History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ar,and they, upon their hands and knees, duginto the ground and took out the toi-jiedoes—the unexploded ones—that several of theseprisoners had assisted in planting a fewdays before. It hap])ened that the Confede-rate sergeant who had supervision of theplacing of these torpedoes was one of theprisoners, and he readily found them andcarefully aided in clearing our way to Sa-vannah, the city that was a Christmas pres-ent from S
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ar,and they, upon their hands and knees, duginto the ground and took out the toi-jiedoes—the unexploded ones—that several of theseprisoners had assisted in planting a fewdays before. It hap])ened that the Confede-rate sergeant who had supervision of theplacing of these torpedoes was one of theprisoners, and he readily found them andcarefully aided in clearing our way to Sa-vannah, the city that was a Christmas pres-ent from Sherman to our president. Savannah ISlajor Edwards was de-tached from his regiment by order of GeneralSherman, and assigned to duly as actingassistant adjutant-general. Fourth Division,Fifteenth Army Cori)s. and served with Gen-eral Corse, the division commander, untilafter the grand i-eview of the armies atWashington, May 14 and , , and wasmustei-ed out July 11, 1S(;.5. He was l)revet-ed major March i:?. , for gallant andmeritorious .service in the field. Major Edwards was j)reseut al the meet-ing of the officers of the Armv of the Ten-. ALAXSOX W. EnWAKDS. nessee. called to organize our society, at Ka-leigh, N. C, April 2,5, 1805. The first post of the Grand Army of theRepublic was organized by Dr. B. F. flfeven-son, at Decatur, HI., and several memberswere sent over the state to institute otherjiosts. A dozen or more were mustered atthe same time. Major Edwards, after hiswar service, was mustered in Post No. G, atI?unker Hill, 111., which was one of the ear-liest organized posts of the Grand Army ofthe Republic. Returning to his home in lS(i.). he resus-citated the Union Gazette, at Bunker Hill,111., a paper he published before going to thewar, and which was suspended during thewar. Ill 18(iS Major Edwards secured an in.(erest in the Carlinville Free Democrat, aRepublican paper started by Senator JohnM. Palmer in 185G. Major Edwards was warden of t
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