The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-11

Mr. William S Canatsey. a .messen- !
ger in the chronological section Of the
Department OF Agriculture, was mem
Der Of the regiment commanded during
the war between the States by PTesi-
dent Harrison. He is native OF In
diana, and was one OF the first volun-
teeTs for service il the Seventeen IN
diana, belonging to Company D. This
command had three years Of active
service, and was in the general review
in Washington atthe end Of the war. The
brigade was made up Of the Seventeen
Indiana, One Hundred and Second IL
Iinois, Seventy-ninth Ohio, and One
Hundred and Fifth Illinois. being the
Third Brigade. Third Division, Twentieth
Corps. commanded by General Joe Hook
CT during the greater part OF the war.
President Harrison was for about a year
Colonel Of the regiment, was promoted
TO be brigadier general, and toward the
last had charge Of the division. Gen
ereI Harrison was liked by the men and
was a good commander
Many interesting episodes Of the war
ment was in the fight above the
clouds" on -Lookout Mountain, near
Chattanooga. The minds of the soldiers
were concerned with the earthly subject
OF keeping alive and killing the swarm
ing ConfedeTates- It was 2 terrible bat
tie Of the night, and was one Of the
most peculiar fights OF the war. The
Harrison regiment was in all OF the At
Ianta fight, and lost heavily in some OF
the enga gemenJs, particularly at Peach
tree Creek. Al Resaca. where one OF
the Iiveliest fights Of the Southern cam
paign was had, the brigade was massed
for 4 charge. other troops had charged
q battery that was doing great damage
10 the Union forces and had failed. Gen
eral Harrison's brigade was ordered cut,
and il made q successful dash, captur-
ing the guns and holding them.
Mr.. Canatsey was in the famous SbeT-
man march TO the sea. he was at Sa-
vannah and there crossed into South
Carolina. He was wounded only once
during the war and that was at Resaca.
There were many incidents in that cam
paign, mostly unpleasant While the
troops were engaged IN making hard
times Tor the people along the way they
had hard times themselves. They Sc
cured horses. however. and most OF
them rode q greater part OF the way.
One incident Of the Resaca fight sticks
n the mind Of this veteran The Con
federaIes we're Smelling the second bat
tie line, in which he was serving Men
we're going down all around and there
seemed TO be no way TO stop the firing
The men were lodging all along the
line General Hooker was sitting or
his horse aaj kept yelling TO the boys
10 stop that lodging. Pretty soon {
big ball came bowling close to tbs
general ard he lodged with grear
deal OF energy. He amended his order
by saying: Boys. jast dodge some O
the largest ones
Mr. Caustsey returned 20 Indiana tn,
summer the war was ended and in Jul,
was married. He is the father OF six
teen children. His sons are IL tn,
West and are ali prominent in dideren
lines One IS foreman Of a rolling mill
enc IS q bank clerk and another is
stock raiser. For many years Mr
Canatsey lived IL Kansas and was ap
pointed to the present position from
that state He came il under his for
mer commander IN 1883 and has beef
here since with the exception of fou
years during the Cleveland acmiuistra
tiCn