The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-08

 had seized this brigade, incompEehensi- simply the fact. The other brigade of! this didsion, under the command ofe Colonel Butler Colonel Rhett having been captured at Averyshoro,) which was to support Elhott's in this assault, stood we'll and held to the last ali the groundi- that the division had taken. The brigade again moved forward to the line from which we had driven the FederaiS in the" 6rst assault. This position the divisioun held until midnight, sustaining tor 90 couple of hours toward and after dark a heavy shelling from the 6eld-pieces jus. in our front
 Here could have been seen what civ ilians consider q phenomenon-mene fire. Old soldiers understand this, ans. know that 1t Is very common. Some the men, worn by fatigue, while lyinfae down in line actually went to sleep, phil.d osophically indifferent to the shells tha's were tearing through the trees, bursting over their heads, and occasionally causink casualties. During these few hours it wane pitiable to hear the groans and cries of th'se wounded men just in our front, wher they had fallen in the charge. Some .;, these men were brought otf but other
 could not be reached, and died wheTSle they fell. About midnight the line watd withdrawn, and the men moved throughe darkness back to the neighborhood 0 ot the position from which we had at frs started. Here, at daylight on the sotho- we entrenched, and what was of moror- ~A scant meal the first food we had ha,
 since the night oi tue 18th. The mum
 bers of the enemy in our front had beeiue SO evidently increased, that our men ioe- ordinary line of battle could not covene the opposite ground, so they had to b,ev deployed singly about four feet apart. this way our line, mere thread, hel o' the intrenchments, which were threateneher by the enemy, but not deliberately as
 saulted. Had they known our weaknes.
 they could easily have run righ, thIoug e"' us. Taltiafero's division held this pos.nd tion upon the extreme right until thery afternoon of the 2ist, when the Federal he assaulted, and broke through the lin
 upon the extreme left of our army. ThoP- danger at this point was for some tini to very critical, but General Hamptdust quickly gathered some cavalry. and his portion of Georgia brigade, and vi
 them routed the Federals and
 stored the line. It was at this spot thnce General Hardee's son was killed in tk of mskte. Talliafeios division was also Gsh once hurried to the scene of the fig ght, b! =, arrived there few minutes after qui' o' was restored ; but was then placed jar charge of the line at this point, the le her of the command resting on Mill Creek
 During the night Johnston's army fs
 back from the position 1t had taken arS 'o held, ip the form o! horseshoe, and mas oi one ofthose remarkable retreats for whisnew this general is SO famous. There was b,v;p. one bridge across Mill Creek and over ,,.. the army defled during the night, ar "e' when daylight of the 22d appeared the the were only few of our cavalry videtn to upon the enemy's side of the creek. Te all army halted three or four miles from creek, and on the next morning pr ceeded on toward Goldsboro. In Il
 battle, near Bentonville, Iohnston's entirety army did not comprise more than IA Cover men, while the Federal troops present |, ,., the Io:h numbered B GOO, and on | 2o:h and 2Ist Go 900. Sherman. in j. was memoirs, acknowledges the great disp as il ity of numbers, and says that if he hupon been aware of the fact at the time vi,. would have overwhelmed Johnston
 Confederate losses were about , 800 n> was and those of the Federals abou l ooo hay is suhject for interesting thought twice know how it was that both at tAverysb' ,o ,, and Bensonville small army of Conf
 crates could hold in check nearly com times their number of Federals Batenan' was certainly done. It can be explaiIacy', only on the hypothesis that Shermsou, Ii, army in North Carolina was a very - ferent organization from the same ar anu from Chattanooga to Atlanta. The 10. 0 resisted march through Georgia com. South Carolina must have demorali surt the men. Whereas, the force un, = Johnston had shrunk to its small prop p''ie " tions from the descrtion of the iniernnam anu unreliable men in the comm ands, ys de. that toward the close the men who s,t 70 to their colors were actuated by nn sense of duty and manhood qualirY a'ee that make the finest soldiers d tho
 On the 27d ot March, 1865 the write. acy'. active connection with the ConfedeT r,,k. army ceased Worn down by illness
 was placed in an ambulance and uun'o' mately carried to Greens ooro, where of tho lay for over a month in the extem porizle edge hospital of the Episcopal church, ,ba then the court house, on the bare Ao -. without the pretsnse of a ID a,tress, v us only his one dirty blanket for a coveriinmis and actually two bricks that he had [. tained from the street fer a pillow. Mis, May he was able to tramp three hundi,
 miles to his home, on the one hand 4en' pressed with a sense ot failure and ks, fur. disappointment, on the other, cheeredssi5ly me consequences 'nat nc hao trleo 10. walk Sor+una,e s,rnosle " ~ lnday
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