Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-11-26
Yours very truly.
Atn Cannon,n Mouth.

by the way. said the Ma iOr. the
| Twenty-third Ohio made one OF the
| best long distance marches on record.
| In August, 1862. it was ordered from
! West Virginia to Washington aud 1t
marched 104 miles in three days, arriv-
1 ing at the point at which it was 10 take
! boats for Parkershurg on schedule
time, and after a journey ON foot. by
boat, and by rail, reached Washington
in nine days from its remote station in
| the mountains.
The Twenty third, however was n
good, all around regiment Its frst
Colonel was w. S. RosecranS, it's sec
| ond +, +, Scammon. it's third Ruther
ford r. Hayes. and its fourth James
NJ, Comfy. Its First Lieutenant Colo
| mel was Stanley Matthews, and among
the Captains were William Mckinley,
Jr, and Harrison Gray Otis Rosecrans
| became Major General, Scammon Il
| Brigadier General, Hayes and McKin-
ley Presidents of the United states,
Matthews went to the United States
Senate and to the Supreme Court, and
| Comfy and Otis became editors and
/ publishers.
There never was in any regiment OF
the war a group of officers who in the
! years after the war stood together as
| did the field officers of the Twenty
! third, and from Rosecrars down they
/ had many stories to tell of the men Of
the regiment. On one occasion General
! Hayes, while Governor of Ohio, ex-
! pressed preference for the appoint
| ment of a certain man. His political
! advisers were at loss to account for
this preference and pressed the Gov.
ernor for his reason. Well, said the
Governor. conclusively, he was a
| Twenty-third Ohio man, you know,
and that settled il,
Again. when Hayes was President
| and there was vacancy In the Su-
premc Court, he turned from other Cnn-
didates strongly urged by his political
friends 10 Matthews, n Twenty third
Ohio man. The Senate at first refused
to confirm the appointment, but Mat
thevs went 10 the Supreme bench
through the initiative of his old friend.
Colonel Of the Twenty-third Ohio. |
met Matthews IN Washington during
the discussion over his appointment,
and he was not disturbed as TO the out
come
General Comfy was student OF hn.
man nature and he told many stories to
illustrate the pecuIiarlties Of men I'M
der fire. one OF them related IN a
young recruit named Kosht, who join
cd Company q short time before the
battle OF Cloyd Mountain, IN May.
1861 kosht was not more than IS
years old and in impulse and general
conduct was regular boy. The older
men wondered how he would act in
battle and he answered the question 10
their satisfaction at Cloyd Mountain.
The Twenty third Ohio was ordered
to charge a battery, and went forward
at run. The rebel artillcrymen stood
their ground, however, and, after blaz,
ing away AT the charging line. began
to reload their pieces when the boys
Of the Twenty-third were not ten steps
away This guickened the steps Of the
men ia the charging line to n pellmcll
rush on the gunners. Among the first
TO reach the guns was Kosht, and his
first act was 10 hang his hat on the
muzzle of ono Of the cannon and give
boyish whoop of exultation. He was
MS unconccrncd as to what the rebels
might do as u school hoy playing foot
bali and not many men of Company 6
ever forgot how his hat looked on the
/ lannon's mouth" -- Chicago Inter
! Ocean.