The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-23
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies whiIcd
Away Life In Camp-Foraging Ex-
periences, nresome eMarches-Thril-
ling Scenes on the Battlefield.

NcH. SHeTllliIl, Sdlu the MdyoT,
had keen appreciation of humor,
and Of soldier fun, but he couldn't al
ways take joke. In st. Louis he
lived in the house presented to him by
the citizens. 1t was large, well-ar-
ranged. comfortable. and somewhat
pretentious house when 1t was erected,
but In time boarding houses were To-
Gated on either side, and nearly Oppo-
site wealthy pork packer erected n
very handsome residence. which
eclipsed anything in the neighborhcod.
"On one occasion the Rev. DIR. Sny-
der, showing some visitors about the
city. pointed out Gen. Sherman's resi-
dence on one side and the pork mans
residence on the other. and said, quiet
ly: You notice ''the pen is mightier
than the sword"' The papers took
this up. and a good deal was said about
1t. Sherman himself was in fury.
He never forgave DIR. Snyder nor any
of those who seemed to find fun in the
remark. and finally he shook the dust
of St Louis from his feet and located
in New York.
Sherman" said the Colonel, was
sometimes petulant at headquarters.
but he was rarely so in the presence Of
his troops. He was never petulant in
the sense that Rosecrans was. l can
remember occasions when old Rosy
was great trial to his best friends.
l remember an artillery officer who
came 10 consult with him at headquar
ters who went away in a high state
Of Indignation and utterly discouraged.
He tried to have the General under
stand his scheme for massing artillery
in case of general assault by an enemy.
'ROsecrans wouldn't listen and said
peremptOrily that he didn't want to
discuss the matter But a few days
later when his army was engaged I'm
battle he took the greatest interest in
the scheme, and the batteries Of three
or four divisions were concentrated to
open upon the enemy the most terrific
artillery fire Of the war. In that mo-
ment ROsecrans was the very opposite
of the ROsecrans at headquarters. He
rode the storm of battle, the master
spirit Of great emergency"
There was good artillery shooting
on that day." said George Harter of
Company NJ, First Illinois Light Artil-
lery, ''but there was just as good on
other occasions. In the Atlanta cam
paign l had a Rodman ten-pounder
fbroo opd opo hale ;,,oI ~;a, -. Io,oI,,
a piece of ordnance as an artilleryman
ever sighted, and it was as true as the
needle to the pole. l could hit the
head of barrel at distance of
mile. and it only took me three shots
to get the range. When the Sixth Ohio
Battery, with whom we were associ-
ated in the Second Division of the
Fourth Corps, got up against the long
distance proposition they gave me
chance with my Rodman.
"At Resaca. May 14-16, 1864, eleven
of the guns in the two batteries fired
ten shots each at a rebel brass rifle gun
which was in position almost broad
side to our lines. Its outline was clear
and distinct above the rebel works.
After all the other guns had done their
best was asked to train my Rodman
on the gun, which had not beer hit up
to that time. My first shot was short
about sixty feet, but in line My second
shot struck the embaEkment line and
burst. My third shot wrecked both
wheels Of the gun, and before 1 could
get my fourth load home the rebels
crawled up with their prolonge and
and dragged the gun down over the hill
out of range. Our position on that day
was on the left of the Union line. and
we lay facing Resaca. a."-ChicagO Inter
Ocean.