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hatnnis. PrivMc Frank E. Brownell it- jmuined on guard at the first landing bo- slow tho roof. After tearing tlu* flag from [the staff, Kli.-worth started down, but awas met on the way by the hotel pro- ^prictor, James '1'. Jaekson, who shot him vthrough the heart with one charge of a double barrel shotgun. The second barrel Jaekson discharged at Private Brown- rell. Brownell was not touched and ini- ^mediately put a bullet through the head f\t Jackson. „luokiiik Hncknnrd Forty Year*. I'Looking backward 40 years to the la :* week of May, 1801, what varied reminiscences spring up—painful, instructive, amusing. Everybody who was anybody lt;had on lighting armor, and fighting blood stood at the finger tips. Victory—speedy, overwhelming, revengeful—was in sight, in fact untold thousands of bumptious striplings were afraid the war wouldn’t lust long enough for them to smell gunpowder. Recruits rushed wildly to every arm of the service—any way to get a gun and uniform. Such guns and such uniforms! The state arsenals usually had militia gray clothing, the same hue as that adopted by the Confederates. Rifles were scarce, and for the first couple of years tens of thousands carried the old flintlock muskets changed to percussion locks, issued to recruits in May, 1801. In the west good rifles were so scarce that the captors of Vicksburg were glad to get the Enfield rifles found in the Confederate camps. These hud been imported from England.In 1 SCI the government was slow to accept cavalry and artillery, and many squadrons and batteries recruited in May were compelled to wait many months before the government would take them in. Not a war for cavalry and artillery, thought the military minds in WashingtnnGrant, in May, 18(51. was an unsuccess ( ful seeker for a position suitable to his training; Shennan was in W ashingtou, adviser to Scott: Sheridan a second lieutenant on the Pacific coast.
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East Liverpool Evening News Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Thu, May 30, 1901
Page 19
Full Page
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MI, USA 11 Jul 2017
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