Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-28
SOLDIERS STORIES.
ENTERTAINING "REMINISCENCES
OF THE WAR.
Graphic Account of Stirring Scenes
Witnessed on the Battlefield and In
C&mp-Veteraro of the Rebellion Re-
cite Experiences OF Thrilling Nature.

WAS uoWn at I'corId laSt week,
said the captain, and for the first time
In forty years met Sol f. Flint. % the
Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry
At the battle of Allatoona pass Flint
was sergeant major Of the Seventh.
and at the close of the battle was the
ranking officer. all the commissioned
officers having been put out OF action.
Flint didn't admit this. hut took great
pride in the fact that he was on duty
ana was able for duty all through the
fight
III should be remembered that the
Seventh Illinois had purchased al its
own expense Henry repeating rifles,
each rifle good for sixteen shots after
loading The government furnished
the ammunition. but the boys owned
the rifles, and they knew how to use
them on this day az Allatoona They
Were in the redoubt with General
| Co"se and defended. as occasion de
manded, right flank, left flank and cen
ter. II they were blazing away in
the center and 4 charge was made
on the right or left. they ran to the
point assailcd. and with their sixteen
shooters repulsed the enemy
when Colonel Richard Rowlett.
commanding the Seventh. was shot
through both legs the boys put him
| down inside the works. head to the
works and feet stretched out toward
the center. Rowlett had been on the
works cheering his men when he was
shot and when Flint reported to Gen
era Corse that the colonel had been
severely wounded and was put out Of
the fight, the general said. in high tenn
per: 'Blaukety blank it, You tell him
| won't have my officers exposing
themselves as he did As Corse ut
thai time was sitting proppcd mp
against the works and was binding
up his mauSled jaw aud ear. Flint
smiled, hut he carried the message to
his colonel
AS Flint passed Rowlett ON his
way to defend the flank the colonel
said the boys were tramping on his
wounded legs as they ran from one
point to another aud then back He
asked Flint to stand aStridp of his legs
ana tell the men to step over him and
not on him, and in return for the favor
he would load Flint's gun for him.
Flint took the position as instructed
kept the men off the wounded legs.
and Kept up Il steady fire. giving or
derS to the men as advised by the
colonel
Rowlett continued 10 load until he
became weak from loss of blood. Then
Flint moved him out Of the path OF
the men running back and forth and
kept up the fight. 1t was the sixteen
shooters that told against the enemy.
the changing of the men from one
front Of the redoubt to another giving
the rebels the impression that all the
regiments in the works We're armed
with Henry rifles. The losses Of the
regiment were heavy. hut the sixteen
shooters won"
Il met the other day said the ser
geant, "a man whose face had been
haunting me for years was out at
Rosehill cemetery and was passing The
soldiers lot when came face to face
with a man whose eyes had seen
thousand times in reveries and dreams
ON the road to Shiloh | was taken
sick, very sick. and was left in n
house by the roadside Later ! was
conscious of being carried to another
house and of being placed in large
room. | remember that AS | turned
this way and that in my misery
caught the odor Of new carpet and
pressed my nose close against the car
pcted floor
My thought was that ] had been
transported home and had been put
down in the paror until my room was
made ready for me Waiting to be
moved slept and awoke in torture
il seemed 10 me / was in boat toss
ing in a storm. and that some one :
arms held me FROM getting bruised |
/ opened my eyes. 10 sec that | was IN
an army wagon, joltng over rough
road, and realized that man with
'''i'A'A ihiit - ihk'diuFti' ~ ~ WIS
holding my head in his lap and striv-
ing to break the Jolts that gave me-
such pain.
The jotIng. il seemed to me. con
tinucd for days and days. but WHOM
ever ! opened my eyes the friendly
eyes in a friendly face looked down
into mine. and their sympathy com
/ forted me. At last opened my eyes
! and the friendly face was not there
] was In Il hospital at Nashville and
! vas recovering from fever. But no
! one could tell me Of my friend. lie
! we'd with me in every recollection If
! The war, but / never knew who he
/ vas or whether ne was dead or alive
/ until ! met him looking for a los.