The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-01-02
STORY OF A CANNONEER.
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battery, and they seemed TO waver a little.
Slawson, who had just finished loading, and
was standing clear" for the piece to be fired,
noticed this. Waving his rammer-stafF, he
called out: "Stand up to it, boys! Look at
old Gibbon over there in the road working
gun Look at me Il Stick to em 1t can't
last longi"
At Gettysburg in the very last moments of
the fearful struggle az the Railroad Cut, when
the 9th Wis. men were crawling up over the
bank of the Cut to fire at the rebel infantry
below the Cashtown pike, one of them seemed
to have his attention attracted by the behavior
OF a thick.set, ooth-faced little fellow who
was thumbing the vent of the gun nearest the
edge of tho Cnt This iniaBtryman called out
to the boy, Shtick, you fat little -- -,
shtick!" I" IN most decided Irish brogue.
This annoyed the boy, who felt that he had
TO stand up there aud /" take his medicine" ex-
posed at full length. while his admirer Of the
9th Wis. was only poking his head up in sight.
So finally he retorted, Come up here and
shtiek yourself you big Irish - II"
1t is needless to say that the invitation was not
accepted. / could recall number of Incl
dents TO illustrate what might be termed " tho
plcasantries of battle" AT all events so far as
l can recollect / never saw any blanched
faces !" or wild looking eyes" in the battery.
Perhaps l could have them however, If
had had n looking-glass OH some occasions
but none of the comrades ever had that appear
ance.
In fact. during the whole course of the war
never heard Of but one man showing any
actual signs Of Ainching in action. no matter
how tho boys may have felt. This was the
driver OF the lead team OF the leading gun in q
certain battle. It is not necessary to give par
ticulars. Tho boys will remember it. The
battery was halted momentariIy to select posi- |
ton. Just then a shell exploded close to the |
leading HF nm To- 'raff ad
instantly dismounted. Stewart spurred his |
horse up to him. drew his revolver and said |: |
"Remonnt, or will blow your head of! What !
do you mean?" 1t was a very serious matter |
The team. thus left without control, might |
have broken to the right or left i'm which case |
they would have dragged the swing horses Off
their feet and maybe might have snarled up |
the whole battery. Stewart would not allow
this man to stay in the battery. but sent him
back TO his volunteer regiment lie used to
say that IL was OF no use TO punish a man for
coYardice
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST
OF all whom can remember as being with the |
battery at different times during the last year
of tho war. or from the Fall and Winter of 1853
till Appomattox:
Capt. James SteHar.
Lieut.. John Mitchell
Lieut.. Ihos. Goodman.
Lieut.. William Vose.
IL. Moore, Thorpe Mahfr. J. Moore,s Arm
strong CHhill. Chaplin, Gilkie FrseBaaak Still. |
man. Packard, Finley Fillmore Dolphin. Prices
Foiiet. Majors, DE Lanuoy, sanborn,p Miles, |
Ackerman,s Jno. Alexander, Jas Alexander !
AHthony. Alien, Barbour Barney,s Bartholo-
mew.s Broup, Bell. Burkhardt,s Bgei, Blair
Bennett Barrett, Burns. Barlow. Caspar.s
Campbell Carman. Codey.a Cooke (Buglsr) !
Colby Covillc Clarke Cullen, Chapman, Cias- |
ninghaa, Crocker, Cold. CotiiHs.s Day. DoWliHg.s
Dctloh. Delaney, Daris, Dennison. Ellis, Evans
ETrnger. Fuller. Fesrler, Z. FutonS J. Fulton,t |
F6rd, FregtoHg, Gibbons GardHer,a Gleason,s |
Graham, Grant, Graves, Griffin, G0uld,S Green |
Hiuman.s Hunt,S HiH, c. Harris,s - Harris
Hubbard, Hogan, Haley, j. Johnson Z. John
SON. Hai. johnson, II. Johnson, Jones. Jennings |
Jenkins, knight, Kelley, Kline King. KehOe /
Kenyon, kean tor perhaps McKean) j. Leieis,a
NJ. Lewis. Lee, . LcriRs,a Luckey Ludlow, Lyons
Lacey, Lang. McLaughin,s McMastcrs, Mar
shall Mctaiian Martin. Mcknight. Murphy,
Manners. Mckay. MeFaddcn. Mccall, Noble,
Newman (or Newtonl, Nelson, o. Rrien Philips |
Pierce, Pugsley.e Powers. Pcrry, Russell Root,
Richardson, Reed. Ripley,s Reeves (Buglerl,
Scott, Stevens, SmaH.s steigers ID. Smith, Al |
Smith, Il. Smith, Samuels, Shemmeli,s Stone,
Stedman,s Seeley.e Seymour, Sanford. Thomp-
son. Tripp, Thomas, Thurston. Van D,isell. Tan
BrHnt. ". IPitiams.S - Williams Hukiason,
Winga:e,a H'iAe.7 Wallace White. Warner aud
Young.
These were mover all present at one time,
but the list includes the period from the begin
ming of the Wilderness campaign to the end |
of the war. There were quite a number of |
recruits who Joined late in the Fall of 1864 |
whom ! never knew. not being with the bat |
terry after tho Summer of 1864, as win appear
later. Those whose names are marked with |
star r. arc the veterans Of 1861, whose terms |
expired during July, August and September
1864, and were mustered out
1t is very difficult To recall the names OF men I
battery recruited almost entirely by detached
volunteers. A man serving in "A volunteer bat 1
terry recruited mainly from enc locality and /
acquainted with many OF them before enlist /
ing. could easily remember all his comrades
But the above list includes men detached from
dozen or 10 different regiments. and repre-
sonting at least halfa dozen different States
from New York TO Minnesota. Some Of them
served three Years and some only a few months |
Those whose names are in italics were hit in |
battle, according the best Of my recollection
some killed, others wounded-at the Wilder
ness, Spottsylvania, Jericho Ford, Bethesda
Church Tor Cold HarbOrl, Petersburg the Vel |
don Railroad Ream's Station, or Gravelly Run
| had intended to give general roll, account
ing for all the men, from beginning to end
but the chances of injustice through mac.
curacy were so great that gave it up.
OF the aboVe-nsmed men
ALL HAD HONORABLE RECORDS
except one, who was tried by urt-martial in
the Fall of 1864 for purloining letters from the
battery mail. of which he was tho carrier
will not mention his name here. The surviving
comrades will know who no was, and il is not
necessary to advertise his misfortunes at this |
late day. lie was convicted aud sentenced To
prison. from which he was afterward pardoned
! presume he was hatshly judged. As nearly
as can reeolleet, not moro than DO or 90 out of
the 100 odd men above named saw the rebel
army surrender.
The following named men, as nearly as can
remember. who had been with tho battery in
1861, 1862 and 1863, left il at different periods
prior to the time covered by the above roll:
Orderly-Serg't Mcbride, Serg't Robert Moore
Corpls Priest, Murphy, McDougall, Hardin,
Greene and Childs, and Privates james Arm
strong, Austin, Branham, Frank Bell Henry
Colby, John II. Cooke, Call. Compton, Chiffon,
Castor. briggs tpromotedl, Dunlap, DotoR (re-
turned TO the battery in Fall of 1861 and staid
till AppomAttoX), Dean, Dcwar Easton Ellis
treturned TO his regiment, 9Th Wis, for promo
ton and got the medal of honor ut Weldon
RalFuadl, Evans. Finley treturned to the bat
rery, 1864, Fort (promotedl, Den Fuller, the