The National tribune., 1901-10-31

order, moved back in line in rear of bat
terry. After getting to our horses,
formed in line of battle in rear of train
until reaching McCulloch's Mill. at which
place we camped for the night"
These are the reports of all the regi-
ments that took any part in the fighting
on the right of our infantry that day, and
not a single one of them reports the cap
ture or recapture of any cannon that day;
neither was there any captured by Wild
er's troops that day.
Report of Captain Eli Lilley, of the
18th Ind. Battery, r. r. tSeriaI No. 80,
page 467): ''F and were posted on the
first ridge west of the road running from
Crawfish Springs to Chattanooga, near
where Department Headquarters were the
day before. At o'clock Sheridan S
Division, on our left, was falter-
ing and our brigade went to its support;
the brigade moved in at double-quick and
the battery took position a few hundred
yards to the left of our former post and
opened very rapidly, shelling field be-
yOnd n very narrow strip of woods
through which the enemy was moving.
"The brigade soon cleared the woods,
and | took a section from the hill and
planted it to the right of former head
quarters and opened with canister ON the
retreating enemy till out of range.
I'VE now moved to our former position,
and finally to Chattanooga Valley, five
miles from Chattanooga"
Col Wilder's first report, r. r. Serial
No. %, page 75D:
Headquarters First Brigade, Fourth Di,
vision, Fourteenth Corps.
Sept. 90. 1868, 6 p. m.
"My command is in Chattanooga Val
ley, disposed as follows" there follows
ha ln.ntinn of hiS raUirnaptr ot Iiffaront
pointsl "One regiment and battery one
mile above COuch's, five miles from Chat
| tanooga. My command drove the rebels
from their position at Mrs. Glenn's, cap
turing two howitzers, which we abandoned
for want of horses. We drove them near
ly to the Lafayette road. when they, com
ing around in the woods to our left
| breaking Sheridan's right into the Chat
| tanooga road northwest of Mrs. Glenn's
ami up into the hills to our rear, | moved
back unpursued, and attacked them IN
| flank on the hills and drove them from the
road to Devors', and getting possession OF
our horses were ordered by Col. Thurston
| Chief of Staff TO Gen. McCook, under
whose orders / was) to move back to
! Chattanooga Valley, taking two guns OF
the 11th Ind. Battery we had recapIured
with me, where 1 wait for ORDERS
This was Col. Wider's first report
WTlIlpH ~ OF L. ullleS IIOIH Tue uelu vi
conflict at 6 p. IN. of that day, and was
addressed to Col. c. Goddard, Assistant
Adjutant- General.
His second report was dated "Friar's
Island, Nov. 10.' nearly two months after
the battle, and was addressed to Gen
Rosecrans. And to any man who fought
on the extreme right of the army that
day it would read like a romance. 1t was
nothing more or less than bid for @
Brigadier-G Generals commission.
l have quoted extracts from the com
manders of Wider's four regiments who
were in that action, not one of which re-
| ports as having fought on Glenn Hill, oil
of having captured or recaptured any can
non, and but two who report any prison
ers; the 123d Ill. reports the capture OF
30; the 18th, number unknown. Maj
Slaughter, of the 34th Ala, Manigault's
Brigade, reports his loss as 1.-Two men
killed, % wounded and 2S prisoners" AS
this was the left of Manigaults Brigade
and, as he says, was Overlapped by the
enemy as far as could be seen," it shows
where the 123d Ill. and the 18th Ind. gOt
their prisoners, the only prisoners taken
in that charge. Manigault says that Wa
ters's Battery followed the center of his
brigade, fired no shots nor lost any guns
consequently, there were no. guns lost mol
| taken by either side in that charge, ac.
cording to the regimental reports.
Harrison, Miles and Lilley are the only
ones that report fighting on Glenn Hill
Miles on the northern slope and Harrison
the top of the hill; Liley, with a section
of his battery, on the right of the house.
The right wing of the 39th Ind. opened
space for Lilley to plant the two pieces
they were planted to front the open
ground between the house and stable. He
opened fire, as he says, ''On retreating
enemy" His fire from the battery across
narrow strip of woods at an enemy ad-
vancing through field was directed to
the right of Glenn Hill.
| 1t would have been impossible from his
position to have seen the field to the east
of the Glenn house, because of the eleva-
tion Of Glenn Hill. This was one-story