Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-18
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Mustn't Forget Winchester.

Mir Editor: I think if Comrade
 Woodward had seen ali wrote to The
 Bulletin. instead of selections from It, he would not nave written as he did.
 There is nothing I wrote or printed in The Bulletin that says anything about the distance from Winchester to Haf- pers Ferry. 1 said that our column, | led by the 10th Ohio, when shelled l by the rebel battery the morning or 1 the 18th. fanked to the left and went 1 through fields and woods until we came to roads leading to the northwest and at night camped on the banks If the Potomac river, but We were not any nearer Harpers Ferry than we were when we left Winchester Tie column was not even halted. put marched faster than ever The 10th | Ohio did not fire a hostile shot that day that I know of.
 When Color Sergeant George Torrcy came up he could hardly walk. and l set my gun up side of 8 tree and got him on to an old farm wagon, and when l went back for my gun 1t was gone. The next morning when 1 went down to the river to wash there were several guns lying there someone had thrown away, and 1 took one of them in place of the one I lost.
 The next morning we crossed the river and came out rear Hancock, Md.
  General EWelis corps. about 5000 men. In the estimates of the rebel army a. Gettysburg General EwelPs corps was put down at over 10000. He says that about o'clock Sunday General Mflroy withdrew all his forces into the forz during the charge. During the charge the star fort was captured. The main fort the only one left. was not large enough for a regiment to fight to ad- vantage and our company of infantry and the artillerymen were all there was in the fort while the battle lasted. There was a line of rifle pits extend | ing about a mile south of the main | fort and I went up and saw them when our monument was dedicated there. and I am told by members oS
 the regiment they were in those rife | pits
 There were six brass guns on wheels, 24 or 92 pounders. and six 12 pound 1 iron guns in the fort. He says every gun was dismounted and the horses l killed. I do not know about the guns outside, but not gun was dismounted in the fort, and we had no horses.
 l have written the account of he battle in the woods Monday morning | as I find it in the history of the regt-
 ment. He says the first brigade got 1 past the rebels and Colonel Ely com
 manded the second brigade, which | was commanded to charge. The reb- | els were very bitter against General
 Milroy and might have shot him if taken He ordered the final charge
 and escaped. leaving them to their l fate.
 I visited this battlefield next ye IT 1 from the butts and saw the strong | position they occupied behind the rail- road bank. with the cross fire of artil- | lery. I wondered so many of our m en escaped. It seems to me that a larger number of our men might have es- capped to have gone to the flank as our
 column did, instead of charging into | this death trap. The rebels were kept l back almost as long as they were be- | fore the charge was made.
 1 But we can rejoice this 50th annt- versary of the battle that what brave
 men did there helped win the great battle of Gettysburg, and while we 1 honor what brave men did at Gettys- burg we should not forget what brave ! men did at Winchester.
 HENRY c. TORREY, Go. D. 18th c. " l Danielson, June 13. 1913.