The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-01
Mrs. P. M. Graves Recording Secretary.
ay Mrs. Wade Wood BIrmingham.

Ny Mrs. Wade Wood Birming ham,
 Report of the part and action of company E" of the 17th Alabama Regiment in the battle of Shiloh. April the 9th and 7th. 1869. commanded by Captain B. F. Weathers of Roanoke. Ala,
 We were encamped in and around Corinth. Miss. on the third day of April 1882. General A. S. Johnston issued an address to the troops stating that he had put his army In motion to offer bat tie to the invaders of our country, and to provide three days rations and be ready at moments warning to march. All In very few minutes was hustle and hustle. Quick came the orders, form companies. regiments and bri- Rades: forward march. The whole army was in motion. with faces advancing Fittsburg landing on the Tennessee river. Night soon came on us but marching continued. the rain began to tau In torrents. streams rolling and rushing, the roads mud and slush. still on we kept moving and halting.
 Friday the fourth. we advanced slow- ly. Saturday it cleared up; our cav- airy were displayed Tn front for the purpose of shielding the advance of the Confecerates upon General Grants forces. and was so successfully carried out that Grants army was utterly sur- prised when our cannon began to belch forth in laundering tones carly sunday morning. April the sixth. and continued for twelve hours almost without cessation. at times so terrific that the earth trembled beneath our seet. The heavens above quivered from concessions. It seemed as If the whole space from earth to sky was but wkirling cyclone Of death and destruc- ton. No man could live in it. without t ~4A G..A . and omnipotent God; who can at will wield his power and strength under any and all conditions. Notwithstanding in the midst of all this I saw men who seemed unconscious of their deathIy environment, cool, deliberate and com posed.
 I saw sn incident fin the battle If Shiloh that I will ever remember We had been fighting all day. Late in the evening. in the very hottest of the bat tie, called in history the hornets nest, when my regiment, the 1Tth Alabama, the 18th and 1st Louisiana, with fixed bayonets, made their last charge upon General Prentiss' division that forced him to surrender when within seventy five yards of the enemy they fired voliey that seemed to cut down every man before them. The 17th Alabama under the heavy fire for a moment reefed and staggered, but recovered in an instant. The brave Col James H. C1anton of Montgomery. hanDen cd to l. notice It. came dashing on his horse at full speed to the center of the regi- ment snatched the coiors from the flag man. hoffered aloud My brave Alabamts1s. follow me. the victory Is ours in a few minutes"
 General Prentiss surrendered his whole division, twenty-five hundred men. That was the closing of the days fight. I had to 90 Into battle early in the morning with forty-six men: when came out at night had but seven men and niysclE
 Mrs. Wade Wood. The three following contributions from Pelham Chapter furnishes a most acceptable contribution from that chapter.
 The Historian of Alabama Division | IJ D. C., thanks the chapter who have so nobly answered the call made at | the meeting of the Executive Boards. and hopes they will not be weary In well daina ather all possible ma ter'a ' | that we may have the space allotted full | of interest for the Division.
 | The town of Lewishurg. W Va. lies among the mountains of Greenbrier County, in a small much indulated basin | held. as it were, in the hollow of l half closed hand, for it's various streets dip and curve toward the centre of the town, having originally. if indications
 point correctly. all focused fin the di- | rection of the "big spring" which was | in early times the source of the prin- cipal water supply for the village So | a party of men entering by one Of these dipping streets might be con- cealed from persons In the lower DOT ton of the town until just mounting the l crest of hill or coming around some upexpe ,ted angle.
 | Lewisburg, during the Civil War. lay between the contending armies. and