New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-08-02

.ruce, staulng nc naa I'VE to one ana
wanted to prevent further bloodshed.
What did Innes say to thatv I ask
ed of my informant
Il heard the report of the officer as
he returned. He rode up to Wheeler,
saluted and said:
..Gen. Wheeler, Col. Innes says he
will see you d "a before he'll sur
render! He says you must take him if
you want him!'
cat that Wheeler got fighting mad.
The idea that we were being held there
by 400 men made him fighting hot The
second attack was made with over L.
200 men, and our artillery blazed away
until the air was full Of limbs and splin-
tiers. I had procured another horse,
and again / was with the column
'.How did the Michiganders behave
when you moved outp''
..Cool as ice. As rule, in such ca
SEES, there is sputtering of musketry
long enough before any one can be hit,
but those fellows waited. I didn't hear
bullet until we were within pistol-shot.
We went for 'em on the yell, and this
time hundred of us crowded our
horses right against the breastwork. I
! tried twice to leap it, and when I
couldn't sat there and fired three shots
at y ca?tain without touching him. A
Ya,k then fired at me ovcr the brush,
and u:,iis | was not bit the powder in
his gun signed my whiskers and the bull
let made hole in the man behind me
as large as hens egg. l thoughtswe
were getting the best of it, but present.
ly the bugles blew and back we vent
licked again. Think of it. sir-4OO men
licked 1900 as coolly as if they had al
ways fought that way! 1t made us hop
ping mad, and You ought to have heard
|, Wheeler take on. He's little bit of q
foxy looking chap, you know, but all
vim and fight and he'd never struck
snag like that before. He was so mad
that his stirrups wouldn't hold him.
TRYING AGAIN.
lines was as cool as January. Aman
who has his back to wall can fight
three men in front, but yet there is
limit to the endurance of men in the
best positions He had beaten Wheeler
back twice, and he could beat him
again, but if Wheeler welded the ham,
mer long enough he must shatter the
target. When Lee could raise no more
men he knew to week when the eli
max would come. He could figure to
certainty when five men would be able
to overpower one. Innes had a strong
position, but Wheeler could lose two
men to his one and beat him in the end.
Therefore, when he saw that il was to
be a succession of assaults he sent for
reinforcements and made ready for the
next grapple. He passed along every
foot of his lines, suggesting changes
here and there and encouraging the
men, and as he saw the Confederates
move out for a third assault he said to
his veterans:
'.Fire low and don't waste a bullet!
Drive them back this time and Wen
have reinforcements before they can
come again.
II did not take part in that third as
sault," continued my informant, ''but I
watched it closely. We had from twelve
to fifteen hundred men. and they were
all fighting mad. 1t was the same as
before with your men. They held their
fire until every bullet would hit. There
was a crash-a cloud of smoke-cheers
and yells, and then lost sight of the
fight for five minutes. Some of our men
got over the breastwork this time, but
were killed there, and it wasn't ten min
utes before the bugles rang out and back
the lines came. BY this time the ground
was covered with dead and wounded
along Innes' front, and with my spy
glass 1 saw some of his men rolling
dead horses against the breastwork to
make it stronger. It's a dead-shame
the way we were rolled back by that
little crowd of Yanks, but it's no use
denying what actually happened. The
road beyond Lavergne was blocked full
Of Federal wagons, but we couldn't get
at 'em for these paltry 400 blue-coats,
and they were tree-cutters and bridge,
builders at that! That ERE scrimmaga
has always made me ashamed, and I
guess Wheeler will always feel sore
over it.
THE FOURTH.
Between the third and fourth as
saults Wheeler waited to see if the
Wolverines would not run up the white
flag. His mission that day was to COB
BILE Federal trains and secure plumber,
and he did not relish this obstruction.
He did not want his men killed off, and
yet that Federal force was menace
which he dared not pass unheeded. It
would be no glory to whip them, being
he was six to one, and as for prisoners
Hardee was capturing Federals by the
hundred on the right at Stone River
After that third repulse Wheeler would
have abandoned the game as not worth
the powder, only that he found himself
in a bad situation. To pass Lavergne
he must whip Innes. To fall back
would be o disgrace. Therefore he
prepared for fourth assault A good
part of the force was dismounted to act
as infantry, the artillery advanced until
the spent bullets of the Federals drop
ped before the guns, and when all was
ready the lines advanced.
Meanwhile Innes had backed some
wagons into his breastWork to strength
en- It, and as many as dozen dead
horses were rolled over to help strength
en- it. When Wheeler opened with his
cannon two laughable incidents ocur-
red to put the Federals in good humor.
A shell struck one of the dead horses
and exploded inside the beast. The re-
suit was that a score of men were COW
cred with the pulpy mass, and a cap
tain was knocked down by large
chunk of meat and rendered uncon-
scious for full five minutes. His first
words on regaining consciousness were: