The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-15

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commanders who guneiii ul.liiuu, cam
Inisn~. When rlv conflict tsan
Grant was ~ Huru-..r -. NIcClcilau.
- Sherman. ~ N,ie H. iIook,r
H. Thona a. I,o,cclan- - Bncll.
T.; Sh'iidan ~ Of I'll, forcmo,,
~outhorn.r- lee VA u g. Sidney
johnston - Joseph t.. Johnston.
~ .>toncwall Jack son. 81 Long -trcct,
10 .I;calrrrard, H. Bragg, 81. Hood,
n y! i. Hill, IS. j. T.. Il. stuart,
= Forrest. ~. The crime of lring
a young man was NOT lightly passed
over IN ashiLgton surely for it was
held that Sheridan was TOO youthful
to be appointed colonel Of Il cavalry
rceincnt when he was ~. Miles re
crived the same sort Of Il rebuff at the
l'",ton State house when lIr asked to
be commits >l"ncd captain Of hundred
patriots who had elected him their
leader 1T the age Of ~ Young men
were comm. to the front in STD be
cau-c Of the immense armies in the
field and the lack Of trained old heads
t" take the lead For that reason the
highest battlefield valor has been as
-oclatrl with names like Sheridan,
Custer, Fitzpatrick, Wilson, the fiery
Clcbnrnr. and John i. ';ordon, who
were all under the average age for
commissioned officers as it stood in
the last year of the war.
But long before that gray locks of
lighting warriors had been conspcu-
""- on scores Of bloody battlcficlds,
and the bullets Of Yankees and Con
fc'eratcs spared them not Gen
lconidas Polk, the cx-bishop, known
as the surpliccd warrior Of the south /,
was killed in the defense Of Atlanta
at the age Of .-; Mansfield, in his Gl)th
year. fell at .Antictam while dcpluy-
ing his army corps, regiment by rcgi-
mcnt, for grand charge, and Ger. .
WalswOrth was 81 when he lcapcd his
horse over the Confederate works at
the battle Of the Wilderness, and fell
dead within the enemy lines. But
the Oldest hero Of them all was Gen
Sumner. WHO led the fighting Second
corps of the Army Of the Potomac
when he was i;t; years Of age. The
nickname given to Sumner on account
oi his fiery ardor in battle, "Old Bull
If the Woods had reference to his
imrctIosity when the hour came to
charge.
! That Dewey had many grayhaired
comrccrS in the battles against Spain
is shown by the long list Of veterans
who made history for the army at
Santiago. First to fall was Col.
Wikuif, soldier who had held Il com
mission in the regular establishment
Tor more than IL years. by Wikof' 5
side almost. when killed, was the
second in command Of the First bri-
radc, Col. Worth, with nearly IL
! years of srrvi: e To his credit. Worth
fell within Il few feet Of his dead
chief. Next in rank came Lieut.. Col.
| liScun. who Ut that moment was
/ climbing the rough hillside at the
head oi his nero regiment. That
| yoiins staff officer. Charles T.. Tay-
/ man, mentioned in the official report :
| rs the hrcathlcs> messenger sent by
''cn. Kent to summon the Seventy
! first t. the front awcd his brcathlcss-
ness TO Il race after l.iscum to tell him
| that the command Of the brigade de-
! volvrd upon him. I.i,cum was ~ and
haIn t much the start Of Tayman at
the bank "i the river, but the young
>tcr nearly gave out before he could
deliver The message. Almost instant
ly the old man disappeared into the
tall grass, wounded; but gray hairs
were still in evidence on that part OF
the field. Major Ellis aud Major
.Auman of the Thirteenth charging
abreast Of Liscum's colorcd troops
were war veterans hard crowding three
score. They went down before San
Juan block house was reached. Then
Col. fwcrs, of the Ninth, gray beard
who had fought in that regiment un
der Grant as far back as 1862, took
command of the victorious line.
Meanwhile, just TO the right OF
Wikotf' brigade, Hawkins, a soldier
who began his career in 1852, wa.
leading on the Sixth and Sixteenth
under l.gbcrt and Theakcr, graybcards
who were to fall outside the breast
works. Hawkins crossed the trench C,
and was shot the next day while re-
relling the Spanish countcr-assault
Next to Hawkins. Wheeler was the
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