War Day Memories from Coffeyville, Kansas • 9

WAft DAY MEMORlDS-AS TOLD BY THE RANK AND FILE. 0 Not many years ago the writer met and conversed with a lady who said her maiden name was Nellie Carter, and her story if true and I do not doubt its truth-fullness, corrobertcd everything that I have said about the battle of Franklin and the awful slaughter of the Confederates. This lady said that her and a sister and a brother, were at the Carter house, their father's home, at the time ot the battle of Franklin and were hid in the celler out of danger all the time Hood's Advance and Retreat. Continued from page 0 the While this struggle for the safety of our flag was going on the 15th Alabama attempted to interfere with the beauty of the contest, but were prevented from doing so by a portion of the regiment that was spoiling for just such a contest. James O'Reilly of Co.

I 40th Indiana bayoneted the color bearer of the Alabama regiment and captured his Hag. The 15th Alabama was handled so roughly that it's number passed from the roll of Confederate regiments. Col. Ellison Capers of the 24th South Carolina, C. S.

A. says that Lieutenant James A. Tillman of Co. who was hugging the interior of our works with his men, sallied forth with his GO men about 1 o'clock at night and captured the flag of the 97th Ohio and 40 of the men of that regiment. I do not believe anything of the kind.

All of South Carolina couldn't whip the 47th Ohio in a fair light. Don't you believe they did either. These Buckeye Kids ways got the other fellow lirat and they did the same this time, I am sure. Schofield had 8 batteries in the battle, namely; 1st Ohio light artillery, battery Pennsylvania Bridges Illinois battery. 1st Kenutcky light artillery, battery 4th United States and the 1st Ohio was on the left of our line adding to the death roll of the Confederacy down the railroad cut.

The 1st Kentucky was at the Columbia pike and added much to the slaughter of Hood's army. The 6th Ohio battery was near the Carter house and put about 800 rounds of spherical case and cannister into Hood's charging columns. These messengers of the death angel sent out by the 6th Ohio were sure and swift and called not in vain, for the enemy was pilled up in heaps in the pathway of their visitation. The 20th Ohio and Bridges Illinois battery and the battery of Pennsylvania were farther at the right and did most excellent work and suffered great loss from sharpshooters of the enemy. When the batteries were withdrawn about 10 o'clock at night the 20th Ohio did not have men and horses enough to take it from the field.

The Chief of Artillery applied to Genreal Op-dyke for a company of men to aid in its removal and Lieutenant Immel with a Company of the 88th Illinois responded to the call. The heaviest fighting was around the Carter house and reaching to nearly the railroad cut east of the Colubmia pike. After Hood's failure all along the line he massed his force at the Columbia pike and the Carter house and made charge alter charge with heavy columns, some times 7 columns deep, only to be repulsed with great slaughter of his men. Hood forced his men forward to an inhuman butchery where he knew or ought to have known that they could not succeed. He cared not for the lives of his men, only that his military ambition might be appeased.

the battle raged around their home, and did not come out until near midnight when the light ing had entirely ceased. She said that atfer daylight had fully come the next morning, she and her sister went out to see if they could be of any assistance for the wounded and the sight that met her gaze was to awful for description; her first impression was that the whole Confederate army had been butchered by the Yankee army, the bloodthirsty savages of the north, as she called them. The dead were lying in winrows and in heaps piled up like haystacks as she called it. She said not far from her home, general somebody, was kilied. 1 have forgotten his name now.

and still standing upright on his 1'eet. dead men were piled high up around his body. But this was not what most effected her for the first upturned face, that met her gaze was that of Captain Carter, her own brother, who fell mortally wounded at the door of his father's home and had died during the night. She was still breathing out threaten-ings and slaughter against the Yankee army. I think that she would have been a dangerous customer to have met face to face with a gun in her hands: she said that she was ready, even now, to go out and fight it out with any worthless whelp that ever wore the blue.

Her danger was at the fever heat, yet. I did not offer to cross the danger line. I did not think it prudent to do so. Notwithstanding the awful slaughter of the Confederates, Hood reported to the war department at Richmond that he had gained a great victory and that his Cavalry was driving the Yankee army pelmel into Nashville. On page G59 vol.

XLV part I war department records Hood reports his loss from Columbia to Frankln to be G547. 700 of them were prisoners in our hands (Continued on page 1G) C0PYRI6HT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.