The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-11
BATTLES BLIGHT.
How Lives are Lost IN The Warfare or
Modern Times.
"Reminiscences Of n Few Hard Fought
Fields.
Armies Not Often Aunihllaltd.

Than "annlhilaiion" there Is no more ia
yoritu word With tAo critics oi mstWhfrea
-nd sham fights. la notice ~ = mimic
battle near Portsmouth lu the LunHon
Times Of the day | write thtss linta occurs
this observation; The guns II the liofi
would have aupihilated Colonel Ihoml
sous advance on tho leii along the BOA
snore." In truth II Is "A hard thing 10 AN
nihilats" y body ut troops na ~ ~ 70 XIII a
scandal. In literal sense there h. scarcely
record OF such catastrophe " used Ia u
llguritiye sensa 10 signify loss 40 RreHt ~
toput the iorce 10 suffering II hors dn oopi'
bat, there Ia amrzng 10 tImOuy io
the quantity Cf "nnnhilatiun' good
troops have accepted without any
inch haploss result. Here are four
instances taken almost NJ random, The
ooniedrlairs, out Ut Gs,0OO men engaged a.
Getty hurP lott 1900, hut Meade held h,s
hand from Interfering with their of'cflv
retreat. OF that little bAtile me ulimur
was the assault of Pickeitl division, the
l1wer u Virginia. against Nebb's 'front.'
on the ieit OF Cemetery Hill. Before ne
heroic Armitage called tor the "co.d steer
and carried Gibbons battery with rush,
the division had met WITH a variety 81 cN-
perience durii Y It's mile-aud.A-hall advance
over the smooth ground up To the crest,
when II first came into sight II had been
piled with solid shot; then halfway across
10 had been vigorously shelled. ana the
double Snnis,trs had been Reserved Tor rs
nearer approach. An enhlading fire
tore through IT'S ranks the mus
kerry hlszed forth against II with
deadly effect. This is the evidence Of All
eye witness on the opposite side, mo add'i
but IL came on magnihcenNy. Yes, NJ
came on TO cold steel and oluboed muskets,
aud after desperate struggle u went back
iolled 20 the accompaniment which marked
- advance Hut heavy rs were its Losses,
1t was not "annihilated." Picketps disvlt-
ion survived 10 be once aud again thorn IN
the Federal side before she final day 81 fate
came TO IL at Appomattax courthouse.
At Mars.la.Tour, Alvensleben's two infant
ry divisions, numbering certainly not over
Is 900 men (tor they had already lost heayi'
Y at Spiohereu BerR) sscr feed within n
few of 600 during the long summer hours
while tney stood unsupported athwari
the course OF the French army re-
treating from Metz. But so far were
they IRON being aunihilated that As hours
later they made their presence acutely felt
on the afternoon OF Grbyelotte In the
Inly attack on Picvna, OF the 2S,OOO men
with whom KrnJener and Schahovskoy
went in, they took ont under 81 900. One
regiment under the latttr's command lost
725 killed aud go wounded-about IS per
cent. of its whole Dumbor-yet the Russian
retirement was not dltorderly; ana mkt
day the troops were N resOlute cohCso
awaiting what might belall them. In me
September attack on PleyDa, OF "a QUO
nnsso- Roumanian infantry engaged the
losses reached Is 900. SkobeleH com.
manded 1884, 900 men, and at the end OF his
TWO days desperate fighting, not 10000 OF
these were left standing But there was no
humiliation, either literally or convention
tionally, If one Tnay use the term. The
survivors who had fought on the llth End
IL h OF September were ready 81 the word
TO 20 in again on the 18th; and how q ey
marched across the Balkans later is one o
the marvels of modern military history -
Archibald Forbes in the F0rtnightly Re
view.
Mr.. r. Y. Goldsborough, Ennis, Texas
savs: al used Browns Iron Bitters foI
weakness and nervous headache and II
yrpetlv hpnafted me-