Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-31
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES or TIE WAR.
How the Boys Of Both Armies whRtea
Away Life In Csmp-ForaxinG Ex-
periences. Tiresone Marchea-rhriI-
hing Scenes On the Battlefield

iinx Scenes On the Battlefield.
An old diary, said a one Hundred
AID Twenty Illinois man. re
minded me Of that mysterious man on
horseback az heueSaw. This IS what
I recorded In my diary June ~ 1864.
a sain ordered forward. but the John
MES have gone to hjguar ground. We
follow them up, ana az night we are
at the foot 81 mountain. up. the sides
OF which are SkirmiSh pits. and pear
the top seems To la breaSCworkS. with
here and there embr3SureS for p9trer-
les. We soon know that the batteries
are in place all right. and nineteen OF
our cannon open - reply 10 the rehS
ON the top OF the mountain, At the
same time a furious thunder cloud
comes up and joins in the hurry -hurly.
and such roaring. shaking. and quak.
ms as enSued IS seldom witnessed.
That reads like it was written at the
front. under the conditions stated by
8 soldier present and participant.
He was at the foot OF Kenesaw. in
Georgia, and belonged 70 colonel Dan
McCook's brigade, an right. but when
he made his record he did not s>uow
the name of the location
History later made the name mem
orable. incidents of few days later
fixed themselves on my memory, eSpe-
eially the charge of June -, 1864, on
tho HoaR yp,~f, .,e 1-.,,n,,x,. ~ .~.t,r,,g
McCook'S brigade / belonged 10 COM
pany X. One Hundred and Twenty
fifth Illinois. Our Colonel. oscar T.
Harmon. of p0uyiue. H., was Killed
after Colonel MeCook fell while com
mandlng and leading the bri gade in
the second effort to rush the works
He was within the twenty foot line
of the enemy'S works My place was
on the extreme left, and after we hal
made the rush ana during the coufu-
sion witch easued, some calling ON us
10 80 forward. others To fall back.
lay down. uncertain just what 60 30.
I'm the ititerim | looked just I'm time
10 see General Charles q. Harker fall
from his horse He was the only
mounted officer or person saw.
cannot recall the color of the horse.
nor could say as to his leading a
charge, lie was to my rear and left:
that is, beyond the extreme left OF
McCook'S brigade. which was refused
or not So close 10 the rebel works as
was the right wing. which was lodged
on the outside OF the works nj a point
about twenty feet from the angle to
the north. | could see the colorS of
one of the regiments planted in the
loose earth at the foot of the works
and our men were lying Hat on the
face Of the breastworks in support Of
the colors
Just as that scene was before me
| had one side of my hat torn out by
a rebel bullet This voiley gave lis a
chance To get the drop ON the rehS ana
the firing Stacked 1t seemed 10 me
ike pot hunting on the river below
Dauville when | was "a boy The firing
got so slack that | got up and looked
around. Everybody WAS gone except
Ailt uedu auu NVNHAt'N- l tlt biuNt NHA
underground screened me, and /
Strengthened myself up and deliberate
~ walked back to the rear until l
came to the rifiepits evacuated hy the
rebels some ways down the hill As
l recall it now il seems to me that the
JohnnieS must have thought that they
had killed enough of us for one killing.
for when we had pulled ourselves To.
cether the soldier instinct resumed tn
ascendant and officers and men re-
formed and pushed up to the brow Of
the hill, where we fortified within
twenty seven steps of the rebels ana
made it about the hottest place for the
space Of the front of the brigade that
the rebels held At any time from Chat,
tanooga TO Atlanta, ami we kept il hot
until the rebels evacuated their posi-.
ton July and 3, 1864. when we fol
lowed them to the Chattahooche
river."-Chicago Inter Ocean.