Arizona republican., 1891-12-19

n on a charge ana I'll snow you l lAoIlSsiLlu that never saw rebel, or show me one that was at Antietam or Gettysburg or Chattanooga or Atlanta, and I'll prove that his presence there was an accident and he never got caught in another fight"
 Imagine tlis wiseacrc trying to bolster up his case by cross examining a survivor of the Seventy-third Ohio volunteers, a regiment which, if it did not rush to arms at the first call, was long enough in serv- ice to re-enIist and start on second term, and saw enough fighting to swamp such calculations as Ignoramus sets store upon st the first show of it's record.
 Ignoramus (tO Ohio veterau)-Say, you didn't see fighting of any account in the war!
 Seventy Ohioan-That depends. don't know what you would call Cross Keys and Manassas, Gettysburg and Wau- hatchie, ReSaca and New Hope Church, Kenesaw and Atlanta, or little Benton. vile. where Joe Johnston got his final do ing up.
 Ignoramus-But did you really get close enough for the rebels to hit you had they wanted tog
 Seventy-third Ohioan--Well, stranger, didn't carry a theOdolite in the war or any thing like that, only musket, and didn't stop to drive down stakes for the eXplana- tion of history, but at Manassas 300 of us went in and ll2 were hit, 40 of them so hard they ueyer got up again, and 36 were made prisoners At Gettysburg, although we did not compete with Pickett in his grand charge, 300 of us got in our best work and III were hit, 30 of them getting their last call. Then at Wauhatchie, Re saca and so on-still, mebbe it wouldn't strike you as of any account, as it all de- pends.
 Ignoramus will discover all at once that something hard has come between his pate and the soft nothingness of the atmosphere which is so congenial to it, and in despair will next proceed to prove that the war was only myth and the veterans are horde of impostOrs, whose empty trousers legs and Tapping sleeves are souvenirs of thrashing machine accidents and railway smashups. Meanwhile, people of sense and feeling will applaud the modest Ohioan and others like him, and sten to his story of the days he trudged with gun and knapsack through Virginia wastes and over Georga's barren mountains with Fremont, Pope and Meade, with Hooker, Thomas and Sherman.
 It was an incident rather than an acci- dent which drew my attention to the career or Jne SeVenty-tnlfu OnlO. w hen the Granu Army men were talking up Gen. Hurst a few weeks ago for commander in chief, turned casually to his war record and found that his fortunes had been woven with this regiment-an organization with history and of which he was the third and last colonel, having started at the foot of the roll as lieutenant in October, 1861. The Seve"ty-third was organized in the fall of lS6l from detachments of recruits that rendezvoused in the camps in Ross county. In the winter and spring of 1862 it marched and countermarched in the tedi- ous and prosaic movements of the armies in West Virginia and in the Shenandoah valley, winning no glory, but having a rough time of it nevertheless, campaigning for weeks in snow and rain without an inch of shelter other than the forests afforded. If no blood was shed and little advantage was gained in these marches it was no fault of the men. They suffered in the cause and would have died if called upon. At Cross Keys in May the regiment had taste of war and lost killed in skirmish. On