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VOL IX.
CANYON CITY RANDALL CO. TEXAS FRIDAY. MARCH 241905.
NO. 2
A YERY GOOD INVESTMENTS HOME IN RANDALL COUNTY.
Canyon
News
Sherman's Coup at Savannah
A FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY WAR STORV
December 13 1864
Copyright VM by O. L. Kilmer.
AT Nashville Doc. 15 mid 16.
1NU4. Thomas gave the Con-
federates In the west their
Waterloo. The scene was
within 140 miles from the old battle-
field of Mill .Springs where three years
before he had inflicted upon them a
Hull Uun disaster. Thomas' victory
ut Mill Springs. Ky.. Jan. 11). 1S02. was
the first clean and decisive Federal tri-
umph of the war. Nashville wiped
out for good a Confederate army which
for lou days In-front of Atlanta had
bullied Sherman with his Immense col-
umns of battalions and squadrons.
Only In these two battles did Thomas
wield the supreme command. Both
were fought to a llnish and what was
more a tiling rare In this war In both
eases the enemy was thoroughly routed
and his active capacities destroyed.
Hood's army was at a disadvantage
before Nashville. It Is true but chance
might play Into the hands of that bold
leader. Thomas closed every loophole
against chance lie fortified the hills
Boiith of the city in a manner that
would enable an improvised corps of
noncombatants to hold It and prepared
Lis active force to compass Hood's de-
struction. The Confederate leader drew
up his lines on a range of hills corre-
sponding to those fortified by Thomas
and opposeil redoubt by redoubt.
tied upbu "by tl.e uTj and orders given
to move. Hood's operations however
led to a Brief delay in order to shift
positions of Federal troops on the long
! lines and mass the strongest battalions
j on the right. The day fixed for attack
openeu wuu a biuiiii-ui uvmiub diici
which In time covered the earth with
a crust of slippery frozen mud or Ice.
A campaign to the death was out of
the question uuder such circumstances.
Hood's troops and artillery could
stand in their fixed firm tracks while
Thomas' would need to struggle and
climb up the icy slopes and over glassy
lakes In order to dislodge them.
Thomas said again In answer to re-
newed demands from headquarters.
"I will act when ready."
Grunt wired that he must move
against Hood or turn over his com-
mand to the next In rank. The grim
old veteran replied that he would sub-
mit to removal and to the charge of dis-
obedience to orders without a murmur
but move against Hood he would not
until all was ready. A successor. Gen-
eral Logan had been placed nt call
near by. and Grant himself started for
Nashville. But the ice blockade gave
way before melting weather on the
14th. and Thomas hastened to notify
his chiefs that the enemy would be at-
tacked at once.
The t Mt?22nlsts wer? chQ'lt CT.wl In
. l
ON
GKNEHAL THOMAS DIRECTING THE ATTACK
HOOD'S LINES.
breastwork by breastwork. He was
lu position Dec. 3 and the Federal au-
thorities at Washington Including
Grojit. assumed that Thomas was in-
tending to stand siege. Almost hour-
ly Thomas received from Washington
or from Grant's headquarters Impa-
tient and nagging telegrams with sug-
gestions and appeals to do something
to raise the siege but Thomas' army
was then an Improvised one made up
Of 'Smith's division from west of the
Mississippi Schofleld's Twenty-third
and Wood's Fourth corps partly from
8berman's column and partly from gar-
rison camps with Wilson's cavalry a
amr command lacking horses and
equipments as well as perfect organiza-
tion and drill. It was upon this latter
arm that Thomas counted for finishing
blows when the time came. So while
Hood was adding to his earthworks
and parapets and vainly hoping for re-
enforcements and urgent demands
were made from Federal headquarters
hundreds of miles away that Thomas
should act the Rock of Cbickamauga
said: "Let Hood fortify. Let Washing-
ton howl. I'll act when I am ready."
Ills plan of campaign hadbecn set-
nutuTjers andliggregated 40.CXX) a sldT-
Thomas had three corps besides Wll
son's cavalry lying in this order from
left to right: Woods. Smith Schofleld.
Wilson. Hood also had three and For-
rest's cavalry. Stewart's corps opposed
Schofleld. Lee's opposed Smith and
Cheatham's Wood. The first stroke by
Thomas was to launch Wilson and
Schofleld whose lines adjoined around
Hood's left tlank to envelop it Simul-
taneously Steedman's division of col-
ored troops on the Federal left charged
upon Hood's right flank breaking
through the line. Wilson's and Scho-
fleld's men went on irresistibly taking
outworks and storming hill redoubts
until they were close upon Stewart's
main lutrenchmeuts. Moving south
and then southeast they formed a line
at right angles with Smith who pushed
his line forward at the angle carrying
a heavy hill and earthwork and break-
ing lu the salient of Hood's line which
turned sharply from a north facing to
a west the latter protected by a stone
wall. Nightfall found the combatants
stauding with locked horns. Every-
thing which Thomas' men hud at-
tempted had. been carried with a .rush
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but' they" saw plenty to warn them
from attempting too much and the
places stormed or taken were key
points to sections of the Confederate
line. Never more than two brigades
assaulted together. McMillen's Ilub-
burd's and Hill's brigades of Mc Ar-
thur's division Smith's corps and
Coon's dismounted brigade of cavalry
were the heroes of the right. They
vaulted the barriers together mingling
their cheers and dividing the trophies
of conquest without reckoning which
got there first or struck the harder.
Steedman's white brigade under Colo-
nel Grosvenor and Colonel Morgan's
colored troops did the same on the left
occupying the attention of Cheatham's
entire corps throughout the day.
Hood formed a new line during the
night of the 15th from a half mile to
a mile In the rear of the first Ills
right rested on Overlon's hill his left
on the height now called Shy's hill
with a sharp return south for 80 or
100 rods. There was every temptation
for Thomas to order an attack all along
the line but he was not such a tyro in
war. Acting on the principle that
when salients and bastions are conquer-
ed all lying between must go too the
blows were concentrated. He gave no
new orders to his corps commanders
for the second day leaving them dis-
cretion In carrying out the orders of
the day before namely to push the
enemy. He rode from point to point
seeing for himself. Wilson's cavalry
continued its inarch until it outflanked
Hood's left held by Cheatham's troops.
In order to check Wlison. Cheatham
drew men from Shy's hill in the angle
Just at the time when the Federal bat-
teries were razing Its walls. Bates' Ten-
nesseeans rushed down from the right
to defend It but at that moment Mc-
Arthur saw the chance offered and sent
McMillen's brigade to storm it. Two
other Federal brigades followed Me-
Millen but Btrong as they came they
had to reckon with the Twentieth Ten-
nessee (Confederate) before seizing the
prize. That regiment led by Colonel
W. W. Shy disputed every Inch of the
soli. Shy was killed and his men
slowly gave ground without a single
reserve to fall hack upon. The angle
was broken and Smith's and Scho-
fleld's men advanced with comparative
ease although some of the Confeder-
ate redoubts only yielded to the logic
of the bayonet. Briefly the whole
Confederate left was crushed In like an
eggshell before the middle of the after-
noon. Ofllcers and men no longer
thought of holding their line but of
reaching the roads leading south before
Wilson's cavalry cut them oft.
GEORGE L. KILMEK.
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has been slender heretofore.
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We are becoming aware of the
truth of natural science that the
mountain forests are not only one
important source of the fertility of
the plains but the guarantee of its
continuance and the most perfect
security against freshets that fill the
beds of rivers with earth and cause
destructive overflow of their banks
wasting the labor bestowed on roads
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this old rag of freedom pay up soon
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