The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-10-16

would make it? The Reserrcs.
And now behold that gallant body OF
men-who had been tried hundred times
in a hundred different ways, and always
found true as steel-behold them o'r their
peri.ous march. Slowly yet surely tley
press forward, their ranks melting away
bcfole the feryent heat Of the enenlys FIRE
like snow-fakes before the sun. Onward
they go-"onward, and upward, and true
to the linc''-onward, like TENNYsoN's S
Light Brigade
''Into the jaws of death,
Into the gates of hell"
Onward-always onward.
at the bottom of the hill, and a short
distance off, as spectators Of the thrilling
scene, we're General MCCLELLAN, General
HOOKER and General BURNSIDE. Gen.
MCCLELLAN, becoming fully imbued with
the STirit that animated the Reserves, and
unable to rcpress his admiration of their
herois1n, shouted to General HOOKER -
"Look See those noble men climb
that dangerous mountain! Think you
they can reack the summit, iu the face Of
that destructive fire 2"
General HOOKER replied: "If there arc
any men on the face Of Gods earth who
can do it, the Reserves are those men,"
General MCCLELLAN answered: 'I
know it, General HOOKER! IJelicre and
trust they will do it
And they did do it. They gained the
top of the ACTIVITY. A short, sharp, de-
cisiye struggle, aid the foe was scattered
to the winds like ehatf.> The scales were
turned in the right direction, and ere
night glorious victory crowned our arms
Col. GALLAGHER, Of the llth, who was
acting Brigadicr General in the engage
ment, was wounded here. On being
brought down the mountain, General NJ
CLELLAN saw him, and asked him who he
was He was told, when lie said: "Col.
GALLAGHER, this is neither the fist nor
the second time the Reserves have saved
the army. You. have reason to be proud
of the wound received while leading your
men to victory. God bless you and them,"
At the battle of Antietam, the Reserves
also did good service. Let lis mention an
instance. They were stationed, as a re-
serve, at the noted corn-feld, which had
been taken and re-taken several times by
both sides, and absolutely. Uttered with
dead, when Michigan brigade was driv-
en- back past them by considerable body
of Rebels. They saw the enemy coming,
but being deceived by Federal flag
which they bore in their midst, the latter
were suffered to approach within tacenty
yards before their true stotas was discover
ed Immediately the 1lth regiment
poured into them a destructive fire, the
9th regiment, on the right, doing the
same, when, the Rebels wayering, charge
was made. resulting in their utter defeat
and discontinue.
Glorious old Reserves Yc deserve
well of your country, and your friends are
honcred in. claiming you as Pennsylvs-
mans
We had visited the clark and bloody
ground of Antietam the day subsequent TO
the battle, when the dead lay in heaps SO
thickly that it was almost impossible TO
pass-fricnd and foe
an one red burial blent,"-
now it was all different The dead had
all been deccntly inferred, and new made
mounds marked the last resting place of
H. ose who had passed away in the bitter
struggle. The country for miles around
presents the appearance of vast city of
the dead-the mausoieum Of high hopes
and ardent aspirations.
The false, wicked men Of the South, in
plungins this once happy country into the
IA aeStrom of civil war, and desolating
Of hearths and homesteads, have
III ucil--a all! how much--to answer for.
May they receive their reward r
:: We conyerseu with MANY Of the soldiers
OF the a smy Of the Potomac, -uot only
these we we've .ecqrainted With, but 9TH 4
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