Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-31
THE BOOMING CANNON
RECiTALS or CAMP AND SAT
TIE INCIDENTS.
Survivors of the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startling Incl
dents of Marches, Camp Life, ForaG-
ing Experiences and Battle Scenes.

IuChA MdJQF, WHAT would happen III
the army Early in 1861. the Kentuck-
ianS who wanted 10 enlist in the Union
army drifted in three directions. Some
went to Rousseau at Camp Joe Holt in
Indiana. others with Woodruff and
Guthrie to Camp Clay in Ohio, and
others again to Camp Dick Robinson
or TO Nelson in eastern Kentucky.
"Of all the officers who left Louis
vile in April and May. 1861, none were
more popular than Rousseau and
Woodruff, and brilliant careers seemed
opening TO both, Rousseau went for
ward without break to a major gen
eralship. Woodruff went at the head
of his regiment. the Second kentucky,
70 West Virginia. and at the very be
ginning of the campaign was captured
by the enemy at Scary Greek and the
regiment he had organized went
through the war under the leadership
of another.
Neither Woodruff nor any officer
with him when he rode into the enc
my's lines was at fault, but all were
held prisoners while officers on duty
were winning regulations Woodruff
never returned TO the regiment, but
saw service as general officer in
commands far removed from the men
who followed him from Louisville into
the Second Kentucky Regiment at
Camp Clay
Meantime, another Second Ken
lucky regiment had been organized UNI
der Colonel Speed S Fry in eastern
Kentucky. and another First Kentucky
regiment under Bamlette. The First
and Second Kentucky regiments organ
lied at Camp Clay We're deep in the
West Virginia campaign before the
question of title was settled. and then
Fry's regiment became the Fourth, and
Bramlette's the Third Rousseau's
regiment numbered the Third Ken
lucky regiment finally became the
Fifth, and Whittaker's the Sixth, the
colonies of all Of them winning pro
motion In the army or in public life.
Lieutenant Colonel Neff and Cap
tains Hurd and Austin, of the Second
kentucky, Were captured with Wood
ruff, and in time all were sent TO Libby
prison; John X. Hurd was captain of
Company +. and his capture advanced
to command Immediately Lieutenant
Jacob II. Smith, who became a briga-
der general in the regular army and
made reputation as a fighter in the
Philippines Hurd, however, soon re
turned 10 his regiment as major
through what he called happy cir
cumstance.
While in Libby. he noticed that the
Confederate or city surgeons who came
no the officers quarters passed the
guards on a green ribbon tied on the
left arm. Many of these surgeons
were not in uniform. and one day
when one of them dropped his green
ribbon badge Hurd picked it up, tied
1t on his own arm, and, putting on an
authoritative air marched past the
guards and out in the streets of Rich
mond, making good his escape and re-
turning to his regiment with the pres
- ~ Va NAt 'AAE f@NA fNiANtAt~
The Fourth Kentucky started out
III independent fashion 1t was the
only regiment in the service in which
the companies were arranged in alpha
betical order from right to left, Com
pany A coming on the right and Com
pany * on the left whereas, under the
rule, the flanking companies were A
and r. This departure seemed to me
at the time pure contrariness. but Gen
eral Thomas approved the arrange
ment and II stood to the end 1t was
the Fourth Kentucky Infantry, mount
ed, which in June, 1864. rescued their
friends Of the Fourth Kentucky Cav
airy at Lafayette Ga.
Colonel Watkins, of the Fourth Cav
airy. was at Lafayette with $50 men
of the Fourth Sixth and Seventh Ken
lucky Cavalry, when he was attacked
by General Pillow with a force Of two
or three thousand men. The fight was
town fight from the first and re
markable because Of the means en-
ployed in defense AS soon as the fir
ing began the Kentuck ians took pos
session Of the court house and jail and
barricaded the doors and windows
with sacks of corn. From behind these
corn barbados they beat Pillows men
off until the Fourth Kentucky Infan-
try, well mounted, sent Pillows men
scurrying away in what their disgust
cd general called panic This Is the
only case believe, in which Kentuck-
ians fought behind corn breastworks."
There were good many Kentuck-
ians," said the captain, lin the First
Kentucky Infantry, but Il was mainly
made mp Of young Buckeyes eager TO
get to the front, and on its return for
muster out, in 1864. the regiment was
welcomed home, not al Louisville or
Lexington. but at Cincinnati Ia fact.
the boys. all through the service. were
In the habit Of calling themselves the
First Cincinnati Orphans From first
to last the two Camp Clay regiments
were brigaded together, just as were
the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh