Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-09
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
LIEUT.. GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN LOOK
 ING AT A BATTLE PICTURE.

ING AT A BATTLE PICTURE.
 "Nothing Nice About War -hen who
 SLull. Ont of a Fieht-The War of the
 F,,ur,--. uunanitarian Vicw-A Visit
 to the Missionary Ridge Panorama-
 The late visitors were leaving Missionary Ride,e rauorama a little after 10 o'clock last evening. when a stout citizen clnd in gray travelling suit. sauntered up to the box office. A moment after slight. active man emerged frnru tbe wire door, Gnd--Gen. Sheridan, you ara just the man l am glad tO s.se!' Hello. old man; hello, Davis, nrc you herei Well - and off they started toward the new diorama just finished md opened today -the bat.le among the clouds, Fighting Joe Hooker's Lookout mountain
 The general was interested in the diorama- But his mind seemed to be busy, and his thoughts were evidently at work on some other subject than the grand painting before him Presently the general turned and moved toward the stairway leading to tho platform of the principal exhibition-thc plnorarna of Missionary Ridge On the present occasion the platform was nearly empty, and the gen eral. as be looked thoughtfully down on tho scene. spoke freely of this and other battles, Of the unhappy necessity which could force men into such situations as we hero saw. Loss IN THE SECOND DIVISION.
 This sort of thing said be, ''is not nice There is not one comfortable thing abOu; it. Look this field over. My los that day in tho olI Se,-onI division was fearful one. Over thirteen hundred men, brave, gallant fellows, | lel by o.iicers who did their duty, were lost ! in the old Second division in a time So short ! that it seems increiible that wc could have l f-1ulras~ad the distance and carried tho crest. @Ihave often thought We should have cap | ;ured Bragg. and think it was q close thing as it was II l could have got Granger 10 push a little there, after l got them ovsr that second crest you see there in Chicksmauga valley, we should have captured something more than rations at that Chickamauga sta | tion By the way continued the general, you know my men didn't have the chance to | get reported dead after fight that they had | kept out of had taken place, for l hal the name of every man who was either killed or wounded, and my men knew they were being looked after.
 Il never did like to see men skulk out of a | fight when the skirmiShers were pushing in | and the line dressed up and following close | after You remember that lesson l gave those fellows up in Tennesseei I saw several officers dropping out, leaving their companies to go into the fight while they hunted safety. | had those fellows picked up the day after, | formed the division in hollow square. the skulkers for a center piece. They didn't know l what was going to happen to them You | know l un not much on making speeches in fact, l never was But what l told those man that day was clearly understoOd by every ] man in the division. l told them that l would not disgrace one of the brave soldiers of my division by asking him to receive the swords of such cowarlly whelps; and while l did not like the idea of inficting unmerited cruelty on the colored race, that should, nevertheless, ask my negro servant if he would take thosc swon,ls away from those things standing out there.
 THE WAR OF THE FUTURE
 Possibly" said the general reilectively, | ethis may have had something to to with my loss of officers at Missionary Ridge
 There is nothing nice about war said the general again. and. Davis, this scene before us neither Of us will ever see, either it or any similar scene. War of that day and war of the present is and must be a different thing from what We have herc The advance in war machinery, material and weapons of every description makes a different mode of warfarc necessary. Armies will not attack each other in the field like this An army must b. dug out, starved out, or may be forced out by position At all events, We must have one of two things-either long, tedious method, wearing alike on men and the imPedimenta, or rapid and vigorous attack upon real property, commerce, rail road, steamboat What is naval warfare, Simply n war on commerce Efectivei Very. Why not the same on landi There Is little doubt that the borse must play a larger part m future war than anything We saw or knew of And am not sure but what this is the humanitarian view.
 We should certainly save life, anl lives ot human beings should always be preserved at the expense of real property. I think l am right in this,' went on the general. relec- lively. Anything that shOrtens a war, stops the conflict, is desirable. Of course we should have bitter fighting at points; that would le necessary. But war to-day would be a new thing. .7-Chicaso News