Uncle Daniel's story of "Tom" Anderson and twenty great battles . poke so well of Peter also. Said he was as cool as anicebox during the whole engagement. He never mentionedto his wife about meeting her brother Jo on the field untillong afterwards. The troops of this army were put in camp and shortlyrecruited to their maximum hmit. Volunteering by thistime was very active. No longer did our country have towait to drum up recruits. The patriotic fires were lightedup and burning brightly: drums and the shrill notes of the 2 34 UNCLE DANIELS STORY. fife were beard in almost every direction. Sympa
Uncle Daniel's story of "Tom" Anderson and twenty great battles . poke so well of Peter also. Said he was as cool as anicebox during the whole engagement. He never mentionedto his wife about meeting her brother Jo on the field untillong afterwards. The troops of this army were put in camp and shortlyrecruited to their maximum hmit. Volunteering by thistime was very active. No longer did our country have towait to drum up recruits. The patriotic fires were lightedup and burning brightly: drums and the shrill notes of the 2 34 UNCLE DANIELS STORY. fife were beard in almost every direction. Sympathizerswith rebellion had hushed in silence for the present—butfor the present only. Uncle Daniel, said Major Isaac Clymer, who had beensilent up to this time, I was in that engagement, in com-mand of a troop of cavalry, and saw Col. Anderson makehis bayonet charge. He showed the most cool and daringcourage that I have ever witnessed during the whole war,and I was through it all. Gen. Pokehorne was in com-mand of the rebels, and showed himself frequently that. THE CHABGK OF COL. ANDERSONS REGIMENT. day, urging his men forward. He w^as afterwards killed atKensington Mountain, in Georgia. We got the informa-tion very soon after he fell, from our Signal Corps. Theyhad learned to interiDret the rebel signals, and read thenews from their flags. Yes, I have heard it said by many that our SignalCorps could do that, and I suppose the same was true ofthe other side. O, yes, said Col. Bush, that was understood to be so, UNCLE DANIELS STORY. 35 and towards the end of the war we had to frequently changeour signal signs to prevent information being imparted inthat way to our enemy. There was a Colonel, said Major Clymer, from Ar-kansas, in command of a rebel brigade, in that battle,who acted with great brutahty. He found some of ourSurgeons on the field dressing the wounds of soldiers anddrove them away from their work and held them as prison-ers while the battle lasted, at the same time
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