The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-02-17

Peach Tree Creek in the face of CALLING fire.
The enemy was driven back some distance,
keeping his forces well concealed in the dense
pine and scrub-oak woods.
Our brigade and Knap's Battery had Just
taken position. The Second Brigade was
crossing the creek One section two guns)
of Battery NJ, n. Y. Light Art, was hurriedly
run up on small hill which commanded .
tolerable advantage of the situation. The
timber just in front of the guns was being
felled for the purpose of getting better range
of the enemy. The Confederates IN force
charged up the hill before the caisson with
ammunition could be got there.
The enemy being sheltered by a rsvine on
the right of the guns. got beyond them, and
thus virtually had possession of them for few
minutes
This charge was one of those gallant on
slau.hts which characterized the fiery zeal of
the rebels throughout the war. But no charge
ever made by the army during the four years
of war was ever met or more promptly re-
pulsed and punished.
The SD y. j. whose colors were captured
by the enemy, and on whose breastworks the
rebel flag was floating, according to DR. Can
non S version, belonged to the Second Brigade
| of our Second Division.
At the time of the charge made by the
| enemy only n part of this brigade had crossed
the creek, none having been over but short
time, and how they could have been IN
trenched behind breastworks on which the
| rebel colors could have been planted, is beyond
my comprehension The earth was almost
compact bed of stone. and would have re-
CURED much time and labor to intrench.
| One thing is sure-nO rebel flag was
placed on breastwOrk in front of our First
| Brigade, for we had no breastworks, and no
| JOHNNY reb ever lived who could have placed
a rebel flag on works held by that brigade.
/ remember having seen Johnny try to
steal flag off the breastworks at Gettysburg,
| Pa. after dark, but Corporal of Go. b, 102d
n. Y, interposed a slight objection, and we
planted the Johnny. That was the only kind
/ of rebel colors ever planted near breastworks
defended by the White Star Division. -THos.
| A. BURNS, Co. A. 66th Ohio.
| Thinks Cannon One of the Right Kind.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: was much
pleased and greatly interested IN reading DIR.
Cannon's Inside of Rebeldom." If there
are other Johrnies who can write In the fair
and liberal spirit which he does, would like
to see their stories published in THE Ma
| TIoNAL TRIBUNE. From Dalton to Marietta
| must often have beeu very near to the
Doctor, if not directly opposed to him.
was a member of the 10th n. Y, Second
Brigade, Second Division, Twentieth Corps.
l would ask him if he was ont between Pine
| Hill and Lost Mountain on the morning of
| June 16, 1864 Our picket-lines were very
close together and in plain sight of each
other whenever we stood up. Every man in
the detail from our regiment that morning
for the picket line was killed or wounded. L
was wounded while crouching behind small
pine tree, waiting to draw bead on man
| in front of me, but who was so nearly con-
cealed by the bushes that preferred to wait
until he should expose himself sufficiently to
afford me surer shot, when, zip" got it
myself. That shot ended my campaigning,
and for all know the Doctor may have fired
it.
Well we boys of the North had no hard
feelings against the Southern soldiers III those
DAYS, and we have none now. Each side
was fighting for principle in which they be-
lieved, and we are glad to acknowledge their
bravery, and hope they are by this time at
least as loyal to the old flag as any of US.
Let the old boys in gray and the boys in
blue unite to make Old Glory the emblem Of
the best and the mightiest of the Nations.
DIR. Cannon, here's my hand 1.-THE one you
didn't shoot -shake!-EDWIN SOUTH
ARD, Co. Ii, 10th n Y, Grafton, \. d.