The National tribune., 1909-06-10
FOUND MYSELF ALONE"

they have appeared in The National
Tribune. 1t has been said that the
Twenty-third Corps was on the left
flank at Resaca. He remembers that
his division was then new troops, six
Indiana regiments under Gen. A. p.
Hovey. They were first called Hovey's
Babies, but before the Atlanta Cam
paign was over they were called Sche-
fields GrayhOunds. The first day at
Resaca they were kept well closed up
behind the other divisions, and where
they could hear the bullets whistle very
plainly. About sundown they were
formed in what he supposed was
the extreme right OF the army There
were no troops in sight on his right,
and the 12Sth Ind. was on the extreme
right, and his company was the second
on the right of the regiment. They
had not yet learned to build breast
works, and just lay down in the woods
and slept very well. When daylight
came the Johnnies threw two or three
shells over them, but they soon got
range of the company,s guns. and could
reach them with their Springfelds by.
putting double charge of powder to
one ball. This went on until 9 o'clock.
when they were relieved by other troops
and travelled all day until about
O'Clock, part of the time on the double
quick, not stopping to get dinner. They
| then came up to the extreme left, as he
| supposed. of the whole army, where
our men had made charge, but had
been driven back. AS soon as they
| halted orders came to YELL and they
gave them the Hoosier yell, which they
kept up for about half an hour. The
Johnnies were in plain sight, but the
division was strung out back in the
woods. The skirrnishers were 80 close
that they could talk together, and the
Johnnies wanted to know what the YELL
4 t.. nm.
| reinforcements had just come up. There
were not. 5000 of the Indianians, and
they had only come up from the right
| flank. That night the Johnnies got away.
He wants to make another correction
in regard to Columbia. Tenn. A COM
rade of the 63d Ind. has claimed that
they were the troops that met Hoods
Cavalry at Columbia when they drove
our cavalry in. He knows that Co. +,
128th Ind. was the only troops on the
lskirmish line when the cavalry came
in. The 1929 or the 104th Ohio came
up to reinforce them after the rebel
cavalry was out of sight Co. F was
1 the only troops that fired a shot at the
cavalry. They had been advance guard
that morning, and had started at 3
O'Clock, and did not make any halt un-
til they came to the Mount pleasant
pike. Before they had come to front
and got lined up an Aid rode up, and
ordered the Captain to deploy his men
across the pike as skirmishers. It was
about a half a mile from where they
were to where the field fences made q
lane of the pike. They went about half
way to the fence, and deployed across
the pike just as the sun came up. Some
of the boys lay down to rest, and some
pulled out their hardtack and raw porl
to finish their breakfasts. The gun:
had not been loaded. AS the pike leaves
the town 1t crosses a small creek ant
, turns around hill so that they coul(
not see more than mile along It, Pret
ty soon they heard a racket coming III
the pike. Comrade Moore was Sergeant
ana standing on the pike, and he spoke
to his comrades that they had bettei
load their guns, as something was com
ing. They had not gotten their gum
loaded when the. cavalry came in sight
The Captain gave the order to run FOL
the fence, but before they got to th'
fence the cavalry were coming out o
the lane. He started to the left to ge
laround them, but saw that he could not