The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-22
Thanks!
For bullet that missed in its flight
Thanks!
For a fever that failed one glad night

1862. They were not sent to Chicka-
manga, or to Jacksonville, but they
spent three months on Iowa soil, and
in that three months had nine hundred
men in the hospital, and buried more
men in Burlington, Iowa, than AL four
of our present regiments. They then
went with Sherman to Vicksburg,
were defeated there with slight loss,
and three months later, after three
months OF camp life and three months
of service, swung around in front of
the mouth of White River and asked to
go into Camp and recupetate. Their
request contained the statement that
only sixty men remained in the regi-
ment able for duty. The colonel asked
it, the brigadier general recommended
it, and Major kellogg, of Des Moines,
took the request to Gen. Sherman.
Gen. Sherman read it, and showed the
paper back with an oath saying, 81
don't recommend any such - thing;
recommend that the regiment get on
the transport and report for duty"
Only sixty men able for duty! The
3Sth Iowa was mustered later. 1t was
sent to Arkansas, and in single thirty
days of its existence buried one hun.
dred and thirteen of its brave men in
the Ozark mountains. 1t subsequently,
| went into camp near the mouth of
White river, and there sickness was so
prevalent, and the death rate so heavy,
that the regiment was not able to bury
! its own dead, and details from other
regiments were made to bury the dead
of the 3Sth. AT least two Iowa regi-
ments were unable at times to bury
their own dead.
But they tell us our boys were un-
patriotic; that they were complainers
| or course some of them complained
| There have been compIainers in all
wars, and always will be. Old soldiers
did any of the boys in your regiment
or at least in the regiment next te
yours complain? Yes. just Il little
All armies have complained But oul
boys were no more complainers thar
those of any other army. l permit NJ
one in my presence to criticise our boy
| without rebuke. (Applause.) Old sol
dier do you remember when you lait
that piece OF hard tack on a board ant
it wiggled a little? daughter L
there are any old soldiers present wht
have not eaten hard tack that wigglet
when laid on board will you hold N
! your hands? Oh yes, you have eater
that kind OF course you have. 1t ma,
have been in your regiment. | remem
Der OF hearing about one soldier. who
after eating heartily OF that kind o
hard tack; aid he didn't like il yer
well, but there was nothing else TO eat
J he walked up TO his captain and said
"There, Pm the equal of Sampson, w
slain thousand" (Laughter.) An,
his captain, a little out of patience, an
swered, y es, ana with the same weap
on" daughter and applause |
there is an old soldier present who ha
not, in that southern climate, where j
does not rain iii drops, but rains il
streams, who has not laid. down in tn
road Il hundred times and drank fron
the horses tracks, hold up your hands
Is there any old soldier here who ma
not gone through the cypress swamp
where there has been no running waite
for "a thousand years, and where TIL
water has stood stagnant for a thou
3 sand years, and has not parted til
green scum an inch and half thick