The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-22

anu cOfrupblOn OF m tuuaoious anu uii-
principled minority. II they do not i'm
prove it, they will not only neglect the
interests of the party, but the interests
of enlightened progress in their own
State. Chicago Tribune. 5
The Brave Three Hundred.
+. 1t was the night Stonewall jackson
received his death wound. He had COM
pletely surprised Howards Eleventh
corps, and was driving them in the wild.
est confusion along toward the center
of our line. In the fight they passed
through woods, Just beyond which, in
q clearing, n four Of Sickles' batter
les, a fyffF artillery battery, and the
Eighth Pesiasylvania cavalry, The bat
teries were not in position, but were
packed awaiting orders. Through
their lines dashed the fugitises hotly
pursued by Jackson's immense corps Of
over 10000, men. Infantry, artillery,
ambulances,s pack-mules, negroes and
stragglers, the worst scared men ever
looked upon, came tearing past as II
they were mad. Batteries had no COM
manders, but each Captain acted fol
himself. .tBattery. left wheel, fire to
the rear. NJ battery; caisons, pass your
pieces; trot, marchr' and q frightened
bugler caught only the word ''trot, !"
and sounded it the more. It rang out
clear above the worse than Babel. Many
took it for a general stampede signal,
and across the field, and down a hill,
and over q stone wall near its foot, in
that famous rayine, dashed several
caisons and q few guns. I" Fix pro-
long. to fire retiringr with canister
-loadr'
I On came the fugitives; nearer and
nearer through the woods came that
Confederate yell and the rush of Stone
wall 1 Jackson's victorious legions.
Sickles was almost a mile away, push
ing through the woods with his splendid
corps. Not Federal musket was in
sight, except what the Eleventh corps
men bore TO the rear as rapidly as our
legs could carry them. We must make
our fight against those tremendous odds
alone. Five batteries of us and 800 cav
alry-not over 600 men all told.
On swept the 10000 Confederates,
and we were not yet ready to fight.
Our line was confusion worse confound-
ed; guns stood pointing whithersoever;
the excited cannoneers listened. and al
the first fire one-half of us would blow
the other half into eternity; and StoneS
wall would have Hooker's headquarters
and double up the entire arny-a
cheering prospect thati The sun had
set beyond the woods, and through
them, yet fasterin the thickening gloom,
rushed Jackson's troops. rrs
Suddenly out in front Of our guns
rode the familiar form of General Pleas
anton. Above the din rose his shrii
voice, 'sAlign those piecesp' 1t was {
work of many minutes, and Stonewal
was Just now upon us. Time! oh, fol
| ten minutes timei How to get It
There sat Major keenan,. with his Sot
horsemen. Here was sacrifice, which
II every man was patriot like Arnold
Winkelreid, would give us thos,
precious minutes. General Pleasantor
said quickly to keenan,: Major, yor
must charge into those woods with YOU
men and hold the enemy in check unit
I get those guns in position. You mus
do it at any cost Keenan, says: ..1t'.
just the same IS saying. You must bs
killed; but with q smue), General, III
do it."
oh, what sight was that, woulc
that some American Tennyson Nigh
have seen it, and lift those humble
names into immortality! Three hun
dred troopers, with deep-set spurs ant
flashing sabers, rushed at the throats o
| 20, 600 armed men. Nobody had blum
dered, but somebody must die for th'
army-that was all. Il
So mad blow did they strike in Jack
sons very teeth that he stopped his on
ward rush to reform his lines. Surel
there must be more coming. No singh
regiment could be charging his arm
single ehanded-and when no other boil
riders came, then it was that brave Kee
nan died at the head of his regiment
and the whole platoon died with thei
feet in the stirrups.
But they did not die in vain. Tel
minutes purchased at that fearful cost Z
us, was costlier still to Jackson, Whel
he came on again desh and blood coul,
not stand before our terrific caniste
FIRE. His veterans quailed before tn
sirocco of death. He rode up to rectif
Il his lines. was mistaken in the gatherin
4 darkness for one Of our cavalryman
H and was shot by one ofhis own soldiers
II Our " three times three" had hardl
II ceased to ring, when Sickles, who ha
rushed ahead of his veterans hurrying {
II our support. rode up among our gun
III AuQ C1llcQ \ O4 AAofC oOAtC AOoAy
II boysl Stand firm, and in ten minute
II I'll have ten thousand men here, VIII
don't know anything but fight" II
was as good as his word, and quickl
the old third corps fled in behind tn
II guns, and Jackson,s famous corps ha
II received its first defeat. -. rr,l-~-
II Three hundred men made Thermopyl'
1 live through centuries; 600 men 8
4 Balaklava rode to fame in sight of th
world; but the cynicism of America ha
left to slumber in unknown graves
beneath the pine groves Of Chancellor
II vile, a band of men whose deed was q
i worthy of a name as those which poet
have sung through all ages--Chicas
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