Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-10-18
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies Whi1ed
Away Life in Camp-FOraging Ex-
periences, Tiresome Marches
Thrilling Scenes on Battlefield.


Meagher, whose Irish brigade was in
the reserve in the famous charge on
Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg,
the Burnside battle, in December, 1862,
was order to move his men forward, he
said to them: SOLDIERS of the bril-
gade, l want every man Of you to do
his duty. The rest Of the corps is
watching this Irish brigade. We may
not succeed. If we fail let us have
dead Irishmen nearer the enemy's
works than any other soldiers"
The charge was made, the Irish bri-
gade losing nearly half of it's numbers
General Meagher saw what he asked
for-dead Irishmen nearer to the en-
emys stone wall line of battle than
any other members of the blue coat
army.
G. Sheldon, the Well-known Wiscon-
sin railroad conductor, said: II stood
only a little way from Grant the sec
ond day in the Wilderness. I had been
wounded and had got back to his po-
sition. LOngstreet had made a fierce
attack and was driving our troops. An
officer dashed up and with great ex-
element said:
General Grant, Longstreet is turn
ing out right
Grant did not seem to be disturbed
in the least. He looked out from I'M
der his SLOUGH hat and said to the Off
GER: ''Well, then, we shall have to
turn his left"
Colonel Burns of the One Hundred
and Fifty-ffth New York was shot
through the head in one of the charges
at Spottsylvania. He fell as though
stone dead, and those who took the
time to look at him said there was no
use of carrying him back, but he was
finally taken to hospital, where his
wound was dressed and his case pro-
n0unced by the surgeons hopeless one.
He was laid away to die But the
gallant Irishman was not ready to go !;
he proposed to live. He was taken to
Washington and a month or two later
from there to his home in Buffalo. He
was mere shadow of his former self
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on a certain train. The colonel had re-
manned on the car until the crowd had
dispersed so that he could walk with
out being jostled. Those who had come
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Burns: know him"
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7 am Burns. commander of the Ono
Hundred and Fifty-ffth New York"
His weak voice, thin face and spare
bodv. 50 unlike the Rurns the Ruffa1o-
MAN had known, were not yet recog-
nized. He said: You are not Colonel
Burns Besides, Colonel Burns was
shot through the head and killed; a
man can't be shot through the head
and live
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70 tho two rod onots ono on oocb eide
of his head whore tho bullet had roma
through and at last his old friend roc
o~nized him. niclzed him nm in his arms
as he vouId child and carried him 70
an easy conveyance that horo him, 70
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