The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28


their route with little red flags thrust
in the ground, and soon began the re-
turn along the red flag lines With then
CORY loads.
e was rocs1SI S=.asad Cor artillery hn.
the guns were handled well, especially
those upon the right; the discharges
being steady and persistent. Sharp
fusillad s of small arms here anti there
over the great fefd-front told that the
opposing lines were gradually closing
in.
The grinding rattle of rifles, intermit-
ting like blasts of hail, now swelled to
q storm, then died away to q few drop
ping shots, only to begin again with
mightier volume until the whole line
was ablaze, and the long and rapid roll
of musketry arose to q succession OF
crashes that mingled with the wild roar
of artillery and dashed the mad waves
of sound against the hillside to be thrown
back and upward toward heaven in
hoarse and hideous reverberations.
There is no sound in unison with such
music, but a yell from 10000 powder
choked Mroats.
Aside from the battery men there
were but few Of the 5000 men compos-
ing Porter's corps who climbed to the
top of the ridge and witnessed what OF
the battle Right be seen; scarcely so all
told. They lay listlessly at the base
under arms, although here and there a
game of cards was in progress. The
corps had seen hard fighting; it was
nothing new; besides, the 9Th had
been handled with rough hands at the
second Bull Run and was
in no mood for glory just then, except
what came with the least amount of lead.
But even with the advantage of the
height little of the ~contending forces
couldb be seen, particularly the confeder-
ate, whose gray and butternut uniform
blended with the ground, except with
a good field glass. aud even then but
indistinctly.
Two masses of confederate infantry
were observed for a brief time on the
left center into which four or five shells
from the 30 Founders were pitched be-
fore the column moved back under cover.
A federal brigade line upon the hillside
was seen supporting a battery which kept
up a steady and incessant FIRE; but what
they were firing at could not be detected.
Sweep over their front as critically as
you would and nothing could be seen to
oppose them but q low stone wall enclos-
ing what seemed to be o plowed field.
The brigade moved forward-then
the wall seemed to be on fire as the
smoke rolled along it, and behind the
smoke and behind the wall, as gossip
ran afterward, we're three regiments of
Jackson's North Carolina tar heels;
troops that could hang to a broken
stone wall as obstinately $ Turkish in
fantry to a shattered stone fort.
The federals broke under the fire and
went back to their former position and
the battery reaeahled its discharges
while they were reforming. Again
they went at the wall and suffered a
worse repulse than before; not a few Of
them refusing to reform although the
colors were quickly run to the rear as q
rallying point.
The third time the brigade was
pushed up the line looked white, show
ing that the charging column had peeled
on 1GS cOaI-lbS DlOuS6 TAbl6r, lOI Uu6
north had veteranized at that stage of
the war and cast aside the holiday sol
der dress coat.
The brigade line did not waver but it
waved from flank to flank like ahughS s,
and it finally shaped itself like q bow
with the convex side toward the wall,
and in that shape it met the blaze Of
the gallant North Carolina fighters, and
still kept on and on, as if it breasted a
terrible gale gale, until the wall sgas wen
and then it poured in a rapid fire upon
the ccnfederates as they streamed back
and up toward the woods.
AS the sun sank in the smoky west
the firing ceased and little birds came
out of their hiding places to moralize
in timid twitters ON the mad ferocity On
the northern and southern thunder do
mons.
Neither of the great sides were whip
ped. Both sides were terribly punish
ed. But the eonfederates retired across
the Potomac by way Of Sliepardstown
ford into Virginia before next morning
dawned.
sleep After Eating Healthful.