Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-01
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
They TELL some INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR
no" the Boys Of Both Armiea wb;1ad
away Life in Camp-Foraeine Ex-
perierces, Tiresome Marches-Thri1-
ling Scenes ON the Battlefield.

| ~ ou the rlSnC wing
oL onerman's army had early one
morning brisk little fight with Arm
strongs brigade of Confederate caval-
| ~ III the scrub oak bushes near Dali
las Seven or eight Union soldiers
were killed and as many wounded.
AFTER the enemy had retired the wound
60 We're collected in a log shop beside
the road, where the surgeon attended
10 tnelr injuries. Among those hurt
was boy belonging to the Fourth
Michigan. He was not more than 16
years old, and rather small for his
years. His wound was serious, being
| body wound which bled internally.
Inc brigade surgeon in charge was the
| surgeon Of the Fourth and knew the
! boy we'll. When he came to him. as
he lay On a bed of shavings, the boy
asked:
Doctor, am I going to dep
My poor boy replied the surgeon.
you are badly, very badly wounded
and L am afraid we can't save you
The tears stood in the doctors eyes
as he spoke.
Well, If I must go I must, and
there's no use fretting about it, said
the little fellow.
Just then he looked toward the
open doorway and there stood his SOL
| der friend, boy like himself, who had
heard of the critical condition of his
comrade, and stood near him weeping
his heart out in sorrow.
Hello Billy feebly called the
wounded lad. Don't cry. Come and
bid me goodbye; I'm dying like a SOL
der Then, holding his comrades
hand and boxing up into the faces
around him, he exclaimed: 'Hurrah for
the Old Flag" A smile was on his
blue eyes.
Previous to the skirmish mentioned,
and while the Union cavalry were in
| position guarding Sherman's right,
sentinels were placed at various points
| to prevent surprise. The country
was almost an unbroken forest, with
dense underground. After the fight
the position of the cavalry was chang
| ed, and the sentinels, it was thought,
| We're all called in. But one, whose
| post was somewhat remote, in the thick
woods, was overlooked. He had been
| posted in Tire early morning, and all
| that day and the following night he re-
manned in the wilderness without water
| or food. He heard the noise Of the
combat; he noticed the silence that
followed it, and rightly imagined that
| his comrades were gone. On the fol-
| lowing morning at roll call he was
| missed, and then it was remembered
where and when he had been placed
on duty, and a detachment was sent in
search of him. He was found, weary
and almost hopeless Of relief, but in all
the long hours of solitude, darkness,
thirst and hunger he had not even
thought of deserving his post. His duty
| held him there, and life was not to be
weighed against duty.
sometimes this fearlessness was
! shown by other than regular soldiers.
| In the early summer of 1862, Morgan
and his band made their appearance
| in middle Tennessee, and Gen. Dumont
with his cavalry, left Nashville in pur-
suit of him. He came up with him at
Lebanon, and at dawn dashed into the
town where Morgan had passed the
night. The fight that followed didn't
amount to much, for Morgan, although
a great raider, was poor fighter, and
as usual, when confronted by Union
troops who meant business, he skedad-
died, Some of his men were so hard
pressed that they could not go with
him. and these did some firing from
windows Of houses in which they had
taken refuge One rebel ensconced him
self in the second story of a little cot
tage and from a window facing the
street fired several shots, two of which
seriously wounded two of our soldiers.
This one man commanded the street
To annear in front of his fortress was
70 receive his fire which he delivered
n1icklv and then retired. How to dis
lodge him or get a shot at him was
nuzzling question. and it is quite prob
able that the solution would soon have
henn found ty burning the house had
not a young negro servant of the Ad-
iutant remarked:
eff you'll glib me carbine I'll wing
dat rebel
".All right, jim replied the Adju-
tant Here's a gun. Let's see you do
it.
".Tim took the carbine examined the
loading. and deliberately walked up
tha street, took his stand opposite the
dangerous window. There he remained
watching for perhaps ten minutes or
more. Then he suddenly blazed away,
The rebel had appeared, looking out,
Doubtless for chance at some Union
soldier never suspecting mortal enemy
in the young negro standing opposite.
lin had shot him dead.