The National tribune., 1899-11-30

company (E). AS / lay in my tent
more dead than alive, heard gun go
off in the tent Immediately at the rear of
mine. The ball passed only few feet
above my head. 1 supposed some one in
the tent had let the gun go off accidentally,
SO gave it no more attention until the regi-
ment came in from drill. Then the boys who
belonged in that tent went to it; they found
one of their tent-mates, whom they had
left In the tent, ill, dead with bullet-hole
in the left breast just above the heart. The
man was taken out an inquest held, and
he was buried inside the guard-line. The
poor fellow had gotten tired Of service, and
asked to be discharged, which, Of course,
could not be done, and so had committed
suicide by sending bullet through his
heart, and soul into eternity.
About Dec. We moved about - miles
west from New Haven, on the farm of
man by the name of Wickliff. The camp
was called Wickliff, and here We organized
into brigade, composed Of the 18th KY,
6th and 24th Ohio, and 36th Ind, COM
manded by Col. Jacob Ammen, Of the oath.
The division was commanded by Brig
Gen. William Nelson.
The Winter Of 'e1-'e2 was very cold.
We did picket duty six and seven miles
from camp without fire at night. The
regiment suffered fearfully that Winter
with sickness, and many of them died.
We remained there until Feb. 8, 1862, when
We marched to the Ohio River near the
mouth of Salt Creek, where we We're put on
boats and sent down the Ohio to Cairo, H.,
and then back and up the Cumberland
River 10 Nashville, Tenn, arriving there
about Feb %. The 36th Ind was the
first regiment of infantry Of the Federal
army to enter that city. A few men had
preceded us few hours. Co. ] of our regi-
ment replaced the Stars and Stripes on
the Capitol of Tennessee.
In Nashville, at this time, there was a
Union man named Dolby, who taught
penmanship. With him l became well
acquainted while in the hospital in 1863,
with wound received at the battle of Chick
amauga He was a very lively fellow, and
would come around every few days with a
jug Of ink and fill up our ink-bottles and
give us a postage-stamp and sheet Of paper
AMI envelope and tell us to write TO our
girls and lei him see the answer.
Dolby q revere his name TO this dav)
said that as soon as the news was received
that Fort Donelson had fallen the Yankee
army was hourly expected, and it was be-
lievei they would pillage the city, kill the
men, and maltreat the women. Every
thing was at fever heat with excitement.
He gave negro boy so cents, and told him
TO go through the city and cry out that
the Yankee gunboats were coming. He did
SO, and Dolby said he never saw such a
panic in all his life. He said men would
rrivo
moved TO the depot, that they might save
something from the Yankee cut-throats"
that were about TO infest the city.
We remains1 at Nashville until about
March Is, whea We started on the march
that ended at Shiloh, April and 7. We
moved out about IS miles TO Franklin. and
the next day Il think it was, for write from
memory 10 a place called Spring Place.
We remained there until March 2s. We
crossed Duck River, and moved out beyond
Columbia, and went in camp on the Pope
farm.
do not know where the Garden of Eden
was, but we have been taught that it was
place Of beauty and great fertility. There
could not have been a more suitable place
selected for it than the country in Murray
County, Tenn, near Columbia. | do
not think ii is surpassed anywhere on the
globe.
In few days after this we passed
through country that was almost des-
ert. One day We had TO march 20 miles
without any water but what we had in
our canteens, filled on starting on that
morning.
AT Savannah We found again the 2rand
Old LIST Wis, whom we had met at .effer-
sonvilie, Ind. When the Colonel of our
regiment told the Colonel of tie st Wis.
that We were in destitute condition, he