Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-18
is probably twenty o!aS
.rous. In the signal battle. /,


oarous. In the signal battle, H.
the Monitor and the Merrimac, IN
Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862, few
lives were lost; now the submarine,
winch only carries crew of from IL
to men, sends the heaviest armored
III eadnaught carrying 800 trained mid
Gies to the bottom of the sea in twen-
ty n.inutes.
"lD our Civil war, the soldier in
the ranks carried gun with a kill
ing range of 800 yards, and accord
.hg to Casey's infantry tactics he re-
quired six distinct military motions
to load and fire that gun. And he
carried in his cartridge box on his
left hip only forty rounds of shot.
And that soldier could not pass the
mastering officer without good,
strong set of front teeth, to bite the
deadly charge wrapped in strong
brown paper. In the Eu1kpean war
the infantry man behind taSXun needs
no teeth to kill. He ca IS a gun
that shoots ten times, w he old
muzzle loading springfellElr,,le of
fifty years ago, fired once MIND the
modern gun carries tc kill fer one
mile. The modern artillery rs not
only carry six times as fa Is. the
guns used to hear in battle, !, the
death missiles they carry al issore
than three times as destructive7
another striking difference be-
tween the two wars is the large num-
Der of generals who were killed in
battle in our war, and the remarka-
BILE absence of any distinguished vic
Tins in either the armies in the Eu-
ropean combat, where at least twen-
ty times as many colonels and gen
erals are engaged. Up to date, and
on battle front of over 200 miles
in East Prussia and France, l have
heard of only two generals of the line
killed in battle, while in five-hour
battle at Franklin, Tenn, Nov 30,
1864, on a battle front of only two
and one-half miles, twelve Confeder-
ate generals were killed or desperate
ly wounded
I'VE read also of bayonet charges
reported from Paris, Berlin, Petro-
grad and London, almost daily. If |
ware a betting man, ] would wager
my January salary, 1925, against
Panama bond that neither in any
Russian or German or French or Eng
lish field hospital can ten soldiers be
found afflicted with bayonet wounds.
Sin our Civil war our field trenches
were only waist deep, generally
thrown up over night, while in the
European war they are over six feet
deep, and covered with adequate pro-
lection against the havoc of exploding
shells. The infantry arm of the SER
vice is under ground and out of sight.
And when the field hospital record of
this war is written it will be found
that six soldiers died from pneumonia
and malignant fevers, contracted in
the damp trenches, to one killed in
battle.
''In our war the soldiers on the
march, or around the bivouac fires at
night sang patriotic songs, written
by soldier-song writer's. The north
rallied to we Are Coming, Father
Abraham we Have Drunk From
the Same Canteen,' Tramp, Tramp,
the Boys are Marching and the Bat
tie Cry of Freedom while the south
ern soldiers sang Dixie The Bon
ME Blue Flag Somebody's Darling
Maryland, my Maryland In all
some fifty inspiring battle songs were
sung. The only song so far heard
in the damp and distressful trenches
is 'Tipperary,' roly-poly ditty with
out an inspiring idea.
"On the 14th of June, 1864, l COM
manded the skirmishers of the sec
ond division, 23 Army corps, which
Pine Mountain, Georgia, at
the right of Kenesaw. I saw the shot
fired by 20-pound Parrot gun, which
killed Bishop Polk of the Episcopal
a distinguished lieutenant
general of the Confederate army, who
was right on the front line of battle.
| saw General Joe Hooker at Resaca,
Ga, riding at the front of the ad-