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A GREAT CAPTURE.Clever Ruse by Which Six Yankees Captured Twenty-Two Confederates.“There 'are a good many stories,’* said the sergeant, relates the Chicago Inter Ocean, “that escaped those who made official reports and those who described engagements or battles. And yet these incidents or episodes are necessary to give proper color to the history of some of our most important battles. For example, just before Chickamauga, our brigade moved up to Heed’s bridge, expecting to cross the Chickamauga there, or, at least,, to prevent the confederates from crossing. This was on the 18th of September. 1863, the day before the battle of Chickamauga opened.“We arrived within a mile of the bridge at dark, and our skirmishers literally ran into McNair’s confederate brigade, which had crossed the river. There we *e riding in front, as mounted scouts, Eli Shields, Henry C. Swisher, of company H; Thomas Brown, Joseph B. Shawgo and George Workman, of company G, of the Eighty-fifth Illinois, and Pierce, of the Fifty-second Ohio. No one suspected the presence of confederates on the union side of the Chickamauga. Shields, who was in the lead, rode squarely upon a confederate picket post, and was as astounded as the confederates themselves. He shouted. ‘Halt,* and one of the Johnnies replied: ‘Keep your d—n mouth shut,’ taking it for granted that it was one of their own men.
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Goshen Daily Democrat
Goshen, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 12, 1901
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