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figure on chestnut horse rode dia
gonally across the frontsof the charg
| ing column The horse went down
within so yards of the breastworks.
! The rider arose, waved his sword, and
/ led his men on foot to the ramparts
/ then his brave form staggered and
| fell against the federal line, pierced
with mimic balls. His corps was
swept back under terrific fire oil
mIsketry, nearly one half either kill
ed or wounded This was Gen. Pat
Cleburne (Applause).
| "A few yards on the Confederate!
/ right Gen. George w. Gordon. of
tennessee, who was also abreast of
the charging line. fell just under the
fresh earth of the breastworks. Hel
was wounded and captured, as he re.
fused to fall back. Near this spot
Gen. John Adams also fell. He stood
upon the parapet and was fatally
shot, his horse falling across the
breastworks. My old friend, Gen. Jack
Easement, of Ohio, was commanding
a union brigade where Gen. Adams
fell Deeply touched with his SPLEEN
did courage, Gen. Easement had cot
ton brought from an old ginhousel
and placed under the dying soldiers
head. You are too brave a man toll
die" said Easement, and | wish /!
could save you (Applause). Gen.
Carter fell mortally wounded before
reaching the federal battle line Gen
Stahl reached the ditch; he stood on
the bodies of the dead and gave COM
mands and rallied his men Just in
front OF my lines, facing the locust
thicket, Gen. Cockrell of Missouri. |
was wounded, but not fatally. Not
a hundred yards away lay Gen Gran
bury, dead. He died leading theI
brave Texans to the works. A minute
more and Gen. Stahl fell. mortally !
wounded. Gen. Walthall of Mississip.
pi, afterwards United States senator, |
had two horses shot under him
Twelve Confederate generals were
either dead of wounded. Colonies
were commanding divisions. captains |
were commanding brigades
II am indebted to John Trotwood !
Moore, of Nashville, Tenn. the we'll
known poet, historian and book writ.
er, and author of that great little /
book, The Bishop of Cottontown,
who visited the battlefield the day
following the battle, for several in
teresting incidents which | have
quoted. More generals were killed in
that eight hours struggle in front of
that little Tennessee town than were
killed in the two days fight at Chicka-
manga or the three days fight at Get
tysburg, where three times as many
soldiers were in battle And let me
emphasize this with the statement
that more brigadier and major gen.
erals were killed at Franklin in that
eight hours fight than in the whole
WO1lu Wal VI LOu1 ySdIc d0O OSSI
where nearly 100000 soldiers were
in the hell of Battle. (Applause).
The struggle closed at midnight.
Our dead lay across and inside the
breastworks from river to river Out.
side the breastworks, in a wider and
thicker line, lay the Confederate
dead, Amid the smoke and CRIME of
battle, the dun clouds hiding the stars,
the Blue and the Gray looked alike
to me. (Applause(. | stood upon the
parapet just before midnight and saw
all that could be seen. | saw and
heard all that my eyes could see, or
my rent soul could contemplate In
such an awful environment.
1t was a spectacle to appall the
stoutest heart. (;
"A Nashville poet wrote:
Then thousand men, when the war
fare was DER,
Lay on the battlefield crimsoned in
gore
Napoleon, the greatest cOnquering
general of either Europe or Asia, had
~ horses shot under him in battle
the worlds record IiS fav0rifa xvor