Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-24
THE BAT'TLE-FIELDS.
OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER
ARMY EXPERIENCES.
The Blue and the Gray Review Incl
dents of the Late War, and in a
Graphic and Interesting Manner
Tell of Camp, March and Battle.


/ They acted very much as our boys
did in 1863 and 1864. They seemed
! TO feel just as sure that they would
stay where they We're I'LL winter as we
! did when We built comfortable winter
! nuts at Shcllmound in October aud
| November, 1863 To secure the mate
rial for these hutS we tore down
houses, just ms the Russians and laps
did, and we felt il in our bones that
we would remain 4 long time to On
| joy the ShebangS So carefully con
structcd
We were at Chattanooga for Scv-
eral weeks. We liked Shcllmound bet
ter and We banked on the belief that
the rehS could not lie driven from
Lookout mountain and Missionary
ridge. Therefore. we built our winter
1 quarters with great care, with our
| shelter tents for tops We tore down
the Shellmound station for brick We
Went miles into the country for boards
| and other material. and we did good
| job IN thc construction of quarters
| Everything was In ship shape on the
morning OF November Sd, when we
Were ordered TO move to Bridgeport
ten or fifteen miles down the river
The boys lifted M their voices and
swore but they were equal to the oc-
casion. They tore down the huts. made
a raft of the lumber using bricks as
ballast, and special guard from each
regiment tioatcd down tile river to
Bridgeport while the main column
marched down the railway knowing
where they We're going aud just where
they were To camp, the men of the
brigade made short work of that
march They were in camp in good
time and had the lumber from the
raft on the ground. ready tn build
new winter quarters that night
'lhe next day new city of huts.
with canvas tops and board sides.
Went up quickly. The material had
been matched mt Shelmound and
every mess had its own. Members of
the one Hundred and Twenty
New York, on guard at the pontoons
looked with wonder on the building
operations of that day our boys
seemed 50 cock sure of everything and
built in such faith that they would
spend the winter there that the New
Workers joked us good deal about
running the whole darued machine
For once our instinct rs to STAYING
was right We remained nj Bridge
port several weeks. and thought we
were going to remain several weeks
longer. because the colonel began 10
build Il more comm0diouS shcbang for
himself lie and the carpenters plan
ned with great care ana they had n
beautiful frame up Whom We were or
dercd to move eastward. The colonel
was yexed, but he took things quietly
He ordered all the huts left MS they
We're, except MS 10 the canvas tops.
and the regiments were formed ready
to march when fires broke out IN
twenty or more places
The colonel was greatly rrltatcd.
but when the brigade commander rode
up and asked how he accounted for
the confiagration. the colonel said
curly. I think general, the fire is of
lncendiary origin, and. in the absence
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