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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
Elaht Thousand to Get Work

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 1.--With
the resumption of mines, furnaces and
other industries this week, 5000 men
who have been idle for several months
will go back to work.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02

Cut this write i'll the provided the and adj
dress the contestant for whom wish to vote the
whom wish designating either
the number of and bring mail the The Herald
office Do fail fill in the blank provided for the NUMBER
of fail to do will be impossible Count the
coupon Information the numbers and other details
of the several published elsewhere this mornings
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and only In TINS way, they contend,
can the question be permanently set
tied.
Mr.. Stewart Hopeful
President George H. Stewart said
last night he regarded the outcome OF
the harbor fight as more hopeful be-
cause of Senator Flint's telegram.
His telegram seems to make 1t clear"
said MIR. Stewart that we are not to
be hampered as we had expected to be
under the recent orders for the estab-
lishment of the harbor. 1t seems to
make 1t certain that the harbor lines
will be established by this board as
finality. But as TO whether this will
complete the victory or not remains
to be seen. We do not know how or
from what quarter opposition may
come after the lines have been estab-
lished."
Mr.. Stewart said he was not certain
that the acceptance of quit claims by
the government would or would not
embarrass the future of the free har-
bor However, he thought the tele-
gram of Mr.. Flint sufficiently clear as
to how the establishment of the lines
was to be determined and approved.
Mr.. FIeming's View
Secretary Fleming had this to say:
"Yes, l am just advised of the tele-
gram of Senator Frank p. Flint TO his
secretary, Frank Buren,, the contents of
which are entirely satisfactory. as this
brings about the very desirable result,
namely, the establishment of the har-
bor lines in the inner Wilmington har-
Dor, that will meet the approval of the
harbor commission and chamber of
commerce of this city and the other
commercial organizations.
my understanding of this telegram
is that the secretary of war will estab-
lish the lines as instructed by congress.
TO disregard any claims that may or
might have been made for damages
against the United States by reason
of the alleged owners of certain tide
lands surrounding the bay and that
the voice of the people has been heard
and that free harbor, uncontrolled by
private interests, is in sight.
Senator Flint has Certainly brought
results, and 1 think that the senator
deserves congratulations on this VIC
tory, inasmuch as it was necessary to
carry the fight directly to the secretary
of war"
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HARBOR WON,
WIRES SENATOR
tContinued from Page Ono,
Mr.. Stewart Hopeful

and only in this way. they contend
can the question be permanently set
1OI
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LOST BRIDE SAFE:
TAYLORS REJOICE
Continued from Page One,
Thanks The Herald

this evening and only partially realized
her condition or what had befallen her
The National tribune., 1908-01-02

out in front to rid itself of the annoy
ing fire of the sharpshooters, which it
did in the most gallant manner, altho
IT encountered the boasted fighters of
Hoods Division and beat them back,
but not without losing one-half the
muskets II carried into action.
The 5th n. H, under the brave Col.
Cross, took a long stride that day to-
ward the pinnacle of fame it afterward
attained. The regimenta1 brigade and
division reports of the Confederates are
SO confusing, and those of our own side
far from clear as to time and place, that
1t is difficult to say with precision as to
certain events in this whirlwind of fight
ing. 1t seems altogether likely, how
ever, that the 9Th n. II. bore an unusual
share in the fight around the Piper
House, in which the Confederate bri-
gades of Featherston, Pryor and Ander-
son were torn TO pieces, and the 5th
N. II captured the colors of the 4th n.
c. We only have the report of the
casualties of one Confederate regiment,
the 18th Miss, which lost 144 out of the
228 it carried into action. AS there is
no comment on this frightful loss, We
can imagine that the rest of the regi-
ments in those brigades suffered in
much the same manner.
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
The 9Th Mo.

Editor National Tribune: Would you
write up a brief account of the 9Th Mo.
as 1 never see anything about it in the
paper Wilson, Doniphan, Neb.
The 9Th Mo. was organized at st.
Louis from June to July. 1861, and
finally mustered out Aug. II, 1865. 1t
was first commanded by Col. Peter F..
Bland, who resigned Aug. 81, 1862, was
recommissioned Colonel Oct %, 1862,
and discharged Dec. %, 1862. The
command of the regiment then fell
upon Col. James II. Blood, who resigned
April 2, 1864, and at the time of final
muster-out Lieut.-Col. Delos Van Deu-
sen was in command. 1t belonged 20
Blair's Division Fifteenth Corps, and
lost 81 killed and 1S5 from disease, etc.
Editor National Tribune.
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what orders Burnside received and
when, appears that of Lieut.. John NJ.
Wilson, now Brig.-Gen. John M VIII
son, retired, u. 5. Engineers, who says
| that his diary shows that he received
his orders from Mcclellan at o'clock,
and delivered it to Burnside within 10
minutes. Gen. Cox says that at Z o'clock
he received orders from Burnside to
move the corps forward to the ridge
next to the Antietam, and hold it in
readiness to carry the bridge and the
nights beyond it. An order written by
Col. Ruggles, afterward Adjutant-Gen-
eral, u. s. A, for an immediate attack,
is marked 9:10 a. m. Gen. J. d. Cox,
Ex-Governor of Ohio, in a fine, scholar
ly article in Battles and Leaders,"
says that facts within his pc! !senal rec
objection fix the hour of the receipt of
the order to attack at 10 a. m. Gen.
CoX'S testimony as to the execution of
the order is so important that we give
it at length:
Mcclellan truly said in his original
report that the task of carrying the
bridge in front of Burnside was a diff
cult one. The depth of the valley and
the shape of its curve made it hnpos-
Sible to reach the enemy'S position at
the bridge by artillery fire from the hill
tops on our side. Not so from the
enemy's position, for the curve of the
valley was such that it was perfectly
enfiladed near the bridge by the Con-
federate batteries at the position now
occupied by the National Cemetery.
The Confederate defense of the passage
was intruSted to d. r. Jones'S Division
of four brigades, which was the one
Longstreet himself had disciplined and
led till he was assigned to a larger COM
The National tribune., 1908-01-02

fighting Richardson's Division suffered
a cruel loss in the death of their rough
and-ready commander, who, in spite of
his brusque manners and speech, had
won the love of every soldier in his
division. He paid the penalty of his
ardent spirit, for he was constantly
wherever the fighting threatened to be
the heaviest, and it seemed miracle
that he was not killed before.
BY / o'clock both sides had nearly
fought themselves out, for the organ
izations were SO shattered by losses of
men and officers that reformation was
necessary before much else could be
done. Lee had put into the fight the
troops which had hurried up from Har-
per's Ferry. These had suffered as Sc
yerely as the rest, and the time was
eminently ripe for a forward movement
by McClellan's fresh troops, which
could not have failed to sweep the
battlefield.
Lee took advantage sof the respite
which the exhaustion of the attacking
force gave him to shorten and strength
en- his line. In the meantime the spite
full musketry fire, with occasional artil-
lery duels, was kept up, and toward the
middle of the afternoon the 7th Me.
distinguished itself by a brilliant ex-
plot. 1t belonged to Irwin's Brigade
of the Sixth Corps, which was on the
right of French's Division, and pushed
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mand. Toombs's Brigade was placed
in advance, occupying the defenses of
the bridge itself and the wooded slopes
above, while the other brigades sup
ported him, covered by the ridges which
looked down upon the valley. The di-
vision batteries were supplemented by
others from the reserve, and the valley,
the bridge and the ford below were un-
der the direct and powerful fire of shot
and shell from the Confederate can
non. Toombs speaks in his report in a
characteristic way of his brigade hold
ing back Rurnside's Corps; but his
force, thus strongly supported. was as
large as could pe disposed of at the
head Of the bri1ge, and abundantly
large for resistance to any that could
be brought against it, Our advance
upon the bridge could only be made by
narrow column, showing front of
eight men at lost. But the front
which Toombs deployed behind his de-
fenses was 800 or 400 yards both above
and below the bridge. He himself says
in his report:
From the nature Of the ground on
the other side, the enemy were com
PEELED to approach mainly by the road.
which led up the river for nearly 300
PAGES parallel with my line of battle
and distant therefrom from so TO $50
feet, thus exposing his flank to a de-
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
The 32h Ind,

Editor National Tribune: Please pub
lish short history of the 32d Ind, and
state whether it was included in the 800
fighting reginents.-John Zimmerman,
National Military Home, Ohio
The 32d Ind. was organized at In
dianapolis Aug. "A, 1851 In the Au-
tumn of 1854 an additional company
was raised and added to the organiza-
ton, which then consisted of a battalion
of three companies, and the consolida-
ton finally mustered out Dec 4, 1865.
1t was commanded first by Col. VIII
Itch, who was promoted TO Brigadier-
General July II, 1862, succeeded by
Col. Henry Won TeDra, who died of
disease Aug. 6, 1853 Lieut-Col. Frank
Erdelmeyer then took command re-
tanning the same till the expiration of
term of service, Sept. I, 1854. Lieut. :
Col. Hans Blume was in command of
the battalion at the time of final mus
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
DAY,

tam, there have been fierce charges and
recEjminations, with defenses and
counterchargeS..- Mcclellan and the
other corps commanders held Burnside
distinctly responsible for the indecisiye
character of the battle, and Burnside
reterted that he had done all he was
ordered to do, and had obeyed his Or
ders with soldierly promptness. AS to
McClellan's allegations with regard to
Burnside, it must be kept in mind that
the latter's formal report of the battle
was not made until Aug. 4, 1863, nearly
year afterward, and nine months after
Burnside had superseded Mcclellan as
Commander of the Army of the Poto-
mac. 1t was also at a time when Nc
Clellan was working up his role of
martyr, and negIecting nothing that
would help to put him in the light of
man whose transcendent genius had
been constantly thwarted and paralyzed
by his incompetent subordinates. 1t is
certain that for weeks after Antietam
Burnside and Mcclellan continued to
be on terms of greatest intimacy, and
it seemed to everyone that Burnside's
conduct had received McClellan's en-
tire approval.
AS has been said before, McClellan's
plan for the battle was an admirable
one. and If it had been carried out with
reasonable intelligence and energy by
his subordinates, could not have failed
The National tribune., 1908-01-02

structive fire the most of that dis
tance.
Sweeping Away the Head of the Column.
Under such circumstances l do not
hesitate to affirm that the Confederate
position was virtually impregnable to a
direct attack over the bridge for the
column approaching it was not only
exposed at pistol range to the perfectly
covered infantry of the enemy and to
two batteries which were assigned to
the special duty of supporting Toombs,
and which had the exact range of the
little valley with their shrapneI, but if
it should succeed in reaching the bridge
its charge across it must be made under
a fire plowing thru its length. the head
of the column melting away as it ad-
vanced, SO that, as every soldier knows,
it could show no front strong enough to
make an impression upon the enemys
breastworks, even If it should reach the
other side. AS a desperate sort of di-
version in favor of the right wing, it
might be justifiable; but / believe that
no officer or man who knew the actual
situation at that bridge thinks a serious
attack upon it was any part of Nc
Clellan's original plan. Yet in his de-
tailed official report. instead of speak
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
BURNSIDE BRIDGE, LOOKING NORTH.

to destroy Lees army. Burnside's part
in this plan, it was understood, was to
attack on the left with the Ninth Corps
simultaneously with the attack on the
extreme right. This was good general
snip and common sense. The Ninth
Corps was the strongest corps in the
army. since it contained four divisions,
none of which had received as severe
pounding as the divisions in the Army
of the Potomac. The divisions were
those commanded by Wilcox, Sturgis
and Rodman, of the Ninth Corps prop
er, and Cox's Kanawha Division, which
had been brought from West Virginia.
1t was therefore strong enough to have
crossed Antietam Creek, rolled up Lees
right and held itself in any position that
II might have taken. In other words, 1t
was far stronger than the First Corps,
with which Hooker had opened the
fight, or the Twelfth Corps, that sub
sequently came into the battle, or any
of the divisions of the Second or Sixth
Corps all Of which had pushed the
lConfederates back and maintained
their ground against all attempts at
dislodgment.
Time and Tenor Of BurnsIde's Orders.
Out of the contradictory claims as to
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
,ungling and unsoldierly in the ex-

bungling and nnsoldierly in the ex-
treme.
All the accounts say that Burnside's
advances were weak and frivolous, SO
much so that Mcclellan sent him i'm
perative order after order to get across
the creek at whatever cost, and, lastly,
Mcclellan sent Col. Sackett to stay with
Burnside and see that the order was
obeyed
Burnside was a large, handsome.
genial man, but without a particle of
grit or aggression in his nature. At the
first Bull Run he withdrew his Rhode
Island Brigade out of action after the
first preliminary skirmish, in which he
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
Why Did Lee Fight the Battle.

One of the things that the intelligent
Southerners find the greatest difficulty
| in accounting for is why Lee fought
the battle. He had nothing to gain
| from it and everything to lose. He
could have withdrawn his troops across
the Potomac in the face of McClellan's
deliberate advance. and thus saved
thousands of lives for the Confederate
army in the future. No matter what
success he had previously had Lee
could not hope to defeat the immense
host which Mcclellan was pouring
down upon him in plain sight from the
passes of the South Mountain. AS far
as any military purpose is concerned. it
looks as If Lee had gotten his fighting
blood up, and was eager to f-:lt with
out regard to disparity of -5ers or
possible consequences. Lee showed re-
markable fortitude. 10 say the least, to
remain all day long Sept. IS, confront
ing McClellan's hosts with his shattered
battalions, knowing that if Mcclellan
made a forward movement destruction
was inevitable.
Altho Mcclellan had received rein
forcements to the number of 14,000 he
showed no intention of resuming the
battle on the morning of Sept. 49,
Franklin says that he, Franklin, wished
to renew it, and had made his disposi-
tions toward that end, when he received
perenptory orders from Sumner and
then Mcclellan to desist This state
ment of Franklin's would have more
probability if at any other time he had
shown a disposition for vigorous offen-
sive. Mcclellan gave orders for the
battle to be resumed on the morning
of the 18th, but when daylight came
it was found that Lee had transferred
his whole army across the Potomac
leaving only his dead and severely
wounded. and his men on the opposite
side of the river We're making tantaliz-
ing gestures of contempt and defiance
to their enemies.
The probable reason for McClellans s
failure to attack was that he was Up
palled by the loss of u, 900 of his men,
and lacked perception of the fact that
while the Confederates We're killing this
many of his men his soldiers had ben
making equal slaughter in the Confed-
crate ranks. Again we see in McClel-
Ian that preposterous exaggeration of
the enemy's force of which he was
never able to rid himself
TactIcally Antietam was a drawn bat
tie 1t had other consequences. how
ever quite important. Lee had gone
into Maryland to raise the standard of !
revolt, and had expected that his force |
would be strongly augmented by re-
cruits flOcking to his banner. Instea,, |
he not only got no recruits, but his |
army was sadly diminished by stras-
Cling and desertions. The much-her-
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
The Seth n. Y.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
short sketch of the 36th n. Y. I would
like to know if Capt. Robert Jackson.
Co. G. is alive; would like address,
John McNolly, Chicago, Ill.
The Seth N Y. also called 'Wash-
ington Volunteers" was organized at
New York City July 4, 1861, and mus
tered out July Is, 1863. 1t was COM
manded by Col. Chas. H. Innes, who
resigned July s, 1862, succeeded by
Col William H. Brown, who was in
command at the time of muster-out. 1t
belonged to Newton's Division, Sixth
Corps, and lost 81 killed and so from
disease, etc.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
By JOHN McELR0Y.
Longstreet says: 'The Federals Tough

Longstreet says: ''The Federals fought
with wonderful bravery, and the Con-
federates clung to their ground with
heroic courage as hour after hour they
were mown down like grass. The fresh
troops of Mcclellan literally tore into
shreds the already ragged army of Lee,
but the Confederates never gave back"
Longstreet further says that the sit
uation was desperate one for the Con-
federate army, for if their center should
be pierced the army would be destroy
ed, and goes on to say: I'VE were so
badly crushed that at the close of the
day 10000 fresh troops could have
come in and taken Lees army and
everything it had. But Mcclellan did
not know it, and apparently feared that
Sharpsburg was a Confederate victory,
and that he would have to retire.
AS to Burnside's conduct at Antie-
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
Death of Eli Davis.

A letter from Comrade E. E. Mutt, Of
Sidney, o., informs The National Trib-
une of the death of a favored friend
and comrade, Eli Davis, who was Ser
geant in the 22d Ohio Battery. and a
Drawer and better soldier never lived.
He was taken prisoner at Jonesviile.
Va, Jan. 8, 1868, after having fought
his gun with the greatest gallantry He
suffered a long confinement in Ander-
sOnviIle, and was for years a resident
of Sidney, o.. and Quartermaster of
Neal Post. He was Postmaster of the
city for one term. and was highly es-
teemed by all of the people.
The National tribune., 1908-01-02
The 1J3d n. Y.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
short sketch of the 153d n. Y. Would
like to hear from comrades. especially
Stephen A Mitigate, of Gloversville, n.
Y.-C. H. Smith, Cascade, n. Y.
The 153d n. Y was organized at
Fonda, in October, 1862, and mustered
out Oct. 2, 1866. 1t was commanded
by Col. Duncan McMartin. who resigned
April %, 1863, succeeded by Col Ed
win p. Davis, brevetted Brigadier-Gen-
eral. 1t belonged to Dwight's Division.
Nineteenth Corps. and lost 80 killed
and 161 from disease, etc.-Editor Ma
tiOnal Tribune.
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killed and 81 from disease, etc. The
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GEN. ISRAEL B. RICHARDSON.

aided invasion was reduced to a mere
raid, and OF the 10000 men with which
Lee had gone into the State he had log.
in one way or another $4,000.
once more the gallant men of IL {
Army of the Potomac We're cheated out
of a success which their splendid valor
deserved. They had fought as mon
rarely fight, since Antietam was the
bleodiest single day in the history of
America. And they had Lees army in
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had deliberately thrown TO him.
(To be continued.)
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