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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Some of My War Stories + A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal legion + +Author: Allen Ripley Foote + +Release Date: April 14, 2010 [EBook #31991] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME OF MY WAR STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/title.png" alt="Some of My War Stories" /></div> +<p> </p> +<h3>A Paper Read Before<br /> +The Ohio Commandery<br /> +of the Loyal Legion</h3> +<p> </p> +<h4>By</h4> +<h3>Allen Ripley Foote</h3> +<h4>October 1, 1913</h4> + +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> +<h2><i>Some of my War Stories</i></h2> +<h3><i>BY ALLEN RIPLEY FOOTE</i></h3> +<h4><i>Private: Co. B. 3rd Michigan Infantry; Second Lieutenant: Co. B. 21st Michigan Infantry.</i></h4> + +<p class="note"><i>Read before the Commandery of the State of Ohio, Military Order of the +Loyal Legion of the United States. Stated meeting, Cincinnati, Wednesday +evening, October 1, 1913.</i></p> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/dropw.png" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="W" /></span>hen, in 1861, +President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to enlist +for a three months’ service to uphold the authority and preserve the unity +of the United States, I, a boy of nineteen, sought the first opportunity +that offered, to enlist. I was at the door of the recruiting office long +before it opened.</p> + +<p>Dr. D. W. Bliss, who afterward became a famous army surgeon and was one of +the surgeons who attended Presidents Lincoln and Garfield, gave me the +required physical examination. When measuring my height he said—“Raise +your heels, you are a little short.”</p> + +<p>Before my regiment was mustered in, the call came for 300,000 volunteers +to enlist for a three-years’ service, and we were mustered in for three +years.</p> + +<p>My regiment was ordered to Washington as soon as it was ready to move. +Clad in grey uniforms and armed with old muzzle-loading Harper’s Ferry +muskets, which had been changed from flint locks, we made a valiant +appearance and received ovations from the populace of every city and +village through which we passed. This is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> especially true of Ohio. At one +station all of the ladies of the town turned out loaded with small +bouquets of flowers, to which were pinned slips on which they had written +patriotic sentiments. These they threw into the car windows. The sentiment +on the one I caught read—“The women of Ohio are for the Union—to a man.”</p> + +<p>Our first camp was at the Maryland end of the Chain Bridge, which crossed +the Potomac above Washington. We marched from this camp to Centerville, +Va., to engage in the first battle of Bull Run. The first sight we had of +war was on the morning of the second day’s march, when we came upon some +camp fires where the Confederates had cooked their breakfast that morning +before leaving for Bull Run.</p> + +<p>We arrived at Centerville before noon of the third day and made our camp +there. After dinner we were ordered to advance, in light marching order, +toward Blackburn’s Ford. When near the Run we were deployed to the left of +the road in an open field on a hillside sloping down to the Run, which was +concealed by a growth of bushes and trees. Here we were ordered to rest. +While in this position we were startled by seeing a finely-mounted and +uniformed Confederate Officer ride out from these bushes just at the right +of our regiment. I presume every man in the regiment saw him. Some three +or four of the boys, having the instinct of war in them, immediately +raised their guns to shoot him. Seeing this, our Colonel raised his hand +in a forbidding attitude and called out,—“Why, boys, you would not shoot +a man in that way, would you? Don’t shoot!!” The Confederate Officer, +after inspecting our position, returned to his command unharmed. In about +fifteen minutes, as soon as he could maneuver his regiment, he ordered it +to fire. We saw the flash and smoke and heard the roar and the hissing of +the bullets. This is the first time we were under fire. I am glad to say +we were under it about 20 feet. Every bullet passed over us. Not a man in +our regiment was hit.</p> + +<p>After this volley we were complimented with a few shots from a battery of +six-pound field pieces, which also went wide of their mark—assuming that +they were shooting at us.</p> + +<p>Having received these compliments, we were withdrawn from the field and +returned to our camp at Centerville. This was our part in the skirmish of +Blackburn’s Ford, three days before the first battle of Bull Run.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>On the next day we were ordered to establish a picket line between +Centerville and Bull Run. When marching out from our camp toward the Run, +we could see cars loaded with Confederate soldiers as their train crossed +the road we were on. When they disembarked and formed in line the +glistening of their bright gun barrels gave the impression they were +aiming at us. This excited one of our boys terribly. He jumped out into +the centre of the road, swinging his hat and yelling as loudly as he +possibly could—“Don’t shoot this way!! There are folks in the road!!”</p> + +<p>These two stories illustrate what we knew at that time about war.</p> + +<p>On the night before the battle I was detailed to do guard duty before +General Dick Richardson’s headquarters. He was occupying a small house. +About eleven o’clock he came out and asked me if I would be on duty there +at three o’clock in the morning. I answered “Yes.” Then he said pointing +in the direction of the Stone Bridge, “About three o’clock in the morning +a cannon will be fired over there. When you hear it, call me at once. A +great battle will be fought here tomorrow.” I needed nothing more to keep +me awake that night, nor did the General. He was out two or three times +before the alarm gun was fired.</p> + +<p>On the day of the first battle of Bull Run, having been on guard duty all +night, I was left in camp when my regiment was ordered out. I took +advantage of the opportunity to post myself on the Centerville Hill where +I could overlook the field of action. Thus it happened that I was on the +spot where the Congressional picnic party spread its luncheon. A number of +members of Congress, with their ladies, drove out to Centerville from +Washington in their carriages to have a picnic and see the battle.</p> + +<p>From that position I saw the beginning of the panic when our troops on the +right gave way and started for the rear in indescribable disorder. I went +to our camp, secured my gun and accoutrements and joined in the stampede. +Several times that night, when stopping for a little rest, I, and all +about me, was aroused and terrified by the cry—“The black horse cavalry +are coming!” The next morning I was safely back across the Potomac on the +old Chain Bridge camping ground, competent to certify that the distance +from Washington to Centerville is—three days going, and one night coming +back.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>As soon as our regiment got together we were ordered to go into camp on +the Arlington Flats, south side of the Potomac, opposite Washington. There +it was that Abraham Lincoln gave courage and cheer to the army by driving +slowly around among the troops in an open carriage, stopping a moment here +and there to speak to or take the hand of a private soldier, his face +inspired with the solemn grandeur of an awful duty to prosecute the war +for the preservation of the Union to a successful conclusion, or the +bitter end. I see his face now, colored and featured as can never be done +by brush or chisel. It inspires me now, as it did then, with a resolve +such as every soldier in that army felt as he looked upon Lincoln’s face +that day—a resolve unformed in words but possessing my life—always to do +my duty for the cause of human rights and human welfare on every occasion +and in every way, as God gives me light to see it and power to do it.</p> + +<p>In the spring of 1862 my regiment was transported from Alexandria, Va., to +Hampton Roads, when the Army of the Potomac changed its base to start its +march “On to Richmond” from Old Point Comfort. We soon appeared before the +Confederate fortifications at Yorktown. Here we were ordered to dig. When +the digging was done the Confederate forces abandoned their fortifications +and marched to Richmond. We followed closely. Their rear guard made a +stand at Williamsburg, stopping our advance. The battle of Williamsburg +was then on. The Confederates had prepared to defend this position by +making slashings, digging rifle pits and erecting forts. Fort Magruder +covered the main road into Williamsburg. The engagement at this point was +brought on by some New Jersey troops. They advanced a battery on this road +to a point directly in front of the Fort and very near the rifle pits. +Here the battery stuck in the mud, hub deep. It could not be moved further +nor brought back. During the day it was captured and recaptured several +times.</p> + +<p>At that time my regiment, and the Michigan Second Infantry, were part of +Gen. Phil Kearny’s Division. We were on the left of the road, the New +Jersey troops on the right. In the middle of the afternoon, when Gen. +Hancock was prepared to make his famous charge on the Confederate left, +Gen. Kearny, mounted on a white horse and dressed in full uniform, as +conspicuous a figure as can well be imagined, came dashing up to the +Michigan Second regiment and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> called out—“What regiment is this?” Col. +Poe, a regular army officer, immediately saluted the General and +said—“The Michigan Second Infantry, Col. Poe commanding.” General Kearny +said—“I want this regiment.” Col. Poe turned to give the required +regulation orders, but Gen. Kearny stopped him saying—“None of that! Come +on boys!” A captain of his staff, seeing what he was about to do, tried to +stop him, saying—“General you should not go into the engagement in this +way. Remember, your life is worth a whole regiment to the army.” Turning +to him like a flash, Gen. Kearny said—“If you do not want to go, stay +here.” At that he reined his horse into the road and started toward the +Confederate lines, waving his sword and shouting back—“Come on boys!” and +every man followed, on both sides of the road, pell mell, without order, +wading through mud and climbing through slashings up to the rifle pits in +order to get there. How I came to be there I do not know, but I do know +that I went up that road with my right shoulder next to Gen. Kearny’s left +stirrup and kept that position until he reached the further edge of the +slashing, when he turned and, pointing to the Confederates in their rifle +pits, shouted to the men coming after him—“There they are!! Give them +hell, boys, give them hell!!”</p> + +<p>At this moment, as if by inspiration, a band burst forth with the tune, +“All hail, the conquering hero comes.” Above the roar of musketry and +cannonading came the cheers from the charge Hancock was making. The New +Jersey boys again manned their battery and began to play on the rifle pits +and on Fort Magruder. The Fort answered and every Confederate rifle in the +pits was speaking to us. No one who lived through those moments of strife +and sacrifice will ever forget the scenes, the exaltation and the devotion +of life to patriotic duty that was there manifested.</p> + +<p>Our men struggled through the slashings as best they could, in groups of +two or more. A New Jersey boy was with me. We stopped behind a clump of +small bushes to watch our chances with the Confederates in the rifle pits +less than two hundred feet in front of us. There was a larger group to our +left that attracted the attention of the Confederates. Shots were being +exchanged as rapidly as heads appeared on either side. Suddenly, out from +the group to our left, came a ringing laugh, as joyous and care-free as +was ever heard at a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> base ball game. My comrade was possessed with a +desire to know its cause. Shortly that laugh came again. He declared he +would go and find out why they were laughing. I told him if he stirred he +would be shot, but he made the attempt. As soon as he raised himself, +before he had taken a step, he was shot and instantly killed. Attention +having been thus called to the spot, a confederate volley was fired into +that clump of bushes. I saved myself by lying down behind the body of my +dead comrade.</p> + +<p>As the sun was dropping below the western horizon the Confederate rifle +pits were captured. Hancock’s charge had succeeded. Fort Magruder fired +its farewell shot; the Confederate rear guard was on its way to Richmond. +The battle of Williamsburg was ended.</p> + +<p>The next day, one of a group of Confederate prisoners declared there was +one thing about that battle he could not understand. He said he was a +sharp shooter; that he could hit a mark quite a distance away every time, +and offered to prove it by actual <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'demontration'">demonstration</ins>. The thing he could not +understand was—why he could not hit General Kearny the day before. He +said he saw him plainly; knew he was a commanding officer, and that he +deliberately shot at him six times. General Kearny was not touched, but +the Captain who tried to persuade him not to expose himself as he did was +shot through the heart and instantly killed by the side of the General.</p> + +<p>An interval of time, a march through mud and water almost waist deep, +brought us to Fair Oaks, within sight of Richmond. Heavy rains had made it +almost impossible to ford the Chickahominy River which divided McClellan’s +army. Seeing an advantage in this, General Lee ordered General Longstreet +to attack the part of our army that had succeeded in crossing the river. +General Casey’s division received the brunt of this attack. General +Kearny’s division was held in reserve to support General Casey. We ate our +dinner and then lay on our arms for some little time, just out of range, +tracing the course of the action by listening to the firing and watching +the increasing number of wounded making their way to the rear. To be thus +held in reserve, expecting every moment to be called into action, is the +supreme trial of a soldier’s courage. In those moments my heart became +faint. But, when the bugle call was sounded calling us into action, all +thought of self vanished. As eager as an eagle in pursuit<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> of its prey, we +went forward. Longstreet’s division was making a final charge. Casey’s men +passed through our ranks as we formed a line between the contending +forces. My Company had the regimental colors, defended by a detailed color +guard of sixteen corporals. I was not of this guard, but was a corporal +then, on the left of my Company next to the color guard. Our line was +hardly formed when we received the Confederate charge. Firing was at short +range. Fourteen out of the sixteen corporals composing the color guard +were shot almost simultaneously; some killed; some wounded, but the colors +did not fall.</p> + +<p>I was on my knees in the front rank. The corporal on my left was shot in +the head and fell across my legs. He spoke to me. I turned to look at him, +and said—“I cannot stop work now to help you.” As I said this I was shot, +the bullet entering squarely on my breast, cutting off the first shirt +button below the collar. It passed through the bone, which turned its +course to the right, and passed out between the ribs. I was in the act of +loading my gun at its muzzle. I had the powder in. When hit my right arm +fell. I tried three times to put the bullet in and finish loading, hoping +to give the enemy one more shot. Finding I could not do it, I dropped my +gun, unstrapped my cartridge box and crawled to the rear until I came to a +cleared field where a battery was stationed firing over the heads of our +men into the Confederate ranks. As I raised up to walk, a gunner motioned +to me to step aside out of range and then continued firing. I walked +around back of the battery and stopped to see it work and listen to the +music of its roar.</p> + +<p>The Confederate charge was stopped. My regiment lost about one hundred and +fifty men in killed and wounded within the few moments the engagement +lasted.</p> + +<p>That night I lay on the ground under a large tree. Noting that every +breath sent bubbles of air through my wound, I called a soldier who was +trying to care for the wounded and told him I could not live long on +half-rations of air. He looked at my wound, tore some square pieces off a +bandage roll, placed them over the wound and punched them into it with his +finger and poured some cold water on the cloth. This caused the blood to +congeal about the cloth and enable me to get the benefit of the air I was +breathing.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>The next morning I was taken back to Savage Station where I was placed on +Dr. Bliss’ dressing table (he was then Medical Director of the Division) +to have my wound dressed. As he cut my shirt off I looked up at him and +said, laughingly, “Doctor here is a wound you cannot amputate.” As soon as +he had uncovered it, he said, “It would be much better for you, my boy, if +I could.”</p> + +<p>When my shirt was cut off, I discovered another wound on my left arm about +half way between the shoulder and elbow. The bullet had chipped off a spot +as large as a silver dollar but had not buried itself in the flesh. The +arm was black and very much swollen. My wounds were soon bandaged and I +was laid on the ground beside the railroad track to await transportation +to Fortress Monroe. From there I was sent to Long Island College Hospital +in Brooklyn, N. Y. When convalescent I was ordered to the Invalid Camp at +Alexandria, Va. I did not relish the idea of becoming a “condemned yankee” +as the members of Invalid Corps were then called. In going through +Washington we passed by the Armory Square Hospital, then in charge of Dr. +Bliss. I “fell out” and went into his office. Fortunately I found him at +his desk. When he looked at me he recognized me at once and said, “See +here, young man, this will never do. You will ruin my reputation. I +reported you mortally wounded at Fair Oaks and have had you dead and +buried in the Chickahominy swamp for six months.” I said, “I will improve +your reputation by giving you an opportunity to resurrect me.” I then told +him I did not want to be a “condemned yankee” and wanted him to find a way +to save me from going to the Invalid Camp. He immediately called the +hospital steward, ordered him to put me in bed and keep me there four +days, I protested, saying I was perfectly able to be about. The Doctor +said to me in an undertone, “You stay in bed four days; by that time I +will have an order assigning you to duty in my office.”</p> + +<p>I was given charge of making out the papers for the soldiers discharged +from the Hospital. I frequently urged the Doctor to order me to my +regiment, but he refused, saying I could never serve as an enlisted man +since receiving my wound. Being convinced there was no hope of ever being +permitted to join my regiment, I made out my own discharge paper and +placed it in a package I submitted to the Doctor for his signature. After +he had signed all of the papers, I took mine out of the package and showed +it to him. He endorsed it, “Able to serve as an officer, but not as an +enlisted man.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>I will stop my story here, only adding that after returning home I +re-enlisted as a private in Company B. 21st Michigan Infantry, then with +the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga. I was commissioned as a Second +Lieutenant before I left the State to join that regiment. By chance, that +commission was dated on January 26, 1864, my twenty-second birthday.</p> + +<p>Such memories as these are among the most precious products of my life.</p> + +<p>The gains of life are various. Some objects we pursue disappear as we +grasp them. We are children, chasing with excited delight beautiful +bubbles floating free in air. We touch them and they vanish. Some objects +are as enduring as the eternal truth of God. We pursue them with the stern +courage of men upborne by the strength of a moral conviction. Though, in +the hour of trial and triumph, a crown of thorns be pressed upon our brow, +the memory of a right act, courageously done, will enrich the soul +forever.</p> + +<p>The memory of such actions is the richest endowment and the most sacred +acquisition of the loyal volunteer. How little all that can be given him +as a reward for his services must ever be in comparison with that which he +has by right of his own achievement.</p> + +<p>Ask him now how he values his memory of that day when, with his regiment, +he first left home for the scenes of war. Can the picture ever fade? +Streets thronged with the populace and decorated with the flag he was to +defend! Can he ever forget the holy inspiration of the silent cheer from +his speechless father, mother, sister or lover as he passed them?</p> + +<p>Ask him how he values his memory of a thousand incidents of army life that +are never recorded by a single line on the page of history, but which +revealed comrade to comrade, knotted life to life, and gave opportunity +for the expression of nobility by noble men.</p> + +<p>Ask him how he values his memory of the hours of conflict when the +magnetic touch of elbow to elbow, comrade to comrade, gave courage and the +line grew firm as adamant; when the spirit of those who fell entered into +those who remained, as the dying transformed their unwilling groans into +cheers for the living. In the crucible of conflict men become molten. +Their blood mingles. Their souls blend. Their lives are fused into the +life of the Nation. Who that has felt the mystic power, the grand +exaltation, the unutterable<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> joy of that supreme moment when his heart’s +blood leaped forth as he fell at his post, would call back one drop of it +for all that can be given him in return?</p> + +<p>Ask him now how he values the memory of that day, when, duty done, his +mission accomplished, with tattered battle flags, clothes soiled and torn, +bronzed face and hardened muscles—it may be with scarred and disabled +body—he returned to his home with the survivors of his regiment. Again +the streets are thronged with the populace and decorated with the National +colors. The storm cloud passed, all are wild with joy made solemn by +thoughts of those who could not come, remembered by none more tenderly +than by those by whose side they fell. The glory of flowers, mingled with +the voices of music, enchant the eye, perfume the air, exalt the soul. +Suddenly, from out the mass of eager faces there darts a father, a mother, +a sister or a lover, as some looked-for-one is recognized. The heart can +endure the strain no longer. He is snatched from the ranks and embraced +amidst the cheers of all observers.</p> + +<p>Words!! There are no words for such moments! But the entry written by the +recording angel that day will forever read—“Thank God! My boy, my +brother, my lover has done his duty.”</p> + +<p>The days of trial and victory are passed, but memory causes them to live +forever in the eternal NOW.</p> + +<p>Such memories are the true reward of loyal duty courageously performed. +They can be possessed only by those who have earned them. Find such a one, +become acquainted with him, and you will find one who will exact least +from the defended and is most generous to the vanquished.</p> + +<p>These memories stir within old soldiers their best manhood, and thrill +them with noblest pride as they look into each other’s faces. They only +are capable of appreciating at their true value the comrades of the +campaign, the veterans of the battlefield. They, better than all others, +know how to honor him that was loyal and performed the duties of loyalty +when the Nation had need of his services.</p> + +<p>All who seek to perpetuate the history of war for the preservation of the +Union by pen or brush or chisel; all who speak about or ponder over the +events of those days, must ever stand uncovered in the presence of him who +can say of the first battle of Bull Run, of the last grand review, or of +any of the battles between—“I performed the duties of Loyalty—I was +there.”</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Some of My War Stories, by Allen Ripley Foote + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME OF MY WAR STORIES *** + +***** This file should be named 31991-h.htm or 31991-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/9/9/31991/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Some of My War Stories + A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal legion + +Author: Allen Ripley Foote + +Release Date: April 14, 2010 [EBook #31991] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME OF MY WAR STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + Some of My War Stories + + + A Paper + Read Before + The Ohio Commandery + of the + Loyal Legion + + + By + Allen Ripley Foote + October 1, 1913 + + + + +Some of my War Stories + +BY ALLEN RIPLEY FOOTE + +Private: Co. B. 3rd Michigan Infantry; Second Lieutenant: Co. B. 21st +Michigan Infantry. + +Read before the Commandery of the State of Ohio, Military Order of the +Loyal Legion of the United States. Stated meeting, Cincinnati, Wednesday +evening, October 1, 1913. + + +When, in 1861, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to enlist +for a three months' service to uphold the authority and preserve the unity +of the United States, I, a boy of nineteen, sought the first opportunity +that offered, to enlist. I was at the door of the recruiting office long +before it opened. + +Dr. D. W. Bliss, who afterward became a famous army surgeon and was one of +the surgeons who attended Presidents Lincoln and Garfield, gave me the +required physical examination. When measuring my height he said--"Raise +your heels, you are a little short." + +Before my regiment was mustered in, the call came for 300,000 volunteers +to enlist for a three-years' service, and we were mustered in for three +years. + +My regiment was ordered to Washington as soon as it was ready to move. +Clad in grey uniforms and armed with old muzzle-loading Harper's Ferry +muskets, which had been changed from flint locks, we made a valiant +appearance and received ovations from the populace of every city and +village through which we passed. This is especially true of Ohio. At one +station all of the ladies of the town turned out loaded with small +bouquets of flowers, to which were pinned slips on which they had written +patriotic sentiments. These they threw into the car windows. The sentiment +on the one I caught read--"The women of Ohio are for the Union--to a man." + +Our first camp was at the Maryland end of the Chain Bridge, which crossed +the Potomac above Washington. We marched from this camp to Centerville, +Va., to engage in the first battle of Bull Run. The first sight we had of +war was on the morning of the second day's march, when we came upon some +camp fires where the Confederates had cooked their breakfast that morning +before leaving for Bull Run. + +We arrived at Centerville before noon of the third day and made our camp +there. After dinner we were ordered to advance, in light marching order, +toward Blackburn's Ford. When near the Run we were deployed to the left of +the road in an open field on a hillside sloping down to the Run, which was +concealed by a growth of bushes and trees. Here we were ordered to rest. +While in this position we were startled by seeing a finely-mounted and +uniformed Confederate Officer ride out from these bushes just at the right +of our regiment. I presume every man in the regiment saw him. Some three +or four of the boys, having the instinct of war in them, immediately +raised their guns to shoot him. Seeing this, our Colonel raised his hand +in a forbidding attitude and called out,--"Why, boys, you would not shoot +a man in that way, would you? Don't shoot!!" The Confederate Officer, +after inspecting our position, returned to his command unharmed. In about +fifteen minutes, as soon as he could maneuver his regiment, he ordered it +to fire. We saw the flash and smoke and heard the roar and the hissing of +the bullets. This is the first time we were under fire. I am glad to say +we were under it about 20 feet. Every bullet passed over us. Not a man in +our regiment was hit. + +After this volley we were complimented with a few shots from a battery of +six-pound field pieces, which also went wide of their mark--assuming that +they were shooting at us. + +Having received these compliments, we were withdrawn from the field and +returned to our camp at Centerville. This was our part in the skirmish of +Blackburn's Ford, three days before the first battle of Bull Run. + +On the next day we were ordered to establish a picket line between +Centerville and Bull Run. When marching out from our camp toward the Run, +we could see cars loaded with Confederate soldiers as their train crossed +the road we were on. When they disembarked and formed in line the +glistening of their bright gun barrels gave the impression they were +aiming at us. This excited one of our boys terribly. He jumped out into +the centre of the road, swinging his hat and yelling as loudly as he +possibly could--"Don't shoot this way!! There are folks in the road!!" + +These two stories illustrate what we knew at that time about war. + +On the night before the battle I was detailed to do guard duty before +General Dick Richardson's headquarters. He was occupying a small house. +About eleven o'clock he came out and asked me if I would be on duty there +at three o'clock in the morning. I answered "Yes." Then he said pointing +in the direction of the Stone Bridge, "About three o'clock in the morning +a cannon will be fired over there. When you hear it, call me at once. A +great battle will be fought here tomorrow." I needed nothing more to keep +me awake that night, nor did the General. He was out two or three times +before the alarm gun was fired. + +On the day of the first battle of Bull Run, having been on guard duty all +night, I was left in camp when my regiment was ordered out. I took +advantage of the opportunity to post myself on the Centerville Hill where +I could overlook the field of action. Thus it happened that I was on the +spot where the Congressional picnic party spread its luncheon. A number of +members of Congress, with their ladies, drove out to Centerville from +Washington in their carriages to have a picnic and see the battle. + +From that position I saw the beginning of the panic when our troops on the +right gave way and started for the rear in indescribable disorder. I went +to our camp, secured my gun and accoutrements and joined in the stampede. +Several times that night, when stopping for a little rest, I, and all +about me, was aroused and terrified by the cry--"The black horse cavalry +are coming!" The next morning I was safely back across the Potomac on the +old Chain Bridge camping ground, competent to certify that the distance +from Washington to Centerville is--three days going, and one night coming +back. + +As soon as our regiment got together we were ordered to go into camp on +the Arlington Flats, south side of the Potomac, opposite Washington. There +it was that Abraham Lincoln gave courage and cheer to the army by driving +slowly around among the troops in an open carriage, stopping a moment here +and there to speak to or take the hand of a private soldier, his face +inspired with the solemn grandeur of an awful duty to prosecute the war +for the preservation of the Union to a successful conclusion, or the +bitter end. I see his face now, colored and featured as can never be done +by brush or chisel. It inspires me now, as it did then, with a resolve +such as every soldier in that army felt as he looked upon Lincoln's face +that day--a resolve unformed in words but possessing my life--always to do +my duty for the cause of human rights and human welfare on every occasion +and in every way, as God gives me light to see it and power to do it. + +In the spring of 1862 my regiment was transported from Alexandria, Va., to +Hampton Roads, when the Army of the Potomac changed its base to start its +march "On to Richmond" from Old Point Comfort. We soon appeared before the +Confederate fortifications at Yorktown. Here we were ordered to dig. When +the digging was done the Confederate forces abandoned their fortifications +and marched to Richmond. We followed closely. Their rear guard made a +stand at Williamsburg, stopping our advance. The battle of Williamsburg +was then on. The Confederates had prepared to defend this position by +making slashings, digging rifle pits and erecting forts. Fort Magruder +covered the main road into Williamsburg. The engagement at this point was +brought on by some New Jersey troops. They advanced a battery on this road +to a point directly in front of the Fort and very near the rifle pits. +Here the battery stuck in the mud, hub deep. It could not be moved further +nor brought back. During the day it was captured and recaptured several +times. + +At that time my regiment, and the Michigan Second Infantry, were part of +Gen. Phil Kearny's Division. We were on the left of the road, the New +Jersey troops on the right. In the middle of the afternoon, when Gen. +Hancock was prepared to make his famous charge on the Confederate left, +Gen. Kearny, mounted on a white horse and dressed in full uniform, as +conspicuous a figure as can well be imagined, came dashing up to the +Michigan Second regiment and called out--"What regiment is this?" Col. +Poe, a regular army officer, immediately saluted the General and +said--"The Michigan Second Infantry, Col. Poe commanding." General Kearny +said--"I want this regiment." Col. Poe turned to give the required +regulation orders, but Gen. Kearny stopped him saying--"None of that! Come +on boys!" A captain of his staff, seeing what he was about to do, tried to +stop him, saying--"General you should not go into the engagement in this +way. Remember, your life is worth a whole regiment to the army." Turning +to him like a flash, Gen. Kearny said--"If you do not want to go, stay +here." At that he reined his horse into the road and started toward the +Confederate lines, waving his sword and shouting back--"Come on boys!" and +every man followed, on both sides of the road, pell mell, without order, +wading through mud and climbing through slashings up to the rifle pits in +order to get there. How I came to be there I do not know, but I do know +that I went up that road with my right shoulder next to Gen. Kearny's left +stirrup and kept that position until he reached the further edge of the +slashing, when he turned and, pointing to the Confederates in their rifle +pits, shouted to the men coming after him--"There they are!! Give them +hell, boys, give them hell!!" + +At this moment, as if by inspiration, a band burst forth with the tune, +"All hail, the conquering hero comes." Above the roar of musketry and +cannonading came the cheers from the charge Hancock was making. The New +Jersey boys again manned their battery and began to play on the rifle pits +and on Fort Magruder. The Fort answered and every Confederate rifle in the +pits was speaking to us. No one who lived through those moments of strife +and sacrifice will ever forget the scenes, the exaltation and the devotion +of life to patriotic duty that was there manifested. + +Our men struggled through the slashings as best they could, in groups of +two or more. A New Jersey boy was with me. We stopped behind a clump of +small bushes to watch our chances with the Confederates in the rifle pits +less than two hundred feet in front of us. There was a larger group to our +left that attracted the attention of the Confederates. Shots were being +exchanged as rapidly as heads appeared on either side. Suddenly, out from +the group to our left, came a ringing laugh, as joyous and care-free as +was ever heard at a base ball game. My comrade was possessed with a +desire to know its cause. Shortly that laugh came again. He declared he +would go and find out why they were laughing. I told him if he stirred he +would be shot, but he made the attempt. As soon as he raised himself, +before he had taken a step, he was shot and instantly killed. Attention +having been thus called to the spot, a confederate volley was fired into +that clump of bushes. I saved myself by lying down behind the body of my +dead comrade. + +As the sun was dropping below the western horizon the Confederate rifle +pits were captured. Hancock's charge had succeeded. Fort Magruder fired +its farewell shot; the Confederate rear guard was on its way to Richmond. +The battle of Williamsburg was ended. + +The next day, one of a group of Confederate prisoners declared there was +one thing about that battle he could not understand. He said he was a +sharp shooter; that he could hit a mark quite a distance away every time, +and offered to prove it by actual demonstration. The thing he could not +understand was--why he could not hit General Kearny the day before. He +said he saw him plainly; knew he was a commanding officer, and that he +deliberately shot at him six times. General Kearny was not touched, but +the Captain who tried to persuade him not to expose himself as he did was +shot through the heart and instantly killed by the side of the General. + +An interval of time, a march through mud and water almost waist deep, +brought us to Fair Oaks, within sight of Richmond. Heavy rains had made it +almost impossible to ford the Chickahominy River which divided McClellan's +army. Seeing an advantage in this, General Lee ordered General Longstreet +to attack the part of our army that had succeeded in crossing the river. +General Casey's division received the brunt of this attack. General +Kearny's division was held in reserve to support General Casey. We ate our +dinner and then lay on our arms for some little time, just out of range, +tracing the course of the action by listening to the firing and watching +the increasing number of wounded making their way to the rear. To be thus +held in reserve, expecting every moment to be called into action, is the +supreme trial of a soldier's courage. In those moments my heart became +faint. But, when the bugle call was sounded calling us into action, all +thought of self vanished. As eager as an eagle in pursuit of its prey, we +went forward. Longstreet's division was making a final charge. Casey's men +passed through our ranks as we formed a line between the contending +forces. My Company had the regimental colors, defended by a detailed color +guard of sixteen corporals. I was not of this guard, but was a corporal +then, on the left of my Company next to the color guard. Our line was +hardly formed when we received the Confederate charge. Firing was at short +range. Fourteen out of the sixteen corporals composing the color guard +were shot almost simultaneously; some killed; some wounded, but the colors +did not fall. + +I was on my knees in the front rank. The corporal on my left was shot in +the head and fell across my legs. He spoke to me. I turned to look at him, +and said--"I cannot stop work now to help you." As I said this I was shot, +the bullet entering squarely on my breast, cutting off the first shirt +button below the collar. It passed through the bone, which turned its +course to the right, and passed out between the ribs. I was in the act of +loading my gun at its muzzle. I had the powder in. When hit my right arm +fell. I tried three times to put the bullet in and finish loading, hoping +to give the enemy one more shot. Finding I could not do it, I dropped my +gun, unstrapped my cartridge box and crawled to the rear until I came to a +cleared field where a battery was stationed firing over the heads of our +men into the Confederate ranks. As I raised up to walk, a gunner motioned +to me to step aside out of range and then continued firing. I walked +around back of the battery and stopped to see it work and listen to the +music of its roar. + +The Confederate charge was stopped. My regiment lost about one hundred and +fifty men in killed and wounded within the few moments the engagement +lasted. + +That night I lay on the ground under a large tree. Noting that every +breath sent bubbles of air through my wound, I called a soldier who was +trying to care for the wounded and told him I could not live long on +half-rations of air. He looked at my wound, tore some square pieces off a +bandage roll, placed them over the wound and punched them into it with his +finger and poured some cold water on the cloth. This caused the blood to +congeal about the cloth and enable me to get the benefit of the air I was +breathing. + +The next morning I was taken back to Savage Station where I was placed on +Dr. Bliss' dressing table (he was then Medical Director of the Division) +to have my wound dressed. As he cut my shirt off I looked up at him and +said, laughingly, "Doctor here is a wound you cannot amputate." As soon as +he had uncovered it, he said, "It would be much better for you, my boy, if +I could." + +When my shirt was cut off, I discovered another wound on my left arm about +half way between the shoulder and elbow. The bullet had chipped off a spot +as large as a silver dollar but had not buried itself in the flesh. The +arm was black and very much swollen. My wounds were soon bandaged and I +was laid on the ground beside the railroad track to await transportation +to Fortress Monroe. From there I was sent to Long Island College Hospital +in Brooklyn, N. Y. When convalescent I was ordered to the Invalid Camp at +Alexandria, Va. I did not relish the idea of becoming a "condemned yankee" +as the members of Invalid Corps were then called. In going through +Washington we passed by the Armory Square Hospital, then in charge of Dr. +Bliss. I "fell out" and went into his office. Fortunately I found him at +his desk. When he looked at me he recognized me at once and said, "See +here, young man, this will never do. You will ruin my reputation. I +reported you mortally wounded at Fair Oaks and have had you dead and +buried in the Chickahominy swamp for six months." I said, "I will improve +your reputation by giving you an opportunity to resurrect me." I then told +him I did not want to be a "condemned yankee" and wanted him to find a way +to save me from going to the Invalid Camp. He immediately called the +hospital steward, ordered him to put me in bed and keep me there four +days, I protested, saying I was perfectly able to be about. The Doctor +said to me in an undertone, "You stay in bed four days; by that time I +will have an order assigning you to duty in my office." + +I was given charge of making out the papers for the soldiers discharged +from the Hospital. I frequently urged the Doctor to order me to my +regiment, but he refused, saying I could never serve as an enlisted man +since receiving my wound. Being convinced there was no hope of ever being +permitted to join my regiment, I made out my own discharge paper and +placed it in a package I submitted to the Doctor for his signature. After +he had signed all of the papers, I took mine out of the package and showed +it to him. He endorsed it, "Able to serve as an officer, but not as an +enlisted man." + +I will stop my story here, only adding that after returning home I +re-enlisted as a private in Company B. 21st Michigan Infantry, then with +the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga. I was commissioned as a Second +Lieutenant before I left the State to join that regiment. By chance, that +commission was dated on January 26, 1864, my twenty-second birthday. + +Such memories as these are among the most precious products of my life. + +The gains of life are various. Some objects we pursue disappear as we +grasp them. We are children, chasing with excited delight beautiful +bubbles floating free in air. We touch them and they vanish. Some objects +are as enduring as the eternal truth of God. We pursue them with the stern +courage of men upborne by the strength of a moral conviction. Though, in +the hour of trial and triumph, a crown of thorns be pressed upon our brow, +the memory of a right act, courageously done, will enrich the soul +forever. + +The memory of such actions is the richest endowment and the most sacred +acquisition of the loyal volunteer. How little all that can be given him +as a reward for his services must ever be in comparison with that which he +has by right of his own achievement. + +Ask him now how he values his memory of that day when, with his regiment, +he first left home for the scenes of war. Can the picture ever fade? +Streets thronged with the populace and decorated with the flag he was to +defend! Can he ever forget the holy inspiration of the silent cheer from +his speechless father, mother, sister or lover as he passed them? + +Ask him how he values his memory of a thousand incidents of army life that +are never recorded by a single line on the page of history, but which +revealed comrade to comrade, knotted life to life, and gave opportunity +for the expression of nobility by noble men. + +Ask him how he values his memory of the hours of conflict when the +magnetic touch of elbow to elbow, comrade to comrade, gave courage and the +line grew firm as adamant; when the spirit of those who fell entered into +those who remained, as the dying transformed their unwilling groans into +cheers for the living. In the crucible of conflict men become molten. +Their blood mingles. Their souls blend. Their lives are fused into the +life of the Nation. Who that has felt the mystic power, the grand +exaltation, the unutterable joy of that supreme moment when his heart's +blood leaped forth as he fell at his post, would call back one drop of it +for all that can be given him in return? + +Ask him now how he values the memory of that day, when, duty done, his +mission accomplished, with tattered battle flags, clothes soiled and torn, +bronzed face and hardened muscles--it may be with scarred and disabled +body--he returned to his home with the survivors of his regiment. Again +the streets are thronged with the populace and decorated with the National +colors. The storm cloud passed, all are wild with joy made solemn by +thoughts of those who could not come, remembered by none more tenderly +than by those by whose side they fell. The glory of flowers, mingled with +the voices of music, enchant the eye, perfume the air, exalt the soul. +Suddenly, from out the mass of eager faces there darts a father, a mother, +a sister or a lover, as some looked-for-one is recognized. The heart can +endure the strain no longer. He is snatched from the ranks and embraced +amidst the cheers of all observers. + +Words!! There are no words for such moments! But the entry written by the +recording angel that day will forever read--"Thank God! My boy, my +brother, my lover has done his duty." + +The days of trial and victory are passed, but memory causes them to live +forever in the eternal NOW. + +Such memories are the true reward of loyal duty courageously performed. +They can be possessed only by those who have earned them. Find such a one, +become acquainted with him, and you will find one who will exact least +from the defended and is most generous to the vanquished. + +These memories stir within old soldiers their best manhood, and thrill +them with noblest pride as they look into each other's faces. They only +are capable of appreciating at their true value the comrades of the +campaign, the veterans of the battlefield. They, better than all others, +know how to honor him that was loyal and performed the duties of loyalty +when the Nation had need of his services. + +All who seek to perpetuate the history of war for the preservation of the +Union by pen or brush or chisel; all who speak about or ponder over the +events of those days, must ever stand uncovered in the presence of him who +can say of the first battle of Bull Run, of the last grand review, or of +any of the battles between--"I performed the duties of Loyalty--I was +there." + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Some of My War Stories, by Allen Ripley Foote + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME OF MY WAR STORIES *** + +***** This file should be named 31991.txt or 31991.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/9/9/31991/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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