The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-01-11

mounted MS morse Inere at FRANKLIN
the staff officers remarked to each other
that he would surely be killed. 1t was
late at night when we found him near
the cOttOn-gin, where the hand-to-hand
ngntlng was the fiercest. We lifted his
cape from his pale face, and the stars
looked down with us and wept.
The ride to Nashville was lonely to
me, and l expected, after three days
and two nights without sleep, when we
spread our blankets on the floor of a
small house outside the lines, that
slumber would come quickly; but it
was. not SO with me. The one who had
shared the blankets with me for nearly
year was back at the Harpeth River,
near the bridgehead, with two feet Of
earth over him. This brave officer
could only see one thing in martial
glory, and that was to die in battle.
His mind had been usually bright and
happy, but gloomy spells were coming
oftener as the dread disease of epilepsy
increased and blighted his future. The
nights were more frequent when, after
his recovery from one Of these spasms,
rolled him back in bed. There was
no suffering, and he had no recollec-
ton in the morning of what had oc-
Cured, but once In a while a depressed
FEELING would prompt him to ask me
If he had been unwell in the night, and
l would satisfy him with a cheering
word. We who knew him, when we
saw him dead, believed that what he
most dearly wished had come Dying
like hero in one Of the greatest bat
ties OF the worlds history, before his
mind became clouded and his system
broken with bad health, was to him
well worth praying for.
During one Of the charges that were
made on this part Of the line an Incl
dent occurred at this battery which is
worth relating. A slight boy Of not
more than Is years. with drum on his
back. belonging to one Of the Missouri
regiments, foolishly attempted to force
his way through one of the embrasures
and thrust fence rail into the mouth
OF cannon, thinking, by his brave act,
to stop the use Of that gun. The gun
was loaded at the time was fired, and
nothing was ever found Of the drum
mer boy.
The Storm OF Bullets.
J The firing here from both sides was
terrific. Many of the largest trees were
cut entirely off by bullets; all that were
standing and all the stumps had each
hundreds Of bullet-marks. Some were
cut in shreds from bottom to top, and
nad the appearance, as much as any
thing, of broken hemp stocks. The
slopes beyond our whole front resem-
pied fields recently raked or narrowed.
me Carter1cottaee at this point is the
first place visited by Southern tourists.
The dwelling, which is of brick, looks
on the south end as il 1T had been
| marked with smallpox, and all the sur.
| rounding outbuildings have bullet
| marks In almost every square inch. Col,
carter, with members of his family
and neighbors. remained in the cellar
during the whole of the fearful car
| mage. After 1.-THE battle was over. and
our men had left, the sisters took a
lantern and went out in the rear of
their houses hoping to be of some SER
vice to the wounded and among the
ilrst was their own dear young brother,
between the locust grove and the abatis.
MORALLY wounded.
A large nuroportion of Cheatham's
command We're raised in this part of
Tennessee, which accounts TO q great
extent without doubt. for their deter
minaton and bravery in trying to drive
the invaders from their homes
Unprecedented Loss OF General Officers.
This is the spot where Gen. Pat Gle
burHe, the rawboned Irish General from
Arkansas one of the greatest fighters
of the Confederate army, fell with his
lron-gray stallion, In perfect cyclone
OF leaden hail. Gen. Gist was killed
here. trying to hold Stricklands line:
and Gen. Gordon was captured here
near the Carter house; Strahl was
Killed here. and Carter MORALLY wound
ed; Brown. the division commander, was
wounded. What record will compare with
that! The division commander wound
ed. three OF the brigade commanders
killed. and the fourth captured, After
the battle it was found that In some
parts OF Browns line the dead were
lying seven deep. And regimental and
company officers were found supported.