The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-22

| ant (whose name could not learn in one Of the
Iowa companies, that cannot forbear mention.
ing. He had been shot in the leg, and had fall
len. He rose and supported himself upon
stump, cheered his COMPANY, whose Captain had
been killed, TO push on TO the then important
crisis toward the reinforcement Of Gen. Carr.
While the Lieutenant was waving his sword,
an artillery wagon vas driven nadly along the
road, BY the eide Of which he was Standing
The wheel struck him, threw him to the ground
causing instant DEATH Poor fellow! saw rude
men weep over his corpse, and they proved them
selves Drawer and truer for their tears.
MAaNANiMOUs REBEL
Even Secession cannot crush the noble in
| stinets of the heart. Even . rebel often has
the generous qualities of nature and the lofty
instincts Of gentlemen.
A case in point:
A Colonel of one of the Louisiana regiments
saw poor private, . Federalst, lying wounded
alone BY the roadside, and begging for drink.
The colonel dsmounted, and. taking the soldiers
canteen, went TO the creek and filed it; gave
him drink and placed him in an easier position
all this while our bullets were flying in bis
immediate vicinity.
am very sorry do not know the gallant
Colonel's name. He never did nobler act on
the battle field He has some reason to boast
of chivalry though doubt if he does so. If
the South comprehended chivalry as he compre.
bends it, their assumption of that high attri-
butte would not render it subject OF merrment
and an object of scorn.
/ BRAVE LIKuTENANr-coLoNEL
Lieutenant Colonel Heron, of the Ninth Iowa,
/ was wounded in the battle and taken prisoner,
though he lost hi, liberty through no fault of
his, as he seemed determined to die rather than
| fall into Rebel hands. He was surrounded by
ten or twelve Of the enemy, and his surrender
demanded in vain. He killed one and wounded
| three of the rebels, and was making every re-
sistance with his sword, when his arms were
seized and his opposition rendered impossible.
He would have been killed most assuredly, had
not Southern MAJOR saved his life, and shot an
Indian dead who was trying to butcher him af
i ter his arms were bound with a handkerchief.
ATROCITIES OF THE INDIANS.
| The three thousand Cherokee, Choctaw
Creek and Seminole Indians under Col. Albert
Pike, renegade son of Connecticut, commit
ted the greatest atrocities in the field, not only
plundering and manning the dead, but actually
numbering and scalping the wounded as they
lay helpless and suffering on the ground. More
than one hundred and twenty of cur brave men
were thus barbarously treated by the savage
foe, who had been wrought to pitch of frenzy
4 ny luc ItpclS, IHLOuku pdSSlUudtS dppcdlS duu
| declarations that the Yankees. designed to en-
slave them, and force them, with chains and
whips, to do the vilest drudgery in their aris-
tocratic homes in the North.
Not only did the enemy thus poison their
| minds, but every day before the savages went
| into action they received large rotations Of
| whisky mixed with gunpowder, which rendered
the naturally fierce sons of the forest perfect
| demons. Under this extraordinary stimulus
| they forgot their usual caution, and, exposing
| themselves after the American fashion, were
| killed in great numbers. Still they were very
| formidable, and often attacked the Federalists
in the rear, and as they we're passing some bend
in the road or piece of wooded land, and did
much execution. They yelled and danced and
brandished their knives, and acted like crews
of madmen; but when they became partially
sober, became more prudent, and fought after
their time honored fashon-from behind trees
| and fallen timber.
When our troops discovered on the second
day that the Indians were using the scalping-
| knife, their rage knew no bounds, and they
made sad havoc in the ranks Of the red devils;
staying them without mercy whenever and
wherever they could reach them. In one in
stance the Second Iowa battery which had
four of its members scalped, obtained the
range of a body of four or five hundred of
these savages and fired several charges of can
mister and shell upon them in rapid succession,
at a distance of not more than three gu arters
of mile
The effect upon the natives was terrible
They were cut down like grass, and the dusky
demons who were unhurt ran bowling from the
field, and could not be rallied again that day
(Firday) though Col. Albert Pike shot several
with his own hand and bawled at them until he
was hoarse. Some ten or twelve Of the chiefs
were killed, whose names were Pri-chi-i-li-ko,
Seminole Maa to wee, Greek, Sag -hache,
Seminole Tar-a-nil-fut, (Cherokee,) No-ir-
wampum, (Choctaw,) Yuhta-min-go, (Choc-
taw,) Nor-i-mOs- ker, Greek, Jora tink -tinkel,
Cherokee Bo.reop o-lee, (Seminole,) and
Elk.i-nan- u-ros, (Creek)
DO re.Op-o lee, was one Of the most renown-
ed OF warriors, and though over fifty years of
age was athletic and daring to an extraordinary
degree, and famed in his tribe alike for his
counsels and his prowess. lie had fought
with the celebrated Red Jacket in Florida du-
ring the Seminole, war, and bore upon his per-
| son no less than twenty wounds.
| THE REBELS SLAUGHTERED BY THEIR SAVAGE
| ALLIES.
1t is said the Indians, in the engagement of
Friday, became so excited by the alcohol they
had drunk, and the scenes that they witnessed
that they turned their weapons upon their own
allies, and butchered and scalped the rebels
and Federalists with the most charming indif-
ference. An instance of this is given by one
| of the prisoners, a member of one of the COM
panies that suffered from what the Southerners
believed to be the treachery of the savages
Four companies of the Arkansas troops be-
| longing to Ben. McCulloch's Division were
marching up one Of the ridges north of Sugar
Creek, on Saturday morning to strengthen the
enemy, who were hardly pressed by General
! Sigel. They soon came in sight of about three
hundred Greeks and Choctaws who stood on the
brow of an adjacent hill. When within about
one hundred and fifty yards of the savages the
latter opened fire on them. The rebel Major
who commanded the battalion cried out to them
that they were killing their friends; but the In
dams did not heed what he said, and again dis
charged their pieces.
'The id rascals have turned traitors"
| give them no quarter
The Southerners needed no second order
| They attacked them with great energy, and for
nearly an hour desperate battle was waged
| on the Ridge; the Indians fighting with blind
fury, and scalping all who fell into their hands,
whether living, wounded or dead. This is des-
cribed MS one of the severest actions of the en-.
tire battle, and the Indians, who were finally
routed. are said to have lost one hundred and
twenty-five in killed and wounded. JUNIus.
The Capture Of Fernandina.
| The following private letter has been received
| by Senator from Flag Officer Dupont:
| WABASH, OFF FERNANDINAl
March 6, 1862.
Ny DEAR SIR. TIE victory here was blood
less, but most complete in it's results The
| Georgians were first to run, and absndonla for
midabe battery on Cumberland Island.
The defences have astounded US by their ca
pabilities, formidable character, and scientific
| location, with wonderful immunity from danger.
| Their cannon are heavy and fine One 1870.
pound rifle gun which they had sung in the
| track to get away. but dropped on the beach,
| we have nothing to compare with.
| Gen. Lee pronounced the place entirely tena.
bic two weeks SINCE and Col. N. Blair OF Ord.
! nance, late commander in the Navy, declared he
would keep me "off until hell had frozen over"
But their valor gave out when they received the
telegraph from Brunswick, that l had got into
st. Andrews Sound with all the light vessels;
but even by this route We had to encounter Fort
Ciinch and the Georgia Battery ON Cumberland