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While* in the army he served I under General Shields, Banks and Wright. He was in the battles of Cedar Mountain, 2nd Bull Run engagement, Antie-tam and a number of encounters in Virginia and the vicinity of Washington, D. C.At the battle of Antietam he was shot and laid on the battlefield for three days before aid came.In recalling his Washington experience he said, “I remember one day Lincoln came to inspect our fort. He stepped up to look from a port hole but was ordered back by the captain. Lincoln hesitated and: the captain repeated his warning, saying ‘I am in command here.’ Lincoln stepped back and a soldier took the place vacated by the president. A moment later the soldier was blown to atoms., Mr. Hensley was in Washington at the time of the assassination of Lincoln and said that nothing could describe the gloom and horror that seemed to close down over everyone.Mr. Hensley is now in poor health but vividly recalls his I experience as a soldier.Atlantic to the SeaT. R. Jones enlisted as a private in Company B, Forty-121? Infantry, Oct. 1, and served'three years w three months under Capt. •M. R. Shalter. He was mustered in the army at Columbus, and saw his first active service at Corinth and Madern in thall state.Under General Sherman he was in the battles of Chattanooga, Resaca, New Hope Church and Kenesaw Mountain and Atlantic and went witham1 on. famous march from Atlantic to the sea. All along the two hundred miles march they destroyed railroads and laid waste the country over a belt sixty miles wide. Theypeached Savannah, Ga., just before Christmas, 1864.In telling of his experiences on the march to the sea he said: “I was in many skirmishes but our line was fifteen jniies long and we couldn’t see y n}uch fighting, only in our own division. We lived on hardtack, meat, sugar and coffee, t was said we were the only division in the army that had -oifee regularly. Having no '.and mills it was a familiar ight to see soldiers using their oers to pulverize their cof-
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Taylor County Herald
Bedford, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1933
Page 5
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