The Avoyelles pelican. [volume] (Marksville [La.]) 1859-186?, 1862-06-14
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A. LAFARauE.
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about to put on new one when !, ~.
cured TO me that the powder i'll il. ,u!..
might be d,.nnp I run my hand in the
lsbfeast Of my COZ 70 gst y pi.ayfc Iisk flr.
tube Wi and Nv did M [ lnokrt saItaA
and saw George Iriol one II our cort,or-
ais going baek With the blood slicklinx
down his arm and hand. | con1in,u 4
advancing toward the enemy without
cd nv ;,;H ta6s sfa
other cap. l looked up and saw with
wonder aud astonishuent that our reg
ime,,t WAS retr4ating and had lett me "I'
the fela1 rahsal ms rifle took dsl'eera.e :. j
vainae 1T one Of The retiring ankec o'1l-
GERS aud fired. looked TO SEQ wi'as,psaz
] feet III. shot had on hin ! saw hi'n
! throw ~, il left arm and Kept on. l
i loaded my g,,1antl then turned round tn
J; lec what nas the matter with the ~rrgl-
nelt; | saw them forming again about nj.
tyyarls behind me and the Yankees hrins:
hv His time out Of sight | turned round
walked back and took my place IN 'ilss
! ranks.
| We tIl,,n went OH about = nall lnlle
! and when VII had marched through \
creek bottom and upon a hi Ii h!A on
the other sidt. We found that one OF the
enelny's batteries was pla. ing on us and
they nearly had the range the Shell ana
shot were tlving and w::istling over us
| in every direction. We saw that it was
no ,,st, to stand up there and have our
rank thnn-d by the grape shot and cali
ister that the yankees were then lnr.
| ling at us from their batteries, SO We re-
tired about twenty steps below the bro"
| of It G hill on W ,ich we were then forln-
| cd
While there md just az I Ii d tini.|'e
ed eating The can OF oysters, that ! tla'l
picked up i'll the yankees camp. one OF
our men had his arm broken by q spent
grape shot. Gen. Pond then determin-
ed to try to take Tat battery that was
SO annoying to us. SO he marched our
brigade which was composed OF the l6th
and 18th Crescent Regiments and tue
Orleans Guards down into hollow. be-
low the brow of The steep hill for about
quarter of mile, then we turned to the
right into another follow and marched
down that Until the battery waicll We
/ intended to charge was ON our right
4 We then halted formed into line OF bat
tie marched up the s,i'l'nt r.'a'','fe1s',ss
the command to charge at the doooin
quick. We did so but there. was 50 mu,h :,
h,ushwood, and other obtructions III the
wav that we could not keep dressed we
soon got to,the top Of the hill charged
throtssh some yankee tents whlch again
n,dt. MS present 81 broken front but on
Wa went ut run the bullets wlstlins
and f,l}ino around lis like haii. NY
front rank man Henry Wade ny '''s'no
uttered a groan and fell, did not s!oP
, to s4e where he was hurt but jumping
!, over his body took his place IN th'
font rank. When in about four nun.
: dred Yards of the battery we received y
the command to halt and ire; ! s.iel'
: : " tbat we had been too rash IN cnar'
! e;np for instead of one FIVE or SIX pat
+ ferries e opened on us and five or SIX thous-
and infantry appeared IN s,snc 81 ~, aooa. @
= four or FIVE hundred yards on W. VIZ
q ordered to retreat but that cornna as,a,,
Z. 1;d not hear, for never thought o1 s'c,' =
d = thing. took deliberate ann a. .'le'a ~
\ lines and fired but the smoke was :. se
- :, dense that I could not mark the e'Iee'
us of nv fire. I loaded my gun again ane
I'd sae;ne those near me retreating | LOOKED
IL to % s,.e where the Regiment was and q
-. i, hont # thirty vars behind me- | saw then
:, ~ full retreat SAW then that II was IL
,o' use for me to stay there SO ! fel' o,c' '
La about twenty steps behind an oia ca, GA
on root stump wlters found Willie Ora"
ror for and several others Of our compan.
W. remained there few minutes d''r.n ~,
oA ,,h;ch time the balls flew around us M
the ha;l and we could hear them whlsz'1
} n ., ovar onr heads and about our ears wor
,in- t|,an if we had been in a yellow jack
nm nast I then retired below the ORC
w ae,l ~ tha hill where / found our Regi9el !
'aas W. v then commenced retreating and
ross ,;evs that It was a goptf thing that
the Ell hack SO soon for if We had stood mt
Of ten minutes longer with the pa.'e' a., !,
the had got our range believe tina. 'he y.
~ " man MAJ of us would have been shot ao'
the We had not retreated more than a q',aI
shed IS S mill. whsft we heard heavy nr
] TO s.,,,r tbs, same place, bnt altttle tart
ybat to our right and III Few ~ ''f,ss'rs, ''rsp
nov h.ard = tremendous shout and then
nent I se. il seems we did good thing at
isen. although we had to retreat. We. nc 1
and soon afterwards that some ol our :, =
"a .ae we're advancing against the same ., oa.'
eso that we had attacked and we no,
sides attractrd tie enemy's fire gave u
,kaes ~ .,,t,,,;tv of advancing nndis,