The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30

the old man again and talked to nlm about the burial of the dead, and the big scare he got one day. The old man drove the horse that pulled the small wagon hauling the dead piled three deep had charge of preparing the dead for bu- | rial agreed with another prisoner to l feign dead. According he strengthened i | himself out in the box and had the lid | nailed light on and loaded in the wagon | | on top of the other two boxes. When the | old man reached the cemetery he heard | groan and witnessed resurrection. He | | fled to the prison in terror and the pris- | | oner fled in another direction. Thereupon Major Beale appointed my friend, M. M. Conkin, on especial duty. one of his du- | ties being to see that no prisoner was sent out of there dead unless he was much dead. As most of our dead were captured in the Wilderness I gave my | friend Conklin sketch of that terrible | field of carnage. In seven days 10000 men fell. May i, 1864, General Lee issued two | orders:
 rear: second. Cook up three days ra- | tions, both easily compiled with, because we had little extra bapgage; second, our three days rations consisted of three pones of cornbread May General Grant | crossed the Rapidan with 117,OO0 men, the flower of the Federal Army. Con fronting him in the @ Wilderness was Gen fed Confederates. May General Grant charged us in the Wilderness with three columns across Palmer's old field. Re suit 100 killed in few hours; 146th New York nearly annihilated, and it's com mander Major Gilbert, killed. Continued fighting till May F. Dead angle in front | of Spottsylvania court house, in which HOO of the Elmlra prisoners were cap- | tured.
 Lee Led the Charge.
 Late in the evening, May 10. We reach ed this spot and General Lee considered
 1t strategic point and in order to hold 1t he led a charge In person: General Gordon caught the bridle of his horse and led him to the rear. At 10 o'clock at night by aid of the engineers voices they formed in the shape of horseshoe and we were ordered to fortify. We had no tools. but dug all night with the tin plates we carried to eat on, provided we could get anything to eat. By nighttail: May II, we were about four and halt feet in the ground, and by throwing the dirt in front and putting pipe log on top we were nearly six feet in the ground. It drizzled rain all night May H. We were muddy and wet At early dawn of May
 F General Hancock attacked us With three columns in front, and while We were
 resisting his attack General Thomas Francis Meaghers brigade bro Ike our left
 and in a few minutes his whole line was
 in our rear. heard one of my men say: | Don't shoot again; they will kill all of
 us.' Then I heard voice in. our rear
 saying, Surrender, g. d. you! looked and a strapping big lrishman had his
 gun within two feet of me, with his in-
 ger on the trigger. Why he did not shoot I will never know, as l saw some of our
 
 I could mot get to the rear. therefore We :, grabbed the logs in front and went into = the three columns we had been fighting. ,. We had about four guards to each pris- | oner go back to the rear with us. or Q course I knew it was not on account of t our personal safety, but the guards s wanted little respite from the conflict
 that was still going on in the front and ' continued till nightfall. when we reached = lby double quick point some miles fin t the rear we came to General Grant s n General Grant Smiled. Fl II ''He was busy dispatching couriers with IT orders to his various commanders. When a he saw us a smile came over his face ~ think we got to him ahead of the news I of the capture from General Hancock. | He turned to one of his aids and said: 10 Detail officer to take charge of these ,e prisoners, about one guard to four pris- 70 oners. Order all the men to the front al 10 once
 id We marched in the rain all day to # Fredericksburg and all day the conflict IF waged over the dead angle. Twice the h stars and stripes waved from its ram- . parts and twice they were replaced by (; the stars and bars. At nightfall General .s Lee held the angle which was piled full 70 of the blue and the gray Attestns the " severity of this conflict is the stump of a Y sixteen-inch hickory tree, now in tho s Smithsonian Institution at Washington > which was literally cut down with min a nie balls, for the Wilderness was sucf d that artillery could not be used. | ''Ma1Or-CIenerdl fIQWdTu JOnLSOIip VI Virginia, was captured with me in the ?, | trenches and as were going to tht ,r rear I said to the general: Throw or ,a | your coat and go as private. In case o I,, retaliation you will suffer He did no cyf take my advice, and was sent to For y VI, Delaware. On the march to Fredericks VI burg we met 9. 900 soldiers who had beer f doing garrison duty at Washington anC af ordered to join General Grant. We were oa meeting each other for some hours anC 4N they guyed us all along. l recollect on
 said. Hello. Johnnies We are taking vol
 north to give you something to eat ant ne put some shoes on-vour feet Some of IL IT. | needed shoes. In fact, we were hatleSs l shoeless and coatless. We were taken t. he Point Lookout. Md, and after thre ed months transferred to Elmira. Major Fl 1l- c. O. Weymouth of the 17th Massachu S, settS, was commandani of Point Lookout n- I had a pleasant chat with him yesterda, ny in Boston. He kind and cOnsiderat nS and allowed the MasonS to make an ap ne peal to the Baltimore fraternity for cloth ar ing. We had LOO negro guards at Poin a Lookout, but white troops at Elmira ce "I desire to express my thanks to tn n- members of Baldwin post for their at ne tention to our graves. and theN honor go they show our dead Decoration Day As he for the "leusant call from Post Com 'SS mandrr NJ M COnklln Van WaSOner an SIX Brother Winfield $. Moody. 1 wish t ny say in conclusion that while We eX-Con dli federates repudlated the suggestion as | tn, pensions from the National Government he vet we applauded rTesident Mckinley as utterance at Atlanta in reference to tn OK Confederate graves We feel that whe ol the times comes Baldwin post, Elmira, \ ls- Y. will do all in their power to hel ou mark in marble the names of our be of 'o' 'u 0'aN' MARCUS B. TONEY.
 "Ncw York, Aug. Ii. 1901"
 
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