Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-01-29
TWO FIGHTING cLERIcs.
Tales About Parson
Lozier and Chaplain Moody
in the Civil War.

81 have letter." said the major in
the Chicago Inter Ocean, from my old
friend, John Hogarth Lozier, of Mount
Vernon, la, formerly chaplain of the
Thirty-seventh Indiana. The letter was
called out by Comrade Andersons ref
erenCe to Lozier as fighting chaplain
at Stone river. Luzier does not deny
that he said to the confederate who shot
at a wounded man: You booger, you,'
or that he used rifle promptly, as SOL
dier would.
of the story about Col. Granville
Moody saying to his men: Give them
HI Chaplain Lozier writes: L was
riding at Moody's side, whose regiment
pressed closely against mine, when the
first volley came from the confederates
posted along fence row thicket. 1t
was the first volley of a personal char
acter that l had ever enjoyed, so to
speak. 1t was aimed at the bunch of
mounted officers, of which Moody and
were part, and for an instant thought
a swarm of bees was passing.
"A comrade dropped just in front of
me, and dismounted, threw the wound-
ed man across my horse and started for
an ambulance. Soon came the charge
Anderson refers to and Moody's alleged
proffer of more sulphur than the car
fridge contained Moody assured me
that he said: Give them Hail CO.
lumbia." He meant to say that l am
sure, but just as the words were on his
lips bullet struck his leg, and nobody
knows what man, even a preacher,
might say under such circumstances.
-Four times in that battle was Col.
Moody struck, but he held his men in
line until the enemy were hurled back
to stay l could write pages about
Moody's good work before the war, dur
ing the war and after the war He was
one of the most effective speakers of
the Methodist pulpit. Under a beauti-
full monument in our'cemetery here lies
the body of Rev. Granville Moody, be-
side that of his wife, who died before
him. l took part in the burial services
of both, and l want to say now to the
boys of his old regiment that Moody was
a great man in the best sense of the
term.
Concerning the stories of my exploits
related by Comrade Anderson and 9TH
ers, will say they are as near the truth
as one expects from an old soldier.
There was a legend among us in the
army to the effect that the men of the
Nineteenth Illinois had three points of
preeminence-they were the greatest
fighters, the greatest jokers and the
greatest liars in the army. If remem-
Der rightly there was Sam Anderson
in that regiment However, Dan r. An
derson, l see, was in the First Kentucky
regiment, which wasn't in our division.
In battles like that at Stone river the
several divisions were very neighborly.
Il thank my comrades for saying so
many pleasant things about the fight
ing chaplain. While | cannot truthfully
deny that l pulled a trigger at
confederate in a moment Of ex-
element, l don't think the boys ought
to bring that up against fellow after
40 years. 1t is outlawed. l was more
of frightened chaplain than a fighting
one. Many of the boys, learn, suppose
l am dead. | was very sick several years
ago, but am better now, and hope to
meet my old comrades at some of the
encampments here and yonder"
THE chaplain is right" continued tho
major, "as to Granville Moody. The old