The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-08-07
Incident of the Battle.

knocked out of his saddle by a ball
from one of our rifemen. "There
goes Old Baker, of the Georgian
First! +" shouted one of our boys, in
hearing of his chaplain. "Who !? d"
queried the parson Colonel Baker,
Of the Rebel ranks. has just gone to
his long home " " All well, " repli-
ed the chaplain, quietly, 1.-THE longer
/ live the less cause ! have to find
fault with the inscrutable acts of Di-
| vine Providence
An unlucky private in one of the
New York regiments was wounded in
this fight. and his father arrived at
the hospital just as the surgeon was
removing the ball from the back Of his
shoulder. The boy lay with his face
downward on the pallet. "Ah ! my
poor son, said the father, mournfnlly,
I'm very sorry for you. But it's a
bad place to be hit in-thus IN the
back" The. sufferer turned over,
barred his breast, and pointed to the
opening above the arm-pit, exclaim-
ing, " Father, here's where the ball
aoent IN ="
One Of the Zouayes was struck by
cannon shot, which tore through his
thigh close to his body, nearly sever
ing the limb from the trunk-As he
fell he drew bis photograph from his
breast, and said in the nearest comrade
"Take this to my wife Tell her I
died ike a soldier, faithful to my
country's cause, and the good old flag.
Good bye !" and died where he fell. "
An artillery man lay on the ground,
nearly exhausted from loss of blood,
and too weak to get out OF the way of
the tramping troops and horses that
fitted about him. A mounted horse
man came toward him when he raised
the bleeding stumps of both his arms,
and cried ont don't tread on me,
Capt'n See both hands are gone. !"
The trooper leaped over him. shell
broke near by, and the crashing frag-
ments put the sufferer quickly out of
his misery.
A Rebel--one Of the Georgian reg
iments-lay with fearful shot-wound
in his side, which tore ont several OF
his ribs. The life-blood of the poor
fellow was fast oozing ont, when one
of our troops dashed forward from ont
ofthe melee, and fell, sharply wounded,
close beside him. The Georgian rec
ognized his uniform, though he was
fatally hurt, and feebly put out his
hand. eve came into this battle, +"
| he said, "enemies. Let US die friends.
Farewell !" He spoke no more but
his companion in disaster took the
exter ded hand, and escaped to relate
this touching fact.
One Of our riAemen bad his piece
carried away by ball, which struck
it ont of his hands, just as his company
was in the act of advancing to storm
one of the smaller Rebel batteries
Unarmed, he sprang forward and
threw himself down on his face, under
the enemy's guns A Zouaye lay
there, wounded and bleeding, out OF
| the way Of the murderous fire. Lay
close-lay close, old boy" said the
latter to the new conner. The boysll
take this ole furnace n minhit, and
then we'll get up, an give the Rebels
fits ag' in Three minutes afterwards
the battery was carried and the two
| soldiers were in the thickest of the
fight again.
! A reporter for one of the New York
/ papers lost his carriage. and when the
stampede occurred he ran about, con-
fused. in search of the missing vehicle
without success. He saw the dust
| increasing, and the means of con7en-
ance home rapidly decreasing So he
jumped into passing ambulance,
which drove rapidly off. He found his
horse on the road above the battle
field, and jumped out of the ambulance
again inst as cannon ball passed
through it, cutting wounded man
almost in halves ! He declares, pro-
fessionally, that he who fights and
runs away, lives to fight another day T.
| Two of the New Hampshire Second
were leaving the field through the
woods, when they were suddenly
confronted by FIVE Rebels, who order
ed them to halt or we fire." The
Granite boys saw their dilemma. fF
the foremost of them presented bis
| musket, and answered, halt or zoe
| fire p and at the word both diseharg-
ed their pieces. The Rebel fell, his
assailant was unharmed. Sizzling his
companion's musket, he brought it to
his shoulder, and said TO the other,
q FIRE both fred their guns at once,
and two more Rebels fell The others
fed The leaders name was Hanford
from Dover. N. TT.