Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1912 — WAR REMINISCENCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAR REMINISCENCES

IN PURSUIT OF HOOD’S ARMY Member of Minnesota Regiment Gives Details Leading to Capture of Pointe Coupee Battery. - J ■' A sketch <of the incidents leading to the capture of the Pointe Coupee Battery at Nashville is given by Theodore G. Carter, captain, Co. K, 7th Minnesota, in the National Tribune as follows: “At Nashville the sth Minn, was on the left erf the Second Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth Corps, front line, its left flank resting on the Granny White pike. The Pointe Coupee battery was in front of my company. On Dec. 15th we had charged and driven the enemy's forces from two forts or redoubts, without stopping to place guards over the guns, colors and other captured property. Our colonel, W. R. Marshall, was in command of the Third Brigade on the 16th, and

he was the only brigade commander who led his brigade in that charge of the S ixteenth Corps, and he was on horseback at that. A lane ran along the front of and below the high woodland upon which the Pointe Coupee battery was, and the Confederates took the inside fence rails and; placed them on top of the outer fence, with the ends resting on top of the fence and sloped towards us, the lower ends covered with dirt to keep them in place. They were laid close together, and it was difficult to climb them. A shell had knocked oflt a part of the obstruction. As I was looking towards the battery (it was pouring grape, canister and shrapnel at us all the time), I did not notice the movement of the reglment to the right; consequently when I saw It there was a break fin my company of some 75 or 100 yards. I told the remaining eight or ten boys that we would go to that gap and go over. The boys ’boosted’ me up, and as I gained the top I saw Col. Marshall come galloping down from the right. He rode out into the crowd of fleeing Confederates, calling out: ’Lay down your arms and surrender.’ I jumped down, and telling the boys to follow me, ran after the colonel, giving the same call. There were apparently thousands of them trying to get over the hills to the Franklin pike. Our left claimed,the capture of that battery, too, yet we had been in possession quite awhile before their line had fairly started.”

“Lay Down Your Arms and Surrender."