The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-05-19
IN HARD LUCK.
The Good Reasons why a Comrade Lost
Some Beta.

| IN HARD LUCK.
The Good Reasons Why a Comrade Lost
Some Bets.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I am almost
busted" financially, a portion of which
| charge to your account "thusly':
In conversation with some Potomac com.
rades regarding the Atlanta campaign and the
| battle of July % 1864, i made the statement
| that after Mcpherson was killed Logan took
command of the Army of the Tennessee for a
few days. Sherman then placed Gen. Howard,
who was commanding the Fourth Corps in
command. A adaverous-looking chap who
had never been in the army, corrected me,
saying Gen. Howard was transferred from
| command of the Fourth Corps to COM
mand the Twentieth Corps. This denied,
and he said he could prove it. ] said he could
not. He said he would bet S. If would take
the Editor of The NATIONAL TRIBUNE rs
proof. i covered the bet too quick with por-.
tion of my pension money, and, holy Moses
if he did not fish copy of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE of Nov. 10, 1891, out of his pocket,
and on the ninth page, lower part of the fourth
column, headed 1.-THE Fourth Corps" show
where the Editor said during the Atlanta
campaign Gen. Howard was assigned to the
command of the Twentieth Corps" Had he
proven that st. Paul wrote Genesis it would
not have astonished me more.
S. but more so over the doubtful looks on
the faces of the Potomac comrades" / man
aged to continue the story of how we event.
ually captured Atlanta by moving south to
Jonesboro, and how Gen. Dodge was wounded
and our left wing, Sixteenth Corps, broken up
and Fullers Fourth Division, Sixteenth Corps,
transferred to the Seventeenth Corps, and onr
(Sweepy's Second Division) to the Fourth Di-
vision of the Fifteenth Corps, with Gen. Corse
division ndnr and that were
sent to Rome, Ga.
Again that cadaverous cuss interrupted me,
and said was mistaken that meant Corse' 8
Division, of the Seventeenth Corps. told him
/ meant Corses Fourth Division, Fifteenth
Corps, that had been Sweeny's Second Di-
vision, Sixteenth Corps. He pulled out S.,
and bet it was Corse's Division, Seventeenth
Corps, that was sent to Rome. Now, thought,
/ will get my s. back, for l had been
clerk in Gen. Corse's Adjutant General
office, and thought my memory had not failed
entirely. scraped up another five, and agreed
to leave it to Gen. Sherman. That cadaverous
chap turned to page $50, Vol. II, Memoirs OF
Gen. Sherman" and read az ordered New
toms Division of the Fourth Corps back to
Chattanooga, and Corse's Division of the Sew
emteenth Corps back to Rome" And OH page
40: Gen. Newion's Division of the Fourth
Corps and Corse's of the Seventeenth were sent
back by rail, the former to Chattanooga and
the latter to Rome"
Now" said he, "you made mistake In
saving that one divisio was given to the Fiji
teenth and one TO the Seventeenth Corps; for
one was given to the Army of Georgia, under
Gen. Socum." Idenied it, but he insisted it
was SO, and backed il by $40 / was fool
enough to borrow $40, and we agreed to leave it
to Gen. Grant. He turned to page 352. Vol.
II, personal Memoirs of y. S. Grant," and
read: Sherman then divided his army into
the right and left wings, the right commanded
by Gen. o. o. Howard and the left by Gen.
Slocum Gen. Dodge's two divisions were as
signed, one to each of these wings"
The old cuss next tried 10 get me when he
said we had 10 men to the rebels one in the
last campaigns. / told him that a rebel lie.
He wanted to bet $40 that he could prove it by
Republicans in good standing; but after THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE and Sherman and Grant
going back on me had not sand enough to bet
on anything. But the old cuss, to rub it in on
me, got Whitelaw Reid's "Ohio in the Wal" and
read
THE victory was not won through general
ship. 1t is a libel on the word to say that gen.
eralship delayed for four years the success of
% 600, 900 over 100000, or required 100000
men in the closing campaign 10 defeat l0O,-
O00"
Wouldn't bet nickel now that was in
the army.
If that old cadaverous cuss should say was
not in the old Second Brigade, Second Division.
left wing, Sixteenth Corps. he conld not get a
three. cent bet out of me, although ! sometimes
think | served from Corinth in 1862 TO At
lanta in 1864 in it. As as ! receive
my next pension, Feb. 4, 1892, l will send
S. to an attorney and have him examine
the rolls and see If | ever was in Co /,
Slst Ohio Second Brigade, Second Division,
Sixteenth Corps" HIGH PRIVATE" Box 956,
Emporia, Kan.
-FOUR comrade seems to have been playing in
"hard luck" as the wicked men who follow
games of chance term it, and he had the wrong
side of the question all the way through until
it came to citing Whitelaw Reid. What White
law Reid said was bit Of rhetoric and not an
exact statement of facts.
The census of 1860 showed that there were
81, 1873. 744 people in the United States Leaving
out the Pacific Coast, which took but little part
in the fracas there were in round numbers about
10000, 900 people in the United States, of whom
substantially 100000 were in the South and
10000 600 in the North. The next error is in
not taking into account the fact that the rebels
put into the field every white man that could
possibly be made to do duty; while in the
North the men who were in the army could
not be missed from the population EDITOR
NATIONAL TRTBUEE.l