Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1912 — Did They Run? [ARTICLE]

Did They Run?

General Sherman always said with pride that the army of the Tennessee never retreated. They started in at Memphis, and came out at Charleston and Wilmington in a fourth of .the time that it took the army of the Potomac to see-saw back and forth between Washington and Richmond. One day after the wkr the general said that he was talking with a veteran from the army of the Potomac. ' The - soldier was describing the big fight of Hooker at Chancellorsvllle. "Did the rebels run?” asked SherV "Did they run?" repeated the soldier. "Did the rebels run? Great Scott, I should say they did run! Why, general, they ran so fast that we had to run three miles to get out of their