The National tribune., 1892-05-12
CAMPAIGN THROUGH
THE CAROLlNAS.
WHITE FLAG IN THEIR FRONT,
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his way to Greensboro, there to surrender to
Sherman. Gen. Wheeler was at once escorted
forward to Gen Kilpatrick's Headquarters,
which were in our rear, while his command
followed. As the head of the column came
up the officers exchanged salutes, while we
all joined in three hearty cheers, which was
returned by the rank and file; but the Off
GERS looked downcast and sullen, evidently
not enjoying the situation as we did. To us
it meant joy and hope; in a word, the war
was over, and that meant home.
These two divisions, with scarce half their
original number left, during the past three
years had met face to face hundred times
on the scout, on picket, on the skirmish-iine,
on the battlefield, by night and by day,
| Summer and Winter, from Murfreesboro,
Tenn, to Chattanooga, Ringgold, Tunnel
! Hill, Resaca, Marietta, Atlanta, Lovejoys,
Station, Jonesboro, thence on the march to
the sea, Bear Creek, Macon, Milledgeville,
Waynesboro, Savannah, Blackville, Barn
well, Aiken, Averysboro, Bentonville, Wades-
boro, New Gilead, Lancaster, Fayetteville,
Olive Grove, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, etc.
And still on they come, all old veterans.
We could see it in their brown, SCARED
faces. A wiry-looking set; poorly clad !;
some wearing caps, others hats their car
bines slung over their backs; part with
sabers clanking against the stirrups; their
battlefags in rags, with scarcely q yestige
left but the staff; with battery or so and
fn, La
'Yank, you have got my horse" and
another, "There is my horse" while our
boys recognized horse here and there IN
the column they once rode. We stood it as
long as we could, and finally asked them to
halt, dismount, and have something to eat
and drink; which they finally did, as Wheeler
had reached Kilpatrick's quarters, and the
column halted.
Fitzpatrick and Wheeler met, not as
strangers, for they had exchanged prisoners
the march through Georgia.
THEY WERE CLASSMATES
at West Point when the war commenced.
During the short halt we mingled with Off
GERS and men, and exchanged congratula
tons at the prospects Of peace. The soldiers
seemed to enjoy a friendly chat over their
cup of coffee, exchanging captured horses,
and ! doubt if we had been friends for years
we would have parted with better feeling.
AS the column passed on, the sun only few
feet above the tops of the trees, we could see
their glistening arms as they receded over
the dusty road, when, passing to the rear
of our division, they bivouaeked for the
night, and the next morning started for
Greensboro.
After receiving their parols they were
furnished with transportation on railways
and rations from National stores, while Gen.
Johnston distributed to each officer and sol
dier alike coin dollar out Of a small sum
of money be had received from the Confed
crate Treasury, and with this token for the
unpaid service they had given TO tie Lost
Cause the officers and soldiers in gray scat
tered On different routes and took up their
Journey homeward
BY the 18th Of April Sherman had COM
pieted his arrangements, then issued his
northward with flying colors, with band
and martial music, full of hope and enthu-
siasm, to take part In the memorable event,
and on the 24th of May Gen. Sherman's
army passed in review before the President
of the United States in Washington. This
was the last act in the rapid and Won
derful drama of its four gallant corps.
Gems. Schofeld, Terry and Fitzpatrick
were TO remain ON duty in the Department
of North Carolina, already commanded by
Gen. Schofeld The cavalry were then or
dered to Greensboro The 13 regiments
composing the Third Division were dis
tributed along the lines of railway as far
south rs Charlotte and north and east to
Salem and Raleigh, Gen. Fitzpatrick making
his headquarters at Lexington.
AFTER NEARLY THREE MONTHS
of inactive soldier life, on the 18th of July,
1865, the various cavalry regiments were
again united at Division Headquarters, then
at Lexington, there to turn over our horses
and their equipments to the Division Quar-
termaster, taking his receipt for the same
and preparing the regimentai and company
muster-out rolls. When that was done, each
regiment, as fast as transportation could be
obtained, was sent by rail to Richmond or
Washington, thence by boat to Baltimore
and by the railway lines home to their old
camps, there to turn over their arms. camp
and garrison equipage, sign their muster
rolls, then to be paid off and receive their
final discharge.
GEN. sHERMAN's FAREWELL ADDRESS TO HIS
ARMY.
WASHINGTON d. c. May 80 1865
The General commanding announces to the
armies of the Tennessee and Georgia that the time
has come for us to part. Our work Is done, and
armed enemies no longer defy
Some of you will go TO your homes. and others
will he retained in military service Till further
orders
And now that about TO separate. to mingle
with the civil world, it becomes pleasing duty TO
recall to mind the situation OF National affairs
when but little more than year ago, we were
gathered about the cliffs of Lookout Mountain
and all the future wrapped in doubt and un-
certainty.
Three armies had come together from distant
fields with separate histories, yet bound by one
common cause.-the union of country and the
perpetual of the Government of our inheritance.
There Is need TO recall 10 your memories Tun-
mel Hill, with Rocky Face Mountain and Buzzard
Roost Gap and the ugly forts OF Dalton behind