Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-09


butlor va. finishing hi co-to-5'i coll Of
tattoo: and that colonel calmly sail Re
velle at 81" think this was the most IN
tensely disagrecable remark ! eyer heard. |
resolve 80 defy discipline aud sleep as long
as liked but wher morning came got up
VIA ia past
The nno.t OF that day we were Just on he
'dso OF iiyht, and that is the time you feel
most uncomfortable If nan ever tells
YOU he felt jolly in such circumstanc' you
Ind better Change the su iect, as you are
not getting reliahl' information. To hear
= lot Of firing iit,lh way OF, and a
lot Of n"stv, bu2ziny. squealing, wbin-
m noises let loose uncomf rtablv nenr you,
nd h-n to hive to ke'p Still and think OF
everything YOU don't want TO think about,
with n chanc, to hla8e away in return, is
mo- 30 much mad '.i'- as sickcnmc |
know didn't k' T. - bit, AN | would have
been glad to ba "vcus"' \lr man, If he
once gets whnrr IN. shootiu- i-nt all one
sded, can stay: he is c-runrallo too much in
teres, ell 10 thin; aior' .:oi1r.
This duv at - vShi"o dd not foo tie
stage fri, hit n+ usual b eau a | WINS too
slearv Every li'tln while ns we lay down
in various plHcc., I TOOK ~nooz' Perhaps
! was savpi y Crol dc9l of anguish this
way. and prrhan Col. Vincent did rs a good
turn in ordering that very early reveilla.
Certainly would rather feel sleepy than
scnrel
A ong in the after loon, things seemed to
thicken up They Ind orr regiment in clo,e
column nv divisio'. and all the other regi-
mentS in the corps seemed to be formed in
the sama way, AMI those masses to be in n
pretty comp7ct lie. I remrmber that the
regulars Cvho constituted thu bu X Of re
Second dvi.om Law on our left in the same
formation: that | saw the Hundred and
Forty sixth n wv York, of that same division,
in their SINGULAR light blue and vel ow
uniform. COMING M in place with the othe' 5
al noticed n collie friend at the head of
his company. As | remember, were on
pretty hirh ground. with higher still in
front and back on the plain cam" n long
ender rihbp1 Of fantry The corps fl V
az the head with it, Greek cross. told that
this wa tn. Sixth corr s, who were finishing
a tremendous marci, such as we had made
the day lefore.
But now our old brigade call OF "Dan!
Dam Dqnl Butt rfeld! Butterfild" rang
cut in such an emphatic way as | never
heard b fore, and brought us instintlv 20
or~ feet 1t was the last time | ever heard
il in use II Seemni h + llv minute hefora
W" were marching off We weren't told
tha we were going % hold the Little r 'un
TOP. Tut that was our mission. Some staff
oflirer seemed to be riding ahead and show
i'm thu way, and battery WAS plungng up
in he most reckless manner | ever saw, Mt
lenst one wheel m the air all the while, while
we double Guicked no at our best speed
II j. queer how in .u'h a moment Of ex
element your mini is busy with some alb
surdly trihinS thought, and how plainly
YOU remember this aftrward. At Freder
c shurg we vera under n very warm en-
flading fire, ami the captain Of Company B
reported tho fact 10 the major. Nv thoughts
| ran Ike ths "Enilading! N'ver heard
that word pronounce though | have al
it all my life Now, first time | hear if, |
am eniiadol Prac:ical example, like
Squ'rrs' aching at Dotheboys Hail. An
other time, a. Gu aucellorsville, was listen
Ing, during thNt heavy artillery fire, to some
little birds whose high treble noteS did not
som to be in the least interferel with by
the deeper tones
noticed several things as we ran along.
O was n cannon ball which looked if it
was passing jus; in front of our alert little
ma jul's fice-just above his horses ears it
seem, l-pro ably it was further off. He
must have dismounted soon, for | did not
! see any horses after that. Another thin, |
noticed was f3x-the only wild one ever
" at larg"; the little fellow must have
b.an - frightened by an exploding shell, or
! som ,thiny, ms to lose all fear of men, and he
ran ni.!ost under our feet
On the way up. but tefore we got far,
| there was an old stone house. over whicd
was the red flag. | recollect calling on. :
"Bov.. there's hospital; we'd better = =
moHuer the way back to it" As a punish.
msnt nerhaps. for my prophecy of evil |
was the only one of the company who cot
/ there: but still it was good thing to know
Pretty soon we went through the woods,
and rs we came out there stood our
old trends of the Sixteenth Michigan, who
s,amed To be lust getting into very
scramhlin,, sort OF line. but we knew tina, it
xaa tbara TO stay
We heard the command. I'D at the head
of our rogi,nent. "On the right by file into
limo Mnrch,p Now. though we did not by
any means 90 through the motions OF that
,arv comnlcx movement as we had learned
II WIN drillirr vet it told US Just about