Ohio Veteran Doesn't Like the "Rebel Yell"
By Wm. H. Morris, Company B, 10th O.V.C. Sanbury, Ohio

Confederate Veteran
Volume, Number 2, Page 62
February 1910

If you will allow me a little space in the VETERAN, I should like to inform I. B. Ulmer, of Ruffin's Dragoons, of some things he does not know. (Refer to his article on page 597. December, 1909 issue.) He says: "After crossing the Savannah River into South Carolina, our next important affair was at Aiken, when we utterly scattered Kilpatrick's cavalry and drove it back on its infantry supports." I admit that we left Aiken in a hurry. Two of my company were killed there and three captured.

He is mistaken about driving us back on our infantry supports. There came to our division at Savannah three hundred men who had been sick or wounded, and as we had no horses for them, they were given muskets. But Sherman's infantry was ten to fifteen miles away.
Kilpatrick had three brigades and about six thousand men in all. He had only the 2d Brigade at Aiken. The other two brigades were at Johnson's Station (?), some six miles east of Aiken, to which place we were driven.

My friend Ulmer fails to mention Waynesboro, where we drove Wheeler some six or seven miles. This was where my captain was wounded, so that we had to leave him, and he died the next day.

My Johnnie friend tells about the affair near Fayetteville and what was done there, but he was not aware that only the 3d Brigade of our division, and the smallest brigade in the
division, was engaged. Our 2d Brigade was four miles off at the time.

I do not write this for the purpose of causing ill will. Brother Ulmer saw only one side. For Heaven's sake, do not give me the Rebel yell, for it used to give me the cold chills. I close with best wishes to all the Confederates.