. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. purposely and traitor-ously withheld the blow which could and would have wipedLees army out of existence as a military organization. The rebels had no braver men or l)etter fighters thanhad the Federals, and T maintain that there never was a time. o Ijicompetent Officers. 99 from the moment of its organization until its muster out,that the noble old Army of the Potomac could not hold itsown against an equal number of Johnnies, or any other sol-diers on the face of the earth. But the fact remains that theArmy of the Potomac w
. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. purposely and traitor-ously withheld the blow which could and would have wipedLees army out of existence as a military organization. The rebels had no braver men or l)etter fighters thanhad the Federals, and T maintain that there never was a time. o Ijicompetent Officers. 99 from the moment of its organization until its muster out,that the noble old Army of the Potomac could not hold itsown against an equal number of Johnnies, or any other sol-diers on the face of the earth. But the fact remains that theArmy of the Potomac was greatly handicapped by the incom-petency of its leaders, and as a member of that army it makesmy blood boil to think how the brave, patriotic men of whichthat grand Army of the Potomac was composed, had to restunder the suspicion of incompetency, when, in point of fact,the whole trouble was chargeable to the character of its lead-ership, who not only blundered themselves, but were incap-able of profiting by the mistakes of the enemy against whomthey were CHAPTER X. The Capture. As the enemy held the Weldon raihoad, we weremarched to Yellow Tavern to seize and destroy the road atthat point. Here on the i8th of August, 1864, we advancedupon the enemys works under a terrific fire from their fieldbatteries, and in the midst of a rain storm, with heavens ar-tillery let loose upon us, it seemed as though the wrath ofGod was conspiring with the fury of man, in wreaking ven-geance upon our devoted heads. We drove the enemy fromtheir position at the railroad through a piece of woods, andinto their line of works, and there succeeded in holding themat bay while the railroad was being destroyed. Our positionhere being very exposed, every fellow was anxious for hisown safety. I succeeded in scooping out a small pit, intowhich I crawled, but from which I was soon forced by reasonof its filling with water, as the downpour of rain then secured a position behind a nearby
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