The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-06

sCScfat regiments, Whffe Whnin stent to the west is the mortuary monument or w. H. k Wallace.
 The committee of the U. D. c. Is tc
 mont in the selection of the sits ci the AlabAma monument.
 Very respectfully yours,
 F f D. W. Reed, Secretary and Htstcrian
 s,s yasy 20, fso& Gen. iRastl W. Duke, Louisville, Ky:
 Dear General: 2 = r
 I ackBowlesge receipt of your letter of the 6th instant in which you refer to the account gave you of the identih- cation by Senator Harris of the spot where General Johnston was killed, and Asking me to put the account in writ ing just as I'told it to you.
 Tn April, 1ss6. Coloney Looney wrote me that Senator Isham c. Harris, who was Governor of Tennessee in 1882, and was serving as volunteer aid on the stan of General Albert Sidney John ston at the battle of shiloh, had con- sented to visit the field for the pur- pose of fixing the place where Gen eral JohnstoH fell, and asking me to meet the Senator at CoriDth and &C., company him to the battle field.
 On the road from Corinth attempted to ask the Senator something in regard to the purpose of his visit. He cheek cd me at once and said: "Please do not ask me to say anything about that The whole subject of Shiloh is bitter memory which | do not allow myself to talk about or think about when can help ft. I have never visited the field since the battle and would not now except at the urgent request Of the fHIcnds of General Johnston. I have retained in my memory very distinet picture Of the events of that day which has never been disturbed by discusstHg any of the questions regarding the battle, or reading any of the aecounts ahdsI believe that I can, if allowed to retain that picture undfsturbed. locate the exact place where the General feIt and where he died, but if I were to listen to the opinions of others and dis cuss the matter might get confused"
 Arriving at Pittsburg Landing, we found q large number of the friends Of the Senator assembled to greet him and anxious to assist him. He fepeIied all alInsions to the sttbject Of his visit and 4to General Buell., who invited us to a seat in his carriage, he said: *You will please excuse me. General, for un- til the matter I have in hand is dis posed of I desire to be alone" He then asked tei be supplied wtth ffd- ing horse and asked me to get horse aud go with him. When mounted, he said: Now. Major. I wish you to ride ahead and conduct me. by nearest route, to a point near the right of our line where there Is a small stream running nearly east with quite High banks, say seventy Or eighty feet high, on this side of the stream. When you are at that place please stop and leave me to myself Rem embeFinG ( place on Locust Grove Branch. south of the Peach Orchard that answered this description. I led the way fo the spring near Prentiss's headquarters and thsn down the ravine until the left bank was quite high, when I stopped and told Confederate right and asked him If the other conditions suited him. He asked if there wasfa a camp just back and to our right I told him there was the camp of the 18th Wisconsin. He then rode up the bluff and spent some time in a careful examination of the place, then taking position near the edge Of the bluff his face towards the front, called me to him and said. Here, within ten steps of the place where am, General Johnston sat on his horse for an hour and a half or two hours, from about noon on Sunday. putting his reserve in position Everything IS perfectly natural just as remembered it. There is the stream where our or derlies went for water and where sol- diers were filling their canteens. over there was the camp that we passed through in coming here. l cannot be mistaken, this is the place" At my suggestion General Buell. and others who had been following the movements called and the Senator told them, as he told me. that: Here General Johnston with his stan around him. was station ed from soon after noon to about o'clock while he was putting Breckin- ridges Reserve Corps in position"
 He then said to me: "I want to go about half a mile in what seems to me to be due north course. You will know best how to get through these thick brush. Lead the way and when you have gone half d mile stop" asked him if he remembered seeing any fields or cIearings In going that half mile? He thought d moment and then said Yes there was clearing on the right. and at the end of the hali mile there should be large Held on cur left" With this information conducted him to the southeast corner 
 | The Senator rode out iBto that field, but | after brief survey rode east across | the Hamburg and Savannah road and stopped near a large oak tree. where he sat for several minutes and thef went to the ravine fifty yards in tho l rear, where he was out of my sight to' | a time. He returned to the big tree l and motioned to me to come to him
 He was heated on his horse, exactly where the Johnston monument nov 1 stands. his face to the front. As l ap- preached, he said: General Johnston | was following the advance of BoVeh'i
 brigade he had sent all the member
 of his staff to other parts of the hel'
 with orders; l was the last to ,eav'
 him, with an order to put Statham'
 brigade in motion across the field t our left (Peach Orchard). When l re turned General Johnston was alone, sit
 ting on his horse near a large oak tree | I saw him reel in the saddle and rod to his side, threw my right arm around
 him and asked: General, are yo
 hurt?' He replied: Yes, I fear seri
 ously' I supported him in the sadd4
 and guided the two horses to the ra
 vine in the rear; lifted him from hi
 horse and placed him on the groun
 and called to the only person in sight
 a soldier resting under a tree. sent hir
 to the line in front for brandy iiasi
 About this time some of the member
 of the staff came riding down from tn
 left and we tore open the General
 uniform in search of the wound. bu
 did not find it until after he was deat
 He was unconscious from the time
 took him from his horse and died in