Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-11-19
SOLDIERS At HOME.
They TElL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF Tes WAR.
Sew the Rexs 20 Ea.A Armies whStea
Away Life In C2zp-Eo<agsaS Ex.
perlSnces. TSrSsOze Marches-Thril.
has ScNEes On the RassEssssa.

The Russians ard ssae 1aps On the
Shake SID gAse aocSa-. SEEMED for
Tew days 10 ~ get1susx auste socsS-
bic Al leaSz, they were ellssa enough
. eacA other 70 Ae SssSsAle & such
fellows ever are soczS2sse. CsSsSe as
tAey were, however. they couldn't
A2Te ne faa we h2d IL IAa cid tnae.
because they ton'1 SPEAK the same
language q read the sane papsrS
AID then Il IS 8 mistake 10 say that
Nc ev7o great arZnieS ever remained In
Ssaea proximity before fo~ - many
days without aghrnE- The Army az
TIE Cumberland and BgagS's army Ne
Hlaiaesl after the !, tile ~ Chicks
mSng2, IN easy S2g3c-nS distance for
seFe-zl weeks.
After the heSvy Tgh11nS az Chick
a1aaag2 RoSec-ans army. IS every
BODY knows. withdrew 70 CAastaaoo-
e. while the Confeie-ate argny closed
% around il on three sides. But onlv
TIE old soldiers know the incidents o.
PIP withdrawal 70 Chattanooga. left
General Thomas late in the afternoon
q Sept 70 70 carry $ message 10 the
medical officer IN charge AZ Chattanoo-
IS. and to General Rosecrans. IL
could ind him, rode from the tur-
nsoii Of battle across Missionary Ridge
snto the quiet OF the plain between the
ridge and Chattanooga. II was 50
quiet there and 50 noisy beyond the
ridge that I could hardly believe my
e2rS. As rode toward the town !
met 10 one, sDd no guard or outpost
challenged me. AS ! logged along
came upon strange group, posing.
Il seemed to me. for picture,
There We're probably 4 dozen men
On horseback. sud all except sne were
Qnles as statues. the lew sun n the
west lighting them up in way 20
MAKE them look ike figures In tab
lean. One 81 the figures was poing.
Ing here and there, and this man was
Rosecrans- As came nearer I saw
that he was marking out positions for
the divisions 81 his army, In 8 few
minutes the group moved TO another
point and the marking cat process was
repeated. Then rude out to Chat.
tanooga and scross the river TO fnd
ny man, and came upon another sur
prise. Here were parked long wagon
trains with hundreds of horses MUNICH,
Ing corn, and Teamsters going uncon-
cernedly about ike men st home doing
their evening chores. And vet not ten
miles away two armies were fighung
one OF the fiercess battles Of the civil
war IN a standstili.
North OF the river there was no
confusion or disorder. The scene was
quite pastoral. and nobody seemed un-
der strain or greatly concerned about
the battle except q chaplain holding
services in forest glade, who PRAYED
that the God Of BATTLES might give vie
tory to our arms, Even the chaplain
didn't seem 70 understand that crisis
was at hand Perplexei and ind'y-
nant. rode hack toward the front aud
met our division going quietly into po-
sition In RoSSville Gap told the
boys what l had seen in town and h.,
yond. but they didn't believe me. ex-
eept as TO Rosecrans and they didn't
believe he meant To give up Mission
airy Ridge. They knew better the next
day. when the army retired from Mis-
sionary Ridge and our division began
10 build Fort Palmer Just where Rose
Grams sat on his horse when / arst
saw him on Sunday. We expected the
rebels TO occupy the ridge at once and
charge down II to our lines. and we
worked with feverish haste After
day or two. when the Notifications
began 10 assume shape. we knew the
rebels wouldn't charge. and we began
TO feel al home.
we agreed, In the talk about the
camp fires, that Rosecrans might be
right about giving up Missionary
Ridge. but we oct all our money that
lie wouldn't Give up Lookout Noun
tain, only a few miles 10 the west. I'm
agine our surprise when one afternoon
the rebels opened on us from batteries
well up on our slope of Lookout. This
put a heavy load on a good many
hearts, because with the rebels on
Lookout we were cut off from the
road down the river to Bridgeport. But
as shot after shot was fred. and not
a shell or cannon ball came near US
we felt better. The bombardment was
a spectacular affair, but we didn't care
for 1t as we did for the sharpshootcrs
on our front pushing the rebel picket
line under our noses At last we were
permitted to give these shai pshooters
serious attention, and we established
our picket line under their noses. They
kept creeping forward and we kent
doing the same until we we're in cou.
yersational range,
sour pickets were in little holes in
the tall grass, and few yards away
the rebs were curled up in holes. blaz-
ing away at every Yankee who showed
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