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 REUNIONS 
 
 TAYLOR'S BATTERY, 
 
 1 8th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Donelson, 
 
 FEBRUARY 14, 1880. 
 
 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Belmont, 
 
 NOVKMBER 6, 1886. 
 
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 Copyright 1850. 
 TAYLOR'S BATTERY ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Reproductions by 
 Chicago Photogravure Co.
 
 "fl Me for liberty, bops: go back anfc 
 man tbe gun." 
 
 Dying words of Oscar F., Beckers on the battlefield of 
 fort Done /son. 
 
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 THE OLD FLAG.
 
 TO CELEBRATE 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
 BATTLE OF FORT DONELSON. 
 
 RE-UNION 
 
 OF 
 
 TAYLOR'S BATTERY 
 
 AT THE 
 
 GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, 
 
 FEBRUARY i4'i'H, 1880. 
 
 GENERAL EZRA TAYLOR, PRESIDING.
 
 Capt. Ezra Taylor. 
 
 1st Lieut. S. E. Barrett. 
 
 ist Lieut. L. I'. Hart. 
 
 2d Lieut. I. P. Rumsey. 
 
 2<1 Lieut. I'. H. White. 
 
 OUR FIRST COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
 
 . REMARKS . 
 
 gOTH EXPLANATORY AND APOLOGETIC. 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: 
 
 This book, which was at first intended to be only a report 
 of the proceedings at the Reunion and Banquet held on the 
 iSth Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Donelson, owing to the 
 delay in preparation, is also made to include the proceedings at 
 the Reunion and Banquet held on the 25th anniversary of the 
 Battle of Belmont, seven years later. 
 
 It also contains a complete roster of the Battery; a list of 
 the names and residences of all living comrades, so far as known, 
 and photo-gravure copies of the officers and members of the 
 Battery as taken at Memphis in 1862. 
 
 The apology for this delay which has been vexatious to 
 many, is, that the copy was first placed in the hands of Com- 
 rade H. W. Dudley; after a lapse, of some years, Comrade 
 Dudley, feeling himself unable toTtend to the matter, turned 
 the copy over to the subscriber; in looking it over, some parts 
 were missing; much time was consumed in looking them up, 
 with poor success; the copy was then arranged for the printer 
 and laid away, but so safely, that several more years elapsed 
 before it was found. Then it was decided to include the 
 Belmont banquet proceedings, and subsequently the photo- 
 gravure copies. 
 
 1 am sure that the book in its enlarged form, and with 
 the additional features mentioned, will prove a source of 
 pleasure to all comrades, and will be prized as a memento of 
 more value than its simple cost, and will tend to cement still 
 stronger the friendship now existing between our comrades. 
 Your comrade in F. C. and L., 
 
 C. W. PIERCE. 
 CHICAGO, Nov. i, 1889.
 
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 BY MRS. MARY J. PECKHAM, 
 BATAVIA, ILL. 
 
 HICAGO, Queen City of the West, 
 
 We hail thee with delight, 
 And thanks to thee most cordially 
 
 For the welcome here to-night ; 
 Where comrades once again can meet 
 
 Each well known face to see, 
 And clasp once more the friendly hand 
 
 Of the boys of Battery B. 
 
 Long years have passed since last we met, 
 
 Bearing the colors true, 
 With canteen black and old knapsack 
 
 And our uniforms of blue; 
 Which told the noble story 
 
 That artillery boys were we, 
 And belonged to Captain Taylor's 
 
 Chicago Battery B.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 Our brave and gallant captain, 
 
 The man of will and might, 
 Who ever found a place for us 
 
 In the thickest of the fight. 
 And we never flinched from duty, 
 
 Whatever it might be, 
 And victory crowned the efforts 
 
 Of the boys of Battery B. 
 
 Three long years we fought together 
 
 In the great and bloody strife, 
 And to save our country's honor 
 
 We each laid down our life. 
 To defend our starry emblem, 
 
 The banner of the free, 
 None quicker rallied to her aid 
 
 Than the boys of Battery B. 
 
 Led on by Captain Taylor, 
 
 Who did the rebels face, 
 Was promoted to a Major, 
 
 Then Barrett took his place. 
 And so they climbed the ladder 
 
 Of Fame's most high decree, 
 And Rumsey last was captain 
 
 Of Chicago Battery B. 
 
 Our Colonel has crossed the river 
 
 In his frail and phantom barge. 
 Our ranks are growing thinner, boys, 
 
 From the great and last discharge. 
 And while we live upon the land 
 
 We struggled to make free, 
 Let's meet as long as there remains 
 
 A boy of Battery B.
 
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 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 Reunion of Taylor's Battery, 
 
 HELD AT THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, 
 
 ON THE iS'PH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATTLE OF FORT 
 DONELSON, FEBRUARY 14, lS8o. 
 
 GENERAL EZRA TAYLOR PRESIDING. 
 VICE-PRES'T, MAJ. SAM'L E. BARRETT. 
 
 ROLL CALL. 
 
 Introductory Address, Capt. I. P. RUMSEY. 
 
 Report of Taylor's Battery Ass'n, W. T. SHEPHERD, Sec'y. 
 Letters and Communications. 
 
 SUPPER CALL. 
 
 Prayer, REV. G. R. VAN HORN 
 
 SUPPER. 
 
 TOASTS. 
 
 Our First Battle Fredericktown, 
 
 Our First Retreat Belmont, 
 
 Our First Wounded, 
 
 The day we celebrate Fort Donelson, 
 
 G. R. VAN HORX. 
 
 |\s. F. WHITTLE. 
 
 D. F. CHASE. 
 
 II. W. DUDLEY.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 Our First Surprise Shiloh, - - W. T. SHEPHERD. 
 
 Our First Brigade Commander Gen. W. II. L. Wallace, 
 
 Capt. I. P. RUMSEY. 
 
 Our Swamp Fight Chickasaw Bayou, - J. M. VERNON. 
 The Work we did'nt storm Arkansas Post, WALTER SCATES. 
 Lake St. George, Raymond and Antimonial Wine, 
 
 C. W. PIERCE. 
 Our First Siege and a glorious " Fourth " Vicksburg, 
 
 C. E. AFFELD. 
 Mission Ridge and Knoxville March, F. O. AFFELD and 
 
 CHAS. TURNER. 
 
 Resaca, C. J. SAUTER. 
 
 Dallas, WM. C. SCUPHAM. 
 
 Keuesaw Mt. and Mill Creek, ARTHUR BURNAM. 
 
 Atlanta, JAMES W. PORTER. 
 
 Our Supplies, B. F. MCCARTY. 
 
 Our Noble Dead, G. R. VAN HORN. 
 
 SONGS BY THE CHICAGO QUARTETTE CLUB. 
 
 TATTOO. TAPS. 
 
 Proceedings were opened with singing by the Chicago 
 Quartette of the "Soldier's Farewell." 
 
 The Bugler of the evening, M. LANG, of the 2oth Illinois, 
 then sounded "Assembly." 
 
 It was moved and seconded that we have a stenographer to 
 report the proceedings. 
 
 Remarks by Messrs. DUDLEY, RUMSEY and AFFELD, and 
 motion carried. 
 
 The introductory address was then delivered by Captain I. 
 P. RUMSEY, which was received with loud cheers. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The next in order is the report of 
 Taylor's Battery Association, by W. T. SHEPHERD, Secretary. 
 
 The Secretary, Mr. SHEPHERD, then read the report. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the report gentlemen. 
 
 It was moved and seconded that the report be approved; 
 which was carried. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The next matter of business before you, 
 gentlemen, will be letters and communications from our absent 
 friends.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 9 
 
 MR. C. E. AFFELD: I will state that these will take con- 
 siderable time, and perhaps the gentlemen will think that it will 
 be better to read them in the next room during the course of 
 the banquet. 
 
 It was then moved, seconded and carried that an adjournment 
 be had to the supper room. 
 
 The bugler then sounded supper call. 
 
 After the members were seated round the table, the Rev- 
 G. R. VAN HORN offered the following prayer: 
 
 " Oh God, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee that so 
 many of our lives have been preserved during all these years, 
 and that we are brought together under circumstances of great 
 mercy. We pray that in our meeting together, in all our 
 deliberations, Thy blessing may rest upon us; that in the battle 
 of life, we may make a success; that victory may crown all our 
 best efforts and ultimately gather us together around that banquet 
 in Thine own home and Kingdom. We ask it for Christ's 
 sake. Amen." 
 
 It may be noted that the banquet was served without any- 
 thing stronger than coffee. 
 
 The colored waiters then marched into the room in single 
 file, each bearing a tin plate with a piece of fried bacon and 
 hard bread, set before each member, that being the first item 
 on the menu, but known in army life as "hard tack" and 
 " sow belly." 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: You will please keep one ear open to 
 listen to the reading of letters from our comrades. 
 
 MR. AFFELD: I think we had better read these between 
 the courses, if we can, because there are a great many of them, 
 and they embrace a great many of the old members, and 
 they have taken pains to answer, and of course they would like 
 to know that their efforts are appreciated. 
 
 MR. RUMSEY: I move that the letters be laid on the table 
 until we get through eating, I think the boys want to talk, I 
 know I do and after we get through eating, we can read the 
 letters, and hear what the boys have to say about them. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD: I second that motion. 
 
 MR. TURNER: I move to amend MR. RUMSEY'S motion, 
 that we delay the reading of the letters for, say 15 minutes, and
 
 10 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 I think during that time we can do all the talking we want, say 
 between the next course and the one that follows. 
 
 MR. AFFELD: I second the amendment. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: It is moved and seconded that the letters 
 be laid on the table for the present. Motion carried. 
 
 The Quartette then sang " The March," by Becker. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: MR. AFFELD is ready to read the letters 
 when you want him, so you have only to signify your wishes. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following letter from H. T_ 
 CHAPPELL, a member of Squad 3, which was read, amid great 
 merriment, as follows: 
 
 DENVER, COLO., Feb. 10, 1880. 
 
 DEAR JIM: Your letter came yesterday, and I am delighted to think, 
 that tho' I am not to be in at roll call, some one will answer for me, and 
 report me as out on special service, but ready for duty at a minute's notice. 
 I tried hard the other night to get my ideas in shape to send the boys, even 
 went so far as to write a little, but was not satisfied with my effort by any 
 means. If they are bound to hear from me, when my name is called, you 
 answer for me Jim, and tell them please, that it will ever be a source of joy 
 and pride that I served with them in old " B " battery. 
 
 And making due allowance for all their little mistakes of judgment 
 and taste, that while I remember the daring deeds of other squads, I do not 
 forget that I was a member of squad 3. And when I consider that Ora 
 McBride was one of that "3", no large word of pride sounds egotistical. 
 For, was not Ora a hero? Did he not ride Nig down a steep slick bank in 
 the mud. " Limber to the front." Peace to the name of Ora McBride!! 
 
 But you don't know, my dear boy, how very glad I'd be to join you, and 
 look into the friendly familiar faces again. Does it seem possible? Its 
 almost twenty years since Donelson was taken ; since the brave and noble 
 Oscar Becker received his honorable discharge. If he has any friends, kin 
 folk, they ought to know how dearly his name is cherished by every one 
 who knew him. If there is any mention of your reunion in the papers,, 
 please send me a copy. I'd like to read over the names, if nothing more. 
 Oh I'd like to be there, for ever so many reasons. 
 
 Well! give any fellow that asks for me a hearty how, and be sure that 
 if ever a battery man is needed, they can count on Your loving, 
 
 CHAPP. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read, between the next two courses, the 
 following letter from J. B. DUTCH. 
 
 CANON CITY, COLO., Feb. 9, 1880. 
 C. E. AFFELD, Esq., Sec'y, Etc.. 
 
 DEAR SIR: I regret exceedingly, that I shall be deprived of the 
 pleasure of participating in the reunion of the surviving comrades of
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. n 
 
 Taylor's Battery, to be held on the anniversary of the battle of Ft. Donelson,. 
 but absence from home, and the impossibility of reaching there on time r 
 will prevent. 
 
 I trust that these reunions may be had annually, and that it will be my 
 privilege as well as my pleasure to be able to attend every roll call. 
 
 Very truly yours, J. B. DUTCH. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following letter from JOHN W. 
 FRAZER, from California, amid many cheers. 
 
 CALIFORNIA, Mo., Feb. 4, 1880. 
 Mr. C. E. AFFELD, 
 
 DEAR SIR : Your favor of the 28th, received to-day. It would give me 
 great pleasure to attend the reunion of the survivors of Company B, but 
 my health and circumstances make it impossible; disease, contracted in the 
 Andersonville prison, has been gradually working on and undermining 
 my health, until I am almost completely broken down: I am not able to 
 work half the time, and but little then ; it requires the strictest economy to 
 support my family ; have applied for a pension, but do not know whether I 
 will receive it or not. 
 
 In spirit I will be with you on the J4th, what a pleasure it wou'd be to- 
 me to meet all the noble, brave boys of Company B once more. 
 
 Give my kindest regards to all, and ever believe me 
 
 Your sincere friend, JOHN W. FRAZER. 
 
 MR. AFFELD. Now we have one that comes from Morris > 
 Illinois, I will not read the name. 
 
 Mr. Affeld then read, amid cheers, the following letter: 
 
 MORRIS, ILL., Feb. 7, 1880. 
 C. E. AFFELD, 
 
 DEAR SIR: Your favor of Jan. 23rd received, contents noted. Nothing 
 would please me more than to meet the Old Boys on the i4th,andin these 
 " piping times of peace," talk over the old days of battle and march ; but it 
 is simply impossible for me to do so in person, so I can only be with you 
 in spirit, and with stating that I am engaged in farming and auctioneering,, 
 and that my P. O. address is Morris, 111., I am Yours truly, 
 
 JOHN GRAHAM. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read letter from LEWIS F. LAKE,. 
 Rockford, Illinois, as follows: 
 
 ROCKFORD, ILL., Feb. 3, 1880. 
 C. E. AFFELD, Esq., 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: Owing to ill health and unavoidable circumstances, 
 it will be impossible for me to attend the Reunion and Banquet of "Battery 
 B," which I regret very much. Be assured I will be with you in heart.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 13. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD: Of Squad 3 McCoy was. He sighted the 
 gun that blew down the chimney at Belmont. (Laughter.) 
 
 MR. RUMSEY: He was my Lieutenant. I will take him 
 out of Squad Three. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following letter from NILES 
 T. QUALES, M. D.: 
 
 February 13, 1880. 
 
 Regret that sickness in the family will prevent me from participating in 
 the re-union banquet to-morrow night. With kind wishes, I remain, 
 
 Very respectfully, NILES T. QUALES, M. D. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following letter from CHARLIE 
 STEVENSON. 
 
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo., February 2, 1880. 
 CAPT. RUMSEY, AFFELD, AND ALL OLD COMRADES: 
 
 I regret to state that it will be impossible for me to attend your reunion 
 on the i4th, but will think of all of my old comrades, and you may hear the 
 echo of my gentle voice calling, "Sravo, Squad One!" 
 
 C. U. STEVENSON. 
 
 MR. RUMSEY: I would like to say that I have seen 
 CHARLIE. He has a nice family and a fine wife; she is a splen- 
 did, hard-working, Presbyterian woman, and Charlie is doing 
 splendidly; he is a noble, good citizen. 
 
 MR. DUDLEY: I would like to put in my word and say 
 hurrah for the noble Presbyterian woman. [Cheers.] 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY: T would say that Bill Bradbury is also 
 at St. Joe. He told me that he had got a splendid wife. He 
 was boarding with Charlie Stevenson and was about keeping 
 house. He is a brakeman on the St. Joe and Council Bluffs R. 
 R., working hard and earning a good honest living. 
 
 MR. PRESIDENT, I am getting a little dry, and I would like 
 some coffee, and I would ask for the water call and see if it 
 won't bring us something. I will ask the bugler to give us the 
 water call. 
 
 MR. LANG: MR. CHAIRMAN, I don't believe that the boys 
 have drank much water since they left the service. I haven't 
 called the water call since I left. 
 
 A MEMBER: Make it any wet call.
 
 14 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 MR. LANG then gave the " water call " and coffee was 
 served. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: We will hear some more letters if 
 you like. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following postal card from 
 WILLIAM H. SANBORN, Junction City, Kansas. 
 
 JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, Feb. 8th, 1880. 
 FRIEND AFFELD: 
 
 DEAR SIR: I would be very much pleased to be with you on the i4th, 
 but will not be able to get off from my work, even if I could, my cir- 
 cumstances will not allow me to leave home at present. Give my best 
 wishes to all the boys. And I regret that I will not be able to respond to 
 roll call. My home is at Wamego. I have as fine a pair of twin girls as 
 can be found in Kansas. Will you please send me the address of Col. 
 Taylor and Capt. Rumsey? If P. H. White should come west, give him 
 my best wishes and tell him where I am; have not seen him for nine years. 
 Kind regards to all. Respectfully, 
 
 WM. H. SANBORN. 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY: That is the first pair of twins we have 
 heard of from Battery B, and we ought to give them three 
 cheers. [Cheers.] 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following letter from CHARLES 
 F. STARK. 
 
 STARK P. O., CHICAGO Co., MINN., Feb. 2, 1880. 
 
 GENTS: Yours at hand, for which I cannot in words thank you for 
 the honor to be called on, but the time is too short, and means too small at 
 present, to have the honor to be present at the roll-call. I send the best 
 respects to all my brave comrades in comp. B. I shall, on the I4th of 
 Feb., use the same coat I wore at the battle of Fort Donelson ; all the 
 difference on it is, 4 spots in its shoulder strap. If possible, I would like 
 to hear from you, how many of my old comrades responded to roll-call. 
 Very respectfully, your old harness maker, 
 
 CHARLES F. STARK. 
 
 ARTHUR BURN AM: That puts me in mind of Stark at 
 the Battle of Belmont; you will remember that he was the har- 
 ness-maker and he was in the rear, and somebody shouted " Get 
 this Battery in position!" and he jumped up and shouted, 
 *' Mein Gott! how can I shoot mit dis blacksmit shop." 
 [Laughter.]
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 15 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read letter from CHAUNCEY W. WICKER 
 amid loud cheers. 
 
 WILLOUGHBY, Feb. 1 2th, 1880. 
 
 FRIEND AFFELD: I have just received your letter and invitation to 
 reunion on the 14th, and should be happy to attend, but time is so short 
 that I shall not be able to do so this year. If nothing prevents, shall make 
 it a point to meet the surviving members at next roll call. And in the 
 meantime put me down for my share of the expenses, and let me know 
 amount, and will remit. Please don't fail to do this, and send me the paper 
 with account of proceedings. Give my regards to Comrades. 
 
 Yours truly, C. W. WICKER. 
 
 MR. AFFEI.D read the following letter from G. M. WILLIS 
 amid cheers. 
 
 LOTTS CREEK, IOWA, Feb. 2nd, 1880. 
 
 Messrs. B. F. MC-CAKTY, I. P. RUMSEY, H. W. DUDLEY,]. M. VER- 
 NON and C. E. AFFELD, Executive Com., etc.: Yours of January aSth, 
 inviting me, as one of the surviving members of battery " B," ist 111. 
 Artillery, to be present at a re-union banquet on the iSth anniversary of 
 the battle of Fort Donelson, Saturday, Feb. 141)1, 1880, is received, and in 
 replying to the same, I have to say that in both heart and mind I will cer- 
 tainly be present; but regret to say that I shall be unable to make a verbal 
 response at the roll call of my name. And further beg to say that I ever 
 have, and trust that I ever may, feel a lively interest in everything that 
 tends to keep alive the memory of our late organization. And through 
 your committee I wish to express to each one of you my strongest feelings 
 of friendship, and to assure you that it would be one of the greatest 
 pleasures of my life to be allowed to personally meet you all at the pro- 
 posed anniversary meeting, and perhaps contribute something towards 
 keeping alive the sacred and honored memory of those of our late comrades 
 who laid down their lives that we might prosper. 
 
 Very respectfully your friend, 
 
 G. M. WILLIS. 
 
 MR. AFFELD: I believe thfe next one is the last one, and 
 I will leave it until the next course. 
 
 MR. AFFELD then read the following letter from LIEUT. 
 P. H. WHITE. 
 
 ALBANY, Feb. 9, 1880 
 CHARLES E. AFFELD, 
 
 DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your letter of J anuary 28th, inviting me 
 to attend the re-union and banquet of Battery " B," ist Reg. 111. Artillery, 
 on the i4th anniversary of the memorable battle of Fort Donelson. 
 
 It would afford me great pleasure to be with you on that occasion, to 
 once more see and take my old comrades by the hand and talk over the 
 pleasures and hardships of the campaigns and marches of those never-to-
 
 1 6 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 be forgotten days. It would be the work of supererogation in me to attempt 
 to eulogize the gallant old Battery " B;" but my memory reverts back to the 
 snow-capped heights of Donelson, a living monument of patriotism, and 
 never while it lasts can I forget the daring and bravery of Battery " B." 
 Amidst hunger and cold they fought the rebels in their strongholds, and 
 were never known to falter and knew no fear when the Union's life and 
 liberty was at stake. At Donelson the Battery's position on the bold hill 
 exposed to the enemy's batteries on their right, left and center, recalls to 
 mind the daring deeds of our brave comrades, among whom I might mention 
 Becker, Blaisdell, Warner, Everett, William and Thos. Taylor, Putz, and 
 Henrotin. I hope when you are enjoying yourselves at the banquet you will 
 toast their memory. But it is some satisfaction for their friends to know- 
 that they died that their country might live. "On fame's eternal camping 
 ground their silent tents are spread." 
 
 You must not think that because I was latterly connected with another 
 battery that I have forgotten old Battery ".Z?." In my home I have their 
 picture hung up so that I can keep their memory ever green. 
 
 Although not with you in person, I am in spirit and wish you all a 
 happy time. Yours, etc., . P. H. WHITE. 
 
 158 Clinton Ave. 
 
 MR. AFFELD: Now I wish to say, while I can, that if 
 there is any member here who has an address from any absent 
 member, I wish he would give it to MR. VERNON or myself, 
 so that if we ever have another reunion we can obtain the ad- 
 dresses of the men. 
 
 The Chicago Quartette then sang "Peter Gray" in 
 character, causing great merriment. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Where is McCarty ? 
 
 MR. RUMSEY: You ask where McCarty is; I am as much 
 surprised as you are that he is not here; he is the chairman of a 
 committee, and why he is not here I do not know. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT; He might be useful in taking care of 
 the mules. 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY; I am afraid he is frightened off be- 
 cause he thought there might be some mules here. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Well, he never let the mules run round 
 the camp loose. 
 
 The Quartette then sang "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the 
 Boys are Marching." 
 
 MR. AFFELD: I would like to ask whether anybody 
 knows for a certainty whether Levi W. Hart was killed at 
 Ashtabula or not.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 17 
 
 MR. DUDLEY : Yes, he was. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: While we are eating our dessert, I will 
 give you our first regular toast. " Our First Battle, Frederick- 
 town, G. R. Van Horn." 
 
 Response hy the REV. G. R. VAN HORN. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN, the notes I hold in my hand are largely 
 taken from my diary that I kept during the days of our war, 
 hence I read them as if they occurred, as taken from diary. 
 
 This battle was fought Oct. 21, 1861. It is short, sharp, 
 decisive. Only two guns of our Battery are in the engagement, 
 yet the entire battery share in the glory. The " City of Louis- 
 iana " transports us in company with the gallant 2oth Regiment 
 to Cape Girardeau, where we encamp over night. In the 
 morning we take up our line of march through Jackson to the 
 miserable little village of Dallas, in the vicinity of which we 
 camp. The following morning we move on, after being told 
 we may expect a brush with Jeff. Thompson during the day. 
 The day passes, but no brush. We camp near Fredericktown, 
 and start out early in the morning to find the foe, but he has 
 fled. His camp fires are yet burning. Col. Plumber, with 
 troops from Scranton, now form a juncture with our forces, 
 and already has possession of the town. A brief conference is 
 held between commanders, and we push on, eager for the fray. 
 A mile or so beyond the town we ascertain the enemy to b 
 awaiting our approach. He is in ambush. His plan is good, 
 but won't work. The blind are not leading the blind. The 
 rebel Col. Lowe, with his forces are skirting the valley, en- 
 trenched behind that long row of worm fence. Their artillery 
 is 800 yards in advance, over on that hill, shielded by the heavy 
 timber. Their cavalry are off yonder on the right, in the tim- 
 ber. They anticipate that we will rush thoughtlessly into this 
 valley, when we will be cut to pieces by a front and cross fire. 
 Only five minutes and a line of battle is formed, to the right 
 and left, with our battery in the centre. Squad three throws 
 three shot into that timber on the opposite hill to wake them 
 up. A puff of smoke, and then a ball tears up the earth at our 
 feet. They mean business. So do we. Shot and shell fly 
 back and forth across that valley with the wings of death. It 
 is an artillery duel. Lieut. White mounts a stump, and as every
 
 1 8 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 shot strikes home, shouts, " Good, give it to them boys!" Now 
 the infantry open fire, and a shower of lead fills the air. The 
 rebels break and run, the hillside is alive with the retreating 
 Johnnies. We pour into their ranks, as a parting salute, a few 
 shrapnel, to urge them on. Now Major Gavitt, at the head of 
 his cavalry, charges down the hill on our right and disappears 
 in the timber beyond, after the flying rebels. A few moments 
 and he comes back across the horse he so bravely rode, dead ! 
 The battle is over, the stars and stripes are victorious. The foe 
 is pursued toward Greenville, but he is too fleet of foot. His 
 dead and wounded are left on the field; among the number 
 killed is the brave but mistaken Col. Lowe. Our battery has 
 fired ninety rounds of amunition, and, thanks be to God, we 
 have not a man killed or wounded. The only damage sustained 
 is the marking of a gun-carriage wheel belonging to squad 
 three, in the most approved manner. We return to the Cape, and 
 go into camp. Letters are written home; we talk the battle 
 over; receive our pay; and are ordered to return to Bird's Point. 
 We are received there by the boys amid shouts and cheers, and 
 also receive the compliments of our most excellent Commander, 
 Capt. Taylor. We have received our baptism of fire. 
 
 [Loud cheers.] 
 
 CAPT. RUMSEY: Since coming here this evening, I have 
 heard that there is a lady, who, learning of this banquet to be 
 held to-night has written a poem, and I understand that she is 
 here. I would move that a committee be appointed to invite 
 her to read the poem. 
 
 Motion carried unanimously. 
 
 CAPT. RUMSEY: I want to state further that she knew 
 nothing of it until this morning; she is a niece of one of our 
 members. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: I will appoint Messrs. Barrett, Powell, 
 and Whitfield. Now I will read the second toast. " Our First 
 Retreat, James F. Whittle." 
 
 Response by MR. WHITTLE. 
 
 I had intended this evening to have referred to some papers 
 and to have given a complete history, and perhaps taking in the 
 Battle of Belmont, but was called away from home on Tuesday 
 morning with the intention of returning Friday and securing
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 19 
 
 my papers and returning here to-day, but I have been disap- 
 pointed in doing so, therefore, in what I have to say I shall 
 have to be guided by my memory, which you know sometimes 
 is a little treacherous in regard to dates, and if I should make 
 any mistakes in that respect, I hope you will pardon me. 
 
 Before touching on Belmont I make these remarks. I took 
 up my paper and read an article saying that the Government 
 had called for 300,000 artillery, infantry and cavalry, and a lady 
 said it was all right as far as the cavalry and artillery were con- 
 cerned, but if they wanted more infantry they must send some 
 of their soldiers home. In talking it over with my wife we 
 concluded we would serve our country in that way, and we have 
 now a little regiment of six in the Northern part of Wisconsin. 
 
 And now, gentlemen, if you will pardon me in following 
 our camp life, which of course leads to our first retreat at the 
 Battle of Belrr. ont. It was necessary that we should pass 
 through all we did there under the leadership of our officers 
 who drilled us, which made us so successful in the battles which 
 we fought, and remarkable incidents which passed in our camp 
 life at Bird Point, and which will never be erased from my 
 memory. As we went from home we had but little experi- 
 ence in horsemanship, and I remember one man who wanted to 
 become competent in horsemanship, and he rode my gray horse 
 down to water one day. I told him one day I shall mention 
 no names I told him one day, if he wanted to be a good horse- 
 man he must learn to ride bare-back with nothing but a halter; 
 and he rode that way one day. It was a hard horse to ride and 
 I noticed that he let go of the halter, and he kept going back 
 and back and finally fell off over the rear. All these little in- 
 cidents are interesting to me to remember, and before touching 
 our departure from Belmont, I want to speak of this; and I re- 
 peat it with reverence. I remember it was in Captain Hart's 
 headquarters, and you remember when we built our log cabins. 
 The centre was for Captain Taylor, and on the right and left 
 for Captains Hart and Barrett. Captain Hart had a little stove 
 there, and quite a number of us thought it would be pleasant to 
 follow our practice at home and meet once a week for prayer; 
 and we never had occasion to build a fire in the stove the 
 weather being warm but one evening being chilly, we built a
 
 2o REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 little fire in the stove and took the chill from the room, and just 
 as we opened the exercises, one of our boys came in, and not 
 seeing any seat, and not seeing any fire in the stove, sat down 
 on the stove. He told me it was the hottest prayer meeting he 
 ever attended. [Loud laughter.] 
 
 But, gentlemen, following down to Belmont, you all know 
 how we received the news to go to the front. We had been 
 six months at Bird's Point, but it was not lost; it was there we 
 gained the knowledge to make the sure shot that knocked the 
 chimney off that house that was spoken of. 
 
 In speaking of my own experience, as I have no notes, I 
 know that old gray horse was what carried me into that fight, 
 and I am not ashamed to own it, I think if I had been on foot 
 my feet would have been apt to carry me out of it. But as we 
 came to the front and plowed up the dirt we saw that one 
 wounded and this one wounded, and all that feeling passed 
 away, and what was left was a spirit of revenge as we pushed 
 forward to the enemy and swept down into the enemy's camp, 
 and each one of us of course had a desire to secure some trophy 
 that we might send home to our wives, mothers, or fathers, and 
 perhaps too many of us went into that kind of business, but it 
 was not long before we were relieved, and we were told that 
 the rebels had crossed over from Columbus and formed a line 
 in our rear to cut off our line of retreat to our boats. And I 
 speak of this incident because I think Providence guards each 
 one of us. I remember that about the time we were ordered to 
 make a retreat, I received orders from Captain Barrett to go 
 with a message to Capt. Taylor because Orderly Everett was 
 not on hand, and as I was about to go he came up, and you 
 know he was fatally wounded, and you know that he possessed 
 one of the finest minds in our Battery ; he was a noble man, I 
 loved him as a brother, he was a friend of my brother and he 
 watched over him when he died; we all loved him. Why I 
 speak of this is that each one of us as a battery man feel here 
 to-day that there was an overruling providence in our destiny 
 that we are spared to meet to-day to talk over these things. 
 
 Now, referring to the time when we were ordered to go 
 back to the rear, I remember as we went back with our guns, 
 as we went through the woods, we could see the rebels that cut
 
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 off our retreat. It consisted of the four guns of the famous 
 New Orleans battery called the Washington Battery. He called 
 for volunteers from our Battery to draw the guns back to our 
 boats, and quite a number volunteered from his regiment, and 
 we attached our horses, what we could spare from two of the 
 guns, and I am quite sure we carried them back, for the Mer- 
 cantile Battery had them in their battery afterwards. 
 
 Gen. Logan's personal presence cheered us on there, and 
 with double shotted canister I think we cut a row through them, 
 and we went through them pretty quick. Of course I cannot 
 fill these remarks up as if I had the papers before me, but we 
 went through them ; and I remember as we cut past the enemy's 
 line, as they filed to the right and left, and we came through 
 with our guns and tried to get through two trees that grew too 
 near together for a gun to pass, and we stuck in there; and then 
 we had to push back and go through again. I remember see- 
 ing a mule a little way off, and as I got to him I saw the Con- 
 federate mark on him. I had lost my revolver that day in 
 making our retreat, arid I thought if 1 could secure that mule it 
 would pay for my i-evolver. I caught him, and the mule was 
 all of a tremble; and as we were making our retreat the mule 
 went one side of a large tree and I went the other, and I forgot 
 to let go of the halter, and I finally got the mule safe to our 
 boats. A great deal of work was clone, you will remember, in 
 a short time; that battery was loaded about as quick as anything 
 I ever saw. After we put our battery aboard of the boat we 
 then dropped to the rear of the gun boat, and then was the time 
 when this grand old shot of Comrade McCoy was put in; he 
 stood by the boat and when we passed by the shore there was 
 a house with a tall chimney, and he sighted his gun on it, and 
 the next thing we knew the chimney went down. 
 
 But, gentlemen, we are here to-day to celebrate the event of 
 the battle of Fort Donelson, to recall these things to mind, and 
 we are here to-night to think and speak and live over our lives 
 again for a short season, and I trust that in the future, as year 
 by year passes, that we shall be spared, and that we shall come 
 together to celebrate these things, and bring to mind these 
 things. Whatever may be the future of our government, or 
 the future of us individually, that we may have this to know,
 
 22 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 that when we enlisted to put down this rebellion we had just 
 one thought, that we loved our country, that we loved our flag, 
 and that we went there to defend and protect it, and that we 
 came out victorious, and if in the future there is anything to be 
 offered, any reward to be offered to any class, it shall be those 
 soldiers who were true to the old flag, and they should be re- 
 warded, and only those. [Loud cheers.] 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY: MR. CHAIRMAN, here is a telegram 
 just handed me, it says: 
 
 "CAPTAIN J. P. RUMSEY, Battery B Re-union, Grand Pacific Hotel: 
 Regret I cannot be with you, remember me to all the boys. 
 
 GEORGE Q. WHITE." 
 
 He lost his arm at Belmont, he is a Belmont boy. 
 
 MR. W. T. SHEPHERD here appeared in the room in the old 
 battery uniform, the same one he wore during the war, which 
 elicited much merriment, and three cheers were given for the 
 old uniform. 
 
 The quartette then sang " I cannot always trace the way." 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, let us rise. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENT BARRETT: I have the pleasure of in- 
 troducing Miss Hosford. She has composed a poem for the 
 occasion which she kindly offers to read. 
 
 Miss HOSFORD then recited the following beautiful poem; 
 
 BATTERY B. 
 
 " Ho, my old comrade, come draw up your chair, 
 And have somethin' warmin'. Not any, old boy ? 
 I guess you've changed off so-ne, you didn't refuse it 
 When we were comrades together, in the old Illinois. 
 
 Say, cap, have you marked in your calendar to-day, 
 That it's just fhe anniversary of Donelson's war? 
 Sweet changin' of valent'nes o'er the ramparts that day. 
 Did we give the gray rebs, till they wanted no more. 
 
 Well, comrades, those years of hard fightin' 
 
 We'll never forget, and the campin' no runnin' why to me 
 
 It seems but a day since we camped at old Ca'ro, 
 
 Just after we 'listed in Battery B. 
 
 And our first skirmish with Jeff the guerilla, 
 You've not forgotten that: how brave we were then! 
 Why, war was just fun while Jeff kep' a runnin', 
 But for what was a comin' it made us brave men.
 
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 Then the taste of the fight at Fredericktown came, 
 And two of our guns made some of 'em hum. 
 Yet bravely and gladly we marched back to camp. 
 As every one of us answered to the roll of the drum. 
 
 Then spoilen' for a fight towards Belmont we pushed, 
 
 'Twas the first little brush for our brave U. S. G. 
 
 He spoiled for the rebs their neat little game; 
 
 For this and what followed they don't forgive him you see. 
 
 Then to be shaken and taken old Donelson came, 
 And we meant it we'd fight till 'twas done. 
 For was'nt there with us the pride of his men, 
 Brave Wallace? Then hoAv could we run? 
 
 No woman's heart beat in his soldierly breast, 
 lie was loyal to his country and at Shiloh he fell ; 
 But he mourned for his men who fell at his side, 
 At Donelson's carnage you remember it well. 
 
 With their brave leader they went to the field, 
 A thousand hearts beating with hopes, but no fears ; 
 Three hundred alone came out from the fight, 
 At their head came Wallace in tears. 
 
 Did we forget that as we stood by our guns, 
 And waited for morning in the sleet and the rain, 
 When the ramrods froze fast to the sides of our guns, 
 With the cold so intense? No, they fell not in vain. 
 
 Soon Pillow and Floyd just dusted their heels, 
 When they found they'd no chance to get clear; 
 Leaving Buckner and Johnston to hold the white flag, 
 While we marched to the fort we'd purchased so dear. 
 
 And Grant he was drunk! Did you hear the report? 
 Well, its so good I must tell it again ; 
 
 How Old Abe, when he heard it, just sent back the word, 
 " On this kind of whiskey keep both generals and men." 
 
 Shiloh means peace, I learnt when I was young, 
 But there was'nt much peace for the rebels just then; 
 Nor for us was much rest, as towards Corinth we pressed, 
 Building our ramparts again and again. 
 
 Chickasaw Bayou 'twas up the Yazoo, 
 
 And Sherman had command of our line. 
 
 Then Arkansaw Post you remember of course, 
 
 'Twas there that our battery got its compliment fine.
 
 24 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 The siege of Vicksburg we can never forget, 
 As we camped by the swamps round the town; 
 'Twas here the brave lads to the fever gave in, 
 And their lives with their useless old guns laid down. 
 
 And then do you remember that store on our way, 
 We took with its drugs and other such things? 
 Such a prize as we'd found in those bottles of wine, 
 Why, they went off like magic, as if they'd had wings. 
 
 'Antimonial Bitters' it said on the card, 
 
 But then it was wine by the smell ; 
 
 And it did'nt go far from our little crowd, 
 
 As we smacked it right off Oh! Ah, yes, pretty well. 
 
 But get off the gun, we'll just walk a while, 
 'Twas not very straight, by the way ; 
 Then how the boys laughed as we gave up the wine, 
 In such an illogical -way! 
 
 So Vicksburg we took with Logan our chief, 
 
 And with our old general to vict'ry were led. 
 
 There was cheer upon cheer as we took down the bars, 
 
 And planted the stripes in their stead. 
 
 Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, soon followed in turn ; 
 Then our camp for the winter in old Larkinsville. 
 All mention of home then, how our hearts they did burn, 
 And with thoughts of our dear ones, our eyes, how they'd fill. 
 
 Atlanta? Yes comrades, that was the last, 
 
 'Twas a bitter fight, though, to the end ; 
 
 But the rebs they know now of what stuff we are made, 
 
 If with the Yanks they've a wish to contend. 
 
 Yes, comrades, it's over, and our Union was saved, 
 Which our forefathers fought to obtain, 
 And the South like the North will yet love it, I know. 
 Then will no hero's blood have been shed for it in vain. 
 
 The battle of life, comrades, we're fightin' it yet; 
 
 For you an' me, cap, maybe it's most done, 
 
 But we'll answer together, when we're both 'mustered out': 
 
 From our post of duty we ne'er learnt to run." 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY: MR. CHAIRMAN, I move you that a 
 vote of thanks be given to the lady for her very beautiful poem. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, you hear the motion, and I 
 know there will be no noes to it, you will all say aye. 
 
 (Carried with three cheers.)
 
 Nathan J. Voung. Sydney Peckham, 
 
 Sergt. Win. J. McCoy, 
 H. '!". Chappel, Wm. D. Cfego. 
 
 H. dishing, H. S. Hebard, Isaac Watts 
 
 Francis I'ond, Geo. E. Church, 
 
 Corpl. J. A. Moore. 
 
 
 
 Saml. T. \\ent\vorth, Abel Ousey, 
 
 Chas. W. Stickney, 
 Horace Reed, Robt. J. Hunt. 
 
 ('has. Krause, \\'ni. ('. Scupham, 
 
 Thos. E. Taylor, 
 ('. W. Duinond, C'. J. Sauter.
 
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 CAPTAIN RUMSEY: I will ask the quartette to give the 
 lady a song. 
 
 The quartette then sang "Farewell, my own true love." 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY then presented Miss Hosford with a 
 handsome bouquet of flowers from the banquet table. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The third toast, gentlemen, is "Our 
 First Wounded," D. F. Chase. 
 
 Response by MR. CHASE. 
 
 I want to say that I deliver my sermon after the sermon was 
 written, and not being much of a preacher, the sermon does not 
 follow the text very close, and all the reminiscences which I am 
 familiar with pertain more particularly to Squad 3, and Squad 
 3 is very poorly represented here to-night, and therefore very 
 many of them will be perhaps almost unknown. 
 
 While the veterans are re-lighting the camp fires of the 
 whole war and living over again the varied scenes and experi- 
 ences of that eventful period, I trust they will excuse a brief 
 reference to a few of the earlier, less exciting and least remem- 
 bered incidents of the old by-gone days. I refer to the birth 
 and infancy of our soldiery the days when we met as strangers 
 in the old armory on Adams Street fresh and ignorant in the 
 manual of arms, the duties of a soldier, and of the fate and fame 
 in store for our future; of our "grand send-off" to the war, the 
 good times and quarters we had in the old freight depot in 
 Cairo too good to last and finally Bird's Point, which wasn't 
 to be sneezed at compared with some we indulged in afterwards. 
 What greenhorns we were at the start, and with all due respect 
 for straps, our officers (with some exceptions) had but mighty 
 little to brag of in the way of professional education. Some of 
 our first drilling would hardly have passed muster as the pro- 
 duction of the "diamond drill" but the machine was of good 
 material and when properly put in shape managed to make a 
 pretty large hole in the blasted Southern Confederacy. 
 
 Who will forget the first " long roll," when some over- 
 cautious sentry mistook a calf for a confederate, and shot us all 
 into direful confusion I believe if the Johnnies had then come 
 ior us I should have gone into action with one boot and bare- 
 headed, saying nothing about other missing garments and things 
 and even then have been quite as well equipped as my com-
 
 26 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 rades but that never happened again. Those of us who par- 
 ticipated in the expeditions to Paducah and Fredericktown will 
 never smile at the importance they then gave to such small af- 
 fairs and when we returned from the latter place with our 
 "First Wounded" and the glory of having been "under fire" 
 recounting and recounting the wonderful things we had seen 
 and done. How soon the boys of the right and left sections 
 learned to explain it all and show off with proper spirit our 
 wounded wheel to the 10,000 and i who came to hear of our 
 exploits and no doubt admire the heroes of so wonderful an en- 
 gagement. If some of the ardent spirits of squads three and 
 four were here (and perhaps they are) I would enquire if they 
 could now tell the difference between " home-made apple jack" 
 and moonshine whiskey, such as we found up near Frederick- 
 town. But they paid the miserable Pukes next day for the 
 bogus temptation left in their way. 
 
 I am afraid that the Paducah pig that got impaled on an ar- 
 tillery tooth-pick, while the owner was walked and talked o*ff 
 in quite another direction, will never be paid for, but it made us 
 a very good dinner for all that. And I wonder if Lieut. White 
 has forgotten how flat he laid on his back in the road up by the 
 distillery after leap-frogging over my horse's head, while most 
 accommodatingly teaching the subscriber how to ride a balky 
 saddle horse. Anyhow the horse was at once condemned, sent 
 back to camp and I got black Hamlet in his stead, that McCoy 
 rode all through the war. 
 
 Then came our expedition to Belmont, prefaced by spending 
 a dark night under the banks of the Mississippi, where LieuU 
 Rumsey, had he not been a "duck of a boy" might have missed 
 participating in the battle of victory and retreat for if Provi- 
 dence had permitted nine out of ten of the best of us to fall into 
 the Mississippi river in full uniform, we could never have swam 
 against the current, around the bow of the boat, and landed all 
 standing, with not a particle of pluck washed out of us. 
 
 Belmont gave us our real "first wounded" though but 
 three of us experienced the first personal cruelty of war it was- 
 more than enough. Many others passed through the trying 
 ordeal afterward and none of them will ever care to travel the 
 blood-stained road again. The experiences of the living wound-
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 27 
 
 ed are their own, and they only can tell them. But who shall 
 speak for the wounded dead ? Those who died with their glory 
 fresh upon them. We have .gathered them carefully and 
 sacredly into a tomb dedicated as the peaceful resting-place of 
 patriot heroes only, and let none be added but those well worthy 
 of them, and the cause for which they died. 
 
 We all remember the pious promise of the Divine expound- 
 ers, that death in so glorious and holy a cause should insure 
 peace and happiness hereafter. Let us believe in their in- 
 spiration and that our heroic dead are now receiving their re- 
 ward. And assuming that our patriotism was as honest and 
 pure as theirs, let us hope that the value of that promise will 
 lose none of its virtue through the accident of our having sur- 
 vived the perils of war, and that finally we too may thus be en- 
 abled to penetrate the pearly gates. [Loud Cheers.] 
 
 CAPT. RUMSEY: I would like to say, Mr. Chairman, in 
 behalf of the Reverend gentleman who is to preach next Sun- 
 day, which is very near at hand, that he should be permitted to 
 respond to " Our Honored Dead " now, as he is very low down 
 on the list of toasts. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD: Excuse me, boys, but here is the first 
 shell that was fired from our Battery, this was fired from Squad 
 2 gun, at Fredericktown, across that open space, and went into 
 a log in that open space, and in my researches I found it. This 
 is the identical first ball that our Battery fired. [Exhibiting 
 cannon ball.] [Cheers.] 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: In connection with that, I will say that 
 I had in my possession, and I think I have it now, the twelve- 
 pound shot that cut your wheel. I think it is on my premises 
 to-day. 
 
 Gentlemen, you have heard the motion of Captain Rumsey, 
 unless objected to Rev. Mr. Van Horn will now respond to the 
 toast "Our Noble Dead." 
 
 Response by REV. G. R. VAN HORN. 
 
 I thank you, comrades, for this favor. I have a long dis- 
 tance to go to my home, and while many of you will rest to- 
 morrow, I will have to do hard work.
 
 28 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 OUR DEAD COMRADES. 
 
 I hold in my hand the death roll of 56 of our comrades. 
 Read the roll, and they can be recapitulated in the following 
 order : 
 
 Died from wounds received at Belmont, one; killed in 
 battle at Fort Donelson, one; at the battle of Shiloh, two; 
 at the siege of Vicksburg, three; before Atlanta, six; in 
 Virginia, one. Total killed in battle during the war, fourteen. 
 Killed in battle after the close of the war for the Union, one. 
 Died from disease during service, thirteen. Died since the 
 close of the war, twenty-six. Total now known to be on the 
 death ro\\,Jifty-six. 
 
 Battery B was in active service three years and three 
 months and participated in sixteen battles, and some of them 
 the most decisive and bloody of the entire record, and yet only 
 fourteen of our comrades were slain in battle, and but thirteen 
 died from disease during all those years of exposure and hard- 
 ship. Here is a significant fact and worthy our most reverential 
 thought. A kind Providence certainly watched over this Bat- 
 tery from that Sabbath day, May 28, 1861, when in a body we 
 attended the First Presbyterian Church, and when the pastor 
 Dr. Humphrey, called our attention to Psalm XCI and began 
 to read: 
 
 1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide 
 under the shadow of the Almighty. 
 
 2. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; 
 in him will I trust. 
 
 3. Surely he shall deliver thee frcm the snare of the fowler, and from 
 the noisome pestilence. 
 
 4. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou 
 trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 
 
 5. Thou shalt n it be afraid for terror by night; nor for the arrow that 
 flieth by day ; 
 
 6. Nor tor the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor tor the destruction 
 that wasteth at noonday. 
 
 7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; 
 but it shall not come nigh thee.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 29 
 
 8. Only with thine eyes shalt them behold and see the reward of the 
 wicked. 
 
 9. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most 
 High, thy habitation ; 
 
 10. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh 
 thy dwelling. 
 
 11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy 
 ways. 
 
 12. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against 
 a stone. 
 
 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the 
 dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 
 
 14 Because he hath set his own love upon me, therefore will I deliver 
 him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 
 
 15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I -will be with him in 
 trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 
 
 16. With long Ufa will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. 
 
 Then devoutly and with much earnestness he besought God 
 in prayer to be gracious to us, and to protect us while in camp, on 
 the march, and in the field. Who of us to day will not say that 
 the prayers of that pastor and his church were wonderfully an- 
 swered, and that God was our "refuge and our fortress." 
 
 Looking back over the engagements this battery was in, and 
 some of them of the most critical and hazardous kind, it would 
 seem as if nothing but the Divine protection, saved us again 
 and again, from being captured or entirely crushed. 
 
 Concerning our brothers who fell in battle, we have only 
 words of praise to offer. They had counted the cost when they 
 enlisted. They counted not their lives dear to themselves, if 
 by surrendering their lives their country might be saved. They 
 were true and valiant men. They died as only brave men die, 
 at their posts of duty facing the foe. The first to fall was 
 our noble-hearted, gallant Charles W. Everett, A better Or- 
 derly Sergeant never drew a reign or called a roll. His death 
 was sad indeed, and what seemed to us a calamity. He was 
 the first of our number to establish a connecting link between 
 our Battery and heaven. Belmont and Everett must ever re- 
 main associated in our memories. 
 
 At the battle of Donelson Oscar E. Beckers yielded up his 
 life, and consecrated the soil with his precious blood. His dy- 
 ing words bespeak what sort of a man he was, " Boys, I die for
 
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 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 liberty, lay me down, go back and man the guns." Such a dy- 
 ing declaration is worthy to grace the pages of history yet to be 
 written, and to serve as an incentive to us in the great conflict 
 of life. Then there was that fearless soldier, Frederick Thomp- 
 son fearless to a fault, who bid defiance to the leaden hail at 
 the siege of Vicksburg, dies at his post so quickly that he has 
 no time to close his eyes. He ceased at once to fight and live. 
 
 ISo we might mention others of our comrades equally brave, 
 equally true, who only surrendered to death himself. Of our 
 brothers who died in hospital, who could not show their valor 
 as did those who died on thq field, yet they too displayed hero- 
 ism that was marked and even glorious. Wasting away by 
 pining sickness, tortured by malarial fevers, they, without mur- 
 muring or regrets, patiently suffered as martyrs for their coun- 
 try's honor. 
 
 ' May the heart never throb neath the heavens above 
 
 That thrills not to hear of their story, 
 And the arm be unnerved that would seek to remove 
 One leaf from the crown of their glory." 
 
 Nineteen years have passed and fifty-six of our number are 
 on eternity's side. Year by year our numbers will grow less. 
 But let us hope, and so live, that as our ranks become depleted on 
 earth they may become repleted in heaven. And when our 
 Great Captain shall order the general roll-call, may all the 
 members of Battery B be there to answer " HERE." 
 
 NAME. How DIED. 
 
 Lieut. Levi W. Hart Killed 
 
 Sergt. Charles W. Everett" " 
 
 Sergt. Abraham Hart Disease 
 
 Lieut. H. Nelson Towner " 
 
 Lieut. Wm. M. Taylor " 
 
 Lieut. Wm. Chandler Killed 
 
 Capt. John A. More Disease 
 
 Sergt. James P. Eason " 
 
 Andrew J. Grant . . " 
 
 Simeon Y. Prince . . " 
 
 Sergt. S. Curtis P. Bogue Killed 
 
 Alex. H. Beidleman . . " 
 
 Zebina M. Ball . . Disease 
 
 Oscar E. Beckers Killed 
 
 WHERE. 
 
 In Ashtabula disaster, Ohio. 
 Wounded at Belmont. 
 Chicago. 
 Chicago. 
 Chicago. 
 
 Accident, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 New York. 
 Chicago. 
 
 New Orleans, after the war. 
 Chicago. 
 
 Accident, Hyde Park. 
 Front of Atlanta. 
 In hospital, St. Louis. 
 Fort Donelson
 
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 Disease 
 Killed 
 ii 
 
 Wound 
 
 Killed 
 
 Disease 
 
 Killed 
 
 u 
 
 Disease 
 
 NAME. How DIED. 
 
 Lieut. Timothy M. Blaisdell Died 
 Wm. Blakie ..." 
 Sergt. Wm. Dudley Crego " 
 John Chatfield, Jr. . 
 Lieut. Howard Gushing 
 John P. Chalmar . 
 Lieut. Wm. DeWolf 
 Jacob Deal man . 
 Charles Edwards . 
 Henry F. Henrotin 
 Sergt. Charles G. Henny 
 Samuel Hadlock 
 William Hea, Jr. . 
 Walter E. Hinman . 
 Charles L. Harrington . 
 Benjamin F. Johnson 
 Frederick Johnson . 
 
 George F. Kingsley . 
 
 Charles Krause 
 Charles Kinsman 
 Sergt. Wm. W. Lowrie 
 Capt. Jonas M. Lembke 
 John Mustard 
 Ora McBride 
 Wm. B. Mclntosh . 
 Douglas K. Newell . 
 Albert J. Putz 
 Myron C. Ross . 
 Fred C. Russell 
 Wm. R. Rogers 
 Abner A. Rhodes . 
 Horace Reed 
 Wm. J. Stephens 
 Edward Spear . 
 Walter Sherwood . 
 John F. Strangberg . 
 Fred Thompson 
 Thomas E. Taylor . 
 Samuel T. Wentworth . 
 Benjamin M. Warner 
 Daniel E. Young . 
 Franklin Crampton . 
 
 WHEKE. 
 
 Marietta, Ga. 
 
 In Kentucky, after the war. 
 
 In Chicago. 
 
 In hospital, Bridgeport, Ala. 
 
 In Regular Army. 
 
 Front of Atlanta. 
 
 Washington. 
 
 Front of Atlanta. 
 
 Soldiers' Home, Milwaukee, 
 
 Seige of Vicksburg. 
 
 In Chicago. 
 
 Front of Atlanta. 
 
 At Stevenson, Ala., after the war. 
 
 Arkansas, after the war. 
 
 March from Corinth to Memphis. 
 
 In service on Tennessee River. 
 
 Hospital at Memphis. 
 
 Hospital boat between Ft. Donel- 
 son and Corinth. 
 
 In Chicago. 
 
 In hospital, luka, Miss. 
 
 In Wisconsin. 
 
 In Battle, at Helena. 
 
 In Hospital in Tennessee. 
 Bridgeport, Ala., in service. 
 
 In Hospital, Vicksburg. 
 
 Seige of Vicksburg. 
 
 At Shiloh. 
 
 Toledo, Ohio. 
 " In Chicago. 
 
 " In Hospital. 
 
 " In Hospital, St. Louis. 
 
 " In Chicago. 
 
 Wounds Mound City, received at Shiloh. 
 Disease After service in New Jersey. 
 " In Chicago. 
 
 In Hospital at Atlanta. 
 
 At Seige of Vicksburg. 
 
 In Chicago. 
 
 In Chicago. 
 
 Hospital at Vicksburg. 
 
 After service, in New Jersey. 
 
 In Kansas, after service. 
 
 Killed 
 Disease 
 
 Killed 
 
 Disease 
 
 Died 
 
 Disease
 
 32 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 Killed or died from wounds received in the Battle of Belmon', r 
 
 " " " " " " Ft. Donelson, i 
 
 " " " " " " " Shiloh, 2- 
 
 . " " " ' " Vicksburg, 3 
 
 " " " " " " " Atlanta, 6 
 
 " " " " " " " in Virginia, i 
 
 Total, - 14 
 
 Killed in battle after the War for the Union, - - 2 
 
 Died of disease during the service, - 13 
 
 Deceased since the close of the War, - - 27 
 
 Total known to be on the Death Roll, 56 
 
 The quartette then sang " Shall we meet beyond the river." 
 
 CAPT. RUMSEY: Now Mr, Chairman, I move you that as 
 our dear brother and companion is pastor of the Michigan 
 Avenue Methodist Church, that when we adjourn, we adjourn 
 to meet to-morrow evening at seven o'clock at the basement of 
 his church, where we may form and go to church together once 
 more and hear our companion and soldier preach. Now in 
 voting on this, I would request that none will vote in favor of 
 it but those that will go; that will decide whether there will be 
 enough of it there to make it best for us to undertake it. I 
 make that motion and I think it would be a very nice thing be- 
 cause you will remember that this is not the last day, the last 
 terrible day of Donelson was to-morrow, the I5th. Motion 
 seconded. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor of going to church 
 will signify by standing. 
 
 Twenty -six members arose. 
 
 MR. VAN HORN: I thank you, comrades, for your com- 
 pliment, I have no special sermon prepared for the occasion, 
 but I will do the best I can, but we will reserve seats for you 
 and do the best we can. 
 
 MR. TURNER: I have no doubt that many of our com- 
 rades here would have very much liked to have gone to-mor- 
 row evening, but previous engagements, as I understand, and 
 some parties live out of town, which prevented them from 
 voting. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Now the next toast, gentlemen, is 
 "The day we celebrate Fort Donelson." H. W. Dudley.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 33 
 
 Response by H. W. DUDLEY. 
 
 "THE DAY WE CELEBRATE." 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND COMRADES: In rising to respond to 
 the toast you have so kindly assigned me, permit me to thank the 
 committee for the high honor conferred upon me in the selection 
 of my subject, for, who of us does not remember with an intensity 
 of recollection, the scenes directly connected with the battle, 
 and the associations which cluster around Fort Donelson. 
 
 While it was not our first battle, for Fredericktown and 
 Belmont had been stamped upon our experience, and the inci- 
 dents and excitements connected with the capture of Fort 
 Henry were ours, it was the first battle of gigantic and national 
 proportions in which we had been called to engage, and in 
 which victory was so completely with our arms that the news 
 of it caused a thrill of joy to vibrate through the length and 
 breadth of our north-land. 
 
 It was also, I believe, the first great success which had thus 
 far in the war, crowned the efforts of our armies, and while to 
 those of us who were actual participants, its results were exhil- 
 arating in a remarkable degree at the time, and its memories 
 are so woven into the texture of our being that they cannot be 
 obliterated, so did it furnish to the nation a watchword and 
 rallying cry, which stimulated them to renewed efforts and sac- 
 rifices for the accomplishment of the grand purposes for which 
 the conflict was waged. 
 
 As only a reminiscence is expected of me, I invite you to 
 return with me in memory to the nth of February, 1862, 
 where in the morning, within the outer works of Fort Henry 
 we were quietly in camp awaiting orders, which we felt im- 
 pressed, must soon come for a forward movement. At 4 p. in. 
 they did come, and our brigade under the lamented Genl. W. 
 H. L. Wallace was soon upon the march, in the direction of 
 Fort Donelson. Proceeding about four miles we went into 
 camp, and although without tents, passed a not uncomfortable 
 and restful night. Early on the morning of the I2th we 
 were again upon the march and at 1 1 a. m. came in sight of 
 the enemy's pickets. 
 
 I distinctly remember how, bearing off to the right, up hills
 
 34 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 and clown ravines we followed after the brigade of General 
 Oglesby which was in the advance from this time, until after 
 many halts and much weariness we reached a position not far 
 from the centre of the field of operation, and at ten o'clock 
 wrapped ourselves in our blankets and within easy range of the 
 enemy's guns, retired for a time from the consciousness of wars 
 or rumors of wars, until the morning light brought back to us its 
 sad realities. Soon after daylight of the I3th (Thursday) the 
 firing on our right indicated to us that work was to be done, 
 and soon receiving orders to proceed in that direction, we took 
 up our line of march and at ten o'clock went into position on 
 the open ground of a commanding bluff, where we soon began 
 giving the "Johnnies" a taste of both our music and metal. 
 
 Here it was, I remember, where Sergt. Whittle and Corpo- 
 ral Lilly were wounded, and here also fell our brave and noble 
 Beckers, leaving to us memories not only of his genial and 
 manly nature, but those inspiring words which he uttered while 
 being carried to the rear and as his life blood ebbed away, 
 which come up before us even now at every whisper of his 
 name, " I die for liberty boys, go back and man the gun." 
 Noble words from a brave and patriotic soldier, and eminently 
 fitting was it that they should be, as they were, chiseled in 
 granite at Rose Hill. Let us ever rejoice that it is ours to cher- 
 ish his memory. 
 
 During this eventful day I recall the changing of our posi- 
 tion from time to time as the necessities of the case seemed to 
 demand, the attempt of Col. Morrison on our left, with three 
 regiments of infantry, to charge a portion of the rebel fortifi- 
 cations which resulted so disastrously, the catching fire of the 
 leaves on the track of the charge which burned some of the 
 wounded and dead left on the field, and I also recall, although 
 it seems hardly necessary that I should mention it, as it must be 
 vividly impressed upon each one of your memories, the very 
 great change in the weather which occurred, turning from a 
 pleasant morning to a cold rain and sleet storm before night, 
 which found us without tents or shelter, and for fear of draw- 
 ing the enemy's fire we were allowed none, and so the night 
 set in, bringing to us, to say the least, a very uncomfortable 
 prospect. It was also upon this night and under these circum-
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 35 
 
 stances that at about ten o'clock picket-firing on our right called 
 us to face the storm and stand by our guns until midnight, when 
 we were allowed again to seek whatever shelter we could find 
 until morning. This night I personally remember and always 
 shall, as the one in which I suffered more than upon any other 
 occasion of my life, and I cannot but think that my own was 
 the experience of many of you. 
 
 Friday was passed 1 believe without any participation on 
 the part of our Battery in the engagement, we having been or- 
 dered in the morning to a ravine in the rear, where we were 
 under cover from the rebel guns, and where we awaited with 
 deep anxiety the result of the attack and severe bombardment 
 of the river batteries by our gunboats. I remember here the 
 temporary feeling of gloom which ensued upon the news reach- 
 ing us of their failure and withdrawal from the contest, and also 
 with great pleasure the cheering words of some of our boys 
 which acted as a tonic upon us all, stimulating us to a forget- 
 ful ness of the dark and a looking forward only to the bright 
 side of our situation. 
 
 Late in the afternoon we were ordered up to the brow of 
 the hill that we might be ready for action in the morning, and 
 seeking the retirement of our blankets we awaited in visions of 
 deep sleep the uncertainty of the morrow. 
 
 Awakened on Saturday by the early compliments of our 
 rebel friends, in the shape of thickly falling shot and shell in 
 our very midst, we hurriedly and without waiting for our reg- 
 ular " hard tack and bacon " got our guns into position over 
 the brow of the hill and began to return the enemy's fire. I 
 remember that for some time this was what we used to call a 
 hot place, as in addition to those in our immediate front we 
 were subject to a cross fire from some rifled guns the rebels had 
 on our left. At this time and place it was that our horses suf- 
 fered so severely and where our Battery guard, Company D of 
 the i ith Illinois Infantry, also were called to suffer loss. 
 Fighting was continued with great severity along the whole 
 line, and before noon Gen. Smith's Brigade on the left had suc- 
 ceeded in carrying a portion of the enemy's works, while on 
 our right the conflict raged with great fury, until finally the 
 enemy, leaving his entrenchments, massed his forces under
 
 36 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 General Pillow, against our extreme right, with the evident 
 purpose of doubling us up and if possible of making his escape. 
 I cannot but recall, as you doubtless all do, how at this time our 
 brigade was called upon to suffer, and especially so the i ith 
 Illinois Infantry under the brave and lamented Col. Ransom, 
 who was among the wounded. With this regiment we had 
 been more intimately associated than any other, and their loss 
 in killed alone reaching considerably over sixty, was a severe 
 loss to both them and us. I recall with what sorrow I stood 
 around the grave which received them all, on the day of the 
 surrender. But to return to the conflict, our right had been 
 slowly crowded back", until the ammunition of our infantry 
 giving out, the Brigade of General Oglesby and our own were 
 compelled to fall back, with the rebels pressing us as closely as 
 they could. Just here an incident comes to my mind which 
 will bear repeating, bringing to view as it does the soldierly 
 qualities of our lamented comrade, Corporal Henny. The re- 
 treat had become general on the right, and as the troops passed 
 the gun of Squad 4, still in position, with no orders to retreat, 
 Corporal Henny being, in the absence of all other officers, in 
 command, (Lieut. White had gone for orders) he was importuned 
 by numerous officers as they passed to fall into the line of re- 
 treat, as they stated the rebels were near at hand and would 
 certainly take us and our gun, but the only answer he gave to 
 them all was he had no orders to retreat and without them he 
 would not move a step. He too is now, I regret to say, num- 
 bered with the great army of the brave dead, but his heroic vir- 
 tues we still cherish. 
 
 Our retreat was only for a short distance, when after cross- 
 ing a deep ravine, two of our guns were ordered into position 
 covering the retreat and being soon joined by two guns of Bat- 
 tery A' under Lieut. Wood, and well supported by fresh troops 
 we awaited the appearance of the enemy. He soon showed 
 himself in our immediate front and was saluted with a severe 
 storm of lead and canister from our wall of guns and troops, 
 which not only stopped the pursuit, but after some terrible 
 fighting compelled him to retreat, in which he was so closely 
 followed up by our troops that he was obliged to leave the ar- 
 tillery captured from us in the morning and make the best of
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 37 
 
 his way back to within the shelter of his entrenchments again. 
 During this exciting afternoon it was that Mason and Machin 
 were wounded. So ended the severest day's fighting of the 
 siege, with the rebels discomfitted at every point, and with our 
 troops generally in the best of spirits. At night our brigade 
 was ordered to a new position near the centre, where we, wrap- 
 ping ourselves in our blankets for the night, closed our eyes in 
 the full expectation that the morrow would reveal bloodier 
 scenes than we had yet witnessed, but the morning light dis- 
 closed to our joyous eyes the white flag of surrender waving 
 from different points of the enemy's works, which provoked 
 cheer after cheer as the news flew from regiment to regiment 
 till the woods and hills fairly rang, filling us all with an enthus- 
 iasm which beamed from every face and was the burden of 
 every voice. 
 
 Very early in the morning the enemy had intimated to our 
 commander his desire tj arrange a basis for capitulation, at 
 which time he received that well remembered message in re- 
 turn, " Nothing but unconditional surrender and I propose to 
 move immediately upon your works," which was followed at 
 once by a full compliance with the demand. From this day 
 was the U. S. of our commander's name invested with a new 
 and to the people of both North and South the more emphatic 
 meaning of unconditional surrender. 
 
 I well rememte with what eagerness we awaited the order on 
 this beautiful Sabbath morning to march, and with what added 
 feelings of pleasure to us all, came the order to take the post of 
 honor in the fort itself, and salute with thirteen guns the dear 
 old flag as it was given to the breeze for the first time over the 
 ramparts of Fort Donelson. 
 
 Thus ended a siege which was not only prolific in tangible 
 results, but gave to our armies a key which unlocked to them a 
 vast territory, the possession of which threw consternation and 
 gloom into the armies of the rebellion. The capture of nearlv 
 15,000 prisoners, 63 pieces of artillery, with a large amount of 
 small arms, stores, etc., thus early in the national conflict, was 
 no inconsiderable gain to us or loss to them, and the moral 
 power of the enthusiasm created at the north by this victory it 
 was impossible to estimate.
 
 38 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 In conclusion, let me remind you that to the soldierly bear- 
 ing of the members of our battery and to the good work done 
 by it during these days of battle, the official reports of our 
 brigade and division commanders bear ample testimony and 
 the presentation to us on the part of the citizens of Chicago, at 
 the hands of a committee specially sent to us, of a beautiful 
 banner, attested anew their interest and pride in us as their rep- 
 resentatives not only, but their appreciation of our services in 
 this special campaign. [Loud cheers.] 
 
 MR. VAN HORN: Comrades, I will ask you to excuse me. 
 I will state that our services commence to-morrow evening at 
 half past seven o'clock, at which time we shall be pleased to 
 see all who can come, at our Michigan Avenue Church. 
 
 The Quartette then sang "John Brown's Body." 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Our next toast, gentlemen, is "Our 
 First Surprise Shiloh, W. T. Shepherd." 
 
 Response by W. T. SHEPHERD. 
 
 BROTHERS AND COMRADES, I don't know how I can get 
 along with this little matter of Surprise. Some of our leading 
 men, referring to the great surprise, said we were not surprised. 
 Well perhaps we were not surprised. 
 
 A VOICE: We were astonished. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD: Thank you; that is a better word per- 
 haps; we were astonished, and so we would have been aston- 
 ished if our commissary had presented us with this beautiful 
 banquet, and so we would be surprised if we woke up in the 
 night and found our wife had landed us on the floor. I would 
 say in the words of one of the poets of the regiment, ' For cer- 
 tainty we were surprised." Now would we be surprised if 
 Tom Ashbrook, in scraping on his old fiddle, should break into 
 the old " Arkansaw Traveler?" 
 
 Well, it was pretty well settled that we were surprised, and 
 not only surprised but astonished on that morning. This oc- 
 curred on the morning of the 6th of April, at about half-past 
 seven o'clock, 1862. You all know how we were in camp at 
 Shiloh church, that peaceable place, but it proved to be a pretty 
 sharp place before we got through with it. You remember we 
 found a spring of cold water, which was, I think, the finest 
 spring of water we found on the whole trip. At seven thirty
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 39 
 
 in the morning we could see the "rebs" on our left, and a little 
 while after we could see them coming over that little open space, 
 the cavalry and infantry and artillery as if they were going to 
 swallow us all up, and they were very near doing it, and before 
 we got out of that spot, the bullets were flying on all sides. 
 We had repulsed them t\vice, and only when we were forced to 
 go back did we retire at all. Right at this point I should speak 
 of our friend and comrade Jerry Stevens. He received a 
 cannon ball in the side of his knee, and as we carried him and 
 put him into the ambulance, I could see the distress on his mind, 
 not because he was hurt, but because he was obliged to be car- 
 ried off in that way. 
 
 After a terrible fight of two or three hours we were forced 
 to fall back. Our next position was at the outer edge of that 
 open space. There is where the artillery duel occurred, and of 
 all the hot places in our experience, I think we may say 
 that was the hottest. When you get two batteries face to face 
 and work them together, it means business and nothing else. 
 I don't recollect in my own mind how long it lasted, but sure- 
 ly it was long enough. One of our number, A. J. Putz, was 
 killed, and I think five were wounded, among them Ramsdell 
 and Edwards. I haven't the data to show. General Taylor 
 tells me that Captain White's horse was shot from under him 
 at that place. I don't doubt it, for it was almost impossible for 
 any living thing to stand there very long. The rest of the day, 
 I think, after that bitter time, was spent in falling back to the 
 river, slowly we went back, not in a rush or run like some of 
 those men perhaps you will remember of one of them ; I think 
 it was some civilian, who got near that corner of the open 
 space nearest the landing, and he rushed along with his 
 coat-tails flying and shouted out all the way there: "I am 
 coming." And who do you think it was who was in his 
 way at the time? Nobody else but General Grant and his 
 staff. You will remember how, as we took our station under 
 the hill that night, after the artillery line had been formed, 
 under General Webster, that we were crowded into a very 
 small space. It was a terrible night. During the night the 
 gun boats kept piping away at the enemy, throwing a terrible 
 fire of shot and shell into the rebels into their camp. I re-
 
 40 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 member that one of our boys saw the next morning, six rebels 
 at the foot of a tree killed through one of those shots. Of 
 course through that night there was but little rest, we all felt 
 that our position was a critical one, but of course we were look- 
 ing with great anxiety for General Buell's forces, who were said 
 to be coming. I have had the cold chills running down my 
 back, but never before with such a severe feeling of thanks to 
 God that help was near, never before have I felt anything equal 
 to that moment when the relief came, and with fresh troops to 
 those who were left, and we started in the morning with an 
 earnest endeavor to save the day which had been so terribly and 
 fatally lost. The next morning was the rush and roar of battle, 
 and how it held out with unceasing severity until noon, when 
 we rested in our uncomfortable and poor way. We were al- 
 most knee deep in mud at the river bottom in that terrible place, 
 but at noon time the orders came to proceed and take the front 
 once more. Do I not remember with what misgivings we 
 started out, and thought it was to result as it did the day before, 
 and that our efforts would be in vain, that we would go into the 
 fight with barely a possibility of ever coming out, but as we 
 moved along across to the rebels, we found no enemy, they were 
 retreating, and our advance began almost to be a rush, and the 
 news came to us before we had reached the old camping ground, 
 we found that the enemy had retreated and that the day was 
 still ours. I remember as we crossed that ground we could see 
 the effects of the terrible day's fight, and that morning, I don't 
 think that of all my war experience, I ever saw anything that 
 showed so terribly the horrors of war as that battle. I noticed 
 in that space the dead and dying, the artillery horses and caissons 
 and baggage wagons, and all the paraphernalia of war strewed 
 all over the ground. It showed the terrible day that had passed 
 over that ground. I don't think we could have stopped in a 
 camp under any circumstances, where the scenes and horrors of 
 war were so deeply impressed in our minds, as they were that 
 night. When we went into camp that night, we could count 
 at least 300 dead and dying, I think some of our boys remem- 
 ber our endeavor to get a good night's rest, some of them rushed 
 into a tent for straw, and found a dead rebel, and I think they 
 said that rebel didn't have much rest for at least an hour.
 
 Edwd. Terry, Peter McGee, Wm. W. Breckbill, Edwd. Rook, 
 
 Sergt. W. W. Lowrie, Corpl. D. P. Young, 
 
 Jno. Graham, J. D. Loomer. Chas. F. Jackson, Jno. A. Brown. 
 
 
 Jno. F. Stranberg, Thos. Ellis, 
 
 Godfrey Johnson, 
 Jno. P. Chalmon, Fred Johnson. 
 
 S. P. Coe, Chauncey \V. Wicker 
 
 Orderly Sergt. T. M. Blaisdell, 
 F. C. Russel, B. M. Warner.
 
 REUNIOX OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 41 
 
 After we took that camp we were looking around for some- 
 thing to eat; and I know we found a sutler's tent that had 
 been captured the day before by the rebels, and given up, and 
 again captured and recaptured by us, and we helped our- 
 selves to canned tripe and oysters and crackers and sweet cake, 
 and the next day we buried those that lay on the field. I re- 
 member how we buried fifty or sixty in one grave, and in 
 several places, from ten to twenty-five. Our Corporal, Jim 
 Moore, was there, and I remember how he saw and buried a 
 rebel officer, who was found sitting up against a tree with a 
 testament in his hand. I am sure we can't but say that many 
 were the sad feelings that must have passed through his mind 
 as he sat there and gave up his life, surely thinking that 
 his was the holiest cause of the war, and how mistaken we 
 may all be sometimes in our experiences of life, and make mis- 
 takes, as he did, unintentionally, I have no doubt, and we all 
 know those rebels were just as sincere, some of them, to save 
 their rights, as we were to serve our country. 
 
 I am sure that this surprise resulted to us in a victory. The 
 number of men engaged on our side, was larger than many 
 battles in the war, and the results, as shown by the records, were 
 surely the greatest to us of any battle that preceded or followed 
 it. It broke the back of Beauregard's army and I think he ac- 
 knowledged if he lost that battle his cause was lost. 
 
 I can hardly go through with this because it is late. I have 
 not written out any set speech, I am only saying what comes 
 into my mind. 
 
 I hope, in conclusion, that when the great trump shall sound, 
 the bugle sound shall come for us all, we may not be surprised, but 
 I hope that all shall be ready. I hope that while we are here, 
 fighting the battles of life, we shall not surprise our friends by 
 anything that we do, except in doing good; I hope that while 
 we make errors, they shall be of judgment and not inten- 
 tional; and I hope that our entire life shall not be a surprise 
 to anyone, but we will endeavor to do, every day and every 
 year of the whole of our life, up to the end, as we ought to do, 
 and be ready to give an account of what we have done honestly 
 and earnestly in the cause of right and freedom. [Loud cheers.]
 
 42 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The next regular toast is "Our First 
 Brigade Commander General W. H. L. Wallace." 
 
 Response by CAPTAIN I. P. RUMSEY. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND COMRADES: I shall say hut little, 
 although at the mention of Gen. Wallace's name, my heart beats 
 faster, and I feel sad. But I would like to hear from every 
 comrade to-night, and therefore as the hour is getting late, I 
 will say very little, although it is not justice to that noble soldier 
 and great friend of Battery B, General Wallace. He deserves 
 a great deal of time; he deserves our greatest love, as he, with 
 his noble and great heart, loved this, " Taylor's " Battery. 
 
 I was chosen by him to act as his assistant adjutant-general, 
 for a time. I considered it a great compliment to this battery, 
 as I felt my great unworthiness and unfitness for the position; 
 but it is one of my most precious memories, that I was honored 
 with that position, and was permitted to sleep under the same 
 blanket with that noble man, from the time we left Bird's Point, 
 until that dreary night when he laid in the rain, mortally 
 wounded, on the cold ground among the rebels, while I laid in 
 the tent where, the night before, we had slept together. 
 
 We saw the tenderness of his heart when, as we started from 
 Cairo, he received the news of the death of his youngest 
 brother, an officer in the Fourth Cavalry, who was drowned 
 from their boat as it laid at Cairo, but still the man and the 
 soldier went bravely on with present duty. 
 
 As we proceeded up the river, he was always looking after 
 the welfare of Taylor's Battery. His first act was to give one 
 of his best companies, the Rockford to support and help 
 Battery " B." At Donelson that terrible night as we were 
 stationed there in front of the rebs, (as comrade Dudley has 
 mentioned), notice came from the picket to General Wallace, 
 that there was a good deal of motion and noise in our front, and 
 that the enemy were probably moving out from their works. 
 
 Gen. Wallace and I were lying in a tent when the report 
 was brought. He instructed me to order the Brigade into line, 
 remarking, "It is too bad to turn the boys out of their blankets." 
 How well we all remember that night, with its sleet and snow. 
 I obeyed orders, but by the time I returned to headquarters my 
 teeth were chattering from cold and nervousness, and I was
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTER Y. 43. 
 
 very angry with myself lest the good General should think I 
 was shaking with fear. 
 
 Nothing, however, developed in our front, and after one 
 hour, I again passed along the line, with orders to lie down. 
 
 On the next day eighteen years ago to-morrow as Mac- 
 Arthur's Brigade had broken, and Oglesby's Brigade was 
 falling back, the rebel bullets began to come along between us 
 and our troops, paralleling our line, showing that they were 
 working around in our rear; I made the remark, " They are 
 flanking us and will get around in our rear." He was a man 
 of few words, and made no immediate reply, but presently said, 
 " Rumsey, you go to McClernand, tell him that MacArthur 
 has broken, Oglesby is breaking, and it is necessary to with- 
 draw and change our front, and form a new line to the left and 
 rear." 
 
 I found McClernand, and repeated what the General had 
 told me, that it was necessary to withdraw and change our front,, 
 and try to hold the enemy while Generals Oglesby and Mac- 
 Arthur rallied. He said, " Tell Gen. Wallace, if it is absolutely 
 necessary, to withdraw and form the new line." Gen. Wallace 
 then gave me the order to move the troops by the left flank and 
 form the new line, changing front to the right. I did so, 
 and he immediately started for the right where Gen. Ransom, 
 with the iith 111., were fighting hand to hand with the rebels. 
 
 He then sent Davis, of his staff, with word to Lew Wallace,, 
 who was lying to the left and rear with fresh troops. Capt. 
 Davis finding Gen. Lew Wallace, gave him Gen. W. H. L. 
 Wallace's message, to which Lew Wallace replied, " I would 
 be glad to see Wallace, and any suggestion he has to make will 
 be gladly received and acted upon." Receiving this answer,. 
 W. H. L. Wallace rode rapidly to Lew Wallace, (ignoring 
 Gen. McClernand, his Division Commander,) and pointing out 
 the situation, suggested what seemed to him necessary to save 
 McClernand's Division, and perhaps the day ; which was, that 
 he Lew Wallace, should bring his fresh troops to our front 
 and hold the Rebels, while we replenished ammunition, and 
 Generals Oglesby and MacArthur rallied. 
 
 Forward they came, filed into the right, about twenty five 
 yards in front of our Brigade; also one section of Battery ' A,' r
 
 44 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 commanded by my brother, which Col. Taylor placed on the 
 left of our Battery ; they had no sooner unlimbered, than the 
 rebels reached our lines and the leaden hail flew wickedly, but 
 found more ready ammunition than they expected. Mark the 
 power of comprehension, the cool, clear generalship of our 
 hero, Gen. W. H. L. Wallace. 
 
 Soon after this, Gen. J. D. Webster, (Gen. Grant's Chief 
 of Artillery,) came and told us that Gen. Grant's orders were, 
 to prepare for a general charge along the whole line. Lew 
 Wallace taking the right; W. H. L. Wallace's right resting on 
 Lew Wallace's left. This would compel us to charge over the 
 terrible field which the 45th and 48th 111. Regiments, under 
 command of Col. Haynie, (of 48th 111.,) charged only two days 
 before, and were repulsed with heavy loss, and in front of the 
 Fort which they were not able to reach. 
 
 In our front lay a German Regiment of fully 1,000 men and 
 officers, who could hardly understand English. I said to Gen. 
 Wallace, " We cannot move forward until those Germans are 
 removed." He replied,"! will move them when the time 
 comes." 
 
 No order came, thank the Lord! for a charge that night, 
 and as the light of day began to fade, I felt relieved. 
 
 Afterwards alluding to it, Gen. Wallace said, "Do you 
 remember that German Regiment? It was a good one to have 
 in front of us if we had received orders to make that charge." 
 
 After dark that Saturday night, Feb. I5th, we received 
 orders to move back to the rear and left, camp for the night, 
 and count up our forces. 
 
 Sunday morning we expected a general charge, but report 
 cime that the enemy had surrendered. Gen. Wallace ordered 
 me to form the Brigade, and move it forward clown the road 
 toward the enemy's lines, while he went forward to satisfy 
 himself as to the truth of the report. When I met him at the 
 enemy's works, he said, " Rumsey, it is true; their arms are 
 stacked, and they stand behind them," and the look on his face 
 showed a feeling far deeper than words could express; seldom 
 have I seen a more expressive face than his. 
 
 At the head of our brigade, Gen. W. H. L. Wallace moved 
 through the works, and on toward the River Fort, when
 
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 several staff officers were sent to him trying to halt him; one 
 with great assurance and pomp, rode up in great haste, and 
 saluting, stated that he was from Gen. Smith, who ordered him 
 to halt his brigade; Gen. Wallace moved on with great dignity,, 
 remarking to the officer, " Gen. Smith is not my commander," 
 and to me he said, "I am going to the Fort; I commenced this 
 battle, and it is my right." 
 
 I need not tell you that he did go, and took our battery with 
 him to fire the salute from the high and strong River Fort, 
 when the gun boats came steaming up the river, firing their 
 salute. 
 
 I remember well at this time his remark, his face, glowing 
 with satisfaction, as we sat there on our horses "Rumsey, this 
 is glorious;" to which I replied, "Yes General, but my heart 
 aches as I think of the many comrades, and true soldiers lying 
 on the field, who, forty-eight hours ago were with us," to 
 which he replied, " Yes, but they died in a noble cause." So r 
 all through that dreadful three days battle, he showed his ten- 
 der heart, and loyal soul. 
 
 From Donelson to Savannah, and Savannah to Shiloh, he 
 showed the strong tenderness and attachment to his old Eleventh 
 111., and an equal love and admiration for our battery. Only 
 a few days before the battle of Shiloh, April 3rd or 4th, W. 
 H. L. Wallace was transferred from his pet brigade to the 
 command of Gen. "Paducah" Smith's division, taking with 
 him, as personal aide-de-camp, Capt. Dickey and myself ; also 
 Geo. Church, whom he admired very much and who helped 
 in the attempt to carry the General off that field of carnage 
 after he had received his death wound. His division was 
 stationed in the rear, near the landing. 
 
 Saturday, April 5, after talking the situation over, I, in 
 company with my brother, of Battery A, rode around the lines, 
 that I might know the roads in case it became necessary for us 
 to move to the front. As I came back and reported the condi- 
 tion of our front, and the presence of the enemy plainly to be 
 seen in the woods before us, Gen. Wallace seemed to be cast- 
 down, and didn't rest well that night. . Pardon me, if I diverge 
 here, to give a little written history on a subject upon which 
 so much has been written; was Shiloh a surprise?
 
 46 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 On that Saturday's reconnoissance, some of you may re- 
 member my riding into the battery's camp, and telling you 
 what I had seen of rebs outside our lines; soon after, I was in- 
 troduced to Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, commanding your division 
 and in front of Newhope church. 
 
 When I told him of the enemy's cavalry I had seen in front 
 of our picket lines, he replied , "Yes, yes; and they have been 
 up and fired three times on McDowell, commanding our right 
 flank, but I have got positive orders to do nothing that will 
 have a tendency to bring on a general engagement, until Buell 
 arrives; have you heard anything from Buell?" to which I an- 
 swered in the negative; "strange, strange," he said; " he ought 
 to have been here ten days ago;" and in his nervous manner he 
 pulled down his map and showed the route Gen. Buell had to 
 march, repeating, " he ought to have been here ten days ago." 
 
 Now comrades, this convinces me, that the enemy's close 
 proximity to us at Shiloh was known, but the generals hoped 
 by not provoking a general engagement, that we would be re- 
 inforced by Buell before a general battle. 
 
 On that memorable Sunday morning, April 6th, 1862, 
 while we were eating breakfast, we heard you begin firing. 
 The division was soon moving in column for the front. We 
 took up position between General McClernand on our right 
 and Gen'l Prentiss on our left, filling a gap which had occurred 
 by Gen'ls Sherman and McClernand falling back; soon we 
 were heavily engaged; the right of our division was commanded 
 by Gen. Sweeney, he rode to Wallace and reported that he had 
 broken the enemy's center, and wanted support. I rode to the 
 right to find his brigade broken and demoralized, he having 
 acted without orders from Gen. Wallace. By this time Gen. 
 McClernand had carried his left far to the rear of our right, 
 leaving our right entirely exposed to the enemy. I rode to 
 McClernand and urged (and "more too") that he move his 
 left forward, but could not move him we were at right angles 
 with Gen'ls Prentiss and Hurlbut, whose lines of battle faced 
 north, and Gen'ls Wallace and McClernand west; seeing the 
 perilous condition of our right I rode very rapidly to report the 
 second time to Gen. Wallace, our peril; as I reached him, he 
 and Gen. Prentiss were sitting together, their staffs around
 
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 them, watching the heavy fighting which was centered upon 
 Gen. Hurlbut; just then Gen. Hurlbut's division broke to the 
 rear; Gen. Wallace spoke to Geri. Prentiss, then turned to his 
 division, and as I asked him what orders, he ordered the artil- 
 ery limbered to the rear and moved back to Gen. Hurlbut's old 
 headquarters; these are the last words I received from him. 
 Gen. Wallace soon after received his death wound; Gen. Pren- 
 tiss was captured, and after his exchange he told me what Gen. 
 Wallace said to him as they separated, it was, " Prentiss, you 
 wheel your division to the right; I will about face mine, and 
 we will charge the enemy on their flank." This might have 
 been practical if Gen. McClernand had protected our right. 
 
 He was cool and collected until the last, displaying such 
 generalship as to attract the admiration of the enemy's generals, 
 as will be seen by the following article sent from the Confed- 
 erates, it is called " Souvenirs of a Hero." 
 
 SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 27. The Governor to-day received 
 a letter from Mr. Trunno, of Savannah, Ga., who would seem 
 to have been an officer on the staff of the Confederate General 
 and fighting Bishop Polk, transmitting a number of letters from 
 the person of Gen. W. H. L. Wallace, the old Colonel of the 
 Eleventh Illinois, who was killed at Shiloh. Mr. Trunno says 
 on the afternoon of the first day's fight at Shiloh, a Union offi- 
 cer attracted the attention of Gen. Polk by approaching very 
 near the Confederate lines, and endeavoring to stop his men 
 retreating. The brave act elicited from Gen. Polk a desire to 
 know who the officer was, and, as he fell, the Governor's cor- 
 respondent rode up and took from the body the private papers 
 which he now returns, whereby the identity of Gen. Wallace 
 was ascertained. The Union troops next day recovered the 
 battle-ground and possession of the body. Mr. Trunno sent 
 the papers to his home, then in South Carolina, and only lately 
 recovered them. He now wants Gov. Cullom to send them to 
 the relatives of the gallant officer. Gen. Wallace was a son-in- 
 law of Judge (then Col.) T. Lyle Dickey, of Chicago, and a 
 brother of Judge Wallace, of Chicago, and will be remembered 
 by many Illinois officers. Gen. W. H. L. Wallace died April 
 9th, from a shot received April 6th, which passed entirely 
 through his head ; his remains were brought home, and now 
 lie buried in the private ground at Ottawa, 111. 
 
 As he said of those that fell at Ft. Donelson, he " died in a 
 noble cause," but in his fall the nation lost one of its greatest 
 generals, and Taylor's Battery its best friend, whose memory 
 we shall ever cherish.
 
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 THE PRESIDENT: The next toast is "Swamp Fight 
 Chickasaw Bayou." 
 
 Response by J. M. VERNON: 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND COMRADES; If you will let me have 
 my own way, (and you know I always have it), I will start 
 this little story from the 25th of December, 1862, when we 
 were on the way down the Mississippi River, on the steamer 
 " City of Memphis." It was Christmas, this 251!! day of Decem- 
 ber, and all our thoughts ran back to our kind friends at home. 
 I almost begrudged them their bountiful dinner, for we only 
 had hardtack and raw bacon. I remember writing home and 
 how they cried over it, but I was not to blame, I would have 
 liked the turkey, etc., etc., just as well as they, but it wasn't 
 there. But to business. On the 26th we were on our way up 
 the Yazoo, and landed late in the afternoon. After dark we 
 began to unload, and got all through at 3 A. M. of the 27111. 
 The reason it took us so long was that our wagons, caissons and 
 gun carriages were most all taken to pieces and put in the hold. 
 You will remember battery "A" was on this boat too. We 
 marched on this day, (27th,) and could hear heavy artillery 
 firing on our left, but we saw no fighting and took no part in 
 it. After dark we started with Gen. David (Burch) Stuart 
 for a guide: got lost, and were fired on by our own men, who 
 took us for rebels. A party was sent out to see what the trouble 
 was, and it was soon fixed up and the firing stopped. Then 
 we advanced again into holes, on stumps, and against trees, the 
 teams and limber going between two trees and the gun refusing 
 to follow, unlimbered, hauled the gun around, limbered up and 
 went ahead, only to find ourselves lost again. Scouts were sent 
 out and after half an hour we advanced again, and found what 
 was called our brigade, and were put in line of battle so near 
 the rebs that you could see them quite plainly at their picket 
 fires. I was detailed to issue feed for the horses, and kept the 
 last sack as it would do for covering, and no blankets could be 
 had. The ground was very wet so I took a small log to sit on, 
 and another for my legs, I was soon fast asleep, as it was late 
 and there had been hard marching. It rained all the balance 
 of the night, but when I retired there was no water on the 
 ground. I was called very early in the morning long befoie
 
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 daylight and when I started to get up, I thought of poor old 
 Rip Van Winkle, I was so stiff and sore; I put my hand to the 
 ground to help, and it went into six inches of water. When I 
 did get up, how I did shake, and how my teeth did chatter. I 
 never was so cold since God made me. I believe I should have 
 died if I had not found relief. I found relief. It was hanging on 
 the limber in a canteen. I was soon as well as ever. The boys 
 were around shaking and chattering. They asked me 
 where I slept, I showed them, and they asked how I kept dry, 
 I told them I was not dry, but found they all were, and the 
 canteen was soon empty. I went up to the front and took a 
 look: could see three or four rebs around their picket fire. 
 
 I remember we had a dog, a yellow and white cur, mangy 
 perhaps, but with T. B. branded on his hind quarters. He had 
 the respect and admiration of all the division. The rebs. had a 
 dog with them; T. B. started over to make a call, perhaps he 
 did not have the countersign, perhaps he believed in whipping 
 rebels, anyway there were some words and a tearing of hair, 
 and T. B. came back to them that loved him, a whipped cur. 
 Sad omen of what was so soon to happen to us all. I went 
 back to the guns and found everybody getting ready for the 
 fight. We had orders to load with spherical case, and to cut 
 the fuse as close as possible. Our men were soon ready and 
 the fight began. If ever you saw fire put out those rebs. did 
 it. In an eighth of a second not a spark could be seen as all our 
 guns were pointed at the picket fire. I hope the dog was killed 
 for he was the cause of all our misfortunes. The firing was 
 kept up some time without any answer, but after a while there 
 was a flash that did not look out of range, and then the shot 
 came tearing through the tops of the trees. Every gun was 
 fired at the flash. Gen. Stuart said, " I will give the man that 
 silences that gun five dollars." Col. Malmborg raised him five 
 dollars. The general saw him and went five better until twenty 
 dollars wa-s offered to any man that would silence that gun. 
 The shots from the rebs came nearer, and at last one struck in 
 the mud, sending mud all over Gen. S . Dave 
 got behind a tree with his hands over his eyes saying, " This is 
 dreadful, this is dreadful." (How did I know? well, I was be-
 
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 hind the same tree and wanted him to get away and give me a 
 fair show.) 
 
 We fired a while longer and as the mist of the morning 
 cleared away we could see, a mile and a half or two miles in 
 front of us, a Jong and high line of hills, and on these hills was 
 the gun that made the flash. Our six pound guns would not 
 reach half way to it, so the firing was stopped and the guns 
 moved back out of musket range. 
 
 I have heard it said that our brigade commander was drunk. 
 As privates' testimony is worthless, and officers never testify 
 against each other, I will not testify, but I did hear Major 
 Hammond, or one of Gen. Sherman's staff, ask Gen. Stuart 
 where his line of battle was. He could not tell him and called 
 Col. Smith of the 54th Ohio and asked him. He answered, 
 " My regiment is over there I don't know where the line is." 
 He (Stuart) did not know what battery he had with him or 
 the difference between a forge wagon and a six pound gun. 
 Still I have seen it over the signatures of colonels, majors and 
 captains that he was not drunk. Was Simpson drunk with his 
 " Hurrah for Ca' Hell," at camp Sherman ? Were the boys 
 drunk that took that load of manure to Gen. Sherman in 
 Memphis? No! Well then I will withdraw the remarks 
 and only say that he was in the same condition they were. We 
 were relieved at ten o'clock in the morning and moved back to 
 the caissons, and were not in action again that day. 
 
 I remember an incident of our comrade Herrick. John was 
 putting a bridle on one of his mules when the mule put his foot 
 down on John's toes. John snatched a small stick and let the 
 mule have it between the ears. The mule laid down, but soon 
 got up and stood shaking and trembling before him. Just then 
 Lieut. Rumsey came along and asked John what was the mat- 
 ter with the mule. He said he did not know, but he thought 
 he had the blind staggers. The lieutenant, after expressing 
 much sympathy for the poor mule, asked John what was good 
 for them. John said he thought about half a pint of whiskey 
 was as as good as anything; so the lieutenant took John up to 
 head-quarters and got about half a tin cup full of whiskey. He 
 took it and walked over to where the mule was, looked this 
 way and that to see if there was any lieutenant in sight, then he
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 51 
 
 drank the last drop and wiped off his mouth with his coat sleeve 
 
 looked at the mule and said, "D n you, I have a notion to 
 
 knock you down again." The mule was soon better and John 
 was no worse. 
 
 zpth: I think it was on this day that Morgan L. Smith was 
 shot, but am not certain as to the day. You will all remember 
 that he was wounded, and was never the same freehearted and 
 jovial general afterwards. All day of the 2pth we were firing 
 off and on at the reinforcements that were being received by 
 the rebels. The fun was all one way until about four in the 
 afternoon, when our old friend opened on us from the hill. 
 The first shot took the top out of the tree just over us, and in 
 no time, I saw nine of our boys behind one tree. " The boy ! 
 O where was he?" Well, I was behind a much larger tree, 
 just to the rear. Our boys fired a few more shots, but the rebs 
 got the range too close, so we ceased firing and were soon after 
 relieved by a rifle battery. On the 3oth, you will remember 
 the 6th Missouri volunteered to cross the Bayou, and charge 
 the works, and lost thirty or forty men in doing it. I have 
 always thought that justice has never been done them, as it was 
 as brave and heroic a charge as was made during the war, so 
 far as I know, and few regiments would have done it, and none 
 better than the bloody 6th. It rained all the night of the 3oth. 
 Our sergeant (Purinton) thought he would go back to the 
 caisson and have a good night's rest, so he left his blankets 
 there, and after everything was quiet, started for the caisson 
 only a few rods away. It was so dark, a black cat would look 
 white. He lost his way, and after wandering about for a long 
 time, found three Irishmen of the 6th, who had a very small, 
 smoky fire. They were telling such stories as George ought 
 not to have heard, but he went into camp with them and sat in 
 the smoke and rain all night, and in the morning found himself 
 within four rods of the caisson he was looking for. He looked 
 like a drowned rat, was smoked as brown as a Chinaman, and 
 was as dirty as a blacksmith. So much for not staying up at 
 the front. He did not swear out loud, but he was full of cuss 
 words inside. 
 
 On the 3ist we dug some breastworks to cover our left 
 flank. This was the day that some of the boys had a truce
 
 52 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 with the rebs and traded knives and buttons. We were mus- 
 tered for pay, and as we were looking for shot from the rebels 
 any minute, each man left the ranks as soon as his name was 
 called. 
 
 I know I made up my mind that if there was ever another 
 war, and I had as much influence as I had in this, I would have 
 every muster roll commence with Z and end with A, but after 
 the roll was finished, and I got behind the breastworks and my 
 back against a log, four feet through, I thought that if we had 
 another war I would stay at home. I was down at the land- 
 ing in the afternoon and saw regiment after regiment go on 
 board of the steam-boats, and saw them bringing up our siege 
 guns, and made up my mind that we would not stay much 
 longer where we were. Still I was surprised when about 
 eight or nine o'clock at night, we got orders to move out as> 
 quietly as possible. We ran the limbers and guns back a long 
 way by hand, and then hitched the horses on and marched to 
 the river, found our steamer and began to load. I went out to 
 the fire and sat down with Dickinson, Bancroft, and a friend of 
 Bancroft's from the 1 3th Ills. They had a canteen. I was 
 there a short time when I got awful tired and sleepy. I don't 
 know whether it was the Yazoo water, the night air, or what, 
 but I wanted rest. I helped carry some part of a caisson and 
 wagon down into the hold ; there I saw a pile of coal two feet 
 wide. I climbed on top of it, and if you will leave me there to 
 pleasant dreams I will bid you good night. [Cheers.] 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The next regular toast is "The Work 
 we didn't Storm Arkansas Post." 
 Response by WALTER SCATES. 
 
 COMRADES, I shall have to beg your forbearance on this oc- 
 casion, as I am not prepared with anything to offer you. 
 Several days ago, while lying sick, I received a communication 
 from friend Affeld, stating that they wished to hear from me 
 on this occasion, on the subject of some battle or march, and 
 wished me to notify him of my selection. At the time I re- 
 ceived that note I was suffering a good deal of pain and quite 
 sick, but the reception of that note added very materially to the 
 pain that I was suffering then, in the form of an old reminis- 
 cence of camp life which used to attack me at times early in the
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 53 
 
 morning just after reveille had sounded, and the time the boys 
 were getting out of their bunks for roll call, I was very fre- 
 quently attacked with what they call the " gripes," and I had a 
 very severe attack of it again, and I felt like sending back word 
 after friend Affeld came, some such remark, as I used to hear 
 occasionally down at Bird's Point while studying the art of war, 
 the remark was frequently heard, " I pass,." If I had not been 
 so sick, there are a great many reminiscences of the war, which 
 it would be a great pleasure to me to go over, but as regards 
 the work we didn't storm, I certainly didn't storm it, because I 
 had left the Battery at Memphis, just before we went down 
 there, and as I didn't storm this work on that occasion, I would 
 have had to occupy my time very assiduously in reading up, 
 and as I cannot offer you anything original, I will read a few 
 lines which I found in a paper the other day, and sent them to 
 Affeld, thinking they might be of interest here, and he request- 
 ed me to read them on this occasion. 
 
 THE SAME CANTEEN. 
 
 There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours, 
 Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers, 
 
 And true lover's knots, I ween ; 
 The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss. 
 But there's never a bond, old friend, like this 
 
 We drunk from the same canteen! 
 It was sometimes water and sometimes milk, 
 And sometimes apple jack, fine as silk, 
 
 But whatever the tipple has been 
 We shared it together, in bane or bliss, 
 And I warm to you, friend, when I think of this 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen ! 
 The rich and the great sit down to dine, 
 And they quaff to each other in sparkling wine, 
 
 From glasses of crystal and green ; 
 But I guess in their golden potations they miss 
 The warmth of regard to be found in this 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen! 
 We have shared our blanket and tent together, 
 And have marched and fought in all kinds of weather, 
 
 And hungry and full we have been, 
 Had days of battle and days of rest, 
 But this memory I cling to and love the best 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen !
 
 54 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 For when wounded I lay on the outer slope, 
 With my blood flowing fast and but little hope 
 
 Upon which my faint spirit could lean, 
 Oh, then I remember you crawled to my side, 
 And bleeding so fast it seemed both must have died, 
 
 We drank from the same canteen! 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The next regular toast is "Lake St. 
 George, Raymond and Antimonial Wine," 
 
 Response by C. W. PIERCE. 
 
 MR. PRESIDENT: Antimonial Wine? It seems to me I 
 have heard that name before. But why am I thus unceri- 
 moniously called upon to respond to such a peculiar sentiment? 
 Am I expected to soar into the realms of the Materia Medica 
 and expound to this learned audience the uses and abuses of that 
 useful article? I patronize the Homoeopathic School, and they 
 do not prescribe that remedy. If I was called upon to dilate 
 upon the virtues of belladonna, coffea, aconite, or podophyllin, 
 I might be able to throw a little light upon the subject, but 
 Antimonial Wine, completely lays me out. Now, Mr. Presi- 
 dent, do you know anything about Antimonial Wine? 
 
 Gentlemen of the Committee of Arrangements: Do you 
 know anything about Antimonial Wine? Comrades of Taylor's 
 Battery, here assembled: Do YOU know anything about Anti- 
 monial Wine ? " If so, speak, or forever after hold your peace.'* 
 
 I am-yuife-sure that I have heard of such an article before; 
 a vision of long ago seems to dimly pass before my eyes; I am 
 vaguely reminded of a little circumstance an adventure as it 
 were, a a Ah! ! I have it, like a lightning flash it comes 
 to me; it was about that size, so big, and "thereby hangs 
 a tale." 
 
 It was during the fall and winter of '62-3 which found tis y 
 with the balance of the Grand Army of the Tennessee, making 
 vain attempt after attempt to gain the stronghold of the " Hill 
 City of the South " Vicksburg. The Yazoo expedition to 
 Haine's Bluff, followed by our endeavors, through six long and 
 weary days and nights of almost incessant rain, and mud, mud,, 
 mud everywhere to cross the miserable Chickasaw Bayou in 
 the face of the enemy, proved a failure. 
 
 The Sunflower expedition, carried out for the same purpose,
 
 REUNION OF" TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 55 
 
 failed also; during all this time Butler's Canal across the neck 
 of land above Vicksburg, was prosecuted with as much vigor 
 as the long range gun of the enemy, on the opposite shore of 
 the river would allow, with the hope that high water would 
 enable the gunboats and transports to pass through and below the 
 rebel batteries. During this time, our Battery was encamped 
 at the head of this canal, until the aforementioned long range 
 gun requested us to move, which we proceeded to do without 
 any " back talk." In due course of time old " Mississip " com- 
 menced to rise, and it continued to rise, until it became neces- 
 sary to construct a dam of sand-bags at the place where the 
 canal cut through the levee, with the expectation that the rising 
 waters would be held within bounds; vain expectation the 
 windows of Heaven were opened, the rains began to fall, the 
 " Father of Waters " continued to rise, and between them both 
 on one black and stormy night a " wee sma' " hole was made, 
 thro' which the waters trickled, slowly at first, but with greater 
 increasing volume as the breach was enlarged, till, with a sud- 
 den and irresistible rush, the whole structure gave way with a 
 mighty surge of the boiling and seething torrent; the morning 
 dawned, and, where the dam was to be seen the night before, 
 nothing was now left but an immense hole, and a damsite 
 more water pouring through it than the whole army knew what 
 to do with; we were again requested to move, and we obeyed. 
 Butler's scheme was dead. In due time another, and a more suc- 
 cessful scheme was put in operation; gunboats and transports 
 were put into shape for defense, were manned by brave and 
 resolute men, and one dark and starlit night, you all remember 
 how they passed down the river, looking, in the darkness like 
 great black mountains, outlined against the starry heavens; how 
 we watched with breathless anxiety for the first gun announcing 
 their discovery by the rebel batteries at Vicksburg; what a 
 thrill went through us as the first flash told that the rebels were 
 on the alert; then another, and another in quick succession; 
 then the instant illumination of the heavens by immense heaps 
 of burning combustible materials, till the whole line of bluffs 
 for miles was one mass of light, and a vast line of roaring artill- 
 ery. Most of the craft passed the trying ordeal, though many a 
 noble life was lost many a brave and fearless volunteer met
 
 56 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 his death, and a watery grave, but the key of the situation 
 was then obtained, and Vicksburg was doomed. 
 
 The army was now required to carry out the program, but 
 the flood of waters over the low country was an impassable 
 barrier. At the end of forty days a dove was sent forth to sur- 
 vey the situation, it returned without finding where to rest its 
 \veary body; again it was sent forth, it returned with an olive 
 branch; it was sent forth again, but it returned not again, which 
 assured Uncle " Billy " that the waters had abated from the 
 face of the earth, and we started on our tramp for the rear of 
 Vicksburg, crossed the river at Grand Gulf, slowly made our 
 way through the " sunny South" where, I might here remark, 
 "Oranges grow all the year round," and in due time reached 
 Raymond, Miss. 
 
 You all remember Raymond, so I need not dwell on the 
 beauties of that delightful spot. Now, Ra} morel is no "great 
 shakes" of a place, anyhow, Mr. President, but as I have hereto- 
 fore remarked, thereby hangs a tale, and a " right smart " tale 
 too. It happened, as you all well know, that there were cer- 
 tain good and well meaning boys in Taylor's Battery, who were 
 extremely fond of a " night cap," and a day cap too, as well as 
 their " 1 1 o'clock in the morning," and at all times of the day, 
 when they could get it; well, when couldn't they get it, Mr. 
 President? Like the waters which gushed from the rock that 
 Moses smote, a plentiful supply of " Mountain Dew " was 
 always at hand, when their voices were lifted up, like Hagar's 
 in the Wilderness. The "contraband" was to be found in 
 divers shapes in the guise of canned peaches, two peaches and 
 a quart of "forty rod"; brandied cherries three cherries, and 
 the balance "dew." The "dew" was absorbed, but the bal- 
 ance of cherries was discarded; the invigorating blackberry 
 cordial a pint of " tangle foot," diluted with the juice of four 
 berries; and so on ad libitum, ad infinitum. On this special 
 occasion, a " baker's dozen " of good and true soldiers were 
 thirsting for " goah," or any other stimulant that would quench 
 their insatiable thirst. This band of Sherman's "bummers" 
 was headed by a stalwart son of Missouri. His eagle eye 
 discerned the enemy afar off, intrenched between the four walls 
 of a modest country drug store; it was but the work of an in-
 
 Ira Peasley, Chas. D. Dana, 
 
 W. S. Stebbins, 
 
 D. K. Newell, H. F. Lines, 
 
 Corpl. W. T. Shepherd. 
 
 G. M. Willis, Danl. Sweeney, 
 
 Frank Marion, 
 Chas. B. Andrews, W. H. Sanborn. 
 
 Edwd. R. Williamson, 
 A. J. Grant, 
 M - C. Ross, T. I. Ashbrook, 
 
 Jno. Mustard, Chas. G. Siller, 
 
 Jeft'rey Beck, 
 John Beck, Q r a McBride.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 57 
 
 stant for this brave man to decide what course to pursue. 
 With one long, loud and terrific yell, " Hurrah for Cahill!" the 
 fierce charge was made, a breach was effected, and this noble 
 band confronted the enemy. Bottles to the right of them, bot- 
 tles to the left of them, bottles in front of them, stared and 
 wondered. The fierce gaze of that gallant leader met that of 
 an unpretentious "Little brown jug," bearing the legend in 
 letters of " gleaming gold," Antimonial Wine. What cared 
 he of the brand of wine? whether the Sweet Angelica, the 
 acidulous Hock, the sparkling Verzenay, or "Ladies' Wine." 
 "His not to reason why, his but to do or die." Wine, wine, 
 or death, was the battle cry, and with one fell swoop the jug 
 was seized and borne off in triumph by those heroic men. 
 They retired in good order from that deadly breach "all that 
 was left of them," and, upon reaching a secluded spot, gave 
 thanks, with uplifted hands, for their safe deliverance. The 
 jug was " drained to its dregs;" yes, not to its dregs alone, but 
 dregs and all. Ominous smackings of lips, and rubbings of 
 waistcoats might have been heard, and the shattered remnants 
 of that gallant squad retraced their steps to camp, where they 
 were met with shouts and acclamations by their joyous com- 
 rades. " We have met the enemy, and he is ours!' cried the 
 leader. Yes, and a troublesome enemy he proved to be, Mr. 
 President; a veritable Tartar. A bountiful supper awaited 
 their arrival, prepared by the sable hands of a dusky son of the 
 " 1 5th Amendment." The seductive "hard tack" served on 
 the richest of plated ware tin plated ; luscious and juicy rash- 
 ers of " sow belly," served a la Marion, on a chip; and rich, 
 aromatic Mocha, brewed in a gorgeous sheet iron camp kettle, 
 were chief among the viands set before them, and they were 
 invited, with one accord, to " stick their legs under the mahog- 
 any," and partake. Somehow or another these men didn't 
 seem to take hold of those viands " worth a cent." They 
 weren't hankering for any just then; they didn't appear to feel 
 hungry. I don't know why it was, but there seemed to be a 
 remarkable oneness of feeling among them; a sort of coolness 
 had come over these men, an indisposition so to speak to 
 avail themselves of the hospitalities tendered them. Cassius- 
 like, they had a 4< lean and hungry look," but, Mr. President,
 
 58 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 their looks belied their " true inwardness." One by one, as 
 the summer roses fall, they hied them to their several tents r 
 and, in a short space of time the whole camp was thrown into 
 the utmost consternation by strange gurgling sounds, as of the 
 " rush of mighty waters," mingled with wails and groans, as of 
 those in sore distress, coming from all quarters of the camp. 
 The Spartan hero who led that " forlorn hope " seemed to 
 suffer the greatest agony. Because why? Doubtless, because 
 he had the " lion's share " of "Ladies' Wine." I spare my 
 hearers a further recital of the harrowing details. Suffice it to 
 say, that after throwing about 24 hours' rations to the four 
 winds of heaven, all recovered their normal condition, sadder, 
 if not wiser men, and it was satisfactorily proven to these mis- 
 guided men, that it is practically unsafe to " crawl outside " of 
 much antimonial wine. MORAL. Leave it in the "little brown 
 
 jug." 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Our next toast is: "Our First Siege, and' 
 a glorious Fourth. Vicksburg. " 
 
 Response by C. E. AFFELD. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN : A proper reply to the 
 sentiment includes about six months of the history of the war, or 
 about one-sixth of our time of service. I will therefore not at- 
 tempt more than to recall some of the many incidents of our 
 camp life that are not found in the published histories and news- 
 paper accounts. Our first efforts against Vicksburg commenced 
 at what is known as Butler's canal, where we disembarked on 
 the 22nd of January, '63, bidding adieu to the 'Chancellor', which 
 had housed us a week. I well remember how glad we were to 
 get on land and into camp. How pleasant and cheerful the 
 beautiful "burg" looked, and how forbidding the forts and 
 breastworks looked down upon us. The work on the canal was to 
 us at all times interesting, because we did not belong to the de- 
 tail, and we enjoyed the canoe and boat rides, and the excitement 
 occasioned by the steamers and gun-boats arriving; the arrival 
 of the " Chillicothe," "Queen of the West," and other boats 
 memorable in history. I can not help quoting from my notes 
 of Feb'y 2nd, when we were awakened by the music of the 
 Vicksburg cannon, occasioned by the ram " Queen of the West," 
 an ordinary transport guarded by cotton bales, starting at about
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 59 
 
 6 o'clock, a. m., defiantly running the gauntlet of the entire for- 
 tifications, until she came opposite the steamer " Vicksburg,"" 
 when she rounded to, ran into her several times, and put a shot 
 through her wheel house. There was a lull as this piece of aud- 
 acity was being performed, the rebels thinking the boat was 
 coming to, but they renewed their fire with increased energy, if 
 possible,. as she passed swiftly by without ever noticing the many 
 salutes paid her. She subsequently destroyed three steamers 
 below Vicksburg, and captured one laden with sugar and mo- 
 lasses a sweet termination of so gallant an exploit. While at 
 Young's Point we were visited by many of our friends from home, 
 and the river communications being open brought us many lux- 
 uries. On the 25th of March the rams " Lancaster " and 
 " Switzerland " attempted the same feat so successfully per- 
 formed by the "Queen of the West," but with quite different 
 results. The "Lancaster" was blown up opposite the city, and 
 the " Switzerland" was so disabled that she floated down stern 
 foremost until picked up by the " Albatross " below the canal.. 
 But the crowning effort of blockade running was done April i6th, 
 preparatory to a movement on Vicksburg, via Grand Gulf. It 
 was necessary to have transports below Vicksburg in order to 
 cross to the Mississippi side, and all will remember the night, as 
 at about 1 1 o'clock, 7 iron-clads, led by Admiral Porter in the 
 " Benton," with three transports towing ten barges, succeeded 
 in escaping damage, excepting the " Henry Clay," which was 
 burned and illuminated the whole river, as did also the houses 
 set on fire on the other side in order to see what was passing. 
 On the 22nd, at about IIP. M., another batch of steamers ran 
 the blockade. This was better advertised, and we were out to 
 watch the performance. The rebels were determined to sink 
 every boat if powder and shot would do it, and over 500 rounds 
 were said to have been fired at the steamers "Tigress," " Empire 
 City," "Cheesman," "Moderator," "Horizon," and "Anglo Sax- 
 on," of which all but the first got through successfully. The 
 "Tigress" sank at the other end of the canal. On the 28th we 
 loaded on the "Argonaut," to be divided up the next day for a 
 trip up the Yazoo in order to make a feint on Haines' Bluff, one 
 section going on the " Chancellor," one on the " City Belle,'*
 
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 and one on the "Commercial," the iron-clads "Choctaw" and 
 " De Kalb " taking the lead. This lasted until the 2nd of May, 
 which brought us back to Milliken's Bend, where we only 
 stopped until the yth, when we moved on towards Richmond, 
 La., via Roundaway Bayou. On the gth we marched along 
 Lake St. Jo, crossed Douglass bridge and encamped at Mrs. 
 Ogden's plantation. Here we saw the alligators sunning them- 
 selves like turtles, and their bull-like roar became as familiar as 
 the music of the frogs. On the loth we passed Bowie's mansion 
 and cotton houses, considered one of the most elegant houses in 
 the parish; passed Gordens, and camped at Haller Nutt's plan- 
 tation, about two miles from Hardtimes Landing. It was on the 
 way to this place while crossing a temporary bridge over 
 Phillip's bayou, that one of the 8th Mo., and one of Blair's head- 
 quarters wagons was upset, and it was fun to see the 8th Mo. 
 and others, rescue the wicker-covered baskets and other suspic- 
 ious packages for the good there was in them. We had elegant 
 beds made of ginned cotton at from 5oc to $i a pound, spread 
 out on the green clover under a shading orchard, and a pictur- 
 esque sight it was when we left in the morning, the ground being 
 covered with vegetable snow on a field of green. On the nth 
 of May we crossed over to the Mississippi side, at Grand Gulf, 
 the chimneys and cisterns being about all that is left of a former 
 habitation. On the morning of the i2th, as we climbed the 50 
 or 60 ft. bluffs that rise from the river, we entered one of the 
 finest groves it has ever been our good fortune to see. There 
 were magnolias of from 75 to 100 feet in height, all in full 
 bloom, emitting a fragrance which is unequalled by anything we 
 had ever experienced. We also found another species of mag- 
 nolia, with its 3 and 4 ft. leaves and immense white flowers, 
 though not as fragrant as the evergreen variety. I leave the 
 further description to other hands, and commence on the narra- 
 tive of our movements towards Vicksburg. An incident is well 
 worth recalling here : As we stood in the road at Champion 
 Hills, while General A. J. Smith was near our guns, some sol- 
 diers were inspecting the hives at a house to the right of the 
 road, too closely, when there was a hasty movement from the 
 house, and one man was clawing his hair, with a swarm of bees
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 6r 
 
 around his head, and running with all his might for the pond 
 near by, into which, without a moment's hesitation, he plunged 
 head foremost, to the intense amusement of those in line. If 
 he could have had the liquor which the General could not com- 
 fortably carry, it would have been a better antidote than even 
 "Antimonial wine," as I have found out by actual experience 
 in later years. 
 
 On the 1 4th we passed the Mercantile Battery at Auburn 
 P. O. We again heard of the capture of Richmond by Hooker 
 very circumstantially reported, and there was a feeling about this 
 time that we were invincible, and were only anxious to get at 
 them to finish the business. With this feeling we crossed Black 
 River on rubber pontoons, and it was a very picturesque scene 
 as the troops filed over the bridge by the light of pitch pine 
 knots and camp fires. On the i8th our section fired the first gun 
 at the rebel works in the rear of Vicksburg, commencing a siege 
 of a month and a half, which we expected to finish in a day or 
 two. I will not endeavor to describe the charge on the igth of 
 May. Suffice it to say it did not succeed, though the colors of 
 some of the regiments were actually on the enemy's breastworks, 
 it was impossible to get over in any force, and they had to be 
 withdrawn under the friendly cover of darkness. On the 2oth 
 we were still in position on the right of the main road. It was a 
 disastrous day to us, as we had to mourn the death of a brave 
 and intelligent young member of Squad 6, D. K. Newell, who 
 was thumbing the vent in the place of C. W. Pierce, who was 
 detailed at the caisson as the messenger of death sped through 
 the embrasure and struck him on the top of the head, passing 
 through, as his head was bowed to keep below the embrasure. 
 Dan Young was wounded on Squad 2 gun also. On the 22nd 
 we were in position pretty well protected by our earth works, 
 provided we did not show ourselves above them. The memor- 
 able charge of the 22nd had been made and failed again, with a 
 large sacrifice of life. We were firing along the whole line, and 
 the guns were getting warm so that we had to wet the sponges. 
 It was about 5 P.M., and we had been discussing the absolute 
 necessity of keeping out of sight, and loading in the smoke of 
 the guns, when Fred Thompson, who had taken Newell' s place
 
 62 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 as No. 3 on the gun, was thumbing the vent, the foreordained 
 bullet struck him through the heart, and he fell backwards in the 
 arms of his comrades, a sacrifice to useless display of bravery, 
 as he considered it cowardly not to stand up straight while on 
 <luty. He was one of our most reliable and thorough soldiers, 
 -always on hand when wanted, and when danger was near, and 
 had been in the English army during the Crimean war. The 
 26th brought another sacrifice in the person of Henry Henrotin, 
 one of our original members of 1861. He was a young man, 
 and was struck while accidentally raising his head above the 
 level of the breastworks. Battery "A," on our right was called 
 to mourn the loss of George Whittier, one of its brightest young 
 men, a sacrifice to the deadly aim and accuracy of the rebel 
 sharpshooters. 
 
 After these unsuccessful attempts to storm the works, it was 
 decided that pick and shovel had to assist in reducing them, 
 and I doubt whether the history of the war will show a more 
 elaborate system of saps and mines, than those of the Union 
 army in the rear of Vicksburg. It kept the soldiers in good 
 health, and kept them busy during the day, cutting cane and 
 limbs to back and strengthen the earth works at night. But we 
 were not allowed to take part in this work long. 
 
 On the 26th of May, at 8 P. M., we let our guns down the 
 side of the hill with prolongs, and by 10 o'clock turned our backs 
 on Vicksburg and moved out on the Chickasaw road and bivouack- 
 ed 4 miles from Snyder's Bluff, and at 4 A. M. the next morning 
 we were on the move with General Blair in command of the 
 expedition, consisting of 3 brigades from Sherman's and 3 from 
 McPherson's corps. The march up the valley, between the 
 Yazoo and Big Black, will linger long in the memories of the 
 participants, and Nellis', Harris', Heart's, Parti e's, and Roache's 
 plantations have all contributed their share to the comfort of 
 the soldiers. Besides veal, mutton, poultry, and beef, that these 
 generous planters contributed, we had milk and honey, and the 
 woods provided mulberries, plums and blackberries in profusion. 
 This rich bottom was luxuriant with corn, which the necessities 
 of the war had compelled them to plant, and our horses reveled 
 in a superfluity of fodder. After arriving at Mechanicsburg,
 
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 22 miles from Yazoo City we returned partly by the road we 
 came, camping on the 3151 near Haines' Bluff, on the Yazoo, 
 having accomplished little more than draining the country of 
 cattle, negroes and mules, and destroying cotton and cotton 
 gins, and such other things as might prove of comfort or shelter 
 to the enemy. After a rest of a day or two we received orders 
 to go with General Mower's command, consisting of one brigade, 
 viz: 8th Wis., nth Mo., 47th 111., and 5th Minn., and cavalry, 
 on another expedition, and by 12 p. M. of the 3rd of June, we 
 were on board the " L. M. Kennett, " with the "Madison" and 
 "Sam Young" following the "mosquito" gun boats up the Yazoo, on 
 our way to Satartia. It was our first trip up the smaller rivers 
 since Donelson, and the overhanging moss and tropical fcliage, 
 cultivated fields and glimpses of a plantation through the woods, 
 made a most enchanting scene, the enjoyment of which was 
 somewhat marred, after passing the mouth of the Big Sun 
 Flower, by the narrowness of the stream, when the branches of 
 the trees would bend from our smoke, stacks and sweep the 
 decks, and the knowledge of the fact that we could not turn 
 around even though it were desirable to do so. The booming 
 of cannon in the distance, and the occasional musket shot, made 
 us anxious to get to our landing, which we reached at 8 A. M. on 
 the 4th, and moved on to Mechariicsburg, about 3^ miles from 
 the river. About two miles from the town we came upon the 
 enemy, fired a few rounds from one of our guns, and then moved 
 on the town. We took position in the road, fired about ten 
 rounds apiece, and then the cavalry and infantry followed them 
 up. We saw nothing of them but the dust they made while re- 
 treating. Here we met General Kimball's 2nd brigade, consist- 
 ing of 43-61-106 111., i2th Mich., 4oth Iowa, and 37th Wis. 
 At this place many of you will recollect the novel sight of a man sit- 
 ting astride of a rail, carried by his comrades, with a string in his 
 mouth, attached to a board hanging on his back, marked 
 "Coward." His comrades of the nth Mo. found him at the 
 landing, and thus summarily punished him for running away. 
 He must have been a coward or an idiot not to have resented 
 such indignity. 
 
 On the morning of the 6th, after standing in line and harnessed
 
 64 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 up all night, we moved out at about 10 A. M. on our return. 
 It was an excessively hot day, and as many of those in the lead 
 had not marched much in this climate, the jackets, overcoats 
 and surplus baggage, began to line the road : The baggage 
 wagons and ambulances were filled with exhausted men, and the 
 surgeons were administering to sick and sun-stricken soldiers 
 under every tree by the roadside, and it is a mystery to this day 
 why we were marched as if life or death depended on our get- 
 ting back. We camped 12 miles from Haines' Bluff, but were 
 awakened at 2 A. M. so as not to march in the heat of the day, 
 though we did not get under way until 6 A. M. The cavalry was 
 busy with skirmishers in the rear, and we reached Haines' Bluff 
 Sunday the 7th of June, after one of the most exhausting and ill 
 managed marches we were ever on. The beautiful cistern on 
 Roache's plantation, covered by a large roof, and containing a 
 yawl boat, will be remembered for its size and refreshing shelter, 
 on this excessively hot and sultry day. We were getting ready 
 to make ourselves comfortable, when we heard of an attack on 
 Milliken's Bend, and that " the colored troops fought nobly," 
 nevertheless, on the evening of the ninth, we were ordered to 
 load on board the steamer "Black Hawk" for Young's Point, where 
 we landed on the morning of the loth at 2 A. M. Hauling the 
 guns up the steep bank, and getting them into position on the 
 levee was the work of the morning, and when completed we en- 
 joyed our breakfast in a pouring rain. A squad of 12 or 15 de- 
 serters from Vicksburg, were sent here to stay with the 130 pris- 
 oners camped near by, and kept the camp supplied with rumors 
 for the balance of the week. There were many visitors down 
 this way about this time. The Newells were looking after the 
 remains of their lamented brother, and relatives of the soldiers 
 from Chicago were always welcome guests in our camp. We all 
 remember the visit of a party from this city, among which was 
 Frank Lumbard, and of his singing patriotic songs in the evening, 
 within a stone's throw of the rebel works, and the cheering from 
 both sides along the line; these incidents all helped to keep our 
 minds occupied when the guerillas or rebel cavalry would let us 
 rest, but owing to the annoying raids from the direction of Rich- 
 mond, La., it was decided to take the place, and so we got ready
 
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 early Sunday morning, June i4th, to move down river with 
 Mower's Brigade, and about 120 of the xoth Illinois cavalry. 
 While waiting to start, about 12 steamers came down the river 
 with General Burnside's Corps, and it seemed odd to hear of 
 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York regiments in the 
 western army. All the boats passed to the lower landing. We 
 kept on the levee to Duckport, where the canal had been dug, 
 and there we met the dredge Hercules, and a Y* mile farther on, 
 at Mason's plantation, the dredge Louisville, where they had 
 worked their way in high water and were now high and dry, about 
 30 feet above the river in the timber, with the channel partially 
 filled and overgrown with weeds; a mystery and a surprise to us 
 all, they were familiar and busy objects in the early spring. At 
 5 P. M. we reached Mrs. Ames' plantation, a large brown mansion 
 with store houses and negro quarters, all having been recently 
 occupied and hastily abandoned. When I think of the widow 
 Ames, it seem as if I knew the good lady and her interesting 
 family. As her well selected library furnished Shakespear, Irving^ 
 Cowper, Dickens and other standard works, and her china and 
 silverware were cherished as mementoes to the close of the war; 
 her name became as familiar in camp as household words. 
 
 On the 1 5th, about % mile from Richmond, we formed in 
 line with General Elliott's marine brigade; we had a clear view 
 and could see the enemy getting a battery into position ; we had 
 a pretty fight and had advanced 3 times until reaching Bushy 
 bayou, over which the bridge was burning. The cavalry and in- 
 fantry followed; from the wounded left in the town, we learned 
 they had 2 brigades. (7 regiments) and 4 pieces of artillery, in 
 all about 2,500 men our forces. must have been 3, 200 in all. We 
 had a dinner of the best the town afforded and after destroying 
 Richmond so that it would afford no shelter or sustenance to the 
 enemy, we started back to Young's Point, having successfully 
 captured Richmond the first time trying I must not forget to 
 mention that this was the first engagement of Captain Rumsey, 
 whose promotion was formally announced on Saturday, June 2oth, 
 at roll call. 
 
 On the 23rd of June the' Battery moved down to the lower 
 landing or near the Butler Canal, and an hour before dusk, two
 
 66 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 guns o/ the left section were sent with a detail of infantry, to what 
 was known as De Soto Point, directly opposite the city of Vicks- 
 burg. A place was made for our guns in the levee, about 500 
 yards to the right of a 20 pound Parrott and a Dahlgren gun in 
 charge of the Marine Brigade. All those who had the opportun- 
 ity of visiting the point, will appreciate the uncomfortable posi- 
 tion of those who had to be with the guns. We were directly 
 opposite the Prentiss House, whose sign could be distinctly read, 
 and a mill that was grinding corn, was an object of attention to 
 the Parrott gun to our left; about ^ mile up the river were the 
 mortar boats, dropping their shells every now and then into the 
 town, and beyond them was a hundred pound Parrot gun, occasion- 
 ally taking a shot at one of the guns in the fort when they got 
 too lively. We had to dig a pit near our guns, in which we 
 could jump when we saw the smoke of the enemy's guns, which 
 gave us some little time to hunt our holes before the shot would 
 strike. They were full of toads, and when we jumped in they 
 would jump out. It had been rumored that the enemy was try- 
 ing to cross the river in skiffs, and that was the occasion of our 
 being ordered there with some infantry as support. 
 
 The Parrott gun on our left commenced firing the next morn- 
 ing on the mill, and the forts would answer from a half dozen 
 places, throwing ring grape, cannister, 24 and 32 pound solid 
 shot, 7 and 8 inch rifled shot and shell all around us, but without 
 much damage. Here, if anywhere, the saying that it takes tons 
 of lead to kill an artillery man, was verified, as there was but one 
 man killed in all our stay, though the casemate of the guns to our 
 right were plowed into several times; I must say that our greatest 
 and most annoying enemy, were the mosquitoes. 
 
 All the changes and movements of troops were made after 
 dusk, as we were close enough to be annoyed occasionally by a 
 long range rifle. Our infantry, by a well directed shot, often 
 made the mules step around lively that came down to the levee 
 to water. We did no cooking and our breastworks were covered 
 with brush, so that the number and exact position of our guns 
 should not be known. On the 25th of June many of us visited 
 the mortar boats which kept up an incessant fire at from 10 to 15 
 minute intervals.
 
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 The 100 pound Parrott gun on a scow above the mortar boats, 
 kept up a healthy excitement across the river, and when it fired, 
 we would run to the levee to see the shot strike. It seemed to 
 do the most execution in the blocks behind the Prentiss House, 
 and seemed to do more harm than all the mortars put together. 
 We heard that the "Arizona" came up from New Orleans, bringing 
 the news of the taking of Port Hudson. After supper we amused 
 ourselves by asking and answering questions of the rebs; we 
 could hear them plainly across the water; also the ringing of the 
 Court House bell at 9 P. M. The Dahlgren gun to our left re- 
 ceived a shot, bringing down the casemate, made of R. R. iron, 
 but no one was seriously hurt. You will doubtless remember 
 that we had a great many sick about that time, and Captain 
 Rumsey was the only commissioned officer on duty, and it was 
 difficult to find well men enough to relieve the section at the 
 Point, every two days; the 20 pound Parrott gun had succeeded 
 on the 28th in stopping the usefulness of J. M. Paxton's mill, as no 
 smoke came from its chimneys. The batteries kept up a lively 
 fire, directed mostly towards the guns above us and the regiment 
 below us. We can also tell when the firing is lively in the rear 
 of Vicksburg, as it can be distinctly heard, and it is said that in 
 a charge made on the 27th, part of the stockade and breastworks 
 were taken, but it was not policy to hold them. We notice that 
 the friction primers of the enemy must be poor, as they waste 
 from 5 to 15 before the gun goes off. 
 
 On the 3oth, Lieut. Whittle came to the Point to see the 
 town. It is rumored that McPherson and part of Ord's and 
 Sherman's commands are to make an attack. We are having 
 delightful moonlight chats with the rebs after dark. It is July 
 3rd, and the days are getting fearfully hot, and there is not 
 much change from the monotony of camp life. We had heard 
 the discouraging news from the East, and that General Lee was 
 in Pennsylvania. Rumor has it that General Meade supersedes 
 General Hooker. 
 
 The centre section relieved the right at the Point to-night. 
 We received orders to harness, and there is a rumor of a grand 
 attack on the enemy to-morrow, and we are to be prepared 
 should they attempt to cross the river.
 
 68 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 On Saturday, July 4th, at about 8 A. M., Lieut. Clifford Stick- 
 ney, of the signal corps, stopped to inform us that Vicksburg 
 had surrendered, and would be in our possession at IDA. M. He 
 informed us that at 4 P. M. yesterday, orders came to cease firing; 
 that the rebs had asked for an armistice till 10 A. M., at which 
 time they would surrender on condition that the officers be al- 
 lowed their side-arms, and the prisoners be paroled in Yicks- 
 burg. Everything seemed to confirm this piece of news. The 
 expected attack on the 4th was not made, and our boys of the 
 centre section reported that wagon loads of ammunition were 
 being thrown in the river, and the big shot rolled down the hill. 
 I have among my notes, that we celebrated the day with a good 
 dinner, ending up with a corn-starch pudding one of Pierce's 
 best efforts. At about noon the fleet fired a salute in honor of 
 the day. The salute that was fired did not sound as if fired by 
 very heavy guns, considering it is the Fourth, and that Vicks- 
 burg has been taken. It would have been reasonable to suppose 
 that with the means we had at hand for a jollification and dem- 
 onstration, more powder would have been consumed. We 
 account for it by supposing Johnson is ignorant of the surrender, 
 and that Grant will immediately fall on him with his whole force 
 and demoralize him if possible. 
 
 So you see how the news that electrified the whole north, 
 and set the loyal homes ablaze with illumination, and made the 
 entire country wild with joy, was celebrated at the seat of war. 
 I think, now, gentlemen, that I have taxed your patience long 
 enough. I will not describe the number of prisoners, guns, 
 and ordnance stores captured. These are accessible to you and 
 everybody, but our doings and our part in the great drama are 
 sacred to the old comrades and their families only, and it takes 
 occasions like these to bring from their seclusion the impressions 
 of youth stamped on the memory by the iron hand of war. 
 
 The impression made on many of us by seeing so many 
 prisoners, in such lamentable condition, was one of mystery that 
 they should so bravely suffer while they had so indefinite an idea 
 of the object to be attained, but the ignorance of the rank and 
 file, and the fact that they were defending homes more than 
 country, no doubt will account for their sacrifice, which I can-
 
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 not help thinking was greater than ours on account of its utter 
 hopelessness. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT. The next toast is " Mission Ridge and 
 Knoxville March." F. O.Affeld and Charles Turner. 
 
 C.E. AFFELD. I will read my brother's reply, which he sends 
 to me, to the dispatch, which Mr. Rumsey telegraphed, in re- 
 sponse to the sentiment. 
 
 NEW YORK, February 10, 1880. 
 MY DEAR COMRADES: 
 
 As the incidents of the eventful and terribly exciting days of the I3th, I4th 
 and especially the isth of February, 1862, pass in review before me, the faces 
 of those with whom it was my privilege to act in concert naturally turn up as 
 the most prominent and interesting: and it will not be necessary to assure you 
 that nothing would give me more pleasure than to greet them one and all to- 
 night. But as that may not be. may I in imagination join you all on the hard 
 frozen and snow covered hill (where we took our position just 18 years ago 
 to-night), in a quart mug full of black but exhilarating coffee, before turning 
 in for the night. Few of us realized until the next morning, and still fewer 
 cared, that the angel of death was hovering over us in the form of round shot, 
 bomb, and bullets, we crawled under our tarpaulins, drawn over gun and 
 brush, and slept soundly until the enemies' morning guns exploded their shells 
 about our heads, not figuratively but literally, for the tree by which we had 
 lain all night was partially cut down by a solid shot, and McAllister's 24 pound 
 howitzer was disabled before our eyes. It would however be presumptious in 
 me to occupy the few happy hours of your reunion with incidents of the last 
 day's fight; the desperate attempt of the "Johnnies" to force their way through 
 our lines; the hasty retreat where batteries right and left of us left their guns 
 and scampered off with their horses; the awful moments when our gun team 
 became entangled in traces and brush, so as to require unhitching before they 
 could be gotten up; how infantry and artillery men without guns rushed by 
 regardless of who might take the hindermost; how squad five bravely went 
 into position on the hill above us, to protect us. and how finally, (in spite of 
 Major Schwarz to the contrary) we got our horses up, and joined the retreat to 
 the new line of battle where we awaited and gloriously repulsed the 'charge. 
 All these incidents can be better recited by others among you than by me. 
 
 I will therefore conclude with the hope that at this evening's roll call you 
 will be able to muster a full battery, and will enjoy your reunion as heartily 
 as we enjoyed the tidings of the surrender the next morning, when we expected 
 to be led to the front again. 
 
 Cordially your comrade, F. O. AFFELD. 
 
 To Messrs. B. F. McCarthy, I. P. Rumsey, ) 
 
 >- Executive Committee, 
 II. W. Dudley, J. M. Vernon, C. E. Aft'eld, \ Chicago, 111.
 
 70 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 MR. CHARLES TURNER : I received a very short notice, I 
 believe this morning I was requested to respond to this senti- 
 ment, and Mr. Chairman and fellow comrades, I will merely re- 
 fresh your memories in regard to the battle of Mission Ridge, 
 and our trip to Knoxville. No doubt it is impressed on your 
 minds, as it is on mine, that that battle was one of the best that 
 we encountered, inasmuch as we were not participating in it as 
 fighters, but only as spectators. We pushed rather fast for two 
 or three days, and then we were ordered to General Burnside at 
 Knoxville. We travelled, if you remember, very rapidly so as to 
 achieve the object on which we were bent, and when we arrived 
 at Marysville, about fifteen or eighteen miles from Knoxville, we 
 then learned that the siege was raised and General Long- 
 street had retreated into Virginia; we were then ordered to re- 
 turn after a day or two, and came back through another 
 section of East Tennessee. I remember that as a beautiful 
 country, and I believe that section was about as pretty as we 
 have seen anywhere, and if you remember, we lived highly on 
 that trip back, so much so that we might call it a feast nearly all 
 the way, but we were very much short of provisions when we got 
 within fifty miles of Chattanooga; so much so, that the horses 
 and mules ate their own tails and manes and the overcoats be- 
 longing to the men, and when we arrived at Larkinsville we were 
 in a rather dilapidated condition. I think we spent Christmas 
 between Chattanooga and our resting place for the winter, Lark- 
 insville, Alabama, and I believe we were short of rations, and 
 the dinner which I ate that day, I shall never forget, it being 
 Christmas day. We generally have a feast at home, but my 
 dinner was three potatoes and two ears of corn; that is all the 
 dinner we had that day; but after a while we were well supplied 
 with provisions, and we wintered at Larkinsville, and there we 
 had a good rest. This is all I wish to say, gentlemen, in regard 
 to Mission Ridge and Knoxville. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: I will say to you, gentlemen, that I had the 
 responsibility of issuing the order to Battery B on this occasion 
 to go to Knoxville to relieve Burnside. It read like this: "Two 
 days cooked rations to last six." Well, we were gone a month 
 and we didn't get any more rations all the way, so it must have
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 71 
 
 been good to them to get into the corn country, but what about 
 the turkeys and geese? The boys used to come loaded into 
 headquarters. Did we want anything to eat, and we couldn't 
 find anything, we said: wait until Battery B comes into 
 camp, then they will have some turkeys and geese hanging 
 across their saddles, and all that sort of thing, you know. Excuse 
 me for this interruption and I will give you the next toast. 
 "Resaca," C. J. SAUTER. 
 MR. PRESIDENT AND COMRADES : 
 
 After passing our winter months between Larkinsville and 
 the Landing, everything was got in readiness by the latter part 
 of April for the active campaign, and on Sunday. May ist, we 
 broke camp, moving toward the front, leaving the left section 
 behind us at the landing, (where they had gone to man the 
 guns of the centre section, when it was broken up) with the 
 understanding that they were to follow us when relieved. Our 
 march lay through Belle Fonte, Scottsboro, Stephenson, by 
 Nick a Jack cave, Falling Waters, Whitesides, and through 
 Lookout Valley, around Lookout Mountain, through Rossville, 
 camping the night of May 6th at Lee & Gordon's mills. On 
 Saturday we moved toward Gordon's Gap, of Taylor's Range, 
 camping for the night about three miles from the Gap. Sunday 
 we passed through Gordon's Gap, and that night went into posi- 
 tion about three miles from Snake Creek Gap; the first skirmish- 
 ing in our front having been done by the i6th Corps during the 
 day. Monday .morning the movement through Snake Creek 
 Gap began; skirmishing commenced early and continued nearly 
 all day. It took us nearly all day to get through the gap, there 
 being only a single narrow road and the gap about 8 miles long; 
 night found us about 5 miles from Resaca and 15 miles from 
 Dalton, between the two places. We took position covering 
 the Dalton Road, heard considerable firing to our left, indicat- 
 ing that the enemy had been found in force and that the memor- 
 orable Atlanta Campaign had commenced in earnest. On 
 Tuesday, the loth of May, our corps took the advance with our 
 division leading; skirmishing was kept up all day, although no 
 general engagement was forced. This afternoon the left section 
 and balance of our division came up, having left the landing four
 
 72 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 days after we left Larkinsville, and making forced marches to 
 catch up. We were all glad to see them, and felt better to be 
 all together once more. We retired with orders to be ready to 
 move at 2 in the morning, without noise, and anxiety and specu- 
 lation was all the talk around camp. About three A. M. we 
 moved back about two miles to near the mouth of Snake Creek 
 Gap, formed in line of battle, our corps occupying the left of the 
 line on very high ground, our right section going into position on 
 a hill, the whole line being immediately fortified by breastworks. 
 On the morning of the i3th we again advanced to near our for- 
 mer position of the gth and loth, covering the Dalton road. 
 The cavalry started out early to reconnoitre toward Dalton and 
 cut the railroad, but failed, leaving several wounded and one 
 killed. General Sherman appeared on the field to-day, the first 
 time we had seen him since we started, and it was taken as an 
 indication that things would be lively on the morrow, and we 
 were not disappointed, for early Friday moining, the i3th, the 
 whole line seemed to be alive. The cavalry moved out early, 
 taking the road toward Resaca, and not long afterwards an am- 
 bulance passed us with General Kilpatrick wounded in the leg. 
 The general advance commenced about 9 A. M. The i6th corps 
 on the right, our own next to their left, with the i4th and 2oth 
 to our left. The advance continued with continuous skirmishing 
 until we were within easy sight and range of their works around 
 Resaca, which had the appeal ance of carefully prepared, sub- 
 stantial works. We were ordered into position about 3 P. M., on 
 an elevation commanding a splendid view of their works and the 
 railroad bridge, and before dark fired a few shots at them. 
 Although the firing was continuous nearly all day, no general 
 engagement was fought, yet the losses were quite heavy, Lieut. 
 John Rumsey, of Battery A, being wounded about dark, in the 
 shoulder, by a piece of shell said to have been fired by some of 
 our batteries. Our lines were all intrenched during the night, 
 and by sunrise Saturday morning musketry and cannonading 
 commenced, and before noon had reached a perfect roar of both 
 large and small arms. Late in the afternoon the first brigade of 
 our division charged across Lick Creek, and drove the Rebs 
 off a ridge which they had occupied between our lines and their
 
 Thos. Boyd, Jas. B. Dutch, 
 
 Sergt. Jas. B. Easson, 
 Jno. W. Powell, H. L. Adair. 
 
 Henry B. Cobb, Kdwd. Bancroft, 
 
 Corpl. Ceo. T. Hatch, 
 Walter Sherwood, Walter Scales. 
 
 Wm. Hathaway, V. E. Hathaway, 
 
 Wm. Blakie, 
 A. H. Rhodes, J. S. Higgins. 
 
 Mark S. Wyeth, Danl. W. Sheldon. 
 
 Corpl. J. V. Lembke, 
 H. F. Henrotin, J. E. Thomas.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 73 
 
 own works. The charge was splendidly made, we adding our 
 mite by dislodging a lot of skirmishers behind a pile of rails 
 which we splintered, and started the squad from their shelter at 
 -a double quick, much to the amusement of our infantry, who 
 helped them along with a volley. During the charge our men 
 reached the crest of the hill and were there checked by the 
 rebel artillery, which, by the way, had kept remarkably quiet 
 until now. We held the hill, although they tried several times 
 to drive our boys back, continuing the fight even after dark. 
 During the night, breastworks were thrown up on the ridge last 
 taken, and all laid down with the belief that the morrow was to 
 see a hot time, particularly as it was Sunday. We were, how- 
 ever, disappointed, as very little was done more than skirmish- 
 ing along the lines. Our battery was advanced to a position at 
 the foot of the ridge, commanding the valley between us and the 
 Johnnies. I, ate in the night they charged our left, but were re- 
 pulsed, and about 3 o'clock Monday morning the railroad bridge 
 was discovered on fire, and fell shortly afterwards. We, of 
 course, knew that this meant retreat, and prepared to enter the 
 town at daylight. They had left a large quantity of cornmeal, 
 shell corn and beans, in sacks, besides 4 pieces of artillery, 
 battery wagons, forges, etc. We noticed particularly the effect 
 of our shot on the works of the town, and appearances indicated 
 that they must have done good work. The loss in our division 
 was stated at 180 in killed and wounded, and about 400 for the 
 corps. Of this fight General Sherman says that McPherson lost 
 his opportunity to destroy Johnson's army, by not pushing for- 
 ward and attacking Resaca on the Qth and loth, when it was 
 only garrisoned by a single brigade; to which I will add my 
 humble testimony that we did well enough as a starter. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT : Now before we go to the next toast I will 
 tell you a little story. General Sherman and his staff stopped in 
 a house, and the family were in the loft, we didn't disturb them 
 and they didn't disturb us, but the old woman, as ?oon as she 
 knew it was Geneial Sherman that was in the house, came 
 around and said, "I say, be you General Sherman?" Sherman 
 says, "That is my name;" "Well, now, General. I will tell you what I 
 want of you, I want two dollars and a half, and I want it right
 
 74 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 away too, that is all there is about it;" "Well, my dear woman," 
 says the General, "why should I give you two dollars and a 
 half." "Well, I will tell you just how it was General, how it 
 happened," she says, "here was we uns over on that side, and 
 there was you uns over on that side, and they commenced fight- 
 ing, and they fit and fit and fit, and they would' have fit till this 
 time, only you come over with a critter company, and with that 
 company knocked over my ash hopper, and it will cost you two 
 dollars and a half. " Well, they did knock the ash hopper to be 
 sure. 
 
 The next regular toast is "Dallas," WM. C. SCUPHAM. 
 
 I am detailed by the committee of arrangements to recount 
 our participation in the battle of Dallas, but shall venture to dis- 
 obey orders somewhat, having no fear of extra duty before my 
 eyes, by taking up the thread of history where Sauter has left off 
 and dwell briefly on the incidents of the preceding march so as 
 to give a connected account. 
 
 We had crossed the Oostenaula on the pontoon bridge on the 
 1 6th of May. Heard the distant thunder of Thomas' guns at 
 Adairsville and Cassville, while we on the extreme right, peace- 
 fully threaded our way over some of the finest land in Georgia? 
 with the brightest of skies overhead and all nature smiling serene- 
 ly around us. 
 
 We remained three days on the banks of the Etowah near 
 Kingston, while our great chief was perfecting communications 
 in our rear, and gathering his forces well in hand, to so fling them 
 against the enemy, that Alltoona, his second strong defensive 
 position should fall before us. 
 
 Then when all was ready, we crossed the Etowah, marching 
 on the Van Wert road, through an interminable pine forest most 
 of the way. and chiefly remarkable for the scarcity of houses and 
 difficulty of procuring water. 
 
 The morning of May 24th found us drawn up alongside of the 
 road, on a wooded hill top, waiting to start. But we were to be 
 in the rear, so we watched brigade after brigade and division after 
 division file past, got our dinner, and then regretfully saw the 
 snail-like wagon train lumber in ahead of us. Very regretfully,, 
 because by that time we well knew what it meant to be guarding 
 the train.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 75 
 
 Not till 5 o'clock p. M. did we draw out, and then commenced 
 one of the most trying night marches of our experience. With 
 dark it began to rain, adding to the interest of the situation. 
 Our rate of progress was to move along for about ten or fifteen 
 minutes, and then halt for half an hour; then just as we would 
 conclude to improve the time by arranging some rails alongside 
 a fire to snatch a nap and dry our clothes at the same time, on 
 we would start again for an uncertain distance. 
 
 A striking feature of this march was that fires were built along 
 the road the entire distance, the rail fences furnishing the ready 
 fuel, presenting a weird and novel aspect when we reached an 
 elevation and looked down upon the tortuous line of fire. By 
 midnight we had accomplished 2^/2 miles, entering Van Wert at 
 3 o'clock we drew up for camp in an orchard, about 2 miles be- 
 yond, very moist, very hungry, and, it is needless to add, very 
 sleepy. 
 
 After about three hours sleep and a hasty breakfast we were 
 off again, comparatively happy in escaping from the wagon train. 
 Shortly after noon our advance skirmished with a small force of 
 the enemy, on Pumpkin Vine Creek, making us feel that there 
 was soon to be work for us again. Towards evening we drew up 
 for camp ; but just as we had finished supper and, while looking 
 for a display of heaven's artillery in a thickly gathering storm, we 
 heard the unmistakable boom of heavy guns, in the direction of 
 Dallas as we supposed, undoubtedly suggesting to our command- 
 ers the propriety of closing up more compactly, for we soon got 
 orders to move out again, and on one of the darkest of dark 
 nights, under a pelting rain, we marched about a mile further, 
 stopping at 9 p. M. for the night, first putting our guns in position 
 on a commanding height, in case the men in gray should call 
 upon us, but every man of us, excepting our trusty guards, find- 
 ing the soundest and sweetest sleep notwithstanding. 
 
 Next day, the 26th, we started out towards noon, our advance 
 skirmishing from time to time with light forces of the enemy who 
 fell back before us readily, though once, about a mile from Dal- 
 las, our whole division was deployed in line of battle. 
 
 We entered Dallas without serious trouble, and stopped with- 
 in sight of it for dinner.
 
 76 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 When we moved on again, our battery was well in the advance, 
 with only the n6th Illinois and Morgan L. and Giles Smith and 
 their staff ahead of us. 
 
 We had gone on about a mile to where the road turned off to 
 the south approaching a wood, into which our advance was just 
 entering, when suddenly there came a rattle of musketry from 
 out the timber, a hissing of bullets around us, and the battle of 
 Dallas had begun. 
 
 We all appreciated that we had narrowly escaped falling into 
 an ambuscade. But the old 2nd division was not easily taken 
 off its guard, and ere many minutes was deployed in line of bat- 
 tle along the edge of the woods, facing the enemy at all points, 
 and our gallant captain had placed our guns in battery on an ele- 
 vation on the side of the road. There we remained inactive, 
 while the heavy skirmishing ahead and the occasional bringing of 
 a wounded man past us, told of the serious work going on in de- 
 veloping the rebel lines. 
 
 After about an hour of this suspense, squad I's gun was or- 
 dered to take position on the front to the left of the road, and 
 soon, we in the rear heard our comrades announcing that 
 Battery B was to take a part in the dispute, while the quick fol- 
 lowing cheer from the infantry testified their appreciation of our 
 services. 
 
 We were wakened early the morning of the 27th by heavy 
 volleys of musketry, and soon we had all our guns in the line of 
 battle, on the left of the road in the woods, with the 6th Missouri 
 supporting us. 
 
 In our front was heavy timber and dense underbrush, afford- 
 ing excellent cover for our own and the enemies' sharpshooters, 
 who kept up an incessant popping at each other, making the 
 bullets whistle around us very unpleasantly at times, while we 
 were denied the satisfaction of talking back ourselves. 
 
 In the afternoon, one of these stray balls struck Charley 
 Henny in the foot, and deprived squad 2 of the services of its 
 efficient and popular sergeant from that time. 
 
 Osterhaus, on our left was heavily engaged, and away to the 
 left we could hear the frequent booming of Hooker's guns, but 
 on our front only constant skirmishing throughout the day 
 occurred.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 77 
 
 The morning of the 28th was unmarked by anything unusual 
 in our position. I doubt if the term wilderness applied as fitly 
 to the ground our eastern army fought over, as to our battle-field. 
 The timber and underbrush completely shut out the view 50 yards 
 in front of us, so there was little use for our artillery. It was em- 
 inently the place for the sharpshooter. Ours and the ene- 
 mies' skirmishers were very close, watching each other keenly, 
 and the well aimed firing was almost continuous. 
 
 On our right, the ground in front of the 4th division was more 
 rolling. Battery H and the ist lov/a Battery occupying two 
 wooded hills. Late in the morning the enemies' artillery opened 
 heavily on them, provoking quite an artillery duel, but you all 
 remember the accuracy of H's 20 pounder Parrotts, which soon 
 quieted the rebel guns, so that they only responded sullenly at 
 long intervals, till about 3 o'clock p. M. when an ominous silence 
 ruled along the whole front for a space. Suddenly about 4 
 o'clock, beginning on the right and rapidly spreading along the 
 entire front, we heard the familar rebel yell, quickly followed by 
 volleys of musketry and the roar of the 4th division batteries. 
 The battle thunder increased momentarily, and each one of us 
 felt the awful solemnity of the impending crisis. In our immedi- 
 ate front the assault was delayed, but pretty soon our skirmishers 
 came running into our line, when we commenced firing to the 
 right oblique, where we could see the gray clad men occasionally 
 among the trees, but I think we never got a good chance at them 
 as a line of battle. 
 
 The brunt of the fight was borne by the extreme right, which 
 it was evidently the intention of the enemy to turn. So fierce 
 was the charge there, that they actually carried the hill of the 
 ist Iowa battery, and De Gresse, expecting to be attacked from 
 there also, turned two of his guns on them. But they only 
 held the line a few moments, when the 5th Iowa charged them, 
 driving them down the hill with great loss. 
 
 We were momentarily expecting these scenes and experiences 
 and every man was braced up and ready for the fiery ordeal, 
 and there was really a feeling of disappointment with most of 
 us when, after half an hour of incessant battle the firing virtually 
 ceased, without our having a real good whack at them. For \ve
 
 78 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 had the old tried 6th Missouri around us, and were confident the 
 enemy could not come near. (You see this was some time be- 
 fore my Andersonville trip.) 
 
 I doubt if General Logan ever did better service than on this 
 occasion. There was a spice of Sheridan at Winchester in him 
 that day. Just as the battle opened he came gallopping along 
 past our caissons, where he encountered a lot of cooks and camp- 
 followers in full skedaddle to save their precious necks. In his 
 supreme disgust Logan checked his horse, and with a terrible 
 volley of strong bible words, ordered them to halt and to lie down 
 where they were if they were scared, which in their terrified awe 
 some of them actually did. 
 
 Then you all remember how noble he looked as he rode along 
 in front of the whole line, in the lull that followed the charge, 
 when we were expecting it to be renewed, the enthusiastic cheers 
 that followed him, and each of you personally felt the inspiration 
 of the act. 
 
 We had a striking demonstration of the noise our Napoleons 
 made in the effect upon some of the infantry who were forward 
 of the muzzle of our guns, owing to the oblique direction of our 
 fire : The violent concussion caused several of them to bleed at 
 the nose, and many more were more or less deafened for long 
 afterwards. 
 
 Another incident You can probably recall the handsome 
 team of iron grays that Powell was so proud of, they far eclipsed 
 most of our travel-worn horses, but they had never seen work of 
 this kind before, and when our pieces added their thunder to the 
 increasing battle, while our plain old veterans stood with heads 
 down, scarcely starting after the first discharge, Powell's stylish 
 recruits commenced to rear and plunge, and finally bursting away, 
 they ran till the wheel of the limber came up against a sapling, 
 where the strong artillery harness held them, or squad s's limber 
 might have gone to a very unhandy distance. 
 
 There was a goodly number of prisoners brought in. Those 
 we spoke to belonged to the Florida Brigade. They acknowl- 
 edged they were very badly used up, and said they supposed we were 
 preparing to fall back and expected to take us in the confusion 
 of the movement. They had on knapsacks, blankets and every- 
 thing ready to chase us clear back to Chattanooga.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 79 
 
 About 1 1 o'clock p. M. the report circulated that we were to 
 evacuate that line, to close up on Hooker's right about 4 miles 
 away; and about i A. M. we were quietly awakened and told to 
 pack up, but no orders to move came, so we returned to our 
 slumbers again. 
 
 Sunday the 2gth was characterized by the usual continuous 
 skirmishing, but nothing eventful occurred till after dusk, when 
 we again got orders to pack up, and about 9 P. M. had drawn out 
 alongside the road, ready to take our place in the column, which 
 was to begin from the right of the line. About 10 o'clock one 
 brigade of the 4th division had passed us, also the ist Iowa and 
 Cheeney's Battery, when the firing we had heard faintly far on 
 the left, swelled louder, reached the front of Dodge's command 
 and rose to incessant thunder before Osterhaus. 
 
 Who of us can forget the anxiety of that moment? How we 
 felt that we were unprepared? We feared our lines were so 
 weakened by the withdrawn troops, that the enemy might break 
 through somewhere and then the thought of foes swarming around 
 tis in the darkness, must have occurred to many of you, or it cer- 
 tainly did to me. But as we hurried back to our position, we 
 heard the lusty cheering of our own men, that we had learned to 
 distinguish, and hope rose again. 
 
 I doubt if any member of the i5th Corps, who was there, will 
 ever forget the events of that night. 
 
 After the firing had died down, there was a period of quiet, 
 when we began to get composed again, but soon we heard yel- 
 ling indicating another charge, then a deafening discharge of 
 musketry all along the front, and then Osterhaus' artillery made 
 it seem a veritable pandemonium, the flashes of the guns light- 
 ing up the lurid scene to complete the resemblance. This was 
 repeated at intervals all through the night. I have since under- 
 stood that much of this was a waste of ammunition. The charg- 
 ing was mostly imaginary. But it seemed a certainty to us then, 
 and we stood by our guns waiting and watching all the night 
 through. 
 
 The event of the 3oth was a visit from General Sherman. 
 Old Billy had come in person, to see if it would be safe for us to 
 pull out. With Logan and their staffs, they proceeded down the
 
 So REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 road to inspect our front, and had not gone far when one of the 
 stray bullets, so disagreeably numerous around our position, pass- 
 ed through Logan's sleeve and struck Col. Taylor, who was near 
 Sherman, square in the breast, fortunately penetrating first a 
 thick memorandum book, or our much esteemed first command- 
 er had ended his life there. As it was, it inflicted an ugly wound, 
 disabling him from service till the close of the war. 
 
 Before daylight on the 3ist, squad 5*5 gun, to which I belonged, 
 was ordered to take position on the skirmish line. We muf- 
 fled the wheels and pulled it carefully and noislessly along the 
 road to the advance rifle pits, there we masked the gun with 
 brush, and daylight found us quietly seated behind the breast- 
 work. I doubt if the battery ever got a position in closer quart- 
 ers than we had then. The rebel riflemen were less than 50 
 yards away, screened and alert for every shot. To add to our 
 discomfort the ground rose up behind us so there was no safety 
 in lying low and creeping back if we wished to leave the gun for 
 anything. 
 
 We saw many infantry men killed and wounded around us. 
 One poor fellow was bringing dinner up for some of his comrades 
 he was stooping but not low enough, for a rebel ball struck his 
 breast with a sickening thud, and he fell dead across my feet. 
 
 Fortunately for us we did not have to expose ourselves. We 
 were there in case another charge was attempted, when we could 
 have had it hot and heavy; but as it happened we had nothing 
 to do but take care of ourselves, which we did to the best of our 
 ability. 
 
 We were glad indeed, when after dark, we got orders to retire 
 our gun, and so we silently wheeled it back, our hearts rose with 
 every step till we rejoined the battery, which we found once 
 more prepared to make the long expected move to the left. 
 
 We were all ready and waiting before daylight on the ist of 
 June, but we learned that we were assigned the honorable and 
 hazardous duty of guarding the rear of the movement. 
 
 We took up a position on a hill a little way back, and stood 
 by our guns while regiment after regiment and battery after bat- 
 tery was drawn out from the lines and marched past. The trying 
 time for our nerves was when we knew the skirmish line was be-
 
 REUNION* OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. Si 
 
 ing withdrawn. We fully expected the enemy would observe 
 that, and follow them in with a charge. I can remember my 
 sensations as I saw the straggling line appear here and there ta 
 the front of us, and heard the scattering shots still, back at the 
 rifle pits. 
 
 As they approached us we commenced to move back in 
 echelon, and did justice to our old time drilling by executing the 
 movement very handsomely. 
 
 Fortunately no enemy appeared. I believe they were mak- 
 ing a similar movement at the same time, though from the con- 
 tinual desultory firing, we thought at that time, that we completely 
 fooled them. 
 
 Thus ended the battle of Dallas. The loss to our company 
 was trifling compared with other engagements; but it was through- 
 out a period of great anxiety and uncertainty. The continued 
 attempt to get us a\vay, made us feel that something was wrong, 
 that perhaps "some one had blundered:" And I think you will 
 all agree with me when I say we were all very glad when we 
 found ourselves safely out of it. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The next regular toast is, "Kensaw Mt. and 
 Mill Creek," ARTHUR BURNAM. 
 
 MR. BURNAM : Before I commence, I wish some one would 
 stand at the door with a club to prevent anyone from going out, 
 as I 'know most of you will want to go out when I begin. 
 
 THE PRFSIDENT: Make it short. 
 
 MR. BURNAM : It will be very short. 
 
 As a soldier must obey orders whether he wishes to or not, 
 so I, in obedience to my superior officer, will attempt to tell 
 what I can remember about Kenesaw and Mill Grove. If you 
 will ask our friend, Jack Vernon, he will tell you there was one 
 order I always obeyed promptly. When his melodious voice 
 called "Dinner Squad Four," I never was the last at the "sow 
 belly" pan. 
 
 We had been gradually driving the enemy back towards At- 
 lanta, and the Graybacks they had left behind following out the* 
 pugilistic example set them by their former owners, did not take 
 very kindly to ours, and hostilities were at once renewed, and 
 only by superior strategy, were ours victorious, and we allowed
 
 82 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 rest. I can remember how it rained the 'night before the ad- 
 vance on Kenesaw, and early in the morning, looking up to the 
 top of the mountain which was veiled in a mist, thinking if we 
 drove the rebels from there, General Sherman would have his 
 hands full. The 55th Ills., who had just returned from a fur- 
 lough, having re-enlisted were crossing over an open space, 
 a shell thrown at them bursted, killing and wounding several. 
 We had several severe artillery duels with the batteries at the 
 base of the mountain, but they were finally driven back out of 
 range of our Napoleons. Remember how we used to go over to 
 DeGrasse's Battery and see his Parrots fire at the battery on the 
 crest of the hill, as if it were only yesterday, and recollect how I 
 used to hunt the butt of the largest tree when they replied. It 
 was there Lieut. Blaisdell died. He would persist in going with 
 us. I took care of him for a few days. Finally an attack was 
 made all along the lines, and the 57th Ohio, who were on our 
 right, suffered badly. You all remember we took quite an in- 
 terest in them, as many of them had been detailed to serve with 
 us at one time while we were short-handed, and were good men. 
 The enemy were finally outflanked, and retired towards Atlanta, 
 and we followed on towards the city. We were all congratulat- 
 ing ourselves that so far we had been pretty fortunate. Our 
 term of service would expire in a few days, and as we had passed 
 through some seventeen battles we were not like the Donny- 
 brook man, spoiling for a row. As we lay camped near a creek 
 we saw Capt. Rumsey mount that sorrel horse of his and start 
 off. Pretty soon he returned with the order to "Hitch up." 
 Then we knew trouble was coming. The whole line advanced, 
 and in a few moments the skirmish of Nigger Jack Creek (or as 
 we have it on our discharges, Mill Grove) took place. While i f 
 lasted it was as severe as many of the others. I can remember 
 how I felt that day. Was with squad two then, as owing to sick- 
 ness and losses in battles we had been cut down from a six to a 
 four gun battery. Squads three and four had been divided 
 among the rest. I was assigned to Squad one, and Simpson, 
 the No. 2 on the gun, being sick, I was detailed to go in his 
 place. I really believe I never went into a fight with more fear 
 and trembling than I did that one, for as I have said before, our
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 83 
 
 time was almost out. None of us were anxious to be hit then, 
 or any other time. The day was very hot and at one time our 
 gun was so warm that we were obliged to cease firing in order to 
 let it cool. The artillery duel we had with the battery across 
 the creek was lively while it lasted. After I had loaded the gun 
 I could lay down on the ground and take up very little space, 
 while their shells were bursting over us. They were finally 
 driven from their position, and we advanced over the creek and 
 the row was over. As we were crossing, we saw the major of a 
 New Jersey Regiment being embalmed, having been shot through 
 the heart early in the engagement. We still followed on after 
 the enemy till we reached the Chattahooche River, and from 
 there we first saw Atlanta in the distance. Then we were or- 
 dered to go to Marietta and start for Springfield to be mustered 
 out. The 15 miles intervening were walked over lively; even 
 our Sgt. Purinton, with his horse, could not get ahead of us, 
 he having improved much in horsemanship since his Bird's Point 
 experience with his Mexican mustang. Let me only say in con- 
 clusion : "Boys, let us keep up these meetings and I solemnly 
 promise you not to inflict any more reminiscences, so you can 
 all come and have a good time." 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Now gentlemen we proceed to, "Atlanta," 
 JAMES W. PORTER. 
 
 MR. PORTER : Mr. President and Comrades, Atlanta is a 
 serious and not a facetious subject, I must therefore ask you to 
 let me tell you at our next banquet, not this morning, what I 
 know, or don't know about Atlanta. (Cheers). 
 
 If I don't know how to make a speech, I know how to keep 
 still as well as anybody. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Well, what about "Our Supplies," B. F. 
 McCarty. where is he? 
 
 MR. TURNER: I move we adjourn. 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY : We have got to have tattoo and taps, be- 
 fore we adjourn. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: The motion to adjourn is not seconded. 
 Perhaps some of you have some suggestions to make about the 
 future. 
 
 MR. DUDLEY: Mr. Chairman, I move you sir, that we now
 
 84 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 adjourn to meet some future time to be designated by the old 
 officers of the Battery, let it be in one year or in five years, as 
 they think best. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD : Yes, I think it would be a good idea to des- 
 ignate a day, any year ahead, or appoint a committee to desig- 
 nate the time that it shall be held, and that they give timely 
 notice, six months is not too much, if we want them all there. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD : I would move that the executive committee 
 who have been in charge of this banquet, and its successful 
 occasion, be appointed a committee. 
 
 MR. AFFELD : No. I object, I wouldn't serve again. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD : Then I move you, that you appoint a com- 
 mittee to serve for a banquet two years from to-night. 
 
 A MEMBER: I move to adjourn. 
 
 Motion seconded. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, you have heard the motion. 
 
 MR. SAUTER: I would like to move, that the present officers 
 of Taylor's Battery B Association, be re-elected, until their suc- 
 cessors be appointed. 
 
 MR. SHEPHERD : I second that motion. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT; Well, gentlemen, I don't know that I really 
 understand that motion, unless it be 
 
 MR. SAUTER : That the present officers of the Battery hold 
 their offices until other officers are elected. 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY: We haven't time to go over our election 
 to-night; these officers have held over for some time, and there 
 should be an election of officers to-night, but as we haven't time 
 I am in favor of Mr. Sauter's motion. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT: All in favor of Mr. Sauter's motion say 
 aye. Carried. 
 
 MR. PIERCE: I understand that the bugler with us absolutely 
 refuses to take any pay for his services, and I move that a vote 
 of thanks be tendered to him. 
 
 Which motion was seconded and carried. 
 
 CAPTAIN RUMSEY : I now move that we have tattoo and taps, 
 and adjourn to meet at the basement of the Michigan Avenue 
 Methodist Church, tomorrow evening. 
 
 Motion seconded.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 85 
 
 THE PRESIDENT; All in favor of the motion, signify the same 
 by saying aye. 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 Tattoo and taps were then sounded, and the re-union ad- 
 journed SINE DIE.
 
 TO CELEBRATE 
 
 THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
 BATTLE OF BELMONT. 
 
 RE-UNION 
 
 OF 
 
 TAYLORS BATTERY 
 
 4 
 
 AT THE 
 
 GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, 
 
 NOVEMBER 6TH, 1886. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 
 
 J. M. VERNON, CHAS. E. AFFELD, I. P. RUMSEY,. 
 
 C. W. PIERCE, JAS. B. DUTCH.
 
 lln flfeemoriatrL 
 
 All comrades who were present at theBelmont 
 reunion, will remember the pleasant visit we had 
 from Gen. John A. Logan, our old commander on 
 many bloody battle-fields. The General was then 
 temporarily stopping at the Grand Pacific Hotel, 
 and, by request, came into the banquet hall to 
 meet the boys whom he had known so well by 
 reputation and long association during the war. 
 His appearance among us was the signal for a 
 grand ovation, after which, he honored us with a 
 few remarks of a pleasant nature. This visit from 
 the General was his last appearance in public, for 
 very soon thereafter he was stricken with the ill- 
 ness that ended in his death. His memory will 
 always be cherished by the Nation, and especially 
 by those of us whose lives were so closely inter- 
 woven with his during those terrible years from 
 '6 1 to '65. He was a brave, loyal, earnest soldier, 
 and well merited the praise that has been bestowed 
 upon him. 
 
 Great soldier! Noble man! We revere his 
 memory. " Requiescat in pace."
 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 AT THE 
 
 RE-UNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY, 
 
 HELD AT THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, 
 
 ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
 
 BATTLE OF BELMONT. 
 
 Assembly, E. E. REXFORD, Battery A. 
 
 ROLL CALL. 
 
 ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
 March to Dining Room to the Music of the Bugle. 
 
 Presiding Officer, - . MAJ. SAM'L E. BARRETT. 
 
 Introductory Address, CAPT. I. P. RUMSEY. 
 
 Song, -" TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP GROUND." 
 
 SUPPER CALL. 
 
 Report of Taylor's Battery Association, W. T. SHEPHERD. 
 Letters and Communications, C. W. PIERCE. 
 
 "Our Honored Dead," H. W. DUDLEY. 
 
 Song, - - " THE VACANT CHAIR." 
 
 Address, " Battle of Belmont," CAPT. P. H. WHITE. 
 
 Song, " RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS." 
 
 Gen'l W. H. L. Wallace's Report of the Battle of 
 
 Fort Donelson, C. W. PIERCE. 
 
 Song, "KINGDOM COMING." 
 
 "From Bird's Point to Belmont," CAPT. I. P. RUMSEY. 
 
 Song, " WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN." 
 Consolidated Batteries A & B at Atlanta, LIEUT. J. B. DUTCH. 
 Song, . " MARCHING THRO' GEORGIA." 
 
 Sermon " Moses, take off dem boots," H. T. CHAPPELL. 
 
 Song, .... OLD SHADY." 
 
 Andersonville, W. C. SCUPHAM. 
 
 Song, 'TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP." 
 
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 The preceding page, representing the invitations issued for 
 the banquet on the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Belmont, 
 is headed with a picture of one section of a field batterv, in 
 action behind earthworks. In connection with 1 hat picture there 
 is a bit of history which will doubtless be of interest to all com- 
 rades, and we give it herewith. 
 
 The committeee on printing, appointed for that banquet, in 
 casting about for an appropriate heading for the card of invita- 
 tion, found, in the August, 1886, number of the Century Maga- 
 zine, this picture, entitled the rebel " Washington Battery of 
 New Orleans on Marye's Hill" at the battle of Fredericksburg, 
 Va., in the autumn of 1862. Our committee had not forgotten 
 that we captured the whole of the Washington Battery of New 
 Orleans, at the battle of Belmont, twenty-five years previously, 
 and that our battery, alone, brought off from the field two of 
 the guns, and carried them on the transport with us to Cairo. 
 We thought there could be nothing more appropriate than this 
 picture, to head our cards of invitation for our banquet in com- 
 memoration of that battle, and we therefore procured the photo- 
 gravure copy which is shown herewith.
 
 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS 
 
 BY CAPT. I. P. RUMSEY. 
 
 MY COMRADES AND FELLOW MEMBERS OF TAYLOR'S 
 CHICAGO BATTERY: 
 
 OUR PRESIDENT asks me to say a few words of welcome, 
 but it is hardly necessary for any one to speak for the rest, as 
 this is a meeting of welcome from each to the other. 
 
 Our hearts swell and beat faster as we greet honored com- 
 rades, and renew the friendship commenced twenty-five years ago 
 and strengthened as we stood by our guns through the battles of 
 Fredericktown, Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Holly Springs, 
 Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansaw Post, Champion Hills, Siege of 
 Vicksburg, Richmond, La., and Black River then coming up 
 the Mississippi River with Gen. Sherman to Memphis. The 
 march with Gen. Sherman to Chattanooga, which march over 
 the Tennessee Mountains with our artillery we remember 
 well then Mission Ridge the forced march to Knoxville to 
 the relief of Gen. Burnside, thence to Tellico Plain, Tenn., at 
 the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains, the troops resting 
 there while the cavalry followed the retreating rebel cavalry 
 over the mountains into North Carolina. 
 
 Returning to Chattanooga we were camped at Larkinsville, 
 Ala. during that unprecedented severe winter of 1 863 and '64, and 
 where we received our new battery of Napoleon guns then 
 through the Atlanta Campaign and in the battle of Resaca, 
 Dallas, and Nick-a-Jack Creek, and the terrible part taken by 
 some of our number at Atlanta all for what? Money or 
 honor no, dear comrades, but for our country, whose honor 
 and preservation we loved, and as true american citizens thought 
 more of than we did of our lives. 
 
 As we recite these scenes of hardship and danger we have 
 survived, there is mingled with the joy of welcome the love and 
 sadness for our beloved and lamented comrades who fell in the 
 battle and by duease.
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 91 
 
 The first of our number who fell, and one who has not his 
 superior as a man, a citizen, or a soldier, was Orderly Sgt. 
 Charles W. Everett. He fell at Belmont, twenty-five years 
 ago to-morrow, at about 1 1 o'clock, struck in the head by a 
 bullet while riding from Capt. Ezra Taylor to Lieut. Baii'ett. 
 
 Soon after another of our best men Sgt. David F. Chase, 
 received a bullet which disabled him for life. We rejoice to be 
 able to welcome him here to-night, though still carrying that 
 Belmont rebel bullet in his body. 
 
 Another noble comrade who was No. i on Squad Three 
 Gen. Geo. Q. White still lives, but since the day of the battle 
 on whose anniversary we meet, has supported but one arm. 
 
 We welcome each other, coming from different pursuits 
 from the pulpit, the bar, the manufactory, the paint-shop, the 
 blacksmith's shop, the farm, the office and the store. 
 
 We come from our homes, where we have left our " better- 
 halves" and our 134 children accounted for to talk over those 
 days that have bound us so closely together, and we will return 
 to our loved ones with a freshened memory of that from which 
 the Lord saved us, with a keener appreciation of the blessings, 
 for which may we ever praise His great name. 
 
 LETTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 AUBURNDALE, MASS., Oct. 26, l886. 
 
 MR. C. W. PIERCE, 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: I cannot say no, and will say, that if I 
 can so arrange my business, as to leave it for even a few hours- 
 Reunion with my old friends of Battery B, I shall do so. It will 
 be something entirely unforeseen which will keep me from en- 
 joying the occasion. If it would be of interest, I could bring a 
 framed set of the B ittery Groups, a Complete Uniform worn 
 then, the Fredericktown cannon ball and some other trinkets. 
 Yours very truly, WM. T. SHEPHERD. 
 
 WAUSAU, Wis., Nov. i, 1886. 
 MR. C. W. PIERCE, Chicago, 111. 
 
 DEAR FRIEND: More deeply than words can express, do I 
 regret my inability to be present at the reunion of our old com- 
 rades-in-arms in Chicago on Nov. 6th, the invitation to which 
 is just received, with most heartfelt thanks.
 
 C)2 REUNIOX OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 Though I cannot then be with you all in person, rest assured 
 I shall be with you in spirit, as then, in story and in song of 
 camp and field you will again tell over in laughter and in tears, 
 the thrice-told tales of privations endured, perils encountered, 
 heroic deeds of daring performed, and of many a hard battle 
 fought and won in that noble struggle that had for its object 
 nothing less than the defense and preservation of our grand old 
 Ship of State, which then so proudly rode the storm of civil 
 strife, and which, under God's blessing at last, weather-beaten, 
 storm-tossed and battle-scarred, gallantly and triumphantly made 
 the port of an honorable, lasting and fraternal peace. 
 
 With my very kindest regards to all the members of old Bat- 
 tery B who may be present on that occasion, and with the hope 
 that at some future reunion I may have the pleasure of taking 
 each by the hand, and with them of living over again the stir- 
 ring days of " Auld Lang Syne," believe me 
 
 Very regretfully, A. B. WILCOX. 
 
 NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 1886. 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: I acknowledge with pleasure the receipt 
 of your kind invitation to attend the Battery reunion on the 6th 
 inst.,and until within a day or two I have hoped to be with you 
 on that memorable dccasion, but circumstances do not favor and 
 I can only send my regrets. 
 
 However, I have no particular occassion to celebrate the 
 anniversary of the battle of Belmont, I was a non-combatant on 
 that day holding myself in reserve with (I think) the left section 
 in anticipation of a possible attack in the rear. I did my share of 
 shouting, and it might be said of me, as the " Times " said of a dis- 
 tinguished Chicago editor, that " Although he didn't fight him- 
 self, he eloquently urged everybody else to fight." My only 
 services were in getting poor Charley Everett and George 
 White to the boat, which I did with as much tenderness as the 
 unusual haste necessary would admit of. Charley Everett and I 
 were boys together in Springfield, Mass., and it was owing to 
 this circumstance that 1 was appointed Q. M. S. 
 
 Perhaps it was fortunate that I did not get into the action at 
 Belmont, as in that event the army might not have had my ser- 
 vices at Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg and those glorious
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 93 
 
 victories might have " passed into history " as triumphs for the 
 Confederate arms. 
 
 I recognize the faithful likenesses of Majors Taylor and 
 Barrett at the head of your invitation, and the next time I am 
 so fortunate as to " fill " I shall put enough aside in the " Kitty '* 
 to have the picture framed. 
 
 It is so long since I have seen any one connected with the 
 glorious Taylor's Battery (except Mr. Machin) that I believe I 
 should feel like a Rip Van Winkle if I found myself in com- 
 pany with my old Comrades. But " allee samee " as I have 
 read so much of history that my (alleged) mind is a little con- 
 fused on certain things, I should like to cross-examine the old 
 Battery members on certain points, in order to know just how I 
 came to have such a wrong impression about certain events in 
 which I was an unimportant actor. For many years I was cer- 
 tain that we were surprised at Shiloh, and although I know now 
 that we were not, I should like to have corroborative proof f rom- 
 say, Jack Vernon, Lowrey, Herrick, Jim Whittle and others 
 who achieved fame on that bloody day, that they had known 
 for months of the inevitable big fight, and with their cheese- 
 knives in their scabbards were calmly awaiting, with folded 
 arms, the opening gun which was to precipitate that famous 
 conflict about which there, has been so much dispute. 
 
 As I write, I recall so many of the faces of the old boys 
 Taylor, Barrett, Pat White, Hart, Rumsey, Chase, Blaisdell r 
 McCoy, Dickinson, Heartt, Wyeth, Towner, Jack Moore, the 
 other Moore, Purinton, Henrotin, Scales, Schnur, Putz, Affeld, 
 Dutch, Dudley, Chappell, Bogue and many others. 
 
 Of all these, the only ones that I have seen for many years 
 are Tom Boyd, who is not now visible on Broadway ; Pat White, 
 whom I used occasionally to see in Albany, Machin who tells 
 me that he will be with you at the reunion, and Jack Moore 
 who died eight or ten years since, and who for several years 
 prior thereto attended a masonic lodge meeting five nights 
 every week the year round. 
 
 Of the rest I was an eye-witness to the fact that some per- 
 ished in action and I presume that many more are now r under 
 the sod, but it would be interesting to look over the roll and find 
 " all present or accounted for."
 
 94 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 The strongest friendships I have are for my old Battery 
 comrades, and under any circumstances I shall always have the 
 same cordial greeting for them. If any of " you uns " come 
 this way, come and see me " My latch-string is always out and 
 I am always in." With kindest regards for all the surviving 
 members of Taylor's Battery, both individually and collectively 
 believe me, as ever, Yours sincerely, 
 
 1 04 West 43rd St., N. Y., or 29 Park Row. T. P. ROBERTS. 
 
 BATAVIA, Nov. 4, 1886. 
 MR. C. W. PIERCE, 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: On receiving an invitation to attend a 
 banquet on the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Belmont, it 
 stirs within me the old patriotic fire which has so long slumbered, 
 only to be awakened by such pleasing occurrences as to meet 
 again with the boys who have faced the dangers of war with me 
 for three -long years; when we left our homes and enlisted in 
 the service of our country, we little knew or realized the perils 
 and hardships we would encounter, but I believe we met them 
 unflinchingly, and discharged all duties that devolved upon us in 
 a manner becoming our station, especially when we met the foe, 
 we welcomed them according to orders from our great General 
 Grant, in brilliant fireworks. Taylor's Battery were generally 
 participants in the illumination, and long will we remember the 
 missiles of death that laid low many of our number who, in early 
 manhood gave their life for liberty and protection to our loved 
 country, and as we assemble here to-day in honor of a glorious 
 victory, and to meet brothers in war, it gives me great pleasure; 
 it also recalls sad memories of those who desperately fought and 
 fell, in achieving a victory that our nation is proud to honor, 
 while they sleep in their mantle of glory, the sleep that knows 
 no waking, unconscious of the laurels they helped to win. 
 
 W"e all remember the glad tidings that our term of service 
 had expired, and that we would gaze for the last time on the 
 once sunny South, then in the midst of a desolate war. Pen 
 can never portray the joy of meeting home and friends once 
 more, and the grand banquet awaiting our arrival. Twenty- 
 two years have passed since then, and we find the sickle of 
 death has not been idle; our loved Colonel has answered the
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 95 
 
 last roll-call, also many others, and the time will not be long 
 when the summons will come to us, and while we live, that we 
 may often meet in the bonds of a never-dying friendship, is the 
 wish of your Comrade, " OLD DAD." 
 
 C. W. PIERCE, ROCKFORD, ILL., Oct. 26, 1886. 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: My time is so taken up with meeting 
 the requirements of my large District, that I cannot be present 
 at the reunion of Battery B. Please give the comrades my re- 
 gards, and tell them I have not forgotten the duties of No. 2 on 
 the gun, nor the mess table of Squad 4. I remember with 
 pleasure the kindness of Lieut's Barrett, White and Rumsey. 
 The aid the Affeld brothers gave me, when I was run over on 
 the retreat at Belmont. The fatherly kindness of our then 
 Capt. Taylor. Many events come freshly to mind of which I 
 cannot now speak. Hoping the comrades will have a pleasant 
 reunion. I remain yours in F. L. C., 
 
 G. R. VANHORN. 
 
 ST. PAUL, MINN., Oct. 28, 1886. 
 MR. C. W. PIERCE, Chicago, 
 
 DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of the very kind invitation to 
 attend the reunion and banquet of Battery B, November 6th, to 
 celebrate the 25th anniversary of the battle of Belmont. I re- 
 gret exceedingly that I will be unable to be present, especially 
 so, as I have every reason to feel a particular interest in that 
 engagement. I hope that the gathering will be in every way 
 enjoyable. I am constantly reminded of the pleasant time passed 
 with the Battery, by having in my room several pictures taken 
 at Birds Point, one being of Squad 3, taken while at breakfast. 
 Very truly yours, G. Q. WHITE. 
 
 ST. CHARLES, MICH., Oct. 30, 1886. 
 C. W. PIERCE, ESQ., Chicago, 111. 
 
 MY DEAR OLD COMRADE: I have delayed the acknow- 
 ledgement of the invitation to the reunion and banquet of 
 Taylor's Battery, hoping to say definitely, yes or no: I am yet 
 anything but positive. But expect to be able to be with you; 
 should anything prevent, I will write a few lines to represent 
 my deep and abiding interest in all that pertains to our O'ld 
 soldier experiences. Very truly yours, D. F. CHASE.
 
 96 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 YANKTON, DAK., Oct. 28, 1886. 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Battery B, ist 111. Artillery. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: I regret that I cannot be with you on the 
 occasion of your annual reunion to renew the friendship of hon- 
 ored comrades. Twenty-five years have passed, but our hearts 
 are still drawn closely together by love of country, and by the 
 remembrance of sacrifices which it was our privilege to share 
 with each other for the common good. 
 
 May every old soldier by right living, command, and receive 
 the increasing honors with which the passing years shall enrich 
 their memories. 
 
 With great respect, your comrade, E. P. WILCOX. 
 
 ELGIN, ILLS., Nov. 2, 1886. 
 MR. C. W. PIERCE, 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: Just received word that will take me to 
 St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 4th, and cannot possibly return before 
 next week. Kindly present my regards to all the boys. 
 
 Yours truly, J. F. WHITTLE. 
 
 GENEVA, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1886. 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 
 
 Battery B, ist 111. Artillery, Chicago, 111. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: Your kind invitation to be present at the 
 reunion of the old members of Battery B, to be held Nov. 6th 
 next, duly received, with many thanks. I have delayed 
 acknowledging receipt of same, hoping I could so shape my 
 affairs as to accept, but find I cannot consistently do so. 
 
 Again thanking you for your kind remembrance, and with 
 best wishes and kindest regards to my old comrades of the Bat- 
 tery, I remain Sincerely yours, S. P. COE. 
 
 PEORIA, ILL., Nov. 4, 1886. 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 
 
 Battery B, ist 111. Artillery, Chicago, 111. 
 DEAR COMRADES: I sincerely regret that I cannot be with 
 you on the 6th. I have deferred writing till this time, hoping 
 I could arrange to be with you; but I find it impossible. "The 
 spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." I suppose there isn't a 
 day in the year, that I do not think of my army life, and the 
 old Battery boys; and, especially when attending the G. A. R.
 
 REUNION' OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 0,7 
 
 meetings, where I meet a great number of the r/th Illinois ancf 
 8th Missouri boys. I never meet them without having some 
 incident of our campaigns brought up; I find they havn't forgot- 
 ten the old Battery, and seem to feel the same pride in it, as when 
 they helped to pull the old gun off at Shiloh, or supported us 
 at Donelson, Vicksburg, etc. I find also that about every old 
 soldier in the western army remembers and reveres the name of 
 Taylor's Battery; and the mention of the fact, that a person be- 
 longed to it, is an open sesame to their respect and friendship. 
 I sing to-night for a G. A. R. entertainment, which will per- 
 haps remind you of Moore, McCoy, Wilcox, Sherwood and 
 others of musical turn, and of the songs of yore. With respects 
 to all and a wish for your enjoyment of the evening. 
 I remain yours in Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty, 
 
 G. T. HATCH 
 
 C. \V. PIERCE, ST. ANTHONY, IOWA, Nov. i, 1886, 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: I expected to be with you the 6th, but 
 
 circumstances over which I have no control make it impossible. 
 
 I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in not being able to 
 
 meet with you. 
 
 Remember me kindly to all who may enquire after yours 
 
 respectfully, 
 
 A. J. PALMER. 
 
 LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 27, 1886. 
 FRIEND AND OLD COMRADE PIERCE: 
 
 The invitation to the banquet on Nov. 6th next, (being the 
 Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Battle of Belmont,) duly re- 
 ceived. 
 
 I shall surely be in Chicago to meet you and all the " Old 
 Boys" whom the "Gods" have preserved so well. 
 
 Kindest regards to all who once composed " Taylor's 
 Battery." 
 
 Your friend, 
 
 CHAS. TURNER. 
 
 FRIEND CHARLES: AURORA, ILL., Oct. 28, 1886. 
 
 I have received your kind invitation to attend the reunion 
 and banquet, and will be very happy to meet the old comrades 
 once more. We are few, and our ranks are growing less every
 
 98 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 year. I can think of some that have passed away since our last 
 reunion, it will not be many years before we will have all passed 
 through the valley. 
 
 If nothing prevents I will try and be with you. 
 
 B. F. STEPHENS. 
 
 ESSEX HOUSE, Nov. 2, 1886. 
 C. W. PIERCE, 
 
 DEAR SIR: Have delayed writing to see if I could make 
 the visit, but circumstances will not allow me the great pit asure. 
 Give my sincere regards and good wishes to the boys; tell 
 them tho' growing old in years I have the same patriotic zeal 
 for our loved land, and tho' not with them in person, in thought 
 I will be there, and wish I could add my quota of reminiscences 
 of the dreadful but glorious past. 
 
 Hoping to meet them all in the near future on some equally 
 pleasant reunion, I remain, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 W. H. BRADBURY. 
 
 DILLON, MONTANA, Oct. 31, 1886. 
 To THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND ALL COMRADES 
 
 ASSEMBLED. 
 
 GENTLEMEN : I sincerely regret my inability to accept 
 your kind invitation to be present at your reunion to celebrate 
 the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Belmont. Nothing 
 would have afforded me greater pleasure than to have met my 
 old comrades once more on such an occasion as that, but lack of 
 time and the great distance between here and Chicago is the 
 only reason for my non-attendance. 
 
 I trust that you will have a delightful and enjoyable time 
 
 together, and also hope you will think of me, as well as I do of 
 
 all those assembled on the evening of Nov. 6th. With the best 
 
 and kindest of wishes for you all, old comrades,! remain as ever, 
 
 Your old Friend and Comrade, 
 
 OTIIO KLEMM. 
 
 AMBOY, Ills., Nov. 4, 1886. 
 
 DEAR COMRADES: It is with the greatest reluc'ance that 
 I deny myself the pleasure of this meeting, but though "absent 
 in body I am with you in spirit," living over in memory those
 
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 days of privation, gladly risking life for our country. All honor 
 to our fallen comrades. 
 
 Truly your comrade, 
 
 ABEL OUSEY. 
 
 CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 1886. 
 MR. C. W. PIERCE, 
 
 DEAR COMRADE: The invitation to attend a reunion and 
 banquet in commemoration of the battle of Belmont, is duly at 
 hand. I have waited with my answer until now in the hope 
 that I would be able to attend, but find that circumstances over 
 which I have no control will prevent me. 
 
 With regard, I am, very truly yours, 
 
 XILES T. QUALES. 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. i, 1886. 
 C. W. PIERCE, ESQ., Battery B, ist 111. Artillery. 
 
 DEAR SIR AND COMRADE: I have the honor to acknow- 
 ledge the receipt of the notice of the reunion and banquet to be 
 held by the old Battery boys at the Grand Pacific Hotel the 6th 
 inst. 
 
 It is with profound regret that I am unable to be present on 
 the occasion named, but two thousand miles and repeat is not 
 so easily accomplished, even in these days of progress and 
 rapid transit, especially when we have claims upon us at home. 
 To my knowledge there are no other members of the Battery 
 in this part of the country, and it would afford me much pleasure 
 to represent the Golden State at the reunion. 
 
 How I should love to look in upon the "boys," hear many 
 " chestnuts" that will be cracked, the thrilling speeches, the re- 
 newed pledges of Fidelity and Loyalty, and to clasp my com- 
 rades by the hands, bidding God speed to them all. 
 
 Please convey my best wishes for the health, prosperity and 
 long life of each individual member. 
 
 Very respectfully and sincerely, 
 
 JOHN T. CUTTING. 
 
 SENECA, ILL., Nov. 28, 1886. 
 DEAR COMRADES: 
 
 It will be impossible to attend the reunion; my wife is sick 
 and two of my boys have to be at home all the time. I regret
 
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 very much that I cannot come. Give my regards to all the 
 boys, tell them I will be with them at some future time. 
 
 I have seven sons and one daughter. I live four miles east 
 of Seneca, on a farm of 300 acres. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 JOHN GRAHAM, Commander of Seneca Post 324, G. A. R. 
 
 CALIFORNIA, -Mo., Oct. 26, 1886. 
 COMPANY B, ist 111. Artillery. 
 
 DEAR COMRADES: With gratitude I acknowledge your 
 kindness in remembering me, and desiring my attendance at the 
 reunion to be held on the 6th inst. ; although it will be impos- 
 sible for me to meet with you in body, yet in spirit I shall be 
 there. How fresh comes to my mind the scenes of that memor- 
 able day, and while (I think with pardonable pride) I recall 
 those scenes, and the gallant conduct of our men under fire for 
 the first time, yet, amid all the pleasant recollections connected 
 with it, there comes a feeling of sadness as I remember that on 
 that fated field fell one of Illinois' favorite sons the gallant 
 Everett; in the prime of early manhood, and with talent and 
 ability to rise high in the esteem and affections of his fellows, he 
 offered it all as a sacrifice on the altar of his country; gone, but 
 not forgotten, his noble deeds, and the greatness of his nature, 
 will ever live (as will the other noble dead of Company B) in 
 the hearts of his comrades; although our numbers are growing 
 less, let us so live, that when the roll call is sounded at the great 
 reunion on the other side, we will be ready to answer to our 
 names. With love and kind wishes to all, I remain as ever, 
 your comrade and friend, 
 
 J. W. FRAZER. 
 
 OUR HONORED DEAD. 
 
 Response by H. W. DUDLEY. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND COMRADES: 
 
 To me has been assigned the duty and privilege of respond- 
 ing to this toast, " Our honored dead." It would almost seem 
 that the words in which the toast is framed were sufficiently 
 expressive of our feelings, but the occasion warrants, and the 
 promptings of our united hearts demand, that we should lay 
 anew the tribute of our affectionate remembrance upon the
 
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 graves of those who, being not unmindful of their country's need, 
 in her hour of peril, responded to her call, and as our comrades 
 and friends, in the camp, on the march, or field of battle, filled 
 up to the full, the measure of patriotic soldiers, and have been 
 summoned by the great commander to the roll call above. 
 
 It is fitting and proper, that, gathered as we are around this 
 bounteous board, we should recall those great hearts, to whom 
 no sacrifice was too great in behalf of our beloved land, and who 
 valued not even their lives when the call of duty came. 
 
 What a flood of memories crowd upon us as we call up the 
 names of the departed, some of whom fell in the shock of battle, 
 while others, grievously wounded, lingered in patient suffering 
 until nature was forced to surrender and they yielded up their 
 noble spirits. Still others, stricken by dire disease, resulting 
 from the privations and exposures of camp life were called upon 
 to suffer in rude hospitality, with no mother, wife or sister's 
 loving voice and helping hands to cheer the weary hours, until 
 in weakness, and while longing for home, they wasted into 
 eternity. Others, more fortunate, were permitted to return to 
 their homes and the hearts of their loved ones, to bask for a 
 time in the sunshine of that peace which they were in part per- 
 mitted to hasten and accomplish. 
 
 In view of the wide and long separations incident to our 
 diversified lives, doubtless some of our number have encountered 
 the scythe of the great reaper, without our knowledge, and in 
 giving you the record which I do, it is with the desire that its 
 incompleteness may be the object of your solicitude, to the end 
 that so far as possible we may have a perfect roster of our dead. 
 
 The first of our number to be called was S. C. P. Bogue, 
 who was killed in a R. R. accident near Chicago, while tempor- 
 arily absent from his company, and before the full meaning of 
 war was comprehended. Although he fell not on the field of 
 glory, we doubt not that the spirit which prompted his offer of 
 himself to his country, would have stimulated him to brave and 
 heroic action in the day of battle. 
 
 Not long afterwards came the day and battle we to-night 
 celebrate, when we were called to lay upon the altar of our 
 country, one of our bravest and best. Who of us can ever for- 
 get the gentle, genial, and yet courageous and manly Charlie
 
 loz REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 Everett, who grievously wounded during the conflict, was 
 brought in a special car, by the R. R. Co. which he had for- 
 merly faithfully served, to his home on the banks of our historic 
 and lovely lake, here to linger a few days, and then to die, the 
 first offering of our company to the God of battles. His was a 
 noble nature and his future was bright with promises, but the 
 call of duty came, and like a true soldier he leaped to its fulfill- 
 ment, which involved the sacrifice we mourn. 
 
 Engraved upon the tablets of your memories, no less than 
 upon the enduring granite at Rose Hill, are the last words, 
 so full of patriotic fire and love of country, of him whose manly 
 form and fresh beautiful face rises before us as we name the 
 hero, Oscar Beckers. His was a devotion to country that found 
 expression in the conscientious discharge of every duty pertain- 
 ing to the soldiers' life, and was the burden of his thoughts 
 while his life blood ebbed away at Donelson, as while being 
 tenderly carried from the field by some of you, he coined those 
 words which have been an inspiration to us, his comrades, 
 through all these intervening years, " I die for liberty, go back 
 boys and man the guns." 
 
 Who can estimate the value to coming generations, passing 
 in review before the battery monument in our beautiful ceme- 
 tery, which commemorates our fallen comrades, of these words 
 of him who so early in life, and so early in our great conflict, 
 proved the sincerity of his devotion to liberty, and left for us 
 and the world, so immortal a heritage. 
 
 Hardly had the guns of Fort Donelson ceased to echo when 
 on the Hospital Boat at the landing, the light of life went out 
 for comrade Geo. F. Kingsley, who while not of rugged 
 physical form, was ever faithful and true. 
 
 On Shiloh's bloody field was laid to rest the form of Albert 
 J. Putz, whose vigorous manhood and quiet earnestness, in the 
 perform ance of a soldier's duty had impressed us all. Faithful 
 unto death was the record which he left, and who can ask a 
 better? 
 
 Another of our number at the same time having lost, be- 
 cause of severe illness, the light of reason, walked without hin- 
 drance from the Hospital boat, into the cold and cruel waters of 
 the Tennessee, and thus Benj. F. Johnson passed from our sight.
 
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 Early in the history of our soldier life there was called from 
 our ranks, to official prominence in the eastern army, one, who 
 during his brief experience with us, had entwined himself 
 around our hearts, as perhaps at the time, no other had, because 
 of his soldierly bearing, and active interest that pertained to the 
 common good. We parted from him with mingled feelings of 
 sorrow and gladness, sorrow at our loss, and gladness that his 
 merit had been recognized in his promotion. We could not but 
 consider him one of us, and watched his career with eager in- 
 terest until in the battle of Williamsburg, May 5th, 1862, Wm. 
 De Wolfe passed from mortal sight. 
 
 There rise up now before us the familar features of three of 
 our number, who during the historic Siege of Vicksburg, yield- 
 ed up their lives, sealing, almost in the twinkling of an eye, 
 their devotion to their country in their life's blood, as it rapidly 
 flowed away. One of them, the fearless and faithful Fred 
 Thompson, who in his adopted country, proved the same heroic 
 soldier as when, unrolled under the banner of St. George, he 
 had followed to victory the standard of his native land. 
 
 Another was the young, quiet and cultured Douglass K. 
 Newell, whose lithe form and beautiful face were the envy of 
 us all, while the third, Henry T. Henrotin, proved to the last his 
 fitness to be enrolled a soldier. 
 
 Another of our company who was deemed fit for transfer 
 into a higher field of action, went to the command of a battery 
 of colored light artillery, and in the hotly contested battle of 
 Helena, July 26, 1864, was numbered with the slain, a tireless 
 and faithful soldier with us, Capt. J. T. Lembke proved capable 
 and brave in his new field of action, doing with intelligent 
 loyalty the work to which he was called. 
 
 Towards the close of the war was fought the battle of 
 Atlanta, during which we were called upon to part with four 
 more of those who through the previous years had stood by our 
 sides in camp and conflict, doing well the duty which was im- 
 po<ed upon them, even unto the end, when in the storm of bat- 
 tle on July 2Oth, 1864, they answered the summons of the grim 
 messenger, and panoplied in a soldier's garb, they passed to a 
 soldier's reward. 
 
 To you, their comrades, it seems almost unnecessary to re-
 
 104 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 call the names of Jacob Dealman, Alex Beidleman, Jno. P. 
 Chalman and Sam'l Hadlock. 
 
 What shall I say of those who through pain and suffering 
 went down to the grave through the portals of the hospital, be- 
 fore the dawn of that peace, for which they had striven during 
 months and possibly years of sacrifice. Brave soldiers were 
 they all, loving life, most of them with a passion born of youth 
 and promise, and yet without complaint, yielding it up in the 
 fulfillment of that purpose to which they had dedicated them- 
 selves, in order that their country might live. As we call up 
 their names before us, we rejoice in the fellowships once had, 
 and the memories which thickly cluster around them. All 
 honor to Timothy M. Blaisdell, Chas. L. Harrington, Fred 
 Johnson, Chas. Krause, John Chatfield, Jr., Chas. Kinsman, 
 John Mustard, Ora McBride, Wm. B. Mclntosh, Wm. R. 
 Rogers, Abner A. Rhodes, Jno. F. Strangberg, Ben. M. 
 Warner and Z. M. Ball. 
 
 "Alas! how few came hack 
 From battle and from wrack; 
 Alas ! how many lie beneath a southern sky, 
 "Who never heard the fearful fight was done, 
 And all they fought for won. 
 Sweeter, I think their sleep, 
 More peaceful and more deep, 
 
 Could they but know their wounds were not in vain. 
 Could they but hear the grand triumphant strain, 
 And see their homes unmarred by hostile tread. 
 Ah ! let us trust it is so with our dead 
 That they the thrilling joy of triumph feel, 
 And in that joy, disdain the foeman's steel." 
 
 In the years which have intervened since doffing the blue 
 garb of the soldier, one b} one, our remaining members have 
 been summoned from the cares and responsibilities of earth, to 
 take their stand before the Supreme Judge of nations and indi- 
 viduals, our eyes search in vain to-night for the f amilar faces of 
 those who gathered with us around the banqueting boards of 
 the old Revere House, where, welcomed home by the city of our 
 pride, in the midst of fragrant flowers, entrancing music, burn- 
 ing eloquence and toothsome viands, we renewed our pledges of 
 patriotism and love of country, while resuming again our places 
 in the ranks of her citi/.ens.
 
 Geo. P. Kenny, Peter M.Johnson, 
 
 Sergt. Geo. L. Purinton, 
 A. H. Biedleman, W. W. McLaughlin. 
 
 Michael Bauer, Jno. D. Sattler. 
 
 Wm. Taylor, 
 Corpl. Chas. G. Henney, Jno. Herrick. 
 
 R. N. Hull, Jno. W. Frazer, 
 
 Jacob Dealman, 
 Corpl. Albert Dickinson, J. M. Vernon. 
 
 Vincenz* Smith, \Vm. B. Mclntosh, 
 
 H. W. Dudley, 
 Jno. Chatfield, Jr., Arthur Burnam.
 
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 They have passed from our sight, many of them we have 
 followed with mournful steps .to the last resting-place of mor- 
 tality ,and with tender hands consigned them to their mother earth. 
 
 Others, having chosen their homes in distant places, have 
 closed their eyes to the world surrounded by other than soldier 
 comrades, mourned doubtless not less sincerely by those endear- 
 ed to them by later ties. All of these names would I in tender- 
 ness bring up before you to-night, that they may fill in the 
 niches of memory's walls, the places, I am sure your affection 
 has appropriately reserved. 
 
 The tragic death of our Lieut., Levi W. Hart, who went 
 down in that awful wreck at Ashtabula, Dec. 3oth, 1876; of 
 Corporal Wm. Chandler, who was thrown from his carriage in 
 Cleveland and killed, of Howard Gushing, killed while an 
 officer in the regular army in a battle with the Indians, deserve 
 our special mention, while sooner or later the call came in one 
 way or another to Wm. F. Jackson, H. Nelson Towner, Abram 
 Heartt, Wm. N. Taylor, Thos. E. Taylor, Isaac Watts, Sam'l 
 T. Wentworth, Dan'l P. Young, Walter Sherwood, Dan'l W. 
 Sheldon, Edward Speer, Wm. J. Stevens, Horace Reed, Fred 
 C. Russell, Henry F. Lines, Wm. Hea, Jr., Chas. G. Henney, 
 Andrew J. Grant, Sim. Y. Prince, James B. Easson, Thos. J. 
 Ashbrook, Wm. D. Crego, Wm. Blakie, Chas. Edwards, Jno. 
 C. Hadlock, Walter Hinman, W. W. Lowrie, Myron C. Ross, 
 John D. Satler, Walter Simpson, Walter Sherman, Wm. W. 
 Breckbill, Edwin Bancroft, Sam'l D. Newton, Jno. A. Mason, 
 Nelson Crampton, Frank Crampton. Almost last of all, and 
 only a little over a year ago, our well beloved first commander, 
 dear old Capt. Taylor, was wafted from the scenes of his long 
 and heroic service in the battle of life, to the well-earned rest, 
 we trust, of a heavenly home. Those of us who were permit- 
 ted from time to time to meet the old hero, could not but observe 
 for months his growing feebleness, and we felt that the wound, 
 received in his country's service, coupled with the care and 
 anxiety incident to the whirl of city life, were hastening him on 
 with accelerated speed to the close of his earthly pilgrimage; 
 and so he died, the noble old commander, leaving for us a bright 
 example of lofty heroism, which I trust will prove to each an 
 inspiration while life endures.
 
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 At our last reunion, six years ago, in this very place, we 
 looked into the eyes of many whose places are vacant to-night, 
 and so the Reaper will come and go, until we all shall lay aside 
 the implements of earthly warfare and take our places in the 
 silent halls of death. 
 
 Be it therefore ours who survive to participate in coming re- 
 unions, to cherish with ever-increasing interest, as our numbers 
 grow less, the memory of those, who one by one have been 
 called before; and as from time to time in this pleasant way, 
 we fight over again our earthly battles, let us each so live that 
 in the last great conflict, we may attain unto the victory, which 
 by right belongs, and has been promised to him, who, under 
 the blood red banner of the cross, marches with fidelity and 
 patriotic love, keeping step to the music of Heaven, while our 
 hearts are enchanted by the bright visions of dear ones gone 
 before, who, with eager faces and outstretched arms beckon us 
 on to the delights of the heavenly home. 
 
 GEN'L W. H. L. WALLACE'S REPORT OF THE BATTLE 
 OF FORT DONELSON. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 2nd BRIGADE, 
 
 ISt DIVISION U. S. ADVANCE FORCES. 
 
 FORT DONELSON, Tenn., Feb. lyth, 1862. 
 MAJ. M. BRAYMAN, 
 
 Asst. Adjt. Genl., ist Division. 
 
 SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of 
 the operations of my brigade from the time of leaving Fort 
 Henry on the i ith inst. up to the i6th inst. when the Federal 
 forces entered this fortification. 
 
 My brigade as formed by order of Gen. U. S. Grant, com- 
 manding the district of Cairo, consisting of the iith 111. 
 Infantry, Lieut. Col. T. E. G. Ransom commanding; the 
 2oth 111. Infantry, Col. C. C. Marsh commanding; the 
 45th 111. Infantry, Col. John E. Smith commanding; the 
 48th 111. Infantry, Col. I. N. Haynie commanding; the 
 4th 111. Cavalry, Col. T. Lyle Dickey commanding; Capt. 
 Ezra Taylor's four six-pounder field guns, and two twelve - 
 pounder howitzers, and Capt. E. McAllister's battery of three 
 twenty-four pounder howitzers, ( ist 111. Artillery ) the whole
 
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 constituting the second brigade of the ist division, commanded 
 by Brig. Gen. Jno. A. McClernand, and containing about 3,400 
 effective men of all arms. 
 
 About noon on the i ith inst. while in camp at Ft. Henry, I 
 received orders from Gen. McClernand to put the infantry and 
 artillery of my brigade on the march, and move out three or 
 four miles on the " Telegraph road " towards this place. At 
 about 4 P. M. the forces designated marched out and encamped 
 on the road four miles from Ft. Henry. At sunrise on the 
 next day (the I2th inst.) I was joined by Col. Dickey's cavalry 
 and marched with my whole comm md by the Telegraph road 
 toward Ft. Donelson, keeping up frequent communication with 
 Col. Oglesby's ist brigade, which was moving at the same time 
 by the ridge road, Col. Dickey's cavalry thoroughly reconnoi- 
 tering the country as the column marched. Soon after noon I 
 came in sight of the enemy's encampment on the opposite side 
 of a creek about a mile in advance. Having caused the road to 
 be reconnoitered and finding the creek impassable on account of 
 backwater from the Cumberland, I moved to the right up the 
 creek and effected a junction with Col. Oglesby's brigade in the 
 low grounds west of Ft. Donelson, where heavy w r ooded hills 
 intervened between us and the enemy's position. Col. Dickey's 
 cavalry was again thrown forward and reconnoitered the 
 ground in front. Col. Oglesby's brigade moved up the Paris 
 road to the south of Fort Donelson, while I threw my brigade 
 by its front on to the heights, dragging the artillery up the steep r 
 wooded hills. After further reconnoitering the brigade ad- 
 vanced and occupied a ridge south-west of the center of the 
 enemy's fortification, with its right resting on the left of CoL 
 Oglesby's brigade. Some slight skirmishing occurred here, 
 and after resting in the position an hour or more, and further 
 reconnoitering in accordance with orders from Gen. McCler- 
 nand I moved the brigade by the right flank, following Col. 
 Oglesby's brigade, across the valley, towards the left of the 
 enemy's position. By this time it was dark, and Col. Ogles- 
 by's right becoming involved in ground which had not been 
 reconnoitered, and which was very hilly and covered with a 
 dense growth of underbrush, I was ordered by the General 
 commanding the division to return to the position on the west of
 
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 the valley, which I did, moving by the left flank, when my 
 brigade rested for the night. 
 
 At daylight on the morning of the 13th the enemy opened 
 fire with his artillery from the middle redoubt. Soon after- 
 wards, by order of Gen. McClernand, I marched the i ith, 2Oth, 
 45th regiments, and Taylor's battery, to the right across the val- 
 ley, leaving McAllister's battery supported by the 481!! 111. on the 
 ridge west of the valley, and ordered Col. Dickey's cavalry to 
 move in rear, with detatchments thrown toward the right to 
 rcconnoiter toward the Cumberland and Dover. Reaching the 
 high grounds east of the valley, Taylor's battery was put in 
 position on the road leading up to Dover, where the left of the 
 enemy's line rested behind earthworks and intrenchments 
 strengthened by strong abbattis in front. The whole force 
 continued to move steadily to the right, Col. Oglesby's brigade 
 leading, the artillery of his brigade and Taylor's battery mov- 
 ing on the road, while the infantry was in rear of and near the 
 road. Along this road the artillery advanced, taking successive 
 positions to the right, and keeping up a constant cannonade on 
 the enemy's works on the right and middle redoubt across the 
 valley. The open space afforded a fine opportunity for artillery 
 practice at long range, and Taylor's, Swartz's, and Dresser's 
 guns, warmly returned by those of the enemy in the middle re- 
 doubt and the works on his left, presented a rare example of 
 the use of that arm of the service. 
 
 About noon I was ordered by Gen. McClernand to detach 
 the 38th regt. (Col. Haynie) to operate with the i7th 111. 
 (Maj. Smith's command) and the 49th 111. (Col. Morrison) of 
 the 3rd brigade, in making an assault on the enemy's middle re- 
 doubt on the hill west of the valley, supported by the fire of 
 McAllister's guns. This force was under command of Col. 
 Haynie as senior Colonel. They formed in line and advanced 
 in fine order across the intervening ravines, and mounted the 
 steep height on which those works are situated, in the most gal- 
 lant manner, and under a heavy fire of musketry from the 
 enemy posted in the lines of earthwork. They advanced up 
 the hill, delivering their fire with coolness and precision. The 
 line not being long enough to envelope the works, by order of 
 Gen. McClernand, I detached the 45th 111. (Col. Smith) to
 
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 their support on the right. This regiment advanced in beauti- 
 ful order down the slope, across the valley, and up the opposite 
 steep with skirmishers displayed in front, and were soon 
 warmly engaged. These operations had given the enemy time 
 to reinforce their position with strong bodies of infantry from 
 his reserves in rear, and field artillery, which opened a destruc- 
 tive fire on the advancing line. The roll of musketry showed 
 the enemy in powerful force behind his earthworks, notwith- 
 standing our own forces charged gallantly up the heights to 
 the very foot of the works which were rendered impassable by 
 the sharp and strong points of brushwood in which it was built. 
 All the regiments engaged in this daring attempt suffered more 
 or less from the enemy's fire. 
 
 In the meantime the enemy began to show himself in 
 strength in his entrenchments in front of Col. Oglesby's brigade. 
 Swartz's battery was advanced along the road to within 300 
 yards of the works, but by being without cannister, they were 
 withdrawn, and by Gen. McClernand's order I directed Capt. 
 Taylor to throw forward two sections of his battery to that 
 position. The position being beyond the right of my line, the 
 infantry support was to be furnished from Col. Oglesby's 
 brigade which was immediately in the rear. These sections 
 took their positions under a most galling fire of rifles and mus- 
 ketry from the enemy's lines. The ground was covered with 
 brush, and some time was required to put the guns in position, 
 and during this time the enemy's fire was very galling, and 
 Taylor's men suffered somewhat from its effects. As soon as 
 his position was gained, however, the rapid and well-directed 
 fire of the sections soon silenced the enemy. The coolness and 
 daring of the officers and men of these sections, directed by 
 Capt. Taylor in person, are worthy of high praise. 
 
 The 48th, 45th, 49111 and iyth regiments having been ordered 
 to retire from the hill where they had so gallantly assaulted the 
 enemy's works, the 45th and 48th having resumed their positions 
 in my line, and Col. Morrison, commanding the i7th and 49th 
 having been wounded in this assault, those regiments were tem- 
 porarily attached to my brigade and acted under my orders dur- 
 ing the subsequent operations until noon of the I5th. The 
 night of the I3th was one of great suffering and hardship to the
 
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 whole command. We lay within point blank musket and rifle 
 range of the enemy's breastworks, and at dark a storm of rain, 
 soon turning to snow, and accompanied by severe blasts, beat 
 upon our unprotected ranks. The pickets of the enemy were 
 out in strong force and a constant firing between their 
 pickets and our own was kept up during the night. The spirits 
 of the men, animated and encouraged by the conduct of the 
 officers, never flagged, notwithstanding they were without tents 
 or fires and exposed to the fierce storm and assailed by the 
 enemy's shot. 
 
 During the night it was evident that the enemy was receiv- 
 ing large reinforcements, and when morning broke on the I4th, 
 it showed that they had been busy during the night in erecting 
 new works in commanding positions, and mounting them with 
 guns. McAllister's battery was ordered from the other side of 
 the valley and put into position on the road. During this day 
 my brigade occupied a position a little in the rear of the road 
 and under cover of the brow of the hill, the right resting on the 
 left of Col. Oglesby's line and being within 300 or 400 yards of 
 the salient angle of the enemy's works on his left. We lay in 
 this position most of the day, the order of the regiments from 
 right to left being as follows: i ith, 2oth, 48th, 45th, 49th, and 
 i yth Taylor's battery was posted at the interval between the 
 iyth and 49th, and McAllister's guns were distributed along 
 the front. Dickey's cavalry was in rear and to the right, to 
 observe the enemy and guard the flank. Under instructions 
 from Gen. McClernand I commenced the construction of a 
 small earthwork on the road to cover three or four guns. Mr. 
 Trisilian, of the 49th regt., had charge of the work, which was 
 completed during the night and two of McAllister's guns and 
 a lo-pounder Parrott rifle gun of the ist Missouri Artillery, 
 were placed in it the next morning. During the whole of the 
 1 4th a rambling and irregular fire of sharpshooters was kept 
 up, varied by occasional discharges of artillery. The enemy's 
 shells and round shot fell at times thickly within my lines but 
 the casualties were few. 
 
 At day break on the morning of the 1 5th the enemy threw 
 a heavy force of infantry and cavalry, supported by field artill- 
 ery and his batteries within the work, out of his entrenchments
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 111 
 
 and commenced a vigorous assault on the right flank of the 
 whole line. The attack was continued with great spirit, and 
 gradually drove back our extreme right. About seven o'clock 
 A. M. the nth and 2oth 111., on my right, became engaged with 
 a heavy force of the enemy's infantry. They charged up the 
 hill and gained the road in front of my position, but the mo- 
 ment the rebel flag appeared above the crest of the hill a storm 
 of shot from the iith and 2Oth drove them back in confusion. 
 Again a new and fresh line of infantry appeared, and I ordered 
 the whole line, except the iyth and the left \ving of the 49th, to 
 advance and occupy the hill. The iith, 2Oth, 48th and 45th 
 with a portion of the 49th, advanced boldly and in fine order to 
 the brow of the hill where they were exposed, uncovered, not 
 only to the fire of the enemy's infantry, but to a raking fire 
 from one of the enemy's batteries of artillery across the valley. 
 They opened fire supported by Taylor's battery and two of 
 McAllister's guns (one having been disabled by a shot from 
 the enemy's cannon) and for some time the conflict was strong 
 and fierce. But at length the strong masses of the enemy's in- 
 fantry gave way before the steady, well-directed and continued 
 fire of the right of my line. They fell back, however, only to 
 give place to another line of fresh troops who advanced to their 
 support and who were also compelled by the steady unflinch- 
 ing valor of our men to give way. 
 
 In the meantime there were indications that the enemy 
 were gaining some advantages on the right of the whole line. 
 Reinforcements consisting of Kentucky and Indiana troops, 
 had been sent forward past my position to support the right, 
 but notwithstanding this, it became evident to me from the 
 sounds, and from the direction of the enemy's shot which be- 
 gan to rake my line from the rear of my right, that the right 
 of the line was giving way. My orders being peremptory 
 to hold that position of the line occupied by my brigade to the 
 last extremity, I sent one of my aides to Gen. McClernand with 
 information of the state of affairs, and to express my fears that 
 my right flank would be completely turned unless re-inforce- 
 ments should be speedily sent to that quarter. Finding that 
 no re-inforcements were within reach, and Gen. McClernand 
 having left me discretion to withdraw if I found my position
 
 112 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 untenable, and seeing that the enemy steadily advanced on my 
 right flank and was speedily gaining my rear, and many of the 
 corps having exhausted their ammunition, I gave orders to move 
 the whole brigade to the rear up the road with a view of form- 
 ing a new line of battle. Before this order was given, all our 
 troops on the right of my brigade had fallen back except the 
 3ist 111., Col. John A. Logan, who occupied the left of CoL 
 Oglesby's brigade. Immediately adjoining the'3istand on the 
 right of my line was the nth 111., Lieut. Col. T. E. G. Ran- 
 som commanding. When the order to retire was given it 
 failed to reach Lieut. -Col. Ransom who, with the iith regt., 
 was gallantly supporting the 3ist against a fierce onslaught on 
 their right. Rapidly as gaps were opened in the ranks by the 
 enemy's fire, they were as promptly closed to the right, and the 
 shortening front alone showed the destructiveness of that fire. 
 Soon the 3ist, their ammunition having failed, retired to the rear 
 under a most galling fire, with all the coolness and precision of 
 veterans. 
 
 In the meantime the order to retire was being executed in 
 good order by the other regiments of the brigade, the character 
 of the ground rendering it impossible for me to see the whole 
 line at once, and when the I ith changed their front they were 
 exposed to a fire in front and on both flanks, and the enemy's 
 cavalry charging upon their flank they were thrown into some 
 confusion and retired, but steadily and in comparatively good 
 order. After falling back some half a mile I halted the brig- 
 ade and as speedily as possible procured a supply of ammunition 
 and formed a second line of battle. At this point Col. Ross of 
 the lyth 111. arrived on the field and took command of the (yth 
 and 49th regts., and we were reinforced by some troops of 
 Gen. Lew. Wallace's division, and with their aid and the assis- 
 tance of Taylor's artillery, and some pieces of Dresser's and 
 Willard's batteries, the advance of the enemy was checked and 
 he was driven within his intrenchments, leaving a large number 
 of his dead and wounded on the field. 
 
 At night my brigade was withdrawn to a hill between the 
 valleys, so as to be within easy supporting distance of either 
 wing, when I rested until morning. With morning (the i6th) 
 came the news that the enemy had surrendered. The whole
 
 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 113 
 
 brigade was instantly formed and marched down the valley 
 into the center of the enemy's works, where we hoisted the 
 Union flag upon the inner intrenchments of the fort and fired -a 
 federal salute from Taylor's battery. Dickey's cavalry were so- 
 disposed as to cover all the approaches and prevent the escape 
 of prisoners, and rendered very effective service in securing and 
 bringing in prisoners during the day. 
 
 Would that my task could end here, with the record of the 
 endurance, bravery and heroism of our troops crowned, as it 
 were with such signal success. The loss of my brigade has 
 been heavy, as the annexed list of killed, wounded and missing 
 will show. The right of my line was more widely engaged 
 on the 1 5th than any other portion, though all were under 
 heavy fire for hours. The nth regt. being posted on the 
 right of my line suffered more than any other regiment, having 
 67 killed on the field. The 2Oth regt. which stood next to the 
 nth was the next heaviest sufferer, having 18 killed on the 
 field. The 48th, 45th, 49th and iyth suffered a considerable 
 loss in the operations of the i5th. In my original brigade every 
 Lieut. Col. of infantry was' either killed or wounded on the 
 1 5th. Lieut. -Col. Wm. Erwin, of the 2oth 111., while nobly 
 animating his men and adding new laurels to those he so nobly 
 won at Buena Vista, was struck down by a cannon shot from 
 the enemy's battery. Lieut. -Col. Thos. G. Smith, 48th 111., 
 had distinguished himself in the gallant attack of the I3th, he 
 being in command of his regiment on that occasion. Col. 
 Haynie, as senior colonel,- being in command of the whole 
 force detached on other service. Early in the engagement of 
 the 15*11 Lieut. -Col. Smith, while leading his men up the hill 
 to meet the enemy, received a mortal wound, of which he died 
 in about an hour. Lieut.-Col. Ransom, commanding iith Ills., 
 was struck in the shoulder by a rflinnie ball; merely calling 
 Maj. Nevins to the command till his wound could be tempo- 
 rarily dressed, he resumed the command and remained with his 
 regiment throughout the day. Lieut.-Col. J. A. Maltby, of the 
 45th regt., while encouraging and animating his men, was shot 
 through the thigh and severely, though I trust not fatal lv, 
 wounded.
 
 114 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 I cannot find words in which fittingly to express the debt of 
 obligation and gratitude I bear to the officers commanding 
 corps for the prompt, fearless, cool manner in which my com- 
 mands were carried out. In every instance (except one, and 
 that resulted from the stupidity of an orderly) my orders were 
 perfectly understood and carried into effect with promptness 
 and perfect order. I have already spoken of the part borne by 
 the iith 111. under Lieut. -Col. Ransom. Both he and Maj. 
 Nevins are deserving of the attention of the department. Col. 
 C. C. Marsh, of the 2Oth 111., exhibited the utmost courage, 
 coolness and self-possession on the field, managing his men with 
 all the order of parade. Maj. Richards of the 2Oth also acted 
 with great bravery. Col. Haynie and Maj. Sanford, of the 
 48th; Col. John E. Smith and Maj. M. Smith, of the 45th; 
 Lieut.-Col. Pease, of the 49th, and Capt. Bush, commanding 
 the iyth III., all distinguished themselves by their bravery, and 
 contributed by their example to the attainment of the brilliant 
 result. 
 
 The conduct of Capt. Ezra Taylor, commanding Light Bat- 
 tery B, during the whole series of engagements, was such as to 
 distinguish him as a daring, yet cool and sagacious officer; 
 pushing his guns into positions that were swept by the enemy's 
 shot, he, in person, directed the posting of his sections and in 
 very many instances himself sighted the guns. Such conduct 
 found its natural reflection in the perfect order and bravery that 
 characterized his entire command. His battery of six pieces 
 fired 1,700 rounds of ammunition during the engagement, being 
 an average of about 284 rounds to the gun. 
 
 McAllister's guns did good service. They were three 24- 
 pounder howitzers, without caissons, and with a limited supply 
 of ammunition, and without a full complement of men. One 
 of them lost a wheel, shot away on the 13th, but it was supplied 
 from the limber. On the I5th the trail of another howitzer 
 was broken, and it was rendered useless. They fired all their 
 ammunition, about 50 rounds to the piece. The cavalry of the 
 brigade (4th 111., Col. Dickey,) did excellent service in recon- 
 noitering and in holding the enemy in check on the right. 
 Lieut.-Col. McCullough, Maj. Wallace, Capt. Rockwood, and 
 Capt. Townsend are worthy of particular mention for services
 
 REUNION OK TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 115 
 
 rendered. The field music and bands of the several regiments 
 and corps rendered very effective service in taking care of the 
 wounded, especially in the iith and 2oth regts. The band of 
 the iith lost their instruments. 
 
 The surgeons and hospital assistants of the entire command 
 performed their painful but important duties in a manner highly 
 creditable. To Surgeon Goodbrake, acting brigade surgeon, I 
 feel under especial obligation. Surgeons Kitts, of the 45th; 
 Long, of the iith; Asst. Surgeons Hunt, of the iith; 
 Luce, of the 4th cavalry, and Young, of the 48th 111., 
 also rendered valuable assistance. I wish also to return 
 thanks to Surgeon Edgar, of the 32nd 111., for attentions to 
 the wounded of my command. Chaplains Pearson, of the 
 iith and Button of the zoth, were indefatigable in their atten- 
 tions to the wounded and in collecting and burying the dead. 
 
 1 wish also to call the attention of the general command- 
 ing the division to the conduct and bearing of my staff lieuten- 
 ant, Israel P. Rumsey, of Taylor's Battery, aide-de-camp and 
 acting Asst. Adjt. Gen.; and Lieut. G. I. Davis, nth 111. 
 acting Brigade Q. M. and Commissary, also aide-de-camp; 
 active, intelligent, ardent and brave, they were ever ready to 
 render any aid in their power, riding to every part of the field 
 amid the hottest fire, and by their daring and coolness con- 
 tributed much towards the success of the day. Private Geo. 
 E. Church of Taylor's battery who acted as one of my 
 orderlies, is worthy of commendation for bravery and self- 
 possession on the field. Many instances of individual daring 
 occurred that are worthy of mention, but where all acted their 
 part so nobly, comparisons seems invidious. I cannot forbear 
 citing two instances to which my attention has been called bv 
 commanclers of regiments. Corporal Smith, of Company E, 
 iyth 111., distinguished himself by great personal bravery in 
 skirmishing with the enemy. Corporal Armstrong, of Com- 
 pany H, nth 111., when the color sergeant of the regiment 
 was shot down and the colors fell, rushed to the spot, and 
 seizing the flag, bore it from the field amid a storm of balls. 
 The flag itself was riddled with shot. 
 
 In order to a due appreciation of the courage, endurance 
 and fortitude of the men by Whom this victory has been won, it
 
 n6 REUNION OF TAYLOR'S BATTERY. 
 
 must be borne in mind that they marched from Ft. Henry with- 
 out transportation or tents or rations, except what they carried, 
 that they were exposed for three days and nights without tents 
 and almost without fires, being so near the enemy's lines as to 
 render fires imprudent; that the weather was extremely severe; 
 two nights they were thus exposed, being accompanied with 
 driving storms and severe cold; that during the whole three 
 days they were under fire and were compelled to bivouac in 
 line of battle with their arms in their hands. Added to thi*, 
 most of them had never seen a battle and but few had ever 
 heard a hostile shot. Under all these circumstances, it is cer. 
 tainly a just matter of congratulation that so long and fierce a 
 conflict against an intrenched enemy, fighting on a position 
 well known to him and unknown to us, and so greatly superior 
 in artillery, has resulted so gloriously to our arms. 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 W. H. L. WALLACE, 
 Col. Comdg. 2nd Brig., ist Div, 
 
 -XOTE.- 
 
 It is with sincere regret that we are obliged to publish the incomplete 
 proceedings of our Belmont reunion. Many of the responses were extem- 
 pore and as no shorthand notes were made they cannot be recalled. A 
 number of the manuscript responses have not been preserved and we are 
 obliged to do without them, hoping that what has been preserved will 
 prove interesting to many, if not all, of our surviving comrades. 
 
 Our reunions have each been very pleasant and we hope to have many 
 more of them, feeling, meanwhile, that our ranks will continually grow 
 less and each succeeding reunion will witness a fewer number of comrades 
 convened together. 
 
 The list of surviving comrades we fear is incomplete both as to ad- 
 dresses and names, but it is compiled after diligent inquiry, and is the best 
 we are able to make from the information at hand. 
 
 As many communications which are sent to comrades are returned, 
 owing to change of residence, that each man will try and advise either 
 Comrades Sauter, Affeld or Pierce of any change of address, so that the 
 record may be kept complete. 
 
 We are indepted to Comrade Scates for the compilation of the com- 
 plete roster of the battery. 
 
 Now, dear comrade, having reluctantly started on the work of com- 
 piling this book, we have continued it with many fears and misgivings, and 
 c'ose it with the hope that it will receive the kind consideration of our 
 comrades, for whom it is especially made, and be viewed with charity by 
 others into whose hands it may chance to come.
 
 Roht. N. Finney, Chas. Martin, 
 
 Win. H. Bradbury, 
 Senrt. Abe Heartt, Chas. Turner. 
 
 Jno. A. Peckham, Saml. D. Newton, 
 
 Sergt. Walter Sherman, 
 Peter Schnur, Wm. L. Heartt 
 
 Win. II. Allanson, Win. llea, Jr., 
 
 Chas. U. Stevenson, 
 Corp. Win. Turner, Walter S. Hininan. 
 
 Michael Lynch, . Chas. Edwards, 
 
 Chas. Kinsman, 
 H. R. Clark, Andrew J. Palmer.
 
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 LIST OF NAMES OF SURVIVING COMRADES OF TAYLOR'S 
 
 BATTERY B, IST ILLINOIS LIGHT ARTILLERY, 
 
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 Affeld, Charles E 1 74 La Salle St., Chicago 
 
 Affeld, Frank O 873 President St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Adams, Walter F Clinton, Iowa 
 
 Aspenwall, Theo. H Kenosha, Wis. 
 
 Anderson, J. S Waterloo, Iowa 
 
 Allanson, W. H Murphrysboro, Jackson Co., Ills. 
 
 Barrett, Samuel E Randolph and La Salle Sts., Chicago- 
 
 Boyd, Thos Seattle, Washington 
 
 Burnam, Arthur 822 W. Adams St., Chicago 
 
 Briggs, Wm. D 136 Heine St., Chicago 
 
 Brown, John A 814 Dania Ave., Chicago. 
 
 Bradbury, Wm. H Council Bluffs, Iowa 
 
 Bauer, Michael 22 Lincoln Place, Chicago 
 
 Burns, Geo. B Austin, Ills., Box 107 
 
 Chase, David F St. Charles, Mich. 
 
 Church, Geo. E Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Chappell, Harmon T Harpsdale, Huarfano Co.. Colorado 
 
 Corbet, James 200 So. Water St., Chicago 
 
 Coe, Schuyler P Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 Cobb, Henry B Wilmington, Del. 
 
 Cutting, John T San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Cammann, Francis D Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Dickinson, Albert 117 Kinzie St., Chicago 
 
 Dana, Charles D 10 State St., Chicago 
 
 Dudley, Henry W 261 3 Indiana Ave., Chicago 
 
 Dutch, James B 49 Board of Trade Building, Chicago 
 
 Ellis, Thomas Engineer, Joliet State Prison, Ills. 
 
 Eckert, Charles H Emerald and 5ist Sts., Chicago 
 
 Fleetwood, Charles 19 Randolph St. Chicago 
 
 Frazer, John W Levick Mills, Randolph Co., Mo. 
 
 Finney, Robert M 815 W. Congress St., rear, Chicago 
 
 Graham, John Seneca, Ills. 
 
 Hebard, Horace S Kankakee, Ills., Insane Asylum 
 
 Hull, Richmond N Challis, Idaho 
 
 Hatheway, Valancourt E Council Grove, Kansas 
 
 Hunt, Robert J 217 Waco Ave., Wichita, Kansas 
 
 Heartt, Wm. L 791 Leavitt St., Chicago 
 
 Hess, Geo. J Oxford, Kansas 
 
 Hall, Melville Rockford, Ills. 
 
 Henderson, Wm. H Sioux City, Iowa 
 
 Hatch, Geo. T .Peoria, Ills. 
 
 Jackson, Charles F 49 N. Hamlin Ave., Chicago 
 
 Jackson, Wm F 286 5th Ave., Chicago 
 
 King, Wm. B Boone, Iowa 
 
 Klemm, Otho Dillon, Montana 
 
 Kingsbury, John E 5138 School St., Chicago 
 
 Lilly, B. F 1066 Wilcox Ave., Chicago 
 
 Loomer, Jasper D Nashville, Martin Co., Minn. 
 
 Lynch, Michael American Express Co., Chicago 
 
 Lake, Lewis F 1202 Chestnut St., Rockford, Ills. 
 
 Moore, Jabez H Geneva Lake, Wis. 
 
 McCoy, Wm. J 503 So. Clayton St., Bloomington, Ills.
 
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 Sergt. D. F. Chase. 
 
 Niles T. Quales, Timothy Upton, Jr., 
 
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 REUNION 01- TAVI.OK'S BATTERY, i 2y 
 
 McGrath, Justus C 2534 La Salle St., Chicago 
 
 McLaughlin, Win. W 47 Carondelet St., New Orleans, La. 
 
 Machin, Chas. H 206 Broadway, New York 
 
 McGee, Peter ....12 Sherman Place, Chicago 
 
 Morrison, Peter 337 Troy St. Chicago 
 
 Ousey, Abel Ainboy, Ills. 
 
 Oliver, Mervin R 784 W. Congress St., Chicago 
 
 Otis, Charles Harrington, Cook Co., Ills. 
 
 Purinton, Geo. L 6531 Harvard St., Englewood, Ills. 
 
 Prince, Win. H 506 Webster Ave., Chicago 
 
 Poole, Manning S 518 Marshfield Ave., Chicago 
 
 Pierce, Charles W 24 Bryan Blk., 164 La Salle St, Chicago 
 
 Porter, James W Tacoma Bldg., Chicago 
 
 Pond, Francis Hinsdale, Ills. 
 
 Peckham, John A Batavia, Ills. 
 
 Peckham, Sidney . . Middlebury, Summit Co., O. 
 
 Powell, John W Open Bd. of Trade, Chicago 
 
 Palmer, Andrew J St. Anthony, Iowa 
 
 Quales, Niles T. 241 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago 
 
 Rumsey, Israel P., Lake Forest, Ills., Office 5th floor " Rookery," Chicago 
 
 Roberts ,Theodore P 38 Park Row, New York 
 
 Rook, Edward J 1 168 Fillmore St., Chicago 
 
 Ramsdell, Alonzo 1223 W. Harrison St., Chicatjo 
 
 Rising, Henry C Seneca, Ills. 
 
 Rudd, Henry Box 1652, Rockford, Ills. 
 
 Rodhauser, Dirk W Evanston, Ills. 
 
 Stark, Charles F Stark, Minn. 
 
 Shepherd, Win. T Auburndale, Mass. 
 
 Schnur, Peter 448 Larrabee St., Chicago 
 
 Stevenson, Charles U Am. Exp. Co., St. Joe, Mo. 
 
 Sweeney, Daniel 117 Kinzie St., Chicago 
 
 Sanborn, Win. H St. George, Kansas 
 
 Stebbins, Walter S A. v G. Spaulding & Bro., Chicago 
 
 Stephens, Benjamin F Aurora, Ills. 
 
 Scales, Walter 4 1O 9 Indiana Ave., Chicago 
 
 Smith, Vincenz ..Hampshire. Kane Co., Ills. 
 
 Sauter, Charles J 206 Randolph St., Chicago 
 
 Scupham, Win. C Randolph & State Sts., Music Hall Bldg., Chicago 
 
 Stickney, Charles W Antelope, Idaho 
 
 Siller, Charles G 77 Board of Trade Bldg., Chicago 
 
 Smith, Robert C Rockford, Ills. 
 
 Smith, Thomas Homestead, Alleghany Co., Penn. 
 
 Turner, Charles La Crosse, Wis. 
 
 Turner, Wm Dyersburg, Tenn. 
 
 Thomas, John E Salem, Ind. 
 
 Taylor, Wm 376 Wabash Ave., Chicago 
 
 Upton, Timothy, Jr 3638 Indiana Ave., Chicago 
 
 Yernon, John M 340 S. Paulina St., Chicago 
 
 Van Horn, Garrett R Rockford, Ills. 
 
 White, Patrick H 158 Clinton Ave., Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Wyeth, Mark S San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 White, Geo. Q St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Whitfield, Thomas Wabash Ave. and Jackson St., Chicago 
 
 Wicker, Chauncey W Willoughby, Lake Co , Ohio 
 
 Wilcox, Albert B Vankton, Dakota 
 
 Wilcox, Edward P Yankton, Dakota 
 
 \VhiUle, James F .Prospect Park, Ills. 
 
 /filltpGrove M Livermore, Humboldt Co., Iowa 
 
 Young, Nathan J .369 Garfield Ave., Chicago
 
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