The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-03-09
GEN. PAT CLEBURN,
VIVID sxErca or THE DArrLE or
FRANKLIN.
Uor. PhilsdslphiA T.mts.]

su0 hhe w. css'S w.
art on the right. Cbe,than on the
left, ,hsir right and loft flank inter.
locked like Psrthian shields ,sompos.
ins the ceutre. G,noral Sherman ID
Lees cops WAS held in reserve, Cle-
burnsi Iosition was in the centre.
his division formed into tLreo battle
lines and 10 at The head. Thus ar.
ranged, Hoods .ins was nearly two
mile. long, cuyying liko = Mr'ssl-
mans schimitsr, with the b.sde t.
the foo.
Bat let ~ follow Olsburne. Bus'sa
we're blowing, drums beating ard
bands playing. A courier dashed up
to CleLurns's prsssnce, and soon tho
word Attention" was given. then
Forward, march, aud the column
passed over = bill and through 'hs
little skirt OF woods. Soon they
emerge into ~ pen fed aud stead.
lily III = passed on With "prop'r Ca
dsLcs" towards the rampant Of blood
aud death. The Federal batteries be.
gau 10 open. FRS! cams solid shot
bounding over the earth, and tearing
and crashing through the rsnks;shsn
tue shiiskipg sLell few through the
air 90 ,bs wings Of ds'tru, tion, ,buts:.
ing under and above and around the
men, and At every explosion unbind.
ing moro evils than ever dew fror'
P.ndora's box. Tsiiigh: Was COM
ing on. Forward msu!' wac rsps,.
ted oil along the line. A living shsst
Of Ere Was poured lot, their ranks.
Rut the. man prssssd toward u.ti
the terrific roar ran from centre to
dsnk.
FROM WIG ro VINO.
Night eamo, and tho two trm'ss
fought like tso blind giaLts in dis-
pair' Clcburns's old war cry r~ng
out above tho din OF AIMS Follow
mo boys! Oaes asaio, and 'gsis,
lsvsn times, Cl.burne's divis:o. and,
ind, si, Ill Of H"od's array charged
,hs Lreastworks. And once, again,
and again, seven times. were they re-
pul,ed. Every time thay,formcd and
70 formed under a ga ling FIRE. "A.
o,s time, ji.t after dusk, Cisburno
captured . portion ol thsir works,
AID turned the guns Of. Fsdoral bat
terry on tleir form owners, but il
was only for few momcnts-a little
silver riff in the battle clouds the
snvslopsd him in darkness. 1t MAS
the hnttsst fre That Clsburns had
ever met. 1t was but one stroam oi
b!azirg & hell Confederatss were on
ono si!e OF the breastworks and Fed
ersls on the tier. Men fell ha: IN
,hoir faces AMI fired from behiud
their d. al comrades Deal soldiers
iilsd the entire etmsnts. Blood made
tho earth as slippery - an ice pond
Thus the linng was kept up until al.
or midnight, and gradually died out
Bat b, {. armies held ,hsir Oan. Tue
O. nicdsra.ss passed the night lhare'
iuat out,ide tho brsastworks.
The Fcdsral1, only Q few feet of
held their cover until near dsybrcsk,
when hey quietly marched av'yMd
fe,reatsd to NasLvills.
HOW CLEBCkSE DlcDs
But whoa tLe morow's snn began
to light up the sky. tho surviving s'l
diers locked out on sad battlefield
The dead wsre piled up one on tor
Of the other in awful heaps, and the
woun:!od seemed thicker than The
unsounted stars. Houses like men
had died game upon tho brcsstworks
Cisburus's b,dy lay there on top o.
the brsss.wcrk,. ghsstly In the slssI
Of dsats. pierced with 40 lul'sts
through and through. His mare hst
bar fore. feet on top OF tho works
lead in that position.
Not far liom wlsre C.sburuo lay
wss seen thn dead body ef Genera
Adams. His horse had his ioiefes
o:oe ,iie OF the works aud hi
mind is.t OF the other, dead. The
General seems to have been cangh
so thst hs was hold to the horse
b OK, sitting bolt upright in his sad
.l.o, AZ il living, riddlsd and tori
with balls. General s;ahl lay b!
j Q roadside. aud lis horse by hi
.ids, beth doad. and all his staff.
Ger. Gist, OF S,uth Carolina, VA
lying with bis sword lying across III
breas' works, still graspsd IN hi
hand. H.. TOO. was deal. Genera
Cranberry, OF Texas, and his hors'
was seen, horse and rider, right o'
top Of the brS,stworks, dead. Al
ds.1! FourIthousand, five hundrse
s,lSi.rs lyirg side by side ia dsatH,