the scenes Of TWEEN
| ty years ago altho' they Instantly recog-
nized every point in the distant landscape
| and commented on It's truthiulness, but
| the moment they were told what houses
now stand on the ground near by US here
/ they added roads and houses so rapidly
4 that was surprised to see how thorough
| ly they knew the ground which is now the
| little town OF Edgewood, and yet the battle
| field and its scenes which are SO familiar
to Us veterans quite unintelligible to them,
| altho' natives to the manner born. You
would be surprised could you listen as
do to the never ending stories and incl
/ dents that are provoked and told con-
cerning the ground before us.
That cloud OF dust which fills the air and
partly wells Stone Mountain has clear
/ significance to most old soldiers. Nothing
| but wagon train or heavy bodies OF cav.
4 airy create that cloud OF dust. The whole
army train was in that vicinity. Moro
| than 1000 wagons moving up from Ros.
| vile to guard which one small brigade had
| been placed at Decatur. 1t was a brigade
Of veterans; Jersey men, Wisconsin men,
Ohio and Illinois were in that brigade oil
Col. Spragues. The attack delivered upon
/ il by Wheelers cavalry corps was vigorous
and well sustained. Wheeler, in his report
states that he could not with his cavalry.
dislodge the division OF infantry lin fact
there were not thousand muskets.l But