The National tribune., 1895-09-05
LEFT ON THE FIELD7
Dispute as TO Who Removed the Remain
of Albert sidney Johnston.

of Albert sidney Johnston.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Who car
ried Albert Sidney Johnston off Of tie
battlefield at Shiloh?
claim that il was done BY Union SOL
diers, mostly members of the 1st Neb. Be-
fore stating what / know of that affair
will say that the 1st Neb. was mustered into
service at Omaha, in the Summer of 1851. az
an infantry regiment. In the Fall of 1868
il was transferred TO the cavalry. ConSe-
quently, we were infantry at Shiloh.
Now, LIST Neb boys, / want you to listen
while talk a while. / remember after the
fight was over that lot of US young fellows
were looking over the ground, and /, with
several others, was looking at something of
interest to US. There was group Of men TO
our left some distance and some of my COM
rades called 10 me:
Brady, here are the remains of Gen.
Johnston"
j. with some others, walked over to where
they were, and saw what WAS supposed to
be The remains of Albert Sidney Johnston,
of the Confederate army. After viewing
the remains as long as / wanted, we started
tor camp. We had only gone 80 or 40 yards
when we met Lieut.. Emory Peck, with two
or three men carrying litter. Peck called
TO US:
"Come, boys; there is an order in camp to
deliver the remains of Gen. Johnston"
Several of us turned about, placed the re-
mains on the litter and carried and put
them in the ambulance waiting near our
camp. i think among as many men as were
there and took part, or saw others taking
part in that affair, some ought to recolect.
] only call to mind three others beside N.Y.
self as being present on that occasion:
Lieut. Emory Peck, Corp'l Jasper Dye, Co.
], and Jack Reeves, Co. G, all of the 1st
Neb. think Gen. Lew Wallace, who COM
manded division at Shiloh, or Gen. John NJ.
Thayer, now of Lincoln, Neb., commanding
our brigade, or Thomas J. Majors, now of
Nemaba Neb., an officer in Co. c, 1st Neb..
may know OF the occurrence. j think these
enlisted men also may know: l. n. Wray.
Geo. w. Null, both of Marysville, Mo-;
Samuel III. Lutes, of Vinton, Iowa; III. G.
Harshbarger, of Woodbine, Iowa; Ed. Roys-
ton. Colorado; John w. Bashford, supposed
10 be in Oklahoma; w. d. Stallard, Sedan,
Kan.
/ should like 10 hear from as many as
know anything about this affair. I find
people here that do not think Gen. Johnston
was left on the field as be was. i find one
man that says that be was in plain sight Of
Gen. Johnston when he Was shot, and
thinks he was carried off the field by his
own men immediately. This man says he
was Surgeon in Confederate regiment.
i find plenty Of others who have too high an
opinion of the Southern authorities TO think
they would let Gen. Johnston lie on the
field, as / know he did. / think his own
son, Col. Preston Johnston, might throw
some light on this subject. Not long ago |
saw in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE a contro-
versy between Col. 4. r. Lee. of Monticello,
ILL.,, and Conrad Murphy, as TO the kind OF
horse Johnston rode. There was a very
nice bay horse lying dead about so yards
to the east OF where Johnston lay. / would
like TO hear from anybody, North or South.
why Johnston was left on the field as he
was, and whose nice bay horse it was, on
which there was an officers outfit? 1t was
talked at the time by our men that said bay
horse was Johnston's.-JosEPH A. BRADDY,
Co. j, LIST Neb. Cav, Maxwell, Cal.