The Lt. Col. of the 135th USCT was David H. Budlong, who lived in a lot of places after the war, including Montana, where this story is told.
From the Potter Album Page 46 An article from the Livingstone Enterprise (Montana).
The following interesting narrative of one of the many heroic minor incidents of the late fratricidal struggle is related to the Enterprise by one of the audience who heard the two, principal characters call up the memories of the thrilling episode:
It was in Lauman's celebrated charge at Jackson, Mississippi, July 12, 1863. The rebels under Joe Johnston held Jackson. Breckenridge's division, comprising the rebel left, occupied the south side, entrenched in rifle pits and redoubts with 30 pieces of artillery and 4200 muskets.
The 3rd Iowa, 28th, 31st and 53rd Illinois regiments formed a brigade in command of Col. Pugh of the 41st, holding the extreme right of the Union line between the Pearl River and the New Orleans road. The brigade was ordered to charge Breckenridge's position.
The brigade formed under the cover of the woods, a little force of under 1,100 men. Their charge lay across a cornfield half a mile to the rebel works. The corn had been cut down by sabres so that as soon as the men came out of the woods they were in full view of the enemy.
--Old Secesh
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