. . WILLIAM U. It. LIEUTENANT, SIXTY-FIFTH. iS64.]. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN,MAJOR-GENERAL, COMMANDING ARMY DURING ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. 544 GENERAL POLKS DEATH. [June, moralizing to the last degree. Few men were able to Ik- idlywhile shells were bursting over, around and among them, with-out feeling an almost uncontrollable desire to hunt their holes/It was true of artillery, as it is of most dogs—its bark was w■■than its bite. What I mean is that it was mostly bark ; whenit did bite it was bad enough. I trust my good friend
. . WILLIAM U. It. LIEUTENANT, SIXTY-FIFTH. iS64.]. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN,MAJOR-GENERAL, COMMANDING ARMY DURING ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. 544 GENERAL POLKS DEATH. [June, moralizing to the last degree. Few men were able to Ik- idlywhile shells were bursting over, around and among them, with-out feeling an almost uncontrollable desire to hunt their holes/It was true of artillery, as it is of most dogs—its bark was w■■than its bite. What I mean is that it was mostly bark ; whenit did bite it was bad enough. I trust my good friends of theSixth Ohio battery will not call me down for this. No batteryin the army did any more effective barking, as well as bitiithan did the Sixth, but if it were possible to make up the ac-count, Bradley and Baldwin and Smetts and the rest would findthat they fired about as main shots for each man they hit as wedid, and a vastly greater weight of metal. There were times when artillery was exceedingly effective,as at Franklin, where double charges of canister or grape fromthe guns of the Sixth Ohio and other bat
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