Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-05-12

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the shores a-cruwding;
For you they call. the swaying mass, their eagoi
faces turning.
Here. Captain, dear father.
This arm beneath your head
1t is some dream that ON the deck
You're fallen cold and dead.
Ny Captain does not answer. his lips are pai'
NY father does not foel my arm. he has no pulls.
nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyag,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in witt
object won,
Exult, O shores, and ring, o bellsi
But | with mournful tread
Wall tho deck-my Captain lies
Fallen cold and dead.
Ny Brilliant Charge at Missionary
Ridge.
DEAR LEDGER. It ia with the greatest
modesty and difidence that l wrlte you al
account of that brilliant and magnificent
charge which l led at Missionary Ridge.
| have waited over twenty two years fol-
history TO lay before an admiring world a
true account Of that important affair, YET
she remains as dumb as nm oyster on the
subject, and the great task devolves on me
OF enlightening the world upon that qres-
ton, and handing down to posterity one Of
the most brilliant episodes that ever oc-
Cured in the annals Of war. All, as dis
tinctly as il it had been yesterday, do !
remember that beautiful November even
ing; the sun shining with such gorgeous
splendor, the sky so high and blue, the
faintest tinge OF Indian summer mantling
the distant peaks Of Point Lookout and
the surrounding hills and mountains; while
away out on the right, about Tunnel Hill,
since morning there had been n continual
boom Of cannon and rattle Of musketry.
! lay on the ridge a short distance to the
right of Bragg's headquarters watching
those long lines Of blue, perhaps a mile dis
tant, taking their positions for a desperate
charge; while the many pieces Of artillery
scattered along the top Of the ridge were
now keeping up a pretty constant roar.
About three o'clock the Yankee lines
emerged from the woods on the opposite
side Of the valley. "They are coming!
They are coming!" uttered almost every
in o low distinct voice, speaking, APP
parently, to himself instead Of addressing
some n else. Every piece of artillery
along that ridge now became q living vol
cano discharging missiles of death with
the greatest rapidly. With what fascina-
os t tuose nlie e u oiue ADVANCE
20 a. "PIh "o"H tno ,aiies,
uo,,,d oIinw r. ecup!e
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made in those lines. Int ON. On tbev COME
crossed our old breastworks in the
valley. heard the punners cali for fha
canister shot. Oh, how I pitied those blne
devils! / knew many of them would never
back across that valley. nor come tn The
ton Of that ridge. At length thew reached
the base Of the ridge on when We were
lying.
Our artillery ceased firing. the Hill be;no
too steep. Our infantry were ordered to
rise and fire. Although we Ind but one
slender line OF battle along that norton Of
the ridge, vet those blue coats never came
10 the ton. MOI halfway mn. while wa STAYED
there; but in a very short time-by the time
I could load and fire twelve shots. tbey ware
beck through that valley in The wild.
est confusion. / saw a Yankee General
white horse trying TO rally his scat-
troops at our old breastworks in the
l raised the sights of INV GUN to
four hundred wards and fred four shots ut
him. but missed. I ppo every time.
informed me afterward that aFipht.
ing Joe Hooker" was the man who rode the
white horse and rallied the fiyipp Federnls
at the old breastworks in the valley. Int
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