Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-11-26
SOLDIERS STORIES.
ENTERTAINING "REMINISCENCES
OF THE WAR.
Graphic Account of Stirring Scenss
Witnessed on the Battlefield and In
canp-Veterans of the Rebellion Re-
cite Experiences OF Thrilling Natnrs.

| Ch'Vh tduSe. some dark pictures III
the War of the Rebellion.
McClellan'S operations against Rich
nond were q failure. ending in the
disastrous retreat TO Harrison's Land
ing. Fremont's campaign in the Shen-
anioah Valley was fraught with ca
lamity. Pope's movement against
Lees rear resulted finally in his own
| defeat at the Second Battle of Bull
Run. and the invasion Of Maryland by
the Confederate army under Lee,
Jackson and Longstreet This inva-
sion was characterized by the san
| culinary contest at South Mountain.
the capture OF Harpers Ferry, with
some 10000 Union prisoners and i'm
mense commissary and ordnance
stores, and the terribly severe but
fruitless battle of Antietam.
| In the West, the condition the latter
part OF the year was not more salts
factory. General George W. Morgan,
with 1900 troops, was compelled to
retreat from Cumberland Gap to the
Ohio river and General II. Kirby
Smith, with veteran army which do
feated Generals Manson and Nelson
| near Richmond, Ky. approached dis
tressingly close 10 Cincinnati and com.
PEELED the concentration there of thou
sands of squirrel Hunters" from
Ohio and Indiana under General Lew
| Wallace
General Bragg with veterans who
fought at Shiloh and Corinth, had Il
| footrace of several hundred miles
| from Southern Tennessee into Ken
lucky, his competitor on parallel lines
| being General Don Carlos Buell., with
the Army OF the Ohio Buell. reached
| louisville first. compelling Bragg to
move toward Frankfort, where he
spent some time i'm reorganizing the
State government and recruiting men
for his depleted ranks
While Bragg was receiving aces
sions from Kentucky. Buell. was Sc
curing thousands of men from the
Western States, the fruit of the enlist
ment made in response to President
Lincoln's cali for 10000 recruits for
three years, or during the war Final
~ Buell. moved against his adversary,
and at Perryville, Oct 3, with but a
portion of each army engaged. crossed
swords in a bloody engagement
Bragg retired from the State, carrying
| with him immense plumber, and took
strong position at Murfreesboro.
Tenn, ready to contest the field with
| RAnnApnKtk- II r .
IN command of the army. whose name
had been changed meanwhile from
that of the Army of the Ohio 10 that
OF the Army of the Cumberland.
To complete matters. the elections
in a number OF the loyal States were
not favorable to the Union cause. The
period was empbatically dark, as will
be remembered by the battle-scarrcd
veterans of those troubled times.
One of the regiments organized I'M
der President I.incolns call i'm the au-
tumn of 1852 aud placed under the di-
rcction OF Brigadicr General Quincy
a. Gilmore at Lexington, Nv. was the
One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois In
| fantry, Colonel Thos. J. Henderson.
| afterward Brcvet Brigadier and "A
member of Congress for ten years, he
ing it's commander
Colonel Henderson had been In
North Central Illinois prominent
lawyer and Republican politician. He
was well acquainted with Abraham
Lincoln. In fact, he had as a mem
her of the State Legislature supported
! him several times for the United
/ States Senate, notably so in The celr-
brated race made in 1858 againrt The
Little Giant" Stephen A. Douglas,
4 the democratic oracle and Idol of the
/ State.
Though Colonel Henderson had been
! in the service but few months. Sc
! rious illness in his family induced
| them to request his return on leave Of
/ absence. even for a few days. He
| presented the request 10 General Gil
more, his superior ficer, but was in
! formed by him that recent stringent
( orders from the War Department alb
( solutely prohibited the granting Of any
/ leaves of absence. General Gilmore.
/ however, suggested to Colonel HendcI'-
/ son that ne write to President Lincoln
and present his case direct
Colonel Henderson finally wrote 10
bis friend in Congress Hon. William
Kellogg. who presented the matter To-
Mr. Lincoln. The reply. which was
not written 10y r secretary on type
writer, tx q characteristic one it
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