The Washington times., 1901-08-18
FRANKS OF SOLDIERS.
when Discipline Is Forgotten and
Officers Ignore the Fact.


when Discipline Is Forgotten and
Officers Ignore the Fact.
discipline didn't count said the SER
geant lin the matter~of pranks. There
were no better soldiers in the Union army
than the boys of the Eighty-ffth Illinois,
and none yielded more readily to disci-
pline or ripened more rapidly in the
rough school of experience. But the men
of the Eighty-fifth were, after Stone
River, Chickamauga kenesaw, Peach
Tree Creek, Atlanta. and the march to the
sea, as much given to pranks as they were
in the first march in Kentucky in the
summer of 1862 We arrived at Richmond,
Va, on the long march from the Carroll
mas early in May, 1865. Our brigade was
made up of seasoned soldiers, If there
were any in the army, but they came
North in the belief that General HalIeck
or Secretary Stanton had put slight on
General Sherman, and they were looking
for trouble.
THE march from North Carolina, after
the surrender of Johnston, had been a
sort of picnic for the boys, but discipline
was as strict as ii was in front of At
lanta, and il was needed when We came
to Richmond. Halleck, then in command
of the Department of the James. direct
ed that Sherman's army pass in review
before him as it marched through Rich-
mond. Sherman forbade the review, and
Halleck refused to permit any of Sher-
mans men to enter the city. Ex-Confed-
crates and citizens came and went at will,
but when Sherman's men attempted 70
visit the city they were met at the pom
toon bridge by provost guard and turned
back.
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IN "hich soidlers VINO came 10 Iroic re-
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streets, ING "oss were at ms
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fires at home, worked half the night to
save the property of their enemies. They
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THAT same brigade after the terrific
battle of January 2 1868 at Stone River,
returned from the last charge against
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