The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-20

witnessed at reunions. The war was a
necessity: Nothing human could have
of the Generals speech follow:
1T appears TO me that this occasion Is
a lifting one upon which 10 review the
American volunteer. know one. God
fearing. conscientious. devoted son OF New
England; one born on a farm and trained
to all the handiwork OF farm life; later an
academic student, a teacher OF youth,
college graduate, and then. lastly, a theo-
logical student. Here at seminary the
war found him with. handsome, health
full figure. a smiling face noble specimen
physically. mentally, morally and spiritually
OF our best American life as can be found
In New England He volunteered at the first
call a private soldier. He carried the
musket, did I'm those days, carrying
the piece in the left hand. AS the war pro-
gressed he passed through every grade
that OF second lieutenant, first lieutenant.
captain, major. lieutenant colonel. colone.
and finally was brevetted a -rigadier gen
eral. He was engaged in more than twenty
of the big battles OF the war. and saw at
times conflicts like that at the stone bridge
at Antietam and that near Culps hill, at
Esr EsirySSng r the s10"eras ff,cnI ~ Ia'' to set
between them; the dreadful slaughter al
fredericksburg in front of Mary's Heights:
Jackson's flank attack at Chancellorsville;
the piercing OF the clouds al Lookout noun
tain; the night fight at Wauhatcnee. and
the death scramble for the crest of Mis-
sonary ridge. He saw Sherman and
Thomas, end Mcpherson and Schofeld as
they gathered in the spring of 1864 at Tun-
nell hill, near Dalton.
'He scaled Rocky Face ridge. penetrated
the two days of Resaca, the double ani
twisted skirmishing al Adairsville; the half
fiedged battles of Kingston and Cassville;
he went blindly through the mud and ugly
dry forests of northern Georgia TO be with
Hooker's assault against the shaggy abat-
se Ne man noe worked more @ tSsS he Did az the
bloody evening entertainment at Picketts
mill. He worked all night with his COM
Joe Johnston in the morning. and preserved
Sherman's left. He had a sight at Pine
Top. where the military bishop. like tsome
forces, but yet was forever cut off while
doing so by a shrieking Yankee shell. He
saw the charge at Muddy creek, where
from brave foes, thing almost Lever done.
He was in the midst OF the fearful slaugh-
ter and sad repulse of Kennesaw: he knew
Gen. j. NJ. Corse, whose indomitable spirit
kept him at his work at Alatoona pass
after losing his ear and right cheekbono.
and who. hero-like, with the courage OF
TO rout the many. He witnessed
That remarkable Fourth of July, cele-
brated with double-shotted guns. where
field, and both sides fired more than forty
four. cannons. a veritable Union salute. he
ovsr ovrr'y The sSiptd Cbpattahoochee but was all hn
where Thomas and Newton fought with
fury and persistency for hank The nank
was saved to US. for here, at Peach Tree
creek, the dauntiess Hood, mighty in at
tack. had abutted against the rock OF
Chickamanga rock & made n;e,,n 20 ssana: arriae me
strife of Hood again when Mcpherson fell.
and where Logan, Blair and Granville M.
Dodge with Their s, never beaten eo cGrp Sa s,ss ws
of Atlanta. At Ezra Church he watched
through long. noisy and anxious day the
itful lighting of Logan and s. ID. Lee. and
loro n 1ic vt wit
later in the night he was in the columns of
Howard. which were pulling out from the
Atlanta works; was saluted with only one
shrieking shell that fortunately fell into an
empty space and merely said goodbye"
He swung with the column a circuit of
twenty-five miles. He charged with Captain
Estey the Confederate cavalry at a run for
six miles more. and helped to stamp out the
fire over the Flint river bridge. He guided
the men who crowded the unfriendly
heights of Jonesboro. where the skirmishing
was incessant. Here he beheld Hardee's de-
feat Here too. he heard the rumbling OF
the exploding magazines of Atlanta evacu-
ated and here he got a glimpse of Sher-
mans dispatch about Hood going out and
Slocum coming In to the lonR-coveted cita-
DEL dispatch wherein the fiery Sherman
proclaimed. Atlanta ours. and fairly won
The further battiings he shared on front.
flank and rear over the Atlanta bone al
ready in Sherman's teeth, till Thomas went
back to Nashville and like loadstone.
drew on Hood. via Franklin. 20 himself and
TO destruction. and till sherman was
rick and 5000 comrades for a seaward
march. these things. with duty unremitted.
he watched with interest, and wrote con-
ones on s as yet vet so far on in The North. Now.
with good horse to ride, for promotion
has brought it, he faced Macon. He fought
route he foraged freely on the country. and
at last he wedged himself up between the
Ogeechee and Savannah, where for time
perforce, he halted till everybody was made
to feed on rice alone, for here Hardee had
accomplished a noisy and bothersome re-
sistance The Savannah being crossed at
last by Slocum, hurried the Confederates
out into Carolina. and our young friend
rode cheerily into the captured city the
day before Christmas, 1864.
EXPERIENCE WHEN DETACHED.
'But now. awhile these comrades are
crossing the arms of the sea and cotton
islands of South Carolina. while they are
scrambling on. leaving their dead and
wounded at Pocotaliga rivers and Bakers
Bridges, Orangeburg, Congaree creek and
elsewhere up to Columbia, naughtily be-
holding the burning of that great CITY, our
young friend has gone away from them TO
the coast to discipline. drill and bring to
Sherman's support thousand black men,
His comrades roll along through Chera
the battles of Averysboro. the skirrnish of
Fayetteville, up to the final stubborn fight
VILE, and are quietly waiting for a final
settlement Of all the national trouble
when, anxious to bear a part in the ter
minal conflicts the young soldier on the
coast broke the seal of an apparent order
to find the refreshing news of Lees sur
render: then shortly another dispatch re-
vealed to him, now In camp at Newburn,
the story Of Johnston's capitulation. and
then of the capture OF jefferson Davis.
The young colonel had never been happier
THE cheers Of the BLACK troops were
only excelled in melody by their jubilee
songs; when, like an unexpected thunder
cloud, full of lightning flashes and startling
reverberation the Nations sky was over
cast with indescribable blackness. while the
saddest messages imported nothing but
sorrow and impending trouble. Who can
describe il? Abraham Lincoln Is dead
Assassinated! Killed. not by the confed-
There was intense national grief in which
the young volunteer with his new soldiers
bore their sad part. But the sources OF
joy that were flowing from the fountain
head Of the great peace were rolling down
the mountain sides and filling the valleys
OF the land all the way to the sea.
"Our young friend saw Sherman's men
marching at twenty-five miles a day on
to Richmond redeemed, and to Washing
ton forever relieved. He came to the cap
ital- He sat on his noble horse and par
ticipated in the grand review, lingering at
the Presidents stand to behold the very
last of the armies of the East and West
they passed the executive platform in
their strong martial tread. The words
were not said, but the meaning OF them
swelled every heart. penetrated to every
home of the land: The Union Is ours and