Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-22

! brutal fellows, rendered impatient by
/ their failure TO ind the water according
/ TO her directions. had forced the poor
woman up the stairs and out the door into
/ the yard TO tho we'll under the torrent
/ OF bullets and canister that was pouring
down the heights, An ANONYMOUS wri-
/ ter Bret Hartey( Ia the OD6riaud Monte
/ ~ for January, 1871, relates his having
/ Deen among HO0ker's troops on this
/ ground the next morning, when some
/ nghGing was still in progress, and seeing
a woman with disheveled hair and vacant
/ LOOK standing, unmmdiul of danger, at
the door OF the little grocery.
ON that march from the Rappahannock
INTO Pennsylvania in June, 1868, which
I eliminated in the battle Of Gettysburg,
there were many "Reminiscences, COIN.
/ lermarches. TENTS, etc. One day. as the
second corps was moving west in the
: direction OF the Bull Run noun; alns, the
/ writer Was in command of company OF
infantry, moving in skirnjshing ord
+ along the turnpike in front of the advance
| 2Qard. 1t was the middle OF the day, and
me road, which there descended bill,
was shut IN on bOtn sides by dense woods.
/ rs we approached the foot OF the hlh we
Went cautiously, for an open valley
stretched before us, bali mile wide per-
I APPS, with wooded ridge beyond, To
/ The left Of the road and q short distance
ahead, IN the valley, was a dne farm
house with outbutldInRs, but no sign Of a
human being in sight. After making these
observations from behind the trees our
/ little depioyed line pushed forward again,
/ hut had scarcely emerged from the woods
into the open when the most heartrending
| screams attracted our attention. Two
women having three or four small chill
1 dren with them, all Joined together hand
/ In hand, were running from the back door
OF The house. Their QUERY would be diff
| cult n describe, but 1t was hOarse and
/ sustained, ard both women, aud all the
/ little ones seemed to be taking part in it.
/ 1t was a sound that implied fright and
1 horror combined. Had their flight been
/ IN the opposite direction from us, it wOu d
/ have been plain that we alone were the
| cause of their excitement. But they
/ were running tow ard the woods we had
! Just come OUT Of, only toward our left.
/ Ills meant that they knew there were
! Confederates on the ridge in front of US
and that they were trying to escape from
/ between two fires. We halted therefore.
/ and word was sent back to the General
/ cnmmauding the advance guard, and with
/ in few minutes the valley resounded
/ with the uproar of combat. The women
ard children probably escaped unharmed.
though if they are still alive they must
recOllect with considerable emotion their
! fright of June 20. 1868.
! One o. the bloodiesL battles OF the war
! was that OF ''tR Horseshoe" fought
! around the famous salient angle of the
! Confederate earthworks near Spottsylva-
MIA Court House, May y, 1864 The Sec
! Ond corps, which made the famous attack
IN that salient just at dawn of day, sur
! prised the Coniederates aud took several
! thousand of them prisoners. But the
/ ground in front of the works was covered
with an abaJtis, which the Confederates
had constructed by telling pine trees and
sharpening the projecting branches, so
that the Union troops, after picking and
| forcing their way up through the slash
! ing, were b IDLY mixed. The tretoil badge
of the Second corps and the lOzenge badge
| OF the old Third, which had just been
| merged with the Second, were displayed
on the hats OF the Tesolute men, With pow
! der-blaokened faces. who were aiming
their muskets over the captured parapet
/ at the Confederate masses now crOwding
! down to recapture what had been lost
/ But badges OF the three cOlors-red, " bite
/ and blue-and of the two shapes, trefOil
/ and oZenge. were jumbled together along
he line so that at any one syot represen-
I tatiyes OF the six divisions of the corps
could be found. During all that forenoon
| whenever partial lull in the lighting
/ ing along the parapet of men trying to
! ii their own brigades and regiments
I from which they had been separated while
/ advancing through the abattis. Once
! when the air was in commOtiOn with the
shock OF artillery as a new line Of Con-
! federates Were charging upon US at a run.
when almost every Union face looked
| grave, and the 'srebel yell' was filling the
souls of the timld with dread, the writer
J bna ri a man VhO WAS POn1iup ql0Uo the
! trench, call out:
/ "taIs way, Annie"
! "Annie," indeed What ia the world
| could any Annie be doing in such a place
/ at such a time? But there was Annie,
! surely enough. A i've woman she was,
/ ia this chamber of death and horrors. Sne
| was a strOng-feAtured young person,
| dres ed in the becoming garb OF Zouave
| vivandiere, and belonged 10 a Penn5ylya-
MIA regiment-tne 116Jh p. VS. perhaps.
| she was laughing at something as she
/ cOoly chose her steps along the trench.
! over, and in and out, and around picks,
spades and axes, abandoned muskets and
! accOutrements, the wounded, the dying,
and the dead. Her only feeling seemed to
! ne one of slight annoyance, such as
dainty woman might experience in max
ing her way through a muddy street
crossing.
She was not killed that day. For once
again during the seige Of Petersburg,
when the COnfpderates had made skill
/ fiIl flank attack on the Second corps, and
that corps was fighting hard to re-estab
fish its lines, the writer saw Annie
under a furious rain Of artillery and
musketry, calmly coming down the
face OF an open hillside on horseback
astride!