The National tribune., 1898-08-11
FIGHTING THEM OVER
What the Veterans Have to Say
About Their Campaigns.
WITH THE 104TH OHIO.
Campaigning Under Burnside Was No Pleas
ant Work.

ant Work.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: On Jan. 5
after preparing for forced march. the 10itl
Ohio left Danville for Frankfort Kentucky
Capital, where, the month following. not
| few peaceat-any-pric orators met in tn,
State House, and there planned to give weigh
to their disloyal utteranccs. However, III,
wide-awake Col. Gilbert. commandant of tn,
post, with detail of soldiers, ordered then
| to irave, and they without formality mad,
exit
While here, one day the left wing of tn,
regiment challenged the right wing to snow
| ball battle, which resulted in q number o
bunged eyes, but no bad blood On Feb q
we retraced our steps via Kentucky Military
Institute, Rough and Ready, Harrodsburg ant
Danyille, where, after somewhat of a delay
we were quartered in Presbyterian church
A large force of the enemy, it was reported
were near Perryville, under Gen. Pegram
| aiming to invade the Blue Grass region. Or
Sunday, March | we drew two days ration:
and marched to Camp Dick Robinson, Nicho
lasvllle, and Lexington, arriving at the latter
place at dusk, having trampd about 2,
miles through rain and mud. Here tent:
were pitched and, as some four months pre-
vIous, our usual drill discipline with the same
Austrian muskets were carried ont. The
21st we retraced our steps to Danville, which
was then being menaced by the rebs
After our infantry had been marched to and
fro from place to place, one day Gen. Carter,
with mounted men, caught the enemy a,
Somerset and routed them in sharp fight,
they retreating toward Cumberland Gap
It,was apparent that the Army OF Central
Kentucky, soon to be reorganized and known
pl 70 'ItUa ,fp Errd Tfor ~.
put in command, was to be led to new con-
quests. Several months were spent in drill
ing the boys in "Scott's Tactics" The 1O4tI
was associated with the 44th and Tooth and
103d Ohio, 112th Ill.,, 10th KY, and the 9Th
Tenn, as the First Brigade, Third Division,
Twenty-third Corps.
With cold Glory" in the van, and to the
tune Tramp, tramp, tramp" and other
patriotic airs, we marched through Cuba,
Stanford, Hickman Bridge, Paris, and other
places, for Danville, where we camped five
days, alter having drawn ''dog- tents cloth
ing Except overcoats), an ezra pair Of shoes
etc, for each man, started on our arduous
march of fortnight to Knoxville, under
Burnside, who had been at the siege of Vicks-
burg and a few days previous had joined u.s.
To say the least, our trip over the barren Cum
berland Mountains via Chitwood Montgomery
and Wartburg but gave a foretaste of hardships
yet before us. Il ask the readers indulgence,
for we never planted flag on Lookout Mount
ain, captured those cannon at Resaca and At
lanta, or charged upon the bloody angle.
However, ali Of US did the best we could.
On Sept. 4, amidst cheers of loyal people,
with music and flags flying we entered Knox
vile. Although the enemy had abandoned
loyal East Tennessee with little resistance,
they still held the natural fortress of Cumber-
land Gap, between us and our base of sup
plies, so that operations with our army in
Kentucky was severed. Burnside, with the
44th, 103d and 104th Ohio, 10th ILL.,, 9Th
Tenn, with KonkelPs Battery d and Shields's
18th Ohio battery, under Gen. Gilbert, started
for the scene of action, where we arrived on
the night of the Sth.
Next day, alter closer investment of the
Gap, however,. as Gen. DeCourcy with his