The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-17

the trains carried the joyful soldiers { through their own beloved Alabama, oheered by the smiles of her own beau
 tiful and lovely women. who gathered at the deDots and the stations, bringing their welcome offerings to those who were fighting the battles of their coun- try; and buoysl up, tso, with the hope of gaining glory and conquest on the sacred
 The regiment landed at the little village of Wahatchte near Chattanooga, sur rounded by high range of mountains on both sides, and in few days along with dreary march into Tennessee over the lofty range of tl.e Allegheny Mountains
 No enemy was seen after travelling day after day. Kentucky was reached, but still no battle, soon the boom of cannon ia heard In the front and fight is ex- pected; bus no fight yet; 5000 Federals surrendered at MumfordviIle and filed by m silent and harmless array. The word IS forward and all lock with bright anti cipation to the pleasure of taking Louis- Ville' but there is turn to the right, and as the boys are going through Perry ytlle,, the boom of cannon is heard. It is Buell.. Hardee has determined to meet hlm The 46th Alabama is drawn up in the little village of Perryville, deserted habitants. A battery must be taken, and the regtment is ordered to take 1t. The hrst light and every man tries his best. The gallant Gilchrist on his old gray NOLlo thO DOyS GO lOEWdTQ, ana, WiLn yell. they go forward, to take the bat tery; they do all that human bravery could do but 1t was impossible to take it, supported by a corps of the enemy, and the regiment slowly and sullenly retired. having lost great many of it's most gallant men and officers. The regiment followed Braggs army on it's retreat to Knoxville and then went to Murfr Doro. and took an active and gallant part in the battle of Murfreesboro, in the brigade of General Patton Anderson. Af- ter this battle 1t was put in the division commanded by General Cleburne. in Gen. Mark LoweTy It took an active
 part Tn the skrmishes around Bell Buckle, Tenn, and after many a dreary and ttresome march. and oft expected en- gagement it went into the battle of Chickamauga on Saturday evening" when with the rest of the division, 1t made one of the most gallant charges of the war. On the next day, Sunday, goth September, 1863, it went into one of the hardest and most terrible battles of the war; and the number of it's dead on the pat bPatItlsfields attested that the regiment
 The long resting spell after this is too monotonous to speak of. nor could its many marches or its trying expectation short sketch.
 A. At Resaca, it was engaged in a severe sklrmsh' also at New Hope Church, where the division hurled back the victo- NoANilii OA A<uEdH s anu, III Tact. on every day from Dalton to At ianta 1t was continually fighting.
 On the 22nd of July 1864, 1t went into one or the bloodiest and hardest actions or the war, losing one-half of its men ana oHcers, and here. too, its gallant ana beloved Colonel. H. D. Lampley, re- celVed a mortal wound and died at Ma rietta, Ga, in the hands of the enemy sometime in August. And in this action Major George c. Freeman of Lowndes had one of his legs shattered by a mus ket ball whilst gallantly leading his men to the charge on account of which he had to have his leg amputated
 It next participated in the battle of Jonesboro, August 31st, where as usuaI old Pats boys drove everything befNre them. And then came the long and dis astrous march into Tennessee, and to tell of its miseHes and sufTerings would re- quire more time and space than we have
 on the evening before the battle of Franklin, at the little village of spr1ng- hill. the regiment drove the outposts Of the enemy before them, "Old Pat look ing on and saying it was one of the most gallant feats of the war. and on the next day, the great and important day" just as the sun was sinking fn the west it went into the ter rible battle of Franklin, with waving and with that yeH which South ern boys alone know how to put up, and what was sull more impressive and en- couragia9, wtth fassr hslovSd General