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cover He replied that his orders from
Gen. Thomas were to spare artillery
ammunition. This was right, according
to the general policy: but I explained
to him that we must keep up the morale
of d bold offensive, that he must use
his artillery. force the enemy to re-
main on the timid defensive. and or
dered him to cause a battery close by
to fire three voileys. I continued TO
ride down our line, and soon heard in
quick succession the three volleys. The
next division in order was Geary's. and
1 gave him similar orders. Gen. POLK,
in my>opinion, was killed by the second
volley fired from the first battery re-
ferred to-
Gen. JOfnston's Account.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston gives IN his
Narrative" this account OF the afialr:
In the evening of the 18th inst.
Lieut.-Gen. Hardee expressed appre-
hension that Bates Division, posted on
Pine Mount. might be too far from the
line occupied by his corps, and request
cd me to visit that outpost, and decide
if it should be maintained. We rode TO
il together next morning, accompanied
by Lieut.-Gen. Polk, who wished to
avail himself of the hight to study the
ground in front of his own corps.
Just when we had concluded our
the hill had been decided upon, a party
of soldiers that had gathered behind us
from mere curiosity, apparently tempt
ed an artillery officer, whose battery
was in front, 500 or 700 yards from us,
to open his fire upon them, at first fir
ing shot very slowly. Lieut.-Gen. Polk,
unconsciously exposed by his character
istic insensibility to danger. fell by the
third shot, which passed from left to
right thru the middle of his chest. The
death of this eminent Christian and SOL
dier, who had been distinguished in
every battle in which the Army of Ten
nessee had been engaged, produced
great sorrow in our troops. Maj.-Gen.
Loring, the officer next in rank in the
corps succeeded temporarily to its COM
mand."
The death of Lieut.-Gen. Polk created
a profound sensation in the Southern
Confederacy. He was a brother of a
former President of the United States,
had been educated at West Point, where
ne gave great promise, but had left the
army for the church. and had been for
years Bishop of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of Louisiana. He had en-
braced the Confederate cause with ar
dor, sought and received commission
as Major-General, and came promi-
nently into notice early In the war by
his invasion of Kentucky and the estab-
lishment of Gibraltar" at Columbus,
KY. 20 miles below Cairo. He filled a
great deal of space in the war news of
1S61-62, and at Chickamauga COM
manded wing of the Confederate
army. He was man of a great deal
of personal dignity and department,
and his friends claimed for him a high
degree of military sagacity. Undoubt-
edly he had been instrumental in bring
ing over to Secession large numbers of
Southerners who were originally Union
lists, and who had stood aloof from the
Vaccinations of the conspirators.
ITO be cOntinuedl
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The Iowa Brigade.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of the Iowa Brigade.-S.
C. Hensley, 500 Fifth avenue west,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The Iowa Brigade consisted of the
18th, 18th, 18th and 18th Iowa. 1t was
made brigade after the battle of Shi-
loh, and was the Oldest brigade organ
ization in the army. 1t belonged to the
Seventeenth Corps, and was command
ed in turn by Coils. Crockett, Reed, Hair,
Hall, Chambers and Shane and Gen. j.
NJ. Tuttle. Gen. VIM. Belknap was as
signed to the command July 81, 1864,
and held 1t until promoted to command
of division, when it was commanded
in turn by Lieut.. Col Abercrombie. Mai.
PomutZ and Lieut.-Col. Beech Brig
Gen. Hickenlooper was assigned TO the
command June IT, 1865. The losses in
battle were, killed and died of wounds:
nth Iowa, 90; 18th Iowa, 119; 18th
Iowa, 1926; 18th Iowa. los; total (durin9
the war;, 636.-Editor National Trib-
une.
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tains. All these eminences overlooked
the country in front and the Confed-
crate signalmen could trace every
movement of Sherman's army so that
fianking movements and other manu-
vers could not be attempted with the
same freedom as before. Sherman ad-
vanced his lines to where they were
within easy observation of the enemy,
whom his soldiers could see behind
freshiy-made earthworks with bastions
for artillery.
Johnston was occupying a line of
great strength extending about 10 miles,
which Sherman felt was too long for
his adversary to hold successfully with
his co. men. Sherman began his
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I
By JOHN McELROY.

dered, everybody was on time, every
body did everywhere precisely what
fas expected of him. This was re-
rsarkabhe record for an army of 100. 600
men, operating over such a great ex-
tent of territory and encountering SO
many unexpected contingencies and
conditions. All three of the armies ur-
der Sherman's command Were now Off
cered, from Corpcrais TO corps COM
lnanders, by men who had been edu-
caLed by two years Of actual service
and trial in the great school Of war.
Of the commanders of the three
armies-Thomas Mcpherson and Scho-
ifeld--yge have already spoken at some
length. In the Army OF the Tennessee
the two corps conlmanders, beside Gen.
Blair, were John a. Logan, OF the Fif-
teenth. and Grenville II. Dodge, of the
Sixteenth Corps.
Gen. John \. Logan.
john A. Logan was u natural soldier
of the highest ability, and wherever he
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usual skilftii feeling along the whole
extent of this line for some thin spot.
McPherson,A on the extreme Ieft, heto
to tho railroad, and pushed out around
the north Base of Kenesaw in search or
Johnston's flank Thomas, obliquing to
the right, went into line below Kene-
saw. facing Pine Mountain, while Gen.
Schofieid. IN the, extreme right, refused
the lire somewhat to face Lost Noun
tain. -''
June II the Etowah bridge was final
" finished, and the first loaded train of
cars came across and to Big Shanty
Gen. Sherman notes that while the cars
were being unloaded the engineer ran
forward to an old water tank, which
was within easy range Of the guns on
Kenesaw The Confederates opened
fire on him, but he coolly remained un-
til he had taken water enough to fill
his tank, then gave a shrill whistle of
contempt and defiance to the Confed-
crate gunners. and came back to his
train amid the wild applause OIL the
watching army.
Then followed slow-moving, laborious
days under a pouring rain, each regi-
ment carefully intrenching its front.
Roads were cut and ,corduroyed to bring
up provisions from the railroad to all
points of the line. = The road-making
was as exhausting labor as the fortify-
ing, and miles OF ROADS nao 10 De Duilt.
Not only the front. line had to be
strongly fortified, but reverse intrench-
ments thrown up.
The troops were now in the fmme-
diate front of a vigilant, aggressive en-
emy, from whom experience taught
them they had good reason to expect
every form of heavy blow which mill
tary skill could deliver.
From his eyrie on the mountain
Johnston was quietly watching some
opportunity to thrust the head of his
lance thru Sherman's lengthening lines,
and cut his antagonists army in two.
All this time the rife and the cannon
were never silent for a minute. The
skirmishing and demonstrating was
even more continuous than the dashing
showers, for these would occasionally
let up, while the angry rifles were in
deadly bickering every hour on some
portion of the line.
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The 10Th Ill.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a snort sketch Of the 18th Ill.-Thomas
Dixon, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The 10th Ill. was organized at Camp
Ferry Aug. %, 1862. The members
whose terms of service would have ex-
pired previous to Oct. /, 1865, We're
mustered out June IL, 1865, and the
remaining members transferred to the
42d Ill. 1t was commanded by Col.
Lyman Grimnip, who resigned Oct. 10,
1862, succeeded by Col Allen Buckner,
in command at the time of muster-out.
It belonged to Newton's Division,
Fourth Corps. and lost S5 killed and
212 from disease, etc.-Editor National
Tribune.
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I'd N. u. CaY.

Editor National Tribune: Kindly in
form me whether the Ira Harris Light
Cavalry, of New York, was known as
the I'd and 5th N. Y. Cav. and who
was Colonel at time of leaving for the
front.-Reuben B. Cole, Co. A, 1st N.
J. Cav.
The Ira Harris Light Cavalry was or
ganized in New York in the Summer
of 1861 by Col. ]. Mansfield Davies. and
was mustered into the U. S. service
Oct. 8, 1861. 1t was first known as the
Harris Light Cavalry, then the War
Department designated it the 7th U. s.
Cav, and 1t later took it's place on the
New York Roster as the I'd n. Y. Cav.
Editor National Tribune.
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was placed, as the commander of a
regiment, a brigade, division or corps,
he had won praise for his work. He
had always done more than was ex-
pected of him, and had risen to the
level of every opportunity. Had there
come chance to him for Independent
command, he would doubtless have
proved himself as daring and successful
as Stonewall Jackson He had much
the same military qualities.
Logan's division commanders were
Gems. Peter J. Osterhaus, Chas. r.
Hazen. J. A. ]. Lightburn, John e.
Smith and William Harrow. His bri-
gade commanders were Coils. Milo
Smith, James A. Williamson, Hugo
Wangelin, James s. Martin, Theodore
Jones, Wells S. Jones. Jesse 1. Alexan-
Raum, Gen. Chas. l.. Matthies, Coils.
Benz. ID. Dean, Reuben Williams, John
NJ. Oliver and Gen. Chas. C. Walcutt.
The commander of the Sixteenth
Corps. Gen. Grenville N. Dodge, had
distinguished himself as gallant regi-
mental commander under Curtis at Pea
Ridge, and had well earned promotion
to Major-Generalcy by subsequent
service. He had won high reputation
as railroad builder, had done great
work in repairing the roads leading to
Chattanooga, and afterward distin-
guished himself as constructing engi-
neer in building the Union Pacific. His
ranking division commander was Gen
Thomas E. G. Ransom. soldier of fine
performance and brilliant promise,
which was interrupted by his untimely
death.
The other division commanders were
Gems. Thomas w. Sweeny, John NJ
Corse. James c. Veatch and John W.
Fuller. His brigade commanders were
Gen. Elliott w. Rice, Coils. Robert N.
Adams. Moses II. Bane, Gen. William
Vandever, Col. John Morrill,, Gen. John
w. Sprasue and Col. James H. Howe.
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Copyright, 1909, by John McElroy,
CHAPTER TX.

The Arrival of the Seventeenth Corps.
Sherman gained possession of the
railroad at Ackworth June 5, and put
his army into position in inverse order
to its customary arrangement; that Is,
the Army of the Tennessee was made
the left flank and held the country
about Ackworth, while the Army of the
Cumberland was two miles away to the
right, and The Army of the Ohio on the
extreme right flank. The Army of the
Tennessee was strengthened by the ar
rival of TIE Seventeenth Corps, COM
manded ny Gen. Frank p. Blair. This
command had made q quite remarkable
march 10 JOIN the main army. 1t had
left, Cairo, H., May IL, on a fleet Of
13 steamers conveyed by two gunboats,
and. reached Clifton, Tenn, from which
point the two divisions, now numbering
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Loss in the Cavalry.

Editor National Tribune: Please
name the cavalry regiments which lost
the most men in killed in action, killed
accidentally. died of wounds, died OF
fevers, starved or frozen to death,
drowned, etc.-James +. Hays, 18th Pa
Cav, Baltimore, Md.
We have no returns for such details
as our correspondent suggests, but the
cavalry regiments, which lost the most
men killed and fatally wounded in ac-
ton were: 1st Me-, 174; 1st Mich. 1854;
5th Mich. 141: 9Th Mich, 1885; 1st VT,
1874; 1st N. Y. Dragons. 1913; I'd N. Y.
121; 18th Pa, 119.-Editor National
Tribune.
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Gen. Van III. Rukey Dead.

Official and G. A. R. circles in Wash
ington are saddened by the death of
Gen. Van H. Bukey, for the last IL
years Disbursing Clerk in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. He died
March 13 in his apartments at the Vic
toria. Gen. Van III. Huxley was born in
Ohio, and entered the service in 1861
as an enlisted man in the 18th w. Va
He rose thru all the grades until he
became Colonel of the regiment, Nov.
3. 1864, and was brevetted Brigadier-
General for gallant and meritorious ser
vice. He belonged to Burnside Post,
of this city, and was highly esteemed
by all who knew him.
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Gems. George d. Wagner. Charles c.
Harkar. August Which, William b.
Hazen and Samuel Beatty.
The Fourteenth Corps, under the
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mer, had for division commanders, Gems.
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William P. Carlin. jeff c. Davis, James
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by the 18th the rain slackened and
we occupied continuous line of 10
miles, intrenched, conforming to the
irregular position of the enemy, when
/ reconnoitered, with a view to make
break in their line between Kenesaw
and Pine Mountain. When abreast of
Pine Mountain noticed a rebel battery
on its crest, with continuous line of
fresh rifle trench about half way down
the hill. our skirmishers were at the
time engaged in the woods about the
base of this hill between the lines, and
I estimated the distance to the battery
on the crest at about 500 yards. Near
1t. in plain view, stood a group of the
enemy, evidently observing us with
glasses Gen. Howard. commanding the
tourth corps, was near by. and called
n ms at.eh.ion 20 tnis group, and ordered
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The Twentieth Corps was command
ed by Maj.-Gen. Joseph Hooker. with
its divisions under Gems. Alpheus S.
Williams, John w. Geary, Maj.-Gen.
Daniel Butterfield and its brigades un-
der Gems. Joseph L. Knipc. Thomas IL.
Ruger. Coils. James S. Robinson, Chas.
Candy, Ario Pardee. Adolphus Busch
beck, George w. Mendil, David Ire
land, George A. Gotham, Jr., Cen. Wdi.
Y. Ward, Coils. BENZ. Harrison, Samuel
Ross, John Coburn and Jas. Wood, Jr.
The Army of the Ohio, the smallest
of the three armies, had only one army
corps, the Twenty-third, which was u1-
der the command of Maj.-Gen. John M.
Sehofield Its division commanders
were Brig -Gens. Alvin p. Hovey, Henry
NJ. Judah, Jacob d. Cox, while its bri-
gades were under the command of
Coils. Richard f. Barter, .'ohn G.. Nc
Quiston, Peter T. Swaine. Gehs. Nathan-
iel C. Mclean, Joseph A. Cooper, Milo
5. Hascall. Coils. John r. Bond, Silas a.
Strickland, James w. Reilly, James w.
Gault, Gen. NJ. D. Manson, Coils. John
S.yHurt. John S. Easement Daniel Cam
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and Israel n. Stiles.
Three cavalry divisions we're attached
to the Army of the Cumberland, Car
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one to the Army of the Ohio, Stone
mans. The first three numbered, April
30, $50 officers and S.476 men, and the
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The Killing of Gen. Polk.

BY June IA Gen. Sherman had 10
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