Evening star., 1915-02-28

the Union sl1irInish line not far aWay.
Weak from loss of blood and lack of food.
i crawled TO the tent door and pulled
myself erect 10y tie tent pole. Instantly
everything turned black before me, and
when | recovered consciousness | found
myself lying with my nose buried in the
dirt. Presently tried again, but fourd
myself going blind as arose so / beat
the 1alnt by dropping down of my own
accord
Then | started to crawl to our lines.
hand over hand. Every now and then
the blindness would come, and then I
would rest until it cleared away
passed the sklrmishers, who. tense alert
watching for the coming charge pai6 lft.la
a.t.htion 10 me j had reached the sheIter
o' II ifec. when a storm of shells burst
! st" a ina'i, rifle in hand come forward
from his regiment TO observe events J,,st
then a shell burst in q tree overhead .,,,l
Il hugc bit OF wood plunlped down heSioe
h!in. 1t shattered his nerve
WITH a Yell lie throw AWAY his on,
ana stared running through his reyt-
nfe', hiockihg down two men in II.
hight. and paying no heed to Tho -,
shouts OF the officers. He went tbros.i,
'iiat regiment like :; shot There re.
silence tor an Instant, AMI then !, sho,,,
NE a world of good oiu
h"i came the Confederate ..haree
Stralsht tor where | lay. bur orr ~,
held en- Then ! crawle.i ON and en,ii,, III
-, :" ~, tne ahihGlaiires. and was seIt
10 the ficid hospital There ou H. ,;e,,
day. an artery in my breast hrolo ,.,,, i,.,
men mad 10 take turns holdiup !, ~
iaight until day came and Tho .,,r,,.a, o..
could operate " "uhseon
HFentuaily was sent back to the
"oapi.al at heokuk, Iowa. where was
'aieseihg when, in the middle or
oune, came the Presidents call for
"o0''o' more volunteers. Some friends
VI "i'He got me a commission to raise
'oihpahy, none of us having any
'nousht That L would go with il Ru,
"heh the company Was mustered ~
was elected captain. and found mrSetr
wen enough to go again to the fro,,t
we were assigned to the a5th Iowa
ana LOOK the field almost at once"
tenant colonel lost his hearing 90,
the young captain. Palmer. was nra
hoted over the heads of the ma jors to
oe lieutenant colonel of the regimen
AS the regimental commander. col
George A Stone. by reason of bis mil
tary ability, was made an actine, r.;
aaier general almost at once Col p.1
mer commanded the regiment throp.l,
most of its career
licksburg, Chattanooga, Missionary
s'NeS' AAV4tV'siN IlouHtaln, Atlanta
these are but the greater names wr;t
ten on the regimental banner II was
a seasoned regiment before in POT
through Few American regiments
have longer or more glorious fghttnc-
record.
How many old soldiers do you ex.
pect to attend the national encamp-
ment and march in the semi-centennial
parade? was asked of Col Palmer.
That is hard to say. 1 would not be
Ian ma NH.
are about 100000 survivors of the civil
war i'll the q. A r.. and probably as
many more outside of the G. A. r.
All of these, of course, did not march
in the original parade: all. very prop
erly. would like to march in this, which
is TO be the last great parade of the
soldiers of the Union army. We are
all getting old. We realize that never
A gain can there be anything like tho
coming gathering. For this reason,
am confident that we will have Il tre-
mendous number here. II is to be an
historic event" ASuMCN BROWN.