The National tribune., 1904-08-18

tough job, and each fellow was likely to
think that he had the butt end Of the log,
and was doing all the lifting. 1t took a
heap Of US to put down the rebellion"
Il should say so,'' responded Maria. 81
never began to realize it before"
A headquarters banner with single
star appeared.
"There comes the Twentieth Corps"
said Maj. Phelps. "Now you'll see some
Westernized Fasteners, and frst-class
and Twelfth Corps of the Army of the
Potomac. They came to us at Chatta-
nooga. We didn't take kindly to one an-
other at first. We thought they were
dress parade soldiers, and they thought We
were little better than guerrillas. But the
first fight we got into knocked out all that.
They saw that they had to start mighty
quick, and go very fast to keep up with
us, and we saw that, in spite of their
paper collars and white gloves, they were
reliable stayers wherever they were put.
There was great deal that we could
learn to advantage from each other, and
before the Atlanta Campaign had gone
ship,
That Corps Commander" continued
Maj. Phelps, sis Fighting Joe Mower, and
an old Army of the Tennessee man. He
went into the Regular Army during the
Mexican War as private soldier, and is
now MajorGeneral. He won every step,
| too, by hard fighting That's a record that
not many men can show.
The commander of the First Division
is Maj. A. S. Williams. He commanded q
Michigan regiment in the Mexican War,
| was Member Of Congress, and was ap-
pointed BrigadierGeneral at the begin
| ming of the war. The boys call him Pap
Williams, and swear by him."
Il see he wears wig" commented Ma
ria.
'"They call his division the Red Star
Division, and its men are mighty proud of
it, as they have reason to be. They are the
fellows who destroyed the rebel John
ston's Division at Gettysburg.
''The Second Division is commanded by
Maj.-Gen. John w. Geary, Of Pennsyl-
| vania-there he is-who has had the most
astonishing career of any man in the
| army. He commanded a Pennsylvania
regiment in the Mexican War. and dis
| tinguished himself so that Gen. Scott ap-
pointed him Governor of the City of
Mexico, when he captured it. Then he
joined in the rush to the California gold
mines, and was Alcalde. Postmaster and
Mayor of San Francisco. Then he came
| back to Pennsylvania and President Bu-
| chanan appointed him Governor of Kan
sas. He broke the back Of Missouri Bor-
der Ruttianism in the Territory and helped
| enormously to make it Free Soil. This
put the Administration and the Pro
Slavery Bosses down on him, and he was
| fired. At the beginning of the war he
| raised the 2Sth Pa, and his division licked
Longstreet at Wauhatchie, and helped win
the Battle Above the Clouds. At Savan-
nah his division had worked in nearest the
city when Hardee evacuated. and Geary
was appointed Military Governor Of Sa-
vannah, making the third city he had
ruled-one on the Pacific Coast, one on
the Atlantic, and one in Mexico. How is
| that for an experiences"
Quite wonderful" said Maria. But
wish Will and Sis would come along.
| these others"
They're coming now," said Maj.
Phelps. 'There's the headquarters flag
of the Fourteenth Corps just turning the
corner"
A magnificent banner wreathed with
flowers, but all carefully arranged SO as
not to obscure any part of the Great
Acorn with which it was emblazoned, her
aided the men who had stood with glorious
old Pap Thomas at Stone River and
Chickamauga, and had swept Bragg's
Army off the nights of Mission Ridge.
1t would have been thought that in all
these hours the spectators would have ex-
hausted themselves on the miles Of splen-
did soldiers and famous commanders in
the three corps which had already passed.
hut the enthusiastic OutburSt that greeted
the representatives of the Army Of the
Cumberland and rolled along with them as
they filled Pennsylvania Avenue from the
Capitol to the Treasury with their mag
nitcent tide was as fresh. as spontaneous,
as overpOwering as 100000 intensely ex-
cited loyal human beings could make it.
II don't see why Gen. Thomas wasn't
invited to come here, and ride at the head
Of the corps that he made famous. and
that made him famous. OF course. he is
an Army Commander now. and probably
strict military etiquet bars him. but he will
never be a greater man than he was that
Sunday afternoon, when he stood on
Snodgrass Hill, at Chickamauga, with the
Fourteenth Corps, and what he could
gather up of the rest of the army. and
beat back all that LOngstreet and Bragg
could pile up against him.
'Our husbands were there with him,
from first till the very last, when they
were severely wounded" said Maria with
mantling pride. 'They helped beat back