Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-09-22

quiet, 0Itn0ug0 armed sentlneI
we're stationed on the corners of al
the streets up town, allowing NJ
one to pass the line Of the citizens,
extending from the levce out t
Rampant, and from Canal to Julia
Gen. Ogden held his hcadquar.
ters at the store Of Kurshecdt &
Bienvenu, on Camp street, near
Poydras, and thence directed all
military movements. Ammunition
and provisions were also distribu-
ted among the various companies,
Early on Tuesday orDing An
gelrs brigads crossed Canal stree;
moving down town, it being re-
ported by deserter that the mill
tia and police in the State House
were completely disorganized aud
that majority Of them had left.
A detachment under Lieut.. Glen.
Walker was sent forward to re-
port the situation. The men pro-
ceeded as far as St. Peter street,
where picket OF eleven Metropol.
itans was captured by surprise and
taken to the rear. Lieut.. Walker
then proceeded to the station,
where he held Q conference with
Capt. LAWYER, in command, but
badly wounded and unable to act,
and Sergeant Bahnke, who acted
in his place. Bahnke refused to
surrender unless ordered to do 80
by Kellogg. He promised, how
ever. to zee Kellogg and get his
olders. At dayb:eak Bahnke re-
piled that Kellogg had commanded
him to held the station, and declar-
ed that he intended to do so.
Col. Angell's command, support.
ed by Coleman's Battery, was a,
once ordered to move forward to
the State-House and Arsenal.
COMPANIES A. B. G and E accord
ing'y moved down Royal street,
Company A. Capt. Borland, in adj
vance. At the news of the ap-
proach OF the citizens the negro mills
ltia in the State-House, probably
three hundred strong, broke and
dispersed, and when the citizens
reached the building a white flag
was exposed from an upper story as
signal IF surrender. Companies
A and G Immediately occupied tt e
The other two compan~
es, B. and E., under Capt. Nc
Gloin. with Coleman's Battery to
support them, proceeded down the
'treet toward the Arsenal.
1t was soon evident that what
ever was the disposition of the po-
ice officers. their men would no
onger fight. When the citizens
in sight, the police re-
used 10 fight, reversed their can
'on, which had previously pointed
- st. Charles street. threw down
heir arms and took fl ght down town
few of them discharging their
uns. accidentally. it is said, at
he citizens, wonnding one.
The arsenal, containing one
annon ard three thousand stands
t arms, was at once taken possess
on Of by Capt. McG:oin' Twelve
oliceme n, one of them deao, were
und in The building.
This ended the victory. E very
oint in the city was now in tn
'session of the citizens. and the
'ly remnants of the Kellogg gov
nment were a few dozen broken
lDgry and moIrnful meu. cooped
in the Cnstom-House. under
9 protection of the United States
g.
At 2 o'clock Gov. Penn left his
sidence, on St. Charles street,
d, escorted by a multitude of
people, moved down to the
ate-House. where the legal gov
nment of Louisiana was soon
ganized and III working order in
its branches. And here. with
Inauguration of the government 81
cted by the people, ended the
tory Of the Fourteenth of Sep
nbe.
There were those who thought
en- the gloomy 18th came so
m, cloudy, damp and chilly as it
8, when II our people wore r
urning and desperate faces. that
victory of September ii was a
eat. and the blood split that day
It in vain. Time has since
wn US the true fruits of that
rious victory. To it we owe
present freedom. our govern tu
1T everything September ID y"
the first armed appeal and
test against reconstruction. car