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November, 1885 AD (search for this): chapter 9.66
October, 1885 AD (search for this): chapter 9.66
The death of Generals Cleburne and Adams.
In the Bivouac for October, 1885, James Barr, of Company E, 65th Illinois Volunteers, writing from Barwell, Kansas, said:
I was somewhat interested in that terrible affair at Franklin.
I was a prisoner near the cotton-gin for about three or four minutes, was ordered to the rear by some of the Confederates, and would have had a trip to Andersonville had it not been for that devil-may-care counter-charge made by Illinoisans and Kentuckians.
Our Colonel Stewart (65th Illinois) tried hard to save the life of General John Adams, of Mississippi. Colonel Stewart called to our men not to fire on him, but it was too late.
Adams rode his horse over the ditch to the top of the parapet, undertook to grasp the old flag from the hands of our color-sergeant, when he fell, horse and all, shot by the color-guard.
I was a reenlisted veteran, and went through twenty-seven general engagements, but I am sure that Franklin was the hardest-fought fi