New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-14

SKETCHES OF WAR HISTORY, 1861 1885. Papers per,
PREPARED for the ono Tnainn Of u the e United
states. Edited by Robert Hunter Luz ate Cap cam
einnaH Robert Clarke g. Co.
The Ohio Commandery OF the Loyal Legion mas
uudert~kea q good work, and has done IL we'll i"
cung out. collecting and printing the three volumes
OF which the third and latest has Just been ss"eu
let US hope rot the last. The present Voiun'e 'o"'
none OF that falling of that is naturally 10 DC OK
uected In a continuous series OF papers like these
written primarily to entertain conviviai sa'nerins
Of old comrades. OF the twenty papers, thoush d
are by Of equal interest, every o'o ~
something TO tell. In nearly every instance 'o'o -
some historical incident or event witlesseu s' nSU
hand or studied with special opportunity "ine
Rattle NJ Franklin by Lieutenant Thomas speed
adiutapt OF the 10th Kentucky, and zine Ba"ie Oh
Cedar Creek by Colonel NJ NJ Granger. of the l22d
Ohio are indeed much more than Sketches they are
master studies
In painstakng fidelity, in clearness and in per
suect1ve. Mr. speeds study takes rank with the
mastery ANALYSIS Of the battle from dheIent
stapdpoint by Colonel Henry Stone, of Thomass s'f'
and with Boyntons grand account Of CmcAamansa
picturesque and thrilling, though the latter Is beyond
ANYTHING yet written of the war for the Union. ihc
reason and the manner OF Schoheld's nrm sta1u az
Columbia as well of his skilfui play against HooH
pnanoeuvres at Spring Ill., are made quite clear As or
the story Franklin 1t is at least as eAciths anu DR.
absorbing as any novel Of that remote period Wheh
novels still condesCended to excite and absorb Paed
20 soon yet not eclpscd by the fierce light ana greater
glory of Nashville, few now see that nall the
worry Of Nashville was already done when the fiery
untarpedn Hood angrily threw his infantry against
the stiff, lines Of Franklin and destroyed the full thrd
Of all his army IN the VAN attempt 10 uiiNe "'"'
into the Iiarpeth.
Colonel Granger makes many things clear about
Cedar Creek that other and ambitious historians
have left cloudy. In previous account are the ex
posed position Of Crooks men, the reason they slept
in fsncied security just what happened to them and
what they really did. so easy to follow. III
single sentence. emphatic yet colorless, he brings
out the fact that the fight OF the morning
was all over before sheridan mounted "RienA"
for the famous ride from Winchester. one sees Just
how Sheridan came to think that Getty stood alone
before the when, in fact. all the colors OF the
Sixth and Nineteenth Corps were in line OF battle ana
every man Of the thousands that had stood by them
through the stress.
with the 9th Wisconsin az Gettysburg tells Win
treat force the story of the hard fight Of the first day
without which there would have been no gettysburg
as the regimental commander General Rufus r. Dawes.
actually saw it, Coloue Merrill gives an admirable
account of the ingenious system of blocklouses by
which sherman sought to protect the long line VI
railway behind him. in his Atlanta campaign
One LAYS down the volume with the thought What
of New-York? What is the New-York Commandery
loing q-the largest of all the cOmnpndcries. repre-
senting State that sent nearly half million sol
liers into the field. Five times year the compan
ions sup pleasantly at Delmoncos. Beyond that,
nothing Yet here is Ohio setting an example for all
TO follow