Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-18

lowed hours of anxiety and grim en-
durance, but no respite ensued. At
last night came; not, however, to
herald a concession of the strife. but
to usher in conflict still more terri
BILE. More than eleven hours had
passed. The fort was torn and mu-
tilated; to the outside observer it
was apparently powerless, knocked
to pieces and pounded out of shape,
the outline changed, the exterior
slope full of gaping wounds, the
ditch half filed up, bnt the interior
still preserved its form and it's integ-
rity; Scared and defaced 1t was.
yet citadel which, although not of
fensive, was defiant.
1t was nearly s o'clock at night,
but still twilight, when calm came
and the blazing circle ceased to glow
with flame. The ominous pause was
understood; it required no signals
to be read by those whom they were
not directed, to inform them that the
supreme moment to test the value of
days achievements was now at hand.
1t meant nothing but assault. DR..
Dennison says the assault was in
tended as a surprise. He overesti-
mates the equanimity of the Confed-
crate commander if he supposes that
that bombardment, which would have
walked the dead, had lulled him into
security and repose. The buried
| cannon were at once exhumed, the
guns mounted and the garrison or
dered to their appointed posts. The
Charleston Battalion were already
formed and in position they had
nestled under the parapet and stood
ready in their places. The other
troops, with the exception of part of
one regiment, responded to the sum-
mons with extraordinary celerity,
and the echoes of the Federal guns
had hardly died away before more
than three-fourths of the ramparts
were lined with troops; one gap re-
manned untitled; the demoralized
men who should have filled it clung
to the bom-proofs and stayed there.
The gallant Colonel Simpkins called
his men to the gun-chambers wher-
ever guns existed. De Pass, with
his light artillery on the traverse te
the left, his guns remounted and un-
touched, stood ready, and Colonel
Harris moved a howitzer outside the
| fort to the right to deliver an enfilade
fire upon the assailants.
The dark masses of the enemy's
columns, brigade after brigade, were
seen in the fading twilight to ap
proach line after line was formed
and then came the rush. "A small
creek made in - the fight of th'
fort and intercepted the enemy's lef
attack; they did not know it, or die
not estimate it. Orders were. givel
to Gaillard to hold his fire and de
liver no direct shot. 1t was believed
the obstacle presented by the creel
would confuse the assailants, caus,
them to incline to the right and min
gle their masses at the head of tht
obstacle and thus their movement.
would be obstructed. 1t seemed t.
have the anticipated effect and tn,
assaulting columns apparently jumb
led together at this point were me
by the whitening volleys of McKeth
ans direct and Gaillard's cross fire
and by the direct discharge of tn
gun shells, supplemented by th'
frightful discharges of the lighte
guns upon the right and left. /
: was terrible, but with an unsurpasse'
gallantry the Federal soldiers breast
ed the storm and rushed onward t.
the glacis.
The Confederates, not fourteen
, hundred strong, with the tenacity o
bull dogs and a fierce courage whic
, was aroused to madness by the fright
! full inaction to which they had bee
subjected, poured from the rampant
, and embrasures sheets of flame an
a tempest of lead and iron, yet thei
intrepid assailants rushed on lik
+ the waves of the sea by who's
. shore they fought. They fell by til
hundreds, but they pushed on, rec
, ing under the frightful blasts that a
most blew them to pieces, some u
to the Confederate bayonets. Th
I southeast bastion was weakly de
Tended, and into it a considerable bod
! of the enemy made their way br
they were caught in trap, for the
could not leave it. The fight col
tinued; but it was impossible
q stem the torrent of deadly missile
o which poured out from the fort, tt
+ refux of that terrible tide which ha
Y poured in all day, and the Fedora
\ retreated, leaving near a thousan
dead around the fort.
: DR.. Pierces "Pellets'-little liver pills (sug
o oated)-purfy the blood, speedily correct all dis
ders of the liver, stomach and towels. BY druggist
n 1916 AND 1882.-In 1916 OIL