Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Did They Run? [ARTICLE]

Did They Run?

General Sherman always spid 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 war 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 Cbancellorsvllle. —~•— "Did the rebels run?” asked Sherman. “Did they runt* 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 way, and if we hadn't thrown away our guns they’d run all over us sure." -