The National tribune., 1889-07-25
The Part Taken b. the Third brigade, Fiat hi.
yisl0a, Twentieth Corps.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Having read
in your very valuable paper n number Of &C
counts from several comrades who claim 10
have had some personal knowledge Of the battle
Of Resaca, Ca, the one which attracts my at
tcution most h. that one over the namc OF Geo.
X. Shaw, 20. q, 18th H., aud ou Col Gross's
stafi. published in your issue Of May 9. Now.
! nave no donbt Comrads Shaw tells ali he
saw, or rather what he can remember; but,
then, he did not see IL all. 1, too was on the
ground at Reaaca, but did not SEQ COmrAde
Shaw. Late OIL the afternoon Of May Is. 1861,
our brigade, which WIS the Third In First Di.
vision, Twentieth Corps. was ordered 10 the
left, aud We went on the double.guiek for
something over mile. where we formed iiue
OF battle in pine thicket aud charged out
over ran fence into a small opening, where a
section of the 9th Ind. battery had taken posi-.
tion, but WAS now almost in tue hands of the
rebels. The battery boys were doinRther very
best 20 prevent the capture of the two guns
But the JOhnDies were too many for them aud
their ammunition WIS neaTly exhausted aud
our assistance was very opportuue aud accept
able 10 them. The rebels. too, decided very
quickly that they did not want thuse two guns
half so bad as they thought they did aud they
retired from the field with far more haste than
they had come there.
We lay ON our arms that night very near
those two guns we had saved, aud the next
morning, May Is, we advanced through the
pine thteket for some distance, then gtouped
until about o'clock in tho afternoon. when
We were again called into line aud marched by
the left Hank, on tho double quick, until we
reached an open field, where we formed In line
10 the left OF large Iwo-story frame house. aud
there We became engaged with tho enemy, aud
there was wounded in the neck, after which
the regiment was moved. but where they went
to or what they did have no personal knoyI-
edge therefore will leave for someone else
TO tell. / WAS not with the regiment any more
until July IL, and was with my regiment
when they became engaged In the battle of
Peach Tree Creek, July 20, where was again
wounded in the right ankle aud right thigh.
which ended my service In the field Nv
ankle wound still gives me great deal Of
trouble.
] do not like the disposition OF some writer's
who iusnnate that the other writers claim ali
! the honor, and speak Of 10 as gall" have read
most OF these articles written on battles in
| which was engaged, and find the statements
made are not always as saw things but that
| does not cause me 10 doubt the honesty Of those
making the statements and telling what they
! saw. Comrade Shaw seems disposed also TO slur
| the fact Gen. Joe Hooker, with the assistance
of the boys under his command, captured Look.
/ out Mountain, and yet have never heard the
| fact brought in question before. In the his
| tory Of those times, and the noted orators OF
| the day, when they have occasion to refer 10
that event, always speak of Joe Hooker and
his command fighting above the clouds. This
is my first appearance in print, and il prob
ably will be my last, and will close these few
broken sentences by saying would not by in
situation or in any other way, deprive any one
| OF the boys OF one laurel; for all of them who
saw actual service in the field saw far more
| than any Of them can ever tell. And So far as
one regiment making claims over another, In
my openion IL Is all bosh, for under the same
circumstances, with the same officers or as
good, the men Of each regiment would have
displayed the same valor-WM. CAMPBELL, Co
Ii, l0lst H., member Hackelman Post, No. l42
| Cherryyale, Kan.