The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-11
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motions-and his heart had been in his
profession ever since. though he was tenn
porarily off duty.
wonder il Grant at Shiloh thought of
his battles at Hazel Green, and drew from
his experience in those contests to assist
him il that grea ba tie in real war.
wonder If the experience N Grant conntv
helped him in his wonderful maneuver
in Vicasburg N S63. ore of ne most sir!k-
ing military movements made during t,at
war of striking movements. | wonder,
when, IN 1874. he was baked after cross
ing the Rapidan and meeting Lee and his
dauntless legons, he recalled the manner
in which he had fianked one line of corn
kernels with another line of corn soldiers,
and decided to try the experiment on Gem
eral Lee. Certainly he did try the thanking
process, and with success. | wonder if he
had not had that experience at Hazel Green
in 1860 it would not have been easy for
him to take the advice of his corps COM
manders and recross the Rapidah, after
the second days fight in the wilderness,
when his army was defeated 1t may be
that the courage and confidence he gained
at Hazel Green enabled him to say to those
corps commanders: I'VE will stay here
and fight; we will not recross the Rapi-
DAM" Who knows?
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That story, told me by friend, reminds
diana told concerning General Rosecrans,
in the West Virginia campaign. just before
the battle OF Rich mountain. General
RoSecrans was i'll command of a brigade,
He accepted an invitation from the colonel
of the Thirteenth Indiana to dine with him.
Their coffee. hardtack ard fried pork were
displayed on a hardtack box; lust to the
left of General Rosecrans lay another hard
tack box. The general stopped eating and
talking. gathered up the crackers on the
table. ranged them on the box to his left.
in lines of battle, moved them back and
forth, brought them together, made them
fl Ank each other, had one side charge the
other and the other defend itself, and then
brushed them off on the ground, by which
time the colored cook had gotten around
with another supply for the table. The
general, Without saying word or elancing
at the balance OF The party, took his two
hands, gathered up the new supply of
crackers, placed them on his cracker box
battlefield and proceeded to fight another
battle. This went on for half an hour.
When the cracker box battle was over and
the ground strewn with dead and mangled
hardtack, Rosecrans looaed up, laughed
and said, "That is the way we can do it,"
and proceeded to replenish the inner man.
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Hayden X. Smith, the Chicago journalist,
tells a story / have never seen in print.
after Chickamauga. He hunted up head
quarters, entered the room, saw an officer
at the desk, and asked for the usual pass
for correspondent and was told to ''take
seat" There were but two chairs, one
of which was occupied by a rusty and
sandy whiskered man wearing a private's
blouse, with no mark OF rank about him,
who had one foot resting on the other chair.
AS Smith turned around he took his foot
off the vacant chair and kicked it toward
him, telling him to ''sit down." Smith
took him for slouchy orderly in attend.
ance.
The train from the north on which Mr..
Smith had arrived that morning had been
thrown off the track by guerrillas, causing
long wait but no damage. AS soon as
the press man was seated the man asked
him it he came in on the train that was
ditched. He had.
The correspondent was closely cross
questioned about the train, and saw that
the man knew fully as much about it as he
did. The man stepped to the desk, sat
down minute, and then handed Smith
the desired pass, signed ~. S. Grant"
Even after reading it Smith bad no idea
that the man was Grant, but supposed he
had authority to sign Grants name. A few
| hours a'terward he was standing by the
roadside when he saw the same man, fol-
lowed by two or three officers and order
lies. The man recognized him, halted, and
asked if he wanted to go out to the lines
He said he did, but that he had not yet pro.
vided himself with transportation. The
man called an orderly who was leading a
saddled horse and told Smith to mount
The latter, when he was fairly in the sad
die, asked the orderly the name of "tha
officer" With rather contemptuous sur
prise at the ignorance betrayed, the or
derly replied: why. that is Genera
Grant,. A. Watrous in Chicago Times
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