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WAR ST "The J oy In Iii H story of a "Soldier's Lite," " just published in two volumes, by Charles Scribner's Sons, Field Mar shal Viscount Wolslcy, recalling his first engagement with the enemy in Burma, thus describes "thc joy of battle" : ''I collected all the High tie th men I could, and having warned Taylor of thc trou-dc-loup into which 1 had fallen when heading thc previous storming party, oiF we started with a yell, every one near us cheering lus- j lily, "We all ran forward at a good pace, under what seemed tobe a well sus tained lire fi om the enemy's works. I could see a considerable number of ! them on thc top of the parapet or stockade, and above all thc noise one heard their defiant shout.-) of 'Come on !' iu the Burmese tongue. "What a supremely delightful mo ment it was! No one in cc ld blood can imagine how intense is thc pleas ure of such a position who has not ex perienced it himself; thero can bo nothing else in tho world like it. or that can approach its inspiration, its intense sense of pride. "You aro for the time being, and it is always short, lighted up from and out of all potty thoughts of self, and for the moment your whole existence, soul and bo*iy, seems to revel in a true sense of glory. .'The feeling is catching; it flics through a mob of soldiers and makes them, while the fit hs on themt abso lutely reckless of all consequences. The blood seems to boil, the brain to bc on fire. Oh! that I could again hopo to experience such sensations! "I have won praise since then, and commanded in what in our little army wo call battles, and know what it ia to gain the applause of soldiers; but, in a long and varied military life, although, as a Captain I have led my own company in charging an enemy, I have never experienced the same un alloyed and elevating satisfaction or known again the joy I then felt as I Tan for the enemy's stockades at the head of s small mob of soldiers, most of them boys like myself." This, from Kuglaud'o greatest Gen eral is in striking contrast to the ex periences of other military leaders General Grant, for instance. In de scribing his preparations for the first campaign at the beginning of the Civil War the General says: "My sensations as wo approached what I supposed might bo a field of battle were anything but agreeable. I had been in all the engagements in Mexico that it was possible for ono person to be in, but not in oommand. "If some one else had beon Colonel and I had been Lieutenant Colonel I do not think I would have felt auy trepidation. Before we were prepared to cross the Mississippi River at Quincy my anxiety was relieved, for ?he men of the besieged regiment carno straggling into town. I am inclined to think both sides got frightened and Tan away." Later, when ordered to move against Colonel Thomas Harris, encamped near the little town of Florida, Mo., Gen eral Grant found himself on the eve ef actual conflict. He thus writes of 5t : "As we approached the brow of a lill from which it was expected wc t could seo Harris's camp and probably and his men ready formed to meet us my heart kept getting higher and nigher, until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. "I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I bad not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do. I kept right on. .Wheo we reached a point from whieh . ?he valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been enoamped a few days before wus still there, and the marks of recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart re sumed its plaoe. "It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of mo as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I bad never be fore taken, but it was one that I never forgot. From that event io tho close - of the war I never experienced trepida ? lion upon confronting the enemy, > though I always felt more or less anx iety and never forgot that he had as - mach reason to fear my forces as I had his? The lesson was valuable." Much has been written of General .Sherman's famous saying, "War is Asl!." To-day many of the Confederates are .still bitter because of Sherman's his torie raid and march through Georgia: \^ yet, of all the Generals," none has ex ' pressed deeper regret for tho fearful necessities of war. j In his lettor to James E. Yeatman 'cf the United States Sanitary Com mission, May 21, 1863, General Sher ORI BS. o?' J >;ittle.*" man Haid: "I confess, without shame, tliat I am Hick and tired of fighting-its glory ?8 all moonshine. 10von success, the most brilliant, is OM ' the dead and mangled bodies with the anguish and lamentations of di -tant families ap pealiug to me for sons, husbands and fathers. It is < :ily those who havo never heard a shot, never heard the shrieks and groans of wounded ami lacerated (frien i or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation." It is related by a lieneral wh<) was present at a private reunion of veter ans in brooklyn that General S herman told this story: " 'The mu. t painful experience I had during tho war was near Chieka mauga, when it was ueeessary to take possession of an eminence held by thc enemy. Tho Confederate battery on thc summit was doing terrible execu tion. Thc fight was prolonged, and finally I saw that it could be captured only by ordering a considerable forco of men to charge up thc hill and take the battery. " 'As the infantry came in view the guns opened tiro and the slaughter was beyond description. To establish our artillery there it was necessary lu make a dash for the height, and then occurred thc most appalling spectacle I saw in tho war. The ground was covered with dead and dying men, but the crisis had arrived, and it was eith er plant our batteries on that hill or lose thc battle. "'Even tho horses dragging tho guns shied at the frantic scramble of the wounded men trying to get out of thc way of the approaching artillery. As tho ponderous wheels beariug can non swept over the wounded, crushing their bodies and breaking their bones amid screams of men and explosions of shells, I turned heart sick and for the first time I cried like a child.' "As General Sherman finished his narrative," said the narrator, "his eyes wero again full of tears, as were thoBO of nearly every man in the room.11 On another occasion General Sher man, in discussing tho difference ot temp?rament in military men and tho effects of battle movements upon them, said that General Grant had so little imagination he could look un moved upon appalling aes. "I remember when J jr artillery was mowing down troops by thousands and shells were exploding all round us! I looked on in terror. I confess that I was frightened half out of my wits, th ugh I might not have shown it in face or actions. I turned to General Grant, ..aw him gazing calmly upon the awful work of destruction and wondered he did not change his posi tion. He remained intently watohing the battle, giving orders from time to time, when suddenly a shell burst near us, scattering men, horses and gun carriages into fragments. I ex pected we'd both bo killed, when the General coolly took a cigar from his pocket, lit it and said: 'I think we'd better move back a ?'-'few paces. It seems getting rather hot here.'" Gen. Grant had no love for war. Ile said this repeatedly. When Charles Sumner, during a conference on thc Alabama olaims, insisted on preposterous damages from Great Bri tain or immediate war, General Grant, with great seriousness said: "Do you know, Sumner, what war means? If you'd seen what I saw at Shiloh and Chickamauga, dead and dying men piled up many foot deep, you would never want another war. I certainly do not, and there shall be none if I oan preveut it." General Daniel E. Sickles, who left a leg on tho battlefield of Gettysburg, says : "I don't recall any joy on go ing into battle. My feelings were of anxiety that my orders should be properly oarried out. The sense of responsibility in a battle overshadows all other feelings. Personal danger is never thought of-only danger to the movement and the army. Joy oomes at the end, if you win a viotory. I remember very well the feeling of exultation when we had won." In reply to a question, General Sickled said that he did not know just when he was shot; he was aware of it a few minutes later, when he discover ed his boots full of blood and his ina bility to move his leg. Acoording to military opinions, this question of joy or fear in battle all de pends on man's position and tempera ment. If one is of an exoitable na ture, bravo and at the head of a com pany making a charge and having no particular responsibility, such as tho direction of a largo body of troops to divert his mind, suoh a man would naturally fool the joy of the occa sion. But that ii altogether differont from commanding an army corps with vast responsibility weighing one down. OF course th-rc ave exceptions, for human nature ?> diih P.IJ'. iti individual cases. "I remember asking General Hooker I Georgia," said General .Sickles, "what he considered thc most enjoyable mo ment <>i tin; war. 'Campaigning in the enemy's country,' he replied. General Hooker was a remarkable man, absolutely without fear and al ways self-composed. At thc height of battle, with shells bursting on every side, he waa at bia best. The more excitement au?! the greater the danger tho greater was his self-possession. Ile waa one of those men you read about who find enjoyment in battle. Ile was a natural warrior. In thc su preme moment of danger and crisis he saw clearer than any other time, and never lost his head. "Custer was an ideal picturesque soldier who apparently enjoyed ?lash ing on the enemy regardless of conse quences and capturing colors and bat teries. Sheridan was bravo, impetu ous and a great general. Grant, be yond all question, had the qualities of the generalship that wins great battles and the respect of mankind. In my opinion his judgment was superior tc Sherman's." General Stewart L, Woodford, for mer Minister to Spain: "I cannot understand how any thoughtful 01 conscientious man can experience joj in going to battle. Either ho has n< idea of tho vast Buffering around bia or ho is not conscientious. War a best is only justifiable homicide am should never ba undertaken except fo: justifiable cause. "I remember well when I first wen under fire, and I must honestly sa; there was no joy about it. It waa rn; duty to bc there and to do the best could with my men, and I tried to d my best. Of courac after men ge into thc thick of a fight and their pae sions arc excited the sense of fca passes away, and comes physical cxul talion as is the caao among young me at football or running a race. Still, confess I do not understand how thoughtful mancan rush joyously int a fight." Another authority says thc ancient differ from modern pcoplo in thei fondnoss for warfare. This is show in the writings of the historians an the songs of the poets, from Homer I Virgil. They went to war bcoause waa tho fashion of the day. No ma could hold up his head in society an claim recognition, without a militai record, just as in certain sections i mountainous countries a bandit wt has not killed his score of men driven out of influential circles at neither tho police nor the leader fashion has aay respect for him. An eminent American general at diplomat says that in his experien ho found the best fighters among tl half shy, modest men of intelleotu attainments and generally of busine interests, who ordinarily would vcr miles rather than participate in a qui rel. Yet when it came to fighting f principle on a fiald of battle neith cavalry charges nor bursting she! seemed to have any terror for them. It is admitted that General Sherid was an exception to most milita men. General Grant repeatedly call him the greatest general in the worl and said that if an emergency oai his estimate would be found tri During the famous Warren investi^ tier, cn Governor's Island regfirdi the eharges by Sheridan that Gene: Warren did not do his duty at the bi tie of Five Forks leading Genen were put on tho stand to testify. It was shown that General Wain a commander of infantry, should r bc compared with General Sheridan dashing, natural loader of oavali Both were good men in their resp* tive spheres, but their ideas a methods of fighting differed, blame him for his temperament woi be like disparaging a draft ho: beoause it could not keep up wit) trotter. Some of the Confederate Goner who testified at that investigation B that General Sheridan, during that mous battle, did not seem like a 1 man being. Bareheaded, with fi black with smoke and dust, he rode and down the front of his line rega loss of danger, shooting and swear like a fiend. His frenzy and dar exoited the men to extraordin efforts. They stormed the Confer] ates and carried the day. It was c dent that in the heat of the eonf General Sheridan experieneed the of battle. General H. T. Douglas, Colone Engineers in General Lee's army, N later built the Vera Cms Mexi Railroad, one of the highest monal lines in the world, and is now v John B. MoDonald as engineer on New York subway, says of his es rienoes ia the Civil War. "I never went into battle with ol feelings than of anxiety and respo bility-feelings the furthest poss from joy. 1 never saw auy thing al a battle or war to make one jo; doring its progress exoept viotory. battlo at best ls serious business. ' of tho moat interesting war stori ever hoard is of Stonewall Jack An intimate friend caked him one at thc breaking oat of the Civil W ?liiy u .UM "'Down in ymir heart, would you j honestly like to *co war?"' " 'Stonewall Jackson .-t ?oil io deep thought for several minutes, then j ->.?i? -,?.^w?y wiih dramatic emphasis: j 'As a Christian and a gentleman I say i no. As a soldier L way yes, I would like to seo war.' And 'Stonewall' Jaekson's eyes flashed into flame as he pronounced the word 'soldier.' General Gordon's experiences are graphically set forth io his "Reiainis cences of thc Civil War." He was mining coal in thc mountains of three States-Georgia, Tennessee and Ala bama when the war came and ho raised a company of volunteers. They wore 'coonskin caps aod were called the Raccoon Roughs, and became fa I mous. "Once in camp we kept the wires hot with egrains to Governors of other States, imploring them to give us a chance. Governor Mooro, of Alabama, finally responded, gracious ly consenting to incorporate the Cap tain of the 'Raccoon Roughs' aud Iiis 'coon-capped company into one of the regiments soon to be organized. "The reading of this telegram evoked from my men thc first wild rebel yell it was my fortune to hear, Even then it was weird and thrilling Through all tho stages of my subse quent promotions and in all thc battlci in which I was engaged this same ex hilarating shout from those sam( trumpet-liko throat? rang in my ears growing fainter and fainter as thes< heroic men became fewer and fewer a the end of eaoh bloody day's work and when the last hour of tho wa came, in the last desperate charge a Appomattox, the few and broken rem nants of the Racooon Roughs wen still near their first Captain's side cheering him with tho dying echoes o that first yell in the Atlantio camp.' In his account of the beginning o thc Bull Run engagement Genera Gordon says of General Ewell, the lu dian fighter, who at the last momen went over to the Confederacy: "He became a very pious man in hi later years, but at this time he wa not choice in his manner of expressin himself. Uo asked me to take a hast breakfast with him just before he ex pected the order from Beauregard t ford Bull Run and rush upon McDovt ell's left. "His verbal invitation was in thea words: 'Come and eat a cracker wit me. We will breakfast together hei and dine together in hell.' To young officer like myself, who ha never been under fire except at lon range, on scouting excursions cr c the skirmish linc, such an invitatio was not inspiring or appetising, bi Ewell's fipirits seemed to be in a flu ter of exultation. "Au hour later, after I had bet recalled from my perilous movemen to 'feel of the onemy,' I found Get eral Ewell, as I have said, almost frei zied with anxiety over the nonarriv of the anticipated order to move to tl attaok. He direoted me to send him at once a mounted man 'wi sense enough to go and find out wh was the matter.' I ordered a memb of the Governor's Horse Guard to i port immediately to General Ewe This troop represented some of tl beat blood of Virginia. Ita privat were refined and accomplished gentl men, many of them university gra uates, who, at the first tocsin of wt had sprung into their saddles aa v< unteers. "As for myself," says General Gc don, "I was never in a battle witho realizing that every moment might my last; but I never had a presen ment of oertain death at a given til or in a particular battle. "There did oome me on one oocaai a feeling that 7700 ukin to a preseii meat. It was, however, the result no supposed perception of eerti ooming fate, but an unbidden, unw come oaloulation of chances suggest by the peculiar circumstances which I found myaelf at the time. "It was at Winchester, in the V ley of Virginia. My command ? lying almost in the shadow of a fron ing fortress in front, in whiohGene Milroy, of the Union army, 1 Jtrongly intrenohed with the fori wbioh we had been fighting during t afternoon. In the dim twilight, wi the glimmer of his bayonets and bri howitzers still discernible, I recen an order to storm the fortress at di light the next morning. "To say that I was astounded at t order would feebly expresa the sen tion which its reading produced; on either side of the fort was an oj country, miles in width, thron wbioh Confederate troops could esc pass around and to the rear of t fort, ontting off General Milroy fi the base of his supplies, and tl forcing him to retire and meet us the open field.' There was nothing meto do, however, but to obey order. "As in the night I planned the sault and thought of the dread slaughter that awaited my month caroo to me, as I have stated, a oal lation as to ohanoes, whioh resnl in the conclusion that I had not . chance in a thousand to live thr?l it. The weary hours of the night 1 nearly passed, and by the dim ligh my bivouao fire I wrote, with pen what I~8upposed was my last lettei Mr?. 'Jordon, who, as usual, was near nu.'. I summoned my quartermaster, whose duties did not call him into the light, and gave him the letter, with di rections to deliver it to Mrs. Gordou after 1 was dead. "Mounting my horse, my men uow ready, I ?poke to them briefly and en couraged them to go with me into the fort. Before tho dawn we were mov ing and ascending thc long slope. At every moment ? expected the storm of shell and ball that would end many a life, my own among them, but on wo swept and into the fort, to find nota soldier there! It had been evacuated during the night." Message Told After 40 Years. Whe?ing, W. Va.-"Oh, ? could die in peace; I could die in peace if I ouly were home with my wife and lit tlc children, but it ia BO hard to die herc, far from home and among strang ers " Dol. Delaney, of Cobb's Georgia Legion, moaned these words nearly forty years ago, as he lay dying in Stauton Hospital, Washington City. He had been found mortally wounded on a battlefield by Union soldiers and had been taken a prisoner to thc hos pital. "You oan live only a few hours," the surgeon told him on making his rounds ono day. Calling to his side 'Johnnie" Wright, a boyish Union soldier recovering from a wound, Col. Delany said to him: "Read to me from the fourteenth chapter of St. John." Thc young Boldier, a devout Christian, read the chapter to the bronzed Confederate, and when he had finished the Colonel took from his pillow a daguerrotype of his wife and children and kissed it farewell for them. The end soon oame. Years passed. The young soldier beoamo a minister of thc Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio, and in his sermons sometimes referred to the brave Confederate's death. Ho now lives at Bridgeport, Ohio, across the river from Wheeling. He determined reoentlv to attempt to find the address of the widow or relatives of Col. De laney, that he might toll them the de tails of the soldier's last moments. He had a statement inserted in the Confederate Veteran, a paper publish ed at Nashville, by Col. Cunningham. An eager reply came from Mrs. Hull, of Athens, Ga., a daughter of Col. Delaney, asking for the particulars of I lier father's death. They had tried in vain to learn more than that he bad bees killed in battle. And new, in a Georgia heme, tuoro is a letter that will be handed down from one generation to another. It is the minister's reply and it tells how a brave Confederate died-New York Evening Telegram. Baltimore's Fire Incident. G. P. McCarty, general agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has re turned to this city from a business trip to New York. On his <vay back he slopped in Baltimore, and of an incident he learned there he thus speaks : "In the financial district de stroyed the vaults were found intaot. 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