Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-07-26

them said with easy Indifference: Yea
needn't make such fuss. We surreAr
der. There are our guns and our onG-
man picked up three guns and brought
three prisoners into cahSN. These prts1
oners told US stories that we knew that
Bragg's whole army was in striking
distance, but as tagged as we were5
The next day we left the main road
ana marched rapidly as men couAGK
march to little town west or south or
Louisville. We didn't know where wei
were going, but suddenly as WEI
emerged from the woods great river
was before us, and beyond it farms andt
houses, peace and prosperity.
Some one shouted, The Ohiov and
10000 voices were raised in cheering
We were at Westpoint, on the Ohio.
where full rations were issued. Every
one was SO hungry, from the GeneraE
commanding the division down, that
there was little formality about taking
rations. AS our company ran up the
lines of barrels and boxes a smallisha
man was STOPPING over barrel hiss
head and shoulders hid. Now every
were in barrels, and one of our boys,
rough sort of a wag, struck the man
bending over the barrel smart slap
and said: Get out of the way. partss-
you are too SLOW The head and shout
ders Of the man struck came up with q:
jerk, and before us stood General Ana
men, commanding the brigade.
1.-The man who had done the spank
ing started for the rear, and explained
to the men coming up that he had
spanked brigadier general and was
trying to get out Of the way. AS the.
sun went down fully one-half the men
in the division threw off their clothes
and jumped into the river, while the
other half stood guard. The next day
we marched into Louisville to be re-
ceived with such cheers and enthusI
asm as rarely greeted an army. The
dirty, fOotsore men of the Army of the
Ohio, after few days rest, turned OM
their old enemy, and before the middle
of November had driven him back to-
Murfreesboro and McMinnville. Chi
cagO Inter Ocean.
story or a Refu8ed Left Elank
1.-THE Boers," said Captain Ludwig
during their campaign in Natal, by
shifting their position frequently.
changed what the British intended for
a flank attack into frontal attack
The Beers in the Orange Free State,
where there is open country, did not
carry out this policy successfully, but
in our civil war there were cases tTE
which Union regiments and brigades
met fanking columns by change OF
front and captured them.
'9The most notable fight Of this kind
in my recollection was that of Gem
Thomas Francis Meagher's provisionag
division Of the Army of the Tennessee
four miles south Of Kinston, N. c., in
March, 1865. The division had been.
transferred from Tennessee to North
Carolina, and was making it's way to-
ward GOldsbOro, when it was attacked
by the rebels. On the 9Th of Marcia
the Fifteenth Connecticut of Palmer's
division, located on our right, had been
captured, and an attempt had BEEN
made to carry our own line by assault.
The rebels were driven back towards
Kinston, but ON the 9th they made am
attack in force on Meagher's division
Their plan was to outfiank us ON the
left, but anticipating this, Gen. Mea-
CHER had reformed his left flank so as
to form a line at right angles to the
main line. When the rebels charged
they did not strike our unprotected
flank, but struck a strong line facing,
them.
"Three batteries had been massed ore
this new line and as the rebels charg-
ed through grove of small trees an
the batteries opened on them when,
they were not more than HUNDREDS
yards distant The fire was simply ter
rife It moved down the trees of the
grove In swaths and as the charging
rebels were trying to make their way
through this grove they were appalle9
by the trees falling on them as well as
by the unexpected storm of shot and
shell. The whole brigade surrendered
as result of that heavy artillery fire.
1--WE thought then that the heaviest
Of the fighting was done, but little
later the rebels attacked again, and
our line of intrenchments was captured
and recaptured seven times. The Con-
federate charging column would take
the rife pits and would carry all mate
rial over to the other side. Then the
Unionists would recapture the position
and carry the material back. The reb-
els would be REINFORCED, tumble over
the rifle pits and carry the shovels,
picks and other material to their side
and so 1t went on until the enemy were
finally driven off and we marched ON. ~
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Disappointed Expectations.
In the year 1854, conversation took