. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . awakeand was writing in his tent a letter to his sweetheart when the noiseof battle of Wauhatchie broke the silence of the night. Possibly theboys and girls who comprise General C. H. Howards family maytake some romantic interest in that letter; but at any rate he wasawake about 11 p. m. and gave the alarm when the picket firingbegan. General Howard at once sent him to Von Steinwehr withorders to drive the enemy from his front, and another aide toGeneral Schurz directing the latter to march his division quicklytowa
. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . awakeand was writing in his tent a letter to his sweetheart when the noiseof battle of Wauhatchie broke the silence of the night. Possibly theboys and girls who comprise General C. H. Howards family maytake some romantic interest in that letter; but at any rate he wasawake about 11 p. m. and gave the alarm when the picket firingbegan. General Howard at once sent him to Von Steinwehr withorders to drive the enemy from his front, and another aide toGeneral Schurz directing the latter to march his division quicklytoward the firing, which was in the direction of Wauhatchie, andwhich grew heavier every moment. General Howard himself, with a squadron of cavalry, struck outfor Gearys command at once, bearing to the right along the foot-hills of the Raccoon Range. He reached Geary just after his Geary, had been killed, and brought him the cheeringnews that Schurz had been ordered to march his division to his aidand ought to arrive very soon, or at least reach the flank of the 1. Henry B. WarrenFirst Lieutenant, Company D
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