The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-05-07

tion's prisoner at Fortress Monroe,
illuminate a personal war story of
more than usual interest, albeit one
that DIR. Hitchcock is by no means
eager to recite, except to friends.
Dr. Hitchcock was a student at Dart
mouth college in the class Of 1853.
Nearly half the class enlisted in 1862,
including Hitchcock, who never re-
turned to college His service in the
army lasted until 1866.
Il was nine months in company A,
Fifty-third regiment, Col. Kimball of
Fitchburg," said the doctor recently,
and all through the hard Louisiana
campaign, from New Orleans to Port
Hudson, | acted as the colonel's or
derly.
"On the morning of June IA, 1868,
while near the colonel on the firing
line at Port Hudson, was struck n
the right eye and the bullet lodged be-
hind the bone which surrounds the
eye.
Col. Kimball and Acting Sergt.
Maj. f. e. Whitney removed the
shot, with the aid of a jackknife
and a large pin. This impromptu
surgical operation was performed by
these two amateur operators amid fly
ing bullets and the crash of artillery
The sight of the eye was destroyed
permanently.
On the return of the Fifty-third
regiment TO Massachusetts in Septem-
Der, 1863" said the doctor, Il OBJ
tanned commission as second lieuten-
ant of the Fifty-seventh regiment,
then in camp at Aver Junction, and
whose colonel was William F. Bart
lett.
''We reached the front in time for
the Wilderness campaign, where the
regiment was the third heaviest loser
in officers and men in the entire army
MY next fight" said the doctor,
was at Fort Stedman, in front of
Petersburg, and when there the regi-
ment was under Maj. Doherty of
Worcester. Poor Doherty received his
death wound there. Sergt. William F.
Oakes and myself carried him to his
tent. We were obliged to hurriedly
leave him on account of the advance
of the confederates. Oakes was cap.
tured
'The grand review of the armies at
Washington after Lees surrender was
the, next incident Of note to me-" said
the doctor. my dress coat was In
storage at Baltimore, and my short
jacket, in which l had performed my
duty as an officer for some months
was not thought good enough for the
review by my colonel. But marched
with the boys, all the same, and the
little abbreviated jacket went with
me.
I'm May. 1865, was detailed as
captain and aide-de-camp on the stat
of Gen. Miles" continued the doctor
ITO my mind the services of Gen
Miles at Charlottesville, save by his
superior officers in the battle, have
never been appreciated.
Gen. Couch, corps commander, ir
his war paper on Charlottesville, re
fers to the stout defense of one par
of his line by COL Miles Of the Sixty
first New York regiment. 1t was
Couch who said, as Miles was borne
past him on litter, shot in the body
That young man, If he lives, will
some day be the commander Of thu
army
Hancock said In his official report
$50 stoutly and successfully did Col
Miles contest the ground that thu
enemy was never able to penetrate m!
lines
The repulse of the enemy at three
O'Clock on May g. said Gen. J c. Cald
we'll. was due to the skill and gal
lantry Of Col. Miles About tel
o'clock on May 81 said Col. 0. H. Nor
ris, the gallant Col. Miles, command
ing the picket line, was shot through
the breast by sharpshooter and b
was removed from the field
1T was Gen. Miles severe wound a