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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Bugle Blasts + Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of + the Loyal Legion of the United States + +Author: William E. Crane + +Release Date: January 23, 2010 [EBook #31049] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUGLE BLASTS *** + + + + +Produced by Stephanie Eason and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<h1>BUGLE BLASTS,</h1> +<h4>READ BEFORE THE</h4> +<h3><span class="smcap">Ohio Commandery</span></h3> +<h4>OF THE</h4> +<h3>MILITARY ORDER</h3> +<h4>OF THE</h4> +<h3>Loyal Legion of the United States,</h3> +<p> </p> +<h4>BY COMPANION</h4> +<h3>WILLIAM E. CRANE,</h3> +<h5>Late Captain 4th O. V. C. and A. A. Adjt.-Gen.</h5> +<p> </p> +<h4>NOVEMBER 5, 1884.</h4> +<p> </p> +<h5>CINCINNATI:<br />PETER G. THOMSON,<br />1884.</h5> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> +<h2>BUGLE BLASTS.</h2> + +<p>To one who occupied a very small space in the War of the Rebellion—one +who filled but a modest position among those who sought to protect the +Nation’s honor and life—it is a matter of difficulty, if not hazard, to +attempt to enlighten, or even entertain, such a body as that to whom +this paper is addressed. Certainly no attempt will be made, in this +case, to <i>enlighten</i>. If any thing new is furnished that shall also +prove interesting, the end will be subserved. There are those among us, +members of Ohio Commandery, who contributed largely to the grandeur, the +magnificence, the glory of that army of the Union from which this Order +sprang. There are those among us who <i>made</i> pages, aye, chapters, of +history where great deeds are emphasized in blood; deeds that “throbbed +the Nation’s heart.” And this history is not for a day; not for our time +alone. It will go on down the ages to be read by grand-children and +their grand-children, who will point with pride to the illustrious +achievements and say: “These were my ancestors who fought in that great +war and did these glorious things!” What richer legacy can you hand +down? This is <i>fame</i>! This is <i>glory</i>! And do not these come of honest +ambition? But there are incidents, episodes, deeds that come under the +observation only of the few—sometimes of the individual—which, little +in themselves and seemingly inconsequential, help to make up the grand +story. It is an old, old story now, but the story has become history. A +full and true history of the late war has never been written—never will +be. But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> little links can be picked up—even as we pick up battered +bullets on old battle-fields—and these may be welded together to make a +completer chain. And this is, perhaps, our duty, the duty of those who +are permitted to enjoy the present. Let us also make it a pleasure.</p> + +<p>I call this paper “Bugle Blasts” simply because that seems as +appropriate as anything. It refers to some incidents and experiences in +the cavalry; exciting and sometimes thrilling to those engaged, if not +interesting to him who hears the tale told.</p> + +<p>Late in the winter of ’62, when the movement on Fort Donelson was begun, +Buell began his movement on Bowling Green. The Third Division had the +advance and was commanded by General O. M. Mitchell, or “Star Mitchell” +as he was called in those days. February 10th Mitchell broke camp at +Bacon Creek, Kentucky, made a forced march to Bowling Green, driving the +rebel Hindman before him, and on February 22d started for Nashville. The +Fourth Ohio Cavalry, his advance regiment, was before Nashville on the +evening of the 23d, and received from the Mayor the surrender of the +city. The Third Division went into camp and the Fourth Ohio Cavalry was +placed <i>eight miles</i> in the front, at the outposts, on the Murfreesboro +pike.</p> + +<p>The cavalry of Buell’s army had not received that attention requisite +for the most efficient service, and the Fourth Ohio was no exception. +There were no carbines in the regiment—only sabers and some unreliable +revolvers. One company, however (that of the writer’s), was armed with +Colt’s revolving rifles. These had been secured, some weeks before, +while the company was on special duty at Upton, Ky., by requisition on +Louisville, accompanied by considerable diplomacy, etc.—the “etc” to be +literally translated, and not given too liberal a construction. I say +the company was <i>armed</i> with this formidable weapon. Perhaps it were +better to say <i>loaded</i>. The horse certainly was loaded when the trooper +mounted with this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> instrument slung on his back, clanking saber at his +side, and pistol in holster. It was cruelty to add the canteen and +haversack! But in those days we had no “S. P. C. A.”</p> + +<p>About three o’clock in the afternoon of March 8th the Colonel came to +our company headquarters and said he wanted the company to mount and go +in pursuit of a body of rebel cavalry said to be in the neighborhood. +Just as the order was issued an Orderly from Mitchell’s headquarters +rode up excitedly and reported that John Morgan had captured the +regimental wagon-train, on its way out to camp with supplies, burned the +wagons and taken off teamsters, horses, and mules. And this only one +mile from camp—almost under our noses! Our Colonel’s blood was up in an +instant, and in stentorian voice he shouted, “Company C, turn out with +your rifles!” This “<i>with your rifles</i>” had a flavor of business about +it, and the response was not only quick, but nearly unanimous. +Evidently, there was to be “music in the air,” and there was an anxiety +to have the rifles come in at the right <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'momnet'">moment</ins> with the Bass. Four other +companies were ordered out. Then came the command, “Company C, forward +with the rifles!” and we dashed forward up the pike toward Nashville. +The report received was not a “grape-vine.” Something near two miles +from camp, in the middle of the pike, were the ruins of our +wagon-train—some wagons still burning and some already in ashes. The +teamsters and animals were gone and no signs of friend or foe.</p> + +<p>As afterward learned, the attacking party were Lieut.-Col. Wood with a +body of Mississippi cavalry and John Morgan’s command. They had first +quietly taken in the pickets and then made a dash, from the woods, on +the train, capturing, with the teamsters, Capt. Braiden, an Aide of Gen. +Dumont’s. Gen. Mitchell himself barely escaped capture, having ridden +along the pike about the same time. A halt was called and the road +examined to ascertain which way the enemy had gone. The trace was found +leading east through the woods. One Company was sent back to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> get +re-enforcements, and, with them, to strike into the timber from the +regimental camp to try and intercept the raiders. The original party, +headed by Col. Kennett, dashed into the woods, and then occurred a chase +the parallel to which has seldom been seen. “Forward!” was the word, and +forward it was. The woods became a thicket, sometimes apparently +impassable; but the horses, spurred by their riders, dashed at headlong +speed through the trees, through the underbrush, under branches—thorns +scratching the face and hands, projecting limbs tearing clothes and +bruising bodies. Down hill and up hill, through marsh and bog, over logs +and across streams, leaping obstacles, shouting, yelling, screaming, and +hurrahing, away we went—mud and leaves flying and dead limbs crushing +beneath horses’ feet. Now the trail is lost and there is a halt to look +for footprints. How much of a start the raiders have can not be known, +but the trail must be fresh. Soon it is found and the horses gallop on +as full of spirit as their wildly excited riders. When the tracks +disappear in the forest leaves, the rebel course is now marked by +plunder lost or cast aside—overcoats, canteens, saddles, blankets, the +woods are full of them. Now and then an abandoned horse is seen. +Finally, we strike a narrow pike, follow it a mile or so and learn that +Morgan and Wood have divided their force, only the smaller part having +taken the course we are pursuing. We were after Morgan and the main +body, so turned back. It was precious time lost but the trail was again +struck, where they had crossed the pike, and once more a plunge was made +into the timber and cedars.</p> + +<p>For miles the trees were so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it +became impossible to ride other than single file; but, retarded as was +our speed, the chase became hotter and more exciting than ever. The +Yankee blood of the hunters was at fever heat and they determined to run +the game to cover. The sight of an abandoned horse (and the hard-pressed +enemy was now leaving his own as well<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> as our animals) was the signal +for a yell that the pursued might have heard and trembled at miles away. +Then spurs were clapped into horses’ flanks to urge them still faster +on; and thus the column—if column that could be called which column was +none—swept, dashed, plunged onward. Occasionally a trooper was +dismounted by a projecting limb, and as he clambered out of the way, the +sympathetic cry was wafted back from some comrade, “Say, what infantry +rigi<i>ment</i> does you’ns belong to?”</p> + +<p>Now the Colonel’s voice rings shrilly through the forest with the same +old talismanic “forward!” The refrain is taken up, sent back along the +column until the rearmost rider hears and shouts a returning echo, “We +are coming, father Abraham!” No cowardice there. No lagging behind from +choice. Every man was straining nerve and muscle to get ahead. We were +fast gaining on the enemy and they knew it, trembling at every shout +wafted to their ears. They grew desperate, dug the rowels into their +horses, cursed their prisoners, threatened them, shot at them to make +them keep up, and wounded one poor fellow to the death. These facts were +gleaned afterward.</p> + +<p>We had gained rapidly and thought them almost within grasp. But “the +best laid plans of mice and men, etc., etc.” Desperation nerved them and +they flew down the pike, scattering the stones behind. But we ran them +into the net prepared. The detachment that had gone out later from camp +struck the pike opportunely and received the enemy warmly as we drove +him into their arms. A brisk engagement followed, partly hand to hand. +The fight was soon over, the enemy being routed, scattered and driven in +every direction. At the onset Morgan, with his staff and a lot of +blooded horses, broke away and escaped across Stone river. Our command +being united and ready to move an inventory of affairs and effects was +taken. The enemy left four dead on the field, four sound captives in our +hands and two wounded. Of the ninety-four horses taken we recaptured +seventy-five;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> of the forty-eight teamsters, thirty-one, and also Capt. +Braiden. A number of rebels were wounded, but not seriously, and +escaped. One of the two wounded prisoners—Warfield by name—was related +to one of the most prominent and wealthy families of Cincinnati. The +other was a Mississippian, by the name of Love. The writer visited the +two in the regimental hospital that night. Love had a terrible wound, +and knew it was mortal, but his last breath was expended in cursing and +execrating the “Yankees” in the most horrible and vile language tongue +could utter.</p> + +<p>The chase being over, the command returned—all except the Company with +the rifles, who were to continue the pursuit. Pushing on again we struck +the Murfreesboro pike, near Lavergne, and got on the heels of one +detachment, but these, knowing the country, broke for the cedars and +escaped. We saw no more of them and returned to camp at 8 <span class="smcap">p. m.</span>, after a +ride of about thirty miles, part of this on a keen run.</p> + +<p>About a month after the incidents just related, the Fourth Ohio Cavalry +had the honor of capturing Huntsville, Ala., the “Queen City of the +Mountains.” About the middle of March, 1862, Gen. Mitchell’s Division of +Buell’s army left Nashville and pushed south to Murfreesboro, thence to +Shelbyville, following the rebel Johnston, who had destroyed all bridges +behind him. From Shelbyville a rapid advance was made to Fayetteville, +then a hot-bed of Secession. Turchin’s Brigade, with Simonson’s Battery +and the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, had the van. The Fourth broke camp early +that morning, April 9th, at the loyal town of Shelbyville, with a three +o’clock reveille and timely “Boots and Saddles.” Passing by the infantry +and Simonson’s guns, the regiment rode briskly on to Fayetteville, +through the town, over the stone bridge at Elk river, and camped on the +same spot where Gen. Jackson had camped fifty years before, in 1812, a +spot convenient, pleasant, and <i>historic</i>. News of the victory at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +Corinth reached us on the 10th, and there was enthusiastic joy and +joyful enthusiasm throughout the camp. The command set out at once for +Huntsville, the cavalry leading. Our route lay along a circuitous dirt +road and through a mountainous country. Twelve miles brought us to the +State line, marked by a high pole bearing the tattered remnants of a +rebel flag.</p> + +<p>Now we are in Alabama. The plantations stretch out in beautiful +landscape and, as the innumerable negroes grin at us from every field +and fence, we are forcibly reminded that we are “in the land of cotton.” +Halting at sundown to feed and await the remainder of the division, the +cavalry again moved on rapidly and went into bivouac at 10 <span class="smcap">p. m.</span> At two +in the morning a detail of picked men was made to ride across the +country and tear up the track on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad +leading east from Huntsville. Pickets were also thrown out to intercept +all travel to and from the town. At four o’clock on the morning of April +11th the artillery and cavalry were in motion for Huntsville, eight +miles away. Nearing town the battery galloped on to the front, the +Fourth Ohio following close. It was a matter of all importance that the +place should be reached before any trains should leave; and when, two +miles off, the whistle of a locomotive sounded on our ears, every thing +was excitement and every horse put to its speed. Such a clatter never +before awoke the echoes among those Alabama hills. Yonder curls the +smoke and here comes the engine with but a single car, steaming eastward +across the plain. Simonson wheels a gun, lets fly a solid shot, and the +engine slackens speed, hesitates (as if to ask the meaning of all this), +and puffs quickly on. A shell speeds after it but fails in its intent. +However, the train can not escape altogether if our railroad wreckers +have safely reached their trysting-place. The locomotive may be ditched +and lost to us for service, but will hardly carry the news to +Leadbetter, at Bridgeport, that the Yankees have come.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>Company A has orders and in an instant a dozen troopers have dismounted, +thrown down the stake-and-rider fence, and away goes the company across +the plain in hot pursuit—horse-flesh vieing with steam! But the +iron-limbed courser had the best bottom and whirled along amid a shower +of bullets—escaping for the time, but only to become prey to the +detachment up the road. Another whistle sounds and another train comes +in sight. Simonson’s bull dog again barks—again ineffectually. A +repeated effort is more successful, and a shell crashes through the cab. +The cavalry company is on hand this time, and bang! bang! crack! crack! +go the carbines and revolvers and the balls whistle about the engineer’s +head and rattle against the cars. The train stops and the passengers, +rebel soldiers and officers, leap to the ground and endeavor to escape. +A few succeed, but the majority are taken. The train is boarded and +brought back. Meanwhile the column dashes onward and goes whirling into +Huntsville. At the station is another train just leaving, with troops +who are going “on to Richmond.” A cocked pistol held at the engineer’s +head has the effect of shutting off steam and the train is placed under +guard. The regiment gallops up the street and through the town. Pickets +are thrown out on all the roads.</p> + +<p>Black faces were at every door and window; blacks were at the gates, and +blacks were on the streets; but the “Chivalry” had evidently deserted +the place, except the few who viciously peered at us through the blinds, +robed in white. Perhaps it was too early for <i>white folks</i>, and our call +was untimely on that bright April morning—the clock had not yet struck +six—and perhaps they were too high toned to suffer Yankees to look upon +their faces. After reconnoitering the streets and gathering in a few +wearers of the gray the regiment was apportioned to various duties.</p> + +<p>Another train had just pulled in, all unconscious of the reception +awaiting. This, too, was filled with soldiery<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> from below, bound for +Richmond—four officers and 180 privates. At one of the hotels a Major +and three Captains were taken, and others at other points in town. The +full result of the early morning’s work was 800 prisoners, 17 +locomotives and a large number of cars. The locomotives themselves were +of incalculable value, and more than paid for the expedition if there +had been no other fruits; for they enabled Gen. Mitchell to push his +troops rapidly in every direction and hurry forward supplies. Without +them many of the results which soon followed could not have been +accomplished.</p> + +<p>From the Sheriff the keys of the jail were demanded and a large number +of prisoners, loyal Tennesseans mostly, were liberated. Some of these at +once enlisted in the Union army. Huntsville was ours “and fairly won,” +without a casualty on our side or loss of any kind. * * *</p> + +<p>In August, 1864, the army constituting “The Military Division of the +Mississippi,” commanded by Gen. Sherman, lay in front of Atlanta. The +effort to flank Hood out of his position had not been successful and +Gen. Sherman announced a new plan of operations. In the new deal Gen. +Thomas was assigned to the left, Schofield given the right, and Howard +the center. Of the Cavalry, Gen. Garrard commanded the Second Division +and Gen. Kilpatrick the Third. A raid of formidable proportions was +projected on the Macon railroad, and Kilpatrick was to engineer this. +Gen. Sherman had said, in a message to Thomas, Aug. 16th, “I do think +our cavalry should now break the Macon road good.” This raid of +Kilpatrick’s, though not as full in fruition as was hoped, was of great +importance and is the subject of the following chapter. It was an +undertaking brilliant in conception, thrilling in its experience, and +deserving of historical record. Of the 2d Cavalry Division one Brigade +was absent. The 1st and 2d Brigades traveled all night the 17th of +August to Sand Town, where Kilpatrick was with the 3d Division. On the +morning of the 18th the following circular was published.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="blockquot"><p class="right">“<span class="smcap">Headquarters Cavalry Expedition,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Dep’t Cumberland,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Sand Town, Ga</span>., Aug. 18, ’64.</p> + +<p>Soldiers! You have been selected from the Cavalry Divisions of the +Army of the Cumberland; you have been well organized, equipped, and +rendred formidable, at great expense, to accomplish an object vital +to the success of our cause. I am about to lead you, not on a +<i>raid</i>, but on a deliberate and well combined attack upon the +enemy’s communications, in order that he may be unable to supply +his army in Atlanta. Two expeditions have already failed. We are +the last Cavalry hope of the army. Let each soldier remember this +and resolve to accomplish this, the great object for which so much +is risked, <i>or die trying</i>!</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Signed.) J. KILPATRICK,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">Brig.-Gen. Commanding.”</span></p></div> +<p> </p> + +<p>At dark the two divisions (really, they were only <i>parts</i> of two +divisions) moved southward. The expedition was designed to be a secret +one, and there were no bugle blasts to awaken the echoes of the still +night—bugle blasts that so thrill through the trooper’s blood and nerve +him for the mount, the march, or the fray.</p> + +<p>The 3d Division had the advance, and with it was the 10th Wisconsin +Battery of four pieces. The 2d had two sections of the “Chicago Board of +Trade Battery.” Quietly as all had been planned, the movement was +already known in the rebel camp and our advance encountered an impeding +force early in the march. These fell back as we advanced but continued +harassing and delaying the column, and skirmishing was kept up all +night, a bright moon rendering some aid to both sides.</p> + +<p>Friday morning, the 19th, the 2d Division struck the Atlantic & West +Point Railroad. Men from the advance division were already at work +tearing up the track, and one regiment—the 1st Ohio—was detailed from +the 2d Division to assist. A mile of track was soon destroyed. +Meanwhile, the rear of the moving column (Minty’s Brigade) was attacked +by a force from the woods on the left with musketry and artillery. The +fighting soon became heavy. The 1st Ohio was ordered up to Minty’s +relief,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> and a systematic attack made with good results, the enemy +retiring from sight. The march was resumed, but the enemy again showed +himself, and, selecting a good position on the flank, opened up a lively +salvo of artillery, playing his pieces well. Shells screamed through the +air over the moving column, and the 3d and 4th Ohio suffered seriously. +Considerable time was consumed in brushing off this force, whose evident +aim was to harass and not fight, but they were finally routed. From +prisoners taken we learned that Ross’ Cavalry Brigade was our principal +opponent.</p> + +<p>A detachment of 400 men was now sent forward to Griffin to destroy the +track there. The 2d Brigade of the 2d Division was ordered forward and, +on the Jonesboro road, struck the enemy. Skirmishing continued nearly +all day, the enemy falling back slowly and showing a disposition to +impede our progress as much as possible. At Flint river a strong force +was in position on the further bank and at the town of Jonesboro. +Pressing them with energy and our artillery playing lively airs they +were driven from their works, and we advanced across the bridge which +they had attempted to burn. Moving into and through the town the depot +was fired and the track destroyed.</p> + +<p>The command now took a brief rest, having eaten nothing all day and not +having slept for over twenty-four hours. Marching again at 11, the 2d +Division passed south and reached the McDonogh road at daylight. At +Pittsburgh again turned south toward the railroad. The first few miles +developed nothing of interest, but, finally, during a temporary halt, +the rear guard was attacked and the 1st Ohio sent back to its support. +The enemy developed considerable strength and the 3d and 4th Ohio were +hurried to the scene. A sharp engagement, but brief, followed; the +opposing force was routed and the column again moved on—moved on to +encounter something of a foe more determined and with better staying +qualities.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> Minty led, and, striking the Macon road near Lovejoy’s +Station, he dismounted the 4th Michigan to tear up the track. Hardly had +operations commenced when the regiment was suddenly and impetuously +attacked in front and driven back. Simultaneously an attack was made in +force on the right flank, which was met by the 7th Pennsylvania. A +detachment from Long’s Brigade was dismounted and sent forward at double +quick. The skirmish line was being gradually forced back and a strong +line of infantry was developed coming out of the woods. This proved to +be Cleburne’s Division. Long’s entire brigade (the 2d) was now +dismounted and deployed on the right, while a line of breast-works was +thrown up in the rear. The firing became heavy on both sides. In front +the enemy was resolutely held for awhile and our men then fell back to +the works, whence a fire was opened that staggered the advancing lines +and threw them into some confusion. This enabled Lieut. Bennett, of the +battery, to bring off his two pieces which were near being lost. In this +affair we had several killed and wounded; of the latter two officers of +the 4th Ohio.</p> + +<p>It was now apparent that not only was there a formidable force of +cavalry in the rear, but a large body of infantry, with cavalry and +cannon, in front. The dismounted regiments fell back and remounted under +severe musketry. Kilpatrick called a hurried council of the brigade +commanders. The foe was not only in front and rear but our flanks were +being enveloped. There was but one advisable course—to make a quick, +vigorous, desperate charge, break their lines, and cut our way out. The +decision was prompt. The force behind was evidently the weaker and was, +therefore, chosen for the attack.</p> + +<p>The two brigades of the 2d Division were formed in two ranks, stretching +across a great corn-field, while the 3d Division formed behind them. +Sabers were drawn and, at the bugle signal, all galloped forward. The +Confederates saw the movement and tried valiantly to stem the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> onset. +Shells screamed overhead and grape and canister rattled like hail. Their +smaller arms, too, played briskly. It was a scene of wild and fierce +excitement. Owing to the irregular nature of the ground, after leaving +the corn-field no regular alignment was possible, and it soon became a +charge of squadrons, companies, squads, and single riders. Bullets +whistled and comrades fell, but the command spurred on to increased +speed—shouted, yelled and still dashed on. Over fences and gullies, and +then a wide ravine; through brush and dense timber, whose gnarled and +low-hanging branches literally tore men from their saddles; across a +great marsh where horses almost swamped—onward the resistless force +rushes and strikes the enemy fully and fairly. Sabers flash in the air, +pistols and carbines belch forth sulphur smoke. The unexpected movement, +the sudden and impetuous charge, as of victorious ranks rather than +desperate battalions essaying a forlorn hope, had amazed the confronting +foe; the fierce onset shattered his lines; he resists stubbornly for a +little while, then gives ground, turns to escape, and is routed +completely. But, meanwhile, his fire on our flank had been sharp and we +suffered severely. On a knoll on the left were two guns belching out +grape and canister. So galling was their fire that the charge was +greatly retarded on that flank. These must be silenced, and a force +dashes up the aclivity “into the very jaws of death.” Every gunner is +killed or captured.</p> + +<p>At such a time artillery was an awkward encumbrance, yet one piece was +brought off safely. Prisoners, too, were an encumbrance, and few were +taken along. They were simply disarmed and left on the field where +captured. Had time and circumstance permitted the rebel battery could +have been brought off as a trophy, and some hundreds of prisoners. +Consternation had evidently seized the rebel ranks, for they threw down +their arms by scores and begged for quarter. Our business was to cut +through and <i>get out</i>, and this was done, though many a noble fellow<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +was left behind. Among those who fell that day was Capt. Wm. H. Scott, +an associate of the writer on Gen. Eli Long’s staff—not killed +outright, but mortally wounded. “A braver spirit never laid its life +upon its country’s altar.” He was struck by a grape shot and fell from +his horse, but, in that mad ride—in the face of that deadly storm of +lead and iron—it were death to halt even though a dear friend had +fallen.</p> + +<p>The command was naturally much scattered and much time occupied in +reforming for the march. This enabled Cleburne to close up on us. In the +new formation Long’s Brigade had the rear of column and the 3d Ohio the +post of danger. This regiment was soon attacked and shells were thrown +into our column. Gen. Long remained with the 3d to direct its movements. +The position held by the regiment was a good one, being protected by +rail breast-works (the men were afoot) and below a declivity extending +into a marsh; beyond this a creek. As the rebels came across the creek +they opened a vigorous fire, and, simultaneously, another line moved up +at close quarters on the right. The 3d held its fire until the enemy +reached the marsh, and then every carbine cracked. Just at this juncture +Long’s horse was struck (for he had remained mounted), and a moment +after he himself received two wounds, through wrist and thigh, which +compelled him to leave the field. The 3d Ohio fell slowly back, leaving +the dead bodies of several of their comrades, including Lieut. Garfield. +They were then relieved by a regiment from Minty’s Brigade. The column +being put in motion, moved on to McDonogh and thence to Cotton river, +the enemy following and harassing until night-fall.</p> + +<p>Sunday morning, August 21st, we crossed Cotton river by swimming, the +stream being much swollen. One trooper was drowned and a piece of +artillery had to be abandoned. The enemy, continuing the pursuit, had +pressed hard on the rear all morning, but a safe crossing was finally +effected and then South river was reached and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> crossed. At this place a +large mill was burned and the bridge destroyed. Thence the march was via +Lithonia, Latimar’s and Decatur to Buck Head, which place was reached on +the evening of Monday, August 22d.</p> + +<p>Thus ended the famous “Kilpatrick Raid,” an expedition wisely planned +and full of “great expectations.” That it did not produce the fruits +hoped for was not the fault of any of “our folks.” Lay the blame at the +door of the Confederacy. It accomplished much good and the Confederate +loss was large. Statistics are not at hand from which to give our +casualties in full, but Long’s Brigade lost seven officers and +eighty-seven men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The charge at +Lovejoy’s Station was one of the grandest, most extensive, and brilliant +cavalry charges of the entire war. Kilpatrick, in his enthusiasm, +claimed that nothing equal to it had <i>ever</i> been witnessed. It certainly +has <i>few</i> equals, and hence has been deemed worthy of elaborate review +in these pages.</p> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Bugle Blasts, by William E. Crane + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUGLE BLASTS *** + +***** This file should be named 31049-h.htm or 31049-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/0/4/31049/ + +Produced by Stephanie Eason and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Bugle Blasts + Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of + the Loyal Legion of the United States + +Author: William E. Crane + +Release Date: January 23, 2010 [EBook #31049] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUGLE BLASTS *** + + + + +Produced by Stephanie Eason and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + BUGLE BLASTS, + + READ BEFORE THE + OHIO COMMANDERY + OF THE + MILITARY ORDER + OF THE + Loyal Legion of the United States, + + + BY COMPANION + WILLIAM E. CRANE, + Late Captain 4th O. V. C. and A. A. Adjt.-Gen. + + + NOVEMBER 5, 1884. + + + CINCINNATI: + PETER G. THOMSON, + 1884. + + + + +BUGLE BLASTS. + + +To one who occupied a very small space in the War of the Rebellion--one +who filled but a modest position among those who sought to protect the +Nation's honor and life--it is a matter of difficulty, if not hazard, to +attempt to enlighten, or even entertain, such a body as that to whom +this paper is addressed. Certainly no attempt will be made, in this +case, to _enlighten_. If any thing new is furnished that shall also +prove interesting, the end will be subserved. There are those among us, +members of Ohio Commandery, who contributed largely to the grandeur, the +magnificence, the glory of that army of the Union from which this Order +sprang. There are those among us who _made_ pages, aye, chapters, of +history where great deeds are emphasized in blood; deeds that "throbbed +the Nation's heart." And this history is not for a day; not for our time +alone. It will go on down the ages to be read by grand-children and +their grand-children, who will point with pride to the illustrious +achievements and say: "These were my ancestors who fought in that great +war and did these glorious things!" What richer legacy can you hand +down? This is _fame_! This is _glory_! And do not these come of honest +ambition? But there are incidents, episodes, deeds that come under the +observation only of the few--sometimes of the individual--which, little +in themselves and seemingly inconsequential, help to make up the grand +story. It is an old, old story now, but the story has become history. A +full and true history of the late war has never been written--never will +be. But little links can be picked up--even as we pick up battered +bullets on old battle-fields--and these may be welded together to make a +completer chain. And this is, perhaps, our duty, the duty of those who +are permitted to enjoy the present. Let us also make it a pleasure. + +I call this paper "Bugle Blasts" simply because that seems as +appropriate as anything. It refers to some incidents and experiences in +the cavalry; exciting and sometimes thrilling to those engaged, if not +interesting to him who hears the tale told. + +Late in the winter of '62, when the movement on Fort Donelson was begun, +Buell began his movement on Bowling Green. The Third Division had the +advance and was commanded by General O. M. Mitchell, or "Star Mitchell" +as he was called in those days. February 10th Mitchell broke camp at +Bacon Creek, Kentucky, made a forced march to Bowling Green, driving the +rebel Hindman before him, and on February 22d started for Nashville. The +Fourth Ohio Cavalry, his advance regiment, was before Nashville on the +evening of the 23d, and received from the Mayor the surrender of the +city. The Third Division went into camp and the Fourth Ohio Cavalry was +placed _eight miles_ in the front, at the outposts, on the Murfreesboro +pike. + +The cavalry of Buell's army had not received that attention requisite +for the most efficient service, and the Fourth Ohio was no exception. +There were no carbines in the regiment--only sabers and some unreliable +revolvers. One company, however (that of the writer's), was armed with +Colt's revolving rifles. These had been secured, some weeks before, +while the company was on special duty at Upton, Ky., by requisition on +Louisville, accompanied by considerable diplomacy, etc.--the "etc" to be +literally translated, and not given too liberal a construction. I say +the company was _armed_ with this formidable weapon. Perhaps it were +better to say _loaded_. The horse certainly was loaded when the trooper +mounted with this instrument slung on his back, clanking saber at his +side, and pistol in holster. It was cruelty to add the canteen and +haversack! But in those days we had no "S. P. C. A." + +About three o'clock in the afternoon of March 8th the Colonel came to +our company headquarters and said he wanted the company to mount and go +in pursuit of a body of rebel cavalry said to be in the neighborhood. +Just as the order was issued an Orderly from Mitchell's headquarters +rode up excitedly and reported that John Morgan had captured the +regimental wagon-train, on its way out to camp with supplies, burned the +wagons and taken off teamsters, horses, and mules. And this only one +mile from camp--almost under our noses! Our Colonel's blood was up in an +instant, and in stentorian voice he shouted, "Company C, turn out with +your rifles!" This "_with your rifles_" had a flavor of business about +it, and the response was not only quick, but nearly unanimous. +Evidently, there was to be "music in the air," and there was an anxiety +to have the rifles come in at the right moment with the Bass. Four other +companies were ordered out. Then came the command, "Company C, forward +with the rifles!" and we dashed forward up the pike toward Nashville. +The report received was not a "grape-vine." Something near two miles +from camp, in the middle of the pike, were the ruins of our +wagon-train--some wagons still burning and some already in ashes. The +teamsters and animals were gone and no signs of friend or foe. + +As afterward learned, the attacking party were Lieut.-Col. Wood with a +body of Mississippi cavalry and John Morgan's command. They had first +quietly taken in the pickets and then made a dash, from the woods, on +the train, capturing, with the teamsters, Capt. Braiden, an Aide of Gen. +Dumont's. Gen. Mitchell himself barely escaped capture, having ridden +along the pike about the same time. A halt was called and the road +examined to ascertain which way the enemy had gone. The trace was found +leading east through the woods. One Company was sent back to get +re-enforcements, and, with them, to strike into the timber from the +regimental camp to try and intercept the raiders. The original party, +headed by Col. Kennett, dashed into the woods, and then occurred a chase +the parallel to which has seldom been seen. "Forward!" was the word, and +forward it was. The woods became a thicket, sometimes apparently +impassable; but the horses, spurred by their riders, dashed at headlong +speed through the trees, through the underbrush, under branches--thorns +scratching the face and hands, projecting limbs tearing clothes and +bruising bodies. Down hill and up hill, through marsh and bog, over logs +and across streams, leaping obstacles, shouting, yelling, screaming, and +hurrahing, away we went--mud and leaves flying and dead limbs crushing +beneath horses' feet. Now the trail is lost and there is a halt to look +for footprints. How much of a start the raiders have can not be known, +but the trail must be fresh. Soon it is found and the horses gallop on +as full of spirit as their wildly excited riders. When the tracks +disappear in the forest leaves, the rebel course is now marked by +plunder lost or cast aside--overcoats, canteens, saddles, blankets, the +woods are full of them. Now and then an abandoned horse is seen. +Finally, we strike a narrow pike, follow it a mile or so and learn that +Morgan and Wood have divided their force, only the smaller part having +taken the course we are pursuing. We were after Morgan and the main +body, so turned back. It was precious time lost but the trail was again +struck, where they had crossed the pike, and once more a plunge was made +into the timber and cedars. + +For miles the trees were so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it +became impossible to ride other than single file; but, retarded as was +our speed, the chase became hotter and more exciting than ever. The +Yankee blood of the hunters was at fever heat and they determined to run +the game to cover. The sight of an abandoned horse (and the hard-pressed +enemy was now leaving his own as well as our animals) was the signal +for a yell that the pursued might have heard and trembled at miles away. +Then spurs were clapped into horses' flanks to urge them still faster +on; and thus the column--if column that could be called which column was +none--swept, dashed, plunged onward. Occasionally a trooper was +dismounted by a projecting limb, and as he clambered out of the way, the +sympathetic cry was wafted back from some comrade, "Say, what infantry +rigi_ment_ does you'ns belong to?" + +Now the Colonel's voice rings shrilly through the forest with the same +old talismanic "forward!" The refrain is taken up, sent back along the +column until the rearmost rider hears and shouts a returning echo, "We +are coming, father Abraham!" No cowardice there. No lagging behind from +choice. Every man was straining nerve and muscle to get ahead. We were +fast gaining on the enemy and they knew it, trembling at every shout +wafted to their ears. They grew desperate, dug the rowels into their +horses, cursed their prisoners, threatened them, shot at them to make +them keep up, and wounded one poor fellow to the death. These facts were +gleaned afterward. + +We had gained rapidly and thought them almost within grasp. But "the +best laid plans of mice and men, etc., etc." Desperation nerved them and +they flew down the pike, scattering the stones behind. But we ran them +into the net prepared. The detachment that had gone out later from camp +struck the pike opportunely and received the enemy warmly as we drove +him into their arms. A brisk engagement followed, partly hand to hand. +The fight was soon over, the enemy being routed, scattered and driven in +every direction. At the onset Morgan, with his staff and a lot of +blooded horses, broke away and escaped across Stone river. Our command +being united and ready to move an inventory of affairs and effects was +taken. The enemy left four dead on the field, four sound captives in our +hands and two wounded. Of the ninety-four horses taken we recaptured +seventy-five; of the forty-eight teamsters, thirty-one, and also Capt. +Braiden. A number of rebels were wounded, but not seriously, and +escaped. One of the two wounded prisoners--Warfield by name--was related +to one of the most prominent and wealthy families of Cincinnati. The +other was a Mississippian, by the name of Love. The writer visited the +two in the regimental hospital that night. Love had a terrible wound, +and knew it was mortal, but his last breath was expended in cursing and +execrating the "Yankees" in the most horrible and vile language tongue +could utter. + +The chase being over, the command returned--all except the Company with +the rifles, who were to continue the pursuit. Pushing on again we struck +the Murfreesboro pike, near Lavergne, and got on the heels of one +detachment, but these, knowing the country, broke for the cedars and +escaped. We saw no more of them and returned to camp at 8 P. M., after a +ride of about thirty miles, part of this on a keen run. + +About a month after the incidents just related, the Fourth Ohio Cavalry +had the honor of capturing Huntsville, Ala., the "Queen City of the +Mountains." About the middle of March, 1862, Gen. Mitchell's Division of +Buell's army left Nashville and pushed south to Murfreesboro, thence to +Shelbyville, following the rebel Johnston, who had destroyed all bridges +behind him. From Shelbyville a rapid advance was made to Fayetteville, +then a hot-bed of Secession. Turchin's Brigade, with Simonson's Battery +and the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, had the van. The Fourth broke camp early +that morning, April 9th, at the loyal town of Shelbyville, with a three +o'clock reveille and timely "Boots and Saddles." Passing by the infantry +and Simonson's guns, the regiment rode briskly on to Fayetteville, +through the town, over the stone bridge at Elk river, and camped on the +same spot where Gen. Jackson had camped fifty years before, in 1812, a +spot convenient, pleasant, and _historic_. News of the victory at +Corinth reached us on the 10th, and there was enthusiastic joy and +joyful enthusiasm throughout the camp. The command set out at once for +Huntsville, the cavalry leading. Our route lay along a circuitous dirt +road and through a mountainous country. Twelve miles brought us to the +State line, marked by a high pole bearing the tattered remnants of a +rebel flag. + +Now we are in Alabama. The plantations stretch out in beautiful +landscape and, as the innumerable negroes grin at us from every field +and fence, we are forcibly reminded that we are "in the land of cotton." +Halting at sundown to feed and await the remainder of the division, the +cavalry again moved on rapidly and went into bivouac at 10 P. M. At two +in the morning a detail of picked men was made to ride across the +country and tear up the track on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad +leading east from Huntsville. Pickets were also thrown out to intercept +all travel to and from the town. At four o'clock on the morning of April +11th the artillery and cavalry were in motion for Huntsville, eight +miles away. Nearing town the battery galloped on to the front, the +Fourth Ohio following close. It was a matter of all importance that the +place should be reached before any trains should leave; and when, two +miles off, the whistle of a locomotive sounded on our ears, every thing +was excitement and every horse put to its speed. Such a clatter never +before awoke the echoes among those Alabama hills. Yonder curls the +smoke and here comes the engine with but a single car, steaming eastward +across the plain. Simonson wheels a gun, lets fly a solid shot, and the +engine slackens speed, hesitates (as if to ask the meaning of all this), +and puffs quickly on. A shell speeds after it but fails in its intent. +However, the train can not escape altogether if our railroad wreckers +have safely reached their trysting-place. The locomotive may be ditched +and lost to us for service, but will hardly carry the news to +Leadbetter, at Bridgeport, that the Yankees have come. + +Company A has orders and in an instant a dozen troopers have dismounted, +thrown down the stake-and-rider fence, and away goes the company across +the plain in hot pursuit--horse-flesh vieing with steam! But the +iron-limbed courser had the best bottom and whirled along amid a shower +of bullets--escaping for the time, but only to become prey to the +detachment up the road. Another whistle sounds and another train comes +in sight. Simonson's bull dog again barks--again ineffectually. A +repeated effort is more successful, and a shell crashes through the cab. +The cavalry company is on hand this time, and bang! bang! crack! crack! +go the carbines and revolvers and the balls whistle about the engineer's +head and rattle against the cars. The train stops and the passengers, +rebel soldiers and officers, leap to the ground and endeavor to escape. +A few succeed, but the majority are taken. The train is boarded and +brought back. Meanwhile the column dashes onward and goes whirling into +Huntsville. At the station is another train just leaving, with troops +who are going "on to Richmond." A cocked pistol held at the engineer's +head has the effect of shutting off steam and the train is placed under +guard. The regiment gallops up the street and through the town. Pickets +are thrown out on all the roads. + +Black faces were at every door and window; blacks were at the gates, and +blacks were on the streets; but the "Chivalry" had evidently deserted +the place, except the few who viciously peered at us through the blinds, +robed in white. Perhaps it was too early for _white folks_, and our call +was untimely on that bright April morning--the clock had not yet struck +six--and perhaps they were too high toned to suffer Yankees to look upon +their faces. After reconnoitering the streets and gathering in a few +wearers of the gray the regiment was apportioned to various duties. + +Another train had just pulled in, all unconscious of the reception +awaiting. This, too, was filled with soldiery from below, bound for +Richmond--four officers and 180 privates. At one of the hotels a Major +and three Captains were taken, and others at other points in town. The +full result of the early morning's work was 800 prisoners, 17 +locomotives and a large number of cars. The locomotives themselves were +of incalculable value, and more than paid for the expedition if there +had been no other fruits; for they enabled Gen. Mitchell to push his +troops rapidly in every direction and hurry forward supplies. Without +them many of the results which soon followed could not have been +accomplished. + +From the Sheriff the keys of the jail were demanded and a large number +of prisoners, loyal Tennesseans mostly, were liberated. Some of these at +once enlisted in the Union army. Huntsville was ours "and fairly won," +without a casualty on our side or loss of any kind. * * * + +In August, 1864, the army constituting "The Military Division of the +Mississippi," commanded by Gen. Sherman, lay in front of Atlanta. The +effort to flank Hood out of his position had not been successful and +Gen. Sherman announced a new plan of operations. In the new deal Gen. +Thomas was assigned to the left, Schofield given the right, and Howard +the center. Of the Cavalry, Gen. Garrard commanded the Second Division +and Gen. Kilpatrick the Third. A raid of formidable proportions was +projected on the Macon railroad, and Kilpatrick was to engineer this. +Gen. Sherman had said, in a message to Thomas, Aug. 16th, "I do think +our cavalry should now break the Macon road good." This raid of +Kilpatrick's, though not as full in fruition as was hoped, was of great +importance and is the subject of the following chapter. It was an +undertaking brilliant in conception, thrilling in its experience, and +deserving of historical record. Of the 2d Cavalry Division one Brigade +was absent. The 1st and 2d Brigades traveled all night the 17th of +August to Sand Town, where Kilpatrick was with the 3d Division. On the +morning of the 18th the following circular was published. + + "HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY EXPEDITION, } + DEP'T CUMBERLAND, } + SAND TOWN, GA., Aug. 18, '64. } + + Soldiers! You have been selected from the Cavalry Divisions of the + Army of the Cumberland; you have been well organized, equipped, and + rendred formidable, at great expense, to accomplish an object vital + to the success of our cause. I am about to lead you, not on a + _raid_, but on a deliberate and well combined attack upon the + enemy's communications, in order that he may be unable to supply + his army in Atlanta. Two expeditions have already failed. We are + the last Cavalry hope of the army. Let each soldier remember this + and resolve to accomplish this, the great object for which so much + is risked, _or die trying_! + + (Signed.) J. KILPATRICK, + Brig.-Gen. Commanding." + +At dark the two divisions (really, they were only _parts_ of two +divisions) moved southward. The expedition was designed to be a secret +one, and there were no bugle blasts to awaken the echoes of the still +night--bugle blasts that so thrill through the trooper's blood and nerve +him for the mount, the march, or the fray. + +The 3d Division had the advance, and with it was the 10th Wisconsin +Battery of four pieces. The 2d had two sections of the "Chicago Board of +Trade Battery." Quietly as all had been planned, the movement was +already known in the rebel camp and our advance encountered an impeding +force early in the march. These fell back as we advanced but continued +harassing and delaying the column, and skirmishing was kept up all +night, a bright moon rendering some aid to both sides. + +Friday morning, the 19th, the 2d Division struck the Atlantic & West +Point Railroad. Men from the advance division were already at work +tearing up the track, and one regiment--the 1st Ohio--was detailed from +the 2d Division to assist. A mile of track was soon destroyed. +Meanwhile, the rear of the moving column (Minty's Brigade) was attacked +by a force from the woods on the left with musketry and artillery. The +fighting soon became heavy. The 1st Ohio was ordered up to Minty's +relief, and a systematic attack made with good results, the enemy +retiring from sight. The march was resumed, but the enemy again showed +himself, and, selecting a good position on the flank, opened up a lively +salvo of artillery, playing his pieces well. Shells screamed through the +air over the moving column, and the 3d and 4th Ohio suffered seriously. +Considerable time was consumed in brushing off this force, whose evident +aim was to harass and not fight, but they were finally routed. From +prisoners taken we learned that Ross' Cavalry Brigade was our principal +opponent. + +A detachment of 400 men was now sent forward to Griffin to destroy the +track there. The 2d Brigade of the 2d Division was ordered forward and, +on the Jonesboro road, struck the enemy. Skirmishing continued nearly +all day, the enemy falling back slowly and showing a disposition to +impede our progress as much as possible. At Flint river a strong force +was in position on the further bank and at the town of Jonesboro. +Pressing them with energy and our artillery playing lively airs they +were driven from their works, and we advanced across the bridge which +they had attempted to burn. Moving into and through the town the depot +was fired and the track destroyed. + +The command now took a brief rest, having eaten nothing all day and not +having slept for over twenty-four hours. Marching again at 11, the 2d +Division passed south and reached the McDonogh road at daylight. At +Pittsburgh again turned south toward the railroad. The first few miles +developed nothing of interest, but, finally, during a temporary halt, +the rear guard was attacked and the 1st Ohio sent back to its support. +The enemy developed considerable strength and the 3d and 4th Ohio were +hurried to the scene. A sharp engagement, but brief, followed; the +opposing force was routed and the column again moved on--moved on to +encounter something of a foe more determined and with better staying +qualities. Minty led, and, striking the Macon road near Lovejoy's +Station, he dismounted the 4th Michigan to tear up the track. Hardly had +operations commenced when the regiment was suddenly and impetuously +attacked in front and driven back. Simultaneously an attack was made in +force on the right flank, which was met by the 7th Pennsylvania. A +detachment from Long's Brigade was dismounted and sent forward at double +quick. The skirmish line was being gradually forced back and a strong +line of infantry was developed coming out of the woods. This proved to +be Cleburne's Division. Long's entire brigade (the 2d) was now +dismounted and deployed on the right, while a line of breast-works was +thrown up in the rear. The firing became heavy on both sides. In front +the enemy was resolutely held for awhile and our men then fell back to +the works, whence a fire was opened that staggered the advancing lines +and threw them into some confusion. This enabled Lieut. Bennett, of the +battery, to bring off his two pieces which were near being lost. In this +affair we had several killed and wounded; of the latter two officers of +the 4th Ohio. + +It was now apparent that not only was there a formidable force of +cavalry in the rear, but a large body of infantry, with cavalry and +cannon, in front. The dismounted regiments fell back and remounted under +severe musketry. Kilpatrick called a hurried council of the brigade +commanders. The foe was not only in front and rear but our flanks were +being enveloped. There was but one advisable course--to make a quick, +vigorous, desperate charge, break their lines, and cut our way out. The +decision was prompt. The force behind was evidently the weaker and was, +therefore, chosen for the attack. + +The two brigades of the 2d Division were formed in two ranks, stretching +across a great corn-field, while the 3d Division formed behind them. +Sabers were drawn and, at the bugle signal, all galloped forward. The +Confederates saw the movement and tried valiantly to stem the onset. +Shells screamed overhead and grape and canister rattled like hail. Their +smaller arms, too, played briskly. It was a scene of wild and fierce +excitement. Owing to the irregular nature of the ground, after leaving +the corn-field no regular alignment was possible, and it soon became a +charge of squadrons, companies, squads, and single riders. Bullets +whistled and comrades fell, but the command spurred on to increased +speed--shouted, yelled and still dashed on. Over fences and gullies, and +then a wide ravine; through brush and dense timber, whose gnarled and +low-hanging branches literally tore men from their saddles; across a +great marsh where horses almost swamped--onward the resistless force +rushes and strikes the enemy fully and fairly. Sabers flash in the air, +pistols and carbines belch forth sulphur smoke. The unexpected movement, +the sudden and impetuous charge, as of victorious ranks rather than +desperate battalions essaying a forlorn hope, had amazed the confronting +foe; the fierce onset shattered his lines; he resists stubbornly for a +little while, then gives ground, turns to escape, and is routed +completely. But, meanwhile, his fire on our flank had been sharp and we +suffered severely. On a knoll on the left were two guns belching out +grape and canister. So galling was their fire that the charge was +greatly retarded on that flank. These must be silenced, and a force +dashes up the aclivity "into the very jaws of death." Every gunner is +killed or captured. + +At such a time artillery was an awkward encumbrance, yet one piece was +brought off safely. Prisoners, too, were an encumbrance, and few were +taken along. They were simply disarmed and left on the field where +captured. Had time and circumstance permitted the rebel battery could +have been brought off as a trophy, and some hundreds of prisoners. +Consternation had evidently seized the rebel ranks, for they threw down +their arms by scores and begged for quarter. Our business was to cut +through and _get out_, and this was done, though many a noble fellow +was left behind. Among those who fell that day was Capt. Wm. H. Scott, +an associate of the writer on Gen. Eli Long's staff--not killed +outright, but mortally wounded. "A braver spirit never laid its life +upon its country's altar." He was struck by a grape shot and fell from +his horse, but, in that mad ride--in the face of that deadly storm of +lead and iron--it were death to halt even though a dear friend had +fallen. + +The command was naturally much scattered and much time occupied in +reforming for the march. This enabled Cleburne to close up on us. In the +new formation Long's Brigade had the rear of column and the 3d Ohio the +post of danger. This regiment was soon attacked and shells were thrown +into our column. Gen. Long remained with the 3d to direct its movements. +The position held by the regiment was a good one, being protected by +rail breast-works (the men were afoot) and below a declivity extending +into a marsh; beyond this a creek. As the rebels came across the creek +they opened a vigorous fire, and, simultaneously, another line moved up +at close quarters on the right. The 3d held its fire until the enemy +reached the marsh, and then every carbine cracked. Just at this juncture +Long's horse was struck (for he had remained mounted), and a moment +after he himself received two wounds, through wrist and thigh, which +compelled him to leave the field. The 3d Ohio fell slowly back, leaving +the dead bodies of several of their comrades, including Lieut. Garfield. +They were then relieved by a regiment from Minty's Brigade. The column +being put in motion, moved on to McDonogh and thence to Cotton river, +the enemy following and harassing until night-fall. + +Sunday morning, August 21st, we crossed Cotton river by swimming, the +stream being much swollen. One trooper was drowned and a piece of +artillery had to be abandoned. The enemy, continuing the pursuit, had +pressed hard on the rear all morning, but a safe crossing was finally +effected and then South river was reached and crossed. At this place a +large mill was burned and the bridge destroyed. Thence the march was via +Lithonia, Latimar's and Decatur to Buck Head, which place was reached on +the evening of Monday, August 22d. + +Thus ended the famous "Kilpatrick Raid," an expedition wisely planned +and full of "great expectations." That it did not produce the fruits +hoped for was not the fault of any of "our folks." Lay the blame at the +door of the Confederacy. It accomplished much good and the Confederate +loss was large. Statistics are not at hand from which to give our +casualties in full, but Long's Brigade lost seven officers and +eighty-seven men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The charge at +Lovejoy's Station was one of the grandest, most extensive, and brilliant +cavalry charges of the entire war. Kilpatrick, in his enthusiasm, +claimed that nothing equal to it had _ever_ been witnessed. It certainly +has _few_ equals, and hence has been deemed worthy of elaborate review +in these pages. + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. + +The following misprint has been corrected: "momnet" corrected to "moment" +(page 5). + +Other than the correction listed above, printer's inconsistencies have +been retained. + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Bugle Blasts, by William E. Crane + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUGLE BLASTS *** + +***** This file should be named 31049.txt or 31049.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/0/4/31049/ + +Produced by Stephanie Eason and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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