Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-07

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1t is a matter of history that dur
ing tho night AFTER the Grst DAYS :
lighting d acounsiT OF war was held
aiid macy af our. generals ADVISED
I setfogradcA movement across the
Rspidan. Gen. Grant silent and de-
tefpined said nothing in reply 10
such advice balret,red and at once
issued his famous order to aadvanec
IN solid column along the whole line
at dayhreak" was in that DAY.
be TX advance and bsyonet charge
in The gray retrcating shadows of the
early morning, our brigade Baxters
fighting on the right Of Haucock's
corps, and with that inyincibIe col.
pTsn rolliug back The. confederate
sncs lof more than mile through
The tang He'd wildwood That month
OF battle. began in The Wilderness cost
Grants army the loss Of $4,000 men
but II itlost heavily it iuAlc,ed cor,
responding loss upon Lees army
from which it never recovered.
lp speaking to soldiers and veterans
representing perhaps nearly all Of Tie,
battles that were fought during four
years of, desperate, determined war,
1t is not necessary 10 resort to figures
Of imagery or Highly colored de-
scr;ptions 10 recall 10 thei. minds
wildly the tying bloody and exciting
drama' through which many have
passed. The scenes which beheld
hundreds OF thousands Of others saw,
and = similar experience attended
neaily every soldier, who marched
into he sufpHurous smoke hat
n says cnrtsincd the carnage of the
! held Of battle.
ln,he Fast Nirgiaia was the grca.
ithes,re Of war, and in the west Tenn.
essoe the bloody. disputed grounA
| In McCtellan's peninsula cam paipn
] in y irgipia many battles we're fought,
Whsnh Il destitute of imporian, results,
at lesDt ~ tbeir b1psism OF FIRE aud
| blood dsvs1opsd seldiers whose re-
cords subsequently, shed lus,rc
upon the dcsthless page Of history
records that are as imperishable and
! immortal as the everything principle
Of human freedom. From the huc.
ting FIRE Of Williamsburg, the fierce
musketry Of Nelson's Farm, Savage
I ISia,ion, Seven Pines, FairOaks,
Glepdalc, and Gainesville, and the
| murderous ihundera Of Malvcru's
terrible artillery, such men as Meade,
Hooker, Warren, Custer, Heintzle-
man, Torhert, BHpey. Hancock
! Sedgewick and Phil Kearney emer-
ged TO blaze like me.eors in other
battlcs-trained to 6re aud tried in
the crucihle of blood, they made such
discipline rebound 10 the nations glo-
~ on the plains Of Antietsm, on the
bloody slopes Of G tyshnrg, and in
all Of The deadly conflicts, downto the
last day q. AppomatoS.
In Tennessee the principal battle
ltRronnd Sin tbc Ywess, Eo9t Henry,
F0s DcsSlsosyShsloA Stose River,
Chfcainauga, Mission Ridge Look
put Mountain, andss other battles OF
scarcely less magnitude, reflect un-
hding honor dpoa the arms of the
! soldiers and sailors OF the west. In
other conflicts in Missouri, Mississippi
: Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana aud
! Texas, our oopn,ry's flag was carried
!. IN triumph until armed resistance
ceased, and sthe supremacy OF the
) union Was fully established.
, .Iremember that in May, 1862, |
wandered over The ground where ON
! that fatal Sunday in July. 1861, our
srmy under Mcdowell had been de-
4 feated by Besureguald and Johnston.
! [ examined the field at leisure Saw
where the s.BIack Horse cavalry
: charged upon the New York zouaves,
] ! and gazcd upon the battered houses,
4 splinlered trees and shallow graves OF
. the slain. Human bones. intermin-
] gied with the skelesom Of herses were
! scattered on the open fields. Here
: Isaa there 1kezsoyion of rain had eS-
- the opce Isleied bones OF the
lslpspisg 1sad. ~ ANSssher il was
u scesIea6oo ghasEly to#contemplate, I'd
: and i bade adisu without regrst to its
{ sickening pictures. In little more
than three months from that date
participated in the second great bat
Tie Of Manassas, fought upon the same
ground, and dying crimsos the same
:. green fields ttiat had drank the blood
2 Of huuoreda in. the first conflict OF
! Bun Rua Il 1861 Our brigade,
!. |. Hartsufs, composed Of the 18th and
y 18Th Massachusetts, 9th New York,
:, and 4 1th Pennsylvania regiments was
= dashed to pieces beneath the awful
. lt6se or tho confcdsrAses ON BALD Hill,
: loa that ,sultry Angus. afternoon. La
= our regiment, out Of 354 men, 1so
= we're, killed and wounded-every
\ other man was shot down. Five
7 Z oolors bearers fell as fast as they