The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09


IN the battle of Chickamauga, and said he
wished Bragg would attack him any mo.
meat, rs he, Rosencrans, was ready TO re-
ceiVe him.
Our egimen' encamped almost beneath
Lookout Mountain, and near the Tennes-
see river think we were on the extreme
right of the army; possibly the 42d lndi'
ana may have been to our right. We had
plenty of water few rods from our camp
In the Tennessee river. We would go over
about every second day and get a supply
of fuel. We had the Purp tents then; five
or six generally bunked together, We
were scarce of clothing and provisions, or
rstions, as the army saying Isl they were
few and far between. We had some few
head of cattle which they butchered
every second day. We used all the critter,
you bet! We made tripe of the stomach,
, soup of the feet and TAIL fried the brains,
boiled the lights and head, and we
often suffering with hunger. We had TO
stand guard and do picket duty. We lost
about 800 mules and 300 horses while in
| Chattanooga. We would devise many ways
and schemes to get forage. Once the bat
terry boys brought in wagon box half full
of ear corn for their horses, but 1t did not
last long and many comrade filled his
H., ,l,,C ..,, al h,,nA
ing some of the 10lth thought to try their
luck so j. +, Diehl, j. Deffenbaugh, j.
Powers ana the writer watched an oppOr.
tunity and when supper time came the
battery boys left the corn in charge of the
negro COOK while they ate frugal meal.
We stole around among the army wagons
and crept up to the negro, as he sat near
the corn pile, and placing a club over the
darkie's head, declared we would lay him
out if he said a word while we filled our
hsversacks with ear corr. This we could
parch or parboil and then CRATE into corn
meal The mules wOnld bray all night
long with hunger; they had eaten all the
feed boxes that were attached to the army
wagons.
Our regiment went to work one morn
ing on the Notifications, with Major Wild
mer as officer In charge, when by chance
Gen. w. p. Carlln came along, when Ma.
jor Widmer said, General, it's hard for
men to have to work without breakfast this
morning" Why" said the General,
" have you not had your morning meal ?"
|" MOI" replied the Major. Well" said
General Carlin, "you and your men can
60 back to your tents, for when men work
with their claws, they should work with
their jaws" We were ut one morning on
picket with Captain VIM. Strawu in com.
mand, when General Rusaw came gallop.
ing along with his staff officers, Captain
Strawn gave the command to fall in and
salute the general. Turk Hill, of Co. f,
was smoking a pipe and neglected to take
it from his mouth. The general chastised
him for smoking in the ranks. Turk said
he was hungry and was smoking for com
fort and relief. This enraged the general
and he ordered Hill under arrest, but Hill
was relieved by Capt. Strawn as soon as
the General rode off Gen Rusaw made
some remarks, which turned the boys en-.
tirely against him for the remainder of our
army life. He said that m Englshmau
wanted full stomach of beef Oh mutton
to begin bait with an Irishman bottle
Of whisky; a German waited sau krCut or
beer; but the Yankee would want to do all
the planning and the other fellows do all
the fighting. Gec. Rusaw was an old ~
rant
Our camp was within range of the siege
guns on the mountain. The rebels would
fire piece every half hour from Lookout
Mountain, from September 20 until No
vember Oath. At night we could see the
stream of fire from the fuse in the shell
the moment 1t left the mouth of the gun on
the mountain. We had our camp all dug
around with rifle pits and pit holes to
uOuSC lHlb Witu iut sllbtS tuillt W lhSl.
In the reorganization of the Fourteenth
army corps before the battle of Chattanoo-
ga, the regiment was assigned to the fl ST
brigade, first division, the brigade COM
msnder being Gen. w p Carlin The SSth
Indiana, 42d Indiana, 21st Wisconsin, 10Th
Ky, were in this brigade. We remained
in this brigade until the end of the war.
Col Moore having resigned:before the bat
tie of Chickamauga, Lieut. Col. Hapeman
commanded the regiment. On the 23d
the army was ready Cor the work before
them, and on the cath of November, 1868,
we marched across Lookout creek and in
the evening were engaged on Lookout
Mountain near the White House, when the
first brigade, first division fourteenth army
corps, repulsed an attack made by rebels
about 8 o'clock p. m, to regain possession
of the lost ground.
We assembled Lookout Mountain and en-
camped hear the Crawford House. On the
morning of the 25th we crossed the valley