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From St. Petersburg to Port Arthur; . .
Completion of New Russian Railroad
Th* Russians are congratulating tbem-
Mtve*. as well as the travelin* public and
eMMftercial world, on the completion of
th* Chinese Eastern railwar through
Manchuria the extension of the Trans
Siberian railway which furnishes direct
connection between St. Petersburg and
Port Arthur, writes Consul General W.
R. Holloway to the state department. Il
is expected that the trip will be made in
less than » days in the near future.
It is ndw just M years since the first tie
was laid on the Trans-Siberian railway,
which has been built from start to finish
by Russian engineers and workmen, la
boring under great dlfficultiv and adverse
climatic conditions, at a cost of ».000,ftX)
rubles (lITMMJIt.)
The distance from BL Petersburg to
VladfVoeioek is 6.W7 •miles, and the (are Is
as follows:
• Rubles.
First class ... • S
Second class ®
TWtrf claw • ••• *o 30
The road consists of two
branches: Th* principal, from the station
Manchuria to Sungari. 876 versts (580.7
mfiesi long, and the south line, from Sun
gari to Port Arthur. 924 versts (6116 miles.)
The Uasurtjsk line to Vladivostock is 308
**Ht« (W.» miles) tn length
The Trans-Siberian road was built with
light raMe—some of which only weighed 12
pounds to the foot—wooddn bridges, light
•euipment. cars without trucks, and tn
ma. nr -art- the track was laid on marshy
soil As a consequence it has been im
pdartH* to make time or take care of the
business afforded These defects, how
ever are being remedied as rapidly as the
means can be provided to meet the ex
penses. which tn some sections will
ametint to M per cent of the original cost.
Th* conductors. porter* and trainmen
Russian* and do not understand
jnglish, but occasionally one is found who
apedka a little German or French
The route is through a country resem
bitng ifvnses and Nebraska, and is quite
TUNNELING UNDER EAST RIVER
INTO THE HEART OF NEW YORK
BY WILLIAM H. BALDWIN.
. • (President of the Long Island Railroad.)
fte coMtructlcn of the Pennsylvania
and Lona Wand railroad tunnel In addi
tion to the rapid transit subway now be
ing built. Is one of the factors leading to
the absolute unity of the city of New
' York. Tunnel construction will solve the
problem which has confronted the city for
the past » years and more—namely, how
to bouse comfortably and at reasonable
cost the enormous population which must
carry on business In the first ctty In the
world. It will remove a vast resident pop
ulation from 30 to 40 miles away from
Manhattan Island. At the same time,
these people can travel comfortably and
cheaply between their homes in the out
lying districts to their places of business
in the center of the city. In other words,
all the lower end of Manhattan, from
Forty-eecond street down, will be cleared
for traffic and business.
The need of more room has been imper
ative for yearn. Practically we bare
reached the limit of means of surface
transportation on the streets running
north and south. This is admitted very
generally. T think. With few exceptions,
every thoroughfare has one, and, tn some
cases. wiU have three levels of car lines
when the rapid transit subway is complet
ed. Beyond that it will be a difficult mat
ter to carry many more people toward the
north quickly in the rush hours of the
day. <
Obviously, the only remedy for these
congested conditions is for New York
City to spread out toward Brooklyn and
Long Island. Hitherto we have been met
By the barrier of water in the Etest
river Close connection between the two
islands has secerned a dream almost Im
possible of realisation.
Through the tunnel and through other
tunnels which may be built we are going
to realise this dream. It means that we
shall move Long Island up against the
ahora es Manhattan Island and make one
land of it. The tunnel system will more
than double the available area of resi
dence! property for the city, and in doing
so it will enormously increase the area
available for business and manufactur
ing purposes.
The comparatively slow upbuilding of
Long Island tn population has been prin
cipally due to the fact that It has been
impossible for the millions of people liv
ing on Manhattan Island to reach the
Long Island railroad. Long Island has
been an island in every respect, and it
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The Journal,
Atlanta, Ga.
as hot and dusty during the summer
months.
It requires eight days to make the jour
ney over the first part of this road, which
ends at Irkutsk, where all passengers
change cars. Trains leave Moscow for
Irkutsk twice a week—Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 8 o'clock p, m.—and leave
Irkutsk for Moscow on Mondays and Fri
days at midnight. Each train consists of
nine cars, and they carry second-class
carriages as well as first, and are very
comfortable: the passengers all eat in the
same restaurant car, and excellent buf
fets are to be found at the various sta
tions on the route.
The train de luxe, consisting of veati
buled cars, leaves Moscow every ten days.
The cars are high and roomy, and are
lighted by electricity. Each has four
compartments, exclusive of the general
parlor, which is in the center, and is pro
vided with a table, lounging chair, maps,
mirrors, etc. Three of these compart
ments are for four persons and one is for
two.
At the rear of the last car is an obser
vation parlor, from which a fine view of
the country can be had.
It is a three-hour rlda from Irkutsk to
Lake Baikal, which is crossed by steam
er during thesummer and by sledges (in
seven hours) during the winter. The rail
road is being built on the south bank of
the lake, but will not bo completed before
INB.
The Trans-Siberian train leaves the east
bank of the lake on the arrival of the
boat and proceeds to Stretlensk, on the
Chilka river, the actual terminus of the
line, a stxty-four-hour run. Steamers
with indifferent accommodations and food
run regularly from Stretlensk to Khaba
rovsk. on the Amur river, which occupies
fifteen days, more or leas, according to
the depth of the water and length of stop
pages.
Th* railway is completed from Khaba
rovsk to Vladivostock. a distance of 400
mile*, requiring twenty hours for transit
From Vladivostock, there are steamers
hm taken quite aa long in the past for
a person to reach the railroad aa it has
to ride for a distance of twenty to
thirty miles on the railroad. For many
years the thought of the Long Islander
has been that if a passenger could go
direct In a through caj from Manhattan
Island to his destination on Long Island
their highest dreams would be realised.
There have been many plans extending
over many yean to bring about these
results. In 186? the New York' World of
Sunday. May 24, explained'Mn detail the
necessity for better connection between
New York and Brooklyn aand points gen
erally on Long Island. It was a remark
able article tn that the conditions and
necessities described therein exist today.
The tunnel advocated in that article
(with, of course, mechanical alterations
to meet the improved engineering of our
times) is the tunnel which the Pennsyl
vania and Long Island railroads are plan
ning today to biuld.
The World and its plan were simply S 3
years ahead of the times. I have preserved
the article in an old scrapbook and here
are a few extracts from it. There Is, by
the way, a three-column illustration with
the article.
The World. Sunday, May 24, 1868:
•‘About the most pressing necessity we
labor under at present is the improve
ment of the means of transit between the
cities of New York and Brooklyn; which,
though bearing different names, having
separate corporate bodies and being in dif
ferent counties, are still to all Intents and
purposes esentlally one and the same city.
In Europe the principal cities are inter
sected by a river tn the midst as ours, but
the two sides of the river are considered
aa being in the same city.
"The problem arises. ‘Where are the
populations contiguous to New York to
dwell V
"Folks will live as near New York as
they can. The nearness will not be meas
ured by distance but by time. Other things
equal, that spot will attract the most
which has the safest and quickest means
of access to the city.”
"In the World’s recent article,** the wri
ter continues, "on the East River bridge
it was clearly shown that the ferry fa
cilities are already expanded to the last
degree. It many more people go to Brook
lyn to live but to do business in New York
there must be other means of transit pro
vided between the two cities. That there
will be a bridge is beyond question. Mean
while another mode of transit is also pro-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 30. 19v.,
with connections for Japan, Korea, and
Shanghai, any of which can be reached
in six days, while San Francisco can be
reached in fifteen days.
Russia realizes the absolute necessity
for additional railroads, in order to move
her crops and Insure the settlement of her
uninhabited territory, and has already
made elaborate plans for the next decade;
but while she posses natural resources of
practically unlimited value, she lacks for
the present the ability to build the roads
without the aid of foreign capital.
In view of the recent loan successfully
floated in France, which will, it is believ
ed, be used to build new railroads, the
following will be of Interest:
The February earnings of railroads in
European Russia were 37,038 862 rubles
(813.914,636), against 26,952,885 rubles 8(813,-
880,736) in the previous year, an increase
of 85,477 rubles. In the first two months
of the present year, the gross earnings
were 56,468,063 rubles (829,078,477). and for
the same period of the previous year 54,-
635.629 rubles u 28.137.349), an increase Os
1.827,433 rubles (8941.128. It appears that
during the same period there was a de
crease in passengeue this year of 258,598,
but an increase in freight of 43,974,000 poods
(793,994 tons.)
The greatest prospects of railroad build
ing in European Russia are lines direct
to Viatka and Kief. The first would, it is
estimated, open the enormous agricultural
northern district and very materially af
fect the Importance of Bt. Petersburg. A
direct line to Kief would diminish the time
t-ken in going to tnat town by at least
one-half.
An imperial ukase has been issued, ord
ering the construction of the Orenburg-
Tashkent railroad, in order to relieve the
famine-stricken population of th* east
ern provinces of Russia, and give em
ployment to the iron works in the same
provinces, which are suffering from want
of activity.
Th* Tashkent and Chikment districts
are the principal exporters of cotton, and
they will be given a new market by means
of this line.
posed. A tunnel under the East River is
proposed.
"It is proposed to lay a tubular wrought
iron tunnel having a clear height of 24
feet, leaving 40 feet of water in the center
of the tideway."
Richard Foley was the designer of the
tunnel. Among the incorporators of the
company were Silas C. Herring, Edwin
Ferguson, J.- R. Floyd, J. A. Fithian, O.
Sloan Holden, W. C. Higgins, Simon Gult
erman, William Garrett, John J. Walsh,
George A. Osgood and William A. Smith.
Editorially The World said of this pro
ject: “A tunnel Is what Is required to
insure quick and safe communication be
tween New York and Brooklyn. What
we desire is a safe, silent submarine con
veyance that will not put our shipping to
any Inconvenience. We trust that there
will be no lagging In this tunnel enter
prise, but that it will be pushed forward
with energy.”
The first important link to connect the
island with Brooklyn was the Brooklyn
bridge, which by its success has only ex
aggerated the difficulty and made more
apparent the need tor more bridges and
more connections. The people have finally
learned that bridges are a successful
means of connecting the two Islands, and
now the second and third bridges are un
der way and will tend to provide for
those people who wish to cross the river
for the purpose of local transit in the
two cities. The problem of crossing the
river for the purpose of reaching Long
Island, and by through train service to
reach the outlying points beyond Long
island Ctty and Brooklyn has never been
settled until now. Up to the present time
the Imagination of the people has not
permitted it to think that a tunnel would
be an entirely satisfactory and practical
means of connection.
During the last eight or ten years, since
the rapid transit commission advocated
Its plans for the rapid transit subway
throughout New York, the public has
gradually been educated to see that the
only means of rapid transit in the city
will be by means of underground tunnels
and railroads. The change of sentiment
within the last two or three years has
been most marked. Distinguished men
who five years ago believed that the rapid
transit subway in New York would be
nothing but a failure, a “hole In the
ground," now see that the only problem
is to have enough subways and not to ex
pect too much from the first one. In
other words, the means of handling such
an enormous population as that centered
In and about Manhattan Island needs a
great deal of imagination, and unless
more Imagination Is used than has been In
the past the facilities for transit will con
tinue to remain Inadequate, as In the past.
The tendency for Manhattan to concen
trate more and more its business popula
tion, with its high buildings and the enor
mous population which goes to Manhat
tan only for work, makes It more impera
tive each day for additional means of con
nection between the Island and the out
lying districts. The tendency also for the
residents of Manhattan each year to live
a longer time In the country and to use
the city house or apartment for the winter
months creates an additional demand for
genuine rapid transit to the beautiful sub
urbs lying about New York. In short, the
two rivers which create the harbor and
make New York possible to be the first
city in the world must be obliterated as
far as they become an obstruction to the
easy passage of people to and from Man
hattan Island.
A large number of new conditions make
it possible to solve this difficulty by the
modern tunnel. Among them the use of
electricity for transit purposes has only
been known for the last dozen years.
During that period the science of the
use of electricity has made it possible
to handle any system of transit by that
power.
The benefits which wllll accrue to Man
hattan with the completion of the Penn
sylvania and Long Island railroad tunnel
are apparent. I have mentioned the prime
advantages already in briei.
It will then possess through connection
with the west, with western cities, Chic
ago, Philadelphia and so on, without
change of cars, into the heart o{ New
York at Thirty-third street.
Any number of tunnnels can be built
across the North and East rivers. There
can be no monopoly in tunnel building,
and I see no limit to the connections
which may be made on either side of
Manhattan. The Hudson river may be
tunnneled for miles up the west shore by
railroads running into New York—pro
vided they spend the money required to
get in.
Now as to the benefits which will ac
crue to Long Island.
Every farmer’s land on the island Is
worth more today by many dollars than
It was a week ago—all owing to the pro
jected tunnel.
Miles and miles of open land on Long
Island will now be built up with suburban
for all classes of people.
The cost of maintaining small factories
on Manhattan, owing to increased land
values due to overcrowded population,
has become almost prohibitive.
Brooklyn today offers advantages to the
manufacturer which makes the cost of
manufacturing as cheap In that city as
in any city or country town in the United
“Marching, Fighting, Camping,”
Diary Continued,
March 17, 1865, evacuated our position
last night at 8 o'clock, but returned after
marching a short distance, and re-occu
pied our lines and re-evacuated them at
10 o'clock. Passed through Averysboro
on the road to Smithfield; camped about
half a mile from the former. The mud
all the way awful. Marched 13 miles to
day. Fair. March 18. Got a good night's
rest last night. Resumed our march at
11 o'clock a. m. Cut across the country
to go to Bentonsville. We stopped at
dark and are about eight miles from Ben
tonsville. Marched mostly in a settlement
road. Things indicate a fight. Clear day;
warmer. '
March 19.—Our brigade was put on pick
et last night, until the wagons of our
corps passed the point we were guarding.
Left our picket post last night at 12
o’clock mid-night and marched about two
miles and camped for the night; on the
tramp at daylight this morning and got
to Bentonsville at about 8 o'clock a. m. A
beautiful Sabbath day.
March 20.—After building breastworks
on the left of th* line yesterday, our brig
ade was moved to the Tight yesterday af
ternoon, and formed line and charged the
enemy. As we were going to take up
our position to make this charge we pass-t
ed Gen. Joe Johnston, sitting on a log
by the side of the road. We cheered him.
Terrible musketry fire in our front where
we made the charge. Went in arid passed
over a line of battle of Alabama troops,
lying down to let us pass over them.
They fell back after we passed them.
Boon got into the thick of the flght. While
We were heavily engaged, orders were
passed along the line to left oblique. We
left obliqued. Another Gettysburg maneu
ver. Just wanted to show Sherman's
folks that we could make any kind of
a maneuver right under the muzzle of
their guns, and they could not help
themselves—nothing like war when you;
get used to it. The enemy fell back out
of sheer admiration of us but kept up the
flght.
It was a hot old time and things were
lively if they wer* not lovely, we kept
up this left obllqu* movement and fight
ing heavily with th* enemy until dark
caught us, when w* were suddenly fired
into from behind. This countermanded the
oblique business, and we halted (that is,
my regiment did, as we were on the left
of th* brigade and were above them).
We were in between two fires. After a
little we got orders to cease flring and
lie down. We obeyed. After a while the
enemy in front and our men in the rear
ceased firing. We th*n got up and as the
woods were burning the enemy saw us and
we at once became engaged again, and
promptly the lin* In our rear opened on
us too. We stopped firing and lay down
again. The firing front and rear stopped.
We got up again with the same result as
before. We then lay down and remained
down for some time. In the meantime n\en
had been sent to the rear to notify those
people that we were not the enemy, but
it seems that they never got the word.
Finally we got up and were not fired
on. We then moved by the right flank
and eventually got back to our lines.
This was the battle of Bentonville. We
filed out into the woods to camp and*
built our fires. Near us was th* fires of
some troops already tn camp. While I
was standing at my fire I heard a voice
from behind m* say: “William.” I turned
and lo and behold it was my brother. His
camp fire was not over ten or 15 steps
from mine. He saw me and recognised
me standing in the fire light. I was glad
to meet him. I had not seen him in years.
He was an officer In a Georgia regiment,
in Stovall’s brigade. His full name was
P. S. Johnson, arid I would like to learn
the company and regiment to which he be
longed. I have forgotten. So I was recon-
Battle of Missionary Ridge.
Editor Journal: I noticed the account of
the battle above the clouds at Lookout
mountain by a member of the Eighteenth
Alabama and his close call, and It in
spires me to write something as I was
there, a private In Company G, 37th Ala
bama volunteers.
Our regiment occupied some temporary
breastworks just below the pinnacle of
Lookout, on the morning of the 23d of No
vember, 1863. The engagement commenced
at daylight. It was cloudy and rainy all
during the forenoon, the clouds and fog
hanging so thick at times we could see
only a few yards before us, hence, we
could not get at the situation of the ene
my, but skirmishing was going on In front
all the time. After a time the clouds
lifted, the enemy sighted our situation
and brought their cannon to bear upon
us. They shelled us with such force
that our officers thought it best to fall
back from the breastworks to safer
ground, hence the rifle pits were lost to
us. There was nothing more than heavy
skirmishing done during the day; night
came on, the skirmishers came In and a
strong picket was put out.
I was one of the pickets and was sta
tioned about eighty yards In front of our
regiment on tiio line of battle. A young
man by the name of Alonso Allen, of my
company (a new recruit), was put on with
me. Our post happened to be near a
large shell of a stump with an open side
that favored us, I bade him alt close at
my feet which he did (it was his first
time out.) The weather was cold.
The officer had given me particular In
structions to be very watchful. "The
safety of the army depends upon you," he
said, "and do just as I tell you; watch
close ahead of you, and If you see men
approaching, fire on them and run In;
L.ates. It has an enormous and steady
labor market in which to obtain workmen.
These workmen are the most efficient In
the world. They can now be housed and
fed comfortably at reasonable cost. The
construction of the tunnel system will In
directly raise the wages of thousands of
mechanics am. workmen by reducing the
cost of living and rent.
A clerk In a downtown store, for exam
ple, anywhere from Forty-second street
south, can live twenty miles distant on
Long Island and yet reach his place of
business in thirty minutes.
The trip from New York to Long Island
city through the tunnel will require about
three minutes, and from Thirty-third
street to Jersey City, let us say, only four
or five minutes. When the railroad tunnel
system is completed we can come to work
in New York every day from a distance
of forty milss In the country as quickly
as we now make the journey to Harlem.
HSr Just one
zrfnT\ thing» prejudice.
/Al / A\ keeps some women
I < 1 ifrom using PEARL-
[/ WINE. They think.
•1$ I nq j— -if it BkCts on
j zdJ /I ~ dirt so strong-
Jja t k must
’1 hurt the
A 1 clothes. Soap
I n.nd rubbing
on <hrt,
1 and the fabric
tis rubbed away. PEARLINE
loosens the dirt better than
any soap and bundles it out
with little or no rubbing, and
no in}ury. 6«6
Proved by Millionsj
died to the left oblique business at last,
but for this I would never have camped
where I did, and of course would not have
had the Joyous meeting which I did.
I was one of three in charge of the flag
of our regiment in this battle. One was
killed, one wounded and disabled, and I
received a cut from a shot
over th* bridge of my nos* and on the
cheek under my left eye—just got the
skin. The bullets flew thick and fast about
and around the flag, and I had my Sunday
vest ruined.
I wish to add something here which I
have learned from experience and reflec
tion. That is, no firing line should have a
flag or single flag bearer. The idea of a
man carrying a flag and being a target
for every gun of the enemy is, to mv
mind, radically wrong. The flag bearer
simply carries a target and can do no
fighting. He is simply the victim of a pre
histories! sentiment, which looks very
well in a picture portraying a struggle
over a flag in battle, or to read about, but
there is no business in it. War is a busi
ness, and to be successful must be waged
on business principles; that is, in action
every man must be armed to fight, and
taught to go ahead and not be allowed
or tempted to stop short of his goal to
fight over the possession of an object, and
thus arrest his ownward movement, and
probably stop a Whole command and turn
an advance movement into a sort of foot
ball the flag and Its bearers taking
the place of a pig skin.
I do not mean here to lessen the respect
of the soldier for his flag or colors, but
to enlarge his duties as an advantage
fighter. Fighting over a flag is just so
much energy diverted from the line of at
tack or defense. It is cruel and unnatural
to require any man to expose his life in
battle unless he is provided with arms to
fight with and defend himself. He should
be put on an equal footing with his an
tagonist. The sense and business of a bat
tle demands that every man engaged
should flght and be provided with th*
means of fighting, IT a defenseless color
bearer falls some other soldier takes the
colors, thus again weakening the firing
line by one; then, perhaps, another and
another in this way is added to the non
combatant color bearers.
The flag draws a concentrated fire which
Are does more damage than it would if
it'was scattered along the line.
I would instead mak* every man on
the firing line and in the whole army a
color bearer. The flag should be on th*
shoulders of the man—the flag-staff lying
in the should*r and th* flag rampant on
the coat collar. This to apply to the offi
cers as well as to .the men. The flag
and color bearer of the general staff to
be retained as at present, or every general
staff should have colors and a color bear
er. I make this observation byway of
parenthesis in my narrative, as by my
plan captured flags would not b* so nu
merous and when one was captured it
would be a prize of great value.
I received a military education, and this
added to my experience in actual war
fare, justifies me in coming to the con
clusion which I have.
But to my narrative.
The troops who fired into us, I learned,
belonged to Walthall’s division. We took
up line of battle on the right again this
morning, but were moved to the left.
Thank the Lord for my escape; clear day.
March 21.—Brother came and stayed with
me last night; moved our brigade forward
today to connect with the left of General
Wheeler. The enemy attacked the right
of our division, but were repulsed with
loss.
They got In the rear of our brigade, but
were driven off with loss. Commenced to
rain in afternoon.
A. A. JOHNSON,
Co. D, Second 8. C. V.
Atlanta. Ga. x ■
' don’t hail them; don’t provoke a night
fight by shooting at objects of imagina
tion. If you see anything and it is not
coming in, don’t fire, but keep quiet and
watchful; I will relieve you at the proper
time. Now, listen, ‘Jackson* is the coun
tersign; don’t forget, nor don’t go to
sleep for that means death."
The officer went his way. I was the last
picket put on. Just about fifteen minutes
after he left, I saw objects just about
thirty yards away In front of me. I
whispered this to my companion and told
him I was going to fire on them. I could
see and heard plainly It was the enemy
putting out pickets. They passed on;
dark clouds were flitting between us and
the moon; at times I could see a man
plainly outlined and then again I could
not. I raised my gun to shoot and bore
hqrd on the trigger but something seemed
to say, "Don’t shoot, his blood will be
on your hands before God: don’t shoot.”
I took down my gun and whispered to
ray companion: "My heart has failed me,
I can’t shoot that man. I will watch
him.” And I did watch him, until the
moon was covered with darkness and I
heard in my rear creeping footsteps very
close by. I said In a low tone, "Who
comes there?” . t
"A friend with the countersign," he ans
wered over the point of my bayonet.
"Jackson, he said, "I came to take
you back."
We stealthily crept out of danger, then
made our way to Mission Ridge; Just af
ter crossing the bridge over that wind
ing stream of death (Chickamauga) going
through an pld field I stumbled over the
biggest bass drum I ever saw. It was
fully four feet high and twenty inches
wide. Feeling about it I found the should
er straps and strung It on, then went on
to the foot of Mission Ridge, where I
came up with hundreds of men rolled up
In blankets asleep.
I did not know what regiment they
were as all were asleep, so I stopped near,
corded up the drum (It was about an
hour before day), and thought I would
try it. I tapped It pretty hard with my
fist, and every man was on his feet in a
moment. There came near being a stam
pede, but my colonel, Aik A. Greene, who
was nearest, recognised my voice. He
quickly quieted the men and taking the
drum felt about over it and pronounced
it a good drum; adding that we needed a
drum and for me to just lay my gun
down and hold on to that drum.
When daylight came that drum was a
sight for all to look at. Nobody had
ever seep or heard of such a drum. It
was a wonder to everybody and all were
wondering who It belonged to and where
it came from. But oh my, when I got
that drum strung up on my back and
started on the march everybody whooped;
they hallowed, "Where you gwlne with
the commissary?” "Going to wash for
the brigade," “Come out from behind that
drum—l see your legs wiggling” were
some of the comments- that greeted me.
Well, we went upon Mission Ridge and
formed line of battle along the top' of
this ridge. The Thirty-seventh Alabama
was held as reserve.
Fighting soon commenced on the ex
treme right. We passed the whole army,
or very near it, going to the right, the
soldiers keeping up their Are of comment.
At one low place on the ridge, the Yan
kees caught sight of me and they sent
shells screaming over us. After getiing
to the right we were ordered back to the
left—back and forth we marched—the boys
whooping and yelling.
The colonel told me not to mind the
boys, but to hdld on to that drum and
ordered me to lay my gun down, but I
didn’t do it, for I thought I would need it
before night.
I have thought about it since and have
come to the conclusion that General Bragg
had us march backward and forward
from right to left for a purpose. The men
would whoop at the sight of the drum
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and the Yankees, hearing them, believed
that we were getting reinforcements.
That was strategem! We finally settled
down on the right center in line of battle
and Jn 15 minutes there catne a man with
orders from General Bragg to get that
drum. It belonged to General Bragg’s
band wagon and was lost on the retreat
in the valley. I was glad to get rid of It
and the messenger sneaked off down the
ridge to get out of sight of the men. Our
men on the right were fighting desperate
ly. They repulsed and drove the Yankees
back with considerable slaughter, captur
ing several battle flags. All was safe on
the right, but very soon fighting com
menced on our left and in a few minutes
after a courier came along the line and
said the Yankees had broken through
Bates’ division and were flanking us on
our left. Colonel Green commanded us to
form a line of battle to stop the Yankees’
approach. We tried to form that line,
but did not get much of a line, as the
enemy was upon us. We charged them
with a will and yelling at every jump.
The enemy halted and lay down close to
the ground, and we ran right Into them.
They met us with a deadly fire.
I received a flesh wound just below the
right nipple and another across any back,
just breaking the skin, another Just un
der my left elbow; my gun was shot out
of my hand. Two of our men fell over
me at the same Instant, one shot in the
forehead and the other in the back of the
head. /
The enemy had begun to fall back over
the ridge. I found that I was not hurt
very bad, and I crawled back until I got
out of sight. I went to Chickamauga, or
near there, where I found a smalt rem
nant of my regiment.
Out of eight hard fought battles that
was my only close call.
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London Telegraph. ,
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