The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-13
CAIROITES WERE
SOME FIGHTERS
Four Participants OF Battle OF
Shiloh Live Here.
JOHNNIES AND YANKS
SPEND MANY PLEASANT HOURS
SWAPPING STORIES OF
WAR TIMES.

The account Of the battle of Shiio
which sas published in The Bullet
a week ago has stirred the memory &
several Cairo veterans who partic
mated in this i2mous eAgeS ment an
they tell many interesting stories con
2orning the great event
Mai. r W. Halliday is perhaps tn
only resident of Cairo at the presen
time who served in the Conlederat
army. ana fought at the battle o
Shiloh He was with Gen n 4
/ Forest the daring dashing Confed
crate cavalry leader ana bears SOM
relies of his service in the lost cause
One Of ,hese is a fine ivory handle
navy Size Colts revolver, which h,
cook from a colonel Of an Indiana reg
iment, whom b. came upon suddenly
Will The fell1w was sleeping HI
[ left the loads in the weapon until thu
othsr day when he had Il f. Inee
( the gunsmith. remove them The
same old percussion caps were also
on the revolver
Maj Halliday also has another
memento of this bloody battle, bui
il does nor bring quite as pleasant
memories as the capture Of a Yankee
colonel 1t is an Enfield rifle ball
which lodged in the Majors right
LEG after having spent It's force
against a ,ree The ball just buried
itself in the flesh and the slight
wound healed in few days.
Major Halliday came TO. Cairo in
1861 on the Autocrat which was the
last boat TO make the trip from Louis.
vile to New Orleans before the out
break Of the war and the blockade
against steamboat traffic. He IoiaeG
Forests regiment at Memphis
that year and served throughout the
war
Capt. John F. Rector aid Col j. 5
Rearden were in the battle of Shiloh
together. the former serving in q
regiment commanded by the latter
Captain Rector joined this regiment
the 2gth ILL.,. infantry, on July !. 1861
and served continuously until Nov
ember 80, 1865. His first active ser
vice began in campaigning near the
battle Of Belmont and he afterwards
took part III many important engage.
mems, including the BATTLES of Fort
Henry, For; Donaldson, Pittsburq
Landing, Vicksbufg, Mobile and
others.
Another survivor Of the famous bat
tie who resides in Cairo il Mr. Thos
Boyd, and he has an interesting
story to tell of personal experience
on the field Mr. Boyd is nov &C
years old, and quite helpless from age
and especially from The effects Of a
wound received on the field at Shiloh
He was in McClennan's division and
On Sunday. April 9Th. at II a. m, h
fell with q wound in the left thigh
He lay on the field in this condition
till Monday night, when he was pick
e1 up and conveyed to Mound City
for care While he lay wounded the lin
Of battle changed so thar he was be.
tween the two armies. and bullets
whigle led over him like rain, many OF
them coming so close that they al.
most scorched his face A man who
was wounded in th1 shoulder came
to Wh re be wGs lying and lay down
near him Mr. Boyd told him he
had better move away for he would
surely be killed bni the man answer
Ell he could - no further In a lit
tie while a cannon ball struck the
other man cutting off both legs ana
another cut him across he breast
Mr. Boyd however, escaped further
injury lie says he could see the
cannon balls as they left the guns
and follow them in tn zir course across
the field; he expec.cd every moment
would be his last. but he knew it
would be useless 10 try 70 get away.
That MIR Boyd had a narrow escape
as IT was may be judged from the
fact that. while he weighed iG5
pounds the day before the battle. he
had fallen away to 80 pounds when
be reached the hospital the blood had
been drained ill 1t was mere water
Mr. Boyd 10 drawing a pension Of $li
per month, but his is one case in
which an increase Sc ms to be well
deserved. for he is practically incap-
acita;ed for any kind of employment
He says She bullet that struck his
thigh ranged upward, eTfrging at
the hip and injuring the hip 20 such
an extent that the hip joints give
almoS, constant trouble The pen
sion c.a4iners have hitherto refused
10 admit this injury and to recon
mend an increase in his case.
After the battle Of Shiloh, Tie Con
f late army fell back to Corinth
Miss. twenty-five miles from Shiloh
battlefield. and prepared for a siege,
a Confederate army Of
about 10000 for battle under Gen
Beauregard. The Union army under
Mai Gems. Halleck. Grant, Buel. Pope
Sherman McClrlland and Lew Wal
lace. to break the siege Of Corinth,
numbering 100000, all OF which Wen.
up the T nnessee river on fleets and
landed at PI;tsburg Landing or Shiloh
battlefield This made the combined
armies more than 100000 men, the
largest number OF men assembled in