Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-04-22

could not put them on. | walked In
my stocking feet to the commissary
department, secured pair of new
shoes, and l have the other shoes yet
The sffair troubled me for long time
/ had no opportunity for making sat
istactory inquiry in regard to the mar
who bore my name, but In due time |
did learn that there was no family re
lationship whatever. He had come to
this country from England and had
been in this country only a few
months when the war broke out. He
enlisted through q spirit OF adventure
and was the means of giving hts rel
atives definite information as to his
tate, The only evidence l had bearlns
on points In which they were interest
ed was pafr of old army shoes."-
Inter Ocean.
Who Began Battle OF Gettysburg
AT reunion of the Second Wiscon
sin regiment at Madison, Wis, Gen
Fairchld formerly colonel of this
seeond) was asked who began the bat
tie Of Gettysburg. He replied My
regiment commenced firing first. and
l knew 1t as thoroughly as / know !
am here this moment, surrounded BY
some OF my comrades of that hour, We
were in the advance OF our brigade
and had just gone over the crest of q
ridge. when the enemy opened up Oh
us. 1t was a death-swoop, 80 per cent
OF our boys falling l know | w6s as
calm as | am this moment, and recol
lect perfectly that that volley and
our immediate reply constituted the
first round of battle. A few moments
after, and just before l fell, wounded
| heard the second firing on our righl
Il think In an open field just beyond
the woods. These circumstances are as
clearly fixed In my mind as anything
that happened around me. A few
months ago my recollection Of II was
undisputably proved to be correct upon
consulting an official document Major
John Mansfield OF my regiment, wins
succeeded me as colonel, the next fall
1t seems had written out an official re
port OF the battle, In pencil few days
after it was over. This report, which
had never been forwarded to head.
quarters. became mixed up with his
other papers until discovered recently
when he sent II to me. Ii is the writ
ten contemporaneous official statement
OF an eyewitness and proves beyond
all peradventure all that now OF
have always maintained This reput
has been transmitted by me to head
quarters in Washington, and will ap
pear in the offlcial publications in due
time, Mansfield is now Brigadiei
General in the regular army, and Is
stationed in California he was law
yer in Portage before the war. 1t IL
the Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania that has
been claiming the honor due the Sec
ond Wisconsin,: but Colonel Hoffman
an admirable gentleman by the way
has no documents to prove his case
and simply rests It on his belief but
he is clearly mistaken He may and
probably did commence action very
soon after our brigade, for there was
then fighting all along the line. bat
not before. There is New York regi
ment making a similar claim, | hear
but there Is not even the shadow of q
substance TO It," This testimony, given
by Gen Fairchild, was corroborated
by Generals Bragg, Richardson and
others present, who regarded the facts
in the case as we'll established as
those connected with any event in thu
war.
How Gen. Grant Relieved a Sentinel
II was drizzly day only a short
time before Gen. Grant drove tho
enemy from Petersburg and moved
toward Five Forks and Appomattex
A chill northeast gale made overcoats
comfortable even here, and more men
who could wore them than left them
OFF.
A sentinel down toward the river
near some storehouses shivered as rs
strobe to and fro on his post, his gun
lock under his arm to keep off the wet
He was a new recruit from down
East, sent out to help fill the ranks Of
a regiment which had lost one-half its
men since that campaign began.
He saw man in a regulation over,
coat and a SLOUGH hat, but with thu
steady carriage Of a veteran, passlna
along a few rods away
Say friend. have you any terbacaa
in yer clothes ?" The passerby wal
smoking a cigar
NO." he replied Il can give you a
cigar, but ! don't chew"
And / don't smoke, but I'm starvln'
for chaw," replied the sentinel. m
he looked over to the other wistfully
An | chaw an dasn't smoke on posi-
Say, couldn't you stand post for M
jest a minute till run over 10 the suit.
lers yonder?"
Il could" said the other, with a.
grim smile on his face. and then bal
added, Il will. Give Sme your gun and
orders
There isn't no orders. only to halt
anybody going a nigh them stores, and
to stop EN- as has no business there. 81