The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-25
An Epteaph.
TOLD sv A JOHNNY REe.

Carries all before NM.
-Fhiiadsb phio Inquirer.
TOLD By A JOHNNY REs.
Gr.phsc description of the Hattie or Chick
auaauga-From the Confederate slide.
From the Louisville Courier Dournal.
The battle Of Pcrryville had been fought
and o,,r army had marched all around the
mountain and come into Middle Ten
nessee. We met the enemy aRaiI mt
Murfreesboro and moved hack to Shelby
Vile, and for n long time camped there,
writes r.. in the Williamson county,
Tenn, Appeal. During the whole time
the Tennesseeans were I'm high glce.
They were near and around their homes.
But IL seemed that the fatcs were against
them. Kentucky had been given up; now
Tennessee had to he abandoned To
leave home i'm the hands OF friends and
go tn hattie was hard indeed,
but now we know oar homes
were fast falling into the hands
Of our enemies. The confederate cause
now seemed to ms gone. The last vestiRe
of hope was fading away-espccially tn
Tennesseans. We were falling back from
our native land. What else had we tn
fight for? We were fast marching to
fields unknown to us. The shadow of
uncertainty and final defeat seemed pie
tureh OH every co~untcnance. We were
fast travelling from the height of expccta-
ton into the depths of despair, as we
thought. Our ranks were fast thinning,
wltklDtlt IlbIe ou TNhtEtlIttIR. Ie H.
hearts were giving away. The bravcst
were waxing faint. But OH we went,
leaving all behind us. The broad Ten
p%ontoons were stretched across, over we
went. aud the river became the dividing
iine-a large army and "a broad river be-
We soon began to fortify Chattanooga.
Picks, axes and spades were the principal
of warfare. Day aftt r day rs.gi-
mcnts would march out and work under
the direction of s~ergcants and ~corporals,
as il OIL drill. The fctierals were advanc-
ing hut had not approached ear enough
10 cause any uncasiness. Why we were
terrifying Chattanooga was "a mystery to
MS. Many n hard lick was struck with an
AK and pick to no good.
One day while hard at work we heard "a
report from the opposite side of the river.
4 sudden clap OF in a clear noon.
was "a cannon shot from the ranks.
They had actually arrived at CHAT
20 "s@sor, OF a :s"p Of the morning
tn we, Mr.. n Reb; we are here,
you see, all the same" Our army by this
erablc force. IL had been some time since
we had had the pleasure of lighting. We
had ma lie a long march To the rear and
had passed and fall was coming. We dug
dirt and We shovelcd dirt; we hewed logs
and we piled logs; we had made a line of
spirits revived. The war clouds again be-
gan to appear above the horizon. The
1eSIeF8iS wert hetthlty erOSSiIh& tne EN-
nessee river, and some Of our ~foraginR
parties had been captured i'm Wills valley.
All sorts of rumors were afioat. Our
whole army was soon on the march again
and i'm almost double quick time we went
down ChickamauQa.
For two days am, nights we marched
continuously, crossing C~hickamanga
creek, near Lee q Gorslen's mill. Here we
stopped long enough To cook %rations.
w, wnf for t aso ,,at 10 o. m minrsh to ~as a " fa:Ia taken %ISsa
called Lafayette. We then turned aud
came back, almost i'm "a run, to Lee 4 Cor
denis mill, but on a different road.
The next day, Saturday, the 18th of Sep
tembcr, w recrossed ChickaInauRa creek
about I o'clock. While crossing. General
Immediately i'm front of CIIcatham's old
brigade, Colonel George Nancy
ing, General Chcatham commanding IA
division. This command Was ordered tai
double-Quick and support Genera For
rest, but after "a few minutes run We found
of fssderais. Almost s~imaltansousi both
sides began to fire. and volley after volley
for an hour or more each side poured into
Maney's brigade lighting together. The
word fall book was heard. and, AS quick
as said, we began to retreat rapidly, and
for the first time we saw Ianks all around
AIS. The woods seemed to blaze from
every direction.
just at this I'm Gen. Preston
Smith's comma nd, being on our left,
turned loose q vollcy into them thai shook
the eartu around and beneath Such "a
tnltluer1nX NOllty was never nt'arI DtIDrt.
The whole command must have fired at
one time, which almost completely demol-
ished the line of federals that was fight
ing us. Had il not been for this terrible
volley from Gen. Smiths men just at the
time IL Was thcrs, would not have been IL
man of the FIRST Tennessee regiment left
10 tell the tale. IL relieved M of the
dilemm . we were i'm and gave the enemy
such "a shock they never rallied again that
day. We again turned and discovered
that they were falling back.
This ended IL q lighting of that day. and
was the beginning of the battle of Chicka-
manga. I'ne army slept i'm line of battle
that night, and the next day was the great
day of the battle of Chickamauga. Two
powerful armies were facing each other.
and we all knew that the next day would
prove a glorious victory or a defeat. We
felt that we had secured n decided advan-
tale i'm the evening before. We could
hear the enemy all night long moving and
taking position. Everything ON our side
was life and animation. bold and care
Hess look as they passed their jokes
around the campfire bespoke the free and
daring character of our men. They awoke
the next morning with the same merry
as of the nigh before. and il was
plainly pictured ON every face that the
coming day would be "A day OF victory for
tlem.
Sunday morning, September -. dawned
on als as bright and beautiful as nature
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