Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-28


heated, whic hmelted the grease and
let the cartridges slip down to the
breech without the aid of a ram-rod
Generals Kearny and Hooker, with
their brigades, relieved us. a tired
and worn-out lot. We fell back on
Savage Station and Bottoms Bridge
which places we had to defend on
June 29, 1862.
| Then came the retreat TO Harri-
sons Landing on the James river un-
der the cover of our gun-boats.
An officer from the French army
Prince De Joinville, on General Nc
Clellan's star, paid the First Long
Island or 9th Regiment of New York
compliment that is recorded in his
tory and army reports, for It's stub
born resistance and stand at Seven
Pines, the key point. Hal there
been any wavering or break at this
point the army would have been cut
in two. ..
On our way to Harrison's Landing,
when we made it six days fighting, q
memorable battle was fought: NAL
vern Hill.'' on July !, 1862.
Our position was fine one and re-
fiected great credit to our engineer
officers. 1t was on slope with the
artillery playing over the heads of
tn infantry The heat from those
cannon reminded us of warmer re-
gions.
The wheat fields In our front were
soon trodden out of sight and we had
fun view of the enemy. We could see
them form and some seemed to be
driven into the fight by the cavalry
Of General Magruder's, who was in
command of the enemy's forces. 1t
was O long drawn out battle, fully
60 to 100 rounds of ammunition be-
ing used per man. 1t was brought on
the field by pack mules.
Having checked the enemy we
joined the rest of the army at Har-
rison's Landing, where we remained
in camp, surrounding ourselves with
formidable and strong earthworks,
until August 1S, 1862, when we took
transports at Yorktown and were
towed UP the Chesapeake and Potomac
rivers to Alexandria. Here we were
placed under command of General
Pope with headquarters in the sad
die
The second battle of Bull Run was
fought on Aug. 80, 1862. To digress
just al title: recall famous speech
TO his regiment made by Colonel Pad
dy Ryan, of the Thirty-sixth New
York. The following is all could
catch as we were under marching or
ders and had to join my regiment. 1t
ran thus:
"Thirty-sixth Ney York, jackson is
in your rear with 10000 people.
command you every man to stand by
the colors; the first man that runs
will clave my sabre in his head and
lave it there" No Drawer soldier
than Paddy Ryan ever lived. He
would march up to the mouth of
cannon and look into 1t to see if it
was loaded. He was famous for his
Irish wit and funny speeches.
General Pope having allowed Lee
to get away from him and invade
Maryland, General Mcclellan was
again placed in command of the ar
my. which moved at once into Mary
land. We ran up against the enemy
at Champions Gap and South Noun
tain, after a long and tedious scaling
the mountainside away from roads
as turnpikes into the wilds of the
ta{ 3,.
flanking the enemy and opened up
the roads to Harpers Ferry and An
tietam Bridge Here wa found a
bloody, stubborn battle for the bridge
and the position south of the creek.
Our losses were great; we were
our forces and not sent in q handful
of troops from time to time, which
was a most grievous error, we could
have without doubt swept Lees army
into the Potomac. After the army
had a short rest President Lincoln
paid us visit. Then came the com
mand, Forward, march,
We passed into Virginia by the left
flank at right of Lees army and were
brought to standstill near Warren
ton, Va. At this time political infiu-
ence was felt in the army, as we were
on the eve of presidential election.
Our most beloved of all generals for
the army loved him as Napoleon's SOL
diers loved him, was removed from
the command of the army. When he
passed through the lines to bid the
troops farewell, old soldiers wept
like children. Some people can new
er be made to understand this as they
are not soldiers and are preiudiced
politically
General Burnside was then placed
in command and we proceeded to
Fredericksburg where we crossed
and recovered again and again, Git
was like playing soldier the Kappa
hammock river.
Now comes another farce.
On to Richmond In Ten Days.
About April Is, 1868, General Joe
Hooker succeeded Bpurnside in COM
mand of the army. On April 26 he
started the army in motion with q
blast of trumpets. Ten days rations