The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-05-22

through the abatfis upon the rifle.pits
and threw the rebels out with their bay.
onets in double quick. Berry's charge
at the same time, all along the front,
settled a part Of the dispute between
the North and the South. The rebels
were whipped.
The Williamsburg battle was, in-
deed, as have said, an infantry fight.
Very much of it was hand to hand,
bayonet to bayonet, musket-butt to
musket-butt.- After Berry's brigade
came up, and after w ard and Riley led T
the 3sth and 4Oth New York into the
rl1e-pits, swarming at the time with the
savage tatter.demalions, the battle was
purely hand to hand conflict. A.
soon as we got them where we could
reach them, the question of compara-
tive manhood of Northern and Sonth~
ern men received speedy solution
Sigty three rebels lay in heap in one
section of the rife, pits-fury and the
outlay of the last and best powers of.
their savage natures set with iron hard
ness by death upon their coarse and
brutal faces. Not corpse of Union
man was near Them
On both sides the fighting was ten
times a. desperate as At Bull Run.
INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF WILL
LIAMsBURG. .
There can be no question that the
rebel savages bayoneted our wounded
Lieut.. Brush, of the New York 73d,.
was seen to fall dead. He was-shot'
through the heart When his body
was recovered, next day, it was wholly
naked, and bayoneted.
Alt wounded Zouaves, all having,
red shirts, who fell on the gound which,
the rebels pushed US from, were found
to have been bayoneted! They turned
the pockets of their own dead inside
out, and took off their shoes and stock
ings.
Heintzelman flew everywhere among
the New Jersey and other troops, who
gave indications of breaking out of tho
fight. He bawled himself hoarse, and
stiffened the arm wounded at Bull Run,
in ordering, coaxing, encouraging,
reckoning and waving to outnumbered
men into their ranks again. To infuss
enthusiasm into them, he wandered
around to. find band of music. He
saw three in group, and ordered them
to play Yankee Doodle in force! The
men, professional in the face of defeat
and death, said that they had not the
requisite number of instruments to do
Justice to all the notes of the tune
The General then hurried around for
more-found a part of another band
united them to the professional three,
and electrified the worn out infantry
with the "Star- Spangled Bannsr,'
/" Yankee Doodle" and Seem of tie
Ocean" The effect was that of war
magic. 1t is in the small things as well
as the great that the true commander
is known. ,1.a
In The 3sth New York, Col. J. Ho-
bart Yards orders to his men were not
TO Ere sunless they could hit"
He was through the Mexican war, and
describes this as "the most CALLING fire
he ever saw" The stuff he and bis
men are made OF can be appreciated
from the fact that driven back several
times, they three times returned to the
charge. His Lieutenant Col. Strong,
man as lovely in his character as he
is courageous, led forward three COM
panies under his command three sew
eral times with the bayenet- Fatal
number! The brave officer was cnt
down, with three balls through him.
This Regiment lost 1873 men at Bull
Run.
The Second Michigan took into ac-
ton only 500 men the rest being left be-
hind, exhausted with the quick march,
through the mud and rain. Yet they
lost one out of every FIVE engaged.
The regiment was in the hottest of the
fight.
By the confessions of prisoners, 800
Of Berry's men (mostly Michigan,)
drove back, at the point of the bayo-
net 900 rebels.
In the rifie-pits in front of the 5th
Michigan, SO dead rebels were found,
every one killed by the bayonet.