The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-17

ing orders with zeal and alarcity.
Out of the Tennessee campaign he
came with the rank of brigadier
general.
General Williams
Perhaps the youngest member of
the Florida Division, u. C. V, who
saw actual service in the Confeder-
ate army is Gen. a. d. Williams, of
| Jacksonville, who is assistant adju-
tant general on the staff of Com
mander in Chief Bennett H. Young.
He enlisted as a private IN Company
II, 18th Georgia Infantry, in August.
lIS62, at the age of fifteen, and
served continuously with. this COM
mand, attaining the rank of first SER
geant when only seventeen years of
age.
General Inglis
Gen. John L. Inglis. commanding
the Florida Division, Z. C. ". en-
listed as a private in April. 1861, in
the Wakulla Guards Captain Frier-
SOM, state service; was made sec
ond sergeant in command of ten
inch rifle at Fort Clinch, Fernan-
dina Harbor, Confederate service.
and elected lieutenant at Mount
Pleasant, Fla, en- route to Chatta-
nooga with his regiment, the Sd
Florida, to join Bragg for the Ken
lucky campaign. He was in the bat
| tie of Mumfordville, where 5000
prisoners were captured. reached
Bardstown, racing with Buell., who
beat Bragg into Louisville, and went
back from Harrodsburg to battle and
victory at Perryville, where he was
twice wounded. While lying on a
pile of Yankee blankets, receiving a
drink from the canteen of his friend,
Capt. Dan Byrd, of the Jefferson
Rifles, the brave captain fell by. his
side, bullet through his heart.
Then came the three days battle at
1 Murfreesboro, where Captain Inglis
received his third wound At Tulla-
hama he was promoted captain of
his company. He went with Breckin-
ridge to Jackson and Big Black, and
was in the battle of Jackson. He
commanded his company in the bat
tie of Missionary Ridge, where he
was wounded; was present in all the
hundred days fighting of Johnston s
lmasterful retreat from Dalton to At
Ilanta; was in command of the two
lreorganized companies at Pine Noun
tain and witnessed the death of Gen.
Polk.
Back under Hood, his regiment
volunteered among others (about
two hundred mem and made'a fore
ed march to Dalton, capturing the
1st Tennessee negro regiment, nine
hundred strong. Major General Bate
managed this affair. Captain In
glis's experience in the closing days
is given in his own words: March
ing around Columbia, crossing Duck
river, pushing our ordnance wagons
through the woods, we lay down
early in the afternoon near Spring
Hill, three hundred yards from the
Franklin Pike, and saw the rabble
of Schofeld's Corps pass by in close
range of our guns-wagons, car
IrIages, buggies, guns, and caissons
Jail mixed in disorder-our men all
the time clamoring and begging to
begin the fight, and never a shot we
fired. In all my experience with
the Army of Tennessee l never saw
4 the men as anxious, as eager fol-
fight as all were at Spring Hill. And
thus they passed US, trains and
troops, nearly the whole long night
The next morning We went leisurely
following them up the pike to attack
/ them, comfortably settled behind
their breastworks at Franklin The
horror of that day is ever present
with me. Nearly all the men so dear
to me in the long, suffering years
lay around me stark and stiff in the
cold. l saw no sign of doubt or fear
among them; they all went cheer.
fully to the slaughter prepared fol
them. Then came Nashville and the
loss of most of the Florida Brigade
was sent to Jackson's Island
General Inglis lives in Jackson
vile. and will entertain the survi-
vors Of his old company at the re-
union.