The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-07-23
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SUPPORTING THE GUNS.
low q Field Battery Comes lnuo Ac-
ton.
Detroit Free Prees.

How q Field Battery Comes Inro Ac-
a. ton.
- Detroit Free Press ~ a.-....A
Did you ever See battery take posi-
ton? .t# g.Ha o. 5H.-.1E 70 ata- --
IL hasn't the thrill Of . cavalry charge. nor
the grimuess of line OF bayouets moving
slo~ly aud determiuediy on. but there is q
peculiar excitement about 1t that makes
old veterans rise In their saddles and cheer.
We have been fighting at the edge Of
the woods. Every cartridge box has been
emptied once and more, and fourth of the
brigade has melted away In dead and woun-
ded and missing. Not . cheer is heard In
the whole brigade. We know that we are
being driven foot by foot, and that when
We break back once more the line will 60
TO pieces and the enemy will pour through
the gap. H# IRE -f7 ,.=' ..
Here comes help! @ai '..'
Down the crowded highway galiops a
battery, withdrawn from some other posi-
ton to save ours. The field fence is scat
tered while you count thirty, and the guns
rush for bill behind US. Six horses to a
| piece-three riders to each gun. Over dry
bitches where farmer would not drive q
wagon, through clunps Of bushes, over logs
| a foot thick, every horse on the gallop,
every rider lashing his team and yelliag-
the sight behind us makes as forget the
foe in front. The guns jumptws feet high
M the heavy wheels strike rock Or log, but
not horse slackens his pace, not cannon
eer loses his seat Six guns, six caissons,
sixty horses, eighty men race for the brow
OF the bill as IL he who reached it first wonld
be knighted.
A moment ago the battery was con-
fused mob. We look again, and the six
guns are in position, the detached horses
hurryinp away, the ammunition chests are
open, and along our line runs the command, !,
"Give them one more volley and fall back
| ro support the guns" We have scarcely
| obeyed when boom boom boom opens
the battery, and jets Of fire jump down
and scorch the green trees under which we
| fought and despaired.
The shattered old brigade has a chance
| To breathe for the first time IN three hours
a. we form line of battle behind the guns
and lie down. What grim, cold fellows
those cannoueers arel Every man is per.
feet machine. Bullets splash dust in their
faces, but they do not vince. Bullets sing
over aud around them, but they do not
dodge. There goes one to the earth. shot
through the head as he sponged bis gun.
The machinery loses just one beat-misset
lust enc cog in the wheel-aud then works
away again as before.
Every gun is using short fuse shell. The
ground shakes and tremb bles-t the roar shuts
ont all sounds from battle line three
miles long, and tho shell 60 shrieking into
the swamp to cut trees short Otto NOV
great gaps In the bushes-to hunt out ano
sbatter and maugle men until their corpse'
cannot be recognized as human. You
would think tornado was bowling around
through the forest, followed BY bil'ows o
fire, and yet men live through h-aye
press forward to capture the battery! W.
can hear their shouts a. they form Tor
rush. ,......g --.r.r .. B.,
Now the shells are changed for grape ant
canister, and the guns are served 80 las
that al; reports blend into one mighty roar
The Shrek Of q shell Is the wickedest sounf
in war, but nothing makes the flesh craw
like the demouiac singing, purrinR, whist
ling grapeshot and the serpent like hiss Q
canister. Mes's legs and arms are not sho
through, but torn OF. Heads are torn Of
bodies, and bodies cut in two. A rount
shot or shell takes two mon out OF 70
ranks a. it crashes through. Grape an
canister NOW . swath and pile the dea d o.
top of each other. A..., s.... rur-.r .a.
Through tho smoke We see q swarm Q
men. It is not battle line, but mob Q
men desperate enough to bathe their bayo
nets in the fame of the guns. The gun
leap from the ground almost as they ar
depressed on tho foe, and shrieks and lou
screams and shouts blend into one swfu
steady cry. Twenty men ont on the bat
terry are down, and the firing is interrupt
ed. The foe accept it as . sign OF waverin
and come rushing on. They are not te
feet away when the guns give them las
shot. The discharge picks living men o'
their feet and throws them into the swan
) q blackened, bloody mass = ". 'E.@h ,.."t
Up now, a. the enemy are among th
a gaus There ID silence Of ten seconds, an
then the flash and roar OF more than 8,0O
muskets, and rush forward with bayonet'
: For whats Neither on the right nor lei
nor front Of US Is q living foe s There as
7 ooroses around us which have been struc
BIZ three, four and even six bullets, and M
where on this acre Of ground Is wounde
7 man The wheels OF tho guns move ne
till the blockade of dead il removed. Me
. cannot pass from caisson to gum withor
: c,im bing over winrows OF dead. Ever
: pup and wheel II smeared with blood :
every foot of grass has its horrible stain.
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