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Mrs. Wilder, undaunted at the situation,

14 DAVIS, נערות ליווי בטבריה נערות ליווי בבת ים בבאר שבע SOLDIER MISSIONARY

took command, steeped a quantity of smart- weed, packed

the patient in the pungent mess and in a few hours had

him conscious and on the road to recovery. Hornet’s Nest.”

It was a severe experience for a first battle: two hun-

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dred cannon incessantly booming, shaking the earth and

throwing a gray pall of smoke, which hung in sulphurous

masses over the woods. Between and above the concus-

sions of the great rifled guns, crashed the steady roar of

small arms playing the treble of the iron orchestra. Shells

were bursting over and in front of the reclining men.

There came a blinding flash, an ear-rending detonation, and

a four-inch shell burst in front of Company I. As the

smoke cleared away, two boys, one holding his head where

the scalp was torn away, lay writhing on the ground.

Jerome Davis had heard the whistle of hurtling steel, as a

jagged piece of shell passed a few inches from his head

and buried itself in the bank behind him. Will Harlow of

Dundee heard it, too, for it fanned the faces of both men as

they lay close together.

The strain of inaction was telling upon the Fifty-second

reserves, who were witnesses, but not participants in these

fearful scenes. Every now and then a shot would wound

or kill one of the men, while the fearful uproar and sights

of death and heroism had worked the men far past the

fighting pitch. As yet the reserve column had not fired a

shot.

The day swung by the burning hour of noon, and still

the Confederate attack, like a mighty iron flail, beat with

the alternate pulsations of a great engine, first on the one

flank, then the other of the Federal lines. The Confederates

came in crowding, rhythmic charges, concentrating superior

numbers at nearly every point of attack. Sherman and

McClernand, repeatedly outflanked, were steadily forced

back toward the river. Sherman made one gallant stand

after another, but many of his raw troops ran like sheep at

the first charge of an enemy that kept coming on and on,

unmindful of the gaps in his lines.

About half-past twelve, McClernand and Sherman

decided to fall back to a third line of defence along the

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Savannah Road, about a mile from the river, where their

left flank would be conterminous with the Third Division

at the ” Hornet’s Nest.” During this change in position

of the Union lines, General Hardee sent in Pond with three

Louisiana regiments and Wharton’s Cavalry to break up the

disordered Federal divisions before their new position could

be formed. Colonel Sweeny ordered the Fifty-second Illi-

nois to oppose this Confederate force which was swinging

in to flank McClernand from the right. As the men got

under way, they saw a splendid body of cavalry, Wharton’s

Texas Rangers, charging at a trot across an open field big,

lean, bronzed, men from the plains, riding with the ease

of cowboys, scattering before them a broken regiment of

Wisconsin volunteers, whose German colonel was stoutly

trying to rally them. On came the victorious Texans,

their pace increased to a gallop, riding in solid ranks with

flying banners and flourishing swords. Their commander

led on a black horse, coming in great bounds at the head of

his troop.

” Attention!

Out of

the woods across the gentle vale to the south, came a mag-

nificent line of men Barksdale’s Mississippians and Folk’s

Louisianians ; on they came in four compact columns, two

full brigades, swinging across the open, with regular rhythm

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and formation, as if on dress parade. But this was the last of it, I was never ridiculed or inter-

fered with for my Christian principles.” The general and

his staff were genial, large-hearted,’ manly men. One of

them afterwards said, referring to this event and Lieuten-

ant Davis’ strict principles: ” His religion was genuine. The staff officer reported that Sherman had

fallen back, out of sight, and that the enemy were turning

the right flank. After about twenty minutes, I looked back and saw

another regiment lying down not far away; the color- ser-

geant was also lying down flat, and holding up his flag-

staff, around which the flag was wound, 21babe closely furled.

In

the first ballot Captain Davis received a majority of votes

and after a few more ballots, he was unanimously elected

Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. October 17th the new company officers met to elect the

field officers of the regiment. The first three years of service of the veterans of the

Fifty-second Illinois were now completed, and the men were

entitled to reorganize under officers of their own selection. There was a strong affection between the two brothers

that the three years of common service for נערות ליווי בנתניה their country

had deepened. The first was the personal affection which existed in

the ranks for him. First Sergeant Samuel Anderson

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had no superior in the company in character or ability. The Fifty-second Illinois was quartered in

the Giles County College buildings, where Lieutenant

Davis mended a cooking-range and built an oven for his

company. Though suffering with rheumatism so that it was painful

for him to step over a log, Lieutenant Davis now entered

upon one of the most severe and long continued campaigns

of the war.

I

thought it would be a great relief if I could hold the flag

in that way. On February 14th, orders came to proceed

up the Cumberland נערות ליווי בבת ים River to reinforce General U. S. Grant

who was investing Fort Donaldson. Remonstrance was useless, and with a heavy heart

the new assistant commissary of musters of the Second

Division again began his work at General Sweeny’s head-

quarters. The Northern men had already been seen;

a moment’s hesitation and they were lost. They

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XIV. The dilemma seemed incapable of solution if he were to

be true to both calls of duty.