Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-12
THE 2AT'TLE-FIELDS.
cd SOLDIERS TALK OVER
ARMY EXPERIENCES.
The Blue and the Gray Review Incl
dents of the Late War, and In a
Graphic and Interesting Manner
Tell of Camp, March and Battle.

Sergeant David L. Mccullough"
said the captain, was carrying the
,olors of the Fifty Second Ohio when
we made the assault ON Kenesaw. June
p, 1854. He was at the abattis in
front OF the main rebel works when he
was shot through the shoulder. As one
Of the color guards caught him and
lowered him TO the ground Mccullough
handed Major ]. T. Holmes, then IN
command of the Fifty-second, the col
ors and said: Take them, Major
they never touched the ground
THE Major grasped the colors, gave
them TO one of the corporals Of the
color guard. and led the way through
the distractions, At first the coiors
were planted on top of the rebel works.
When they were shot downand the flag
stan splintered, the boys cut a canteen
In strips, repaired the staff, and plant
ed the colors in the loose earth at the
foot OF the works. remember that a
rebel captain was killed in trying to get
the flag while II was on top of the
works, and when the burial parties
went out between the lines TO look after
the dead, the adjutant of the Rock
City guards told me that he saw Col
Dan McCook on top of the works, and
said further that officers and men were
amazed to see him there and TO hear
him coolly demand their surrender For
a minute no one fired. Then came the
fusillade that fatally wounded the colo
uel. ANNA
When we raced the works, Major
Holmes and myself lay down against
the glacis face Of the Notifications,
our heads close together, and our feet
wide apart, our bodies making letter
A on an inverted " Walters, OF COM
pany H. came up and lay down be-
tween us, his head near the Majors
feet. We were watching the rebels on
the opposite side of the works and
keeping them under cover. Major
Holmes spoke to Walters and told him
that he would be IN less danger If he
came closer to the works, and explain
ed that, located as he was, the rebels
could put their guns over the BREAST
works and fire, whereas, IL he was on
our line, they would have more diff
Guilty In depressing their rifles and we
could divert the shot By striking the
guns aside
walters was watching for an oppor-
tunlty to get in shot, and was so
eager that he rose to his knees. then
stood up. Before he could fire. how
ever he was severely wounded on the
left side of the neck, the rebel bullet
missing the artery. but making an ugly
wound, which bled profusely. Before
! he was struck Walters had been full
of fight. After he was struck we stood
as one dazed, holding his gun mechan-
ically away from his body. Then. as
he saw the blood squirt out and run
down his breast, he dropped his gun,
turned, and started on run back
down the hill
He never halted until he reached
General Morgan's line on the hill
| across Noyes' creek, where we had
! formed for the charge. 1t seemed 20
me that the whole rebel division In
| front of us opened fire on Walters as
| he ran, but he escaped without an
other scratch. never laid eyes on
him again until we arrived at Colum-
bus, Ohio, to he mustered out, when
| he marched into camp, and reported TO
company H. He told me privately
| that that shot at Kenesaw took all the
sand out of him, and when he got back
TO Big Shanty he was 30 confused
that he couldn't remember 10 what
command he belonged He was sent
from Big Shanty to Chattanooga, from
there to Nashville, from there to
Louisville and from there to Colum
bus. His memory did not return tc
him, he said with smile until his old
regiment marched into camp to be mus
| tered out.
"At Peach Tree creek, companies II
and X crossed the creek on foot log
and made their way toward the tim
we met a heavy column of rebels. and
deploying as skirmishers, we fell back
on house with paIlng fence about
| It, Corporal Coleman Of company II
in trying to make his way through the
| fierce in front of the house. was held
! ror some minutes under the fire Of the
enemy. He got his body through all
right, but his knapsack caught In the
| palings and In a way to hold him fast
| He struck out with hands and feet like
man swimming. but in a few min
utes got grip on himself, coolly un
buckled the straps of his knapsack
left it hanging in the fence and rush
ed Oh with the company to the house
where he did good service, until VIC
were REINFORCED by q full brigade"
Several stories" said the Major
"have hcpu told Of that burial Marty al