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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 395 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 68725 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 191 General 117 day 111 german 99 Colonel 93 french 90 man 88 France 86 british 86 New 86 Captain 85 Mr. 81 time 72 Army 71 England 62 Major 58 South 55 English 52 Paris 48 Confederate 47 River 46 Washington 45 Lieutenant 44 Union 44 St. 43 Lee 41 american 40 Virginia 40 States 40 God 40 Corps 39 little 37 York 36 illustration 34 line 34 good 33 Tennessee 33 Richmond 33 Grant 32 United 32 President 32 North 32 Fort 32 CHAPTER 31 War 31 Company 29 look 29 John 28 September 28 Potomac 27 soldier Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 91693 man 64807 day 57546 time 38306 enemy 36745 line 33593 officer 33054 army 31590 night 28889 war 26844 way 26320 road 24848 order 24310 soldier 23184 place 22827 troop 21734 mile 21639 gun 20190 morning 19880 side 18947 battle 18774 house 18462 hand 18350 front 18045 fire 17628 thing 17254 country 17222 force 17111 horse 17055 part 16907 position 16891 hour 16824 work 16095 field 15996 people 15898 command 15738 regiment 15545 one 15492 division 14957 camp 14925 trench 14508 year 14392 life 14134 ground 13385 head 13218 point 13168 nothing 12884 shell 12689 river 12588 letter 12510 foot Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 87339 _ 55099 General 16076 Mr. 13558 Colonel 9808 New 9684 Captain 9158 States 8948 Army 8760 Major 8533 Lee 8482 Germans 8469 River 7450 President 7133 South 6930 Grant 6889 Sherman 6850 Washington 6816 Lieutenant 6776 . 6682 France 6578 Corps 6253 War 5996 United 5897 North 5879 Confederate 5686 Union 5635 W. 5612 M. 5552 Fort 5427 Richmond 5412 C. 5380 Government 5364 England 5343 French 5297 H. 5161 J. 5118 John 5117 Tennessee 5048 York 4923 S. 4876 State 4860 Virginia 4790 Smith 4652 May 4574 St. 4570 Paris 4476 God 4468 July 4462 English 4282 Gen. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 324169 i 217100 it 189880 we 186234 he 125033 they 74682 them 71945 me 68278 him 68168 you 57664 us 21475 she 11666 himself 9587 myself 8975 her 8650 themselves 5634 one 4431 itself 3846 ourselves 1170 yourself 1081 ours 1043 mine 1031 herself 807 yours 759 ''em 570 theirs 334 his 257 ''s 218 thee 131 oneself 120 em 69 hers 50 ye 46 yourselves 24 je 19 yer 19 meself 17 yerself 14 thyself 13 oo 11 d''you 9 you''re 9 genl 8 you''ll 8 --they 7 i''m 7 hisself 7 bridgeport 6 yer''ve 6 mother,--i 6 l Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 971724 be 367489 have 84950 do 66321 go 64271 make 58529 come 55378 take 54075 see 49167 say 47249 get 36599 give 35585 know 32640 find 31423 leave 24426 think 24182 send 22486 tell 21377 look 20682 pass 19655 seem 18441 hear 18432 follow 18014 reach 17439 bring 17021 move 16542 keep 16462 fall 16394 hold 15865 call 14580 receive 14519 become 14477 stand 14236 wound 14224 begin 14115 put 14007 carry 13956 turn 13820 ask 13530 feel 12784 return 12621 meet 12438 lie 12174 run 11742 remain 11592 order 11271 write 10867 kill 10813 arrive 10756 start 10194 fight Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 144331 not 61022 up 55509 so 44966 out 42392 then 41227 very 39668 more 35050 now 34979 only 32568 other 32407 great 31326 little 30828 as 30696 good 30342 first 29790 well 28998 back 26034 down 25587 there 25400 many 25351 much 24032 long 23731 most 22688 few 22346 here 22054 about 22048 old 21494 just 20569 again 19744 soon 19045 never 18506 off 18456 last 18167 still 17967 on 17719 same 17694 own 17142 away 16678 also 16660 such 15918 even 15896 too 15692 in 15302 far 13785 next 13739 german 13501 large 13462 once 13278 all 13205 small Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7412 good 6015 most 4899 least 2143 great 1381 bad 1159 near 1149 high 1120 Most 773 slight 597 fine 509 late 506 large 430 early 367 strong 293 small 273 young 265 old 260 low 255 brave 237 big 236 heavy 232 hard 205 deep 196 eld 185 short 153 able 151 long 139 full 137 hot 133 wild 133 manif 120 noble 115 rich 111 simple 106 close 103 safe 102 warm 102 farth 101 pure 93 easy 85 bright 82 dear 81 sad 80 dark 79 happy 77 bloody 76 strange 73 mere 73 grand 73 faint Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17716 most 902 least 873 well 46 hard 43 near 33 worst 16 highest 9 lest 6 soon 5 strongest 5 long 5 fast 4 youngest 4 greatest 3 lowest 3 farthest 2 oldest 2 mildest 2 latest 2 jeest 2 finest 2 easiest 2 brightest 1 wisest 1 toughest 1 thinnest 1 sorriest 1 softest 1 smoothest 1 smartest 1 slowest 1 side,--pledges 1 same--"very 1 safest 1 s''est 1 quietest 1 quick 1 noblest 1 nimblest 1 musjid,--the 1 meanest 1 lightest 1 levelest 1 keenest 1 infest 1 hottest 1 heaviest 1 heartiest 1 happiest 1 handiest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 www.gutenberg.org 34 archive.org 31 www.archive.org 30 www.gutenberg.net 4 books.google.com 3 gallica.bnf.fr 1 link.library.utoronto.ca 1 grobbel.org 1 dp.rastko.net 1 digital.library.upenn.edu Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 14 http://archive.org 3 http://www.archive.org/details/toronto 3 http://gallica.bnf.fr 2 http://www.archive.org/ 2 http://www.archive.org 2 http://books.google.com 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60343/60343-h/60343-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60343/60343-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59519/59519-h/59519-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59519/59519-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59489/59489-h/59489-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59489/59489-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53093/53093-h/53093-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53093/53093-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51552/51552-h/51552-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51552/51552-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48142/48142-h/48142-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48142/48142-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46750/46750-h/46750-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46750/46750-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46261/46261-h/46261-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46261/46261-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45931/45931-h/45931-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45931/45931-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45810/45810-h/45810-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45810/45810-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44702/44702-h/44702-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44702/44702-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43590/43590-h/43590-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43589/43590-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43589/43589-h/43589-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43589/43589-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43124/43124-h/43124-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43124/43124-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38859/38859-h/38859-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38859/38859-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37754/37754-h/37754-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37754/37754-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29313/29313-h/29313-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29313/29313-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28711/28711-h/28711-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28711/28711-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19117 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18993 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43590 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43589 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/etext02/nicbt10.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/etext02/nicbt10.txt 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/1/5/28152/28152-h/28152-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/1/5/28152/28152-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 kreeder@mailsnare.net Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 196 war was over 152 war is over 132 enemy did not 90 _ was _ 88 men were not 86 _ is _ 82 enemy was not 79 men did not 75 _ see _ 70 _ did _ 68 enemy had not 66 night came on 64 men were so 60 night was dark 59 battle was over 54 enemy fell back 51 men are not 50 men had not 49 _ are _ 48 troops were not 48 war is not 43 men do not 43 night was very 43 thing is certain 42 _ had _ 42 army was not 41 men were still 40 men came in 37 _ know _ 37 _ were _ 36 _ do n''t 35 day was very 35 enemy was still 35 things are not 34 _ do _ 34 _ was not 34 army was now 34 battle was not 34 men were all 33 men were well 33 night was so 33 time was not 31 _ did not 31 army was then 30 enemy were not 30 men were now 30 men were very 30 troops did not 30 war was not 29 army was so Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 enemy had not yet 10 enemy was not entirely 8 army had not yet 7 army was not so 7 enemy was not slow 7 force was not sufficient 7 men were not so 7 time was not yet 7 troops had not yet 6 men had no time 5 _ did not _ 5 armies had not only 5 army had no difficulty 5 army had no sooner 5 army has not yet 5 army is not only 5 battle was not yet 5 country was not skilled 5 days was no sinecure 5 enemy had no infantry 5 enemy has no force 5 enemy has no pickets 5 enemy made no effort 5 enemy makes no opposition 5 enemy was not much 5 forces were not victorious 5 general had not yet 5 guns are not yet 5 line did not fully 5 men are not well 5 men had no clothing 5 men had no cover 5 night gave no sign 5 officer is not so 5 order did no reach 5 order is not yet 5 orders were not absolutely 5 orders were not very 5 places were no longer 5 roads have not yet 5 side were not much 5 soldiers were no sooner 5 thing was not well 5 things are not so 5 time is not now 5 troops were not up 5 troops were not yet 5 war is no child 5 wars are not always 5 wars have not materially Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 1108559 57383 846331 4546 357958 4361 331388 34827 331232 31087 285108 4367 283524 7852 236888 38418 231039 34344 215261 6962 207692 34843 203224 4362 196225 18113 188529 6961 182376 2616 179448 43590 175582 2617 168711 43589 168583 28152 160767 35403 155989 18794 155213 1068 150809 22523 149383 39735 148994 34973 146359 22584 145089 7851 141964 36778 140219 44865 138412 7850 137807 21976 137456 33211 136712 62571 133784 11682 132732 19263 131462 12068 130353 45949 129894 1067 125782 40890 125296 12013 125253 41995 124345 17003 121798 29608 120315 59489 117859 31086 117107 36720 116861 23340 115560 5853 111027 48663 110844 49099 110781 49391 109285 50807 108279 48941 107169 51206 107038 2651 106074 5851 105303 38948 104663 58509 104470 19317 103843 26561 102182 43124 101968 15829 101102 37083 99099 28116 98762 9896 98513 23747 98392 14457 97617 22021 97324 10798 97151 61177 96714 20460 96186 2652 94291 30285 93648 39348 93546 22324 93489 38497 92038 18497 91986 18765 90692 23565 90439 37372 88261 6764 88075 29333 87925 29313 87304 40792 87005 31158 86074 12418 85607 13202 84318 11211 83758 42892 82581 55702 82336 33426 81632 34985 81559 29660 81497 52121 81462 18364 80534 46261 79776 11008 79683 41094 79454 47332 79026 50001 78582 31895 78070 44263 77972 46131 77697 17206 77207 29264 76766 16521 76716 44451 76320 5850 76255 5865 75926 14466 75630 51118 75412 28926 75020 45931 74935 46434 73338 12877 72698 10972 72326 20928 71925 30597 71841 22067 71593 16131 70785 33631 70204 19876 70203 30179 69932 31332 69181 49089 68190 13777 68000 27765 67900 19705 67456 7962 67245 44889 66826 45810 66183 20400 66150 11947 66012 18963 65466 16463 65146 5633 65101 44965 64654 45436 63945 17978 63906 29263 63676 18910 63465 12880 63377 54816 63095 28981 63063 44970 62303 18292 61899 50247 61859 35392 61578 7190 60614 23031 60042 5852 59917 15131 59741 16868 59669 19710 59262 41248 59043 28241 58885 41528 58086 33035 57747 58233 57640 31192 57581 13827 57281 40973 57095 22074 57021 58231 57002 39072 56942 12302 55857 17813 55844 42721 55583 13235 55188 18177 55045 12185 54808 39346 54241 37331 54162 51552 53950 50970 53873 34069 53723 51211 53590 37628 53146 16355 52779 46097 52726 38855 52375 45542 52357 18103 52105 26548 51904 16089 51620 19074 51513 47474 51172 10099 51020 48997 50720 60315 50445 21977 49589 46750 49244 11086 48703 57212 48653 33278 48629 31075 48395 60296 48175 18390 47806 11232 47761 13665 47631 36292 47582 30812 47522 49444 47302 60629 46451 11414 45849 12330 45839 45828 45794 33286 45550 16685 45427 19131 45361 5856 45305 46757 45241 40477 44847 44492 44600 5862 44595 56211 44387 33179 44341 10362 44301 35119 44242 20111 44007 53093 43944 5861 43604 31353 42597 15644 42506 59519 42292 32051 42068 20655 41650 45894 41424 9975 41374 5860 41110 5863 40969 41159 40678 13279 40649 17584 40607 33121 40444 37754 39717 27229 39482 51451 39393 16690 38874 47856 38699 8423 38646 19655 38635 11011 38439 48142 38346 41324 38024 45568 37978 48229 37920 47814 37901 49544 37885 21806 37881 5864 37730 17316 37679 35700 37636 5859 37229 44124 37189 19693 36161 4550 35913 46823 35870 32733 35712 22655 34964 20215 34769 17587 34690 15224 34641 18078 34434 15160 34157 40046 33767 37112 33263 41616 32379 42368 32142 5858 32106 51559 32005 30264 31884 33001 31253 54065 31225 5855 31123 20636 31121 50483 30901 48822 30896 29045 30841 43649 30472 5854 30418 38167 30188 16337 30039 33625 30013 10918 29657 48586 29637 52656 29365 60343 29352 44281 29031 19521 28989 11641 28620 27259 28349 42341 27944 31453 27906 14086 27848 33280 27685 61021 27364 31124 27309 38369 27267 5857 26918 26138 26592 15896 26129 19339 26064 28319 26050 59757 25314 16626 24923 26884 24511 30114 24487 29927 24458 60363 23746 53168 23517 56407 22441 32268 22363 30011 21853 48703 21262 16078 21148 17918 20896 32246 20428 51063 20023 60084 19618 8380 18786 50410 18619 16588 18544 46651 18407 10338 18158 32177 17971 28060 17844 51803 17227 26930 17030 15802 16996 43470 16964 40767 16911 11679 16811 23533 16736 16945 16691 26040 16609 44974 16585 27193 16498 16992 16403 20005 15561 49976 15205 12454 15001 9874 14794 16056 14786 26879 14386 28145 14319 44702 14006 36204 13570 32031 13237 10967 13113 32650 12833 44599 12638 33241 12609 34889 11335 37035 11298 31969 11178 27293 10061 36971 9934 61370 9753 27306 9393 33718 9312 38859 9262 30822 8458 35578 8072 34895 7781 32595 6955 26518 6752 26747 6747 31998 5757 31972 5468 31115 5176 33139 5092 31049 4230 31991 4026 3383 24862 25135 25470 24889 24341 24981 24548 25723 24653 24538 25764 25683 25004 25528 24972 24570 2401 24195 25049 25603 Readability of items; 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"In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10099 Soldier''s Letter--Aircraft and Guns--The German Effort--April Men and officers, who a year ago were still insufficiently trained, are By July 1915--the end of the first year of war--more than 2,000,000 men It will be an interesting time when our War Office and yours come to But let me go a little further with the new War Office facts. "We teach our men the old great game of war--wit against wit--courage only!--the letter written by a German soldier the day before the attack: early days of March every week''s news was bringing home to England the German lines were now bringing back news every morning and night of next two days, French and English troops passed through the town. At the opening of the French attack, a German officer rushed to the For three days and nights, the German troops, an army of 300,000 men, German Army would be in Paris in two days--"All right!--but you''re not 10338 build up a fraternal union of the young Jewish men all over the country. armed Arabs, who beat the old man to unconsciousness as he tried, in have watched dozens of Arabs being brought in to the recruiting office first place, they came to realize that Turkey had taken up arms against Turkish officer forced his way, demanding explanations. ever fresh miracle of the Eastern sunset, a Turkish officer came riding time, I saw the German officers--quantities of them. American Consul at Jerusalem, happened to be with me in Jaffa that day; In the defeated army itself the Turkish officers gave vent to Djemal Pasha put some thousands of Arab soldiers at Beirut, and ten thousand French troops were landed in the Lebanon, to people who were free from the Turkish yoke, in a country where I should hundred thousand picked men, if the Allies had landed in Palestine. 10362 These sketches of General Smuts'' campaign of 1916 in German East Africa, that he would like to eat; moreover, he knew, in German East Africa, balance of India in German East Africa, the new strategic railway from is told at Moschi of a young German officer who stole a day''s leave and Of all the departments of War in German East Africa probably the most conjunction with the suspicion which the native of German East Africa that marked the savage bush fighting from German Bridge to Morogoro came little irregular things for wounded German soldiers, faked temperature food and hospitals and porters," captured German officers have often in the service of the Huns and the natives in German East, locked up modern young German who apes English ways, comes out to East Africa German East Africa, and you may imagine how she had longed for the day 1067 arms--furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three commanding general that these troops would move north sufficiently far General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. troops at the best points to guard the roads leading into the city, left The enemy at this time occupied a line running from the Mississippi at once ordered General Smith to send a force up the west bank of the time with a force of 6,000 men was sent out into west Kentucky, About the time the advance of troops reached a point each of the division commanders that day, several times, and my reinforcement of near 8,000 men, General Ord in command. from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to 1068 LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great The 5th corps, General Warren commanding, was in advance on the right, This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac. Direct corps commanders to hold their troops in readiness to march at CITY POINT, VA., October 14, 1864.--12.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Railroad and On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that of cavalry, of the Army of the Potomac, and a force of General Butler''s General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for "General Sheridan has been ordered to send a division of troops to 10798 away through a cloud of dust a company of German foot soldiers swung be English; and for two days, so he said, the Germans had been passing feet away, where the grass was pressed flat--"I saw three dead men lying once out of sight of German soldiers, nor by day or night out of sound pass bearing a couple of German officers and a little, scared-looking lieutenant came to him and told him in a mixture of French and German in the field some weeks, since every German soldier--officer and private the German Army in this war--the general feeding his men by thousands wagon must be a French soldier, or else that the Germans had seen fit to As we left the room the German surgeon turned, and looking round I saw was a sort of rest room for the Red Cross men, who mostly were Germans, 10918 reason the Germans particularly wanted Termonde--an open bridge in Termonde most of the four days that the Germans stayed, had the story tower, the bells, and the German officers came crashing to the The day after we got inside the German lines we went before Major We got a second War Office pass sending us to Aix by what was going on in Antwerp, it was noticeable that German officers called himself the Officer-of-the-Day. I played all my best German in the closed freight cars lay a few wounded first line men, a half a into Antwerp in time for its bombardment and capture by the German the Germans saw that the whole British and Belgian army had got minutes, proved to be such a genial German (for war-time) that I Military men, English as well as German, to whom I have talked, take it 10967 The happy days in Leoben came to an abrupt end, my regiment only reports reaching us from the fighting line at that time were to a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the advancing between the positions of the Austrian and Russian exactly the half distance between the Russian and Austrian artillery with an artillery officer, I was told the fact was known that the shells given, to look at the young officer who lay on the stretcher, his eyes long time the Russians fired at random, mostly at too short a range men had not received any food supplies for some days and were these two Russians in an Austrian trench, surrounded by cordiality On the morning of the next day a Russian detachment succeeded in The Russians soon found that each one of our men became suddenly insane, jumped out of the trench, 10972 machine-gun officer, was at the same time ordered to move forward two No order to the Japanese Army was ever given to the Allied commanders with General Surovey, the Commander-in-Chief of the Czech and Russian the commander of the Russian force sent to deal with the situation. day we arrived at Hachinsk, where a Russian guard did the usual military generally speaking, the people of Omsk gave us a real Russian welcome. Then came General Bolderoff, Commander-in-Chief of the new Russian army command I informed both the Russian and Czech authorities that I should 2. I have since been informed by the officer commanding the Russian the train to Chang-Chun, and the officers in charge of the Russian guard General Ganin as the Commander of the Allied and Russian Forces in General Ganin, the French Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces, justice they, through the Czech commander, received orders from General 11008 or word, but behind him a young officer, soldier-like and smart in the back, with one knee raised like a man day-dreaming and looking up at the time, some hitherto unheard-of little man flinging away his life in one What grotesque irony that men like these, who in times when war was good-looking young fellow, able to eat and live apparently, was shot fit young men--officers swinging by with their walking-sticks, soldiers couldn''t people knock each other out in a stand-up fight like men in a like that of 70, is said to be good, however, and, though the young men army is one of universal conscription like the German, and business men There was one particularly good-looking young man, a medical officer, commander--a mild-faced little man, more like a school-teacher than a everywhere, as fine and soldier-like young men as I had seen anywhere in round--live men, going away to war. 11011 road at the foot of the hill there is not a house, and the country is so It is hard to realize that a big war is inevitable, but it looks like my garden to-day, watching it sail overhead, like a bird, looking so There are old men here who thought that their days of hard work were She looked a little surprised: said her mother wished to do the same, to know you better when days are happier"; and she went down the hill. The Uhlans came back to my mind, and it seemed to me a good time to ask When Amelie came to help get tea at the gate, she said that a man from I told him that if he would come down the road a little way with me I her place, and goodness knows how many horses, so she had little time to 11086 and a large piece of the shell had gone clean through, wounding the than at home, for all our patients were heavy men, and every wound Where a wound has been produced by a large fragment of shell, one In every case there was a large infected wound to deal with, and as a work of the Antwerp hospitals, but we made use of what opportunities hard at work in a little cottage about a mile back along the road. German soldiers could be seen a mile down the road moving little children, wounded in the fighting around, lay on straw and wounded were admitted, all of them serious cases, and the hospital hospital was in working order again, and the patients were back in knew where the things went, and I think the British working man Work began at an early hour, for every case in the hospital 11211 that great America, that gave so little thought to armies and to days at sea rested me, with good talk when I craved it, and time to war, even if it came, could come home to us so close--and so soon. came America would take her place beside old Britain and brave France. It was a fitting place to train men for war, Bedford, where John was boys chances to learn the work of digging trenches--aye, and living trenches, that men should feel at home in those days, and not safe in "Happy New Year, when it comes, Harry!" he said. Up to that time I had thought I knew a good deal about the war. "Good artillery work is like that," said Captain Godfrey, when I I asked a Highlander, one day, how long he thought the war would last. his men lying close about him, until the time comes for the great 11232 men standing, leaning or sitting--right on down the trench, where, round The actual going out and getting clear of the trenches takes a long On we went down the long, flat, narrow roads, occasionally looking round right-hand trench and make a machine-gun emplacement at the end. When we left the trenches to "go out" this time I took the rifle along leave the trenches that night and go back to our billets for a rest, line of trenches away to the left of Plugstreet, and that night I was to trench I went along the line and fixed up the various machine-gun teams I went all round the trenches again, looking to see these trenches, a shell had landed right on top of the gun emplacement possible to get up into our trenches in day time without being seen. We went "in" and "out" of those trenches many times. 11414 German gunners beneath, who were pounding away at the Belgians. squad of German soldiers and an officer who said: on of hands by German, French, Belgian, and even Dutch authorities. turned out the typical German soldier, in like manner through other beaten; and for the first time I saw a German soldier without his He informed the German officer at his hotel: "If you send any spy river, were two long lines of German soldiers escorting wagons of the German army came pouring down like an enormous tidal Germans, and as the Kaiser''s troops at the turn of the road came Shot as a German Spy. There''s the wall to stand up against; and we''ll pick a crack firingsquad out of these Belgians. Belgian Soldiers Shoot a German Spy Caught at Termonde Belgian bullets, for while one detachment of the German soldiers German soldier to be captured, for these Belgians, maddened by 11641 "A great misfortune has overtaken us," said a German officer the roads in the car, or walking about the land, did I lack a Staff officer "You see that white line on the hills opposite," said an officer, "That is the German trenches," said he. officer said to me that these men had in them a wild beast and an the German trenches, which are less than half a mile away, and once the German shells came. dirty little industrial town did we see a large crowd of men waiting march of a regiment of the line into another little country town on a Then we were in a German trench which the French had taken and The officers said that often a German trench was the furnishings of all the small houses of a street in the Five Towns came to the end of the little street. 11679 The French Commander of the camp told us that the German love On the battlefields the kindness of the French medical men to the France of a French doctor who was attending a wounded German men in a French regiment; he serves many ends. The men of the French Army have named their red wine "pinard," indomitable soul of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are find the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their Ottawa, so there, in the citadel of Verdun with a small French flag French cook who, seeing an English soldier standing by, began to General, saving men for France. small men and women of France. for the men of France. I have spoken much of the men of France, but the women have Because these women of France have sent their men forth to die, 11682 As they came out into the streets of Paris the men put on the little In the streets of Paris in those first days of the war I saw many men killing each other like this on the fields of France, so that human saw those women with their little ones and old people, whose place was used in many little towns and villages where German soldiers soldiers were to be punished for a little sport like that in time of war! many of our officers and men came into Paris like this, on special When in the first days of the war I saw the soldiers of France on their a wanderer in this war, I came to know the French soldier with the on the night he had his own wound French and German soldiers not So when the war came these young men who had been gazetted six 11947 was like the first days of a real convalescence--life is so good, the To begin with, the very day after I wrote to you, Amélie came down Amelie and I went up to Paris day before yesterday, for the first time hardly be likely to leave her house, no matter how many times she line." The English stood, we are told, like a ribbon to stop the German Into this feeling, ten days ago, came the news of the destruction of On the morning of the 27th one of our old men went to the DemiLune and watched for a military car coming in from Meaux. In the days before the war the men worked in the fields in the working very little harder than in the days before the war. absurd life for a lady in the war zone in these days, I ''d like to know 12013 day came when it was good for British trenches and gun-positions; On, on--the German corps were coming like some machinecontrolled avalanche of armed men. One recalled how German officers had said that the next war would kept back out of range of the German shells, making the town a dead positions of new trenches rising behind the old destroyed by German unwounded men, British, French, Belgian, to stem the German tide. of the people," as a German officer said, "when we go to war the "If men are to fight well," said a German officer, "it is necessary that which led up to the war, English and German business men kept on out in this fighting across the fields and through the forests, in a tugof-war of give-and-take, of men exhausted after nights and days "There''s the first line of German trenches before the attack," said my British soldiers would come to fighting like assassins!" said the 12068 of Camp Jackson.--Energy of General Lyon.--Union Men organized.--An of Camp Jackson.--Energy of General Lyon.--Union Men organized.--An General Lyon.--Capture of the State Capital.--Moving on the Enemy''s General Lyon.--Capture of the State Capital.--Moving on the Enemy''s the Rebel Government, who promised twenty-five thousand men, and arms One day the _White Cloud_, on her way from Kansas City to St. Louis, refused to halt until three shots had been fired, the last one entire Rebel army was in camp on the old Wilson Creek battle-ground, Giving her no time to remove any thing, the Rebel soldiers, claiming It was at this same fort, two years later, that the Rebel General Tennessee, told our officers that a Rebel general and his staff had At that time the Rebel army, under General Bragg, was making its New Plans of the Rebels.--Their Design to Capture Corinth,--Advancing New Plans of the Rebels.--Their Design to Capture Corinth,--Advancing 12185 A big estate like that needs looking after," said Heaven knows what time we shall reach home!" the men had received their orders in the morning, and had said good-bye all along the road met men and boys on their way to the station. I let the horses walk almost all the way home and my thoughts were busy, moments'' time I had decided to turn the place into a hospital. that direction, I saw old father Poupard leading his horse and cart into I hurried Madame Guix off to her apartment, told the boys to wake Julie Madame Guix, a woman but little over thirty, came from Choisy-le-Roi when a long line of motors passed by on the road to Paris. Water was set to boil and in half an hour''s time we carried out "George!" I called, as my boy came around the corner of the house. 12302 Another day''s rain, and trenches and dug-outs come sliding Over the way, Brother Boche is having a bad time of it: his trenches line approaches to within fifteen yards of the Boche trenches. inquired the Machine-Gun Officer, when the Staff Captain returned from Meanwhile, in the British trenches a few yards away, the box-office youthful Company Commander, Temporary Captain Bobby Little, to Major "Are the Battalion in the trenches at present, sir?" inquired Angus. night, Bobby Little, making his second round of the trenches about an "In fact," said Colonel Kemp, "this war will end when the Boche has lost so many men as to be unable to man his present trench-line, and Kemp, Major Wagstaffe, Master Cockerell, Bobby Little, and Mr. Waddell, who, by the way, is now Captain Waddell, having succeeded to "We shall do better this time," said Major Wagstaffe to Bobby Little, are Colonel Kemp, Wagstaffe, Bobby Little, and Angus M''Lachlan. 12330 continued their walk, and three little French boys wearing English war-maps is a great swathe of country running, with a thousand little looking at the muddy village-town full of men in uniforms of blue, old the still, shell-spattered houses, a great wood rose, about a mile and a square, French-roofed houses in New England villages built by local plateau, the smoke of trench shells rose in little curling puffs of To-day at one point along the line, the French and Germans may share the thousand mines (high-explosive trench shells) into the German lines, and under No Man''s Land, and ended beneath the German trenches. were firing at the French trenches and the roads, and the machine guns shells as a soldier in the trenches, and once went to a deserted French soldier of to-day, coming from the trenches looking like a can''t imagine several regiments of French poilus doing in little German 12418 small aspect of German character to British and American people, year and a half of war these bard-working Germans were proud of Germany entered the war with the Government in control of all the Just before the war it looked as though the German young man and justify the German invasion of Belgium, makes Germany''s case on German War Press Bureau is "All the news that''s safe to print." well as the German people that the American Government would stand and a few men in England he is the most hated man among the German One feels in Germany that the great drama of the war is the drama outside Germany there is an idea that every German is working at war really means to the German peoples." She had lost two sons, England before the war, because those Germans who think they have Any German spies who may be working in England to-day have no great 12454 "It''s a pretty park," said the French artillery officer. Suppose we come and look at things a little," said the trench-sweepers," said the observer among the whispering leaves. the work of waves than of men; and our high platform''s gentle Always the same work!" the officer said. looked you saw Goya''s pictures of men-at-arms. Moreover, the French officers seem as mother-keen on their men As an officer said: "Half our orders now need not "Oh, yes," said an officer, "shells have to fall somewhere, old men went on with their work with the cattle and the crops; Then we had another look at the animal in its trench--a little Our guns," said an artillery officer, and smiled "The Boche is above all things observant and imitative," said little appeals to a "public opinion" that, like the Boche, has that the women are working side by side with the men; the 12877 "What went wrong, Sergeant?" inquires Second Lieutenant Bobby Little. take our place in trench or firing line alongside the Old Regiment, no moment--keen Royal eyes rested upon Private M''Slattery, standing like "Bring in Private Dunshie, Sergeant-Major," says the Company "Private McNulty, sirr!" announces the Sergeant-Major to the Company "Good boy, that," remarks the Captain to Bobby Little, as the contrite taking their time from the right, will spit upon the officer''s head in inspect a third platoon Captain Wagstaffe passes Bobby Little and his Captain Blaikie, remembering that generals have little time for study trenches, let every man work with his weather-eye open and his rifle Presently, however, he turns away, and coming close to Captain long time Bobby Little thought that Peter, like one or two of Wagstaffe and Bobby Little make their way along the trench until they The day''s work in trenches begins about nine o''clock the night 12880 When a young man whom I had not seen until that day came to see me at the time, though we wondered, as the day went on, why we got no Soon I saw, looking down into the trench, some of the boys I knew, looking out, saw the guard coming with a pail of water, and cried As soon as the morning came, I went outside and watched a dull red, Before long, the Canadian Red Cross parcels began to come, and I got One day, a fellow called Bromley who came from Toronto, and who was The day came when we were going to volunteer--Sunday at roll-call. each night about ten-thirty when the day-shift men came in. One night, when some of our fellows came in from work, cold, wet, and came on guard again, and I knew he did not want any of the other 13202 Well, as I said before, they went to fighting, but old Abe''s side got I fell in love with the old gentleman and felt like going Away back yonder, in good old Tennessee, our homes and loved ones are The soldiers had passed through the Yankee camps and saw all the good "Just look at that brave man, charging right in the jaws of death." when I hear an old soldier telling of being on some general''s staff, Almost every soldier in the army--generals, colonels, captains, as well Yankee sharpshooters advanced, we left the poor old horse nipping the "Forward, boys, and give ''em h--l." General Polk also says a good word, a snow ball battle, in which generals, colonels, captains and privates time, the Yankees seemed to know that they had killed or wounded a The private soldiers of the Army of Tennessee looked upon Hood as 13235 "We worked till long after dark, slept like logs in the dismantled day, when we landed the horses--of which, by the way, we had only lost a sudden order came to raise camp, and march to Stellenbosch. day we ride bareback to water horses at the re-mount depot, passing guns and horses, harnessed up, and marched over a mile and a half of camp was only a spot upon the hill-side, the guns and horse-lines in of camp life, with great hopes of soon being thought worthy to join a _(4.30)._--We have had a hard day''s marching a long distance out on time; but I would much prefer to march on and see the last of De Wet. After campaigning, the routine of a standing camp seems dull and day, and then marched on till five, when we camped. lived with and for two horses day and night for eight months!) Perhaps 13279 public want to know how the soldiers live when not in the trenches, in the case of all men in the trenches, I heard things and stories Did that muddy old trench look good when we tumbled in? sent out of the lines that night and in billets got hot food, heavy machine-gun fire, and in another, a day or two later, our men I think that on the hike we all got to know our officers better Our battalion went over from the second trench, and we got the tanks stopped over the trenches and blazed away right and left with good deal going into shell holes, and it was all a man could do to "By the time we got to the Boche trenches, we knew he hadn''t thought that the trench was still manned by Germans, and they were We got the same thing, and several times I 13665 river from the main town, and the boat bridges were cut during the night, It takes a long time to level a town in the way it has been done After we had been occupying the town for a few days, orders came through times, and got back to town to find that my shooting had started all sorts having covered ninety-two miles in our windings--a good day''s work. miles away in the direction of Persia, close by a town called Kizil Robat. restful after a number of days'' hard work with the cars. On the night of March 25 we got word that the long-expected attack would took great pride in the car in which we generally rode. leading cars pursued to within sight of the town and came in for a good close to the town, we were ordered to return to a deserted village for the 13777 the exact day and hour of the entrance into Kimberley of the British Later in the day an express rider made his way through the Boer lines. people in Kimberley who asserted that the gentle Boer knew not how to the enemy was a thought which had long exercised the mind of Colonel Another letter in the afternoon; from the Boer General to Colonel were engrossed in the news when the Boer guns began to play. siege truism, that the Boers could not long stand up to a British day, we felt, would end the Siege of Kimberley, and bring again into enemy (the Colonel, not the Boer) personally supervised the despatch of reminded one of a good time coming when the horse would be locally The whirligig of the enemy (time, not the Boer, not the "Law") had again Long Cecil was a surprise to the Boers; they had heard of the gun, and 13827 British Headquarters in France, where officers of the General Staff the British Armies in France, including, of course, the great Dominion shares in the final result of the three great Armies at work in France was the British Army which brought the war to its victorious end. British Army had grown, after the great defensive battle of the French and American armies--and supported by the British naval battle-field, where General Gouraud, with the American Army on his British Army--the long welding of war had indeed brought them by last of two months'' fighting in which French, British, and Americans had French General Staff, as to the precise condition of the German Armies British attack on the Hindenburg line, and the French and American attacks of the Allies._ On October 9th the German Army, under British Armies, the standing contempt of the German Command for "British 14086 have won their souls; and when the days of peace return these men will In the early days of the war untrained men, poorly equipped with that in God''s good time we may all sit again in the little shack at of those summer days that I shall be thinking all the time. I shall long for the time when you come over to England. Row little thought of the person who to-day masquerades as his elder few good-byes--we made far more fuss in the old days about a week-end To-day I took a trip into No-Man''s Land--when the war is ended I''ll be day in the trenches under shell-fire when their lives aren''t worth a I wish I could know in time when I get my leave for you to come over and Your picture of the black days when no letter comes from me sets me off 14457 shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting at that time meagre army, was not fighting alone the great war. the uniform of a colonel of the Belgian Army, with a great military If I were asked to-day what the Belgian army needs, now that winter is Tall Belgian generals, in high blue-and-gold caps and great cape "Various Belgian officers have told me of seeing crowds of men, women his rank; a busy man, taking a little time out of his crowded day to "Early German shells," said the officer who spoke English, "were like "The handsomest beard in the Belgian Army!" he said, and the men round "French horses," I said, "always look to me so small and light To-day, after many months of war, the British Army in the field is as German soldiers have called across to the French trenches that it was 14466 Cape Colony, at the time of the Great Trek, in long lines of The day following our drive to Krugersdorp we left for Cape Town and appeared so exceedingly likely, that we decided to return to Cape Town, and the fact that nearly five miles of road between Cape Town and Groot from Mafeking, having been given leave from the town guard to look after aching eyes, which had looked all day for Boers, and above all for news, Cronje and a great number of Boers had left Mafeking and trekked South. induce the Boer General to pass me into Mafeking. of rifle-pits, which gave the Boers no peace day or night, and from out of good feeling, the Boers did not shell at all that day till late town--a handful of English men and women surrounded by enemies, with appeared to be having almost as bad a time as in the old days before the 15131 ruined Boer laager, rose the hill, the position we had carried, grim and guns are at work, you will see the Boer shells bursting close to or over hard at work now bombarding the enemy''s big gun by the river. middle of the day we were sent down to the river on the Boer right, as When we were camped a day''s march south of this, two Boers brought in a times that when you get rather close to the hill the rise comes to look know why the guns didn''t come up, but was told that they didn''t like to The Boer hill was four or five miles distant, north across the plain. venomous guns are left crouching like toads, looking towards the enemy; a little to the right to get away from that long-range gun. almost like the old Modder days, for a time; guns hard at it, and 15160 behind us, where some of our burghers lay firing at the enemy. already seen many such bullets taken from the enemy by our burghers in days after the enemy had tried to force their way through to the right day long the enemy fired at us from the smaller positions facing us, at Our burghers had already taken two of the enemy''s guns. men could not surround the enemy or attack them in the rear; and as enemy on the white kopje, one of our men went by himself to see if there When the enemy, a few days later, drove us from Olifantsnek, General de the first time saw a farm-house burnt down by the enemy. enemy advanced towards us on the day following, General De la Rey had General Beyers, with 400 or 500 men, passed to the rear of the enemy to 15224 In the morning came the news that the enemy had again surprised and thence exiled to civilisation, _viâ_ Delagoa Bay. On the same day we captured three natives bearing British despatches. For a couple of days my office was under a waggon, then my tent arrived, Our guns were rapidly trained on the spot, our men placed in position, We went down to the laager, found the line in order, and wired the news for two days, when the enemy retired, whereupon we again took possession left for Frankfort, following the road taken by the President the night Scheepers had sent a couple of men on ahead a few days before in order had followed the enemy''s movements throughout the day, and that the line and then our men charged with such good effect that the British were town and retreating as soon as the enemy came out to give battle. 15644 sick men early in the day, and it was said that some of them were running order, after six hours of hard work by as many men as could hospital at Nashville, on the other hand, good men and women rear-guard and the main body of General Johnson''s army, and there the Federal army under General Grant, which we left at Fort time an aid from General Breckenridge ordered me to go to his General Hardee, one of the bravest men in the Confederate service, first time many of the soldiers had seen men killed in battle, and General Breckenridge''s division doing but little fighting this day, four men, carrying a wounded officer, then soldiers staggering Three days after the retreating army had reached Corinth, I left for that place, with twenty-three wounded men under my care. We reached the town the next day, my men improved by the river 15802 General Botha''s train leaves the Orange Free State after the crushing Trekking over the terrible Sand Dunes near the Coast, German South-West Generals Botha and Smuts, the Great South Africans, receive a Expeditionary Force to German South-West Africa, a Bodyguard from the the South African veld, and spent the time standing in water. [Illustration: General Botha''s train leaves the Orange Free State after On the 27th of March General Botha left Northern Force Headquarters at three forces: the Northern (General Botha, Commander-in-Chief), working kind of country, General Botha''s army marched night and day, and in General Botha spent the day at Otjimbingwe, left at dawn on the 2nd, and General Botha''s forces had crossed a desert through which it was the (1) The military forces of the Protectorate of German South-West Africa General Commanding-in-Chief of the Union Forces in the Field. The Commander-in-Chief, General Botha, [Illustration: Generals Botha and Smuts, the Great South Africans, 15829 Soon, attended by an officer and a guard of Federal soldiers, our mean to nurse our sick soldiers during the war, as Mr. Maury tells battle, loving and serving all soldiers with heart and hand, was One day there appeared in the Selma paper a letter from Surgeon W.T. McAllister, Army of Tennessee, describing the dreadful condition of hundreds of sick and wounded men, who, after the terrible battle of cover the faces once the light of some far-away home, careless hands sick and wounded were always at hand,--at least, up to the time of lighting up the tortured faces of wounded soldiers, appearing like a soldier came into my office one morning, his face convulsed with son, who was a Confederate soldier, had contained the news that Mr. Grey was wounded and a prisoner. wounded soldier at once to the house of his wife''s mother to be nursed 15896 C.M.G., V.D., L.R.C.S.I., Colonel A.A.M.C. Late O.C. 4th Field Ambulance, late A.D.M.S. New Zealand and Australian Division One day all the ships carrying horses were turned about of the New Zealand and Australian Division under General Sir Alexander have a good hold of the place, and orders came for our bearer division carry the wounded out of the front line for the Ambulance men to care Many a stretcher-bearer has deserved the V.C. One of ours told me they had reached a man severely wounded in the [Illustration: 4th Field Ambulance in Head Quarters Gully.] [Illustration: 4th Field Ambulance Dressing Station on the beach.] [Illustration: Wounded being placed on Hospital Ship.] At one time the shells came over like rain; two of Amongst the men who came in to be dressed was one wounded in the leg. the illustrated papers than any hitherto--shells bursting, men This book is thoroughly representative of the best Australian verse, 16056 [Illustration: ROAD TO THE TRENCHES.] sandbags--of our trench to sketch the picture of which this distillery The house on the left of the shelled tree was the position from which I [Illustration: CAPTURED GERMAN TRENCH.] cover of our own artillery, we made an advance and took the trench here After a time the sing-songs in a trench some little distance away from We were placed in the trench shown in the foreground, and the Germans [Illustration: A TRENCH SNIPER RESTING.] After the trench has been dug out the sandbags are placed along the top sandbags shown it took us four hours one night to place in position. [Illustration: TRENCH PERISCOPE IN USE.] trenches for fourteen days against the enemy''s attacks. continually shelled by the enemy and their maxim guns were trained day British position, which was placed beyond the left corner of the picture lines of the enemy''s trenches in counter-attack; and afterwards I had 16078 follow a long day''s drill in full marching order. "You''ve got a large window in the drawing-room," said the officer; the tea was cold by the time it arrived at the men''s quarters. their work; day and night they are at their toil; when parade comes to an end, and the battalion is dismissed for the day, the officers, who men, raw from the Officers'' Training Corps, when they take up their The young men took us in hand, acting in turn as corporals, platoon The man with the eyeglass took up his position, and issued some order, Other officers took up the job of company commander in turn, and all man who comes on parade with a rusty rifle. spent more days in the guard-room than any other man in the battalion. men in full marching order with arms at the trail. joined the battalion, and presently a thousand men with rifles on 16089 the employment of women on a vast scale to do the work that only men had Mrs. Ward does not fail to do full justice to the working men of Great mischief, whatever it was, was quickly cured, and in one factory that Mrs. Ward names, "men and women soon began to do their best. of women into all these works of men, especially in the munition teaching the rising army of women their work, and making new and firm impetus of war; but men and women, employers and employed, shaken perforce Army, and the skilled man for work which women cannot do, Great Britain war some million and a quarter of men have passed through the great camp, "effort" of Great Britain in this world war, what this country is doing in before; and it has tested the British war-machine--the new Armies and the 16131 night, and got to Sunnyside Farm in good time Christmas Day. The Boers had For a day and a half I lay at that laager whilst our wounded men were Boer losses are generally estimated at something like five times that "Yes, the Boer thought himself as good a man as the Britishers he met out have never put your head inside a Boer laager in war time in your life. the Boer rifles spoke from a line of kopjes that lay behind the first. All that fateful day our wounded men lay close to the Boer lines under a those dead men looked as they lay face upward to the sky, with great hands farmers of British blood will rise like one man to defend the men and women Rifles spoke from the Boer lines, and men reeled a pace from the British 16337 Presently I came into it, and began to wonder what it looked like. A Boer force, reported to be 350 strong, shifted camp to-day to within _Thin-faced man._ But I want to know why the Boers are armed and we waggons, men gathered round the guns like the groups round a patient in As they moved the Boer gun opened again--Lord, but the German balloon just over the place the Boer shell came from. guns; Tom on the 7th made a day''s lovely practice all round our battery. It must be said that the Boers made war like gentlemen of leisure; they "Left-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," said a bluejacket, with his eyes glued "Right-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," came the even voice of the bluejacket. "Left-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," said the bluejacket to the captain. if he were not commanding big men round a big gun in a big war, might 16355 heasy--yer''ve only got ter use a bit o'' common sense an'' do hexac''ly as right ''and inside yer left, but yer mustn''t look round or talk until I Suddenly he asked: "Don''t yer want it, mate?" I said "No," Up went our right hands and our heads turned smartly to the left, while We began to pity him, but one of our number, a man with long arms, a low The Sergeant-Major shouted "Come here!" in peremptory tones, but the man ''alf an hour fur yer dinner--we''ve got ter git the job done ter-day." think I''m goin'' ter stand over yer all day? yer worked bloody fine an'' says ''e won''t ''ave yer workin'' ter day saw a number of shell-holes grouped round cross-roads, and gradually, as day-shift came to an end and the night-shift began. "War''s no good," said a small man with a protruding forehead and keen 16463 followed me either in thought or deed during the Anglo-Boer War. My ancestors were Germans; my grandfather was born in the South. The Cape Colonist Boers began to come in, and my forces 1900, the Boer commandos, under General De Wet, retreated to the On Monday, 23rd July, the enemy made a general attack on all the Boer far the saddest, phase of the South African War. Another dark day, and the curtain drops. or Orange River Colony, and all prisoners of war at present outside Among the English we found five Boer prisoners-of-war, who were likewise of the Boer families in meeting relatives and burghers was indeed great. Boer commandoes and British columns with provisions, especially when some of the charges brought against Boer officers and burghers when Before the war the very men who fought against the British would When the Boers, on the declaration of war, crossed the colonial 16521 time had units working with the British, French, and Belgian Armies in About this time I went on night duty and liked it very much. you were doing in your free time that day and you said you were "going "They work like men, these English young girls, is it not so?" said half the drivers would be in, and for days at a time you hardly saw your in camp till five every day, in case of the sudden arrival of ambulance against the beam every time we went round, and people came from far and Luckily my turns came round twice during night guards, and the last time One day at No. 35 hut hospital I saw three of the men An old Frenchman came to the hospital every day with the English papers, As I sat in my little ward that night I thought of the happy times we 16588 of the life of the men may help to pass away a pleasant hour and serve times of peace to prepare the way for a great national effort, A man on duty in the front-line trenches displayed more curiosity than great army of brave men who have upheld the traditions of the Empire raid on the enemy lines, or effecting an advance, no thought of the that the number of men available for church services on Sunday is no general belief is that if a man''s ''time'' has come, nothing can working in the lines a few days later a shell penetrated the parapet During this period of ''marking time'' the men were engaged both day and The enemy generally commences shelling these places at the close of day, and the men have described these operations as ''The Hun''s evening men of a certain battalion were on the road at the time. 16626 and draft-horses, and the men eating bully-beef like wolves. They think it''s a little bit like ----shire. I went into an old church in a large town ten miles from here to-day shell the place by day, oddly enough, but hardly ever by night. dream-place, like that old château-farm. So, with our guns still behaving like things delirious, we eventually So after an early breakfast Hunt comes round, with Swallow for me and dusty men and dusty horses and dusty lorries and dusty guns coming and I hear the General doesn''t like Swallow, so there''s a good chance of his line, but the whole thing is so chaotic that often the Huns come into work a long way behind the line immediately, which is good. It''s useless for me to say I''d like Swallow or Tank or Jezebel, because, from the way in which this corps likes the job done, I feel certain I 16685 It was the second day at camp that we started in to work good and hard. review us to-day, and for once in your lives, men, I want to see you act Later in the day I noticed a lot of boys talking to a young Belgian girl. The best soldier in the fighting to-day is the type of man who can adapt though our old men and our boys were called to the field, though women had To-day the Canadians in France are known by the enemy as the "white The man who goes to France to-day will come back layman sweats day and night for the well-being of the soldier men. We lay, my own battalion, easily a mile and a half from the German trench The world to-day knows what the Canadian boys have done. have not had sufficient men in the front line trench to be of great effect. 16690 From an enlargement of photo taken on the _Wolf_ by a German officer.] _Wolf_ to the boat deck of the _Hitachi_ and returned to find our cabins The _Hitachi_ was now a German ship, the Prize Captain was in command, ship''s stores from the _Hitachi_ to the _Wolf_ began, and went on the _Hitachi_ to the _Wolf_, and the work went on day and night with _Hitachi_ near Mauritius, sending all her prisoners and German officers prisoners aft had seen several ships sunk by the _Wolf_. which could be seen by a passing ship, to which the _Wolf_ looked, as German officers and crews on both ships were very busy. The German officers had a great feast and a jolly time on the _Wolf_. ship were sunk by the Germans and the prisoners put into the lifeboats. Norwegian waters the German prize crew will be taken off the ship after 16868 miles across rough country roads, endeavouring to time myself so as to my left; there was no road to the one on my right.[6] I came across a I rode a little farther, and came upon his signal officer. I went on, and at some cross-roads in a black forest came across a The order came round that the motor-cyclists were to spend the night at That night a 2nd Corps despatch rider called in half an hour before his We moved again at dusk, and getting clear of the two brigades with H.Q. rode rapidly twenty miles across country, passing over the road by which day the Germans ceased shrapnelling the fields round the farm and left Starting from brigade headquarters the despatch rider in half a mile was shell-holes just off the road each time you passed, or, as you came into 16945 French Commander of the camp told us that the German love of holding On the battlefields the kindness of the French medical men to the German Verdun." General Pétain appeared slightly surprised, and turning to me, The men of the French army have named their kilometres from Verdun, we came on a line of men waiting their turn to of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are daily treated and a German cannon there were certainly ten answers from the French guns. same time by the French and the Germans. the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their hundred shells a day still fall on Verdun, but at the time of the great so there, in the citadel of Verdun with a small French flag before me, I She is indeed a General, saving men for France. Because these women of France have sent their men forth to die, eyes 16992 The War Office built Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow, to look exactly like a men of the new army, were at least in some way in touch with what was short time order began to emerge, but in those early days one enormous mind of any one who worked intimately among the men of the new armies in As I was going round the tents one day I had a long talk with a man in a thousand yards behind the firing trench, near the battalion cases,'' men who had been wounded in the early part of the attack and, other station was filled the two had taken in three thousand men. Every day every man had to have his wounds wounds, pressure of pressing men, and love of life and the horrid The night before he died Stewart said to a friend, ''I hate war: that is 17003 Peking--shows clearly how the lust for loot gains all men, and hand in point was that men had been allowed to come through--that the Chinese great Ch''ien Men Gate--the Legations run as follows: Dutch, American, little too far away; but for the time being a triple line of this little affair, we pushed on, and came upon other men working able bodied men, armed with rifles, are hiding away in corners so that will allow of an inrush of Chinese troops and Boxers makes men fight their men along the Tartar Wall, and command the Legations that crouch That work on the British Legation lines confined me for some time to four thousand feet away--the men said it was like an earthquake. coming a Chinese barricade gave way; our men emptied their magazines the loss of a Chinese general and a great number of his men at the 17206 It had known some lively times in the old gold days, but when its Nearing the close of a long, sunny Australian day--the air soft, warm, a meal was a hard day''s work, for all the time you had to fight away Well, one day a man in an Australian officer''s uniform hallowed by Australian blood remains in the hands of the enemy the man It sounds incredible, but we got a wounded man, still alive, eight days shell-hole just a few yards away I asked the man who he was and to tell These baths turned us out like new men, as the Australian shell-hole in No Man''s Land, and constant observation of the enemy Crawling in No Man''s Land and behind the German lines is not as Man''s Land bright as day with star-shells and flares there are plenty The man who got wounded in those days 17316 prevailing thought is revealed; the living man, passing away, feels, at ''like a soldier''; love of the beautiful little living creatures of the MY VERY DEAR MOTHER,--These are my first days of life at war, full of I can say that, as far as the mind goes, I have lived through great days The great thing is to know the value of the present moment and to make wrote you a long letter, telling you among other things how dear your Dear mother, let us put our hope in the strength of soul which will make DEAR MOTHER,--I go on with this letter in the billet, where the great DEAR BELOVED MOTHER,--Your letter of the 29th has this moment come to Dear mother, if there is one thing absolute in human feeling, it is DEAREST MOTHER,--Your good, life-giving letters have come at last, after Indeed, dear mother, I know that your life and mine have had but 17584 suppose I shall be starting some time next week, but unless I hear I shall just have time to write you a line about our journey so far, I liked for my draft, I should choose to spend a day in trenches, mean?" or "The sentry shot an Arab one night soon after we got here I Two days ago we got the best news that we have had for a very long two days and marched twelve miles in the intervening night and having miles: we marched up the right bank, so our left flank was exposed to It took us nearly two hours to drag ourselves three miles and the men to hear they''ve reached Basra.) We got orders to march to D. for five days till they could ship them down the river. officers and men that fell within 200 yards of the Turkish trenches 17587 that time we left the hotel, looking more like a set of rag-and-bone men hospitals in Brussels where 150 beds had been set apart for the wounded, Germans had begun to come in by that time, and we had to wait two hours from morning till night and got the hospital into splendid order. the wards at 7 o''clock, and said that all the German wounded were going station for a long time, guarded by a squad of German soldiers, and at believed, of English nurses putting out the eyes of the German wounded. edict to close the hospitals had been issued, I saw about 200 German Red About this time the Germans were particularly busy in Brussels. My fate was a large Red Cross hospital close to the station, By the time I got so far we had arrived at the hospital, the old German patients in fire-station hospital at, 20 17813 I shall not be going up the line for a few days, but by the time "Leigh got up before 4 this morning, as his train up the line left soon some days ago; Leigh went up the line; ---took the latter''s place: so B. Best-Dunkley went on leave the same day, leaving Major Brighten in reached the Prison at Ypres just in time to hear and feel the best intrigues always appeal to me as exciting.) Then Captain Mordecai--O.C. C Company--said that he did not think it worth it ''Since the war is "Then General Stockwell went off, and Colonel Best-Dunkley carried out Battalion, said to Best-Dunkley: ''All right; slope arms, order arms, "Every time June 18 comes round I cannot help thinking of the great throughout the officers of the Battalion; it will be a long time before while in Ypres this time had been 26 officers and 470 men. 17918 It tells the story of one young man in the Great War, but, in fact, it Ypres and Hill 60, and all the trench warfare that followed, Sydney is why, in a short time, the prejudice of the office gave way to open So it was that Sydney Baxter''s evenings and week-ends were often spent things unspoken--Sydney Baxter enjoyed his camp life, but Christmas Sydney Baxter''s chief saw him once or twice during these camp days. At night time the Germans use star-shells to each time carrying back a wounded man. little chance of leave for a long time. "We are at rest after some days of trenches, and of course Sydney Baxter writes to one of his friends in the office: turn of trenches in a few days, and so we are making the Thus far Sydney Baxter tells his own story of the great day of his 17978 We came out on a field sprinkled with little groups of men in charge of "And what said the German officer, Shiva Lal?" and said, ''Bad memory, sir, my old wound in India, d''you mind writing face, said, "Guilty, sir." The members of the court looked at each "Yes, a curious case," said one officer to the other as he sat in a there?" said the Major, pointing to a place behind the German trenches. "Yes," said the _sous-officier_, "I have seen them like that. There was an eminent Staff Officer going home on leave--a very great man "T----, old chap," I said, "Peter''ll be a great man some day." "Their ''coal-boxes'' don''t come off half the time," said the R.F.A. man "They was singing like an Eisteddfod," said a man in the South Wales "The number looks like one--nought--seven--something," said the but he said the men did not like their coffee without plenty of hot 18078 Yes, I know that the boys sing the rag-time, but this must not be the another guy had a baby boy, and then I just thought they''d like to sing of the experiences one has in France in these vivid war days," I said killed by one shell early that morning--boys that the night before we I have seen boys come out of battles made new men. into the line sixteen-year-old lads, and come out of the trenches men. That night I said, just before I left: "Boys, it''s Sunday evening, and thousand American boys line the railings of a certain great transport. secretary, the boy said: "Great! had seen in France in the way he had won the hearts of the boys. seventeen-year-old boy said to me one night as I stood in a Y. seen in France has been on the part of boys whose folks back home have 18103 One night after the evening meal, the men of the Company gave a little Subaltern''s men were billeted in a large barn opening on to an orchard. passed up the line that the artillery were firing on their own men, and As on the day before, in getting clear away from the enemy, the Company charming little papers headed: "_General Idea, White Army moving on_, shells would begin to feel their way to the thin brown line of trenches, Subaltern knew that he, and most of the men as well, were feeling about of surprise, as if he thought the Subaltern had known all the time, and A man told the Subaltern that some unfortunate company, marching in Throughout the whole of that long day the Subaltern had been looking the rest of that day in sleep were the "look-out" men, one posted in the 18113 respective armies--Position of the Russian forces--Napoleon''s plans in VII.--Napoleon''s departure from Wilna--Retreat of the Russian army from VI.--Disposition of the Russian army on the field of Borodino--Napoleon''s voltigeurs of the 33d--Surprising order in the Russian retreat--Napoleon''s favourable, owing to the destruction of the Russian army; Napoleon''s Polish troops and a French general were left with the Austrian army. Frederic the Second), Napoleon followed the course of the Russian army; opposed to the corps of 12,000 men commanded by the Russian general But 157,000 men were sufficient to destroy the Russian army by a army marched in three columns abreast; the Emperor, Murat, Davoust, and Napoleon announced a battle to his army; he allowed it two days to rest, but at the same time he gave orders that his guard should march next day Russian army, the five thousand men which still remained to him. 18177 horse-box I slipped out and went towards the station office to look for I thought I saw the very man I was looking for in the little Wattrelot feels like!" I turned to look at him, and found his face a the ground, battalions advancing in good order along the roads, and I looked at the men of my troop, on the ground in front of their behind me I heard the heavy sound of men and horses falling on the yards, kept a good look-out on the ridge for the enemy''s movements. Suddenly, behind me, coming out of the wood, I saw a cavalry troop in faces and red eyes showed that they had had little sleep that night. of village folk--men, women, and children--coming along, looking the house, go and look for our troops in the dark, and put our men to 18292 the gun as long as a shell remained and a man lived. time, and the loading was done by the men passing the shells from hand Chains of men formed from the ammunition wagons into the gun pit, shells necessary accompaniment that the men passing the shells into the gun the night," meaning to load the gun with a fuse shell timed for a day lines!" was ordered and I was cleaning the sight of my gun and Fritz had got a better line on the guns and it was getting so hot that gun on the right; another man was standing ready to put a shell in the Those who remained of our gun crew went that night to the wagon lines, Imperial batteries left their guns at the horse lines and took over the shell from our gun in front of which the Sergeant was working killed him 18364 write this sort of thing to-day as I know my letter will be all right. short motor drive to-day and they found two wounded men. found the wounded all yelling like mad things, thinking they were going _15 October._--To-day we went down to the docks to get a passage for Dr. Munro, who is going home for money. sleeping wounded men again and went home. deal, clear away the tea-things, and when we come home at night we find help, and I had a great business getting down a long train, so Mrs. Logette has promised to come every evening. Every day at the station there is a little stream of men When I come home I think I''ll lie in bed all day, and poor old Mary I got back here in one of those rushes of work that come in war time 18390 line and the German are a breastwork built up instead of a trench dug what two days ago was No Man''s Land into the old German defences. that trench as to prevent German supports from reaching their front line hill, is the German second line still (at time of writing) in possession in on a line south of the road--eight heavy shells at a time, minute before-mentioned--the second-line German trench behind Pozières and the into the British line is now a big Australian salient into the German men in the craters even beyond the front German trench. There were Germans, not Australians, in the trenches on the Tasmanians'' battalion, after a heavy bombardment of its trench, found a German line Germans, in trenches or shell-holes, somewhere on the face of that If a man is wounded in some of those German trenches it takes eight men 18497 official army reports about shelling a new German redoubt or a violent angle of the German trench line into the British which seemed to invite shell-threshed parapets of the first-line German trenches which appeared later-day battalions every kind of modern shell and machine guns, showers Scattered with British wounded taking cover in new and old shell-craters Up to the first-line German trenches, of course, there were only British Germans had brought a machine gun into action the results of its work the parapet of a German trench and saw ahead the British firing-line and Yet any army, be it British, French, or German, which expected to carry men with machine guns in shell-craters, their positions sometimes phlegm; and the water men told of new gun positions, of where the shells British in the first-line German trench had a choice lot of dugouts in rest from shells, for the German guns had their turn. 18765 shower of shot, and two burning houses made the river clear as day. thousand men within thirty miles of Chattanooga,--in two hours'' time he Friday every train had been on time, the day dry, the road in perfect advance-guard, commanded by Colonel R.C. Morgan, found a body of militia day, "misled by two citizen guides"--possibly Morgan''s own men. o''clock Morgan''s men were seen coming up the road. came that Shackelford''s men were near, and Morgan left so 364 officers and men and 400 horses, till General Shackelford came up, traveling all night spent the day of the 30th at the house of a friend displayed head-lines, announcing the escape of General Morgan, Captain in general it was worked by five of Rose''s men, after being counted at tongue can tell how long were the days and nights the poor fellow passed night Rose shoved an old shoe out of the hole, and the day afterward he 18794 Commander-in-Chief of these Free State burghers, as well as of those who gave General Cronje the chief command over the Free State burghers at The following morning a large force again left the English camp and took chapter occurred, I handed over the command to Generals Piet de Wet and force, I sent men out to visit the farms of those burghers who had gone Transvaal burghers, having arrived in the Free State a few days The two Governments had agreed that Commandant General Louis Botha General Philip Botha, with the burghers from Vrede under Commandant officers met the Government, namely, the Commandant-General, General Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty''s forces in South Africa; General Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty''s forces in South Africa; General Commander-in-Chief, Orange Free State. Commandant-General Botha should propose a term that very day before the Commandant-General Botha: "I think that the burghers have the right to 18910 one wing of which is the Sick Officers'' Hospital of No.-G.H. The No.-people are moving up the line to-night. _Tuesday, September 15th._--The train managed to reach Le Mans at 1 A.M. this morning, and kindly shunted into a siding in the station till 6.30 hospitals to-night with the cases sent up from the trains. We are to rest to-day, to be ready for another train to-night if We shall have to wait at St Nazaire all day, and come back by night wounded officers and four men who were left there the other day when the They were men wounded last night, very muddy and trenchy; said the train one is a boy) on the train who got wounded on Monday night (both till about 10 P.M. to-night, so they will have a long day in the train. 18963 telling stories made the time pass quickly, and when we came to look One night one of the boys came home loaded and he attempted to cross crawled near our trench and heard the boys talking, and he came in; it and he said, "Good-night, boys." Mac whispered, "I believe he''s a laughed at what the boy told me of little Mac, but all the time I felt time, and before we reached the hole two of our boys went down; we day, but when we came in that night I said to "Snipe," the new pal I two Germans on the line got scared when they heard us coming and day about noon our officer came and said, "Well, boys, we''ve got to go failure, and he came back to us and said, "Well, boys, we got down officer of the 28th came down and said, "Sorry, boys, but we''ve got to 19074 Photographic Sections of the Italian, French, British, and Belgian mobilized a new army of half a million men, completely equipped it, car which operates within range of the Austrian guns; a young Roman authorities issued orders, long before this war began, that Italian men serving the guns had little if any idea what they were firing at, the Italian and Austrian guns was going on over the shattered roofs of men showed the Italian gunners how far the infantry had advanced and into the first-line trenches, the group of officers and men assembled shells making it almost impossible for the men to serve the guns. German shells that the French built a narrow-gauge line, which myself behind the German gun, looked into a ground-glass finder like German lines that the British observing officers were frequently shelled by a German naval gun, at a range of twenty-three and one-half 19131 minutes, and killed the Red Cross roomful, bayoneting the wounded men. "Each year more Germans came to Belgian summer resorts; Blankenberghe, between Germans and Belgians at Melle, a couple of miles east of Ghent. Belgian soldiers had resisted the German army. bayonet wounds upon them--men, women and a child--who had been marched dying from the bayonet wounds in her back which the German soldiers had necessary for the German Army to burn and bayonet babies and old women. "It is evident that the German army trod the Belgian soil and carried line--the smiling boy with his wounded arm, alert after his year of war, Four of us in Red Cross work spent weary hours each day in a filthy room Women suddenly saw their time had come to strip man gave the same care to German wounded as to Belgian, French and English platform, a Belgian Red Cross train pulled in--nine hundred wounded men, 19263 a general notion of how the warlike operations round Paris appeared to a situation," said, as he dealt a hand, a knowing old man of the world, a I attempted this morning to obtain a pass from General Trochu. and National Guards, ready at a moment''s notice both by day and night to outside the forts, in which great numbers of Prussians have been killed. few days officers, even generals, were shot at by regiments outside the military strategy between the grocers of Paris and the Prussian generals civil and military Government of the whole country remaining in Paris is, to keep the Prussians out of Paris." He said a good deal more which know whether the Paris journals get to you through the Prussian lines; as took place to-day, the troops will quietly return into Paris. Paris to-day in the midst of a general 19317 commanding the Royal Naval Division, came on board with one or two Staff network of trenches the Turks have dug commanding all possible landing The War Office notion that the guns of the Fleet can sweep the enemy off Birdwood''s New Zealand Division with a Brigade of Gurkhas who would work the French troops in four days'' time; Hunter-Weston''s 29th Division on land the covering force of that Division at Sedd-el-Bahr, Cape Helles our plans come off the Turk won''t have time to turn; much less to bring After shipping ammunition for her big guns the _Q.E._ sailed at 7 a.m. for Gaba Tepe where we found Birdwood''s base, the beach, being very That night Bailloud, Commander of the new French Division, came to make Spent a good long time talking to wounded men--Australians, New When he told me Joffre and French thought 17 rounds per gun per day good 19339 officers and men of our Army, it gives a very lively picture of a by the war, and the claims and needs of the men of our Army returning I had received my orders at the War Office, to join the Seventh Division cards tucked away in the lining of the caps of dead and wounded men. and fifty men, and twelve officers, suddenly appearing in a small During the night several wounded men came in, and the large salon I found Ypres crammed with wounded men, and worked hard there for the other officers, and a large number of men, we were conveyed to the the natural open-air life which the men lead, but in the next place to for the active men of the Brigade, whilst the other works with the Field the enemy in order to attend wounded officers or men.'' I have met many friends at the Base, both among officers and men. 19521 about 24 miles from the firing line and sometimes hear the big guns Good-night, little Mother, sleep tight and go to bed early and don''t line, only 50 yards from the German trench--I thought it was topping. am a bit tired, but I shall get a good night''s sleep, I hope. Rather bad form to fire at night time, I think; I hope no one sends work every day making emplacements, as those already in the trench do the trenches (D.V.) for 16 days, and shall have a nice rest. was just like a field day in Salisbury Plain, men marching in fours in lunch, and then went on, got a bit too far forward, returned and dug the Battery, who were going in for the night--the men in one big battery to work four guns, and got to the trenches to find everything 19655 England learned how great would be the need for men. wires, and the men of the signaling corps at their posts in the trenches, As we walked through the firing-line trenches, I could quite understand little serious fighting for months and the trenches were at their best. placed, usually, in the first line of reserve trenches. over the enemy''s line, and falls straight into his trench. continuous watch, searching the long, curving line of German trenches and trenches kept many off-duty men employed during the hours of darkness. The men on duty in front of the trenches were always in very great trench rocket was sent up from the German lines. We crossed what had been the first line of British trenches, which marked Men ran along the parapet hurling bombs down into the trench. among men in the trenches. them said that two more lines of German trenches had been taken; others 19693 extraordinary supply, formally accepted a state of war with Germany, the great nations, peace with law protecting the liberties of the people, war-tempest, the servants of the United States Government in Europe were the world as non-German" (the Crown Prince, Germany in Arms); a nation securities in the world--short-term notes of the American Government. touched our incessant grind of peace work in war times at The Hague. to win the war for peace under conditions for Germany which may not be world!--that Germany always wanted peace, and worked for it! come," she said, "but the great thing to-day is to carry on the war to a Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war." the Allies and the United States and the other nations at war with Governments of the nations now at war, requesting them to state, more this German war against peace. 19705 travelling through strange lands does certainly look at nature, animate Strong head-winds and a heavy sea baffled us till we had cleared the a terrible battle in the far West, where, after three days'' hard American-bred "fast horses." The ground was too hard frozen to allow of the habit of crossing a country; but an American horse is scarcely ever no one to look at the live animal, till he has thoroughly learnt to like verses of "King Death." It is good to look back on hours like these, The Southern "trooper" fares, I believe, far better in many ways than with a long, steady stride; like most Maryland-bred horses, he had fitted for long travel through a country where a horse must needs lose Walter''s fresh mount came down--a powerful, active mare, in good working Perhaps my face did not look like jesting; anyhow, he took every word 19710 that I''ll look for in the trenches," he said, "when I have my rifle with the aid of beer, we made merry as men can on St. Patrick''s Day. We sang Irish songs, told stories, mostly Cockney, and laughed without "The fire trench to-night," said Stoner that evening, a nervous light No trench is straight at any place; the straight line is done away "I never like the bloomin'' trenches," said Bill. "He must have been dead a long time," said the sanitary man, as he (p. I came in line with the rear trench on my way back. We got into the trench at the time when the attack took place; our "It''s all right, old man," said the soldier in front. "The shell came in there," I said pointing at the window, the side (p. "This is not the place to dig trenches," said the sergeant when we 19876 depression in men''s minds during those early days of the war when the Salisbury Plain is a great rolling field without town or village and The war in France was but faintly felt in England in those early days. that remained of the great little soldier, whose motor car not three passed on to St. Paul''s, the last resting place of the great soldiers After two days of killing time, our orders came through to leave for The British officer in France is quite a different man from French girl when a couple of British officers passed. At the end of a peaceful day we reached our little French home town, The British army regulations are such that each officer and man must The British army of nearly five million men in France and England For days and weeks officers and men kept calling to get the news from 20005 and two Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church House for the African Baptist Church--Heavy Indebtedness--Account New Testament I read, after I felt the pardoning love of God in my soul. years, working, part of the time, with a carpenter, who was building a always try to get to meeting in time to hear the preacher read a chapter she can save you." But this suggestion appeared to be offensive to God. Then came another thought,--"As my master was a rich man, could he not Son. My soul was filled with love to God and Jesus Christ. my white Baptist friends in Baltimore, through my pastor, Rev. Sam''l continued in this place for nearly a year, teaching the little children, Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church Matters. thousand dollars on the subscription book of the Church towards erecting the largest and best week-day school for colored children in the city--a Baptist churches generally, and especially from Rev. Messrs. 20111 FLOCKING TO READ THE COMING COMMUNIQUÉ IN A LITTLE FRENCH CITY have ever had time to think that a little village known as "Ecoute s''il "On one side old people, women and children formed a long straggling bourgeois who lived in a little city called La Ferté-Milon, quite a bit just what reason I went alone, save for a twelve-year-old village lad, time their constant comings and goings from certain specific points One arrived at Soissons in war time by long avenues, shaded on either will stand the test of time and washing," replied the good mother have astonished the world at large, is an old-time personal friend. superior, a handsome little nineteen year old officer, who came running old man''s eyes, and when he carried his long treasured gold to the to Father Vidalenc''s, but by the time the old man had found his His little boy has just come over to tell 20215 "Have you got your car ready?" "Yes, sir," said I. we went on to Hesdin, where he reported us to the Town Major, who said This was the time of the great fight round the chemical works at One day I was painting the C.-in-C., and at lunch-time the news came A huge man with a little head and a great personality, proud come along at the same time, this great man used to bend down and pick About this time I went to Paris and met several Generals and Mr. Andrew Weir (now Lord Inverforth), and it was arranged that Aikman was About this time I went to H.Q. Tanks, and painted the General and One morning when I was painting the General, he told me that my old "Hello, little man!" said he, "you look cold; and they don''t Staff) came in, a quiet, gentle, good-looking little man. 20400 1. _To Intelligence, New Cavalry Brigade, Richmond Road, from "Order given, sir!" and the Intelligence officer touched his cap. "Good business!" said the brigadier, turning to his chief of staff. when the officer commanding the advance-guard, looking down the great British cavalry subalterns in general, and the officer in command of The Intelligence officer and the Tiger had not left the column a mile Intelligence Officer._) This man has evidently, sir, carried The Intelligence officer and the Tiger had arrived at a little cottage It is one thing for the mounted men of a column to come into camp, _B._ "Therefore the officer commanding the New Cavalry Brigade, having Come, sir, put your hand right here--it is a good day''s work to have "Well, young feller!" said the brigadier when the Intelligence officer The Intelligence officer led the man out to hand him over to the 20460 3. For the first time to-day, I saw men bringing tobacco to market in As we were leaving camp this morning, an officer of an Ohio regiment The officers of General Schleich''s staff were with me on to-day''s march, mountain, and reached the road, a mile and a half south of camp, and mountains last night; were inside the enemy''s picket lines; heard By his timely arrival General Mitchell cut a division of rebel troops in command of Colonel Keifer, I accompanied General Mitchell on the return, leading men of Alabama; of generals, colonels, majors, captains, and that will make glad the hearts of all loyal people on New-Year''s Day. I saw Lieutenant-Colonel Given, Eighteenth Ohio. General Rosecrans and staff, killing two horses and wounding two men. Colonel Lytle, my old brigade commander, called on me to-day. General Negley, who went home some time ago, returned to-day, and, I 20636 [Footnote 51: He went out with seven hundred men, 2. To day Jineral Limon came in of a scout & the men that went Day the chief of our men upon duty and the rest went to This morning very early our men went to set Browns house on same day they fired from Roxbury hill fort and it was said that they Nothing remarkable to day only I went to the main guard and the post nothing remarkable this day at night I went upon the piquet down Nothing remarkable this day at Night our men went down below Being Sunday our men went on fatigue and the enemy fired upon Nothing remarkable hapened this day at night I went upon the This day nothing remarkable hapned only I went to work along their march to the said town of Concord, who had killed six men 20655 Canadians with Machine Gun Taking Up New Positions 65 Lewis Gun in Action in Front-Line Trench 166 time, to cheer the soldier on his way; working, apparently, night and leaving the front-line trenches in the morning, having a good dinner The Machine Gun Section went in the next morning, two days ahead of [Illustration: Canadians with Machine Gun Taking Up New Positions.] occupying it one day when the Germans shelled the place. gun behind our lines dropped smoke shells in a continuous row along machine-gun and rifle fire, a good deal of which came our way, but no our lines, I decided to try the experiment of placing the gun in a (Each yard of enemy line is covered by the guns of some From the time we first caught sight of our guns shelling the German [Illustration: Lewis Gun in Action in Front-Line Trench.] 20928 eight feet long, we reached water at 7 A.M. At 9 A.M. we espied the cavalcade of General Magruder passing us by a attention to all the good-looking officers who accompany the General Maxey''s brigade left this place by road last night to join General to General Johnston and other Confederate officers; he pronounced them By great good fortune this was the evening of General Slaughter''s ride I met Major-General Cheetham, a stout, rather rough-looking man, church, I called again on General Bragg, who talked to me a long time now in the Confederate army, and is on the staff of General Beauregard''s Secretary-at-War for Generals Lee and Longstreet, I left Richmond at 6 _28th June_ (Sunday).--No officer or soldier under the rank of a general their horses are generally good, and they ride well. train of horses and mules, &c., arrived to-day, sent in by General 21806 About this time a new face appeared on the scene, a real live regular The Line Section''s work was a little better, they went out daily, About this time, having been in the army for more than three years I intervals of time our course would change and on the third day out our period small groups of us were given a few days leave at home but all Days came and went, I don''t recall how many but the time came when the work by 7am and knocking off at 2:30pm by which time the day''s However during the course of the day the time spent in the sun time regular, who discovered one day that things were missing from the in an army camp but were left to our own devices day and night. returned to Jerusalem for a few days, looked around again, this time 21976 18th--The Sixth and Second corps sent to the left--Rebels penetrate the retreat--Rebels advance into Maryland--Battle of Monocacy--Sixth corps General Lee, who had succeeded to the command of the rebel army when Our corps remained in line of battle in the wheat field till early next fire, the First division of the corps formed in line of battle, and The rebel army had fallen back; yet a skirmish line had been left to troops, than the whole army was ordered into line for review by corps. The corps occupied a line nearly a mile in rear of the old camp, the army, General Wright, of the First division, commanded the corps, The Sixth corps now occupied the extreme right of the line, General division Sixth corps, on the left; the line extending about five miles. corps, and at the same time a rebel line of battle advanced against that 21977 Captain in the Late Confederate States Navy. "Narrative, etc.," that the "Confederate States began the war with one United States fleet, offering to surrender his command under certain States Government, towards the close of the war, subjected the That is, the Confederate States held as prisoners nearly 61,000 more men government steamers who belonged to the Confederate States Navy, and the The Secretary of War having carried his point, the Major directed his officer of the Confederate Navy, then held as a prisoner on board one of The Confederate States Steamer "Florida."--Short Supply of The Confederate States Steamer "Florida."--Short Supply of of St. George''s, when the Confederate States steamer "Florida" arrived engagement with a United States ship of war was to be avoided, if under Captain Ward of the Confederate States Navy. to the fleet of United States vessels, which had crossed the bar after 22021 Discussing the landing of the New Divisions in Suvla Bay and the the Headquarters of General Shaw, commanding the 13th (new) Division. and at the same time carry out landings at Suvla and Anzac. into Anzac of troops, including a Division of the New Army. Southern area of Anzac are the enemy likely to spare men to reinforce time to work round on to the high ridges east of Suvla Bay and although Anzacs, plus the 13th Division of the New Army, had carried through a General Commanding wishes 54th Division Infantry towards Krithia and Gaba Tepe and away from Anzac''s left and Suvla Bay. At 10 p.m. General Birdwood''s main attack was to develop on his left new line from right of old Anzac position to sea coast North-east of Imagine had we been sent Indian Divisions for Suvla and if the New Army, 22067 heard General Jackson, as he rode to their front, direct the men to form scarce a leg or wheel for man and horse, gun or caisson, to stand on, it repeated, "Fire on that gun!" Captain Poague said, "General, I know Virginia Infantry, Jackson''s division, and was camped near our battery. About this time the battery was ordered forward, and, seeing my gun cavalry, having passed to the rear of the Federal army, captured, at firing-line we soon began meeting and passing the stream of wounded men route for a time was through the enemy''s dead and wounded of the battle Federal batteries had gotten a perfect range, and by the time our guns with a wounded man of his battery, I reached on the following day. At dawn of the following day a fresh detachment of men and horses having time General McCausland (the first captain of our battery) with his 22074 complete the Brigade numbered 127 officers, 3958 men, 258 horses, and Fergusson (commanding 5th Division) paraded the Brigade by battalions order of march of the battalions and Brigade Headquarters, how much Having distributed the battalions as ordered--I had no Brigade Reserve The 13th Brigade came in a bit later and formed up on our right, but skirting the little woods and coppices till we got to the main road put the Brigade in bivouac round a farm and little village called The Brigade Staff, however, occupied a little house and grounds in the Brigade Headquarters billeted round a horrible little house, got forward into a wood, but lost a number of men in getting there; orders to retire, and for the 12th Brigade on our left to relieve us. R.F.A. Brigade and could not be got away in time. My Brigade arrived in the dark by the time that I had received further 22324 main roads alive with long lines of moving batteries and lorries and "D Battery''s line gone, sir," rang up the sergeant-signaller. He told the brigade-major of the Infantry we were covering the news of The colonel dictated orders for the batteries to me, and then said-to answer it, the infantry brigade-major''s high-pitched voice said in waggon in readiness to lay lines to the new battery positions. The colonel came back after showing Major Bullivant his new battery sergeant of a Horse Artillery battery had dressed the colonel''s mare, colonel and the brigade-major as we got back to the battery. well-liked man, had come over from D Battery to command the Brigade. Battery positions being selected, the colonel, Major Mallaby-Kelby, and "I''ve sent out S.O.S. lines to the batteries," said the colonel, who "There''s no other officer at D Battery, sir," I said to the colonel, 22523 Of American Red Cross--Doughboys Dislike British Hospital--Starting thirty men could be accommodated in the old Russian Red Cross Hospital, However, the officer in charge of the American Red Cross force in American wounded men be fed more like the way in which the officers on succor the handful of American sailors and Scots who, under Col. Hazelden, a British officer, had been cornered by the Red Guards. "The city of Archangel, Russia, where Allied and American troops have main road his Red Guards held the Americans all day. O. Dvina forces--right at the time the American soldiers were Russian female nurses, five American medical men and two British. Russia in the days when Russians were not fighting Americans but Shenkursk, forty wounded American, British, and Russian soldiers lay on American "Y" men had done so much in Russia for the Russian soldiers officers, American, French, British, and Russian, in their reports to 22584 the South; the general tone of her people, under strain and privation this time, quite popular with people of all sections, being generally Like all the heavy cotton men of the South, Mr. Staple believed firmly very first young men of the state left office and counting-room and from the old army, were made generals and subordinate officers under General Garnett--an old army officer of reputation and promise--was Along the other army lines, the news from Magruder''s inspired the men died--no man to-day dare refuse to the southern people the need of Away from the army lines and great centers of cities, the suffering was people of Richmond, as well as the victorious little army, grew hopeful North--for his Government had accepted large numbers of hundred-day men And yet the people never murmured at their general, nor at the army Johnston, Confederate States Army, the officers and men of this 22655 After Nelka''s father died in Europe, her mother returned to America Early in life she was seeking and trying to think things out. imprint on Nelka, if not for life, then certainly for many years. At the end of the same year Nelka went for four months to Sofia, very pro-Japanese and Nelka suffered in her feelings while living in Finally after a stay of over two years in Russia, Nelka started back Her little dog Tibi became of primary importance in Nelka''s life. Nelka took the death of her mother in a most tragic and painful way, Nelka was a great believer in ''circumstances'' in life. think the death of Tibi did to the lives of both Nelka and me. At one time, during 1916 Nelka came for a few days to our country By this time also, Nelka and I were living in another house, in a 23031 took us some time to reach the long, low hut which he called his home. poor worn heart longed to see once more the old familiar faces of the be cured in my way by mine; while I was fortunately able to nurse Mr. Day through a sharp attack of illness. resign my hopes for a time, and so started for Navy Bay. But all the way to England, from Navy Bay, I was turning my old wish He soon found his way to Spring Hill, and before long case one day when I passed through the camp and saw my friend Seacole, British Hotel, Spring Hill, Crimea." young officer coming down one day just in time to carry off my last By this time the day''s news had come from the front, and perhaps among Mind you, a day was a long time to give to sorrow in the 23340 women, followed by a very deaf old man, who appeared to think that the Here the old man pricked up his ears, and said that he hadn''t heard of "Halt!" said the old man in his great voice, "where are you men going?" "I think one of the andirons has fallen down, darter!" said the old man, There was a mill on the New Bridge road, ten miles from White House, "Good evening, Major," I said, to the ranking Confederate officer, and "Take away your ambulance, old fellow," I said, "I shan''t go home till I "Good by!" said Mr. Michie; "if I have a house at that time, you shall When the man said "Ah!" I thought that my horse would run away, and cavalry-men, in line of battle, stood together like walls of stone, Some said that he died "game;" and all went away, leaving the old man 23533 when I read that all English people had left "Altheim." The papers Nothing about England is in the German papers, and, of course, we see leave Germany until the war is over; again that we shall be sent away longing to hear how the war gets on from the English point of view. taken place in Belgium, where women have despatched wounded Germans on eight days'' time; most likely we shall have to travel either by way of papers in Germany since they are pro-English (in German, "lying"). Most of my English friends here went to the German church to-day. the German Frau is not a capable shopkeeper like the French woman. to talk English to her this morning, "You will have to learn German German men, who cursed England up and down, using the most horrible German lady) thought them beautiful. I asked an English lady, the widow of a German 23565 General''s doubtful look, as interpreted by the men, gave little or no "The General commanding Division desires to see Lieutenant Colonel ----, "Colonel," said the General, pulling vigorously at the same time at the "It would have looked better, sir," said the General, somewhat sharply. "''Captain,'' said he to me one day when I had gone to his head-quarters officers and men looking on, and said: ''Captain, you''re a regular trump. rebels got next day, as our Division General. gentlemen officers,'' said the old Rebel, pretending, as he "''Why, gentlemen officers?'' said the old man, rising, half bowing, and "Why," said a frank fellow of the crowd, "you see when the old General "He has no judgment," said a Field-Officer of a Regiment of his command; could command the army but McClellan," the General had said in his "''It comes out of the pockets of my men, General,'' said the Colonel, 23747 and Staff--A Federal Fleet and Army ascend Red River--Battle of well as generals; but officers command the armies of their governments. no officer of the general staff of the old United States army had seen so At nightfall of the second day in this camp, an order came from General that General Banks, the Federal commander, was at Winchester, twenty The following day my command was moved ten miles north on the pike the Federal General Shields, who, in command of a considerable force to Persuaded that the Federal commander at New Orleans, General Benjamin position to fall on the enemy''s rear and capture any small force left on The enemy''s troops were under the command of General yet General Banks officially reports that his army left Pleasant Hill at place has so demoralized General Banks''s army that the troops have no men of General A.J. Smith''s command from Sherman''s army. 2401 24195 24341 24538 24548 24570 24653 24862 24889 24972 24981 25004 25049 25135 25470 25528 25603 25683 25723 25764 26040 published the Log-Book of Timothy Boardman, one of the pioneer settlers whom Timothy Boardman, the author of the Log-Book, was descended; had the president of the college, near the old Boardman house, which was generation of Boardmans, of course occupied more "new lands." Daniel, the fifth son of Samuel, owned land in Litchfield and New Milford, then all children of Samuel''s five sons, are preserved; went out to occupy was but sixteen years old at the time of his father''s death. Log-Book, though descended from the Puritan pastor Daniel Boardman, are Timothy Boardman 1st, died in mid-life, at the age of fifty-three, and Timothy, the Maine land proprietor, only four years old when Lincoln they sailed from New London; Timothy Boardman then twenty-four years of son Daniel''s, about the time when Timothy first went to Vermont. the house, occupied by his grandson, Samuel Boardman, Esq., of West 26138 We had life drills two or three times a day all the way across. the construction work in French ports that the Americans had Soon after we left the boat at Brest, the men were lined up on the French people have ideas that differ widely from those of Americans in troops in record time; we saw camps where American soldiers were being drilled; and we saw great quantities of American implements of war save their homes from the ruthless Hun. At 4 o''clock in the afternoon of the fourth day after we had left The French remained with us about ten days, during which time we these men became as efficient in machine gun work as Fritz himself. resourceful American boys lost no time, however, in getting their on that day, when two flags, one French and the other American, during my convalescing days at the hospital out of French two-franc 2616 which, in the spring of 1846, was begun the Mexican War. Some time during that summer came to Fort Moultrie orders for At that time Lieutenant-General Scott commanded the army in chief, General Smith sent for me to meet him on his boat, and ordered me when I ordered under arms all my division, and sent word to General the "Army of the Mississippi," commanded by Major-General John On the 27th I received orders from General Halleck "to send a force to that time I had received my orders direct from General Halleck About the same time, I received the general orders assigning Corps, of about eight thousand men, to be commanded by General G. we reached on the 16th; when General Grant in person ordered me to With this force General Smith was ordered GENERAL: By an order this day issued, you are to command a strong, 2617 Men. Army of the Cumberland, Major-General THOMAS. directed against the rebel army commanded by General Joseph E. Major-General McPHERSON, commanding army of the Tennessee, Major-General McPHERSON, commanding army of the Tennessee, command of Major-General George Stoneman, a cavalry-officer of high Major-General, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps. These dispatches were communicated to the army in general orders, This was the first time that General Grant ordered the "march to to convey the army to Virginia, and as General Grant''s orders SHERMAN, Major-General United States Army. SHERMAN, Major-General United States Army. of the army commanded by General Johnston, and directions to me to Corps of the United States Forces under Command of Major-General W. command the army quite as well through these generals as through SCHOFIELD, Secretary of War. By command of the General of the Army. War and the general of the army. Secretary of War and the commanding general of the army, so that we 2651 --became prominent generals in later years, and commanded divisions, of the river, and the general commanding made up his mind to cross the same time the Third Division, Right Wing, Fourteenth Army Corps, division, which he wished to post on my right in the general line he general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at began a general movement of our troops for crossing the river. Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, to which Major-General and placed General Thomas in command of the Army of the Cumberland. eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals enemy''s cavalry and Gregg''s division, and two brigades of Torbert''s to my division commanders the line of march I should take--moving in that the enemy''s cavalry was returning to Lee''s army I started that division of the enemy''s cavalry under General W. "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Commanding Cavalry Corps. 26518 Reynolds who was deputed by Surgeon General Edwards of Gen. Hull''s army the Detroit River and while sailing past Fort Malden (Amherstburg) the 3rd.--The day past with Mallone holey (wholly) the men sick and despond, About five o''clock the Savages began to return into town (night) it was to have forty men half sick all stowed together and some To day the Indians past by armed as usual, they returned from the nois the American army drove the Indians and British[25]. Another boat arrived about eleven o''clock--20 men in it, and o''clock and had pleasant sail through the day and night. Two sick men sent on board our ship which made came on bord our vessel and I sent (away) three well men in their room The three men that came on bord were verry sick. of the prisoners of war including Gen. Hull and other officers, to Fort 2652 rear of the enemy''s general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from to the command of the Third Cavalry division (General Wilson having attack the enemy as soon as the Sixth Corps reached me, but General commander, General Getty, having taken charge of the Sixth Corps in I ordered General Wright to resume command of the Sixth Corps, and Sheridan is appointed a major-general in the United States Army." time General Grant wished me to send him the Sixth Corps, and it was request from General Grant, I left by boat for City Point, Merritt any action of mine so far as the commanding general Fifth Army Corps By General Grant''s directions the Sixth Corps had been following my arrived I directed General Wright to put it on the right of the road, time I received (on August 3) the following despatch from General Grant places therein as the commanding general shall appoint and direct, of 26548 Charley and Mac had come thus far on their way out to have a look at Mac and Charley piled up the great logs that night and sat before the The next day Mac came across George at work on a break in a fence. west; and Mac watched, from the boat deck, the long line of careering the midday sun, and Mac was thankful when the day came for him to hoist Time passed pleasantly in Assuan, though at length Mac thought they had The next day passed in much the same manner; but, alas, the night--Mac On the night of their seventh day ashore, Smoky and Mac communed, and There were some fine men in the hospital and next to Mac lay Mick. Mac''s line lost men who went men angered Mac so at times that he wished they might be lined up in a The two following days Mac was almost 26561 Remember all the time, as you read these recollections of an old man, Christmas and New Year''s Day soon came, and went, and one evening I told regiment,--said they were nearly all young men, big stalwart lumbermen little old post-office and general store was crowded with people the little old log cabin they saw my father out near the barn; the one always liked her, and by the time I was about fifteen years old was head looking old log house standing in a grove of big native trees. men to get to guard the colors of the regiment in time of battle, and mortifying things that can happen to a soldier in time of war is for handing him my little old silver time-piece, I resumed my place in the this move, we left Little Rock for the last time, and from that day I 26747 regiment of twelve companies of colored men for heavy artillery duty. duty at Camp Smith, on the Dexter Training Ground, in this city. the commander of some English vessel was slowly making his way up what A mysterious order came one day, to detail we received orders to move up the river to Plaquemine, a point some Orders came within a day or two from Baton Rouge, announcing a change correspondence passed between General Banks and the rebel commander, not on special duty or detached service, was as field officer of the furnish a mounted orderly, the officer of the day would at night, have occasional raids in our vicinity, with orders, at times, to sleep on rebel forces in Western Louisiana, under command of General Kirby Smith, were comparatively inactive, though raiding parties gave us journey we had the company of several rebel officers, some of high 26879 raking them with machine guns by day and bombing them by night? and at night; enemy troops in transport can be bombed: railway stations, hundreds of bombing machines which the English aeroplane factories were Another time when a Hun bomb dropped in the officers'' trench and failed the Hun machine would be subject to attack by our own aviators, Jock and men; he did all he could to win the World War. I first met Mac a few months after he flew a Handley-Page machine from direct their night aviators to their aerodromes when returning from a A guest of the Bedouin mess on the night of an important raid would have apparent to the Bedouins one night when a Hun flew over our aerodrome Bedouin machines was returning from that night''s raid with engine machines already in the air and the lights fired up from the ground, all 26884 After which the man was sent over to the ward, while the surgeon In the ward, the man was a bad patient. So the night nurse continued her rounds, up and down the ward, Opposite Marius, across the ward, lay a little _joyeux_. him, one of the six young men attached as male nurses to the ward. the little square windows of the ward, and see Fouquet marching up and the war, and still he had a snap, although now the beds and the wards he was obliged to wait upon a little screaming man, five feet two, first line trenches, and the field hospital, and the wounded men, and When the day nurse came on duty next morning, there was Rochard in rather see a man die in prime of life, in war time, than see him many long weeks while the boy lay in hospital, during which time many 26930 At the termination of our six days'' rest we went back to the trenches front line trench, and although at the present time I would think Division then went out for a rest and left Fritz master of the trench. a shot, walk over No Man''s Land, jump into Fritz''s trench and bomb the take a party of men and make a raid into Fritz''s trench. trench when we got orders that the Battalion on our right was going to took them up to my front line gun and came back to visit my left flank The first day we got as far as The Reserve trenches. machine guns from Fritz''s trench no man could live through. About 5 o''clock that afternoon I saw about twenty men leave "A" Co. trench and make a dash across No Man''s Land. great day was to arrive and by that time the Battalion was in a good 27193 working parties, all took their lives in their hands every time they Medical Corps; but ask the men who have passed through the hands of the night hung about me I grew alarmed, and one day I asked the O.C. hospital why he was constantly lifting up my right eyelid. up the line I met many brave men who, where duty called, counted life Up to this time my idea of a blind man was just what is or was that of the average sighted person--a man groping his way about the streets or To prevent this, the V.A.D.''s who worked in the St. Dunstan''s Ward saw to it that the men were not left too much to The time of actual work for each man was about three and a half hours In the first days of my sojourn at St. Dunstan''s, I, for a time, felt humble way, I am able to continue the good work done at St. Dunstan''s; 27229 pleasant." On arriving at a small house I was received by a German German coat I had received on the way had been again in its turn learning some new German words likely to be of use, such as "wire At a quarter to six a German flying officer entered our room and German flying officer on leaving had told the commandant that I was should have to walk to the camp, but the German officer was, luckily, that in three days'' time we were to proceed to an "All British" camp British officers arrived, bound for this camp, they received time five Italian officers were warned to leave the next day. Outside the camp, on our way to the station we looked back and saw the small group of German officers, in the centre of the camp. prison camp containing over four hundred German officers, it would not 27259 a few days when Company A was ordered out on a practice march of one cactus is a good day''s march for soldiers, with all their equipage. Several hours every day were unoccupied by the soldier''s duties. All other holidays meant hard work all day for soldiers; usually they Soldiers are very generous and good-natured men; if not that way remarked to her companion that the soldiers looked like men. At another time a man with two small boys were looking over our camp and While stationed in Camp Merritt I spent a great deal of time in the San I have seen several times almost the whole body of soldiers on board I believe these marches in the night or day, in the hot climate of that great many times to guard some town from the enemy''s torch. While the officer of the day was passing by one soldier had the 27293 known: it gave great encouragement to the American troops, and Col. Williams has left a little description of the joy with which the complete rout and terrible slaughter of the Republicans, under Col. Buford, at Wacsaw, the enemy being led on by Tarlton, for a time utterly Col. Williams with his regiment appears at the seat of war, in the scarce more dangerous, than the sufferings of the army without an enemy This intelligence threw consternation into the American army, and Gen. Gates called a council of war. The troops of Gen. Gates'' army had frequently felt the consequence of eating bad of the Southern army, but Williams always continued his firm friend, and "A few days ago Gen. Morgan, with the Light Infantry of our army and a the battle of Cowpens, and gave Williams an opportunity of displaying the General ordered the army to return to its former position at the 27306 This day we proceeded 8 miles but with great difficulty. This day we arrived to the second carrying place, called This day we carried over Norridgewock falls, one mile and a This day we pushed up the river about eight miles. rowed 16 miles up the river through still deep water; the land on each This day we rowed 20 miles and passed a short carrying This day we passed four carrying places and advanced but Setting out very early this day we passed on with great We had now come to the great carrying place, 4 miles and 50 Our march this day we supposed was about 20 miles. an inhabited country, we marched very briskly all day and even until This day we proceeded on down the river about 20 miles, After marching down the river about 10 miles, we began We this day marched down the river about 3 miles and halted 27765 The battalion sergeant-major came round a few days ago with "Now, Every night we do guard on two of the near kopjes, and every other day I On that day, forming No. 3 Troop of the Fife Light Horse, we marched out the laager came the leading groups of the Fife Light Horse and soon the Of course, I was "footslogging," but this day, having no horse to drag horseless men having left by rail the previous day in trucks drawn by good day''s rest, as we heard that Clements was waiting for Ridley to Come away, men!" We then moved the poor fellow little way up which we found one of our Sussex men, with his horse Rough come into camp after a good day''s scouting on the farmhouse side In a few days all the men marked for home will be leaving, and to those 28060 My first near view of the Boche trenches came one day when, waiting the star shells, the long lines of varicolored signals as they went up night loomed a German plane, flying low, the Boche engine neared the front line the Germans began shelling the woods toward said three hundred Germans came over but the men at the post said guns, and army trucks had poured into Baccarat on their way to relieve night to the men as they were going to and from the line of battle. In the Forest proper our boys encountered machine-gun nests, artillery The wounded men whom we met coming out of the line who were not As our boys came out I stood all night with another "Y" man on a As the boys went into battle they left behind them great salvage piles These our boys, now men, have come back to become the great leaders of 28116 Black Watch, and that brave regiment lost 655 officers and men, nearly Night and day the officers and men were hard at it. A few days later the officers and men of the First Canadian Contingent A big British naval gun had opened fire on the German lines, and The Colonel pointed out a line of shelter trenches his men held on the The second time we went into the trenches the men were warned to be of our trenches and led half way across to the German lines on "dead" three lines of German trenches had been carried as stated. trench east of Ypres from the French so that the British line would fellow''s line in order to get better quarters in the German trenches. headquarters line of trenches as soon as the British troops took over The Germans would shell the French troops out of their trenches and 28145 south got across the first-line trench and into the enemy position the open valley of the No Man''s Land hissed, as Mr. Liveing says, like the third line of enemy trenches and began to secure the ground which came pounding along, bearing their freight of shells, trench-mortar that a shell had landed practically in the trench, killing two men in support trench via New Woman Street, and at any rate my Company fifteen yards farther up the trench I found a series of shell-holes support line, telling him that the trench by the sunken road was shell-holes and the remains of the trench along a distance of about gazing right into a line of chalky German trenches, and consequently trench, I arrived on top, looked down my line of men, swung my rifle remains of our front line trench and fell into them. coming up from the third line trench, and had been hit by a 28152 One of the monitors, a large boy, observing this movement, informed Mr. Carter that Willard Glazier was going to "cut for home," in other words, "Captain Willard Glazier, the soldier-author and lecturer, now on a was the true source of the Great River, Captain Glazier was ready to of the river from its new found source, Lake Glazier. Captain Glazier returns to New Orleans.--A general ovation.-Captain Glazier returns to New Orleans.--A general ovation.-The Works of Captain Willard Glazier, the soldier-author, are so well _true source_ and head of the Mississippi, and Captain Glazier as LAKE GLAZIER as the true source of the Mississippi River. "''Down the Great River,'' by Captain Willard Glazier, gives an "''Down the Great River,'' by Captain Willard Glazier, is an account "''Down the Great River'' is Captain Willard Glazier''s interesting ''the Mississippi rises in Lake Itasca,'' until Captain Glazier, in 28241 any one who has lived long among the men at our bases will feel as I I have in my time "sat at rich men''s feasts." That staff officers'' Men mud-coloured from head to foot paraded in lines, marched, or afternoon, a crowd of French girls waiting for the men who came out. meet the coming men and to play them into camp. From a neighbouring camp comes the sound of men singing as they tramp In the early days the "leader" of the hut was generally a young man Every day men came into camp and were for the moment "details." They day parties of men left the camp for the different base depots. For the men of the old army the officer was a leader because he was I do not know how the men of the old army regarded their generals and 28319 men who had already served in tanks, with the new arrivals spread "The female tank carries machine guns only," Rigden explained. signals, for when the tank moves the noise is such as to drown a man''s A few days before Christmas, our tank course was finished, and the Old remembered that this was the day when, for the first time, the tank feelings of the men in a tank,--excepting the officer and driver, who The Old Bird went around for days at a time, humming A moment or two later, Talbot started running toward two men, one of the day of the battle, two tanks far ahead of the infantry and that McKnutt glanced back at the men in the rear of the tank. A TANK BRINGING IN A CAPTURED GERMAN GUN UNDER PROTECTION OF A TANK BRINGING IN A CAPTURED GERMAN GUN UNDER PROTECTION OF 28926 firm -Scott''s military character -Seward -Mr. Lincoln reads the differently -Palmerston the great European fuss-maker -Mr. Seward''s "two pickled rods" for England -Lord Lyons -His pathway knowledge of McNapoleon -Hunter''s proclamation -Too noble for Mr. Lincoln -McClellan again subsides in mud -Jackson defeats Banks, army saved -Lincoln and McClellan -The President and the McClellan complains against Scott, and Lincoln and Seward Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, Gen. Scott, and other great men, are soured McClellan -Lincoln in the clutches of Seward and Blair -Banks Lincoln, McClellan, Seward, Blair, etc., forget the terrible and neutralized by the allied McClellan, Blair, Seward, New York Times McClellan, Lincoln, Seward and Blair. the matter--that is, Lincoln, McClellan, Blair, and Seward; however, General McClellan at the time when he was put at the head of the army. McClellan-Lincoln-Seward, and, above all, by their utter 28981 division, whether by night or by day, was an affair of about five Daylight left the two armies looking at each other, near the village Our division followed his movement, and took post, for the night, at When the enemy retired, our division advanced and occupied Rueda, a The French army having, in the mean time, been largely reinforced; Our division got under arms this morning before daylight, passed the river was occupied by the enemy''s advanced posts, and we saw their time, afforded a good view of the field of battle to our left, and I right place was at the head of a regiment in the face of an enemy. The movements of the two or three days following placed the enemy Towards the end of the month, some divisions of the French army having head-quarters, to join the army; when, after a few days'' forced 29045 six months were in the field holding their own line of trenches. trench wound much as the German line does around the foot of Messines officers from each company spent days in the front line with other "At dawn of the 23rd the enemy commenced shelling the house and trench, day passed quietly, though the enemy''s artillery continued to shell our frontal attack on our forward trench and machine-gun house. company commander, passed down the line to warn us to count our men and Between our line and the Western Ontario men, who held the old German rather an easy time of it, there being little shelling and the trenches days, and "No Man''s Land" between the two lines of trenches became the our trench at such a tempting range that machine-guns all along our line But the German had followed our trench line too far down, for at this 29263 After staying in the town for the time stated, a thousand of us were We remained here about a month this time, when General Whitelock came those men who were in action at the time he received his wound, but having taken the colonel''s command, he did so, and saw me placed on man from the time I was put on till I came off myself in the morning. Lord Wellington then ordered the town to be attacked on the night of to my wounds, which kept me in camp at the time the town was taken; that time and place, and we found that night''s meal as good a one as one day a French officer was seen coming up the mountain, having laid I then went on in search of my comrades, who had by this time left the took place than did there, for we were on the move the whole time, 29264 Inspired Men -War Powers -Rosecrans -Butler -Seward -Inspired Men -War Powers -Rosecrans -Butler -Seward -Lincoln-Halleck dare not entrust the army into the hands of a true faults generated by Lincoln, McClellan, Halleck, Burnside, and it and Governors, Lincoln, Scott, Seward, McClellan, Halleck, or the _Jan. 5._--Early in December, 1860, therefore soon after Mr. Lincoln''s election, a shrewd and clear-sighted politician, Gen. Walsh, from New York, visited Springfield, and made his bow to the Secretary of War provides men and means; great Lincoln, the still _March 26._--Had we generals, the rebel army in Virginia ought to General Meade to attack the enemy''s lines at the head of 4500 men, for the commander-in-chief of the Army, Major-General Halleck, has _July 1._--The people will never know to what extent Mr. Lincoln-Halleck are stumbling-blocks in all military affairs. 29313 head-quarters of Major-General Sumner, commanding the Second Army Corps, of men fit for duty in any one of the hundreds of regiments in the army, officers and men of our regiment present for duty, and of the whole the road rough, and the men, in heavy marching order with three days'' next day orders for the army to move were issued, and we saw our men brigade commander, General Kimball, who knows what brave men are, I have matter was generally discussed by both officers and men in camp, and for duty as division field-officer of the day, the following morning. its place the officer of the day went over his line as quietly as thousand men in column--that is to say, about one army corps--at a time. men killed, 2 officers wounded (one of whom died a few days later), and Marching Home." Most of the officers and men of the brigade were there 29333 to show the influence of the Great War on the mind of a public-school allusions made by my son in his war letters to his old school. great ability." From the young man who was captain of the school when A new boy''s early days in a public school are often trying. A great lover of books, he liked on off-days days of my life." Paul in a marginal note writes: "Wonderful of a great man." When Beethoven heard of Napoleon''s death at St. Helena, he said he had already composed his funeral ode 17 years brightest form comes to the really good or great man in the Dulwich man, who captained the old school at cricket back in 1895 (an old Dulwich man, at one time the Oxford Cricket Captain, and When I think of my last year and the great times we had at 29608 history of the civil war as Troop E, Sixth Michigan cavalry Second brigade, Third division, cavalry corps, army of the Potomac. brigade was ordered to report to General Gregg and he (Custer) did men began to emerge from the woods on the left of the confederate line, Custer''s brigade lost one officer (Major Ferry) and 28 men killed; 11 officer in the Fifth Michigan cavalry, who like Colonel Brooke-Rawle passed from right to left, "General Kilpatrick orders that the line time, there were two brigades--an entire division--commanded by General Custer then brought up his entire command and formed a line of battle, of this battle made by a regimental commander in Custer''s brigade regiment--the Sixth Michigan cavalry--was taken entirely by surprise field, but General Custer sent the Fifth Michigan, Colonel Russell A. commanders of the Michigan cavalry brigade regiments for the Gettysburg officers and the intrepidity of the men in the Michigan cavalry brigade 29660 Culpepper.--General Stuart in Close Quarters.--His AdjutantGeneral Captured.--Death of Captain Charles Walters.--Pope generally any thing but pleasant to a cavalry force, for the movement is The day following our arrival at camp the general in command issued his Had it not been for the timely discovery of this Rebel order, General On the day following a sharp skirmish took place with Rebel took place, under General Pleasonton, who commanded our cavalry during _November 28._--A strong force of Rebel cavalry, under General Wade General Bayard, the great cavalry chief of the Army of the Potomac and skill of General Hooker, in his advance upon the enemy''s position. Kilpatrick expected, he encountered the Rebel cavalry, commanded by his Generals Buford and Kilpatrick''s cavalry and Rebel infantry, principally by Superiors.--General Advance of the Army.--Third Cavalry Battle at General Meade''s army lost about two days'' march; and when again we 29927 Our Battalion of the Manchesters was typical of the old Territorial men owed much to the inspiring energy of Captain (now Colonel) W.P.E. Newbigging, C.M.G., D.S.O., of the Manchesters, whose adjutancy relationship between officers and men in the 1st line Territorial unit Noel Lee, the Brigadier, was an old Manchester Territorial officer, who the second month of the Great War. We sailed down the Canal on a scorching Sunday morning to Suez and the training for war, the actual work of the Manchesters in the Sudan hardly All day long the Turks counter-attacked the Manchesters without success. neighbouring unit, landed in error in our lines, killing 3 men and old regiment, a battalion of the Manchesters, and was killed in a mine long line of men waiting, stripped to the waist, for Captain Hummel''s "1st line" unit, composed of officers and men enlisted and trained 30011 two machines: the large biplane for long flights and the small Fokker to fly in the afternoon, I went to the artillery observer''s post with the damage repaired, I saw Lieutenant Immelmann make a pretty attack the enemy''s position, he was able to land behind his own lines. I came just in time to see the enemy flying back over Nieuport attack one of our machines, so I went for him and I almost I suddenly heard machine-gun firing in the air and saw a The machine I had attacked was first reported 160-horsepower machine (Mulzer, pilot,) attack an Englishman in fine read in the afternoon''s wireless reports: "Yesterday an enemy machine of them attacked another German machine. were amusing ourselves attacking every French or English machine we About 3:40 in the afternoon I saw an English machine attack two of our At the second attack the machine started to smoke. 30114 man these vessels with crews from her blockaded ships. shifted from cruiser to torpedo boat, from the ship of the line to the The length of time that a U-boat can remain under water depends, as we high seas, for it takes time for the U-boat to submerge completely, sea, and like a blind man the boat feels its way through the green seen the enemy''s ship heavily listing to one side, where the water is order to take over the command of a fine, new U-boat which had just order to go in a ship''s boat and deliver their papers themselves on signal he sent his first officer in a boat with the ship''s papers. ship''s side, but there were none as yet below the water line, and the BOW, SUNK IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE] BOW, SUNK IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE] 30179 I have seen French, British, Belgian, and German troops in action. have seen French, Swiss, Dutch, German, Austrian, and Hungarian troops great battle was about to begin; that the German armies formed a right German army and Paris were stationed the British and French troops who German guns had been in sight of a French battery across the fields against it from Paris, the Germans placed a strong army under von between the French and German armies, and only a few hundred yards French soldiers who are threatened by heavy German infantry attacks own armies much more than they did the Germans, because the French had wounded and captured Germans have told me that this French shell-fire with troops who had taken part in them, both French wounded and German The French and German armies use Paris when the Germans threatened the city and the French government 30264 which lasted twelve days, the care of soldiers burned in the forts, the asked if these things might indicate War. Everybody scouted the idea and ridiculed the thought of the hard-headed, to poor little Belgium with the great German army moving on Liége? came home to-day laden down with bags of gold like Ali Baba. people come from miles around, crossing the fields by a little path trees, we saw the little chapel gleaming like a beacon in the dark, morning four new officers came to the château; three of them were Madame André, who comes to see her boy every day, remarked my looking at The Germans are constantly forcing the Belgian old men, women and Trains were passing all day loaded with provisions, as well as soldiers bits, like beasts of prey, the least little piece of news that comes Masses of soldiers and cannon passing today and news from Brussels is 30285 for the Front Line Trenches--Filming the German Guns in Start for the Front Line Trenches--Filming the German Guns Staying in this section of trench, I filmed several scenes of the men at At that moment our big guns started shelling the German trenches, and shells came hurtling overhead from the German guns and burst about a way down the trench lining the road, when a shell dropped and exploded While filming the scene, German shells Film from Our First-Line Trench--And Obtain a Fine Picture. Reaching the place I met the General, who said, in a jocular way, when I the German lines was being shelled by our heavy guns; the place was a I again filmed various scenes of the Germans "strafing" our lines. I stayed in the trenches until the following day, filming scene after for me to reach the place in time to film this scene. 30597 Guards, General Price moved, and as he marched north in September his Army General Hunter as soon as he took command wired the War Department that battle, General Siegel commanding the First and Second Divisions, one C. Davis, from General Pope''s Army, commanded the Third Division, and General Curtis, in his order of battle, instructed Captain Sheridan to road, while at the same time General Price with his force moved around us present also one Regiment of Indians, the whole commanded by General In General Price''s command there was a Regiment or more of Indians time when Hardee''s Corps, four Divisions, attacked the Sixteenth Army As Hardee''s attack fell upon the Sixteenth Army Corps, his left Division General Logan was then in command of the Army of the Tennessee. Fifteenth Army Corps, under the eye of General Sherman, attacked the ground in the immediate rear of General Fuller''s command, and sent 30812 [Illustration: General Sarrail, commanding the Allied armies in Greece, transports required to carry those men, of war-ships to convoy them, of the _Chicago_ of the French line entered what was supposed to be the war see in France, should not be French people, but German soldiers. ambulances, carrying the wounded and French and British officers In those days Paris was inside the "fire-lines." War To-day a man from Mars visiting Paris might remain here a week, and not long time, is the difference in the sentiment of the French people man who lost, was a group of German soldiers sweeping the streets of St. Pol. shoes to the army, informs me the Greeks as one man want war. American war correspondents at the French front in Serbia.] "My men like to see me here," said the general. leaving France to visit the French fronts in Serbia and Salonika. 30822 there, we were ordered into a rebel fort to the right of the village In order that the battery should arrive as soon as general gave the order for our line to advance, as the enemy made no Knoxville a commissioned officer to report to General Burnside. 15th General Burnside gave orders to retreat slowly as far as Lenoir''s. Our battery soon had orders to move, and on we went, followed closely by battery of 20-pounder rifled guns, with several white horses, and went The enemy soon formed two strong lines of battle opened rapidly upon the enemy''s lines of infantry, paying no attention line with the fire from the rebel battery, it seemed sometimes as if as soon as we opened upon the flanking rebels, several batteries of the when the rebel artillery opened upon this first line of our batteries, As they passed along the road by our battery in position, our men 31049 Fourth Ohio Cavalry, his advance regiment, was before Nashville on the The Third Division went into camp and the Fourth Ohio Cavalry was in pursuit of a body of rebel cavalry said to be in the neighborhood. regimental wagon-train, on its way out to camp with supplies, burned the body of Mississippi cavalry and John Morgan''s command. blooded horses, broke away and escaped across Stone river. Mountains." About the middle of March, 1862, Gen. Mitchell''s Division of The cavalry company is on hand this time, and bang! Of the Cavalry, Gen. Garrard commanded the Second Division Of the 2d Cavalry Division one Brigade August to Sand Town, where Kilpatrick was with the 3d Division. Meanwhile, the rear of the moving column (Minty''s Brigade) was attacked The 2d Brigade of the 2d Division was ordered forward and, new formation Long''s Brigade had the rear of column and the 3d Ohio the 31075 and fell, with many other brave men, at the battle of Gaines'' Mill, June On reaching the open ground, he saw the battle flags of nine rebel Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, bravely leading his men in that great battle. woods, forward, and the Eleventh followed in line of battle. As night drew on the battle ceased, and the men lay down to sleep where reached the high ground on the other side, they formed line of battle, night march; but as time passed, the men made down their beds, and made, the line of battle came down, reaching the run just in time to The men, as usual with them when placed in line of battle, halted in open ground, and formed line of battle. we finally turned to the left, and formed line of battle, facing the and some had reached the woods beyond, when the line of battle came up 31086 Old grey-haired fathers of French fighting men bared their heads and The rear bank of the pits was lined with French and American officers. targets, a row of French machine guns manned by young Americans, sprayed door closed on this American soldier of German extraction, I asked the fighting men and horses, at the head of his guns, rolling down that road the first American fighting men faced the Germans on the western front. That line changed from French blue to American khaki on the night of in that first battalion that went into the new American line that night. command of all the American forces in France to General Foch. On June 2nd, these Americans, under command of French officers, began attack and the arrival of the American units on the line, the German divisions for five days, the Americans advanced their lines to 31087 I shall despair of success unless the President puts a stop to Gen. Winder''s passport operations, for, if the enemy be kept advised of our DECEMBER 8TH.--A letter from Gen. Lee, received to-day, states that, in He says he is ordered to reinforce Lieut.-Gen. Pemberton (another Northern general) from Bragg''s army. Secretary of War to-day to require Gen. Lee to send an order to the The President received a dispatch to-day from Gen. Johnston, stating To-day a letter was sent to the Secretary of War, from Mr. Benjamin, stating the fact that the President had changed the whole To-day I saw copies of orders given a year ago by Gen. Pemberton to Col. Mariquy and others, to barter cotton with the enemy for certain army and said to-day that Gen. Lee and the Secretary of War were responsible for The Secretary of War received a dispatch to-day from Gen. Lee, stating 31115 the Hotel Adlon, we found to our dismay that Kitty''s box had not come afternoon--as Lyra was not feeling well--Kitty and I each went our own On our way back to the hotel Kitty and I went She ordered the car, and we went to the office A little man in uniform came in brandishing a lay behind that intense look, but the little man seemed quite Lyra and I went off in a taxi to the garage to inquire for the car, American girls came to ask us how we were going to get out of the realized hand-waving and friendly salutations were not going to get the first time in the day, I began to wonder how things were going to take the name of the man she loved before he went off to the frontier! At about one o''clock we went off again in the car, escorted by a now 31124 I went into a soldiers'' ward to-night to inquire about a man who has the look of strain in the eyes of the man in the next bed who could see "You are like me, Sister," he said earnestly; and I saw that he took me thrusts his little smile round the door: "Sister, I got another of them Far up the ward the Sister was working by a bed. She shook hands with me when she went away and said she hoped to come the door of the little bunk, and, looking round it, think what Then I carried his tray down the long ward and past the Sister''s bunk. Sister said of a patient to-day, "He was a funny man." Smiff said to-day, "Give us a drop of lemon, nurse...." And the Sister: Sister said, laughing, to Smiff the other day, "Your leg is mine." "You are a funny little bird, Pinker," said the Sister, passing. 31158 wild-looking Cuban and Spanish types--men with hard, dark faces, lighted Three days later General Shafter was directed, in the following order, castle and the city were in the possession of General Shafter''s army. had happened off that coast since the 1st of May. Admiral Cervera, with a fleet of seven Spanish war-ships, left the Cape few moments later General Young''s command, on the Siboney-Santiago road, bring the army on the Siboney road back to the city, in ample time to detain General Shafter''s advancing army on the Siboney road increased General Shafter went to the front to take personal command of the army General Shafter had made no reconnaissance on the Siboney-Santiago road transportation to the sea-coast in an army wagon, were sent to Siboney there long before General Shafter''s army left Tampa, and their that General Shafter could have landed his army. army''s base of supplies was transferred from Siboney to Santiago harbor, 31192 dropped, but General Lee said: "No, you, my men, go home and serve your long and bloody conflict; I had been at my gun every time it went into the Commander and the fighting men of the Army of Northern Virginia. guns on the hill all the time, and over the camp, at night, to guard the Just before we got to the guns, Bob suddenly halted and said, "Good Now when these men got into the army the "esprit de corps" took Every day we would see long lines of those men passing These accounts of the wounded men from the line of battle put us in good school." Then he stood a while, looking at the men working the gun. men are going to take those guns." We eagerly gathered at the works, the guns into the line of battle, along a slight work Kershaw''s men had 31332 Belgium, or about the War, or about Field Ambulances and Hospital Work, the ambulances can''t start till heaven knows when, and so, first Mrs. Lambert, our emergency nurse, then, I regret to say, our Secretary and are surgeons, ambulance men, hospital orderlies and the Belgian nurses stretcher-bearers, to each car; it will set our trained nurse, Mrs. Torrence, in command of the untrained nurses in one of the wards of the I am round the other corner at the left-hand side table, by Mrs. Torrence, and Janet McNeil is on my right, and on hers are Mrs. Lambert I am contented so long as Ursula Dearmer and Mrs. Lambert and Mrs. Torrence and Janet McNeil and the Commandant do not go yet. the British Red Cross ambulance cars were going into France. The Commandant, who went out to Melle in Tom''s car, has not come back 31353 As the Fall weather came on the men generally took colds that were of purpose of getting new men to make good the losses in the field. A division of our men had a brush with the enemy here a few days before went over the battle field that night and helped care for the wounded. Later in the day word came to me that a wounded man wanted to see me. "Late, on the same day, a battle was fought between the forces of Gen. Heintzelman and the main force of the enemy, which attempted to advance when the order came, "Get up men, STEADY NOW, FORWARD, March!" Every man About 300 men and eight commissioned officers, among them an aid to Gen. Stuart, were here taken prisoners by Col. Barlow * * * * * On the right, own regiment, the Sixty-first New York, took two of the enemy''s battle 31453 A LIST OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF COMPANY F, FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT N. Company F was detached, and got away in good ceased, as we did not reply, and we lay in line of battle and got a good good line of earthworks while heavy skirmish fighting was kept up all day. said: "They don''t need you; you Company F men can go back to your front and said, "This is a good place; we would like for them to come on On Sunday evening, March 26th, General McHenry, a white-headed old man, Old man Tyree, of Company K detail, whose home was not far away, said he A few days later we got a good, new cloth tent and moved out and left Negro house, a six-year-old boy came to the door with a plate full of good care of." The men on the firing line who captured him would have done 31895 to say, thought he said "Cut-a-gut," and he was known in prison as "Old singing old war songs to cheer each other up and pass away the time. long time, would soon be obliged to live on the rations they drew, while commandant sent in his officer of the day, who said we had been permitted cowardly guard to shoot a Yankee prisoner, who inadvertantly came near [Illustration: ESCAPED PRISONERS SEARCHING FOR THE ROAD AT NIGHT.] During the day, Captain Hock in skirmishing around the woods came across cross the bridge at that place, as it was guarded night and day; but we have said, that two or three times a day, from fifteen to twenty prisoners This took all night and most of the next day, and during that time, officer of the day one time, after the inspection of the guard was 31969 minute-men left their homes to defend the soil of Pennsylvania from of companies, and also the holding of daily drills from 4 to 6 P.M. On the 5th, the rebel army under General Lee, comprising a force able-bodied men of the State to organize for its defence, and be ready day issued General Order No. 36, calling into immediate service fifty September 10th, the work of forming militia companies in Reading was not at the time a single full military company in Reading, all the Fifth Ward Guards, Captain F.S. Bickley, 70 men, Company G, 2d Liberty Fire Zouaves, Captain William Geiger, 70 men, Company G, 20th M''Lean Guards, Captain Samuel Harner, 45 men, Company H, 20th had been attached to the Second Regiment of Militia, as Company "G." regiment proceeded out to near Camp Curtin and got aboard a train of Our company was separated from the regiment and marched in the dusk of 31972 Having served over two years in a good, hard-fighting infantry regiment, class of men than the infantry regiments had; some being from the North the enemy''s infantry near where they had fired on the three companies the infantry and artillery defiled past us, going from our left to our right Our cavalry picket line was ordered to hold its place only until their horses to the right and left out of the road like cats, and when the thing I knew I heard the Captain of my Company, who had commanded the line came to camp for the regiment to report at a certain point near the line the regiment was to pass out through the lines, and as soon as the head of according to orders, as soon as the Confederate infantry opened on us the He sent orders for the regiment to land at the wharf at 31991 war was on the morning of the second day''s march, when we came upon some Blackburn''s Ford, three days before the first battle of Bull Run. On the next day we were ordered to establish a picket line between On the day of the first battle of Bull Run, having been on guard duty all night, I was left in camp when my regiment was ordered out. As soon as our regiment got together we were ordered to go into camp on Michigan Second regiment and called out--"What regiment is this?" Col. Poe, a regular army officer, immediately saluted the General and said--"The Michigan Second Infantry, Col. Poe commanding." General Kearny that I went up that road with my right shoulder next to Gen. Kearny''s left its farewell shot; the Confederate rear guard was on its way to Richmond. Ask him now how he values his memory of that day when, with his regiment, 31998 liked my work, had a good boarding place, and in a short time felt quite love of God. The time passed very quickly until the autumn of 1858, when I went to bridge, and marched about three miles beyond, and camped for the night. Some time after this, I received orders to report at Camp Convalescent, We went on picket Sunday night, but were ordered to fall back across the Our regiment went into camp about one mile from the landing. In a few days we recrossed the Ohio river, went aboard of the cars at of the 27th, struck tents, and took up our line of march; passed through rest were scattered but came up during the day and night. May 27th, we took up our line of march, crossed the Pamunkey river, and went into camp; a distance of thirty-five miles. 32031 This "war paper" was first read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and indicates, "A RAW RECRUIT''S WAR EXPERIENCES." More is said about Company B position of regimental hospital steward,) and sixteen men of Company B, in The Eleventh regiment saw but little service in the field. that no State sent into the service during the war, any better regiment, Whatever else concerning the war an Eleventh Rhode Island man may forget, homes, served as a "church call," and from every part of the camp the men typhoid fever, and a good many men in our regiment were in the hospital While the Eleventh regiment was in service only nine months, and was never those who were to become colonels of other Rhode Island regiments an the estimation of the men after his appearance at the head of the regiment July, 1863, just nine months to a day from the time we left Rhode Island. 32051 The fighting man looks upon his share of the war with a light heart. Three days'' rations for 1,178 officers and men, in bulk; and 1,178 How can I keep order in a train half a mile long with men I know It is interesting, by the way, to watch the men leaving the trenches "No time to dig trenches; they''re hanging on to a few shell-holes, Half an hour later and the men were laying out their packs in long Each time we jumped into a shell-hole, we turned to watch the By this time, one by one, the men began to jump into the trench. Some men of C Company appeared, threading their way along the trench. rations; and when men have to work or remain in the open air all day "A German officer came up and ordered us both to get back; but I 32177 station a fine old lady was giving coffee at a Red Cross canteen. The train then became crowded, and a French soldier came into our honest-to-goodness American girl I''ve talked to for fifteen months. little "Y" girl and went to bed early. glistening with snow; and all the time the boy talked of home in In this French setting, place 1500 American boys in khaki! can write home that you have marched with the American army," said the end of the long tent are the French and American flags crossed, on and buttoned up for me; and in a thousand little ways these boys All the little French boys in town a few boys writing home and a little group huddled round the stove when our boys came marching back at 8.30 that evening, after eleven The day after my last long letter I left Chaumont with another girl to 32246 he would be with us in a short time and bring us a new mother and a little Finally one day while we were all busy burning brush, brother Charlie came are all nice, honest, hard-working boys, and I know I shall like them, wife''s favorites when the old man wanted to get one off his hands. An old soldier said the man was signaling ordered us to fall into line, and marched us into a little ravine, halted, every time I wanted to reach my company I found it in a new place and more length of time the old man remained away. wouldn''t it?" and looking round at the same time he found an old broom. this time I was thinking of my poor brother, how he would like one of Oh, yes, I said, no doubt of it; at the same time I felt that his days 32268 General Averill in time of the fact that the enemy, with a force about "General Averill possibly might have saved Chambersburg, and I know that The Court-house, Bank, Town Hall, German Reformed Richmond as hostages, and also burn every house in town. rebel force from that part of Second Street, and no buildings were burned. that the rebel commander would not burn Chambersburg. retreating from it, because citizens fired on our men from the houses, and town, _to burn every house in it_; and yet another informed me that their The following is a correct list of the buildings burned by the rebels in M. Gillan''s heirs--Two three-story brick buildings, log house, Chambersburg Bank--Two-story brick building, stable, $8,000 C. Burkhart--Three-story brick building, ice-house, stable, 4,500 D. Reisher--Two-and-a-half story brick building, bake-house, W. Wallace--Two-story brick building, spring-house, &c., 4,000 N. Snyder--Two-story brick building, wash-houses, stable, 2,500 32595 When some years later Mr. Burge died, Mrs. Burge was left on the plantation with her little daughter Sarah (the Floyd stopped, saying: "Mrs. Burge, the Yankees are coming. Sadai [Mrs. Burge''s nine-year-old daughter] said: I went to the smoke-house, divided out the meat to the servants, and I have been left in my home all day with no one but Sadai. not come that day, but it was thought best to send Major Ansley away. Slept in my clothes last night, as I heard that the Yankees went to that old Mrs. Perry had just sent her word that the Yankees went to To-night, when the greater part of the army had passed, it came up more soldiers came by, and this ended the passing of Sherman''s army by the army first came along they offered a guard for the house, but Mrs. Laura told them she was guarded by a Higher Power, and did not thank 32650 there came the order for General Bayard''s cavalry to report to the Pennsylvania Cavalry, to charge his battalion upon the enemy''s General Bayard received orders that evening to mass his cavalry on the are General Porter''s men forming on the right of the enemy." I felt head-quarters that the rebel cavalry corps, numbering about twelve cavalry under the command of General Gregg were the means of saving the Gregg made a mounted attack, driving the rebel cavalry fifteen miles. cavalry, and General Davies sent two of his staff back to look after General Gregg mount his division and try to break through the enemy''s the rebel cavalry corps and a division of infantry. execution we were attacked by a brigade of rebel cavalry, commanded by In the month of March an order came from general head-quarters other general officers, both infantry and cavalry, came riding up to 32733 Indian town near present Geneva, Lieutenant Colonel William Butler marched at 10 o''clock and encamped in a town called Candaya,[81] or outlet of a small lake, a few miles from which stood a Town called entered, and encamped at 3 o''clock, about a mile north of the town in encamped at the town of Adjutoa at half past five P.M. Friday 17th.--Decamped at 6 o''clock, marched off and arrived at the sunset near the lake.[101] Previous to our march from Canadasago Col. Butler of the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment was sent with a detachment to the army encamped on level ground two miles north of the Indian town Cannadesago at 3 o''clock P.M. Marched this day 8 miles to an Indian Marched 5 miles to an Indian town by the an Indian town 3-½ miles above Cayuga Lake. 3. NEW CHEMUNG, an Indian town of fifty or sixty houses, located on 33001 One of the doctors and I went for a lovely evening walk; the frogs Mrs. Stobart and the doctor arrived home at 6 o''clock this morning. Two of Dr. Berry''s unit have come to stay in this camp for a few days. To-day Dr. Dearmer and two of my kitchen staff and I went for a lovely Another of our unit came over from the camp to stay a few days. hospital returns to England in about ten days'' time; she is having a Several of our unit came over from the camp to-day; they have two the American camp, then went to the Serbian Red Cross office to get I went to see a camp of Serbian soldiers; they had many large guns and afternoon I went up to see another Serbian camp, and took photographs. About forty boats arrived to-day with English, French, and Greek 33035 In one of the boat fights on the Red river the rebels captured an army and by the time any officers or guards entering the stockade could reach reach the outer world at the proper time and place little need be said. informed our friend the guard of the time and place decided upon and During this time I was informed by one of my men that a guard, who had discovered, and again went on our way in peace for a time, but soon had In crossing the river we had given the ferryman no time to ask rapid questioning I learned that these men had been guarding the river In discourse of time the guards who had captured us were detailed to One of our guards was an old man whom his companions called Captain The rebel prisoners were also kept in this stockade--men who, as at 33121 of the Second Army Corps, left Madison May 10, and seven days later was commanding a brigade in the assault upon the enemy''s lines at the battle coming fight, the line of battle would be formed, up near the town, right of the line of the army, resting near a small stream called "Rock left flank, all in battle order, in several lines, with flags streaming, reserve are posted upon the crest near the left of the Second Corps. the First Division of the Second Corps first engaged the enemy, for a large bodies of men from the extreme right of our line of battle, coming attack of the Second Division, Twelfth Corps, Gen. Geary, upon the enemy crest, save to the right of the Second Corps, no enemy, not even his of the Second Corps from that time, so that General Gibbon would again 33139 Governor ordered Colonel Jones, of the Sixth Regiment, to report himself Finally, on the 27th of April, I received an order from Adjutant-General Washington, accompanied by my Major and Adjutant, and called upon General June I received orders from the War Department to be in readiness to march informed him that I was Colonel of that Regiment, and that Gov. Andrew had In a few days after receiving this order, I was informed that a colored About this time my Regiment was inspected by Gen. Tyler, commanding the respectfully name Col. Robert Cowdin, 1st Regiment Massachusetts _Brigadier-General, commanding Division_. time Senator Wilson, in command of the 22d Regiment at Halls Hill, Va., Regiment, now acting Brigadier-General of Hooker''s Division, are very desirous that he should receive the appointment of Brigadier-General command of a New York Regiment, and the other, as I am informed, was an 33179 June I went home to visit my family, I being at the time at work away from a little hill we came in sight of the Johnnies filing into their works in We occupied the Johnnies'' camp for a few days and had no end of fun going We remained in the rebs barracks three days, then went into camp in tents Fredericksburg, arriving there in a short time and went into camp about a marched through the town out a little way into the country and camped for We started on the march early, but after going a little way About eight o''clock the morning of the 25th we left camp, soon passing a Leaving camp early in the morning of August 27, we marched part way back stream, moved to the left up on to a low hill and formed a line of battle; 33211 story of march and ordered to cook three days'' rations and be ready to Weather warm and pleasant during the day but very cold nights. days'' rations in haversacks, and ready to march in half an hour. The day seemed very, very long, but night at last came to relieve us, horses as soon and as still as possible, and waited for the coming day M. ordered to return to our camp and report to the same place at half Battery to our left, and the 15th Army Corps came in late in the evening six miles took us to camp on a good creek, an old fashioned breast-wheel night that we should march to-day, but instead we policed camp. of home, and what they are doing this Christmas Day. Came into camp late M. our Battery ordered aboard train, three days'' rations, one 33241 PROFESSOR OF GERMAN LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF page or two from my life in connection with a public institution of the University at the time of my instruction to the students, such an idea 3d, During the horrid disorders within the Institution the past winter, Dear Sir,--I deem it my duty as a citizen of New-York, and a member of a apprize you of a fact of my personal history during the past winter, connected with the University of the city of New-York, first as a number of years past in preparing works for publication, and this winter As the above letter was handed to my personal friends for the purpose of the year of my matriculation at the institution, to the present hour I attempts of certain parties in connection with the institution and _ab institution, where such scenes of scandal only _date from the time his 33278 Three times the Germans tried to secure the water cart, thinking no doubt second later a machine gun began strewing the ground with horses and men. of the car in such a way as to make us think that he had badly wounded men the water, but had scarcely got entirely wet when the German artillery As usual, when it came time for a rest, the Germans began to locate us. commander of the Black Watch had gone to join the long line of heroes who long section of trench wall, killing a number of men. Shortly after we took up our new position in the line, a German sniper to enter trenches which lay quite close to the German lines our officer days, for very soon the Germans sighted the smoke, which drew their shell After quite some time, a German orderly came to me with 33280 which more cavalry were engaged than in any battle of the Civil War. General Buford''s division had crossed the Rappahannock River at Beverly driving back a portion of General Windham''s command, Kilpatrick''s men Later in the day I found General Gregg, who, I was told, had In about ten days General Gregg''s division marched towards Aldie, the cavalry corps, including General Gregg''s, drove the enemy steadily back this moment General Gregg ordered a cavalry regiment, I think the Sixth General Gregg''s division was, at his suggestion, moved to a position to Kilpatrick, who was on the left of the army, when General Gregg Within a few days General Gregg was directed to cross the Potomac at About this time General Gregg received word that Lee''s army had entirely The following September General Kilpatrick, having become commander of a General Kilpatrick and his staff, and Custer with three regiments was, I 33286 three years old he discovered that I had been a soldier in Lee''s army Map--Stuart''s March Around the Union Army--Lee Crosses the Potomac--The Union Army in a Parallel Line With Lee''s--Crosses the the Union Army--The Battle of Gettysburg--Lee''s First Defeat--His The losses in men were as follows: Union army, 3000; Confederates, 2000. Before day the next morning the army was in motion toward Maryland, Gen. Lee still riding in the ambulance, very much, no doubt, to the chagrin As the army crossed the Potomac (four miles east of Leesburg) Gen. Lee * * * General Lee''s order to his army accidentally came into If Gen. Lee had been successful at the battle of Gettysburg his army On its march down the Virginia valley to the Potomac Lee''s army took Gen. Lee moved his army in a parallel line with Grant''s, and kept in his Such an army as Lee''s, of 100,000 men, required 15,000 draft horses, 33426 company of the Ninety-Third lost heavily, having one officer wounded and march for Lucknow, under command of Colonel Leith-Hay, leaving Cawnpore the old "unlimited service" men, whose regimental number was 1100, if I guns, Sir Colin every now and again turning round when a man was hit, officers and ninety-nine men, in all one hundred and eight, killed and wounds of Captain Alison in such a surgeon-like manner that, when Dr. Menzies of the Ninety-Third at length came to see him, he thought he had Sir Colin then turned to us and said: "Men, I give When the Commander-in-Chief left Cawnpore for Lucknow, General Wyndham, the enemy''s guns, and Captain M''Crea of the same regiment was also cut THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW--SIR COLIN APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE NINETY-THIRD enemy''s guns, for they were able at times to throw round-shot into our Sir Colin said: "Tell him that these men are part of the regiment that 33625 guarding the road, their camp fires burning, lighting us up as we passed night, just in time to shelter us from the rain, which the next day road, and turning to the right, passed on up a hill, and continued on in back to the road we had just left, continued on half a mile farther, and Passing down the road leading from this camp to the east, we came into mile of the city, formed in line of battle, and rested on our arms, day, the different brigades commenced crossing the river, and occupying regiment passed these obstacles in good order, and under a heavy fire a short distance from where our regiment passed the night, and not camp, and taking charge of the regiment, placed them in position, giving returned to camp just in time to take my place in line on our return 33631 that time New York ship-owners had several vessels in the China trade, My father''s friends had a full-rigged ship ready for sea at that time; mate first went to the state-room, and then came on deck and ordered all at that time a very-heavy surf came over the reef and capsized our boat. Having a good fair wind, we set the boat''s sail. I called Jimmy, and in a short time we had our clothes in the boat, also At one time the captain did not come on deck for two weeks. Jimmy came on board and shipped a few days after myself. I went to a sailor boarding-house, and remained on shore for They were paying one hundred dollars a day for the time the ship was got an order to be shipped from a certain office. first time that he ever gave an order on deck, and it nearly ended the 33718 The Twelfth Regiment was composed mainly of good Rhode Island material, Potomac for a long distance; the city of Alexandria, situated two miles Our company was detailed each day at first for picket duty on the long once, the men were ordered to provide themselves with three days'' cooked The fourth day after the regiment left, winter set in in good earnest. for miles there was but little space between the regimental camps of continued to move directly past our camp all day long, going to the the command of the great Army of the Potomac, and General Hooker One of the General''s aids came dashing up to Colonel Browne with orders quartermaster arrived in camp unharmed the next day, to the great joy of Eight days of continuous marching, most of the time over the same route Colonel Browne retained an abiding interest in the men of his regiment 3383 LITERATURE AND LIFE--Spanish Prisoners of War SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR got a boat, and sailed out to have a look at these subordinate enemies in and nearer their prison isle, and it opened its knotty points and little In fact, we came away altogether, after that, so little We came away care fully nursing such impression as we had got of a spec there was a certain aesthetic joy in having the Spanish prisoners there sent to us that our young skipper had got a permit to visit the island, stockade, which we might approach, at a certain point of vantage and look crestfallenly away when the officer of the day came out and allowed us to I said I had some cigarettes for the prisoners, looked at his watch and said they were just going to feed the prisoners; Our officer came towards us and said gayly, "Well, you have seen the 34069 In those days travelling up the Tigris took a long time, and we spent a Next day a short march brought us to Lajj, a small hamlet on the river further march towards Kut. We were told later on that the Turks thought they had only come up day reached a camp only a very few miles from Kut itself, having done remember one day, in my dug-out, having a great time going through a Two days later, on May 10th, the second party of officers left on the before dawn near the river, continuing our way as soon as it got light. we should halt during the next day, and not reach water till the morning The following day we reached Kalejik, a picturesque little place with this road a short distance until we saw a light in a house a little way 34344 Fort Sumter, and a good deal of the war-talk we heard about the Rebel little band in the grim-looking old prison of a fort, and wish and plan seen by Perry talking to the Rebel Spy. He had scarcely turned away from me when, on looking in the direction of the Rebel country and while coming through General Patterson''s army. at that time, because the Rebels--officers and soldiers--whatever may be It took a long time to flank that insignificant little old house, and both the Rebels and our own officers at Fort Pickens, some time I called at the War Office several times, and always found the same old The next day I called at the War Office early, determined to see Mr. Stanton, or at least make a sure thing of his seeing me before I should These old war-horses had been at the barracks a long time, and had been 34827 American Ships under English Colors--The Enemy''s Carrying-Trade being the first ship of war to throw the new Confederate flag to the newspapers, to-day, that the enemy has taken possession of Ship Island, MORE--BOARDS A LARGE FLEET OF SHIPS IN ONE DAY, BUT FINDS NO ENEMY AMONG against the Captain of the _Sumter_, gallant naval officers, wearing Mr. Welles'' shoulder-straps, and commanding Mr. Welles'' ships, were capturing several Federal ships of war, which by this time had arrived, were kept at There was great rejoicing on board the Yankee ships of war, in that the officers and men left on board the ship." capture the ships of her enemy, so could the Confederate States. trying any longer." I gave the boarding-officer orders, in case the ship on board the Confederate States steamer _Alabama_, on the High Seas," I was a United States ship, and therefore our enemy. ult., relative to the Confederate States ship-of-war _Alabama_, and 34843 We thought it quite likely; for having passed several days in General force moved upon General Mackall, the Rebel commander, who surrendered "You are wanted at the General''s head-quarters," said an aid, soon General Sumner''s head-quarters were by the house of Mr. Phillips, north of the river. orders to his troops on the plain by Bernard''s house, below Deep Run. The men ate their suppers of hard-tack and cold meat in silence, threw the troops and batteries on the right of the line, while General An English officer, who saw the battle from the Rebel lines, thus says General Grant''s quarters for the night were in an old house near the the day Grant advanced his lines a mile towards the court-house, and The general position of the two armies in Grant''s battles at Cold Sheridan''s movement, however, threw dust in the eyes of Lee. Grant knew that Petersburg was held by a handful of Rebel 34889 patriotism, sends from her camps as Regiments, mere mobs of men, half and soon went into camp on Meridian Hill, near Soldiers'' Home. Remained in camp until a short time before first battle of Bull Run. The Regiment was ordered over the Potomac, and to Alexandria, and out Rebels, occurred near New Bridge, where the 4th Michigan, Colonel or along the river, the regiment went into camp on Gains'' Farm, on our way back, when near camp, the regiment halted in the road, with except our knapsacks and guns, marched out and formed line of battle, The regiment was formed in line of battle, with the brigade, and was had struck the brave old 6th Army Corps, just arrived, and in time to fellow of our regiment, a Company D man, was shot in the head. When the Regiment went into camp for the winter, 1861, the boys built 34895 right, where at last, panting and half dead, we got into a wood where Pope''s officers were to be treated as prisoners of war or paroled, but The men next me gave me water and a knapsack for my head, a man came wounded rebel''s blanket next me over my shoulder, lay as near him as I of "Yankees are coming!" swept every sound man away from us. I got my blouse off, covered myself with dead rebel sergeant''s coat, of the dead rebel''s blanket of last night, which I had sense enough to turned out of the car by a rebel sergeant for insulting the prisoners. A man has come into this room, wounded at Port Republic, First of the yard; add to that orders expected for Richmond in a few days. know that my name was on the list to be paroled when my turn came, and 34973 This man was Timothy Webster, a faithful officer, a true friend, and an them at that time, he turned to Webster and said: "I think," said Webster, "that the President and General Scott "Gentlemen," said he, "there need be no trouble about this matter; Mr. Webster can fully explain his position, and I think the best plan would Webster''s new friends were men whom he believed he could use to good "All right," said Webster, "you keep the change, old man, for your "All right," said Webster; "and now, as I have a little time before "I should like to see this man first," said Webster, when Scobell had upon Washington, and at this time General McClellan took command and the two men to Webster as friends of the South, and informed him that "Any time within a day or two will answer," said the officer. 34985 by German soldiers in France seem to have happened farther south, along two Germans had been arrested in Laon, and the day before a man who was About nine o''clock, his day''s work over, our new friend came round and That night I think we shook 12,000 hands as 12,000 men went along. In fact they had taken away a French soldier, bareheaded, who looked "The people are not kind enough to the soldiers," the officer said. the village; women who had not a good many children to look after were Think of our anxiety the day we heard they were said to search houses! days after his arrival an under-officer and four men came to M. Germans went away in a short time." Such is, then, the way fifteen soldiers happened to come to our house to for some days, and many a country house, which had never looked upon 35119 "Men of the First Newfoundland Regiment," said he, "a week ago you day, Lord Kitchener told you that you were just the men he needed for our men had been hit, the sergeant said, and the regiment was little way up the beach in charge of a party of twenty men. shell landed right in his dugout, wounded the man next him, knocked little in front of where Mac had said the enemy trench was located. he said, slowing up just before we came to the line of dugouts that "It''s this way," said the A Company man. "The way they do in this part of the trench," said another man who had "Look at the ribbons on the old boy''s chest," said the man near me. front line trenches and stopped to exchange a few words with men here "A Company men," he said, 35392 I notice our little fair-bearded Belgian captain is looking very sad and as it was moving off, leaving my old Belgian to look after the car. Up and down the long steep white road to Brussels the Germans halted, Then the door opened, and an old Belgian porter stood and looked at us I step into a little shop as a motor car full of German officers dashes War, and to see the Germans come into Antwerp is something I ought not a little bomb-broken Belgian boy whose dark eyes opened suddenly to meet As they come onward, the Germans look from left to right. presently in came two German officers, an old grey-bearded General, and the two little children have left the room on my right, the old man has "How are things in Brussels, Madame?" queried an old Belgian in the By that we knew it was German, but we had little time to think. 35403 might not lack for shells nor the men for supplies on the day of attack. Menin gate, where new shell-holes mingled with old ones, and men walked the German lines, so as to bewilder the enemy as to the point of attack, ceaseless pressure of men and guns, by escaping to a new line of defence Behind the lines the German officers and men lived comfortably in French Our attack to-day was preceded by great gun-fire, and the enemy has abominable, when it is in the fields of battle, that men fight for days rather like the early days of the Somme battles, when our men fought our men went forward to victory, English troops advancing with their old and others--men who fought a great battle in the Somme fields that day under a heavy German counter-attack, when 160 men covered the poured up great reserves of men and guns to smash our assaulting lines. 35578 the lines for miles, thinking that we were once ahead of Lee''s time. Another day wore slowly away, and at night, we took up our line of march our line of picket-guard, but not knowing how long we should remain commenced, and in two days had what we called a good home. good time at this place, as they seldom went on duty; but the private got better, I was taken sick with a fever while on the line; I had hard halted and remained two nights, the first and second days of May. While ordered to charge the enemy''s works, and at seven o''clock, the assault nearly all night, and on the second morning came up to the regiment just hard march, all day and part of the night, not leaving us much time to Washington, remained there three days, and then started for home. 35700 AWAKE--SHELL MUSIC--THE BOATS NEAR US--RAPID DESCENT TO THE CAVE--THEY TO VICKSBURG AGAIN--ASPIRATIONS--TROOPS PASSING TO BLACK RIVER--GENERAL night time, followed by the artillery; long lines of wagons, too, passing Federal troops and General Pemberton''s forces at Black River; and I saw I feared leaving my little one for any length of time, if there scream of mortar shells; we ran to the small cave near the house, and were Each day, as the couriers came into the city, M---would write me little the shells were falling all around us--some of my gentlemen friends came city--fearing that some time a mortar shell might fall on our cave, or I told of my little girl''s great distress when the shells fell thickly saw two or three of the little shell and bomb proof-houses in the earth, top of the cave, and I made him stop and leave it." A Federal soldier came 36204 public life during five years service as surgeon in the army and navy About the same time that Dr. Green went to reside in Dover, his friend In a letter from on board the Ranger dated March 12, 1779, Dr. Green affairs of the new society, though nearly 80 years of age, he took an Paul Jones be appointed to command the ship Ranger, and under the chase till night and lost Her. _Saturday, Nov. 22nd._--At nine o''clock this morning saw a Sail on our was saved by a Rope''s End handed Him. _Sunday, Nov. 23rd._--Early in the morning saw a Sail supposed to be six in the Evening, 4 Ships of the Line besides Frigates in the Bay. _Saturday, 14th Feby._--Very Squaly weather, came to Sail at 4 o''clock _Friday, March 6th._--This morning (being fine weather) came to sail, _Friday, 21st._--Very little wind this morning came to Sail & got down 36292 men, and the officers are just as good as the average of young When very little we saw a great many men serving in both the army and At this time the average man did not know what military training and think the men felt that France and war were not so bad after all. I also have seen in the little French villages a high officer The French noncoms came over also and dined with our men, and one day the enemy troops training in open order and two German officers on as major of infantry, commanded the machine-gun company of my battalion. thought that a few men of his company had got a little mixed up. division commander, came to his headquarters and said: "General, the At another time a German company kitchen came up in the night to one of Throughout the operations the officers and men of the division 36720 The Authors Club--Its Ways and Its Work--Watch-Night In Virginia at the time of which I am writing, everybody, men, women, friend or enemy of every literary man of consequence in his time, the of the editorial page of the New York _World_ at the time, and with a At this time such men began rather insistently to ask why the authorities writing editorials and literary articles of various kinds for the New respecting his work or asked a question concerning it between the time It was about that time that my work as literary editor of the _Evening my days--that phrase felt good in the mind of a work-weary man of years my attention had been absorbed by newspaper work and by literary working night and day as an editorial writer on the staff of the New [Sidenote: Old-Time Newspaper Standards] that time were very worthy persons who wanted to do literary work, but 36778 moved on till we got a little in advance of the Russian army, (which, some days, my battalion having been pushed forward to a village called town, which gave the enemy time to turn out and form to receive the remain during the time mentioned, in order that the heavy divisions of Soon after daylight, the remaining men of attacking divisions began to consequence of the enemy, in great force, making his appearance at some I reached Lisbon in two days from this time, having taken a boat at good effect, for I believe we lost no more till we reached the regiment; Enemy, who are beaten, and forced to retreat--Our Army advance Enemy, who are beaten, and forced to retreat--Our Army advance officers of the division,--a thing of great moment where regiments have long time; but the General, having detached the 4th regiment to form 36971 came to him of the death of another soldier of the Army of the James; hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;" which inspired counsel "whole armor of God," Manning commenced his career as a soldier of the Said Col. Ordway, at the close of Manning''s term of service, trying army service of our Union soldiers, in the prolonged war with Henry Manning came home, in the spring of 1864, on his veteran furlough. Government,--Manning''s life wasted surely away, and his system imbibed A PRISONER AMONG FRIENDS.--GOOD NEWS FOR HOME. A PRISONER AMONG FRIENDS.--GOOD NEWS FOR HOME. Manning was too far reduced by his prison life to be of further use in Visiting an army comrade in North Bridgewater, Manning met the Rev. S. STUDENT-LIFE AT ANDOVER.--LOVING SERVICE FOR JESUS. STUDENT-LIFE AT ANDOVER.--LOVING SERVICE FOR JESUS. which Henry Manning lived and gave his life, it behooves the lovers of 37035 While a Prisoner to the British in the Provost Jail, New York, 1777 and gave me a New York paper, and said that I should have my parole as soon as to get a drink of water till we came to within four miles of New York, from his father By a British Officer who was coming into New York on time my father came from Long Island to the prison to see me. JANUARY 9th 1778.--This day Mr Walley come and took from the prison myself Among Dr. Cornelius''s friends and fellow prisoners in the jail, he pen." Soon they were marched under guard toward New York, and on the way, the City of New York." Continues Dr. Cornelius'' account: "As we marched From the sugar house prison Dr. Cornelius was removed to the Provost stories of his sufferings in New York City English prisons. 37083 On the same day a meeting of Free State officers was held in the tent of These men came in contact with the English on the following day, On the following day a meeting of Harrismith burghers was held at Molen The following day, being Sunday, I held a service in the house of Mr. David de Villiers, at Holspruit, and then rode to the commando to see if following day was passed as usual, and at three o''clock the General rode On the following day a Council of War was held, General de Wet command; but during the first days following, General de Wet had the Here on the following morning General de Wet called the burghers On the following day the President and General de Wet addressed the General Botha therefore sent a number of burghers to take up a position General Botha with a number of burghers took up positions. English drove General de Wet and a considerable number of burghers 37112 of the causeway a time-fuse shell fell near us, and one of our men, a had just got a new negro man servant, who was inexperienced in warfare. While on duty here, early one morning four negro men came to our picket men felt hard to stand, as they knew that at this period the Federal of the twenty-one men the company carried into the fight five were left Three times a day the ladies of the town came and brought us food, and said, "You scoundrels, you are the men who stole that train day before I have not heard from you for some time, but I know in these dark days for five days and many of the men come up to the house, where we give our bed-rooms, and calling to his men said, "Boys, take what you want." One man said to mother, "The General 37331 both like Esau hairy men, with very little of the soldier left about sake and for His. It is hateful to think of these great men in the light of their little day they came and went like figures on the film next-door, silent and corner-man behind a machine-gun oblige with what sounds exactly like a than most brave men about all such things, I believe I said good-bye to as I read my night-cap _The Romance of War_; but a better book of the like talking to a man who had just made a hundred at Lord''s: our hut was by light railways; the roads on which no man might live in those days, think, as good a little library as a modern young man, with a the Rest Hut, where the two stoves stood idle for days on end, and all Two things came home to us while the day was young. 37372 suffered; and I passed the dead bodies of two men lying in the road, one Kalisz the weak point on the Russian frontier, and the German Eagle saw time since crossing the German frontier I saw Russian troops in force. Russian, and they soon fell back, trying to lure our men under infantry Russians tried to push along it as far as possible; but the Germans sent Germans their lives: for I know that wounded men and prisoners were The Germans observed the movement, with the result that men, guns, commanding officer, gave the order for the few men left to endeavour to A great many of the prisoners taken by the Russians were men who would Russian shell fire, being crowded with men at the time. these miserable men, a shell came from the enemy''s line and killed having been shot, I think, by one of the men the Germans afterwards 37628 the cooks, a washhouse, a gun park, a battery office, and a telephone got our guns, our horses and our harness late in the day, and we were, booming of the guns and the desolation of "the line." The battery guns and shells, regardless of the fact that the German line, as the went down to the front line with an infantry officer to look at a "I want all your officers to drill the battery in turn," said the thought that the battery will be split up again into "gun line" and so the Child and I returned to the battery and got about three hours'' think of the strain on the detachments, serving their guns night and day In course of time Bilfred, quick, like most horses, to pick up habits, horses in dozens of batteries were doing the same thing--and none knew In the old days in his battery he 37754 detachment of two hundred men from our regiment under command of Captain the next day and went into camp about half a mile from the river. all that day and night the army of General Pope was streaming across the army kept coming up all day, taking position as they arrived, until at For a time, the enemy came on rapidly, without firing a shot. men, and to take only those who could march thirty miles a day. I spent some time that day going over the ground occupied by the enemy armies of General Sherman, marching in parallel lines, seemed to be able line of battle, ready to receive the advancing enemy, General Williams On the day that I rejoined the Regiment the army moved forward across Just twenty-five days had elapsed from the time our army left Atlanta Regiment was filled up with men from other Wisconsin commands, that were 38167 great war between the States had not yet reached Congress. wholesale dry-goods houses in Virginia at that time. The Colonel was an old time Virginia gentleman and we day" in Richmond and in the history of the State. The wholesale grocery houses of Richmond at this time were large and At one time a Mr. Selden kept a large boarding house called "The And then came the Richmond Whig, edited by Mr. Robert Ridgway, which was the organ of the old line Whigs of Virginia; of the House of Delegates in the old Capitol in the city of Richmond. Among the military companies of the city was the old Richmond Light Richmond Grays, one of the best-drilled companies in the State. A large and fine cavalry company called the Richmond Troop the great war, and its officers were at one time as follows: the city''s best assets, presents quite a contrast to the old days. 38369 march on the return to Vincennes expecting the Indians would follow Nov. 15.--The wounded were placed in boats, and arrived at Fort company were left to garrison the Fort, and the army proceeded on The next day Col. Miller, with a small detachment from the regiment, proceeded to the was intended on our army by a large force of British and Indians. July 14--Col. M''Arthur was detached with 150 men to the river Thames, Five men were killed and wounded in the fort, where the Gen. and some citizens from the town had repaired. 11.--We proceeded on our passage, and about 4 o''clock, P.M. arrived at a town called Three Rivers; here our guard was relieved by several towns within two days march of that place. the men were this day wounded, and the General being continually immediately commenced the passage of the river in boats.--Gen. M''Arthur with the mass of the regular troops was charged with the 38418 brigade by one of Huger''s divisions, I sent orders to General Wilcox to General Jackson was ordered to follow on the enemy''s rear with his column, When I reported my troops in order for battle, General Lee was inclined to General Fitzhugh Lee''s cavalry was ordered to cover our march, but General Lee, that he with the cavalry was ordered to march around and turn threatening, General Lee ordered his army to continue the march to proper THE RIGHT GRAND DIVISION, GENERAL SUMNER COMMANDING.--Second Army day, General Lee ordered a forced reconnoissance by his cavalry to same time the two divisions of my command, then marching to join General General Lee ordered Johnson''s division of his left, occupying part of the General Meade, after the battle of his left, ordered the divisions of his command reported to General Lee. My line was formed on the right and left 38497 hospital, or the terrible battle field--it makes but little difference WORK--CARRYING WATER TO THE REBEL SOLDIERS--GENERALS LEE AND JOHNSON--THE GRAVE--SCENES IN A HOSPITAL--CAPTURE OF THE WOUNDED--A NOBLE SURGEON--LINE POPE''S ARMY--A GENERAL S REQUEST--AGAIN A CONTRABAND--ENTERING THE REBEL Potomac was soon to meet the enemy for the first time--a great battle was Slowly that long train wound its way toward the city looking like a great thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee." Then came notwithstanding the enemy shelled us night and day, I never saw a man or OF WORK--CARRYING WATER TO THE REBEL SOLDIERS--GENERALS LEE AND FUGITIVES--THE ENEMY''S WORKS--A BATTLE--ON THE FIELD--A "WOUNDED," AND FUGITIVES--THE ENEMY''S WORKS--A BATTLE--ON THE FIELD--A "WOUNDED," AND HOUSE AND FINDING REBEL SOLDIERS--THANKS TO THE ARMY--OUR ARRIVAL AT visited the rebel generals three times at their own camp-fires, within a and wounded men that he had carried from the battle-field." 38855 of Union Prisoners--Colonel Walter''s second visit--Day of comes a war between the North and the South, let us do as Abraham ALMIGHTY GOD--We would present our country, the United States of guard--Priceville--General Gordon--Bound for Tupelo--The Prisoners Several times a day officers would come in and order a specified number of Yankees, adhesion to the United States government or Unionism, acting as were no guards stationed on the south side of the prison during the day; As the officers passed Captain Bruce, he asked where the prisoners were of the Union men in prison and within the rebel lines. good in the case of Union men who are citizens of the South. night I escaped from prison, were placed under close arrest, and were Soon all the prison-guards on duty during the night, thirty-three in In the slave States all those born north of the "nigger line," are 38859 change that pleased not only the line officers but the men as well. battle of Chickamauga was kept on the move day and night, marching, On the march from left to right, I ran across a Rebel who was shot I went down the ridge and came up with my command in time to take charge of an ambulance train of wounded men, over the mountains, to would not all get to the enemy''s line at the same time, so a halt was At Louisville we camped a few days in order that the several commands On March 9th we arrived on the field in time to help Gen. Kilpatrick the Rebels in force across our line of march. last man lost by Sherman in battle, during his march to the sea and killed and wounded 423 men and 24 died in Rebel prisons. On the march each man had to carry three days'' rations, gun, 38948 --Meets a rebel spy--Reports to General Leggett--Grand Junction Arrival in Memphis--Daring robbery--Detailed by the Provostmarshal General--Assumes the character of a rebel Major--Secesh Is captured by rebel cavalry--Sent to General DeVieu--The army as ''General Bunker.'' He belonged to my command, and I know "Hold on, General," said I; "the Captain that had command of those them in a line; when that was done, "Captain," said the General, "give "General," said I, when the citizen had gone, "do you know where Billy "I have got a Federal pass," said he, handing me one signed by General Two days after my arrival, the regiment received orders from General "I know that he _is_ a Yankee spy," said the old man. "Good morning, General," said I, saluting him as I went in. The General said, "I can not give you leave to take a man''s life, except River--Is captured by rebel cavalry--Sent to General 39072 The two French soldiers looked at the men on the transport and cheered, Some officers had tried to teach their men a little French on the trip order," said the French officer, who met the first unit of the American "To hell with baseball, I want to know about the war," said the soldier. "I think," said one young American officer, "that his favorite military One of the high officers in the American air service in France said that "There," he said to the Americans, "if your men are to train well, "When you see us later on some time," said an American officer, "we hope "When you go up there," said a French officer, "the soldiers you come to "You''re not French," he said several times as the curious Americans soldiers told him that they were Americans he said that he and his 39346 State of Maryland, and especially on the city of Baltimore. convention had passed unanimously a resolution declaring that Mr. Lincoln was their first and only choice for United States Senator, to speech made Abraham Lincoln President of the United States. -THE CITY AUTHORITIES AND POLICE OF BALTIMORE. -THE CITY AUTHORITIES AND POLICE OF BALTIMORE. of the State and in the city of Baltimore there were but few constituted authorities of the city of Baltimore; but, on the stated that he had telegraphed to that effect to the Secretary of War. The Governor also wrote to the President, advising him to order counties of the State, including the city of Baltimore, and leaving officer of the military forces of the United States in Baltimore committed by the State of Maryland to the officers of the city =City Government of Baltimore.= By JOHN C. 39348 Protectorate troops and the Boer forces investing Mafeking would have The Boer Commandant had evidently determined to shell Mafeking from Boers, who had been observed to place some guns in position upon the Boer proceedings in their investment of Mafeking, the enemy threw no the Boers brought their new siege guns once more into play. point the Boer advance was protected by the guns, the heavy artillery estimate of the men against him would place the Boer forces at no less their guns had thrown into the town during the days which the siege every moment that the enemy''s shell fire lapsed, the Boer marksmen the advanced trenches of the Boer position a short time before sunset, Boer trenches upon the east of the town earlier in the siege had Boers'' main trench--a point from which one may hear at times our enemy come and the Boers again make a serious attack upon the town. 39735 The Kan-wang, the missionaries'' friend, having left the city while Mr. Muirhead was there, that event was mentioned in the following different offices of Ti-ping Government in Hang-chow, and completing his French aiding by six vessels only, a fact suppressed by Captain Dew. The final expulsion of the Ti-pings from Ningpo was thus effected:-placed directly between the British and French men-of-war and the guns the foreign men-of-war, as stated by Captain Dew. The Ti-pings fought their battery against the overwhelming fire from the A march of five days brought our forces to the city of Soo-chow, when Nankin and Soo-chow, the Chung-wang''s immediate command, and other The British men-of-war, the Manchoo gunboats, the French vessels, the China having just reached Shanghae, Major Gordon, R.E., took command of British army_; while General Brown sent a force of 550 men (including Ti-ping stockades outside Soo-chow; consequently, the Chung-wang 40046 The first of February, 1862, we got marching orders for St. Louis, Mo. Our officers then gave us passes to go home, it being our last chance Away we went; now look back and see the boys in blue coming; first well, that is all right, I will help myself," said Jim. Away he went. Johnnies rode up, took Jim''s horse, came in and asked what had become of told you never to come here again." Jim looked at her and said: "Now "We got into Batesville all right and just as we were passing Gen. Curtis'' headquarters my captain looked up and saw us coming. I went back, got my horse and put him in an old shanty back of the house our horses and one man went back in a small boat and got it and cut the rebel sergeant came in every day and said, "All you men that will come 40477 ride down the Cape Fear River in the night--General Terry--Learn We followed General Price''s army to the Ozark Mountains, marching day marched half the nights and all the days and just as we got close enough gray and brown uniforms, the prisoners whom General Grant had captured Fifteen officers of our little half regiment were dead or strict for every man and every officer to stay close to his regiment day In a little time, February, 1863, Grant''s army was again off to try for tug, near by, General Grant, the commander of the Western armies, waits Gibson--How General Grant looked to a private soldier--A boy from Gibson--How General Grant looked to a private soldier--A boy from place on his staff--Experiences at army headquarters--Sherman''s life place on his staff--Experiences at army headquarters--Sherman''s life Then General Grant questioned me as to all I knew about Sherman''s army, 40767 After father returned home he married a cousin, Miss Robert. Her son, my mother''s father, was one of the most generous and My father and mother inherited most of their negroes, and there was an Southerners'' treatment of their slaves I will insert a letter from Dr. Edward Lathrop, whose daughter was an old schoolmate of mine at Miss The day was always begun with family prayers, for my father''s every day to dress a broken arm of a negro child, because the mother years after the war, on my visit South, I saw the negro women still I remember seeing my mother come into the house from her morning When Dr. De Saussure went into service I returned to my father''s home family whose husband and father never returned to them. very reluctantly father and mother left their loved home, which they father''s and mother''s use, and in another little house situated about 40792 gray-green coats of the firing line, slowly climbing the long iron steps watched a German soldier standing on a ladder, painting out all French I saw five different parties of German soldiers come into the gray-green army auto car soughed down the heavy roads and you saw the come to storm our trenches again that night, and that all day his men I had seen the trenches by day; later I saw them by night. Russian motors, the Belgian car, the German gun. and wondering if all the Americans in the German army came from New We saw Captain von Stietencron coming out of the Kommandant''s office. "Rittmeister," I asked, "did German soldiers follow the Russians down our coming she turned her face to the road and I saw that her mouth was the German War Office._ the German War Office._ the German War Office._ 40890 I caught cold last night, and feel a little slim to-day. the place is kept open night and day by some benevolent association, and on cleaning up our camp ground to-day and it begins to look real nice. time since leaving home took off my clothes for the night. came up and said, "To what regiment do you men belong?" Being told, he came to hard ground and the live oaks and other trees took the place of soon got separated, and each detail going its own way, that from Company they went but a little way towards the landing before they came to a _Monday._ To-day an order came to move to New Orleans. Colonel Parker came in to-day and went on to the city, leaving his _Friday._ Officer of the guard to-day, in place of a sick man. train came next day to look for Henry, there was no other way but to 40973 closing days of March, orders were received from the War Department for Barrancas, we marched to our camping place, half a mile beyond and near A few days later a Federal soldier attempted to place a Union hearts in those old days when their "boys" came home from the war, had reached their position in line Col. Gracie gave the command, m. brigade ordered away, leaving us on skirmish line without companies from our regiment sent out on picket line. Skirmishing on picket line all day. position and our regiment was placed on the picket line. column had already reached our skirmish line, ordered the company into ten-year-old son standing by the soldier said, "Here, boy, hold this next day we began our march to rejoin the army and for 17 miles, in times together in those old war days." Brad''s smile reached from his 41094 killed British wounded, how Turkish officers had threatened newly taken Turk on my left, who could speak nothing but Turkish and Arabic, was a mixed collection of Turkish, German, and Austrian officers--each of sad-faced crowd, when I saw an officer of the German Flying Corps. I left the German and was led by the guards to Turkish Headquarters. every prison camp of Turkey the officers and guards took their cue from British officers and two Turkish guards. British officers arrived at Afion the Turks turned some Armenian the prison-camps of Turkey that the British officers at Turkish War Office that life at the prison-camps of Afion-kara-Hissar included a group of German soldiers and a Turkish officer of the mornings, just after the Turkish officer left the house. "We believe this Turkish officer''s wife knows of us," said White. helped several British officers to escape from the Turks.] 41159 beginning of the war was nothing like so perfect a fighting machine as was not necessary to look, for the Russians shot at us with machine-guns in shooting down a hostile flying man not once but four times. English flying squadron came down behind our lines and became prisoners to land right away in a field and in a moment the beautiful machine was Suddenly we noticed an enemy flying machine starting from its hangar. for the first time we flew as a squadron commanded by the great man whom feet when an English squadron of five machines was seen coming our way. suddenly some machines came falling down looking like rockets. One day he rushed in front of a flying-machine which miracle that he came to the ground, for no flying machine lands or _The German Flying Machines_ IN the course of the War the German flying machines have experienced 41248 of the Zion Mule Corps, I knew a great deal about soldiering and the art Of course I have many times seen the French and Italian armies at work The work of training went on from dawn to dark, as officers and men had had to be exercised, fed and watered three times a day; the men had to It was no easy task in so short a time to get men, mules, horses, While Rolo and his men were having such a strenuous time on the left of officer in charge of the batteries camped round us, and the men, finding first time in an attack on the Turkish trenches, and they were placed on Our guns were barking away at the Turks in their trenches, and the great a day''s fight, it now became a question of taking one trench at a time, position which the Staff Officer said was held by the Turks. 41324 We have learned some things in war times that we did not know in days of I got to know a thing or two about the guns, went to gunnery school; scared to let him know it''s our big day back home," he argued. ships had become let me tell you that they halted us at sea one night remember one black night when we were shipping seas over the fo''ca''sle swell like a man o'' war, but bobbing right over the white caps or ship next day we found we were going home to the U. Next day the commander of the ship, rising very early, saw a sight which was like returning to a ghost ship, she lay so still on the waters, Next day we were on our way--that long line of drenched men tramping we had all the way and plenty of work, but I liked the life. 41528 refused to let me ride by the wagon-road, so Mr. Parson said there was a longer, I am going back to camp." I said, "Walker, would you leave your We left at dark, and marched about four miles, towards the enemy''s camp disrespect to you, Sheppard." The following day, word came in camp for headquarters, saying, "Howell said, Ike got me," "I have no right to you come along." Captain Wilkins said to Howell, "I want Ike to go home day than the fourth of July." The General said, "Yes." As I started to camp, the General said, "Well, Hermann I thank you Provost Guard came up saying, "Ike old fellow, I have orders to arrest He said the enemy''s camp was said, General, I met with an accident and came back. said he, I thought I''ll come to see you it has been a long time since I 41616 two days--when in the morning a wagon came along loaded with men on We got to Richmond about four days after the regiment had left day in making a charge and in passing over some wounded Yankees, one Clowney called out, "Come here, Mixson." I went up to Col. Bratton and took hold of his horse''s mane; he looked down at me and were right good with our supply, giving the men in the company four of our company went out and on returning some time during the night they day of May we took up our line of march and on the night of the fifth of got a very good night''s sleep, and next morning, after eating what company had at this time sixteen men, all told, and we had to cover the When it looked like the time had about come old Stewart got 41995 and discovered a man in the act of turning our horses out of the lot. Without giving me time to answer, one of the armed men came up and time, to-day, arresting Union men with federal soldiers;" but he did not horse for me from one of his men, we mounted, when he said that he was horse time to rest after eating, for I had to ride all night, I sat and "Wait a minute," she said, and away she went to the house, and soon came "Look here, old man," said I savagely, "if I let you live, do you think time it would require for them to ride to camp and get a squad of men come down from the mountains, when they saw our men leave, in order to the rebel service, and turn to be a good Union man, we would come back 42341 The guard, in the mean time, rolling their eye-balls from the General his officers, behaved in a polite, generous, and friendly manner. generous treatment of Captain Littlejohn and his officers, I was obliged closely confined, in consequence of orders from General Carleton, who language of the British officers, till Burgoyne was taken;* a happy The prisoners, who had been sent on board different men of war at the who, either by his order or influence, took us next day from the prison officers took the part of the general, and others of the captain. In a few days after this, the prisoners were ordered to go on board of a Captain Burk was then ordered on board a prison-ship in the then reported, was taken prisoner, and brought to New-York, who gave out The private prisoners at New-York, and some of the officers on parole, 42368 ordered to march to two Indian towns, for the purpose of burning men--a fire was returned, which left blood where the Indians miles down the river, remained a short time, and then removed to "On the day of our arrival a recent Indian camp was discovered this time General Winchester came up and ordered the retreating the Indians had taken him prisoner, and appeared inclined to save his life, showed great alarm, and at length told the Indians that Indians took him prisoner, they marched him very hard, until he attack during the night; for this Indian, just as he left, said A short time before night, as we were passing an old house, a right; we soon passed through a large Indian camp; just as we In passing this camp many Indians came to the door of their tents On the morning of the third day the old man left the camp very 42721 destroyed houses and farm buildings, dead soldiers, German and Belgian, a good friend; my section had lost sixty-five men, dead and wounded, covered with dead and horribly wounded soldiers; the houses were ruins, "enemy," a German soldier, who might have been protection and safety for in an army order that German soldiers had been murdered there and that been reinforced by eighty men of the second company we marched away in We got as near as 200 yards when the French machine-guns came the enemy''s trench for the last time, some twenty yards away from it, soldiers, had been crossed by the German troops and the enemy had wounded men of other sections, whom we met on the way, that the French bombard the enemy''s trenches continually with hand grenades, day and by the German soldiers, because those guns are active day and night. 42892 representative of the War Department with General Grant and other to go to Grant''s army, he said, to report daily to him the military Sherman, who commanded one of the three corps in Grant''s army, and with On the new lines adopted by General Grant, the work went on cheeringly, General Grant changed his headquarters to Smith''s plantation, near New captured Confederate officer had been brought before General Grant for hold, General Grant sent a division to his support, and at the same time To McPherson''s left was the Thirteenth Army Corps, under Major-General that command, General Sullivan, has for some time been at Grant''s Grant''s tent between him and a captured Confederate officer, General things, at half past one o''clock, General Grant ordered the attack to be conquered lines with General Grant and the engineer officers, and they that day some six boatloads of troops which General Grant had sent from 43124 to Serbian Relief Fund work, did wonders for our unit, and in every way Colonel said, "I expect you would like to stay in this hospital half a One of our most frequent and most welcome visitors was Colonel Dr. Lazaravitch Guentchitch, Head of the Serbian Army Medical Service. were better played than her rÃ''le of orderly in a Serbian camp hospital. Our doctors, also Major Protitch, myself, and Dr. Inglis (chief of the Scottish Women''s Hospital Unit in Kragujevatz), people, men, women, and children, came to this roadside dispensary, in the Serbian hospital in the town, who could not leave his work to of the mountain road, endless columns of the Serbian Army; this was the order to move generally came at night, and time spent in dressing But all day long, columns were still passing along the road in front doctors of our Serbian-English Field Hospital, two nurses and three 43470 nearly fell into the area, and came to the hotel looking like a ghost. had seen some cavalry shot coming out of Talbot Street into Sackville Yesterday afternoon the mob broke all the windows in various streets of eighteen men and one officer, only one rebel was taken, the rest Yesterday morning the Red Cross ambulance sent in to the hotel to ask Street, when shots were fired just outside our windows, and Mr. B., Up to yesterday afternoon they had got to Abbey Street on the right, Street, and there as nearly as possible got Lord S., who was coming Yesterday afternoon, when the firing in Grafton Street was over, the This morning we hear an officer has been to say that the shots fired The great fire in Sackville Street last night we were present at the first shots fired in Sackville Street on Easter 43589 General Stevens''s reports to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with worked with his men in the hay field, keeping up with the best all day, major-general, and at one time commanding the army in the war of the "General Stevens was a small, undersized, young man when he entered hour and a half each day, taking that portion of time from his study One day at Portsmouth, as Mr. Stevens was at work in his office and his young engineer officer would cross the river to supervise the works, and covered way was placed under his charge, with large working parties, for the day by Captain Lee. Lieutenant Smith took particular charge of Lieutenant Stevens took great interest in the engineer company, so Lieutenant Stevens was this day directed to assume the duties of crossed the river, and moved forward to a good camping-place. miles with great difficulty, until, coming to a good camp on our 43590 a great chief and steal wood?"--Council ground--Scenes--General treaty--Young Chief and others refuse--Governor Stevens''s pointed Perces--Governor Stevens invites Colonel Wright to attend country--Suspected of aiding enemy--Governor Stevens orders defensive--Enemy close the Coosaw River--General Stevens''s Governor Stevens to the Secretary of War with report of March General Palmer arrived the same day with R.R. Thompson and R.B. Metcalfe, Indian agents for Oregon tribes, who had visited the Cuyuses The second day after reaching the valley Governor Stevens, learning that Governor Stevens and General Palmer presided at opposite ends The two following days Governor Stevens explained the proposed treaties Such chiefs I hope Governor Stevens and General Governor Stevens brought and kept these various tribes of Indians within A few days after his return Governor Stevens was requested by Colonel The point on Beaufort River where General Stevens''s division landed is On the 23d General Stevens continued the march up the river, followed by 4361 At that time Lieutenant-General Scott commanded the army in chief, the "Army of the Mississippi," commanded by Major-General John to that time I had received my orders direct from General Halleck time the army had been styled the right wing of (General Grant''s) Corps, of about eight thousand men, to be commanded by General G. GENERAL: By an order this day issued, you are to command a strong, General Sherman''s command was then entitled the Second Corps, Army Major-General McPHERSON, commanding army of the Tennessee, Major-General McPHERSON, commanding army of the Tennessee, Major-General, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps. This was the first time that General Grant ordered the "march to SHERMAN, Major-General United States Army. Corps of the United States Forces under Command of Major-General W. SCHOFIELD, Secretary of War. By command of the General of the Army. Secretary of War and the commanding general of the army, so that we 4362 division, which he wished to post on my right in the general line he general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, to which Major-General and placed General Thomas in command of the Army of the Cumberland. eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals General Meade, and a little later the following order came to me: division of the enemy''s cavalry under General W. "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Commanding Cavalry Corps. division of the Cavalry Corps would be sent to my new command, he rear of the enemy''s general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from to the command of the Third Cavalry division (General Wilson having attack the enemy as soon as the Sixth Corps reached me, but General any action of mine so far as the commanding general Fifth Army Corps 43649 Only the three long, shell-like bombs which generally hang in straps to Staff of the Paris War Office, had general responsibility for the trip, of the French guns and the explosions of German shells. We finally climbed out of the trench at the first house of the little The French trenches were practically hidden by the houses of the little an unostentatious little white line, which marked the advanced German We now left the village and walked into the open advanced trenches. by the German guns to bring down a French aviator, who was flying above The young General pointed out the two white trench lines pursuing We found the 128 soldiers ranged in line a few yards behind the trench. little more, and right over the top of our front-line trenches you''ll by the German trench where the Belgian high-explosive shells were like every war, will be won by men," said a French staff-officer. 4367 major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three commanding general that these troops would move north sufficiently far General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. troops at the best points to guard the roads leading into the city, left at once ordered General Smith to send a force up the west bank of the from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for 44124 routed--Longstreet wounded--Night march--Moving towards Spottsylvania himself--Reach Appomattox--In line of battle--Awaiting orders. John Sloan, commanding the Grays, received orders from Gov. Ellis, "to In obedience to this order the Guilford Grays, on Friday night, April Some time in June we were assigned to the 9th North Carolina regiment; to remain 90 days." Under this act our company lost privates R. regiments, Cooke''s command consisted entirely of North Carolina troops, On the 23d of April, we received orders to return to North Carolina. line of battle with our regiment (27th), on the left of the road. The Grays lost in killed, private John Coltrain; in wounded, Sergeants Regiment, North Carolina troops, March 1, 1864; died since the war. COOK, WILLIAM.--Enlisted April 20, 1861; died of disease at Greensboro, MCKNIGHT, JOHN H.--Enlisted April 20, 1861; appointed Sergeant at Fort C.--Enlisted June 11, 1861; appointed Corporal March 21, 44263 A German sniper was busy potting at our men in a front-line trench at mile or so behind the line at Ypres, when German shells began to land B. Finch (late London Regiment), 155 High Road, the "bags" and saw our Cockney pal rushing, head down, towards our line One day a heavy shell came over and knocked down my Cockney chum, Tubby The Cockney turned round and replied, "Blimey, ain''t I in this blinkin'' It came from a little Cockney, a so-called "walking" wounded case. The little Cockney looked up and despite his pain he smiled and said, a section of front line trench near the La Bassée road when a German "One day a young Cockney in the line for the first time was Cockney said: "You''re orl right on the old banjo, sergeant, but when it The officer replied in the negative, whereupon the Cockney said, "Well, 44281 Scotch Regiment of Guards, and in due time retired with a small pension men who rise to greatness, his friends and followers shared his good days, set off to join our regiment then quartered at Fort Wellington, a it." When the American Army, under Wilkinson, were coming down the St. Lawrence, a company of Glengarry Militia were placed at Cornwall to day, and the Commanding Officer and one or other of the Majors men to carry him to a hut belonging to an officer of my own Regiment, He proved to be Colonel Wood of the American Engineers--a man The fact was, it was a party of men coming up to join their Regiments in the first time that I ever knew the Regiment to which my man belonged, Next day we started along the road the militia had cut, and in two hours 44451 and then my officers went to their tanks, and I returned to brigade Bernstein''s tank was within reach of the German trenches when a shell entered the village machine-guns played upon his tank, and several of up a gun and began to shell the tank. attack before my tanks could cross the wide No Man''s Land and reach the battle two half-trained battalions in old-fashioned tanks. If a tank company is ordered to attack with the infantry on the first shell-holes, which the guns of the tanks could not reach effectively, shell-holes determined to get their men away before their tanks were That day (the 14th) and the next the men worked at their tanks, My tanks started for the battle, and after a little breakfast I walked and the tanks of my own battalion to attack the village by the shortest On the day of the battle four tanks, loaded with shells, bombs, wire, 44492 night and saddled for a ride, usually ending in a long walk home, with I rode a cart-horse, and kept the mare in training for the hard work I have seen crack race-horses in my time, but I never saw more "No, I have seen you riding a far better horse than that; I am too old over miles of bad road to the general''s camp, gave riding-lessons and arm, gave way to the flow of spirits that the past few days'' duty had Naturally, in such a life as we led at Union City, our horses formed but our men were barely mounted and in line when an order came to turn reports of Forrest''s officers show, a better ending to the day''s work. like laggards, and whose horses were good enough for any work such a day, and horses and fox-hunting in general. 44599 des Femmes de France_, at Quincy, near Meaux, lives in the picturesque Wounded Soldiers at the Hospital of Quincy 76 a long time, a good man who is father of a family. [Illustration: The Mareuil Road from Voisins to the Marne, the ancient Couilly--Mareuil Street, the road of Champ-Madame (going from Demi-Lune to reach Meaux by going through Mareuil in case the State road was cut saw at the Couilly bridge a little boy of about seven with both arms for trains carrying wounded, war supplies, or troops on their way to or If the Germans come to Quincy, or the heights over opposite, we shall SEVERAL days ago the hospitals near Meaux received orders to evacuate German troops seen near Lizy are marching at this moment upon [Illustration: Wounded soldiers at the hospital of Quincy. These men have come on foot from Paris. in the direction of Meaux, along the streets of Voisins and Quincy. 44702 prisoners here for you," said the officer in charge of us. up and said: "Captain Wirtz, I am ordered to turn these prisoners over one of them, and asked our captain of the guard: "Who is that officer when they came in, this prisoner approached the lieutenant and said: to help me?" "All right," said the lieutenant, and put the watch in his around near the lieutenant, but nothing was said until one morning he she said, "We have just come from there." "How are they?" I asked. One night as we were traveling in the woods, Captain Aldrich said to me: prisoners, the officer in charge said: "Men, I suppose you all know that the other day," said the man, "and took all of my horses, cattle and We came to some woods and the guide said: "There is They said: "How far are you going?" "I don''t know," I replied. 44865 and declared that, traveling through all the cotton States since Mr. Lincoln''s election, he had found, everywhere outside the great cities, "You can not fail to like New Orleans," said a friend, before I left [Sidenote: REBEL NEWSPAPERS AND PRESIDENT LINCOLN.] warning all Union men to leave the State; and before the time for in the Union army, and two among Price''s Rebels, who were likely soon Rebels glare upon Union men like chained wild beasts. In those days, every eye was looking for the Coming Man, every ear contains no Rebel forces, though seven thousand are at Union City, was done to-day, by order of General Lyon, who is pursuing the Rebels time seemed very long before each Rebel shot struck the water near us; [Sidenote: THE UNION AND REBEL WOUNDED.] Major-General Grant, who commands your army, a prisoner in [Sidenote: REBEL SURGEONS GENERALLY HUMANE.] [Sidenote: A REBEL PRISONER BROUGHT IN.] 44889 in advance of the general Confederate battle line forming across a The officers and men of Company D who went into the battle of Boonsboro battle ended, and Kemper''s brigade occupied that night and the next day number of men General Lee had in the battle of Sharpsburg. The actual number of Union soldiers on the firing line in the battle of exaggeration to say that the men killed and wounded in the battles, Federal line of battle against Jackson''s men, and the repulse of the into battle line held the right, Garnett''s brigade on the left, On our immediate right was Barton''s brigade, commanded by Colonel Fry. A part of Gracie''s men had gotten close to the enemy''s line, meeting sixteen men in this battle, having no loss in killed or wounded. men captured in the battle of the day before, about six thousand, the 44965 sharp look-out for the captain and field-officer of the day, whether officer who, for a length of time, was better known than liked, but the day''s work (for the General was a man who gave no credit on those his usual soldier-like wits had gone a wool-gathering for the time better place, and in the course of the day it received a musket-ball and he marches before day-light in the morning without having enjoyed like prudent officers to hold our men in hand, we were, from want of army were to be seen at the same time in rapid retreat within gun-shot The rear of a battle is generally a queer place--the day is won and passive and very good-natured, her other day having long passed by. confusion any thing like what takes place on ordinary field days in officer commanding a regiment, troop, or company, who has got half a 44970 scarcely any large boys left in it any more, only little fellows one poor little old siege of Troy, for a few days more, while Andy long time to come, found their way from Mrs. Lincoln''s hand to our of camp about a half mile from the picket-line,--usually in a woods horse, and as soon as things would begin to look a little like our great camp-fires; and early the next morning took up the line a long, hot, weary day''s march to the extreme right of the army at "Colonel, your men have had a hard day''s march; you will now let Andy calls me away for a moment to look after some poor fellow rest of the army, which has been marching all day, and which comes height, the men of all regiments along the line of march cheering miserable did I look, that one day a Company B boy said, as I was 44974 ill, in which state I remained for some days; at the same time the Captain of the Ship came to let my Father know that he could not wait Sea we saw a Ship, and chased her; in the mean time that we were for a long while, and having captured no Ships we went into the Town, I went and asked her for my money, that I wanted it to begin down: at the time I was pouring out my soul unto GOD in prayers, a to return the same day, I waited till morning: but what was my great I was for three weeks night and day fighting, some times came some times to see her; well, said I, if he comes I will be ready time hoping that some Ship would hear us and come to our assistance, I stay''d in that place for some time, and went home with 45436 Gen. Stuart''s Raid around the Rear of Hooker''s Army. Centreville, Stuart''s cavalry was the rear guard, and I had attracted GENERAL:--Yesterday I attacked a body of the enemy''s cavalry at a body of the enemy''s cavalry on the Little River turnpike, near over a mile back when we saw a large body of the enemy''s cavalry, As soon as he took command, the cavalry camps in Fairfax detachment of 70 men of the 5th N.Y. Cavalry, which was camped near Stuart, under Gen. Lee''s orders, had left in front of the enemy in In his report of the campaign, Gen. Lee says that as soon as it was known that the enemy had crossed into If the force of cavalry which Stuart left behind him had Lee. The First Virginia Cavalry was attached to the command of General all the cavalry of the army was organized into a brigade, with Stuart 4546 arms--furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great CITY POINT, VA., October 14, 1864.--12.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Railroad and On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for Smith''s command and a division of cavalry to report to General the 6th corps, General Ord''s command, and one division of cavalry, on At that time Lieutenant-General Scott commanded the army in chief, General Sherman''s command was then entitled the Second Corps, Army 4550 I turn, on my way home, into an empty street between high garden Such, after six months of war, are the nights of Paris; the days are course, the great "department stores." In the early war days there street women whose faces look like memorial medals--idealized images long time to come Paris will not care to wear any look unworthy of their one long street, their half-timbered houses and high-roofed faded, the church looked like a quiet grave-yard in a battle-field. untouched by war except for the fact that its villages, like all the young, and their faces had the look that war has given to French looked like a ridge thrown up by a plough was the enemy''s line; and officer pass, and turned his head with a little sign of valley we had looked down on, where the French soldiers were walking 45542 French Red Cross offices, in the hope of gleaning some news of the rest Little French girls walk past with R.A.M.C. badges and numerals pinned across their shawls; Army nurses, in grey high masts rose into the sky; hospital ships, ambulance trains, little By day and night the orderlies worked, alternately preparing the place fully-trained nurses and myself, besides the male staff of R.A.M.C. doctors and orderlies, and two or three Red Cross surgeons and lady About 100 men come through each day--the convalescents in the morning, men are getting on with their work, cut up dressings, leave out and business to transact; the four men on Red Cross work, I on a visit to To-day Major X---asked me to run a canteen for his men, whose lot, to those devoted men who, day and night, are working to alleviate 45568 I remember how one captain, a fiery little man tried to hold his men the first man I saw in that prone line of men was my camp-fire friend. Like spectres looming from the grave, the line of men stood up, and the company and of the regiment was composed of plain, intelligent men, Yet the regiment was really like a great boy who begins to think It could not be said of our regiment that we were like the men of days of battle came did Joe show any care for military distinction, and officer said: ''Tell them at home that I died like a man and a soldier!'' Darkness closed the battle for that day, but night brought little rest. twenty-nine men and fourteen line officers, beside field and staff. officer whom I know well--he came home in command of the regiment--told and fifty-three men and four line officers remain, out of the four 45810 French people sit there, and Mrs. Craigee--that lovely-looking girl that I said, 6 Place Denfert-Rochereau, and got out at a big apartment house. The first thing to decide was where I should live permanently, and Mrs. Shurtleff took me that afternoon to two pensions, the best and nearest seen a nice-looking waist for a girl to wear to her work in a paper-bag The last time I drove a car was when I took Mrs. Perkins for a national excursion down the sylvan ways of Connecticut. wonderful the way people are so good to me here: Mrs. Shurtleff, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Christie, Dr. and Mrs. Lines, and I don''t know how many takes care of me, and to-night, to finish off a wonderful day, Mrs. Shurtleff has just been in and was too nice. Mrs. Willis, a friend of Rootie''s, took over a few little things to you 45828 brilliant women at the time of the World''s Peace Congress at The Hague. three million names, signed by American men and women, including many of to rest after meal hours, or when they come home from their day''s study. either old men or women who find it hard to earn a few francs a day. said that his country had started the war and it was up to him to work This work was turned over to women and children, while young boy more energetic Americans went to the German minister of war and time, he should declare that Germany considered itself in a state of war Crown Princess is a happy mother of four lovely boys, as soon as the war One German woman had six children and her husband go to war, and when comforts of tired Americans to take time to discuss war. 45894 picket duty--the left wing to Jackson''s place on the Trent road, and the right wing to a place called the Red House on the Neuse road, the men to open right and left to let the artillery pass to the field and an open road to come into close quarters with his men, sang They halted near a dwelling house, when some of the men went into an to supply their place at night, which were opened in the day time received orders to rejoin the regiment, which took the place of men; but seeming more like a regiment of officers than soldiers. The men of the old regiments, almost to a "All right, boys," said the officer, and turning to his men, he The regiment rose like one man, and, on the order being given to go time, when I would ask him where he left the rest of the men, and 45931 German officer, who, speaking French with ease, turned first to the old The German Red Cross soldier came up to my stretcher and took my hand, Next day a large number of French and British wounded were taken The French soldier-orderlies all left the hospital at the same time It was about this time that a visit was paid to the hospital by Mgr. l''Archevêque de Cambrai, who went round all the wards with kind words of German soldiers took greatcoats away from wounded men and gave a the days when German officials came round searching for cases that could street; a German officer passed, came into view for an instant under the At the far end of the ward a tall young German soldier sat the little German I possessed, and one of the big Staff officers came to barrack-room, as the French had refused to allow German prisoners in 45949 as a musician in the general service, at the recruiting office, at No. 115 Cedar Street, New York City. ended my first day as a soldier in the United States Army. marches through the town took place on fine spring days, much to the reached Fort Pierre on the morning of the fourth day from Camp companies in all--quite a little army for those days--took up their General Harney''s additional troops went into camp near our quarters. The Indians began to arrive about ten days before the appointed time, It took all day to pass the soldiers and wagons over army was marching on the same road, for the corps in advance to-day to made it feasible, an army corps remained at rest in camp for a day command at Fredericksburg at this time, only a few days'' march away the third time the army marched back to its old camps. 46097 PARADE--BUSHMEN AND CITY MEN ON TRIAL--LIGHT HORSE WAR SONG sang the Australian Light Horse war song with unusual enthusiasm-Turkish shells landed on our warships, and ten men were wounded. the Great War that Australians and New Zealanders had a hand in. officers, British, French, Egyptian, Australian and New Zealand, in 7th Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales): Lieutenant-Colonel J. 7th Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales): Lieutenant-Colonel J. [Illustration: Officers of the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Our three Australian Light Horse brigades have now been in the trenches the Australian Light Horse on the left wing of the Empire army driving Light Horse (Colonel Arnott) sent a squadron over their trenches. long line of Australian and New Zealand trenches whence the Turks had one man in the firing-line of the 6th Light Horse was wounded. for the Turks dropped 200 shells on the Light Horse lines, and for an 46131 field officer, then Major Wood, of the 32nd regiment; to his great but the Officers had leave to pass a few hours on shore every day, and moved off in good order; directing his march along the sea coast by Lieutenant General Sir John Hope''s division having arrived at head By forced marches, night and day, we at last arrived at Lugo, a large day''s march; for the men, fearing that time would not permit the army on the following day, the French camp throughout the night was in Orders from Lord Wellington having arrived, General Hill was directed arrived on the 22nd of March, having previously halted for a few days small town, one day''s march from Salamanca, and commanding the passage Having one day a party at his house, he, by way of entertaining received us in an open and generous manner, and, arriving just in time 46261 _Some of the Men of the American Ambulance Field Service at The service to France of Americans, whether ambulance drivers, Until our light, cheap cars were risked on these roads a wounded man one of the field sections of the American Ambulance in France, The drivers of these cars are all American volunteers: young men who, A French Motor Ambulance Section had been handling the wounded of the ten big shells came in, killed six men and wounded forty others, and The American cars literally infest the roads in the day. the usual French Section of twenty ambulances and one staff car, but, American Ambulance (for no other Section is equipped with cars and men I was driving my car with three wounded soldiers in it along a road service aux Armées, les Sections sanitaires automobiles de l''Ambulance [Illustration: SOME OF THE MEN OF THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE FIELD SERVICE 46434 Half the wounded men riding into Paris ask to be taken to the American Two days later, I saw the boys of the American Ambulance unload the the war, three men have come four thousand miles to help France. saw German troops burn peasants'' houses. uprising of the people of three nations, men hating war and therefore Not even in the Thirty Years War were there such things as the German committed by Belgian priests, women and children on German soldiers. living thing to me, because I saw these German soldiers at their work "The Germans used pastilles in burning our houses," he said, "little I was working through the day at the hospital, caring for the German "A German officer took me into his room, one day," he said. "That day the soldiers burned the first four houses of our village. the third day, August 31, a German officer ordered an old man and his 46651 colonel of the regiment, entered the front lines of trenches, and with trenches opened up to right and left, each one crammed full of At 9 the command passed down the line, "Every man ready!" Up double-quick, men fell right and left. Three times on our way to the second trench, the captain dropped and As the Germans left the trenches, their artillery had paused, thinking Soon the order came down the line to deepen the trenches. Calling again on my German, I ordered the men to step out of the trench with hands held high, and to march toward our line. beyond, we ourselves came to a halt and, lining up one man per metre, forming in line, sections at thirty-metre intervals, each company four men to my right, I could see one,--he looked like Mettayer,--lying to the abandoned trench, following the line marked by my men. 46750 Every day I heard sad news through prisoners who read the public have just described took place, several prisoners were sent to the did not know where they were taken, nor what took place in the prisons fearful account of that terrible prison, which has been called the a great many of our prisoners had husbands at the Luxembourg I went to at the last great day when all hearts shall be opened, God will know in them were of the persons whom Monsieur and Madame de Mouchy most A great change took place in Monsieur and Madame de Mouchy. days after, the committee ordered the account of each prisoner to be impossible for me to say to Monsieur and Madame de Mouchy, ''I am going Monsieur and Madame de Mouchy, my reunion with my daughter, the open Two days after, Monsieur de Mouchy, sent me word that ''she had 46757 infantry officer with a party of four men placing sand-bags on top of men with the infantry officer, but he, poor chap, then only three days trenches at all times, searching the enemy''s lines with their powerful number of mines below the enemy trenches, using charges of from 15 to In one of our clay galleries we reached the enemy trenches To a man in No Man''s Land at night the enemy trenches and our own look into the trench which is usually alongside all roads subject to enemy walk back to their old front-line trenches in underground galleries firing-trenches were often closed for weeks at a time, while all heavy Men are not usually alone in the front-line trenches, day or night, front-line trenches or breastworks on both the enemy and British night in "No Man''s Land" and by a careful survey of enemy trenches. 46823 is placed over a large tub of sea-water; the men who have not paid five miles from Delhi, and was to number thirty thousand men of Queen of Gwalior--Ordered to join Lord Gough''s Army at Agra--The Queen of Gwalior--Ordered to join Lord Gough''s Army at Agra--The course of different parts of India, are generally great thieves. Meerut division were to make forced marches to join Lord Gough, river--Destruction--Wounded to village--March to join Lord river--Destruction--Wounded to village--March to join Lord native cavalry and two troops of horse artillery, were ordered to [Sidenote: March to join Lord Gough.] All being arranged, the following day we marched to join Lord Gough, Our time was generally passed shooting horse shot--Bridle neck bush--Time-expired men--Back to horse shot--Bridle neck bush--Time-expired men--Back to men before General Sir Harry Smith--after which, and being quite The time of the men who had joined for six months having more than 47332 Brigade, Third Division, Third and Sixth Corps respectively, Army of when the officer of the day came and started us for the picket line; the enemy whose time has expired is fighting its way into our lines. line nearly all day in anticipation of General Grant''s visit to the regiment moved to a new camp this morning; most of the line officers It''s been a beautiful day; left camp at 6 o''clock this morning and after regiment, were marched up in line of battle time and again camp all day; much appreciated mail came to-night; got two letters General Burnside moved his Corps to the left of us during the night. Division, Sixth Corps and was second in command to General Wallace Tenth Vermont and Second Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps; also front line, the brigade being on the left of the Division and Corps 47474 Since I left him in the trenches of northern France every day has added men in uniform who crowded the staterooms, officers of the new army When I faced General Pershing, I found a man who looks like his German guns always command it, and perhaps a dozen times a day drop morning until late at night men filled it; indeed, they stood generally a little out of place in a trench where men stand in frozen blood and No man who has not seen the faces of the men and heard their "Thank American soldiers in their trenches wearing gas-masks. One day I saw six men building a road from a military highway in night and day, doing the work of one hundred and twenty-five men. best-loved men in France to-day. every man in the army that is morally destroyed at least five men are 47814 Mrs. A----, asking me to spend the day and night with them if I felt arranging Mrs. P----''s room, Charlie and I went to bed; it was past 10, The day passed quietly, and about 6 came dear Charlie; Charlie came at 7, and I went with him to Mr. I----s'' house, to my Sepoy, of his own accord, came to tell me he had seen Charlie coming Charlie came, after dinner, and sat about an hour; he then went Mr. G----s'' house, and then came round to ours; we went to bed, but While Charlie was with me to-day, it came in to of the guns close to us, a 9-pound shot came into Mrs. C----''s room, reinforcements: very little firing to-day, Mr. and Mrs. H---came in Charlie''s post was fired into sharply, day and night; and I could only several officers came to Charlie''s to see from the roof of his house 47856 we lived in the trenches night and day for two months. lines and the German trenches, flared and died. the German front line across No Man''s Land and into our trench, and biggest battles have taken place during this Great War. We relieved the 2nd French Colonial Division and took over their filled with water, or got trench feet and were sent to the hospital. About two days after New Year''s we went back into the line; also the him safely to our lines, receiving at the same time three bullet wounds. we could look right up the German line, as the star-shell burst and lit The next time we went to the front line, my platoon was ordered to man time a German bomb fell in the bottom of our trench and burst there, The remnants of the battalion reached the German third line of trenches 48142 present value, to people who knew a good thing when they saw it--the About this time, two enterprising young men from New England started old man came out and said: "Come in now, we are going to have bright Indian girl, said in Spanish: "He is little and long with half day that the old fellow failed to furnish work. heard from a dear old mining partner, who some time previous left He turned his cold, grey eyes on me and said: "I knew old Crump--he the California brother, in which he said a young man by the name of It was an old country home, the doors wide open, good thought about it a little while and presently returned and said: army." The old man said: "Well, my son, you are dangerously near The old man said: "Now, my son, you will see nobody today. 48229 Upon leaving table one day with General de Maud''huy, we came upon a Returning from the Great Dune after several days, Captain Perroud and them night or day, a trait found only in men that follow the sea. We pass the night in a shelter placed at our disposal by Major Jouanic. One of the _poilus_ I had known for a long time, replied: "At least, you have done your bit for France by giving her ''little St. André''s,'' _poilus_ and sturdy like yourself?" While looking over the first line of Calonne Trench, I found a _poilu_, DAY BEFORE BATTLE OF VERDUN, EPARGES. A _poilu_, on the board walk, said to his friend: "This will be a great is like an endless chain which never stops day or night. Night falls--victorious day--success along the whole line----I go by passed the sombre days in the little German village where they were 48586 by Ewell on the right caused the entire Federal line to give way and moved forward and turned the Federal right and the day was practically Federal cavalry in great force charged on our brigade, but was line now pushed forward, and the Federals gave way at every point in Federal force under General Miles was hemmed in by the Confederates who enemy''s artillery opened with great vigor on Jackson''s line. The Federal lines were forced back several times, army, and by overwhelming numbers turning the Confederates left; but Confederate lines to the left of Jackson''s corps was equally fierce and remained in line of battle all day as if expecting attack, but an the Confederate line some distance to our left gave way, and the enemy way learned of the position, in the Federal line in our front, of double quick time, the Federal artillery opened upon this long line, 48663 Prisoners, Raiders, Secret Service Men and American soldiers. To-day on my way to the General Headquarters of the Belgian Army, of the cold, looks out on to a little old-world garden, like that of time in the building a great number of wounded soldiers, who had come Only a few days'' journey away the greatest war of all time We took over these trenches a few days ago; and as the Germans are The day''s work in trenches begins about nine o''clock the night the men--German, Austrian, Russian, and French--who had shot with them Our King Kaiser yes old man now not know like German VII--STORY OF A GERMAN SOLDIER''S HOME-COMING we had a little afternoon shoot at where we thought the German trenches car had come along the road, all the men had jumped like startled hours, falling in the mud every time a German shell came through the 48703 Georgia is known to every man at all conversant with the state''s My father, Dr. Tomlinson Fort, was born in Burke County, Georgia, The day before the battle, while riding near a great live oak tree, believing that artesian wells could be bored in southern Georgia. good water for a great section of my native State, and to know this I now return to my work with the water of south Georgia. Georgia, and into which could be drained the surface water. over my plant, said that this large section of Georgia was worth have large pear orchards on my south Georgia plantations, Le Conte of Georgia," and last year he made another trip to see this great Colonel Fort bored the first artesian well in this section, and had known as the "Artesian City." Colonel Fort gave to Dougherty County Fort a lieutenant in the First regiment of Georgia regulars, 48822 line of battle and advanced within two miles of the rebel''s stronghold, distance of a rebel battery which was shelling our men with pretty good fires along the line, the rebels advanced a battery to within five was taken for miles from camp, and on New-Year''s day we were ordered orders to return to Corinth, as a brigade came to take our place from cotton field, and a few days after moving camp, orders came to prepare throwing shot and shell into the rebel works from morning until night, heavy timber, until arriving within half a mile of the rebel works. short time, the rebels returned the fire, doing no injury to our men, As the order was received at the same time to take the rebel works by The rebels came to a halt, and returned the fire, and soon the battle 48941 HOW THE RUSSIAN, SERBIAN, AND GERMAN WOMEN GO TO WAR Told by Officers we saw the officer of the prize crew, followed by a number of men, all man-of-war, most likely the _Minotaur_, kept a course close beside "Day and night I never cease to pray to God for the kind man who saved war time, and look forward keenly to the experience which we face. of the old German trenches, and the enemy fire came both from front men were caught in the open by German rifle and machine-gun fire. ship and land guns, and the men could be seen on the first day of the lying out there at night-time, and I sent a party of men back to bury "I was told that the German authorities," said the officer in charge of "Several times," said one wounded girl, "we attacked the Germans. Either that little handful of men in the front trench must be 48997 saw one man who had been hit by a German dumdum or explosive bullet, I The world knows that from the first the man power of the French AN AMERICAN WOMAN CARING FOR A LITTLE WOUNDED FRENCH CHILD.] "God knows we will fight like men," they said, "but to be smothered like Germans came, a shell had struck his home killing his wife in her bed hours nor even the days of the men in the war country are taken up with as he said he wanted the man who died for him to have this little gift He said, "What is it this man wants?" And about the time I had In the conversation the German said, "War is a terrible thing. gotten so that every time a German soldier passed me on the street with We saw the German soldiers coming and we rushed 49089 wagons moved forward and I rounded up the cattle and horses and forced broke camp one morning and started on a twenty mile drive, it began We reached Platte River late the same day at a point which must have the horses nor the men had tasted food or water throughout the day, miles up the American River we each took up a claim and went to work. day time when the men were out working in the diggings, but at night A little farther down the Sacramento River, while in camp one night, finally got out on the high plains with horses, cattle and men fairly Horses, men and cattle took a good rest. Men, cattle and horses all took a good long rest, but the train was When we reached Little Osage River on our way north, Price went but would remain at the camp until the cattle came up, then in place 49099 stories told by Soldiers, Naval Officers, Nurses, Nuns, Refugees, Later that day the Prince came and asked to see the box "from old von by the German War Office, who never left anything to chance. A story was told by one of the Belgian officers of a German soldier One gloomy, rainy day, word came that over two thousand soldiers of the A soldier in war never knows the date or day of the week. When in the first days of the war I saw the soldiers of France on the night he had his own wound French and German soldiers not yet dead day the German soldiers carried her the length of their own trenches. All the way along the line, wherever the train stopped, German soldiers carried at night-time within the French and British lines by German "As good here as anywhere else," said the man in German. 49391 Into this old-world peace, came war, and of the homes and people, there About nine o''clock a peasant came to tell me the Germans were coming! desperately wounded men inside, headed for a hospital a half mile away. roads, and both times the officer halted his men to salute the apache looked at me for the first time, her great wild eyes, in her face that fighting like mad for two days, and we were sent at night to relieve The second day the commanding officer came to the dressing support and care of civilian wounded, men, women and little children, I lay until night in the German second-line trench, among the dead Our men were so new to that sort of thing that it took them some time "It looks like a man; see if he lives," ordered an officer. like this--the getting wounded men back from war. 49444 A duelist can not hold office in Texas, but he can defeat a good law such are the issues of life and death in Texas, and a man is a little case of a leading business man in one of the cities of Texas, and a of Divinity in Texas who is said to be a man of profound learning and on the occasion when the "old man eloquent" of the "Lone Star State" They said: "General, you know we are your personal friends, and have The old General died at Huntsville, Texas, a year or so before the war honor, General, of returning the process served, and the prisoner, Mrs. E., is before you, whom I now introduce to you," said the sub-officer. liable to come at any time by the accidents of war, but I feel bound A lady friend said to us on our return from that country: "Mr. N., you 49544 Officer of Native Cavalry, who had the good fortune to be engaged in years by the confirming officer, General Hewett, Commanding the Meerut Nearly every British officer of the Regiment came to the ground, and ordered the men to mount and patrol the grounds, while I took the the way, nearly killed an officer, Lieutenant Galloway, of my regiment, We rode all day, expecting every moment our men to turn on us party got into a quicksand, and for some moments horse and man were commanding officer, to take a small party of mounted men and start off body of the enemy at a village about twelve miles from our camp. out, this time the whole Regiment, some 250 strong; and marched away miles of Jhujjur, we, the Guides Cavalry and a body of Irregular Horse For a moment our long line halted full in view of the enemy. 49976 About the time the train was pulling out I asked the man who the guard to shoot any man who came near the door, the sound of guns We remained at that place that and the day following, having nothing the old man said the Home Guards often visited the cabins of the black permitted to pass the night and the following day in the loft of their I was kept in this house three days and nights, and years of age, came to my dwelling place and said that the day before time arrived to put up for the day I went around looking for a proper started forward cautiously following the road, and reaching a point I struck out in the direction the old folks had taken and soon came to It was getting toward dark and I concluded to pass near the house in 50001 soft voice who told the old-time stories in my plantation home while within the enemy''s lines, I went to an old friend in Richmond, Mrs. Shields, the wife of Colonel Shields. "Come, come, my little man, what is the matter?" asked my Soldier. in his eye so well remembered by all who knew General Lee''s "old War "Lee was a great soldier and a good man but I never wanted to put my In the old Army my Soldier had a dear comrade, at this time a General in John Theophelas, my dear little brother, nine years old, was a great "I must find the dear old fellow," my Soldier said, graciously "Come, look at the soldiers," I said, as I saw a shadow in the General''s a great many of my Soldier''s old army friends were there at the time, A year later, when my Soldier went home and little Corbell was placed 50247 to-day look like something in the steak line about half-grilled. _kind_, right through to their bones; good fellows, you know; trench headquarters in the support line, where "A" Company will branch the way along that line, day and night, without a moment''s cessation, best things of the kind I''ve seen for trench work, and as for electric the Boche, in his front line, or in a sap or a communication trench. line of trenches, which the Battalion billeted here mans in event of Boche line we wanted; so as soon as we were far enough back we worked six different parts of our line; not in the trench, you know, but line of the Boche wire, towards our own, along the side of an old sap, By good luck it was coming from the Boche trenches. prowling Boche patrol got through my bit of the line. 50410 and said, "Colonel, the General wants you to march your regiment to time to officers and privates alike, but got very little money, the an incident took place about that tobacco I sold on time. "But they are my boys," said the old man, "and I want them with me." There was a general order one time that our boys should not steal "Halt those men there," said the General to one of his orderlies, The day before the Franklin battle we got into a brush with the rebel time going right for the rebel captain. the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin he said a word to General Little and went I looked around and saw General Little, and said, "This is the The general took off his hat and said, "Boys, form a line here; instant a rebel bullet took him right in the abdomen and went through 50483 of that little band of Kentuckians, known in history as the "Orphan Of course I abandoned my attempt to join the old boys of the "Orphan final sad leave-taking of these dear old "Orphans," I must revert to my first time in our experience the horrors of the battle-field in all of the extreme left of the Confederate battle line, with the Forty-sixth battle line from right to left (a distance of more than three miles), battle field told that the day was surely and steadily becoming ours. columns, as they shifted from right to left of the battle line. little excitement and concern and looked for a time like a night attack enemy infantry fire in front, who had by this time opened a lively ground from the point where we formed line of battle and moved to the KENTUCKY CONFEDERATE VISITS SCENES OF BATTLE AND SIEGE DURING CIVIL WAR. 50807 A moment ago I saw an old man and a little girl denizen of the place came for a day or two, and then went on his way in came the prison governor, a military-looking fellow, and he went bringing guns to answer the British and French fire and men whose proud men taken in the early days of the war when confidence in their them," said an old French officer, who had seen much service in Africa, _The Story of a French Captain''s Escape from the Germans_ _The Story of a French Captain''s Escape from the Germans_ kind--was an officer in the French army who was a German spy. day''s work." The ''Glenholme'' was sunk by a German submarine in the Alternately fighting and working by day and by night, our brave men at night-time ambulance-men often have to work in the dark, as lights 50970 fire-place we saw a woman in her night clothing, watching us pass. discovering it was nearly day, we halted in the woods, near the road went northward, still further from the road we had left at day-break, little to the left, we soon reached a point directly west of the and followed the road north-west a little more than a mile. rapidly through the woods near the road until we had gone another mile, South of the road, about half a mile, we saw a space of ground covered Just at dark we left our hiding-place and went directly to the road. to a cross-road near midnight we stopped a few minutes to eat a little left the road and entered the woods, going in a south-east course a road, not wishing to reach the first house too early in the night. Near eleven o''clock that night, March 8th, we left the house of 51063 New York that Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, had yielded to the that transportation by railroad train, with a regiment of troops on look like an enormous mud-puddle; and with every new attempt we began Washington, directing the troops to come, if possible, by the Annapolis building; but at the end of that time the regiment went into camp a directed to join General Viele''s brigade and report for duty to that vessels, then turned south, and, passing slowly down in front of Fort time, according to nearly all the commanders'' reports, the enemy''s shot THE SEA ISLANDS AND FORT PULASKI. THE SEA ISLANDS AND FORT PULASKI. the mouth of the Savannah river, with Tybee island and Fort Pulaski on General Viele''s command, on an island above the fort, to bombard it After the fall of Fort Pulaski the troops on Daufuskie island were of the South and ordering him to report at New York city. 51118 West Plains a man who was a door neighbor to the author came into his said, "Captain, this is a strange time of night to come down and order went into the house near by and soon came out with two other men in About that time about 350 men mostly from Oregon county commanded by rebel scout appeared at the house where the author''s family was living a considerable force of men, reached the state line about 12 o''clock, author made a forced march and reached the west end of the county about Howell County, Mo. The rebels took quite a number of Union men from houses burned in Howell county by the Union men during the Civil county, came in, met the author and said to him: "Captain. Howell county and kill the author with other Union men, he decided to state was arming the men with orders to enter the counties of Oregon, 51206 stories told by Soldiers and Army Officers direct from the battle-grounds A private would far rather face day and night the Russian guns sung upon the battlefields of Flanders in the days of the Great War. There was one verse in the Gospels which was continually in my mind at staff officer turned to me and said: "That is a really great man." like walking through the day of resurrection to visit No Man''s Land. Women came carrying on their heads packs which looked like their entire and fathers went away to risk their lives in war every day of the week. little child with immense blue eyes, who knew nothing, like the good look forward to the time when every soldier who comes out to France man, the colonel, even if so far the soldiers have found little good in A DAY IN A GERMAN WAR PRISON A DAY IN A GERMAN WAR PRISON 51211 the war came, believed it to be their duty to side with their State, at a time when the entire active force of the United States army General) Ewell, who was commanding the camp, that officer reorganized war ended the men who lived to return were greeted with sad faces by duty of every able-bodied man to serve in the army, and they eagerly time held by the Federal army, and a colonel, with some members of "God bless these Virginia women!" said a general officer from one of the end of the war he was the idol of army and people. After the war the man who had commanded the Southern armies remained good deal of money from the men after pay-day. the long-suffering officers and men of the army would have uttered to officers and men, and when the time came, in the fall of 1861, 51451 that follows the exhaustion of a battle, build a bridge thirty feet long miles over muddy roads, in an hour from the time he receives the order, Soon our line was formed, and the old soldiers scarcely waited for the commanding officer had ordered the men to lie down in a thicket, and Slowly the first long night in our new prison passed away. prisoners at the time, and more closely guarded than the jail yard, and a place near Charleston, passing through the city on their way to camp length, finding a road running in the direction of our line of march, we to reach his cabin about the time the parties on the road passed it. the eye, asked: "Old man, if I place my life in your hands, will you "The escaped prisoners--the two men that came last night." "The men we want are escaped prisoners of war--came in last night with a 51552 are in great hurry and have very little time to write letters, even to received our orders from General Pope to come to Springfield by forced guard duty and marching for two days and nights, and must be up early "When I left home I got you a good house to live in, and I want you to Fort Donelson with the rest of General Grant''s army, eleven miles from Veatch''s brigade and my regimental reports sent home for publication. enemy''s pickets, the men of our regiment fighting them all the time; thirty and sixty days'' men for service in various parts of Indiana, to I will take command of the brigade to-day, as General Hobson is still In this letter writing about a leave to come home, I refer to General "Why should I not write a letter this New Year''s Day to my dear little 51559 of their skillful and courageous pilots and superb fighting machines, the trenches; and as Jean''s captain was a good judge of men, he let him little way in front of the new French lines, and then gave them a brief of sight of the French, were out in the open, working on a new trench. Jean is at home in several languages, speaking perfectly French, German, To-day I went to a new post for some sick men, and who should be waiting anyhow--the Boches put up a new machine-gun last night, which enfilades thousand feet, shut off the motor, tilt the machine till the wings are Over our boots we pull fur-lined leather flying boots, reaching half-way As the 16th of January was the first good flying day for some time, The same thing applies to flying--over the German lines you have machine-gun man or observing officer (who would take a few lessons in 51803 When the General returned, Captain Guilfoyle rose to report his work of going on toward Washington I turned off and saved considerable time gave my horse time to get his breath, while I sat on a stone beside him. Confederate army at that time wore such parts of Union soldiers'' clothes as soon as I came to it, which I knew would be in a little time, I would Looking back I saw them turn toward town when they entered the road I Taking into consideration time, place and circumstances, I knew the By the time I was arrayed in my disguise Ned had the horses harnessed to Telling Ned to drive over toward them and ask the way to General Dare''s looked on General Dare only as a guide to Captain DeLacy, and had no placed fresh horses at our disposal, and with little loss of time, we 52121 Army Corps_; _Brigadier-General commanding the three brigades under Major-General Longstreet (Second Virginia and 1862, and then General Lee taking command of the army, Smith withdrew, This officer, a major-general, commanding some 10,000 to 12,000 men, Lee was the next day placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia. campaign--General Lee''s staff--Longstreet second in command--His General Lee kept the army well exercised in drill and the new men had One day Longstreet received a note from General Lee, after a ride marches--Thoroughfare Gap--Longstreet''s attack--Enemy routed--General General Lee''s route was near Longstreet''s and night and by a staff officer to General Lee''s camp near by. On a hot day''s march across the river, General Lee, Longstreet, and General Longstreet says that when Major Goggin, an old Army man on command of his division by Lieutenant-General Longstreet and ordered Lieutenant-General Longstreet, the other great corps commander of the 52656 THE GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER, RAIDER AND MINE LAYER "WOLF" LEAVING KIEL Naval Reserve, men that in peace time commanded and served as officers _Wolf_ was manned by ex-merchant marine officers and men, my fears When the vessel was taken charge of by the German prize officer, he At all times on the _Wolf_ the fresh water situation was of great Lieutenant Rose on the Jap prize ship _Hitachi Maru_, or later on the the _Wolf_ Nerger was in full charge and ran his vessel as a "one man I had been on board the _Wolf_ for some time before I finally got the chance, and stopped his vessel, while the _Wolf_ sent the prize crew this time the _Wolf_ had not been able to pick up a vessel, but the I know one German officer who told me that, when the _Wolf_ returned to her transfer to the _Wolf_, she was ordered by the German officers 53093 The commanding officer of the 71st Regiment Native Infantry reported the _July 1st._--The enemy threw in a very heavy fire of musketry all day The night was very dark, and the enemy fired a great fired many round shot into the Post-office, Dr. Fayrer''s, Mr. Gubbins''s during the afternoon; the enemy throwing in heavy shot, fired at a great _August 4th._--The enemy fired a great number of rounds from their guns course of the day, some few of the enemy were shot from Sago''s post. the enemy fired a great many round shot, and brought a new gun into _August 26th._--The enemy commenced the day with a very heavy fire of enemy, who fired heavily with two guns on Mr. Gubbins''s house; Post-office battery by an 18-pounder shot, which killed both. heavy cannonade from the Post-office on the battery in the square house Post-office opened on the enemy''s new 32-pounder battery, and knocked 53168 the Royal Naval Air Service, and in order to save time he went lovely morning, very cold, and it was not long before I got wetter that night flying is ten times more dangerous than day. transport first thing, and kept my little hand-bag in the machine. I tested my machine for half an hour in the morning, and by morning I was taxying my machine to the far end of the aerodrome, to morning by five machines of the Dunkirk Squadron on the German pusher machine), and all went well until coming home, when my engine Turned out soon after five this morning and went up for an hour and a went straight out to sea after it and got to 6000 feet in 15 minutes, three hours in the air--eventually got to bed at something after 6 a.m. Have been in to see the Commander to-day, and he was kind enough to tell 54065 of the Sixth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, till the present time. The same day we moved forward to Atlanta, which place we reached After working on the night of the 25th, two men were left down in frozen, as, indeed, was the case, day and night, till we reached enemy while the army slept; but as soon as day began to dawn the command of my regiment--Battle near Dallas--Night on the command of my regiment--Battle near Dallas--Night on the the left, and formed in two lines of battle--the Sixth Kentucky soon brought it into the front line of battle--the Sixth Kentucky On the 17th we advanced over two lines of rebel works which were line of battle, having come up with the enemy''s pickets in front of on the breast-works, were ordered into the front line of battle. regiment was placed in the front line, so close to the enemy that 54816 encamped for the night--men and horses lying in the damp grass--we artillery--more than sixty guns--waiting for the enemy in this field, dark, wide-open window, looked like a bunch of black grapes hanging in yesterday an old battery horse named Défricheur died in his turn. driver and his horses looked like a sort of moving shadow. wounded on our lurching and jolting wagons looked like men crucified. artillery in position, the motionless batteries showing up like black field swept by the German guns, a wild look in his eyes. The men ran to the guns and layed them, the breeches coming to rest as black yesterday with men and horses now appeared absolutely white As we stood waiting for orders in a field, our guns in double column, The men of the firing battery let themselves fall in the straw like a glimpse of a long road black with men and horses. 55702 To-day, on their arrival, the Russian Governor-General of Galicia wood marked the Russian soldiers tribute to an officer: "God''s servant, advance, the Russians feel that they are going to drive the Austrians The Russian artillery worked with great precision and effect, and Russians held good under heavy losses; their rifle pits were close up enemy''s communications, a Russian cavalry division came on Germans in commander of a Russian army corps at Radom, where the Germans had number of bodies, Austrian and Russian, brought in by the villagers I ended the day at the railway station, where the Russian wounded just prisoners, wounded and Red Cross men were left behind; and next day Russian trenches, all killed by the enemy''s artillery. in the war than in the front lines of the Russian army. The big German shells, which the Russian soldiers Germans shouted out in Russian, "Don''t fight your own men!" and in the 56211 in slow time, when each company came in line with the body, the word The officer in command that day, I remember, was General The Rifles, indeed, fought well this day, and we lost many men. experience, that in _our_ army the men like best to be officered by This time I was ready, and turning quickly, I saw my man: he was surgeons had plenty of work on hand that day, and not having time to "Come and help me with this man," he said, "or I shall be all day Both these officers were good-looking men, and, in their Rifle uniform, sight left my eyes, my brain reeled, and I came down like a dead man. time; and I well remember what a fine-looking soldier he was. these men saw us coming up they halted for the moment, and gave us one 5633 when the man who went to France was a hero in his town''s eyes. boyish and so very solemn, came the soldiers for the great war--the So Henry doused his light, and the war came right home to us. time one day, Henry remarked wearily: "The town boosters who secured Old Home Town, men of the sort to attract women of her spirit and in broken French and English; then Henry, talking very slowly and came to the headquarters of the American Red Cross in the Place de A young French soldier came up, and tried his English French doctors, stretcher bearers and American Ambulance men were looked toward the German lines and realized Henry''s grave danger. tubercular French soldiers are the saddest looking men in Europe. show how much the French appreciate the Americans coming to France. war; days in New York, for instance, where men in straw hats and 56407 with God. At that time a young lady, Mary Ann Burbank, entered the room him a good morning and on my way home I felt to bless and praise God. On the next Sabbath I attended church at Elder Cole''s, the Christian Doctor asked me if I was going on a visit with my brother?--I told him went down and took my leave of the family.--Little did I think that Dr. Graves was called in to give a line to have me carried into an Insane deranged person; but God only knows the distress that my body is every brother Stephen came into the room and said, now Elizabeth we will have I told her how I loved God, and said many things to be my friend, and told her she did not know how I did love God; she my brother Stephen''s wife said, "that God had nothing more for me to 57212 A few days after this General Lee determined on a movement on the enemy A flag was sent to the Federal camp the next day by General Lee, and One Sunday in March I preached a sermon at St. Paul''s Church, (old St. Paul''s, built in 1739,) exhorting the people to the work before them, that Major-General Jackson of the Federal Army was killed. And the following day General Polk, (who had won the hearts of the front and visit, with the Bishop, the Brigade of General Manigault, A memorable incident of Bishop Elliott''s visit to our army was General I was requested one day by General Polk to visit two men who were offer of his appreciation of the Bishop-General''s past services and of On reaching Atlanta the body of the dead Bishop and General was escorted it; of the Bishop-General over whom I had said the burial service there; 57383 On the 19th, just twenty days after the crossing, the city was completely invested and an assault had been made: five distinct battles (besides continuous skirmishing) had been fought and won by the Union forces; the capital of the State had fallen and its arsenals, military manufactories and everything useful for military purposes had been destroyed; an average of about one hundred and eighty miles had been marched by the troops engaged; but five days'' rations had been issued, and no forage; over six thousand prisoners had been captured, and as many more of the enemy had been killed or wounded; twenty-seven heavy cannon and sixty-one field-pieces had fallen into our hands; and four hundred miles of the river, from Vicksburg to Port Hudson, had become ours. 58231 walk serve the rest, leaving the van and returning with hands full of The night has been a long one, rain falling all the time. The order comes to cross the wood and reach the crest of the hill, "_Mon lieutenant_, shells are falling in the yard, we shall all be a whole hour, in the darkness of the night, I hear a wounded man moan The colonel comes and goes, and gives orders, smoking his huge pipe the what life must have been like in the good old times of peace and Out in the open, the order comes to fling away our cigarettes. The German shells pass high above our heads and come crashing down all When the moment comes, shall we feel ourselves carried away in "Our projectiles are falling right in the German trenches!" This evening the company returns to the trenches and sleeps in the 58233 Heavy shelling by the enemy is taking place enemy lines, push a million men through the gap, leading his men across No Man''s Land like the pass our time in caves or cellars, dugouts or relief days, officers and men passing daily the Canadians on our right to send any shells this way. explosive shells sent from their new line of men, though at all times the air in it had a is a heavy shelling put on the enemy lines in duty like the other men of his battalion, and officers and men do their hard, dangerous, officer or man gets tired of the mud, rain, lice, men for four days in an open, muddy trench, wounded two officers severely, and six men a French road within shell fire of the Germans. coolly in fields into which at times enemy shells day or night the chance of a shell coming 5850 which, in the spring of 1846, was begun the Mexican War. Some time during that summer came to Fort Moultrie orders for Governor''s Island, New York; and accordingly left Fort Moultrie in Custom-House, with Captain Lanman, United States Navy; I had a small companies occupied Lower California at the end of the Mexican War. Major Hardie still commanded at San Francisco and above; Company F, California, I was to accompany General Smith to San Francisco as General Riley had, with his family, taken the house which Colonel I went down to Larkin''s house and got General Smith to somewhat, I took a carriage, went to General Scott''s office in to General Scott in New York City, and afterward to the Secretary time, actually en route for New York, to embark for San Francisco, In a comparatively short time the boats returned, took new Co. office, to erect a new banking-house in San Francisco, to cost 58509 firing began from the houses on the right bank near the river. retreat took place in perfect order, without the enemy being aware soldier went back a second time into the furnace to get a machine-gun then returned a third time to shoot two German cavalry men with his but indispensable in time of war, I ordered my men to break open the machine-guns replied with interest, whilst my men searched the houses The enemy firing had ceased and we now saw about fifteen wounded men in the fields; my men took aim and the machine-gun seemed to start At mid-day, our brave men suddenly cleared the parapet of their trench order, replying at the same time to the enemy''s firing. about ten men remained behind to continue firing until the last soldier firing now continued for some time on the left part of the Fort and the 5851 At that time Lieutenant-General Scott commanded the army in chief, Buell, in Kentucky; the Army of the Tennessee, Major-General Grant, General Smith sent for me to meet him on his boat, and ordered me when I ordered under arms all my division, and sent word to General the "Army of the Mississippi," commanded by Major-General John On the 27th I received orders from General Halleck "to send a force to that time I had received my orders direct from General Halleck was watched by a rebel cavalry-division, commanded by General Corps, of about eight thousand men, to be commanded by General G. we reached on the 16th; when General Grant in person ordered me to With this force General Smith was ordered General Grant commanded the Military Division of the Mississippi, General Grant commanded the Military Division of the Mississippi, GENERAL: By an order this day issued, you are to command a strong, 5852 ranked him at West Point and in the old army, and he (General Buell) Men. Army of the Cumberland, Major-General THOMAS. Army of the Tennessee, Major-General McPHERSON. hundred men and horses, was attached to General Thomas''s command; directed against the rebel army commanded by General Joseph E. Major-General McPHERSON, commanding army of the Tennessee, Major-General McPHERSON, commanding army of the Tennessee, 22d of June I rode the whole line, and ordered General Thomas in command the Army of the Tennessee; General Hooker applied to the Army of the Ohio (General Schofield) was next in order, with General Thomas''s Army of the Cumberland, in the order of--the Major-General, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps. These dispatches were communicated to the army in general orders, Soon after our reaching Atlanta, General Hood had sent in by a flag General HOOD, commanding Confederate Army. ordered General Schofield, with the Twenty-third Corps, to 5853 to convey the army to Virginia, and as General Grant''s orders SHERMAN, Major-General United States Army. SHERMAN, Major-General United States Army. communicate to Lieutenant-General Grant, commanding the armies of IN THE FIELD, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, April 24, 1865 6 A.M. General JOHNSTON, commanding Confederate Army, Greensboro'': ordered to march under their respective commanding generals North Corps of the United States Forces under Command of Major-General W. at Washington to command the army in General Grant''s absence. As we withdrew, at the very door, General Grant said, "Mr. President, you should make some order that we of the army are not SCHOFIELD, Secretary of War. By command of the General of the Army. Orders No. 11, headquarters of the army, Adjutant-General''s Office, War and the general of the army. department commanders, as well as the general of the army, should Secretary of War and the commanding general of the army, so that we 5854 When about fourteen years old I began to do something for myself; Mr. John Talbot, who kept a country store in the village, employing me to commanding officer of the, regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson of the Indians at times rendered the surrounding country somewhat infested by the Pit River Indians, known to be hostile to white River Indians, who had struck the trail of the surveying expedition, The Pit River Indians were very hostile at that time, and for many the Rogue River Indians in southern Oregon were on the war-path, and of the river, and the general commanding made up his mind to cross When I arrived I found that the Rogue River Indians had just been direction opposite to that of the point held by the Indians, and soon In due time orders came for the regiment to go East, and my company 5855 regiments of cavalry, formed into a brigade under command of Colonel the enemy''s left, by way of this road, and strike his rear by a In moving from Corinth east toward Chattanooga, General Buell''s army be sent me in advance of the arrival of General Buell''s army. Had these troops been put in on the enemy''s left at any time after he the same time the Third Division, Right Wing, Fourteenth Army Corps, McCook to command the right wing, Major-General I was directed by McCook to form line of battle and place my division, which he wished to post on my right in the general line he ASSAULT ON OUR RIGHT FLANK--OCCUPYING A NEW POSITION--THE ENEMY Johnson''s division soon gave way, and two of Davis''s brigades were general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at My first brigade was now commanded by Brigadier-General 5856 Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, to which Major-General and placed General Thomas in command of the Army of the Cumberland. to the command of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. to the command of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals enemy''s cavalry and Gregg''s division, and two brigades of Torbert''s to my division commanders the line of march I should take--moving in cavalry in motion, sending General Fitzhugh Lee to follow and attack General Lee''s army, which had been moved from Orange Court House that the enemy''s cavalry was returning to Lee''s army I started that division of the enemy''s cavalry under General W. "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Commanding Cavalry Corps. General Hunter, commanding the troops in West Virginia, had reached division of the Cavalry Corps would be sent to my new command, he 5857 rear of the enemy''s general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from corps, under command of General Wright, were expected to press on Crook''s success began the moment he started to turn the enemy''s left; Grant informing him of the result of the battle, and General Crook the left of the enemy''s infantry, the rest of the Sixth Corps Early left the Valley Pike and took the road to Keezletown, a move to the command of the Third Cavalry division (General Wilson having attack the enemy as soon as the Sixth Corps reached me, but General commander, General Getty, having taken charge of the Sixth Corps in I ordered General Wright to resume command of the Sixth Corps, and time General Grant wished me to send him the Sixth Corps, and it was request from General Grant, I left by boat for City Point, Merritt "The cavalry under General Sheridan, joined by the division now under 5858 General Grant to report what had taken place during the afternoon, and Mackenzie, General Grant also said that the Fifth Corps should reach me "MAJOR-GENERAL WARREN, "Commanding Fifth Army Corps. The order of General Meade to Warren the night of March 31â��a copy being conduct while major-general commanding the Fifth Army Corps, under my action of mine so far as the commanding general Fifth Army Corps was When the news of the battle at Five Forks reached General Grant, he under instructions from General Grant, Miles''s division of that corps By General Grant''s directions the Sixth Corps had been following my As already stated, I could not direct General Ord''s course, he being my The assignment of General Grant to the command of the Union armies in therein as the commanding general shall appoint and direct, of which at disfranchised by the law, and was directed by General Grant to act upon 5859 time I reached St. Louis, and stopped there a day to accept an wound, till the following night, when, setting out for Fort Wallace, force, but by the time he reached the Cimarron the war-party had LIFE--PRESENTED TO THE KING--THE BATTLE OF GRAVELOTTE--THE GERMAN the German army that evening--our stay in the Prussian capital having was so full of officers and men belonging to the German army that it rejoined Count Bismarck''s party, and our horses having arrived Bismarck having left the party for a time to go to a neighboring Observing what had taken place, a troop of German cavalry charged the army of the Crown Prince the next day on its march toward Vitry. MARCHING OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS--THE BATTLE OF SEDAN--GALLANT CAVALRY village gave the Germans to the east of Sedan a continuous line, The German army having met with no resistance whatever in its march 5860 arms--furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field officers of During my first year''s encampment General Scott visited West Point, and The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the While General Taylor was away with the bulk of his army, the little days later General Scott was notified that he need not go to Mexico. major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Scott having now only nine or ten thousand men west of Vera General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three commanding general that these troops would move north sufficiently far General Scott abstained from entering the city at this time, because Mr. Nicholas P. General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. General Taylor had such armies as are not often got together. 5861 OFFICER OF STATE TROOPS--LYON AT CAMP JACKSON--SERVICES TENDERED TO THE The day after I assumed command at Cairo a man came to me who said he from the troops at Cape Girardeau; and a day or two later General C. The day after the battle I met some officers from General Polk''s at once ordered General Smith to send a force up the west bank of the time with a force of 6,000 men was sent out into west Kentucky, General Floyd, the commanding officer, who was a man of called on the commanding officer, General C. At this time I generally spent the day at Pittsburg and returned to On the 5th General Nelson, with a division of Buell''s army, arrived at each of the division commanders that day, several times, and my Some days before I had suggested to the commanding general that I 5862 General Sherman commanded on the right at Memphis with two of his reinforcement of near 8,000 men, General Ord in command. put no troops upon the Fulton road, and the enemy had taken advantage of operations of troops, making a good place to get an enemy into. from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to On the 20th I ordered General McClernand with the entire command, to The enemy occupied Grand Gulf, Haines'' Bluff and Jackson with a force of McClernand''s advance met the enemy about five miles west of Port Gibson road could be cleared of McClernand''s troops I ordered up McPherson, who Vicksburg, and gave orders to all my corps commanders. On the 18th I moved along the Vicksburg road in advance of the troops Sherman was ordered back to Vicksburg, and his troops took much the same 5863 THE ENEMY--SHERMAN CARRIES MISSIONARY RIDGE--BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN Raccoon mountains west of Chattanooga, commanded the railroad, the river arrival, and asking to have General Sherman assigned to the command of ASSUMING THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGA--OPENING A LINE OF SUPPLIES--BATTLE lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. East Tennessee still furnished supplies of beef, bread and forage, but I also ordered the troops in West Tennessee to points on the river and The plan of battle was for Sherman to attack the enemy''s right flank, In the battle of Chattanooga, troops from the Army of the Potomac, from Sherman had left his camp on the north side of the Tennessee River, near Sherman''s command had left their camps north of the Tennessee, near Army of the Potomac by the right flank of the enemy, or by his left. enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great 5864 division of Hancock''s corps, Mott commanding, was left at Todd''s when The position assumed by Hancock''s corps forced Lee to reinforce his left by Warren''s and Wright''s corps, Hancock to command all the attacking Two of his divisions were brought to the north side of the Po. Gibbon was placed to the right of Warren, and Birney in his rear as a Lee got troops back in time to protect his old line, so the This was guarded by a division of colored troops, commanded by General case the main army could follow Lee up and attack him before he had time Direct corps commanders to hold their troops in readiness to march at General Butler was ordered to send Smith with his troops reinforced, as General Wright, with the 6th corps, was ordered by a road farther give Sheridan direct command of the 6th corps and cavalry division. 5865 There have been about sixteen thousand men sent from Lee''s army south. the enemy''s cavalry under General Wade Hampton, passing our extreme left forced march was necessary in order to get there before Lee''s army could General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on On the 8th, General Warren met a force of the enemy, which had been sent 9th, General Sheridan started on a raid against the enemy''s lines of On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that the north bank of the James River and joined the force General Butler of cavalry, of the Army of the Potomac, and a force of General Butler''s General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for of General Ord''s that had succeeded in forcing the enemy''s lines near 59489 them; he saw wounded men left by the roadside for want of means of the right was a room large enough to hold all the men of the guard, and he could walk like a foot soldier, and said good-bye to him, little when they got to the place they only saw a man lying dead, covered with Other men who were camping near, half dead with cold by their wretched snow--the men still round the fires, the horses harnessed to the guns, We had to cross a little wood before reaching the town; here we came up I stopped to see after the men we had left near the guard at the gate; be eating dead men, as there would be no more horses left. ''You are right,'' said Picart; ''and we had better put our arms in order.'' that I saw my regiment marching to left and right of the road to join 59519 we had observed the German front line trenches through our periscopes That night, three officers and one hundred men were sent up the line to in No Man''s Land a short distance in front of our front line trenches Our shells were bursting in the German trenches and wire entanglements. time our shells were dropping upon the German wire entanglements and Our guns were shelling the German trenches, so that we were between advanced and made a dash into the German front line trench, to find support line which was a captured trench we had taken from the Germans. German trench, now to become our front line. platoons enter the trench, they line up directly in the rear of the men No Man''s Land toward the German line, mowing down the enemy with its to have everything ready when officers and men come out of the trenches. 59757 James Lusk probably felt that the young men and boys of the great Captain Lusk took a Commission in the 6th Battalion The Cameronians Lieutenant Lusk was appointed Transport Officer of the Battalion, and The Battalion goes on duty in the trenches for six days at a To-day is specially busy, as the Battalion goes to-night to take its Fighting continued all day, and got worse when night fell. I went along a road running parallel to the trench line, and I got relieved in the trenches that night (which made only five days spare) and 200 men out working near the trenches last night. over a section of trenches to-night, so Captain Graham and I went and night we marched off from billets to trenches (about 7½ miles), the We came into trenches to-day, and shall likely be in for Christmas. every Officer and man in the Battalion, that your son Captain Lusk 60084 regiment, took a good bath, and made supper of bread, pork and coffee. Night--Lay under guard all day; heard drew one day''s rations of corn meal, beef and salt. _3d day, 5th mo., 10th._ Soon after we got to bed last night we were rations for to-day of corn bread, boiled bacon and black bean soup at Drew meal and molasses; got wood for three days. until very late; got fresh beef and half a ration of bread, but no salt. and an old ration of beef, beans and bread, with a little salt to-day. Drew the same rations as yesterday--got a piece of pork as large as my Drew rice, molasses, and bread, for two days rations. lay in the cars until eleven o''clock to-day, then were moved out about 17th._ Was a very warm day; I got no better; am so 28th._ Last night we got one day''s rations of sugar, 60296 I heard him tell the O.C. that he had spent years in the Klondike Goldfields in early days.'' One day in the winter of 1899-1900 a telegram came to me from Dr. Robertson our Canadian Superintendent of Missions asking me, if days and the faces of loved ones came before us and we were back home loved a good, clean joke, and let me tell you when we got going the for death soon comes to the crippled man or dog away from help in the muzzle into the old man''s hand and looked into his face asking him, I For two days I worked as best I knew to save his life. the trail of life for all the days that are to come. The old man had come to the time when he knew that shortly his life-story of my old friend of by-gone days, a trail-blazer and 60315 The _actual_ Russian Revolution took place in the summer months of return to Russia and help in the great work. The Russian workers, like the peasants, also employed direct action. Zorin informed me, others were working with the Soviet Government. Soviets," said Zorin, "the living place of the most active members America for their political opinions, now in Revolutionary Russia again For some time Makhno worked in harmony with the Bolsheviki, Revolution, one who was carrying on the great work of education in a workers felt in the great Russian Revolution, and of their faith and people in Russia know how to work. them the meaning of work in revolutionary Russia. the first news of the Polish attack on Russia: I felt the Revolution Russian Revolution in view of the fact that the Bolsheviki negotiated "These people come to Russia just to look us over," 60343 War, a thousand little details keep coming up that I had long _July 4th._ My turn as officer of the day which, among its other James, Stillman and myself went to a neighboring hotel for a good lunch _July 25th._ We left Paris in the early morning and after nine hours left the mess for a few days, but everywhere we went the French made I left Vittel two days ago in the ambulance with four sick men I looked forward to a nice, quiet, cozy little dinner and a good sleep All day and all night shells were passing over them. passed little groups of men working their way back, when one or the _March 14th._ Am leaving for Paris for two days to-night with Major Spent the night at the Officers'' Club and next day, Saturday, motored Toward night we made our way back and the next day started for 60363 furnish a force of mounted men to march to Elk River Bridge, on the about sixty men of the 3d Tennessee Cavalry, under command of Col. Minnis, who had been driven into the fort the evening before; the open ground to the north appeared a heavy line of the enemy. officer in command of the colored troops and to inspire his men with Captain Nation, of Company G, in command of the battalion, Major Lilly battle, and Major Lilly, of our regiment, took command, and, by the way, regiment; a small number of each company only remained to guard the camp went into line, without dismounting, charged the enemy, and, after a regiment, at the same time, moved to the right, making place for the of the company, and the men who had charge of the horses of the Among the lost were men from every company of the 9th Cavalry. 60629 road from Fort Donelson, and will reach our camp soon, and have a good Some men then come up and hand to me the little effects of next came my round, the man of the house had just come out. As we come in sight of a rather better looking house come at just the right time." He then introduced himself to me as Mr. Hurt, of Como; and said that his house was a quarter of a mile back--he As we thus talked, a little man was seen coming up the road, and turn in the road showed me the men mounting, and Bischoff coming to I heard horses coming up the road. A little farther on a road turns off, and the men are sure that it was We dismount, and half the men take the horses to the nearest house to 61021 "They seem to work very hard!" said I, turning to glance back whence we "Yes," said my companion, "every week we are turning out--" here he "Yes, sir," said he, busy pliers never still, "guns and rifles is very "And her gun power will be enormous!" said the Captain. "Yes," said he, gently, "and yet it is surely a noble thing to--die busy" to be afraid; of the round-headed gunner who, like his gun, was "A wonderful place," said I for the hundredth time as we stepped out "Shell-shock is a strange thing," said the Colonel-Surgeon, "and "Yes," nodded the Major, "strange thing is that a year ago they comes one of our new machines--engine sounds nice and smooth!" said he, Upon a certain day of wind, rain and cloud, news came that the Boches Some day, in years to come, when the roar of guns has 61177 feet away through a cloud of dust a company of German foot soldiers to be English; and for two days, so he said, the Germans had been Germans had gone that way, no burnt houses or squandered fields marked once out of sight of German soldiers, nor by day or night out of sound pass bearing a couple of German officers and a little, scared-looking the sight of the German privates who came and went; and they, seeing lieutenant came to him and told him in a mixture of French and German where, it is said, Belgian civilians first fired on the German troops spirit of the German Army in this war--the general feeding his men by big German guns were rarely so cheerful as the men who belonged to the the wagon must be a French soldier, or else that the Germans had seen place I saw only two men wearing the German gray. 61370 the other hand, some French officers told me that their confidence in feelings of the people at home is the remarkable way in which they French officers or men, they expressed themselves in terms of who saw the French during the war of 1870, when--being a boy--I was this occasion, numbers of French people came up to me and told me 6 p.m., E.S., Church Tent, 25 General Hospital. 6 p.m., E.S., Church Tent, 25 General Hospital. on the subject of the war, has in regard to Abbé Lemire turned him into the hero of all the Liberal Church people of France. soldier of France in years to come. after the Franco-German War it was a poor country, it was The war came and found Germany ready, united, patriotic, with the instigated and at the present day carry on the war. I look back to the time when I saw French 62571 to man four guns; and these, as the great battle came to its end, fell, that the Duke''s long nose on a battle-field was worth 10,000 men. Duke thereupon issued a general order, desiring that "British officers infantry, marching with the order and precision of a field-day, in officer and some men from each regiment to parade there next morning following night they left the town altogether, and we took possession fields were strewed with the bodies of men, horses, torn clothing, artillery--was expended, and no men that day saw fiercer fighting than officer, on a little black horse, who went off to the rear like a in slow time, when each company came in line with the body the word enemy from the fire of our troops; and from this place our men had the Place d''Armes by the river, I saw a French general officer 6764 think the finest-looking company I ever saw, white or black; they range To-day, for the first time, I marched the whole regiment through astonishment of some white soldiers, "De buckra sojers look like a man Then we marched back to camp (three miles), the men singing the "John our men, after flooring the tents of the white regiments and our own, so far as it went; the officers and men around me were in good spirits, It was the first time in the war (so far as I know) that white and black about four miles away; the officers and men had been distinctly seen, men from the two white regiments and from my own, and had instructions "Colonel," said he, "there are great news for the regiment. first white officer to recruit and command colored troops in this war. Soldiers, you have done your duty, and acquitted yourselves like men, 6961 BY JACOB DOLSON COX, A.M., LL.D. _Formerly Major-General commanding Twenty-Third Army Corps_ mountain position--McClellan in the field--His forces--Advances mountain position--McClellan in the field--His forces--Advances Mountain--Floyd and Wise advance--Rosecrans''s orders--The Cross Mountain--Floyd and Wise advance--Rosecrans''s orders--The Cross General Rosecrans had succeeded McClellan as ranking officer in West Potomac line in command of General Kelley, and the Cheat Mountain major-general and commanded the Twenty-third Army Corps in commands--McClellan limited to Army of the Potomac--Halleck''s commands--McClellan limited to Army of the Potomac--Halleck''s assigned General Halleck to the command of everything west of a line Major-General Loring took command of all the Confederate forces in passed General Burnside''s quarters, I sent a staff officer to report I left the Army of the Potomac before McClellan''s general order on ordered the general to turn over the command to Burnside, as he had to his general officers commanding corps and divisions, a 6962 BY JACOB DOLSON COX, A.M., LL.D. _Formerly Major-General commanding Twenty-Third Army Corps_ General Martin, commanding his cavalry corps, to get his forces that General Schofield was ordered to report to Grant for duty, Lieutenant-General--Sherman commands in the West--Study of plans of Lieutenant-General--Sherman commands in the West--Study of plans of On the 29th of March General Sherman visited Schofield at Knoxville, rode forward with General Schofield to meet the army commander. General Thomas ordered Howard''s corps to cross by the bridges at general in the Provisional Army and ordered to relieve Johnston. Sherman''s army had reached New Berne; but its commander had given General Cox commanded the 23d Army Corps reports to General Thomas for duty, assigned to 4th army corps; commands 2nd division 23d army corps under General Cox. Coughlan, James, assigns General Cox to command 23d army corps; assigned to command new division 23d army corps; 7190 roads were very poor, dirt mostly, and it took them a long time. We had a lot of good times at Camp Woodcraft near One time Ray Smith and I went up to stay overnight and it was cold. After running all day at Scout Camp, Ray Smith and I would walk to went over to camp for a weekend, we had to spend the first day cutting One day in 1938 when we came home from work we found my mother the bowl started at the other end of the table by the time it got to Sometimes during this period I got a pass and went down to Ft. Jackson and stayed a few days with Ken in his barracks. The weather at this time of year was not very good in England, with third day a guard took me into a room where a German officer sat 7850 Colonel Burr were to be written by me, than I received letters from of New-York, in 1789; Arnold takes command; Burr acts as brigade command on Long Island in the place of General Green; Burr reports to Letter from Colonel Burr to Mrs. Edwards; the British army move from letter to Ogden; Burr ordered by General Washington, through Putnam, &c.; General Washington designates Colonel Burr; letter from Robert West Point; letter from Mrs. Montgomery to Burr; ordered by General Letter from Burr to General Washington resigning his command; from acquaintance with Mrs. Prevost, subsequently his wife; letter from Mr. Monroe, late President of the United States, to Mrs. Prevost; General tenders Burr the office of attorney-general; he takes time to At different times Colonel Burr received friendly anonymous and other (now deceased), then acting as a colonel in said brigade, that Mr. Burr''s exertions, bravery, and good conduct, was the principal means 7851 General Hamilton''s pamphlet on the conduct of John Adams; Colonel Burr until the 17th of February, 1801, when, on the 36th ballot, Mr. Jefferson was elected president; letter from Burr to General S. Mr. Burr''s political position on being elected vice-president; letters States'' Senate; Burr presides; acquittal; letter to Theodosia; ditto; Burr''s early views against Mexico; letter from General Miranda to American States; letter from General Toledo to Colonel Burr in 1816, Mr. Jefferson expected to be elected president, but that Colonel Burr To Aaron Burr, Vice-president elect of the United States of America. 6. This letter is dated _seven_ days after Mr. Burr''s casting vote in I received a letter from Colonel Burr, dated, I believe, 16th he had hoped the answer he had returned to Colonel Burr''s first letter to Colonel Burr the letter he had given me from General Hamilton; 7852 Letter from Colonel Burr to Mrs. Edwards; the British army move from &c.; General Washington designates Colonel Burr; letter from Robert West Point; letter from Mrs. Montgomery to Burr; ordered by General acquaintance with Mrs. Prevost, subsequently his wife; letter from Mr. Monroe, late President of the United States, to Mrs. Prevost; General prevented from proceeding, by order of President Washington; Mr. Jefferson to Burr on the subject; contested election between Clinton (now deceased), then acting as a colonel in said brigade, that Mr. Burr''s exertions, bravery, and good conduct, was the principal means United States the treaty negotiated with Great Britain by John Jay. This question called into operation all the powers of Mr. Burr''s mind. until the 17th of February, 1801, when, on the 36th ballot, Mr. Jefferson was elected president; letter from Burr to General S. American States; letter from General Toledo to Colonel Burr in 1816, 7962 language of Tommy sitting on the fire step of a front-line trench on them rest billets, because while in them, Tommy works seven days a One sunny day in the front-line trench, I saw three officers sitting When he goes into the fire trench (front line), Tommy''s menu takes a Tommy''s trench rations consist of all the bully beef he can eat, A machine-gun officer entered the dugout and gave me a hard look. why Tommy occasionally takes a turn in the trench for a rest. While in a front-line trench, orders forbid Tommy from removing his line, the wounded man and two men to carry him to the rear to the "Oil Cans." Tommy''s term for a German trench mortar shell which is an only time Tommy gets a free ride in the trenches is while on a to the men in the trenches." Many are sent out to Tommy and most of 8380 Insurgents Firing on Spanish Fort After my return from Cuba many people asked me questions concerning the towns and burned their houses, and issued orders to have all fields And the Spanish officers, as well as the planters--the very men to whom Another correspondent said that a Spanish officer had told him that he [Illustration: Insurgents Firing on a Spanish Fort "One Shot for a Cuba are not dead to-day is because the Spanish soldiers cannot shoot On the whole, the Spanish soldiers during this war in Cuba have order some months ago commanding the country people living in the of guerrillas and Spanish soldiers were sent to burn these huts, and to [Illustration: Young Spanish Officer] caste than these Spanish murderers--men like Colonel Fondevila, [Illustration: An Officer of Spanish Guerrillas] board of an American vessel, the Spanish soldiers'' control over you and "But the Spanish government has the right in Cuba to execute upon 8423 States Army, had been a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, had Prisoner-of-War Camp No.1 in the Philippines, 1,500 (25% of our 6,000 Japanese prison camps, labor details, the "farm," and "Hell Ships" to STAFF Camp John Hay Baguio, Mountain Province, P.I. Lt. Col. Gen. MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff of the Army at the time, told Realizing that Camp Hay would soon be overrun by Japanese troops, we Medical Service: As former C.O. of the station hospital at Camp John JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR CAMP NO1, CABANATUAN JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR CAMP NO1, CABANATUAN (Decoration Day), the Japanese allowed one thousand prisoners to visit "Death March," but died on July 27, 1942 in the Japanese P.O.W. Camp lost a husband in prison camp, obtained a Japanese license as a A Japanese officer took several American doctors up on deck Japanese Prisoner of War Hospital Moji In a Prisoner-of-War Camp. 9874 great good fortune, at the very crisis of the war, to visit the battle ''It''s a dear little gun,'' says the officer boy. I have told of my first day, when I visited the front trenches, saw the Italian lines, for they have the great advantage that a row of fine Austrian position, the general curve of both lines being marked, as in work beyond a certain point the size of the gun makes little matter. cannot look at the officers and men without seeing that their spirit day in the French trenches, I have never once heard the sound of music feed up their fighting men at the places like Verdun or Hooge, where right and left, soldiers'' faces, hard and rough from a year of open We passed in a little procession among the French soldiers, and viewed Boche, French or British, is a man of mettle! 9896 English War Correspondents in Paris--Gambetta calls me "a Little Spy"-Weissenburg two days later, when a division of the French under General French reverse, he contrived to make his way to Paris on a locomotiveengine, and arrived at our flat in the Rue de Miromesnil looking as black more army corps, and he started on the work of placing Paris in a state of _Daily News_, who so long wrote his Paris letters at a little café The Government of National Defence--The Army of Paris--The Return of Victor Hugo--The German advance on Paris--The National Guard few thousand men, on the German position near La Malmaison, west of Paris, at Brie as in Paris itself, the Germans, it was said, having carried off This became the German plan, and whilst a force under General But the principal event of the day was the defeat of General Paris''s force 9975 feelings of Parisians and Americans during these war days. Shop of a German merchant in Paris, wrecked by French mobs A party of American volunteers crossing the Place de l''Opéra in Paris on Wounded French soldiers returning to Paris with trophies from the [Illustration: Shop of a German merchant in Paris, wrecked by French Since acts of war were committed by German troops two days ago, the When Baron Schoen left the German Embassy in Paris, he was treated with American Hospital in the work of caring for wounded French soldiers. days after the declaration of war a skirmish took place near the village war, were being taken around Paris, to a town in western France. kilometers from Paris), but on the French left the Germans have fought Americans still left in Paris were very busy to-day registering their nominated as American Ambassador to France, the French Foreign Office