My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion . —After the Battleof the Wilderness — Any Commander but Grant would have retreat-ed — Recklessness of the Cavalry — Daring of the Soldiers — Divideis the word, or you are a dead Johnny! — Ten thousand Men sing Rally round the Flag, Boys! — One vast, exultant Roar! — Talk-ing with rebel Pickets. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. Headquarters, First Brigade, Second Division,Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 29, 1863
My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion . —After the Battleof the Wilderness — Any Commander but Grant would have retreat-ed — Recklessness of the Cavalry — Daring of the Soldiers — Divideis the word, or you are a dead Johnny! — Ten thousand Men sing Rally round the Flag, Boys! — One vast, exultant Roar! — Talk-ing with rebel Pickets. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. Headquarters, First Brigade, Second Division,Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 29, 1863. HE sounds of booming cannon and retreatingmusketry have scarcely died away, nor arethe effects of the great battle of Chicka-mauga yet removed from our sight. I seethis moment a throng of ambulances wendingtheir way to the pontoon bridge, loaded with ourcomrades, who, a short time since, were joyous andstrong, now carried away minus a leg, without anarm, scarred, gashed, and with a weight of Confed-erate lead in their bodies. I shall not undertake to give you any descriptionof the battle. Every prominent paper has its specialcorrespondent down here, and when they write their 672. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. 673 letters from information obtained by themselves atheadquarters — and not from cowardly stragglers —it can be, in the main, depended upon. You at homeare probably better acquainted with the details of thebattle than we here. My knowledge is properly con-fined to the part taken by my own brigade. Wewere not engaged on Saturday at all; but on Sunday,the 20th, we were formed in line of battle, in a strongposition. Had we been left there, our loss would nothave been what it is, and the loss of the Confederatesin their desperate charge upon General Thomas wouldhave been double; for we were in position to attackthem with our artillery and infantry, on their left think we could not only have checked, but utterlyannihilated their massed columns. But no soone
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