The herald., 1896-07-19
SOME INTERESTING
CONFEDERATE STORIES

] ment. konJuCky QlNlSlOh Va OAA
federate Veterans. is Major James M:
| Arnold. a prominent railroad man Oh
| Newport. KY, and Cincinnati Tnere
was a meeting of freight men III NIL
waukee Arnold was present ana gen
| eral favorite. There were several meni-
| bers of the Loyal Legion among tne Sls
| iting freight men. The Loyal Legion nao
| a meeting one of the evenings while the
| freight men were in town. l happened
| to be the committeeman authorized 10
| send an invitation to them to attend the
meeting. I noticed that the man they
| called Major Arnold was not lining UP 70
| 10 over to the hall and asked why. A
captain leaned over and whispered:
"He was in the confederate army;
"Then he must go anyway. we can ai-
| ways find plenty Of you folks, but 1t is
not often that confederate soldler IS
around on the night of our meeting.
1t required considerable urging to get
the lone confederate, who had been a
company commander in the sThirteenth
Arkansas infantry. to go over, Dut he
finally consented, and 1t was made SO
pleasant for him that he still speaks OF
the time he Joined the Wisconsin Loyal
Legion and had glorious good time.
On the occasion of that visit Major Ar
mold told several stories, two of which
recall for this column. When the army
of the Tennessee, under the commando ot
General Braxton Bragg, occupied line
at Wartrace and Tullahoma, soon after
the battle Of Murphreesboro, our divis-
ion (Pat Clebourne's) had skirmish.
the fight lasting three days, with
the division of General jefferson c. Da-
Wis. 1t was on the side Of one of the
fgSaSy fSggSaSy,if if cdvsers csdAs sGumbsrland Mt. mountains
| growth At the time of which speak
| I had charge of the skirmishes of our
regiment, and my little captain. now
| Judge Reginald H. Thompson of Louis
| l,,a md NJ h. q
ade skirmishers. The other fellows
had driven US some two hundred yards
| down the mountain side, and when
! rallied I found myself holding very
strong position behind a magnificent
| broad -branched oak tree about four feet
in diameter. A little in my front, and
extending to the right about two hundred
| yards, there was an opening. The other
| fellows were on the other side of the
opening. Just after I had rallied my
| little captain came to me and, after
cathching breath, used very strong and
emphatic adjectives in speaking of the
situation, and courageously proposed
that we go back where we came from :;
told me he was going to the right and
that when heard the yell should start
back up the mountain. said all right
and suggested to him that he go to the
rear and get in the undergrowth as the
other fellows were just across the open
ing and behind trees. Not much!' he
remarked. I am going to that tree,
pointing to one some thirty yards from
US, out on the edge of the opening, the
way to it being exposed. He had gone
only little distance when one of our
men hailed him and said: Look out
captain!' The captain cast his eye up
the mountain side and saw that union
soldier had stepped from behind his tree
and had dead aim at him. The captain
stopped, faced the soldier and yelled:
Shoot and bequick about it,. The other
fellow apparently was struck with ad-
miration for the dauntless little cap
tain, and instead of firing and killing
him, as he certainly could have done
brought his gun to present and stepped
back behind his tree. That, sir was a
display of bravery and courtesy, brav-
cry on the part of our captain and cour-
tesy on the part of the other fellow,
that are pleasant to contemplate at this
day, when both sections of our country
are at peace and steadily gaining il
their respect for each other.
During the skirmish, late one after
noon, while my regiment was on one OF
the spurs of the mountain, we saw very
distinctly an engagement that took place
between the Second Arkansas infantry
and the Twenty-second Indiana infan.
try. l think the latter regiment was or.
ganized with General Jefferson c. Davi!
as its first colonel. At the battle o.
Shiloh these two regiments fought eacl
other, and each had a warm reception
During the fierce contest the Second Ak
kansas captured the colors of the Twen
ty-second Indiana. You know that is
serious thing. A regiment would rathe
lose almost anything in the world thai
, it's colors. Thousands of men have givel
their lives in defending the colors of thei
t regiment. While in the skirmish re
ferred to the Twentysecond indiana
captured the colors, or battle flag, of th
Second Arkansas. The battle flag o
! Cleburne's division was known as th
? southern (St. Andrew's) cross, while ou
division carried blue flag with whit
moon in the center, the name of the reg
5 iment being across the moon and TIL
name of each battle in which it was en-