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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHmOTGQUD.- C, THURSDAY, JANUARY" 31, 1884.
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A BURGLAR'S STORY,
Brought Up With Care, lie Early
Distinguishes Himself
By W. S. Gilbert.
When I Jhccamo oisrhteeu years of ago my'
father, a distinguished bagging-letter impostor,
said to too, " .Reginald, I think it is time tliat
you bogan to think about chooiing ajroles
Bion.' These wore ominous words. Since I loft
Eton, nearly a year before. I had spent my
lime very pleasantly and very idly, and I -was
sorry to "see my long holidays drawing to a
close. My Either had hope to have sent mo to
Cambridge (Cambridge was a tradition in our
family), but business had been very depress?d
of late, and a sentence of sis months' hard
labor had .considerahly straitened my poor
father's resources.
It was necessary, highly necessary, that I
should choose a calling. With a sigh of resig
nation I admitted as Much.
"If you like," said my fcthcr, "I will lake
you in'huud and teach you my profession, and
in a, few years, perhaps, I may take you into
partnership; but, to be candid with you, I
doubt whether it is a satisfactory calling for
an .athletic yonnjr man like you."
' 1 don't seem to care about it particularly,"'
said I.
"I'm glad to hoar it," said ray father. " It's
a jsow catling for a young man of spirit 13c
sidiyou have to giow gray in the service
hefoiv people wIH listen to you. It's all very
weJI as v. refuse in old age, but a young follow
is 15 kc'.y to make but a poor hand at it. Xow,
1 shun fd like 1 consult your own tasitosonso
irajx iau:t a nuttier as thedtciea of a profession.
Wh.4 d.. yuu say ? The army V "
" ,". . I doa't care for ths army.'
'Tory ry? Tht bnr? Cornish wrecking?"
' Fa -her," said I, "I should like to be a for
cer, bus. 1 write sash an infernal hand,"
" i regular Eton hnnd," said he; "not plastic j
onoutr!. Mirtogjory; nut you coum nave a writ
ing 1 .a .ier."
" It's as much as I can do to forge my own
namt. I don't balievc I should ever bit able to
forge anybody dec's.
'"Anybody's else,' you should say, not any
body olseV It's a dreadful barbarism. Eton
Eugfisk."
Ko,"sajfl I, I never shoaH make a fortune
at it. As to wrecking why, you know how
seasick lam?"
"Too might get over that. Besides, you
would deal with wrecks on shore, not wrecks
at senT
""Most of 5t is done m small boats, Tm told, i
A grout deal of snarl-boat work. Jso; 1 won't
be a wrecker. I think I should like to be a
bursar.
Yes, said my father, considering the sub
ject; "yss, It's a fine, manly profession; but it's
dangorous, highly dangerous. j
" Just dangeroas enough to be exciting 310 f
more.'
" Well," said my father, " if you've a distinct
taste for buglary, I'll see what can be done."
My dear father was always prompt with pen
and ink. That evening ho wrote ro his old
friend Ferdinand Stoncleigh, a burglar of the
Tory highest professional standing, and in a
week 1 was duly and formally articled to him,
with a view to ultimate jiarlaership.
I had to work hard under Mr. Stoncleigh.
"Burglary is a jealous mistress,'' said he,
"She will tolerate no rivals. She exacts the
undivided devotion of her worshipers."
And so I found It. Every morning at 10
o'clock I had to present myself at Stoneleigh's
chambers in New Square, Lincoln's Inn, and
until 12 lassisted his clerk with the correspond
ence. At 12 1 had to go out prospecting with
Stoneloigh, and from 2 to A had to devote to
Jinding out all particulars necessary to a scien
tific burglary in any given house. At first I
did this merely for practice, and with no view
to an actual attempt. He would tell me of a
house of which he knew all the particulars, and
order me to ascertain all about thattliouse and j
its inmates their coming and going, thenum-
bcr of their servants; whether any of them J
-were men, and if so, whether they slept in the
basement ornot, and other details necessary to
he knawn before a burglary could be safely at
tempted. Then he would compare my infor
mation with his own facte, and compliment or
blame me, as I might deserve. He was a strict
master, but always kind, just and courteous, as
becatne a highly polished gentleman of the old
school. He was one of the last men who hab
itually wore Hessians.
After a year's probation I accompanied him
on fseveral expeditions, and had the happiness
to believe that I was of some little use to him.
I shot him eventually in the stomach, mistak
ing Min for the master of a house into which we
i?rere breaking I had mislaidmy dark lantern),
and he fifed on the grand piano. His dying
wish was that his compliments might be con
vey8 tonic.
I now set up on my own account, and en
gaged his poor old clerk, who nearly broke his
heart at hklatc master's funeral. "Stoneleigh
left 110 dimly. His money, about 12,000 in
Tested for the most part ia Americaa railwavs,
he left to the Society for Providing More j
Bishops, and hi? ledgfers, day books, memoran
da, and papers generally, he bequeathed to me.
As the chai&berb required furnishing, I lost
no time in commencing my professional duties.
I looked through his books for a suitable house
toljcsrfn upon, and found the following attract- j
jve entry;
Thuiiow Square JCo. 102.
llouta SIccKum.
Oceupaot JcAin Davis, badbelor.
Occupation 3agiierof dados.
Age-igbty-fiis.
I'Jvynicui Peculiarities Very feeble; eccentric;
drjiikt.; Hvaugohcal; snores.
SoirautE Two hou:ei8ida, one cook.
3ck Alt fomale.
RartSeulare at feervants Pretty housemaid called
Jiarfio! ; Jewess. Ojfeii io jstentiont. Goes out
for luier at a p. .; s-norcs. Ugly IiousoniniQ
called BeilR; Presbyterian. Open to attentions; 1
lo attentions . fnorcfe.
Fastenings Cimbb's Jock on street door; chain
r.nd bolls. Jarj to all basement windoirs. Pruc
ileoMe iijiroach third room, ground.floor, vrhieh
is shuttered and latrrud, but bar liab no catch,
nxt& can le raised wHh table-knife.
YaltistMe Contents of Kooso Presentation plate
frW gwtteful jcwtlietce. Gold repealer, Mul
roady envelope. Two diamond rings. Complete
tn&Uicm of "Uradblmw." from 1831 to present
ir; 6S5 volume?, bound hmp calf.
Gcn rslMr. Basis aicens second floor front; hcr
vaiite on tliira floor. Javis sous to bed at 10. "o
r? on basement. Swarms with beetles; other
wim excellent bouse for purpose.
This seamed to be a capital house to try sin-gle-haadod.
At 12 o'clock that very night I
pocketed two crowbars, a bunch of skeleton
ljoys, a center-bit, a dark-lantern, a bos of
Eiiotit matches, some putty, a life-preserver,
and a Isiife, and off 1 set at once for Thurlow
Square. Hemember that it snowed heavily.
There was at least a foot of snow on the
ground, and there was more to come. Poor
Sionoleigh's particulars were esact in every
detail. J
I got into the third room of the ground floor
-without the least difficulty, and made my way
into the 4iuing-room. There was the presen
tation plate, sure enough about S00 ounw-s T
reckoned. I collected this and tied it up, so j
min, i tuum imai jb wjiuuui auraciing atten
tion. Just as I finished I heard a slight cough be
hind mc. I turned and saw a dear old silver
haired gentleman in a dressing-gown standing
in the doorway. The venerable gentleman
covered me with a revolver.
My first impulse was to rush at him and
braiu him witb my life-preserver.
" Don't move," said he, "or you're a dead
wan,"
A rather silly remark to the effect that if I
did move it would rather prove I was a live
an occurred to me, but I dismissed it at once
as unsuited to the business character of the
Interview.
" You're a bnrglar," he said.
"I have the honor," said I, making for my
pistol pocket.
'Don't move," said he; "I have often wished
to have the pleasure of encountering a burglar,
in order to be able to lest a favorite thcorv of
mine as lo,how persons of that class should be
dealt with. But you musn't move."
I replied that 1 should be happy to assist him
if 1 could do so consistently with a due regard
for myown safety.
" Promise me," said I, ''that you will allow
we to leave the house unmolested when your
experiment is at an end'
' If you will obey mo promptly, you shall be
fcpcrfeet liberty to leave the house' ,
"You will neither ive me into custody nor
wwvi any steps 10 pursue me 1
'On ray honor as designer of dados1 said
h
"Good," said I, "goon" ,
"Stand np," said he, "'and stretch out your
arms at right angles to your body."
"Suppose I don't," said I.
"I shall send a bullet through your left ear,"
said he.
"Permit me to observe " said L
Bang ! A ball cut oiT the lobe of my left
car.
The ear smarted, and I should have liked to
have attended to it, but, under the circum
stances, I thought it better to comply with the
whimsical old gentleman's wishes.
" Very good," said he. " Now do as I tell
you, promptly and without a moment's hesita
tion, or I cut off the lobe of your right car.
Throw mo that life-preserver."
"But"
"Ah! would you? "'said he, cocking his re
volver. The "click" decided me. Besides, the old
gentleman's eccentricity amused me, and I was
curious to see how far it would carry him. So I
tossed my life-preserver to him. lie caught it
-neatly.
"Xow takeoff your coat and throw it to mo."
I took off my coat and threw it to him diago
nally across the room."
" Now the waistcoat."
I threw the waistcoat toliim.
" Boots," said he.
"They arc shoes," said I, in some trepidation,
lest he should take offense when no offense was
really intended. "
"Shots, thon," said lie.
I threw mv shoes to him.
"Trousers."
"Come, come, I say," exclaimed I.
Bang! The lobe of the other ear came off.
With all his eccentricity the old gentleman was
a man of his word, lie had the trousers, and
with them my revolver, which happened to be
in the right-hand pocket.
"Now the rest of your drapery."
I threw him the rest of my drapery. Ho
tied up my clothes in the table-cloth, and, tell
ing me that he wouldn't detain me any longer,
made for the door with the bundle under his
arm.
"Stopl" said I. "What is to become of
me?"
" Eeally, I hardly loiow," said he.
"You promised me my liberty," said I.
" Certainly;" said he. " Don't let me trespass
any further on your time; You will find the
street door open; or, if from force of habit you
prefer the window, you will have no difficulty
in clearing the area railings."
"But I can't go like this. Won't you give
me something to put on?"
"7n." CTid hn "nnThirtf fit nil. Good
nfcut.-"
The quaint old man lefc the room with my
bundle. I went after him, but I found that ho
Jiad locked an inner door that led upstairs.
The situation was really a dreadful one to deal
with. I couldn't possibly go into the street as
Iwas.audifl
remained I should certainly be
given into custodv in the morning. For some
time I looked in vain for something to cover
myself with. The hats and great coats were,
no doubt, in the inner hall; at all o-ents they
were not accessible under the circumstances.
There was a carpet on the floor, but it was
fitted to the recesses of the room, and, more-
over, a heavy sideboard stood on it.
However, there were twelve chairs in the
room, and it was with no little pleasure that I
found that on -the back of each was an anti
macassar. Twelve intimacassars would go a
good ways towards covering me, and that was
something.
I did my best with the antimacassars, but on
reflectioa I came to the conclusion that they
would not help me very much. They certainly
covered me; but a gentleman walking through
South Kensington at 3a. m., dressed in nothing
whatever but antimacassars, with the snow
two feet deep on the ground, would be sure
to attract attention. I might pretend I was
doing it for a wager, but who could believe
me?"
I crew very cold.
- I looked out of the window, and presently I
saw the bull's-eye of a policeman who was
wearily plodding through the snow. I felt that
my only course was to surrender to him.
"Policeman," said I from the window, "one
word."
"Anything wrong, sir?" said he.
"I have committed a burglary in this house,
and I shall feel deeply obliged to you if you
will kindly take me into custody."
" Nonsense, sir," said he; "you had bettor go
to bed."
"There is nothing I should like better, but I
live in Lincoln's Inn, and have nothing on
but autimacassars; lam almost frozen. Pray
take me into custody."
" The street door's open," said he.
"Yes," said I; "come in."
He came in. I explained the circumstances
to him, and with great difficulty I convinced
him that I was in earnest. The good fellow
put his own great coat over me, and lent me
his own handcuffs. In ten minutes I was thaw
ing myself in Walton street Police Station. In
ten days I was convicted at the Old Bailey. In
ten years I returned from penal servitude.
I found that poor 3Ir. Davis had gone to his
long home in Brompton cemetery.
For many years I never passed his house
without a shudder at the terrible hours I spent
in it as his guest I have often tried to forget
the incident I have just been relating, and for
a long time I tried in Tain. Perseverance,
however, met with its Toward. I continued
to try. Gradually one detail after another
slipped from my recollection, and one evening
last May I found, to ray intense delight, that I
had absolutely forgotten all about it.
Tltc Crnlch In the t'ornur.
Written just after (he war by John 2ldnlosh"
7rcrnionf."
""Why, Billy, your room is as cold as the hut
"V'o had by the swamp and river,
"Vnerc we lost our major, and Tim, you know,
And tisly mowiUi the fever."
"Well. Tom, olafullow. U'& hard enough,
JSul the best at limes knock under;
There's ne'er a stick of wood in the house
But thaferutch in the corner yonder!
"Sorry I 'litted? Don't ask mc that, Tom;
If the flag was again in danger,
I'd aim a gun with au aching slump
At the fo, were he brother or stranger. -But,
I Miy, ought a wound from tliot or shell,
Or a pistol buiiet, by thunder!
Forever to doom a poor fellow to want,
Willi that crutch in the corner yonder?
Old
" That crutch, old comrade, ought ever to be
A draft at sight on the Nation
For honor, respect, and a friendly hand;
For clothing, and quarters, and ration!
My -wife she Ixsgs nt the Sugget HouSe,
Where the bibugs live in splendor.
And brag, o'er their wine, of the fights that brought
Such as that in the corner yonder!
"And Charlie lie goes to someplace up town,
Some liclcct-for-soup arrangement;
All well enough for a hungry boy,
But, Tom, its cfi'ect ij estrangement!
I'dhooner Jave kicked the bucket twice o'er,
By athell or a round ten-pounder,
Than live Huch a life as I'm doing now.
With that crutch in the corner yonder.
"There's ne'er a thing left to pawn or to sell,
And the -winter has closed on labor;
This medal is all that is left mc now,
With my piblolh and truslv saber :
1 And thofcc, by the sunlight above us, Tom,
o wwr irom my irubi snau sunder,
Save the One that rcleabcs me at lasst
From that crutch in the corner yonder.
"I can raise tills arm that is left to me
To the blessed heaven above us.
And swear by the throne of the Father there,
And the angels all, who love us, '
That the hand 1 lost and the hand I have
Were never yet htained by plunder,
And, for love of the dear old flag. 1 now
Utc that crutch in the corner yonder.
" Do I ask loo much when I say we boys,
Who fought for the Nation'h glory,
Now that the danger is past and gone.
In comfort should tell our story 7
How bhould we have fought when the mad shells
screamed
And shicrcd our ranks, I wonder.
Had wc known our lot would liave been to beg.
With that crutch in the corner yonder ?
"There's little wc hear of now-a-dnys
But pardon and reconstruction,
While the woldier who fought and bled for both
Is left to bi& own destruction.
Twould be well, I think, in these nipping times,
For those Congress fellows to ponder.
And think of us troys who use such tilings
As Hint crutch in the corner yonder."
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UP THE RED RIVER.
Continual from 1st page."
Trumbull's Island, Teaching Alexandria on the
22d. It marched with the expedition, uutler
command of Col. Wm. II. Dickcj'. This brigade
was composed of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 12th, and 22d
regiments, United States colored infantry. Its
numerical strength is given in the return for
March 30th, at eighty-oighfc officers and 1,4-17
men.
RECAPITULATION.
fllccrs. Men.
107 4.U3
233 4.SSC
22(5 4,315
3GG 7,J25
83 1,447
Cavalry division
1st division, lUth corps
3d and ith divisions, 13th corps
lit and 3d divisions, 16th corps
Corps d'Afi'ique
1,110 22,561
The above figures probably overestimate the
strength of the column nearly, if not quite,
3,000 men. General Banks' estimate of its
strength was 19.000.
WHAT WAS GOINO ON ON THE OTHER SIDE.
At thistimo the Confederate trans-Mississippi
department was commanded by Major-General
E. Kirby Smith. The territorial limits of his
department comprised all the country west of
the Mississippi. On the north, General Sterling
Price, in Arkansas, coufronted General Steele,
who was ou the Little Missouri, with a force
of 10,000 to 12,000 infantry, cavalry, and artil
lery. General Maxoy had succeeded Pike in
command of the Indians, and could at any
time support Price with a contingent of 5,000
Indian cavalry. General Dick Taylor's dis
trict comprised west Louisiana and northern
Texas, while General Magruder commanded
the coast defenses along the lower Mississippi
and the Gulf. General Banks' maneuvers
along the coast caused the movement of Green's
division to Galveston and the mouth of the
Bra?xs, to meet Banks' force on the Matagorda
Peninsula, where Magruder was kept busy
watching and foiling Panics' attempts to gain
a permanent foothold upon the soil of Texas.
The long line defended by General Kirby
Smith, extcuding from the Indian Territory
through Arkansas, westeriiXouisiana, aud Texas
to the Mexican line, required the utmost vigi
lance on his part to meet any formidable expe
dition against a given point, and a simultane
ous movement by the forces in his front, by pre
venting concentration of his troops, must have
resulted in his overthrow.
PREPARING TO RECEIVE COMPANY.
General Smith had knowledge as early as
the fall of 1S63 that a combined movement
against him was in contemplation on the line
of the 1'ed River, aud in anticipation of the
necessity of concentrating 'his forces at Mar
shall and Shroveporr, had established depots of
provisions and forage at those points and along
the roads leading through the barren country
lying between the Texas lino and Red River
aud between Gimden and Natchitoches. Early
in March information that Banks was about to
attempt an expedition up the Red River reached
Smith, and he at once formed his plans to meet
it. Magruder was directed to hold Green's
division in readiness to movo at a moment's
notice, and Maxoy was ordered to march with
all his available force, Indians and all, to the
support of Price, who in turn was ordered to
send his infantry to Taylor. By reducing
the garrisons along the coast to a minimum he
was enabled to concentrate at Marshall and.
Shreveport by the 1st of April a force of veteran
troops numbering, as he says in his report,
16,000 effectives. This is exclusive of officers
and non-combatants, which, if counted, as they
are in the official returns of Union forces,
would increase the numerical strength of the
Confederate army fully one-tenth. The strength
of Price's force of cavalry, including Masey's
Indians, was S.000, and with it he was directed
to obstruct Steele's march upon Shreveport.
The distance to be traveled by Steele and
Banks was about equal (one hundred miles), and
Smith hoped to meet and overthrow one before
the arrival of the other. The character of the
country did not admit of the junction of Steele
and Banks before their arrival at Shreveport,
and it will be readily perceived that Smith,
with his headquarters at that point, holding
his army well in hand, with cavalry well ad
vanced towards both, had the advantage of
concentrating his army against the nearest
enemy.
Steele was expected first, and for this reason
Price'e infantry of 5,000 effectives was halted
at Kcachi, a point where the road divides, one
leading to Marshall and the other to Shreve
port, within twenty miles of Mansfield, where
it was ordered to report to General Taylor.
- A CAVALRY ENGAGE3LENT.
About noon on the 7th of April, six miles
beyond Pleasant Hill, Lee came upon General
Major's cavalry advance, and a brisk engage
ment ensued. Alajor occupied a position on a
slight elevation all the surrounding country
being wooded. Lee put a brigade in action at
first, but was soon obliged to re-enforce it and
call upon General Prauklin for infantry.
While this fight was in progress on the after
noon of the 7th, General Taylor visited the
field, in company with General Green, and
after satisfyinghimself that the "advance was
serious," left General Green in command of
the forces in front, and returned to his head
quarters at Mansfield and made his arrange
ments for a general engagement at a point that
he had selected three miles in front of Mans
field, near the point where Lee met him on
the following day. In response to Lee's request
for infantry, Franklin declined to re-enforce
him, ordering him, if pressed, to fall back upon
Pleasant Hill. Lee held his ground, however,
with his own division, losing in the action
seventy-five killed and wounded, when Green
retired, leaving twenty-five prisoners in the
hands of the Union troops. On the arrival of
General Banks at Franklin's headquarters, he
at once ordered Lee's request to be complied
with, and Colonel Landram advanced with one
brigade of his division to Lee's assistance, but
did not arrive in time to participate in the
action. Lee continued his advance to Carroll's
Mill, ten miles beyond Pleasant Hill, at which
point Landram reported to him. Lee had his
entire train with him, by order of General
Franklin, which, considering the nature 'of the
country, may be regarded as the prime cause of
the disaster that befell him ou the following
day.
THE TWO ARMIES OBSERVE EACH OTHER.
General Lee moved out early next raornins.
reaching a point live and a half miles from St.
Patrick's Bayou about 10 a. m., followed by his
supply train. Franklin reached Carroll's Mills
at 11 o'clock, where a messenger from Lee met
him with a request for an infantry brigade to
replace that of Colonel Landram, which was'
uttcrlj' exhausted by hard marching aud skir
mishing through the dense woods during the
forenoon. In compliance with a request from
Colonel Landram to the same effect, General
Ransom advanced with Colonel Vance's bri
gade, which reached the field at 2 p. m. Gen
eral Banks' army was at this time strung out a
distance of thirty miles, and there being a
stream of water convenient, General Franklin
concluded to halt at this point and allow the
19th corps to close up. General Banks came up
while Franklin, with Cameron's division of
the 13th corps, was building a bridge, aud hear
ing firing in front, proposed to ride forward.
"There will he no fighting," said Franklin.
Banks reached Lee's position at 1 o'clock, and
found a brisk skirmish going on. Franklin
seems to have believed that the policy of the
Confederates would bo to draw Banks' army
farther away from its base before resisting its
advance, and had thus been betrayed into al
lowing his line to be lengthened out to suit the
pleasure or convenience of brigade command
ers. On the arrival of Bauks and Franklin
upon the field, the former at once sent for Gen
eral Lee, who, having had a pretty fair chance
to estimate the force in his front, said it was
stronger than was believed by commanders in
the rear uumbering 15,000 to 20,000. This
idea so impressed General Banks, that ho at
once sent an order to Franklin to hurry for
ward with his entire force. Unfortunately
Franklin's command was nob in position to
move forward in compact shape. Lee's wagons
had closely followed him by General Frank
lin's direction, and were within a mile of the
enemy's position.
ALIGNMENT OF THE THOOPB.
General Ransom's force at this fight consisted
of Lee's division (four brigades) and the 4th
division (two brigades) of the 13th army corps.
In response to Banks' inquiry, what was best to
be done, Lee had replied, "We must fall back
immediately or be heavily re-enforced." While
Banks' army was thus pursuing its leisurely
course to destruction, his wary and skillful an
tagonist had busied himself in disposing his
troops for battle: Walker's division occupied
the right of the road facing the Union ad
vance; Buchell's and Terrell's regiments of
cavalry, under General Bee, on its right;
Mouton's division on the left of the road, with
Major's division of cavalry, dismounted, on its
left; Dcbray's cavalry in the .rear; Halde
muu's and Daniels' batteries were on the right,
in position with Walker's' divi si on :
and Nettle's, with Mouton's division
Cornay's
The re-
servo artilery was iu tborcar. Taylor had
chosen his position iu the edge of a wood with
cleared fields in fronfoon both sides of the road.
Soon after his troops were assigned as above
described, the advance of Lee's cavalry ap
peared iu front aud Taylor's skirmishers fell
back iuto line. Taylor says: "On the left a
body of the enemy's cavalry, following hard
upon ours, ran iuto the line of the 18th Louis
iana aud was destroyed. The enemy formed
his line on the opposite side of the cleared
fields aud soma ligutski mushing took place."
The Union' force of infantry and cavalry
was disposed as follows: !Nims' battery was
posted on a hill near th'd road, about 200
yards to the loft of a. belt of timber, and was
supported by the 23d Wisconsin infantry. The
67th Indiana supported the battery on the
right, joined by the 77th Illinois, 48th Ohio,
19th Kentucky, 9Gth Ohio, a section of
mounted artillery and the 83d Ohio making
about"2,500 infantry. The cavalry and mounted
infantry under Geuoral Lee were posted on
the flanks and rear, Colonel Dudley's brigade
on the left, and Colonel Lucas' on the right,
with skirmishers deployed in frout of the in
fantry. The Chicago Mercantile Battery and
the 1st Indiana battery, arriving later, were
placed on a commanding ridge to the cast of
the road.
The Union troops lay quiet from noon until
4 o'clock, during which' time the Confederates
were moving their troops around so as to en
velop the right flank of the latter command in
their front, At 3 o'clock General Lee received a
dispatch from General Franklin informing him
that he hoped to be able to get up with General
Emory's force the next day. General Leo says,
in his testimony before the Committee on the
Conduct of the War : " About 4 o'clock a staff
officer of General Banks' came up to mc and
said that General Banks ordered me to dispose
my force to movo immediately on Mansfield,
four miles in advance. I was a littlo surprised,
and, more than that, I thought there must be
some misapprehension; but the staff officer
said that was tho order. I rode back to General
Banks and asked him about it. He said that
was the order. I told him we could not ad
vance ten minutes without a general engage
ment, in which we should be most gloriously
flogged, and I did not want to do it. We had
soino little con versation about the general in
tention of going to Mansfield that night. I
told tho general I could move just about a
quarter of a mile; the enemy was distant half
a mile. Ho finally told me we would wait if I
thought itwas impossible to advance, and he
'hurried off another staff officer for the in
fantry." THE CONFEDERATE ASSAULT.
Taylor waited until 4 p. m., when, suspecting
that tho arrangements of the troops in his
front were not complete, he ordered Mouton to
attack Ransom's right, who he thought had
been weakened by transferring troops to the
left. " Tho field was crossed under a murderous
fire," says Taylor; "the wood was reached and
our little line sprang with a yell on the foe,
when General Mouton fell." Five regimental
commanders were killed, but the division
pressed on under command of General Polignac,
supported on the left by General Major, with
his division of cavalry, dismounted. General
Randall pushed his brigade forward in echelon
from the left, the whole movement being under
direction of General Green. As soon as this
attack had developed, Walker and Bee were
ordered into action on the right, with orders
to gain the road in rear of the Union position.
The dense woods prevented a rapid advance of
Bee's cavalry. Walker, however, advanced
directly to the attack. Taylor says: "The
enemy in vain formed nejv lines of battle on
the wooded ridges, wjilch are a feature of the
country. Every line? was .swept away as soon
as formed and every guu taken as soon as put
iu position." ' J
HOW IT WAS MET JbY RANSOM.
General Ransom gives the following equally
graphic description of the reception given to
MouknVs charge : " About 4 o'clock p. m. the
enemy commenced advancing his lines across
the open fields in our front and east of the
road. I directed Colonel Landram to advance
our right, consisting of the 83d, 96th and 4Sth
Ohio, 130th Illinois, and 19th Kentucky, and
he immediately opened fire on the enemy, now
in good range and advancing in two lines. We
drove back his first line in coufusion upon his
second, but recovering, he again advanced, till,
unable to endure our heavy fire, he halted
about 2Q0 yards from our,fxont, where many of
his men lay down, and returned our fire. Ifelfe
confident that this portion of our line could
not be broken ; but, while moving towards the
left Hank, I was informed that the enemy was
pressing our left, and that the mounted in
fantry there was falling back. At this time
Captain White, chief of artillery, reported that
the Chicago Mercantile Battery (Lieutenant
Cone) and tho 1st Indiana -battery (Captain
Klaus) had arrived, and I directed him to place
them in an advantageous position on a ridge to
the east of the road and near a house occupied
as General Banks' headquarters, where they
opened on the enemy, who had shown them
selves in strong force on the left. I sent Lieu
tenant G. T. Davis, aid-de-carap, to order Lieutenant-Colonel
Baldwin, commanding the 83d
Ohio, to move his regiment to support the 23d
Wisconsin. Ho moved promptly, but that
regiment and the mounted infantry were al
ready driven back, and I directed him to sup
port the batteries. Our left flank was now
completely turned, and the enemy, having
taken Nim's battery, were in strong force on
the hill and pouring a destructive fire into the
batteries of the 4th division. I ordered the
latter to the rear, to a point on the right of the
road, and sent my adjutant-general, Captain
Dickey, to order Colonel Landram to withdraw
his division torthe edge of the timber, in our
rear; or, failing to find Colonel Laudram, to
give orders to the regiments. While in the
performance of this duty Captain Dickey was
mortally wounded. Owing to the fall of Cap
tain Dickey some of tho regiments did not re
ceive the orders to fall back until they were cut
off while gallantly fighting a superior force. In
company with Colonel Landram I was, as the
troops arrived, reforming the lines iu the edge
of the woods, when I was severely wounded in
the knee and carried to the rear. I found the
woods and roads filled with mounted men fly
ing from the field."
General Ransom closes his Teport with high
praises of tho gallantry of General Stone and
General Lee, Colonels Landram, Emerson and
Yance, and every infantry and battery com
mander, as well as the officers and men under
their command, with the exception of the com
mander of the 48th Onio, who, he says. " I saw
at some distance in tho rear of his regiment
lying behind a fallen tree, while the veterans
ofhis regiment were iu the thickest of the fight
under the lamented Major Bering."
PALLING BACK ON THE 19xn CORPS.
Colonel Vance was killed. General Cameron
assumed command of tho 13th Corps on the
arrival of his divison, and formed a lino three
quarters of a mile in rear of the battlefield, on
the edge of the woods, in which Lee's supply
train was parked, and there Taylor's advance
was checked half an hour, but ho again resort
ed to a flank movement and a disorderly re
treat ensued, caused by the toad being blocked
by the wagon train. .Thertf was no panic iu
this veteran command. They had fought too
many battles to break their organization except
through necessity, aud readily icformcd when
they reached the support of the 19th Corps.
When tho fight opened Lee had seht orders for
his train to get back to the rear as soon-as pos
sible. Many of the wagons 'had turned around
to start back when an- order came from a staff
officer of General Banks' to remain where they
were. There had been ample time for them to
get out of the way, but in doing so they would
had blocked the road and prevented tjhe ad
vance of tho infantry rc-enforcemonts. Three
miles further on General Etitory had, in Obedi
ence to Franklin's order, farmed his, division
across the road on tho edge of an open field,
behind which Cameron's broken column was
glad to find refuge." Thd Confederate forco
advanced, capturing ten pieces of artillery,
Leo's supply train of 156 wagons and 800 mules.
Cheered by this unexpected bonanza they
advanced, with loud cheers and continuous
volleys of musketry, and made a vigorous
attack upon General Emory.
But greed for further captures carried them
too far. Thus far everythig had worked in
their favor. They had driven back a formid
a'yle expedition; they had captured an im
mense quantity of sorely-needed supplies, two
batteries of artillery, and a large number of
prisoners, and a rapid retreat with their booty
to Shreveport would havo paid them better in
tho end.
THE CONFEPKnATES REPULSED.
Tho 161st New York was deployed as skir
mishers, and advanced to tho foot of tho hill in
frout of Emory's division. General Dwight
formed his brigade across the road upon which
the 13th corps was retreating, followed by the
yelling Confederates, haying open ground in
his front; Colonel Benedict's brigade was
formed on his left and McMillan's in reserve.
There had been little time given for formation,
and before it was completed the skirmishers
were driven in, and the fight opened on the
right. A portion of McMillan's force was
thrown to tho point endangered. Fire was
reserved for close quarters, when, at tho order, a
blaze of firo belched from tho entire line. The
Confederates were momentarily staggered, but
returned to the attack, agaiu and again pour
ing into theUnion ranks destructive volleys of
musketry while riiaking an effort to turn the
left flank. There was never need of greater
effort, and they know it. Once broken, tho
Union forco could not bo rallied in the fast
gathering darkness, aud the Confederate cav
alry stood ready to ride down tho fugitives.
But the veterans of the two corp3 were equal
to tho emergency, and every attack, whether
in front or flank, was repulsed with slaughter.
Far in the rear of each were fresh troops, but
too far away to be available.
Tho 19th corps repulsed every attack made
upon front and flanks, and at nightfall re
mained masters of the field. During the night
the whole force retreated to Pleasant Hill, the
19th corps forming the rear-guard.
Taylor claims a rapid aud steady advance.
"Here," he says, "tho 13th corps gave way
entirely and was replaced by the 19th corps,
hurriedly brought up to support the fight.
The 19lb, though fresh, shared the fate of the
13th. Nothing could resist the astonishing
ardor and courage of our troops. Just as night
was closing in the enemy massed heavily ou a
ridge overlooking a small creek. As tho water
was important to both parties, I ordered the
enemy driven from it. The fighting was severe
for a time, but Walker, Greene, and other gal
lant leaders led on our tired men, and wo
camped on the creek at nightfall, the enemy
forced back some 400 yards beyond."
Colonel Isaac Dyer, A. A. G., on the staff of
General Bauks, says in his testimony before
the Committee on the Conduct of tho War:
" The 19th corps came into action just before
dark, undor firo and under the demoralizing
effect of stemming a tide of fugitives. The
enemy made several attempts to break their
line, "but without effect, and shortly before
dark ho withdrew from action." In this he is
supported by the testimony of officers of tho
19th corps aud of General Lee.
HIGHLY INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE.
The following letters, to the Editor of The
National Tribune, written by participants
in thiSjCngagement, will be fouud interesting.
The battle of Pleasant Hill will form the sub
ject of another chapter.
J. H. Craven, 96th O. V. I., of King City,
Kan., writing of tho Red River campaign, has
the following in regard to the part taken by
the 13th corps at Mansfield:
"At the time tho Red River campaign was
inaugurated, many regiments of the 13th corps
had re-enlisted and were away on veteran fur
lough. Ransom's command was made up prin
cipally of A. J. Smith's old 2d division, to
which was attached a brigade commanded by
General Cameron ; the 1st brigade, 2d division,
was commanded by Colonel Landrum, of the
19th Kentucky; the 2d (Burbridge's old bri
gade; by Colonel Vance, of the 96th Ohio, and
consisted of the 83d and 96th Ohio, the 77th
Illinois, aud the 69th Indiana. Our regiments
were thinned by battle and disease, and had not
been filled up by recruits, the entire command
numbering about 4,000 men, all veterans, who
had fought their way from the Ohio River to
the Gulf.
" We reached Pleasant Hill the evening of the
7th. Our cavalry struck Taylor's rear-guard
and had a lively skirmish in the woods in
front. Early on the morning of the Sth, when
we were about sis miles from our starting
point, we came to a large plantation, a mill,
and other buildings, where the enemy again
made a stand. The 1st brigade was deployed
to assist the cavalry in driving them back,
which was soon accomplished, and the march
resumed, hroin this point tne road led through
a dense wood full of fallen timber and under
brush. About 1 p. m. a message from the front
reached Colonel Vance, and an order to forward,
double-quick, was passed down the line. The
road in front was occupied by the cavalry
wagon train, and dividing right and left we
pushed forward. We emerged from the wcod
at the crest of a ridge running north and south.
"The yard in frout of a farm-house at the
right of the road was full of staff officers and
orderlies. It was the best point of observtaion
and tho key to our position. We formed line
in the edge of a belt of timber, facing north,
where we stripped for action, filled our can
teens, and then moved forward until within
thirty paces of a rail fence inclosing a field,
beyond which was another forest.
WHERE VANCE WAS KILLED.
" This was about 2 p. m., and all the time the
cavalry iu front were keeping up a lively fusil
lade. General Ransom rode forward to the
edge of the field, and after carefully examining
the woods beyond through a field glass, he rode
back past our left, where he met Colonel Vance,
and said to him: 'Colonel, they are coming.
We are peddled out, but we'll hold them, if
possible.' Vance growled ont in reply: 'Let
them come; my boys are Teady for them.' He
had unbounded confidence in his 'boys.' Two
hours later Ransom was badly wounded, and
Vance lay dead on the field. The cavalry
from the front soon came dashing by to tho rear.
Wc moved forward and took position behind
the fence. On our left, at a distance of 100
yards or more, was the 19th Kentucky, the gap
between occupied by a skirmish line (men
were scarce that day) ; on our right, the 83d
Ohio. Our lino ran east and west, facing
north. In front was a grand sight ; tho'rebel
lines of battle extending as far the eye could
reach, had emerged from the wood beyond,
aud were moving across the field. Numerous
regimental and battle flags were waving in the
breeze; the men carried their arms at right
shoulder, and came forward with the steady
tramp of veterans. When the advance line was
sonear that wecould see the whites of their eyes,
sharp and stern came the order from Lieutenant-Colonel
Brown, "File closers, take places
in the ranks. Aim at their belts. Fire." The
next instant the advance rebel line went down
as if struck by lightning. On tho left, opposite
tho gap in our line, they came steadily on and
were near the fence when we opened upon
them a left-oblique fire, raking their line, and
they fell back in confusion.
1 THE MAN ON THE BLACK nOESE.
"In the meantime tho second rebel line had
reached the place where the first went down,
and'received a withering fire, yet pulling their
hats over their eyes, as if breasting a hail storm,
they made a gallant attempt to advance, but
the storm was too pitiless, and they broke. As
they were falling back, a general officer, on a
coal-'black charger, spurred to the front and,
by voico and example, eudeavoied to rally
them. "Save that mauon the black horse,"
sang out Colonel Brown, but the next instant
the black steed dashed riderless to the rear.
Wc afterwards learned the officer was General
Mouton. nis men made a desperate attempt
to carry him off, and fell in heaps around him.
Their lines were now all merged in one con
fused mass, intent only on getting out of range.
" Our boys had been doing their best, fading
rapidly, and firing with deadly aim uutil our
sixty rounds were running low, but we had
demolished the firo in our front, and, anticipat
ing tho order to charge, the top rails of tho
fenco were thrown off. At this moment an
aid-de-camp, riding in hot haste, delivered a
brief order to Colonel Brown, and we were im
mediately about-faced and moved rapidly to
the rear.
" We moved back in perfect order through tho
timber, but before Ave reached opeu ground, a
staff officer galloped up aud bawled out: "Get
out of this as fast as you can." As we reached
tho open ground wo found ourselves almost
surrounded. A storm of bullets, from almost
every direction, tore through our ranks; it
seemed as if every thiul man in the regiment
went down; my comrade, Orrin Walter, fell
dead at my sido. We pushed on through the
storm,"cmcrgiug at a point where Ninis' Massa
chusetts battery was making its last stand.
They were fighting like demons, pouring grape
and cannister into dense masses of tho enemy
as thoy came steadily down the opposite slope.
Their commander was calling loudly for help,
andworallied to their support, holding on until
the last cartridge was sent home, when we fell
back to the crest of tho ridge, in front of the
pine woods. Here we reformed our line, our bjft
extending to the road. Whilo this was going
on Colonel Tom Lucas, of the cavalry, made
a splendid dash down the road and gavo us.a
littlo breathing spell. Meanwhile, boxes of
ammunition were brought from tho rear, from
which the boys helped themselves. General
Franklin, with his staff, was present. He was
well known to us, as at different times he had
many of us under guard for foraging. " There
is General Franklin ; where is tho 9th corps?"
was thcauxious inquiry that passed along the
lino. Our respite was brief, as line after line
of tho enemy swept forward and a dozen guns
opened tfpon us at short range. The air seemed
full of whistling, singing and shriokingmissiles.
A blow like the kick of a mule sent me
sprawling in the dust. A bullet had struck
the brass plate on my shoulder belt. When I
regained my feet, dizzy and bewildered, the
lino was falling back. Near the edge of the
pine woods we met General Cameron's ad
vancing brigade, which went immediately into
action on our left, and for an hour wc hold our
own until again outilaukcd, and, almost sur
rounded, wc were pushed back into tho woods.
The scene along the road was now indescrib
able. It wa3 jammed full of wagons in every
conceivable position. Mule teams were in an
-inextricable tangle, kicking, struggling and
braying. Frightened and enraged teamsters
were making frantic effort3 to clear their
teams ; squads of rebel cavalry on the right of
the road wero firing into them, and from the
whole confused mass there went up a roar of
pain. The day was clearly lost, the road to
the rear was impassable, to retreat in order
through the woods was out of the question,
and the only alternative was to break into
squads and make our way out as best we could.
In this way a running fight was kept up for
two or three miles. The shades of night were
scttlingdown in the forest when wo reached the
line of the 19th corps, with tho Johnnies close
at our heels. The boys of the 19th corps re
served their firo until we wore all in and then
gave thera a battery that evidently astonished
them, and followed it up with right good will.
Thoy were repulsed and fell back to gloat over
tho stores they had captured from us."
ANOTHER PARTICIPANT'S RECOLLECTIONS,
Referring to the fighfc near Mansfield, J. A.
Schlcck, of the 23d Wisconsin, says in a letter
to The Tribune written from Bennington,
New York:
"Our division arrived at Pleasant Hill late
on the 7th of April, where we found the 19th
army corps in camp. Of course, we expected
to remain there until the 16th corps came up,
but our hopes were soon dashed by receiving
orders to prepare rations and be ready to
march at a moment's notice. At 2 a. m. on the
Sth our regiment marched to the support of the
cavalry. About daylight the rebel advance
was found, when a running fight was kept up
until we arrived near Mansfield, where we
formed in line of battle, oar regiment on tho
left of the road supporting Nims Massachu
setts battery, the rest of our division on the
right, with cavalry on our flanks. Our divis
ion numbered 2,600 men for duty on that day.
About 3 p. m. our scouts reported the Tebels iu
three lines extending beyond our flanks, and i
estimated them at lc,000 strong. Ot course,
we looked to the rear to see if our re-enforcements
were at hand, when that rebel yell,
which every soldier remembers so well, was
heard, and on they came. "There was a Louis
iana division in our front, which was being
mowed down by our battery at 3hort range, but
they advanced until they had us nearly sur
rounded, when orders came to fall buck, and,
taking our battery with us, we crossed a field
to the edge of the woods, where we expected to
find re-enforcements. Instead, we found the
entire wagon train blockading the only avail
able road which was heavily timbered on
both sides for our retreat. Captain White, of
the Chicago Mercantile Battery, seeing that
the artillery was lost, spiked the guns, and we
formed line after line to keep the rebels back,
until General Cameron came up with his com
mand, 1,300 strong. But what could this hand
ful of men do against a victorious foe? They
were swept away like chaff before the wind.
We fell back until we reached the 19th corps,
the 161st New York in advance, Colonel Kin
zic commanding, who wanted to know where
the rebels were. I told him they ware upon us,
when he filed his command into the woods and
formed line, the rest of the corps following.
Just at dusk the rebels struck their line, when
the 19th corps gave them such a reception as
they did not care for. Had our army been
kept together, we would have routed the ene
my, but at the commencement of the battle
Cameron's command was live miles away, the
19th corps e;ght miles, and the 16th corps fif
teen or twenty miles from us. I do not know
what cavalry regiment covered our regimental
retreat on the left across the field. Caa any
one tell me?"
A PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE.
Lieutenant James Hahn, of the 47th Penn
sylvania infantry, writing from Newport, Pa.,
refers as follows to the engagements at Sabine
Cross-roads and Pleasant Hill :
" The 19th Corps had gone into camp for the
evening about four miles from Sabine Cross
Toads. The engagement at Mansfield had been
fought by the 13th Corps, who struggled bravely
against overwhelming odds until they were
driven from the field. I presume the rebel Gen.
Dick Taylor knew of the situation of our army,
and that the 19th was in the rear of the 13th, and
the 16th still in rear of thel9th, some thirteen
miles away, encamped at Pleasant Hill. They
thonght it would be a good joke to whip Banks'
army in detail : first, the 13th corps, then 19th,
then finish up on the 16th. But they counted
without their hosts; for when the couriers
came flying back to the 19th with tho news of
the sad disaster that had befallen the 13th
corps, wo were double-quicked a distance of
some four miles, and just met the advance of
our defeated 13th corps coming pell-mell, in
fantry, cavalry, and artillery all in. one con
glomerated mass, in such a manner as only a
defeated and routed army can be mixed up at
Sabine Cross-roads, where our corps was thrown
into line Justin time to receive the victorious
and elated Johnnies with a very warm recep
tion, which gave them a recoil, and which
stopped their impetuous headway, and gave
the 13th corps time to get safely to the rear.
I do not know what would have been the con
sequence if tho 19th had been defeated also,
that evening of the Sth, at Sabine Oross-roads,
and the victorious rebel army had thrown
themselves upon the 'guerrillas then lyiug in
camp at Pleasant Hill. It was just about get
ting dark when the Johnnies made their last
assault upon the lines of the 19tb. We held
the field until about midnight, and then fell
back and left the picket to hold tlie line while
we joined the 16th.at Pleasant Hill the morn
in? 01 the
Gth of April, soon after dayhrealc.
It Avasiiot long until the rehel cavalry pat in an
appearance, and soon skirmishing commenced!.
About '1 o'clock in the afternoon the engage
ment become general all along tho line, antl
with varied success, until late in the afternoon
the rebels were driven from the field, and were
followed until darkness set in, and about mid
night our army made a retrograde movement,
which ended at Grand Ecore, and left onr
dead and wounded lying on the field, all of
whom fell into rehel haujl3. I have been in
formed since by one of our regiment, who was
left wounded on tho field, that the rehels were
so completely defeated that they did not return
to the battlefield till late the nest day, and
Ihave always been of the opinion that, if the
defeat that the rehels got at Pleasant Hill had
been followed up, Banks' array, with the
aid of A. J. Smith's divisions, could have got to
Shreveport (the objective point) without mnch.
lefc or hindrance from the rebel army."
Cavalry Equipments for Tests.
To the Editor National Thibonb:
A large number of members of our Posts were
in the cavalry service, and the qnestion has
arisen : Can we equip our Post with sabers in
place of muskets. If so, where can we obtain
cavalry uniforms, sabers, scabbards and hang
ings, and what will he the probable cost of'
same ? W. L. Beattv, Post Adj't.
Owasco, Sullivan Co., Mo.
The question of the equipment anduniform
ing of Posts has been left by the National En
campment to the Departments or, if the De
partment has taken no action, to the Posts. We
would suggest to our correspondent that he
apply for details as to cost of such equipments
to Comrade A. J. Speese, Cavalry Post, No. 35,
G. A. E., at Philadelphia, this Post being com
posed exclusively of those who served in the
cavalry daring the war. Ed.
Ono Bar Out of tlie Way.
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In "Carloton's" "Saving the Nation," In
your issue of January 10th, he says: "It was
Priday afternoon, July 19th, that Gen. Tyler
sent Gen. Kichardson from Centerville down to
Blackburn's Ford with his brigade to make a
rcconnoissance." Is not"this a mistake? It was
Thursday, July ISth, as I distinctly remember.
E. E. Reed,
Madison. Wis. Co. II, 2d Wis.
Comrade Eecd is correct. Tyler marched
from Centerville on the 18th. Ed.
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President Lincoln's Administration. Kay-
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The Boys in White. Whecloefc
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The Black Finnic lldles. Howe
Our Campaigns. I3C1-SI. Woodward, ...
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Life of Stonewall Jaekson. Daniels ....
Freedom and War. Beccher.. .....
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Life of Abraham Lincoln. Hunnaford '.7Z.
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Southern Slavery in Its Different Aanacta.
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Four Year? in Seceaaia. Junius If. Browne
Memorial Ceremonies at the Gravca of Our
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Snerman and His Campaigns. Illustrated;
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Urant and I us Campaigns. Illustrated. Copes 2 QQ
History of the Peniteylvania. Eeserve Corr.
Sypher 2 oO
Trial of Henry Wirz ... ...,M.ro, 5 CO
Hidtory of the Rebellion. Ketteil 2r CO-
History of the Secret Service. Baker 2 CO
Vnsesed; or. The Female Soldier. Edmunds I 25
Annals of the War. Originally in the Phila
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My Days and Nights on the Batifefleld. Carle
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Sketches of the War. Not t . .....-. 75
The Campaign of ChancellorsriHe. Bodge;. 1 50
Beport of General McCIeUart on the Araiv of
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Stamford Soldiers' Memorial. Huntington 7
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The Army "Under Pope. Ropes.
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The Peninsula. Webb. 5t
The Mississippi. Greene.
Atlanta. Cox.
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Following the Flag. Carleton . 1 CO
Buchanan's Administration. Appleton & Co.. L 50
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Army of the Cumberland. Cist . 75
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Plan of Salvation
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