The National tribune., 1910-07-28

whole line OF our DIVISION as IL charged
up the ridge, and the battle roar be-
gan at about 4 o'clock p. m.
| "A Short time afterward fine young
soldier of Co. c, for whose father / had
built water sawmill in Clinton Coun-
lty, o., in 1S4S, came near to me with
out either gun or equipments and
turned to look at the fight. Before he
| had stood there minute bullet
struck him on the right thigh, and he
died six days afterwards. At about Z
p. m. the rattle of the rifle fire Stacked,
and the shouts of victory came loud
across the valley to where / was stand
ing. l now turned my attention to my
prisoners. of which there were more
than $50, among them two Lieu
tenants and three Captains. soon got
| orders to take them down into the
valley and quarter them for the night.
| After doing so, as / was spreading
down my gum blanket, a bullet struck
my left foot and tore the heel off.
early in the morning l went to
where the dead were gathered for
burial, and counted PA dead of our
division and 468 of the Confederates
that our men had gathered. The cause
of such a difference in loss was that
Gen. Hood sent his lines three or four
lines deep in the charge, and six COM
panies of 105th Ill. were armed with
the Henry rifles. Co. K used the Spenc-
/
prisoner told me that they learned OF
the gap in our lines on the morning
of the goth, and thought they would
come out thru it and swing and gather
| a few Acorns (the badge of the Four
| teenth Corps), but when they came to
the gap they saw instead the Stars
(badge) of the Twentieth Corps. After
delivering my prisoners at corps head
quarters / was relieved and very glad
| to have a rest"
The 6Sth Ohio at Atlanta.
Lay w. Richardson, Sergeant, Co. F.
18th Ohio, Defiance, o., writes:
THE Atlanta campaign and the part
taken in it by the old Army of the Ten
nessee, and the Seventeenth Corps in
particular, on July %, 1864. as given in
The National Tribune, made very in
Iteresting reading for me, and recalled
vividly and clearly many of the Incl
dents and details of hand-to-hand en-
| counters to which / was an eyewitness.
The courage and bravery of the men
of Gen. Leggetts Division, where Gen.
Hood found a weak place in our line,
and where he seemed particularly anx-
| ious to introduce his pet and tried
Texas Division, was marked. He had
but one division from the Eastern or
Virginia Army when he took the place
of Johnston.
These Texas men were fighters and
so was Hood. These Texas men of
Hoods old division were the men that
shot Gen. Mcpherson, and at the same
time and nearly the same place cap
tured Col. r. K. Scott, of my own, the
6Sth Ohio, when they made the dash
on Leggetts Division. Our division
found 1t must get down to business.
In several places on our line hand-to-
hand fights saved our bacon and hard
tack, as well as our line of works,
which was of most Importance. We
fought first on one side and then on
the other side, for as an actual fact
some of Hoods Texas men did get in
behind us.
TT was in this mix-up and muddle
of the fight that 1 well remember and
witnessed the heroic action of the old
Captain of the 18th Ohio, who slashed
one of Hoods Texas men over the
head with his sword when he made an
| effort to seize the flag OF the 18th Ohio.
floating from the works in front of his
regiment.
AT the battle of July %, in John
McElroy's History, he refers to and
gave names of men in my own division
(Leggett's, of the Seventeenth Corps)
that were awarded medals of gold and
silver for deeds of bravery, men that l
knew personally, but never knew of
these awards until being so advised in
this write-up."
Corse's Command.
Henry II. Cook, Co. II, 1st Mo. L. A,
Second Division, Sixteenth Corps, Otta-
wa, Kan, writes:
II was at the front from the Missis-
sippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, un-
til Johnston surrendered to Sherman,
but was not so lucky as to belong to a
fighting regiment / was in the At
lanta campaign. What division and of
what corps did Gen. Corse command at
the battle of Allatoona? You say:
'Corse's Division of the Seven
:eenth Corps was sent to Rome
of the Sixteenth Corps went to
Rome, and 1 secured the country
around Rome pretty well, but never
met any of the Seventeenth Corps 1t
certainly was not near the town. In
answer to Gen. French's demand to
surrender at Allatoona, Gen. Corse
signs: Headquarters, Fourth Division,
Fifteenth Corps The Second Division
of the Sixteenth Corps went thru with
Sherman. On that campaign was il
not the Fourth Division of the Fif-
teenth Corps? Who commanded it on
the march to the sea if Corse did not? 2"
Minty and Fitzpatrick.
John II. Cosart, Co. /, 4th Mich,
Lyons, N. Y, writes:
I'm The National Tribune history of
the Atlanta campaign it was stated that
Sherman was not satisfied with the cav
airy operations around Atlanta, and
somewhat doubted that Fitzpatrick had
accomplished all that he claimed. This
was very natural in view of the Nc
Cook and Stoneman raids and his abil-
ity to hear the whistles of locomotives
going :n and out of Atlanta.
Il was Sergeant of Co. /, 4th Mich.
Cav, and took part in the Fitzpatrick
raid; was dismounted in the charge,
and captured on the field at LovejOy
Station, and slept on the field that
night and helped bury the dead that
lay in the road.
I'VE had sacked and destroyed the
boro the night before, including the
court house, three miles Of railroad
and some small bridges. The rebel
troops were coming down from Atlanta
by rail, and after building bright camp
fires we moved away from there and
struck the same road at Lovejoy Sta
ton the next morning. The working
party had hardly commenced when
Cleburne's Division, posted in ambush
drove the track burners back to their
horses. Hardly had they mounted when
we received severe shell fire from the
rear, covering the road of our retreat.
Jackson's Division, 5000 strong, COM
posed of Armstrong;, Furgerson's and
Ross Brigades of rebel cavalry, with
a battery of artillery, had been on our
trail all night, expecting to destroy us
as they had the Stoneman and McCook
expeditions.
Il was near Fitzpatrick when the ar
tillery fire leVelODed in the rear and