. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . led allour field oflicers on regiment was movingparallel to the line of bat-tle, under a terrible firewithout any one in com-mand, when down the linerodeGeneral M. D. Manson,then in command, shout-ing with an oath, Whereis Colonel Topping ? Iordered this regiment tomove to the left; whereis Colonel Topping? Dead, general. came thereply. Well then, where is Major Conklin ? • He too, is dead, general, camethe reply. No one is in co
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . led allour field oflicers on regiment was movingparallel to the line of bat-tle, under a terrible firewithout any one in com-mand, when down the linerodeGeneral M. D. Manson,then in command, shout-ing with an oath, Whereis Colonel Topping ? Iordered this regiment tomove to the left; whereis Colonel Topping? Dead, general. came thereply. Well then, where is Major Conklin ? • He too, is dead, general, camethe reply. No one is in command. That was a moment of awful full regiment moving along the line of battle under fire and no one in com-mand; moving, no one could tell where; only blindly moving. The old soldierwill say that was awful, and yet one has not told the half. Someone, somehowand somewhere, had commanded the head of the column to counter-march.^\ ho gave that order I do not know; why such an order was given no sane mancan ever tell, but it had been given and obeyed and here came Company A,marching past Company K, making our column eight men deep, marching. Bringing off the Gitn ^i^n 120 THE STORY OF through that carnival of death. Cold chills creep up my spinal column as Iwrite this, thirty-two years after it occurred, as I recall those moments of torturewhen we had no chance to pi-otect ourselves in the least, no chance to shoot,no opportunity to do anything but march through a snowstorm of bullets tothe right, and then—and then—do doulile duty by marching l)ack to the left,again to be put into battle faced to the rear. Every old soldier will fully ap-preciate the great misfortune that befell my regiment in its first has seldom recorded the condition of a green regiment more deplorablethan that which befell the 71stIndiana at Richmond, Ky., when in a momentat the beginning of a movement under a terrible tire, it lost all its held officersand was left at the merc
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