The Avoyelles pelican. [volume] (Marksville [La.]) 1859-186?, 1862-06-14

, and cut to pieces and then that tileir
regiment was retiring in all directions.
A great many wounded men passed us,
some shot in the arms others in the lefs.
and one poor fellow waspierced throuEh
with mi1kie ball which dfsred his
right brea| ast below the collar bone
and-ca bis back inst between
made viii landing in ra5ts sxpect,ns
every mom4t to hear the eon'htnd' r.
70 .rd. 1t vas while standing here that
I first heardIa cannon ball whistles tlayse
passed near us but too high 10 do any
damage; ons passed to the left, one t. the
right and the other passed over our heads
about twenty feet high. I'll tell yout they
whistled shrilly enough to make the
boys dodgen every disection which was
exeussble a it was the first they had
eyer heard I'll tell you NC became
used tohcaring cannon balls and bullets
whistle bcfbre that and tue following
dsy was over, we were soon ordered to
advance and soon arrived at the place
where the second Tenn. charged up the
hill. Dead and wounded men were ~
ing scattered about in all directions, Yam
KEGS and @Soutllernars mixed up pro-
miscuously, The only way in which we
could distinguish the Yankees from our
boys was by their blue coats, which
seems to bestheir favorite uniform, rs
ev.ryo one that saw had on blue coat.
We fell back trcm there about two hun
dred. yards and then advanced again,
aud as we we're passing the place, | pick
ed up yankee cantecn as a kind of
trophy. We kept marching up as fast
as our ,nsl' front of us drove tie en-
emy back eh makes me think that
we y weserve. We advanced
in several honrs, and
assed ons-ef Ii" Yankee en-
! campm, Iat twelve O'Clock, from
which til mad been driven a
few houi re by the troops in ad-
vance lhrre we halted and form
ed ind ltle for hitherto we had
r.. on y divisions on account
of the ~ . through which we were
marching .was astonished at the supe
riority of heir tents to ours. They hae
nice confq liable walled tents with sUe.
in. them keep them warm. After
saw the ykuries with which they wsr'
supplied Wondered how our Southern
+ troops maj eged to whip them. fro1 !.
the state in which they had retired fror
their tenta it was evident that our boy
had taken them by surprise, which | a
!, t.rwards learned from wounded, ! al
d kee was case. We had an e1eel,s' sa
dinner which we took from the yankee
W, had aacc fresh bakers bread al
fresh butter, cheese, crackers, ham.
= / ate as n ,ch as wanted and then MT
nv have sck with crackers, cheese al
a can of6ysters. We soon afterwar
n left that place and marched onwa a
- .ho,t a mile or two when we were HI
: t.1 and commanded to lie down, we W.
. =. then in i old field. At first ! did !
',s know what was the reason that the y
rv ior ordersl us to lie down. sE but >,
y, at found o, what was the matter. T., :
Oh we had icarcely stretched ourselves
-. the gr,uM when we began to near
49, bullets whistle over our heads hk
"a swarm okbees. It lasted about a Il
~. ute and ben We were ordered to get
,nt left face and double quick, from
NV hill on bich we had layed down &C
.f creek pttom and up a steep hill on
and other 81 :. We then formed in Int
lay. battle q b marched over fence into
We woods, pwn steep hill and up on
-. side Of other. We were then mar
ased into IN yer held ba''s s. = coo
,,;n.. s4 M I was - fire at, when ! saw direet'.
lery. front of us a large h,.,, Al.
:, ! then ttrnsa my eyes e tho right
If an the tens extended as .. = !,
see But there saw something else D
so0 Af Va