The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-11-08
eral hospital at the

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way: When We
e/W' halted near the gen
eral hospital at the
Mcdaniel house the last day of the bat
tie shell came down in front of us.
and evidently struck the end of a stick
of cordwood about four feet long. The
wood ricochetted. swishing through the
air like a spent shell. We all twisted
our necks to watch the supposed shell,
which. it seemed, would explode in our
ranks, aud hugged the ground close.
When we saw the whizzer was only
piece of cordwOod, and could not ex-
plode, we Joined in :. roar of laughter.
As that was after the right had been
broken and at the most critical mo-
ment of the battle, the laugh amazed
the sorely beset troops of the other regi-
ments.'
Before Gen. Grant arrived at Chat
tanooga," said another of Dan Nc
Cooks boys, 1.-The grub question was
the paramount issue. 1t was under
stood that when Il regiment was detail
tt 1pl VutEOSt uut. thtit ''| ~ -
foragikg. On one OCCASION we were sent
up the river above Chattanooga to an
advanced position. If attacked at
night we were to fall back over the
ridge to our reserve, distance of sew
eral miles. Just across the river We're
the rebel outposts, and between us was
Il cornfield running down on their side
to the river bank.
AT night my chum and myself
rolled a log into the river. got astride
of it, and padded across to the south,
or rebel. side. We landed in the corn
field. My comrade held the log while
l went out into the corn. l was pulling
off the ears. husk and all, and cram
ming them into a grain sack, when a
rebel sentry cautioned me to keep
quiet. saying the noise would arouse
the Yankees across the stream. and
they would suspect a movement to sur
prise their OutpOsts. l was startled at
the reb's proximity, but got over my
scare while lie was speaking.
"Iansweredin In lazy, Indifferent tone.
and worked more quietly. The reb said
he belonged to Pat ClebOrn's command.
and, fearing that he might ask me en-
barrassing questions, l worked away
from him.. / hustled until l had filed
my grain sack. made Il circuit to the
rear, and then fell back until reached
my chum. We straddled the log. car
rying the sack of corn between It's. and
padded back to our lines. We boiled
the corn. and l have never eaten a meal
that | relished more"
About that time" said Jerome Mill
er. of Company c. Fifty-secOnd Ohio,
Il was pretty sore. l was only pri-
vate TO begin with, but under the cir
cumstances felt hurt. as man would
had volunteered to carry the colors at
Louisville and carried Old Glory
through the campaign and through the
battle of Perryvilic. l was young and
spelling for Il fight. ard in tie battle |
waved the color. and led the advance
With all the pride and ardent spirit of
youth.
My highest ambition then was to
carry the flag l was perfectly content.
didn't want to be captain, or colo
wanted to carry the flag. But. not being
IA non-commissioned officer, l was in
eligible under an order issued at Crab
| Orchard \ sergeant and eight corpor-
ais took charge OF the colors. and l lad
to surrender the flag. Feeling that
had done my duty un,ler trying circum-
stances. when had to return to the
ranks | felt | had been reduced from Il
position of the highest honor. | felt
hurt, and l wasn't over my hurt ut
| Chickamauga.
Il like that said captain OF the
| Nineteenth Indiana. 1T would have
been easy for the colonel or the cap
tain To have made you sergeant. and
| in this way lave given you the privil-
c-c of carrying the i!as. But there
| were men i'll all regiments who never
wanted to carry the flag in battle, and
who made il point TO be as far from
| it as possible remember that at home
ve had in our neighborhOod regular
bu,.y. and thought 10 myself if | had
as much courage rs lie wouldn't mind
going TO war We both went into the
army and lie ran away the first fight
we had. He came back and begged the
| Colonel to give him another trial. He
said that it was his first fight and he
was nervous. He was taken back, but
| IN the next fight lie ran AWAY again.
should have said he was an officer. and
| the General gave him just one day IL
iand in his resignation.
we had sentry who when on picket
duty. if lie heard the crack of n rifle
would tremble like a leaf. The copper.
beads aud Sons of Liberty were doing
great work in those days. They would
write to the soldiers and tell them il
they would desert and come home they
would be taken care of. One of our
men deserted. Welt over to the Confed-
crate side, got a Confederate uniform
and attempted to escape, but was cap
turctl. sentenced to death. and shot
| Wherever think vf his case think of
what Lincoln said about the poor boys
who were induced to desert by the cop
perheads of the North"
"Forty Rounds, L. s."
Capt ]. McAssey. who during the
Civil War served in the Ninetieth Hi
nois, which was in the Fifteenth Army
Corps under Gen. Logan. tells the
story of how that famous corps got its
motto. "My regiment" he says. was
recruited i'll Chicago, and went to the
front as the Irish Legion. We were
made 4 part OF the Fifteenth Army
corps. and after Mission Ridge and
Tunnel Hell, Gen. Logan was ordered
| to lead us over to Knoxville. Tenn. tC
relieve Burnside. When we got tc
Knoxville we found that Burnside had
alread- been relieved. and then we
were Sert down for duty along the line
of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
| "N'neu We reached Stevenson. Ala.
| ,ra f,url c,,n., ,,lpmherS of the Twpu