Iron County register., 1897-12-23

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tablets. preparatory 10 planting mon-
Buents- Col. Gable. of Cincinnati.
chairman Of this National Park Com
mission. and his assistants. took pos
session Of ne, escorted ne everywhere,
and showed ne all their maps. pic
tares, ard gave me very much inform
alton valuable IN ny historical work.
facts fr9aa measurements eFa fae grourszg
which sill enable ne to correct many
errors which have heretofore e7ept IN
to current history" written by aU-
thors who have never been nearer the
batile-felds than New York Here.
without brezsiworks. $4,000 men
fought for two days. losing oyer 20.-
90 II killed, wounded a0d missing
found the track Of the army BE-
tween Shiloh and Corinth full OF IL
terest, Orer his p miles Johnston
marched II April. 1862. with a mighty
army - BsauregaEd. Bragg. Hardee
and Polk-to crush Grant al Shiloh
OFer II they marched back in a few
DAYS with Hallecks more than 10o.-
o30 men in pursuit Then the siege Of
Coriutb- Around the latter place.
followed late-&tbe terrific battles Of
CoriBth.
At Chattanooga / was fortunate IN
meeting Gen Boynton. Chairman Of
the [. 5 National Park Commission.
and nearly a dozen OF the other mem
bers. field officers who participated IN
the Chattanooga Campaign They in
Eited ne 10 join them il visiting The
bat;le-felds- A tremendous amount
Of data has been accumulated IN the
Government Office there. and they
kindly allowed ne to avail myself of
i al. and use all the pictures suitable
for ny work
I~as right royalty treated al Chat
tanooga. and lef, there rich in mater
ial beyond all / previously possessed.
and / trust ! shall be able TO present
that brilliant campaign IN some meas
orably adequate way: for while na-
ture did everything on a gigantic
scale about Chattanooga. the military
campaigning there in 1868 was in due
proportion 10 the environments. The
military men on the National Com
mission did NE the honor TO express
their opinion that if the campaigns"
should be equal TO the part completed
and printed, they would be more sat
isfactoFy than any hitherto published
They were particularly pleased with
ny plan TO include the dispatches and
reports Of both the National and Con-
federate chief officers. srrittea By them
al tae time
When we stopped to eat our noon
lunch at the engineers camp on the
battlefield. / met quite an incident !
noticed one of the engineers who was
engaged il road-building. and who
had joined Us, looking at NE in an H.
terested way Shortly Gen. Boynton
spoke NY name in pointing out TO ne.
on the map an important position dur
ing The battle; and the engineer came
up and shook ny hand heartily. look
ing me in the eyes and smiling. and
said: Col. you have forgotten the
Lieutenan: you got into bad scrape,
and then got him out of il again IN
1864. al Decatur. Alabama, haFeB't
you?~ / ackBowled that I had.
Well said he. -safter we had driven
Hood south Of the Tennessee River,
you were in command Of the force
guarding the bridges from Pulaski,
Tenn 10 Decatur. Ala, and one day
you suddenly rode into my camp at
the bridge Just north Of Decatur OF an
inspection tour. and found lot a man
on duty 10 ny horror. / had been
sent there with - men TO guard the
bridge You inspected the post. then
asked he what ny command was CO.
iug there. I told you We had been or
dered TO guard the bridge. but Is there
wasn't an armed ensmy left north Of
tie Tennessee River l had been Civ
ing the men a little rest after orr hard
Sighting and marching You looked
al ne from head 10 foot as IL inspect
irg ne: then ron told NE IT was not
for ne % know whether or not there
vas an enemy this side the Atlantic
ocean. il vas my dsitV 10 guard thai
bridge a. carefully as If al attack was
expected You asked the name Of the
next oEeer 10 rank, wrote al order
directing ue TO report iBanasaiaseIy TO
General johnson al Pulaski. and al
Other order. putting ny second Lieu
tenant II command / was borrifed.
for / had fought ny way up from the
ranks aud had never been reported or
cansured before When / reached Pa
laskf fe~ daEs later and reported 10
General Johnson. he ordered his A05n-
tant TO take nv sword from De and
placed re under arrest Well. there
I was IN Mortal terror for several
4eekz. bat xhen yoa found this wasI
NJ first failure in duty and hos dis
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