Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-08
TUE FIELD OF BATTLE
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF
THE WAR.
The Veterans of the Rebellion Tell of
Whistling Bullets, Bright BaSonets,
Bursting Bombs, Bloody Battles,
Camp Fire, Festive Bulge, ETC., Etc.

Ii has been Icing time since the
,aS, shot was fired and our recollec-
tioHS are growing dim, but there are
things that trauSplred on the battle
field and in prison pen that We will
never forget should we live for the
next one hundred years, Now. com
rades, | am not going To boast Of be-
, Ing the younges, nor the oldest ia the
field. | am not going to tell YOU that
/ charged battery. captured il, car
ried il off the field and hid ii to keep
TIE rehS from using it, No. indeed
bit, comrades, will tell YOU that
belonged To the grand old Second
Corps, and am proud of its record
and will say there was none better
My brigade, kimhall's, joined the
Army of the Potomac at HarriSon's
Landing. and got there just in time
to save McClellan's army. There is
where the eth W. Va. WAS tested
When our brigade advanced on the
enemy, they were raking the field with
a masked battery. Gen. Kimball gave
the order 10 fall back, but Col Lock
wood misunderstood the command and
gave the order. Forward. Charge. -
That was enough, and 1t was not many
minutes before the 9TH w Va was In
the big pine woods with the JohnnieS,
and as the 18th was always very
friendly regiment. we soon cleared the
field, After the first yell we were soon
joined by the 4th aud Sth Ohio ana
18th Ind. !; better regiments never car
ried gun.
There in the big pine woods We as
tahiShed our lines for keeps there we
cut big pine trees and built breast
works. After we had them completed
Kimball came along our line and stop
ped in front of our colors. lie told
Col Lockwood that the enemy was nd
yancing on our line. and ordered him
to have his men all ready, SO we all
got down on our knees The order was
for the front line to rise and fire, drop
down and let the rear rank rise and
fire, but not To fire till we could see
the whites of their eyes Gen. Kim.
ball stood behind a big pine tree, close
TO our colOrs, told Lockwood to look
out, and got him behind the tree with
him. The command soon came. 9TH
Va, look out :" The next order was.
Front rank. ready" when the whole
shooting match jumped to their feet
and blaZed away. One man IN my
company >(C) tainted and lay on the
ground. The General saw him. and
asked the Colenel where he was hit
The Colonel told him he was only sick
ahe General said, Garry him back IN
the shade. and If be dies he win go
right to Heaven
After this event, when we had been
in camp some time, the orders came
to be i'm readiness TO move Mt any time
aboard transports. bound we did not
know where After we landed our first
orders were to prepare for light march
Ing. 1t was then we took up our fast
many OF our noble boys, where they
ceased their marches on the bloody
battlefield of Antietam, 1t was there
my company lost three colOr-bearers.
besides many others. Al the battle
of the Wilderness. in 1864. | was taken
prisoner of war along with wound
ed brother, and after they had robbed
us we were put in the big warehouse
known as the Pemberton Prison, Rich
mond. There we stayed one month
Then we were sent 10 that place worse
than the Internal regions. Anderson
Vile. Ga. where we remained more
dead than alive for ten months and
eighteen days. | was at the famous
spring, now called providence
Spring" five minutes after 1t burst out
OF the hot sand. II was there | first
saw Boston Corbett. lie got on a big
pine stump when the rchs brought
In big wagon load Of lumber Some
of our boys said. They are going to
take the spring from us, and when
they commence. 10 unload the wagon
Corbett said Boys. never fear. The
first rebel that raises a hand to take
from MS that which God has sent, God
Almighty will strike him dead in his
tracks" So they made big spout TO
the spring then we had what our boys
called delicious water.
IT was at AndersOnyilie that we or
ganzed police force Of 300 and cap
ture3 the raiders. which were tried 10y
court martial aud six were condemned
to hang They made un Of the scat
fold. and said they were not born fin
the woods to get scared at the owls
but when the meal sacks were pulled
down over their heads they began to
realize that it would be a 70 for sure
Finally. when everything was ready
the sergeant cut the rope that held the
platform, and they were sent 70 THEN
final deserts.
A man named Curtis ran away, and
although he got many wharks, be FIN
ally got through the crowd and ran "a
. md ,.I,trt,of fu Il ,,-s.