Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-02-03

lll ahothef morse was supplied. when he
was again turned out to do as he pleased.
He pleased 10 follow the army to Wash
ington. through the city ana out into
Maryland, to South Mountain and An
tietam. all the time growing fatter and
apparently happier. But when the army
returned to Virginia. after Antietam, "Old
Billy disappeared. The boys in the bat
terry always suspected that some one
had stolen him, and always hoped that
the thief would be good to him.
Al that same battle OF Bull RIM a
horse belonging to Lieut. James Stewart
| OF battery b, Fourth artillery was struck
| by cannon bah which carried away his
tail and gouged out many pounds of his
| flesh. Tartar that was this war
horses rame-had been with the battery
! a long time. He went with it TO Salt
Lake City in 1860. when the NIornons
Ineeled looking after by detachment Of
/ the United States army under Gen Johns
son, and naturally was a favorite, bnt
Everybody in battery B could see that his
| lays OF usefulness We're over. He was
turned cut as it was supposed, to die.
while the battery joined the army in a
| hurried retreat to Washington. While
the brigade to which battery b was at
tached was in camp near Halls hill.
few miles from Washington, Tartar
marched into camp and readily found his
way to his old battery. The brigade
heard msty cheer over in battery b.
Some one wondered what general was
,,as:ing. \ messenger was sent over 20
find out. He came Lack with the remark
Something better than general caused
that cheer; old Tartar has Joined the
battery, and the boys say he shall 90
with them if they have to make horse
ambulance for him."
Veterinary surgeons were set TO work
10 dress the sufferers CHASTITY wounds,
and when the march through Washington
occurred probably no one thing attracted
more attention and caused more COM
ment than poor old Tartar" with his
wonderfully bandaged body No horse
! IN the battery received more care nor had
Better rations than Tartar" from that
time until he had fully recovered. Though
he was tdiiiUss. and bore The marks of
two wounds into which the latest man
in the battery coulu lay his arm, he was
one of the sprightiest animals in battery
b from that time until the end of the
war, and when he died, in the '70s, he
was given honorable burial. and his loss
was keenly felt by the whole command
am sorry to have TO tell an unGayor-
able story about an army horse. The
late Gen John A. Kellogg, the last conn
mander of the Iron Brigade who led that
| force in Gen. Grants closing campaign in
| Virginia, had a large, beautiful roam of
which he was very proud. But the roam
proved to be a dress parade soldier At
the battle of White Oak Road and Gray
! ely Run. a severe engagement, the first
| in which Kellogg had directed the move
mcnts of the brigade, his big, handsome
horse rctreated without orders at the
| first voley. The general sawed on the
| bits and yelled whoa i'm vain. The roam
fairly few from the firing line carrying
the brigade commander away from the
battle Finding that he could not halt
the animal Gen. Kellogg slid oil behind
| Just as Billy Holloway, his orderly, rode
Iup. Taking Holloway's horse he rode
back to the brigade in time to save his
reputation and win promotion.
! 1t was only necessary, after that. to
mention the roam to bring forth from
Gen. Kellogg an Grafton specked with
stars and dashes that never failed to set
| the audience into convulsive Toars.
| The roam was the only really bad horse
ever connected with that brigade.
In that same battle my Charley" a.
manageable and gentle in battle as the
9cntlest of carriage horses, was shot, /
was riding from the center of the brigade
to the right t. give directions to change
ipoeition. When the tide was nearly COM
| plctcd CHARLEY dropped to his knees, hut
WAS up in All instant, and the next in
slant twenty Ol more men in gray were
| demanding MY surrender, the guns of
Same of thea Icing within few feet OF
| NY body. McGowan's confederate diyi-
sion had driven back the right OF our
! brigade. giving me Il chance to ride
through thick underbrush into the con
| fedora tc line, then advancing. | was too
Young to die, or thought was, and just
as | dismouuted Charley" fell on his
side. dead. lie had been shot when he
| fell To- his knees. The war correspond
/ nts spoke kindly OF old Charley" la
mcutcd Ii, Ioath and incidentally men
toned the death of the brigade's adiutant
general. hit the latter was only pris
unCr.
The loss of Charley" and my prison
ership, at so inopportune u time reduced
the pleasure experienced six weeks later
Nhen the general told me that he had
recommended a captains shoulder straps
IN place of my first lieutenants straps
hat was nearly forty one years ago. 1t
may be that my admiration for Charley
and his good conduct, that day, explain
why he has never had a successor Even
! ug Wisconsin.
/ Human Nature