Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — Chicamauga. [ARTICLE]

Chicamauga.

N. Y. Herald. Had Preside!) t Garfield been obliged, to select the day on which he should die he undoubtedly would have fixed upon the anniversary of the battle or Chiekamauga, and fate kindly selected the same date. AU acquaintances of the deceased President know with what satisfaction and pride he has frequently referred to to the great battle between Rose crajis and Bfagg, in which nearly 150,000 men were engaged, but the public may have forgotten the cause of the feeling. General Garfield was General Rosecrans’ fAdjutant General and wrote all the orders of the. day except the single one which, through a mi-jconception or otherwise, caused General Wood to take,his division out of line and cau3C ;a gap through which the euemy poured, driylng the left,, with Rosecrans back to Chattanooga, aud leaving Thomas to fight fearful odds. While the left was falliug back, and communication between the two wings was brokeb, Garfield insisted 0n returning, personally, to Thomas, afid Rosecrans reluctantly consented,where upon the future President, accompanied only by an orderly and an pffloer who acted as guide, (started for the field, fuided by the soiind of Thomas’ gtins. 'he orderly was wounded and so were the horses of both officers, for the woods were full of the enemy, hut the little party reachNl Thomas in safety, and Garfield not duly informed Thomas of the conditioii of the demoralized left, font succeeded in reporting to Rosecrans the situation at the front. The act was tnoroughly sousible, soldierly and brajve, aud no soldjer Witt wonder that its principal actor frequently recalled it.