The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-02-20
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| lSus DTANO Ga lIal adventure, VI
lionel form your line for the charge
And down they went upon the enemy
Kane and his gallant Kentucky charge
ahead. Understanding the principl
that sends tallow-candle through
plank, and that the momentum of be
| dy is its weight multiplied by its veloci
,ty, he dashed through the opposing force
and turning to engage after breaking
their line, he found himself fairly sur
rounded, and two of the enemy giving
him their special attention. Ono o
these was disposed of in an instant BY
rearing his horse, who, with a blow o
his fore foot, foored his man, and wheel
ing suddenly, the Doctor gave the 9th
er sword wound, which opened the ex.
treme lilac artery, and put him hors dt
combat This subject of the Doctors
military surgery was the young Maxim.
ilian. The brief melee terminated with
the cry from the Mexicans, We sur.
render Two of the officers made q dash
for an escape, the Doctor pursued them,
but soon gave up the chase When be
returned, he found his ruffians prcpar-
ing to massacre the prisoners. As he
galloped past the young officer whom he
had wounded, he heard him cry, SGnor
save nay father A group of the guer-
rilla guards were dashing upon the Mex
leans, huddled together, with their Ian
ces at rest. He threw himself before
them-ona of them transfxed his horse,
another gave him severe wound in the
groin. He killed the first lieutenant,
wounded the second lieutenant, and shot
a part of the colonel's beard off with the
last charge of his six-shooter; then
graphing with him, and using his fists,
he brought him to terms. The lives of
the prisoners were saved, and the Doc
tor received their swords. AS soon as
General Gaona could reach his son, who
lay at little distance from the scene of
the last struggle, the Doctor found him
sitting by him receiving his last adieus.
Shifting the soldier and resuming the sur
geop, he secured the artery, and put the
wounded man in condition to travel
The ambulance got up for the occasion,
contained at once the wounded second
lieutenant, and the man that bad pre-
pared then, for slnw travelling, himself
on his litter from the lance wound re-
eeived in defence of his prisoners =
When they reached Puebla, the Doc
tors wound proved the worst in the par
ty. He was taken to the government
house, but the old General, in gratitude
for his generous services, had him con-
veyed to his own house. Gen. Childs,
commander at Puebla, hear
ing of the generosity of his prisoner,
him without making any
terms, and the old gentleman became
the principal nurse of his captor and
benefactor, dividing his attention be-
tween him and his son, who lay wound
ed in an adjoining room. This illness
of our hero, was loHg and doubtful, and
he was reported dead to his friends at
home .-.-
When he recovered and returned, he
was employed in the Coast Survey
While engaged in this service, the gov
crnment by its correspondence with
Lady Franklin, became committed for
an attempt at the rescue of Sir John
and his ill-starred companions in Arc
tic discovery. Nothing could be better
addressed to the Doctors governing SEN
timents than this adventure. The en-
terprise of Sir John ran exactly in tie
of his own enthusiasms-the SER
vice of natural science combined with
heroic personal effort, and added''to this,
that sort of patriotism which charges
itself with it's own full share in the exc
,ution of national engagements of hon.
Or; besides this cordial assumption of
his country,s debts and duties, there
was no little force in the appeal of a
noble, brave spirited woman to the chiv-
airy of the American Navy.
He was bathing in the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico, on the 18th of May,
$780, when he received his teisgraphic
order to proceed forthwith to New
York, for duty upon the Arctic expedi-
tion. In nine days from that date he
was beyond the limits of the United
States on his dismal voyage to the North
Pole OF this first American expedi-
tion, as is well known to the public, he
was the surgeon, the naturalist, and the
historian. 1t returned disappointed of
its main object, after winter in the re-
gions of eternal ice and fifteen months
absence.
Scarcely allowing himself day to
from the hardships of this cruise,
he set on foot the second attempt, from
which he has returned, after verifying
By actual observation the long question:.
ed existence of an open sea beyond the
latitude of $50, and beyond the temper
ature, also of 1000 below the freezing
point. His Personal Narrative pub
Iished early in 1853, recounts the ad-
ventures of the first voyage, and discov-
srs his diversified qualifications for such
an enterprise.
The last yyyage occupied two winters
in the highest latitudes, and two years
and half of unintermitted labor, with