Litchfield enquirer., 1863-12-24

- : had become torn and disarranged around tie breast, revealing to my astonished gage the beautiful but blood st ined bosom of 3 female. I advanced and looked down upon the corpse closely scrutinizing the fea,u es. The face wls ;.inilIar. Oae- seen, it could never De for gotten. It was the face of the captains mis- .ress, the lovely quadroon 7 ssasss .fss .as
 
 Incidents of CEsickalnauga.
 The Chicago Journals correspondent fur nishes the following thrilling incidents of the battle of Chickamausa
 But here is little story of something that came out uf the leaves cn Sunday, whence, us from first meridian. they yet reckon at Chat laiooga. l had it in m,lrl 70 tell doz.ll let tsrs ago. bus 1t has slipped out of sight till nuw. At one time ihele was d Hull in the bat le at least it had gone shattering and thuHderng down the line. and the boys were as much '' at ease" as boys can be upon whom, any moment the storm may roll back again. To be sure, occasional shot, with now and then a calstary sllell, kept them alive. but one of the boys ran down to a little sprng. and toward the woutis where the .ne,ny lay. for water. He had just stopped and swung down his ca tetn, wher tick-a rifle ball struck It ut an angle an b ,u., tied away. He looked around an instant, dis, covered nobody. thought it a chance shot-a piece ot lead, you know. that goes at d killing rate without any malice prepense-lnd 50, mo- wise inflrm uf purpose, he again bent To get he Water. iny-a secund bullet cut the cord ot his caiIteen ahd tiie boy got the idea j; siiarl,sliooter was after him. and he went to th.. right about and double quick to the ranks. A soldier from anoiher part of the lne ma ie pilgrimage to the sprlug, Was struck, and fell uy its trink. But where was the marksman Two ur thiee boys run out, to draw his tire while others watched. Crack went the piec.. gain. and some keen eyed fellow spied d puff of snoke rolling out from a little cedar. ! hat was the spot, then the rebel had made him hawks nest--iiI choice In,llan. a ChattanooJa III the tree, and drawing the green covert around him. was taking quiet hand at ,. stee- pie shooting" at long range.
 A big blue-eyed German, tall enough to look over into the third generation, and sharp shooter wi;hal, volunteered t, disiuise him. Dropping into q little runaway, that neared the tree diagonalIy. Ire turned upon his back and worked himself cautiously along reaching Il point prriously close, he whipped over, took aim as he lay, and God and his true right hand gave him good dcliverapce.' Away flew tiie bullet all instant elapsed. ,he Volume of tn cedar parted, and like q big frog is the noys described it, ont leaped gray-back the hawks nest was empty, and q dead rebel lay under the tree. It was neatly done ot the German man grown. May lie live to tell th story thousand times 10 his moon-taced grandchildren. @
 fine .-i,iev'' that the first boy at the spring got" might be peasaIiter. when the nutiou that somebody is making q taryet oi you cre..l's wiIh iis chilly feet St-.--!s, up your back you can hardly help shrinking into yourself just little, though you may not be quit" ready to own it. recall ill this connectioh an incident derived from the Division Surgeon, who play. ed part in it. He was riding across ! field where the battle had Tagged hercely. but just swept on, and was making his Way slowly across the drifts of friend and lues--tIle blue and the gray togethet--when wounded Fed eral soldier asked for water. The Surgeon gave him the draft, when a Voice from d gray neap near by said. Wont you give me one, too. Doctor r :" Certainly will ;; and he was just raising the rebel ald bringing round tile canteen sung under his arm to put It to his lips when q Cannon shot from a rebe ball-r, struck the earth on one side, q second boun ded by on the other. The man looked up into tn. surgeons s face with q half snie ;: an aIrai.ithey mear us Doctor '' At tiat instant u third shot hi pte hsryet, and q headlessiru fell from the supporting arn. Iher Was aii- other dead rebel. Of Il truth they did .,nean us," and tae surgeon ha>tened away
 She'll are queerly behaved things, often harmless against all probabilities, and, when you would think they must be deadly, unly patching thunder. Ii a shell passes you by only fcx feet bef.re it bursts, you ar. pret- iy surg to be goed for the next one that ,n. s, since sa':h fragment takes away its slare ol the motion and flies. If q sl,-li shows s,mp toms of ''making landing" just in front oi You, you: best route would stem to be toward and past the si,ell but how rapidly one could run In that direclion have no means of know ing, having never seen the man that tried Il. . solid slot Is the most deceptive of proj c- tiles. It nay seenl to move iazlly. to be al most dead, but so long as it moves a, all be s ware oft. Just before the baLll. an artillery man recelyed hIs discharge for disability Dnt delaying, Tor some reason, his nortuward jour. n.y, ile Was yet with h's battery on the eve 0E ihe engage nent, and true to his instincts, took his oid place beside lhe horse and was just pre- pairing to mount, when solbi shot caii,,. ri scociieiiilg across the field, bounded up and struck hi.n in ihe lower part of the body. Cry ing out, ..s ryeyot +the first Ticket boys r he sank down, and only added, ,with that siraag dread of a little hurt q terribly wounded mai, always seems to feel. lay me down bv q tree where they wont run oyer me-. They complied with his request. hasieneI into pus,tion and saw hlm more. The poor fellow discharge was confirmed by Heaven. Now that fatal ball when having finished it's work there. it i-aped lazily OH. pushed out the skirt of the arililerist.s 5 coat as d hlud would move q cur tain. without rpn.iii,g it.
 They have the stranyest pets in the army that ,,obody would dream of talking 10 Ut nome. alnl yet they are little touches of th.. gentlcr nature that give you sul,e such cordial feeling when you See Them as am told r..si dents uf Bourbon county, Kentucky. habilual ly experience Ut sO much gallon. One sf ths. boys has carried red squirrel through .thick and thin" over thousand ,niles.s Bun" eats hard tack like veteran, and has the freedom of thestent. sAnuthar 5 affections overflow tp- on a slow winking nnspecuIative little owl, captured ill Arkansas. and bearing name with classical smack to it-Minerva. A third gives his heart to a young Cumberland Mo1n- tain bear, but chief a,nong camp pets, are dogs Riding on the saldl.-bow. tucked into b ,g- gage wagon, mounted on knap sacks, growing ,,,lar iii a fsr.s,f .,.. s,,,, ,f fs e ,,r.,ru-