Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-09

This done he called for assistance, and
fifty or a hundred laughing, shouting
soldiers came back with ropes, and in
half an hour the wagon was on the
road below, tle boxes of bareback had
been gathered up. and the teamster pro-
ceeded on his way as though nothing
had happened. 1t was very rarely that
a teamster left his wagon or his team.
He was generally al enlisted man, and
carried his rife in his wagon, and very
rarely forgot that he was soldier, as
we'll as Il teamSter.'
Il have case in mind said the
Major, that illustrates that quality.
After the battle Of Chickamauga, Long
street posted his sharpshooters along
the south bank of the Tennessee river
from Lookout mountain to Shellmound,
with intent to control the river road Oh
the north bank to Bridgeport. For
day or two the teamsters ran the giant
let, going past the points commanded
by the sharpShooters at Il full run. But
Longstreet's men soon got the range.
and made the road impracticable. They
would blaze away, and sometimes kill
every mule attached to a wagon, If theF
did not kill the teamster. When 1t
came TO this the wagons We're ordered
off TO the longer road and over the
mountains and down the Sequatchie
valley.
The day before this order was given
Dan Hogan was at the tail end of
procession Of wagons running the
gantlet At this time the road was
streWn, on the river side, with dead
mules and deserted wagons. Dan
started on run to make the pass,
when the ritemen on the other side
brought down his leaders. This threw
everything into snar. The other
mules plunged forward onto the dead
ones that had dropped in their tracks,
the wagon came forward onto them,
and Dan was precipitated forward onto
the struggling mass, while the rebels
yelled with delight
Dan got out his own rifle. and, tax
ing position behind rock, blaZed away
at the crowd of sharpshooters laughing
at him on the other side. He made
it decidedly uncomfortable, and, While
they hooted at him at first, they made
it q serious business for him a little
later. After Il time Dan discovered
two or three mules wandering about
side gorge. He caught them, took the
harness off the dead mules, put it on
the captured ones, unhitched his team
from the wagon, and with it pulled the
dead mules out Of the road, then
hitched again to the wagon. and while
the Confederates were wondering what
he would do next, suddenly started off
at full run, and, with a yell like that
of an Indian, went rafting out OF
range. He expected a fusillade, but
instead of that came a wild cheer from
the men who had been shooting at
him. His patience and pluck had won
over the sharpshooters."
There was another thing people did
not understand put in the Doctor.
They did not know how much we were
embarrassed in the first year of the
war by orders against cOnfscatiDg rebel
property. When the Union army passed
through districts in Missouri and Ken
lucky no soldier must take a chicken
or turkey or pig. When the rebel
army passed through the same districts
the soldiers simply lived off the coun-
try. This policy led to all sorts of de
ception on the part of the soldiers and
TO the Winking at offenses by the Off
GERS.
AT that time, too. Union soldiers
were expected to return all slaves that
came into camp. On one occasion in
Missouri a c0loreG man rushed into my
tent. asking NE to save him from his
master, who was coming with the pro-
vost guard to take him back to the
plantation. There was with me a sol
der who had been with John Brown.
VINO acted on impulse and concealed
the fellow under my bunk. Just then
the planter put his head i'll at the tent.
asking for his escaped slave, adding
that he knew he was in the tent, be
cause he saw him come III. My soldier
friend invited the planter to come in
and look for himself. but added if ne
did he would go out with a broken
head Thereupon the planter beat a
quick retreat to consult with the officer
in command. and the soldier lifted up
the tent at the rear and the slave es-
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