Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-15
CEN NC0TT ATLUNDYS LANE.


Every lav hit adds TO the list of laurelled deeds
which circle and cluster around the otow OF inc
gallant leader of the Wing party The more his his
tory is examined and the more the broad and bright
pages of American achievements are looked into,
the more grand and truly great do his character and
deeds appear. 1t has but recently been made
to appear how admirably his character and deeds
bear investigation and from every scrutiny, no mat
ter how searching, his character but rises higher
and higher and, like pure gold, comes forth from
the furnace of hate and detraction brighter and
more cffulgent.
Among the many deeds, which impartial history
must associate with his great name, the hafd-foueh
battle of Bundy's Lane stands forth pre-eminent'
rs having been achieyd against fearful odds ana
advantages in the position OF the enemy and over
men, trained in the wars of the Peninsular fighting
against the conqueror of Europe. 1t was there
that the proud soldiery of Wellington learned that
the Anglo Saxon blood of the Western World, was
not to be chilled or proned by the glittering bayo
nets of European soldiery, and that Americans,
though unframed TO arms, when led by Winfield
Scotland fighting for seamen's rights, knew how
to conquer. Among other incidents of that hard
fought battle, in which "HulPs surrender ,pds re-
trieved' we have recently learned the following,
which we believe, has never before been made
public and which sufficiently explains itself. =
James Galloway, near West Alexander, Pa, and
brother of Major Samuel Galloway, of Adams Co.,
Pa, in his declaration for pension, made under
oath before Esquire Yates, and in the presence of
DR.. McJechon, from whom this statement was OBJ
tanned, among other things in relation to the bat
tie of Lundy's Lane, said: -.t .f -a.
Towards the evening of that day l was with
"the remaining remnant of my company, placed at
"the extreme of the right wing, during short in
"terval in the conlct-an interval in which each
"army was preparing to charge-when Gen. Scott
erode slowly up to the end of the company and
"stopped within six or eight feet Of me. He was
every pale, and appeared extremely weak; his
shoulder, ann and breast was in one gore of blood
"-the blood trinkling down his body and leg and
"from his foot to the ground. Gen. Scott then said
"to the officer, Il want one of your young men to
"get on behind me to hold me on my horse, The
"oficer glanced at his men, but before he had time
"to give the order, young man standing beside
cine, laid down his musket, and with one spring
'tseated himself behind the General The GEN
"eral then turned his horse and galloped slowly
"away towards the main body of the army
Such is the language in which an old soldier
shows forth the valor of his leader and such that
vALoR by which Lundy's Lane was won and Amer
lean valor re-nstated that proud emnence
which itwon for itself in our revolutionary days.
Few men would have acted as did Scott on that
eventful day. Covered with blood, pierced with
bullets, his fountains of life flowing like water in
defence of his country, still, when the battle was
10 be won, when his countrys call was heard, and
precedes the decisive moment, ere the last deadly
charge is made, which decides the fate of battles
and which burls SO oft to untmely graves the poor
victims of war; he faultered not, he Jdnted not,
but with that noble devotion to his countrys cause,
which characterized him at Queenstown heights,
| when he called upon his soldiery to die with him
rather than surrender; with that chvaric courage,
| which rather than sustain defeat would exhaust
life's fount the field of battle, he propped him
| active and unwounded soldier, made that terrific
"charge" of which history has spoken and which
swept the British from their iron capped position.
Such was Scott at Lundy's Lane, such at Queens
town, such at Chippewa, such was he on the North
| Western frontiers, such among the Cherokees, and
such in Mexico, ever ready to with his hearts
blood his countrys cause, and Cfer up himself fol
her glory and advancement. Such will he be al
the White House,shoul his country call him there,
and who that looks at his past services can doubt
but that he will be the faithful and tried
public servant the same efficient and powerful e1-
ecutor of the peoples will ..l.....