Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-02-16

front 81 the other regiments and the yellow
eAgriry-men give way tor us, cheering US on.
Down b e93ss.Ioad towards the river sweet
sou wind shaking who cloud favors out OF
-Y,ly window 10 heaven at Us the sun smiling
uou.spted, and the hoy rose bushes, from ieuoJ-
corners Ike balconies showing their blossom
hsndkerchlets.
Cautiously, boys A few sleps, and We
lumDeoger the handsome borse u she wound
ed colonel dead in he middle Of the road nth
agut tu.iets tbs1ug him. There, tOV. 10 ne
bcJd} boot hA rldrr hastily cut Oh alter
laa woundlng was accom- pllshed. A COMPANY
are dagaiei as A4nkers and, as they 10
through tha wood d few rods distant from the
road, they heaf thc ggp,ns OF other wounded
noH They cannot 90 to them for to stop
souid be to .xpjs9 the Hh le aanK Of the COL
unn 20 da9gsr
Nov @e pass otior dead hor'es belonging to
caysiy.men which we're shot In the road sy
retr.alug ke3-l plcEets. Az eng h We reach a
FORK where Is d 1klmenJ drawn up, ana Ten
Grover atlug on horseback wash his stella
ugbtbaued man, Wta face sufficiently rtsoIute,
uls beard eus 10 peak, and Wearing cavalier
baJ. We haig only ior moment. The gener-
4l' pointing hand indicates the direction we
are to take Nd down we 20 through wooded
uad driving bsiure us the 0nemys pckets;
our ainkefa in the woods seeing them mount
their Ausslg and gallJp III as We come thin
muss' ranEs Pr,seuIJ wego by sh,ir camps,
wttrl iha5 hava cut Oh trees sUme defiance or
waning TO ua " Beware, YANKEE this =
hard fJsI o. ,faye ky the side oil the column
rides ,n officer oi eugineere, who stops every now
ana then to D0te 6 bJ path cr prominent Knoll,
oi draw rough plan Of the wood The dust
hds hardly s.ttled yet along the road from the
tramp ol their fetfeasiug infantry. We press
Jn clJsa behind until at leugth the column hats
close within he range Of the Port Hudson bat
tsrlcs,
We lell back that Saturday night two or
three miles, then clmped IN the woods. Later,
/. battery went forward to a position near that
t1 which To advanced, and fired shells for
while towards the Rebel sntreachments. Our
Lankelq md baggage were four miles behind.
We hung equipments and haVersacks on the
gunstocks and, vet 8ith sweat, lay down in
ou clothes, without covering Wilson and
laid rails On the ground then made a slopins
roof Of rails overhead, which was some pfotec-
ton against the damp.
The eyslIds shu, together ike pair VI scs-
slr.blaJos, and cut the ,bread Of consciousness /;
but IN tho mlGst Of ny dreaming, crash after
c.lsh broke upon ny ear, like the chorus Of
doomsday We all jumped 10 our posEs for
Ne thought the hour OF battle had come.
looked u INV walch by the light OF a few em-
bars /. was halt past eleven. At the time,
We wers ia CON ete ignorance OF the events
taat vae transprng. We know that 1t was
G. deet just passing thc batteries, and all this
ras tho upruar OF the boubafdment. Through
ihs trees 10 tho westNzTd arose the flashes in
scssaut, ike the vi king cat-lIghinlng OF hot
summer evening. rhtuIsh the air rolled re-
p0Its, ,.--now ISOLATED, naH tdehtJ combining ia
Rrsnd crash. now q continuous roll VI them,
IA laundering rub ,.duh as IT the giants we're
going % storm heaven again, aud were beating
4 reu,ill. 10 summon every gnome and all the
gem and each siumbeuag Titan TO iall IN for
= charge The usntle Of tho regiment, the col
or guard rested ia The road. The pckets, four
or i've rods Of, could see tho falling Of bombs,
the streams ol comet Ike rockets, and the out
lines Of the shore batteries liz up by the cannon
daah,s. II went on, and We sat llsienlng with
our hand close at ouf guns. Then, at last, the
heaven, reddened high and far with hereer
sad ,Ieadier glare, that moved Slowly SOUTH
ustd, orimsoning III turn the moss and old scars
on the North, 90 the vest, On the south-west, of
the tr,o-Irauks. Meantime came up the boom
Of cannon, slowly rooeding in the Same dire1ion.
We heard the swta-sOns of the stern old
" Mississippi, '-nbandoned, beaten with shot,
ragged through her whole frame where sheils
ma torn Gud burst On that night, a freight
OF dead men were on her deck, and tho bodies
OF drowned m,n do ted about her hoary hull for
retluue inen o,aea q crash. hight making
ali bright, dung back from burnl,hsd gun-stocks,
from tue pool by she roadside, revealing the
VI. ching sold ers and ise saIn stse i-llen
head long III the road 10 the midst OF the can't.
81 passed the veteran ship through i'e aug
earthquake shock to an Immortality IN history
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