FRANKLIN’S “LEFT GRAND DIVISION.”

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During this day, as in all days of battle, many sad and many humorousincidents occurred. Some of the shots that were fired too high for the line ofbattle went hurtling through the headquarters of General Franklin into the°pen grove of large trees. General George D. Bayard, much endeared to usby his social qualities and his rare merits as a cavalry leader, was mortallybounded by a round shot through the thigh. Bayard and his friend, CaptainD. G. Gibson, commanding a battery of flying artillery, were within ten feet°f Franklin, and were just rising from the ground to go to luncheon whenf'be shot came. It severed Gibson’s sword-belt without injury to him, andstruck Bayard. Many generals could have better been spared from the service.

A few days before the battle there had come to the Sixth Corps the firstbnportation of bounty men. They had been placed in the front to savethe veterans for heavy work, andas their wounded men were cal-led back through the ranks of the°hl soldiers, the latter would crycut, “ Take good care of those men;they have cost the Government aSreat deal of money.” The bounty*Uen were at first a by-word and aea use of irritation to the real vol- >,

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Rearing some heavy musketry fir-in my front, I went to ascer-tain the cause, and while ridingalong behind a regiment lying with^heir faces to the ground, a rounds hot struck the knapsack of a sol-f ^ ( u, and, cutting it open, sent ae '°ud of underclothes into the air,a nd high above them floated a scat-j ei 'cd pack of cards. The soldier,faring the shouts of laughter,av ned over to see what was thejhatter, and when he saw the mis-hap which had befallen him madea feeble effort to join in the laugh,between 1 and 2 a. m. of Decem-

14th a council of war of the . ,

P ati d division commanders was ordered, and General Burnside announced1,18 intention of leading the Ninth Corps (his old command) m an assault‘Jf bist the works which the Second Corps, led by such men as Couch andHancock, had failed to carry. For some reason the project was abandoned. ee p. 127.] During the next two days the Left Grand Division remainedjj 1 Position, with no disturbance except that produced by an angiy sknnns illie ^dth an occasional artillery engagement.

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Killed at JFrederickHlmr^, December 13, 1862.See p. 141.

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