Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-03-16
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL some INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies whiIed
Away Life In Camp-ForaginK Ex-
periences, rresome Marches-ThriI.
ling Scenes on the Battlefield.

~@AAA tAAS AANA ling Nj July ACOis
when news came OF the fight at Bull
Run and foot race TO Washington. The
Second Wisconsin, our predecessors at
Camp Randall, was reported 10 have
been badly cut to pieces. How famil-
lar that sounds TO pieces" May
| diverge? Yes; What soldier did not
hear II many times during his service?
Armies, corps, divisions, brlgades regi-
ments. companies, batteries, We're re
ported "cut to pieces; only few are
left" Often II was true, but oftener 1t
was not, heaven be thanked Soil in
the army was great for 81 story TO grow
In The killing Of dozen men and the
capture of Il company In Buffers army,
across the James. was likely 10 be Il
thousand killed several thousand
wounded and five thousand captured,
when II was filtered down 10 the left Of
Petersburg, with the sensational an
nouncement that Buffers army had
been attacked by Longstreets and
Ewelrs corps and "all cut to pieces"
Before the soldier statesman of the
rank and file had figured out why
Grant and Meade had allowed Long
street and Ewell to transfer from the
Petersburg front to Buffers front and
'cut his army to pieces" why the Tn
lon army had not swept over the Pc
tersburg works and taken the old Nir-
gnia city while the bulk of It's defend
ers were cutting Butler 10 pieces
Truth came struggling along the line
10 undo the work of the more rapid
marcher, Falsehood. 1t was glorious To
hear so dreadful a report contradicted
1t was inspiring to hear the soldier
statesman Of the rear rank explain why
1t would have been impossible for Lee
TO withdraw twenty or thirty thousand
from Meades front and cut Buffers
army to pieces why it was "a fool
story Funny fellows, those soldier
statesmen.
At Gettysburg Plckett's division was
cut to pieces but il made record that
will be quoted as long as the world
stands That was an instance when
the report was true but ii was not 40
true that the union army had no more
trouble from General Pickett and his
dauntIess VirginiA as. They were on
hand in many another contest-the sur,
ylvors of the memorable Gettysburg
charge and their yell and shooting
had lost none of their force. They
We're among the very last troops to stop
fighting at Appomattox.
Longstreet was wounded the 9th Of
May, 1864, in the Wilderness" and
the report came to our battered, bleed
Ing line that BOngstreet's corps had
lost its great leader and had been "cut
to pieces" but In all the fighting, from
1.-THE Wilderness 10 the wind-up. Long
streets old corps part Of the time un.
der Anderson ana for some time be-
fore the curtain rang down" under
Longstreet, that "cut TO pieces" com
mand did right smart OF mischief
struck powerful blows AT Sp0ttsylya-
mia. Cold Harior Petersburg, etc
Hancock's Second Corps ana what
a Jimdandy corps il was was said 10
have been cut 10 pieces at the time II
charged Lees lines near Spottsylvana
the bloody angle capturing John
stOn's division OF confederates. Thos..
who have heard General Gordun'S lee
ture on The Closing Days of the Con
federacy' viii never forget thrilling
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