Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-14


Iron the Memphis Appeal, 1cth.l
An incident of heroic conduct is related
in connection with the first heavy charge
that our cavalry made upon the enemy,
which, as an Incident tof the battle. should
not go unrecorded. When the two columns
came face to face, Col. Walkers regiment
was Immediately opposed to the 7th Iowa.
and David Vofimer, of Captain Stokes
company. belonging TO Col. Walkers regi-
ment, drawing the attention of comrade to
the stars and stripes that foated over the
enemy, avowed his Intention OF capturing
the colors or die in the attempt. The charge
was made, the center of Walkers regiment,
Capt Stokes position, facing the center OF
the lowe regiment. As the two columns
came within few yards of each other,
young Vollmer and young man, by the
name of Lynch both made rush for the
colors, but Vollmer's bayonet first pierced
the breast of the color-bearer, aud grasping
Jihe flag, be waved it over his head in tri-
uBph At this moment he and Lynch were
both shot dead. and as Vollmer tell, emula-
ting the ardor of these chiyalrouS young
men, Capt. j. Welby Armstrong stepped for
ward to capture The colors, when he also
feel grasping the fig staff. These eolors are
now at Gen. Pillows office.
Gen. Fouke, an M. Gu of some little dis
tinctiou, was commander of brigade on the
field, and it is said that in retreating on to
| the boat. colonel of one of our regiments,
who was formerly his personal friend, pre-
| vented soldier from shooting .'his honor, =
| through ercess of courtesy, he being a "distin-
| guished visitor"
Capt. Brooks, Of one of the Northern reg
| iments, who came down under flag of truce
to bury. the dead, found a brother on the
field, shot by a mimic ball through the head
who had been attached TO Col. Tappan's Ar
| kansas regiment as surgeon, and formerly
of Memphis The recognition is said to
have been one OF the most affecting scenes
on the field,e the surviving brother sitting
| down beside his mothers son, wept like u
child.
/ The Loss of the Enemy.
| +. The loss of the enemy is estimated at 293
/ actually counted and buried on the field, lO(
| carried on the boat bearing the flag of truce
and 15o killed on the boats as they We're EN-
Notwithstanding a total of killed on thei
side of 548 Esquire Robinson, of Sheib,
/ county, of company A, I'd regiment, was cap
| tnred. and was on the boat at the time on
troops were pouring CALLING fire into them
and he estimates the number OF killed on tn
boats at over 200. He was returned to Co
| lumbns to-day. s
/ We have 100 prisoners in our possession
unihjured and about the same number woun
ded are in our hospitals. The enemy are re
ported to have l02 of our men at Cairo,
[ large number taken from our hospitals o.
the other side.
/ statement OF Rev. MIR. Hogers.
/ EDITORS APPEAL.-Hnying assumed the 50
5riqua of '.Aristides,'' in the article you pull
lished on Sunday morning, L am obliged, i
order to act his part, il no other motive in
PEELED me, to disown the honor of havin
. 'captured Gen. Boiler and a stand of color
on the battlefield" as stated by your col
respondent; and to compensate your reader
for claiming even a small space in your VA
liable columns, will add some incidents
the battle which may not prove wholly unir
} ieresiiDg. i ?
First, as to Gen. Boiler and the oolOr
and how | came 20 commend them, AS
pro ters actor in Gen. Folks staff, it devOlYe
upon me to gallop from squadron to squad
ron of our brave but disheartened boys, VIII
had been broken and driven, from the ope
field by the enemy in ambush. While thu
engaged, dashed up to about one hundre
men, screened hy some faiien trees from th
| battery which had been captured, and turne
, alternately upon our retreating forces upo
the bank, and our reinforcemsnts embarkin
fresn the opposite shore-my eloquenee wa
evidently abortive-they had found sal
: retreat and intended TO hold it against a
| such s.souibsn as mine. One man said {wit
! but email boy, about fourteen years of ag
who had belonged to Watson's battery,
suppose,1 sprang to HE feet, exclaiming
"Give me a musket and Pll follow Gener;
/ Pelk.n l Immediately commanded the ma
who had refused to move, to give the boy b
gun, aud demanded the boys name. I'M
name" be exclaimed, (octaso,) sis Charlie
Dutchman. and I'm from louisiana "Wel
Charley replied, 'I'll report you to Ge
Il n fhaCo
an instant they dashed up the bank, led
i Charley, and mingled in the fight. "Cha
acteristie of Louisiana hoys,o exclaimed Ge
i Polk, when l reported him.
: l. The staff meanwhile had left me, and ga
: Hoped on to overtake them, but was detaine
: again by squad of soldiers, who bore
: ing coInrade, tStockinger) some Of who
. knew me. He desired baptism, ana tho
I | bold fellows who had fought under Pillow
!, | bravely after the battery was taken, no
/ kneeled around the dying man with .tall the
: mother in their eyes'-some sobbing bitter
, and commended his soul into the hands
+ his Creator and Saviour. kept the eantet
!, from which had baptized him aud bore it
! our brave and pious general suffering f
: | water4here found Gen. Boiler deliyeriT
/ | his sword by command of Gen. Polk to b
! equal in rank-a'nOble looking fellow fwbo
! name forget) from Louisiana, and &c
Polk then gave me Dis sword himself IN
my costody, and the stand of colors. Tn,
were worth to us q thousand mea, for whe
ever / exhibited the captured stars al
stripes yocifeIating the sfereotyped spec
communicated by "Aristides," and given
us in substance by Gen. Polk, the boys shor
ed and dashed on with resistless energy al
incredible daring.
. HOW LETT. REA FELL.
+ cannot say he was leading Capt. Burton
;, company, without informing your reade