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have 20 meet the charge OF whole brigade |
of rebels. But we stand firmly, and pa |
tiently bide our time. Just then there
emerged from the woods, half a mile out
on our left flank, brigade of men massed
in column, and they bore down steadily
upon us. The enemy in our front
move in concert with those on oIfr flank
now come out of the woods-their linel
masking and overlapping our own. TheI
moment they emerged from the tim Der our
regiment and the whole left of the brigade
poured into them such murderous volleyl
that they retreated to the covert of theI
woods again. and now from their partial
covert they opened fire on us, and the com
bat grew fierce indeed. 1t was the first
real, earnest, open field line-of- battle fight
ing we had done, and the regiment seemedI
determined TO aCQuit itself well. And so,
without any defense whatever, the battalion
stood up and delivered it's fire most effect
lively, shouting and cheering as they saw
the enemy WAIVER and go back into the
woods"
In this apparently simple piece of busi-
ness 40 of the regiment were mo-tally hit
and ~ were wounded and recovered.
BY the fortunes of war the Seventy-third
was exempted from heavy losses until Get
tysburg was fought, ten months after Ma
nassas. At Gettysburg it was in Stein
mehr's division of the Eleventh corps, and
didn't get in a shot in Reynolds and How
ards fights of the first day, nor in Sickles'
battle on the second day, neither in the re-
pulse of Pickett's charge, with Hancock,
on the third day. Its position during theI
battle was on Cemetery Hill, overlookingl
the town, and that happened to be just thel
point that General Lee urged Ewell to as
sault with Stonewall Jackson's old corps
Attacks were made by Ewell at points onl
this line, but the Seventy-third was notl
touched by them, and only took the aver
age punishment that falls to a regiment
under fire of shot, shell and sharpshooters
bullets on battlefield. Its ranks Of 3OOI
lost in this way 80 mortally hit and l02I
wounded and recovered. If it failed to get
into the famous actions of the field It'll
helped to defend Cemetery Hill. which. i'll
Lee had carried it, would have given him
all he was fighting for.
After Gettysburg the regiment went
with Fighting Joe" Hooker and his new
command, the Eleventh and Twelfth corps |
to help out Sherman at Chattanooga, and
fortune at last brought glory to its ban
ners. One night while Hooker was feeling,
his way around the Confederates on Look. |
out mountain one of his divisions under
Gen. Geary was isolated so as to invite a
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the brig and established winter quarters
In anticipation Of the long arctic night
when no work could be done, and TO save
time for better uses when spring and day
light should return, the rest of the fall
was spent in creating provision depots on
the Greenland coast so that travel could be
extended by the use of dogs. Dogs were the
basis of Kane's future plans and must be
fed on provender transported in advance.
Three depots we're made by party that
secured the coast until its facings were
northward. The supplies were buried in
cairns, or caverns, and covered with huge
rocks to keep off the witty and muscular
polar bear. From the return of this party,
late in October, until spring, 1854, nothing
was done except to hunt and fight the in
tense cold. By the middle of December the
last vestige of arctic twilight had disap-
peared and midnight and monday were
alike sunless. Nothing but faint glin-
mer, defining the icy hills far to the south,
indicated that the world had an orb of day.
All around the confined harbor lay bergs
of ice anchored by letters of frost in seas
of ice. The home of the explorers, their
vessel rooted with canvas, was incased in
ice the condensationS of breath and steam
forming an icy armor inside five inches
thick. During January and February the
thermometer ranged between 40 and IS
oegs. below zero. Nearly all of the dogs
persisted.
In March came the return of perpetual
day, and on the Goth a party was sent out
with sledge to examine the depots and
make new deposits of stores. There were
but five dogs alive, and the men had to at
tach themselves to the lines. Eleven days
later three out of the eight travellers re-
turned sinking with fatigue and hunger.
barely able to tell Of their disaster. Four
were lying out disabled and frozen in the
ice with one attendant. One of the return
ing men was packed in a fur bag, with
dogskin and elder down castings for his
frozen limbs, and then strapped to a sledge
to guide rescue party to the unfortunate
victims. DR.. Kane led the rescuers, and
after difficult march, during which the
guide went delirious, the camp of the suf
ferers was found half buried in pile Of
rapidly accommodating drift, with the
American flag and Masonic banner fly
ing from a pole set up in the snow. The
stricken men were taken back to the brig,
one afterward dying and two others suffer
ing amputation.
Inc next sledge expedition was headed
by Kane in person. He took seven men
and penetrated the icy regions off the
northwest coast of Greenland until eXces
sive SHOWS, blindness, scurvy and other
obstacles, combined with the fact that the
bears had robbed the supply depots plant
ed the previous fall, forced him to return
to the brig. One man died on the trip.
During all this time Kane never ceased
to believe that Franklin's vessels were
safe, locked in some tidal eddy and the
crews living upon the meat of foxes and
bears, and of the seal, the walrus and the
whale He thought of them with hope; in
ability to reach them gave him pain.
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SEE THE ENEMY THERE, RETREATING."
slant skirmishing and some heavy fighting
near Spring Hill between SANKEY'S men
and those of Cheatham anu Forrest, but
Hood returned to the spot at dusk only to
find that Cheatham had not put his line
across the pike. Cleburne's division that
had been relied on for that feat had blum
dered in the first attempt and then come
to a dead standstill. Hood brought with
him the leading division of Stewards corps,
and learning of Cleburne's failure ordered
that body of troops to form on Cleburne's
line so as TO carry it across the pike. But
by this time STANLEY had given the Con
federates taste OF genuine lighting that
stirred up their caution
Their assaults on the pike at Spring Hill
had been stubbornly repuISed, and Stewart
went about his work on the slow and sure
plan of recounoitering In the end his
troops went into bivouac along the pike
and not across it,
As the evening rolled on Schofields wag-
ons and men hurryIng away from Column
bia marched along the pike under the eyes
of the pickets of Cheatham and Stewart
and were fired upon, but they zealously
went their way Hood at length called
had failed in, but when the redou Dtable
trooper got his men in line they had no
ammunition and would not advance.
A band of about 1000 under General
Jackson galloped on northward and at
tempted to cut the pike beyond Spring
Hill, but were repulsed. and from midnight
to daylight Of the Both SchOtield's men re
treated, virtually unopposed in the presence
of superior numbers of their foes resting
idly within earshot of their march. For
Gen. Sherman to have counted in advance
upon such unexplainable conduct on
the part of Cleburne. Cheatham and For
rest, with Hood among them and at their
head, would have been madman's folly
But that and that alone saved Tennessee
and the north and checked Hoods daring
adventure.
The next day, at Franklin, on the Har-
peth, where Schofield brought them to bay
in the bend of the river, Hoods men, meta
morphosed in a night, pitched in like heroes
to retrieve their lost fortunes Cleburne
and four other generals of Cheatham's
corps were killed there IN assaulting Scho-
fields works, and three of Stewards gen.
erals fell also. But it was too late. Scho-
field had got on the inside, and every step
that he accomplished backward added to
his strength and hischances From Frank
lin he retired to Nashville, and Hoods bold
game was up. At Nashville, two weeks
later, Thomas, with SchOteld, Wilson and a
newly arrived army from Missouri, de-
stroyed Hood completely, and Sherman's
theory, that Thomas could defend the west,
was justified. But it was narrow escape.
The most reasonable explanation of
Hoods conduct on the night of Nov. % is
that he tired himself out physically during
the afternoon and his usual high courage
oozed out with his waning energy.
So slight thing as dyspepsia lost great
battle for Napoleon. Why may it not be
true that slight Oyerstrain of some sensi-
tive faculty of Hoods on that busy after
noon prevented reversal of Confederate
fortunes in the west and warded off .
grave Union disaster2
GEORGE l. KnMER
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with Forrest. who was bent on crossing
above Colum bia, east, to seize roads lead
ing to Spring Hill, in Schotield's rear, so
as to cut him off from Nashville. Wilson
warned Schoheld to abandon Columbia,
and strangely enough drew back his own
force by a route farther east through
Hurts Corners and Mount Carmel, leaving
the road open to Forrest to dash on to
Spring Hill.
But Schofield, for all, had the inside
track to the key point, and acting on Will
sons warning had sent Gen. Stanley with
all speed back from Columbia toward
Spring Hill 1t was the Goth of November,
the day Of all others in 1864 when, If luck
counts at all in war, the Confederacy had
a last chance. At noon that day SANKEY'S
men double quicked into Spring Hill and
soon began to fight with Forests troopers
for the mastery. Forrest was beaten and
Stanley held the road open.
Yet Forrest was not Hoods best card in
this game. At the head of his leading
division, a crack body of men under the
intrepid Gen. Cleburne, he had crossed
Duck river at Huey's, and at noon of that
day was marching boldly northwestward
to the pike between Columbia and Spring
Hill, and between Stanley's isolated divi-
sion and Schofeld's main force at Column
bia Moreover. he had left the corps of
Gen. S. ID. Lee south of Duck river and in
front of Columbia to attack Schofield and
push him along the pike into the trap pre-
pared for him at Spring Hill At that
moment there was nothing to stay the
march Of Hoods 10000 Confederates on
Nashville, Louisville and the north except
SANKEY'S band of 1000 men at Spring Hill
and mob of unorganized recruits and
convalescents at Nashville with Thomas.
The hope of the west lay with Schofield,
and he was virtually surrounded and cut
off at Columbia. Hoods hope-the forlorn
chance of the south-lay in placing a wall
OF bayonets across the pike and shutting
Schofield off at Spring Hill, when the Union
army in the west would be at his mercy.
This was unexpected good fortune for
Hood and second only TO Shermans aban
donment of the pursuit. And Sherman's
theories that Hood would follow him TO the
sea, or that Thomas would hold him south
of the Tennessee1 Here was a hole in them
both as fatal as a rent in a balloon. IL was
only the turn OF hand that Lncoln's fears
and Grants final doubts would be justified
and Spring Hill come to count for more in
history than Gettysburg or Nicksburg.
Calling Gems Cheatham and Cleburne to
his side, Hood directed their eyes upon the
pike where Schotield's wagons and their
infantry guards were moving from Column
bia back to Spring Hill. Said he TO Cheat
ham. General, do you see the enemy there,
retreating rapidly to escape us2 Go with
your corps, take possession of that pike at
or near Spring Hill DO this at
once"
His subordinates moved away TO obey
this command and himself to order up an
other corps. and this accomplished Scho-
fields army would be lost. Forests caval-
ry held all of the crossroads from the pike
north of Spring Hill, in a line east and
south, to Duck river having bowled vii
sons men off TO the northeast out of reach.
From 3 o'clock until dark there was con-
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ing ice. At the end of days journey the
channel came to an end, closed by the ice,
pack driving against the wall of the ice belt
on shore. The boat was then laid up and
the party pushed on in a sledge, travelling
on an ice table along the cliffs of the west
srn coast Of Greenland until they reached
the angle where the coast line breaks to
the east with a northern facing. Here
from an altitude Of /, 100 feet Kane looked
out upon the solid area of ice stretching
away toward the pole. He studied the
vast expanse by the aid of powerful tel
escope, and seeing far beyond the almost
impenetrable barrier of icebergs that hug
ged the shore a region Of comparatively
free and level ice, he resolved upon a win
ter's search in the region he knew must
border on the open polar sea. With this
design in view he made his way back to
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SAW THE ENEMY WAIVER AND co BACK"
the field at Cedar Mountain in August it
was ready to fight, but was ordered to re.
treat instead, which was just as well, for it
was spared to fight elsewhere and to some
purpose.
The day of action came to the Seventy
third at Manassas, or Second Bull Run, on
Aug. 20, when in McLean's brigade,
Scheuk' division of Sigel's corps, it helped
to give Stonewal Jackson's army the
severest blows it ever endured, the fruits
of which, however. were never garnered
The = pposittious champion of the Seven
ty-third may be excused for his pride in the
record of his regiment at Manassas, even
though that was not a glorious Union
triumph. The Confederate bullets had the
same sting there that they did on more re-
nowned battlefields, and every southerner
killed there was one less TO fight at Gettys.
burg or Chickamauga.
In little journal history of his reg
ment Gen. Hurst has given a plain story
of the part taken by the Seventy-thrd
on Aug. %, when it came into position 200
yards in front Of a wood where the enemy
was massing troops for a charge. Gen.
Hurst says: I'VE watched with terrible
anxiety. One, two three battlefags' were
seen to pass into those woods, and then we
knew that the Seventy third Ohio would
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A BOLD STROKE FAILS.
THE CONFEDERATE eLUNDER AT
SPRING HILL, TENN, IN 1864.

What General Hood Tried to Do and Al
most Accomplished While Sherman
Marched Away to the sss-scho6eId's
Union Army Saved by q Miracle.
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VERY now and
then some igno-
ramus who never
has had the good
sense to recognize
his proper place to
die when he saw
it, rises to explain
that the civil war
veterans whom
Confederate bull
let's and Father
Time have kindly
spared to enjoy
the honors of the
victory didn't do
any fighting to
speak of. "Show
me a man." he
shrieks hysterical.
- GGtbot ayar want
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south Of it. He afterward added the Tween
ty-third corps, under Gen. J. NJ. Schofield,
10000 strong, which he detached from his
main army before starting for the sea.
In point Of fact, Hood went around the
Union army, supposed to be guarding the
southern border Of Tennessee, and once
across the river made for Columbia, on
Duck river, the direct route to Nashville.
The ever alert Forrest preceded him and
was on the point Of seizing the crossings of
the river when the advance of the Union
army under Schofeld, falling back by
forced marches upon Nashville, came up
to dispute the way. Schofeld held and
fortified Columbia.
Meanwhile, Gen. J. Il. Wilson, cavalry
man under Sheridan in Virginia, had
reached Tennessee to lead Thomas cav
airy. When he reached the front along
Duck river he found his troopers coping
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IR John Frank
Inns romantic
and tragic fate is
without parallel
in the history Of
daring eXplora-
tions, and DR..
Kane's expedition
for Franklin's re-
lief has never been
equaled in the
same field in bold
ness of venture,
t h orou ghness of
search, and in the
duration and ga
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FAST IN ARCTIC ICE.
DR.. KkNE's ADVENTURES IN SEARCH
OF FRANKLIN.

Hurricane Stranded His Vessel in an
Icebound Bay-Daring Sledge Trips to
tho Farthest North-The Eskimos and
Polar Bear
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BRAVE OHIO SOLDIERS.
THE SEVENTY-THlRO VOLUNTEERS
FOUGHT LONG AND WELL.
A Fierce Bout with StonewaII jackson
at Manassas-Hard Lines and No Glory
at Gettysburg. and a Brilliant Feat of
Arms at wauhatchie.

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PrimAls aud finals:
Two Generals who fought in many fray,
Ohe wore the blue, the other wore the gray
MARCEL Hatch.
AMoSG THE PESNsYLyAEIA c. C.'s
In Ida VI. Ross, schoolgirl quite pretty;
Ola Bcil HOLMAN, who lives ia the city:
Ursula A. Campbell, who h. quite large.
Rae q. Hays, one Of our Guards.
AnnA VI. Bechuel, who gives elegant advice.
Katie - Allen, with light hair and blue eyes:
Media Plympton, tasty and Of studious mind:
Agnes b.. Hays, uueGcelied la ucedle-work fine :
Alie J.. l.. Neville, residence the home Of our
great Quay;
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Into these lines, ~ you look
You viii lind popular book,
by humorous American author
Calvin Tinker, MoniicAu Pa
JOHN BULL AND BROTHER JONATHAN.
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whole is the bOurce 81 recent troubles between
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and silver. costly raiment, and ask favors OF
Kings. but he could not cure his General.
5. Notice the limitations To human perfect
ness. Say whatever you please 10 the credit OF
any man, and after you have done and said all
you are obliged TO add but" There is some
defect. Naaman had almost every qualification,
but he WAS n lepeT"
Projections have Offsets. No one is perfect.
Euumerate al the good features Of any man,
and yet at the sud you are forced 20 add "but
he has this and that leprosy spot" Even St
Paul had thorn in the aesh. The story goes
that Providence gave % n certain provinces Of
France 10 have a most fascinating spirit in its
wines, bat tthere WAS but" "a to said
Provincel Providence denied 10 its human in
hAbitauts common sense
s. Train children well, so that, II they be
taken from home. they will bear lessons with
them helpful both TO them and those with
whom they may live. Naaman's wifc's maid
bad evidently learned at home the facts shs
taught in the Generals house.
z. DO not be suspicious. Do not too hastily
infer OWL intent JehOTam thought BeRhadad
meant mischief Weigh letters and words care
fully. BE sure harm in intended before you
become alarmed and before you arc grieVed
with another aud offended by him.
8. Patriotism il virtue. One IS excuable
for loving his country its hills. valleys rivers,
IN preference % those Of other lands But
God, too, IS entitled to his preference and
when he says Jordan we must not declare
ALBANIA.
8. Be faithful servants. Blessed maid For
tunate master! As Krummacher says the sol
diers caught nightingale, that was destined
to sing the songs OF Zion in the darkness Of
Syria" And NaRman was true servant TO
Benhadad.
10. We see something Of the proper relations
between mistress and maid master and servant.
Naaman's wife was conversational and conf
Dental with the little slave Benhaded was
kind 10 Naaman.
IL. Even children have power to do great
good. little girl speaks. Hence originals
the royal introduction, presents aud the cure
Of Naaman.
IL. Sin is leprosy. We should go to Christ
for cure. He IS styled Fountain. Salvation
Is called the water Of life" In a fguratiye
way, the Prophet sets forth the condition OF
the soul OF man before conversion. He says:
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart
faint. From the sole ct the foot even unto the
head, there Is no sOundness in il; but wounds
and bruises and purifying sores they have
not been closed, neither bound up, neither mol
hhed with ointment" u:5, 6.)
Z" No outward form can make us clean;
The leprosy lies deep within"
Christ has once for all had compassion on Us,
touched our wounds by tho incarnation, borne
our sicknesses, stretched out his hands on the
cross, and from its ascent, exclaimed: / win
be thou clean"
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GEN. JOHN MORGAN.
The TROOPS that Captured Him and Those IN
KILLED Him.

The TrOoyI that Captured Him and Those that
Killed Him.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Please inform
me what troops pursued and captured Gen. John
III. Morgan on his raid in Ohio, also the troon.
who killed him at Grccnvile, Tenn.-W ii
CARTER, Knoxville, Tenn.
lANswER.-Quite a number Of regiments
Under the general command Of Gen Judah and
under the immediate orders Of Gems. KAutz
Hohson, Shackeliofd aud Wolford, tool, mart ip
the pursuit OF Morgan through Indiana and
Ohio. The brigades Of Iiobs0n aud Shackel-
ford forced him 20 surrender near New Lisbon
.. The 9th Mich. Cav, under command III
Maj. Way, and one section Of the nth Mich
battery finally forced the remnant 10 surrender
about four miles from Steubenville. The com.
mand that killed him nj Greenville Tenn.
sept 4, 1864, was that Of Gen. A. C. Gillem. and
consisted mainly Of East Tennessee regiments.
-EDITOR NATIONAL TRBUEE