The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06
ON KENESAW'S TOP.
Here is the officer who Censured "Uncle
Billy"

BLY,"
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue of July find communication re-
garding Sherman at Kenesaw Mountain by
A. w. Edwards. Capt. Edwards, in endeav-
oring to correct a statement made by Capt.
Vanneman, S4th Ind, in a former issue, also
commits an error, and / know he will not
feel unkindly if l set him right. He
seems to have forgotten that prince OF
signal officers, Lieut. Burton, stationed at
Marietta, who sent all matter for kenesaw
or the world beyond by signal. do not
now remember any time that an Or
derby was used. If so, it was prior to Sept.
90, the date of my arrival at the station on
the mountain. Lieut.. Foraker at no time, to
my knowledge, as on duty at Kenesaw, but
was at Winnings, and he was there during the
little episode at Allatoona, Oct. 5, 1864.
had some correspondence with Capt. Ed
wards in 1883, when the article on the Sigual
Corps service appeared. The Captain is
exact in his description of the hut" occu-
pied by me- and also in the incident of the
General interposing his person between my
telescope and Allatoona's battle-ground.
was then intent on getting the combinations
from Adams flag, telling US of the presence
of Corse, which Sherman SO much wanted to
hear. don't exactly call to mind the full
text of my di.course TO the General, but
probably the Captain has the very words.
| don't deny the impeachment, for L was
mad. Sherman could not have stayed long
on that rock, Tor he was soon in that hut :"
with me, assisting me and my right-hand
man, Robert j. Walker, translate the mes
sage.
1t was also the writer who read the COM
binations of that message from Core, about
the loss of check bone and one ear, but
able to whip all h yet" ETC., and Com
rade Walker took down the figures. After
they were translated. he had the pleasure Of
handing them to Gen. Sherman.
This work has been claimed by so many
that am not sure Of myself unless l have
my diary before my eyes. | have very
good account Of those eventful days. Thank
you, Captain, for calling this matter up. 1t
seems to take a long time to get history
Strengthened out Corhrade Frankenberry
ventilated himself lately, through the col
umns of New York paper. l wrote the
editor civil letter asking the privilege OF
replying. He did mot possess the courtesy
to answer. Or may be he did not receive it..
In Picket Shots find another name that
takes me back yonder "-ihat of Capt. V.
P. Twombly. I'd iowa. After the battle OF
| Shiloh, the I'd and Tth Iowa and my regi-
ment the SD lla,twere brigaded together,
and 30 remained until the muster-out IN
July, 1865. How badly persons who ought
| to know better get things mixed! Fuller
commanded the Fourth Division, Sixteenth
Corps, until the copso'idation at East Point
Ga, when the Sixteenth Corps, as regards
Sherman's army, was Knocked out; the
Second Division, formerly Sweeny's, now
Corse's, became the Fourth Division, Fiji
tenth Corps, and Fuller was assigned to
the Seventeenth Corps. A. J. Smith had
two divisions from the Sixteenth and Seven
teenth Corps with him west of the Missis-
sippi River, which became the new Six teenth
Corps.
Here's my hand, Capts. Edwards and
Twombly shake! am glad to hear from
you. Twombly is right.-C. Fl. FISH, Lieu
tenant, SD H., and Signal Officer, Fifteenth
Corps, Pueblo, Colo.