Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-12
THE FIGHT WITH STONES.

THE FIGHT WITH STONES.
AFEDERAL SOLDIERS STORY OF THE
SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS.
b Unsuccessful Charge on tho Con-
Tolerate Forces at. the Railroad EN-
- The Internal Regions
Broken Loose-An Interview.
Suddenly the cannonading over our
heads from the Union guns ceased, and we
were ordered to move on at double quick.
bounding over the fence into the clear
ground we were halted again for the line
to get Strengthened, and for the first time
discovered tile objectof our attack, and
laughed outright Mt what seemed a
comical sight. AT a distance of thirty or
forty rods from me was a railroad grade,
perhaps a dozen feet high on our side, at
the highest point, and at the top of that
grade was an incessant Kaleidoscope pop
ping up of SLOUGH hats and muskets, the
latter of which We're all successively with
drawn as fast as discharged.
1t did not seem possible that any of us
could be hit by such firing as that, and
altogether looked ridiculous, My first per-
ception OF its being otherwise was in look
ing alone the line and seeing a blue blouse
tail forward or backward to the ground,
or reel and stagger from the rank. by that
TINT we were once more in motion, and /
experienced what is probably the purely
animal sensation of bloodthirstiness,
i'olulns ana Iring as we ran toward the
e~nloalhInent successfully shouted,
ltlieu swore, stamped and
Mipoopcu' Altlough commonly one OIL the
inose quieb ana undemonsfratlye OF
Sousus. 70 see one OF my comrades rall
instue me ~ angry at him as at the
sisAiy, ior ne seemed 10 pc deserving US at
'ne very polht where his assistance was
ieeaeu. before we reached n railroad
slaAs' we mao 10 lace grape n canister
~ We. as Inusketry; but three OF us ar
Iiseu ohere togethes. Farther back the
Islu was streWn with wounded men and
sofpses, n along the railroad cut" at
our lelt, Ihe men Of porter's corps were
e~pn.enalng desperately with their almost
insislpIe, unough deadly, Zoe.
tlih REGIONS BROKEN LOOSE.
NY packWard glance which revealed
.itese Illigs was TAKEN IN the hope OF dis
covering the approach OF our following
LIES pmS oney We're sthf IN q woods be-
lainu. Inc slght -of the demolished regi-
iii.,selllls IN 1neir 'front.' caused the second
~ y lesioate, ana IN the the
leW.oI US VINO mad reached the grade
claWisu 20 near the top OFT and loaded as
we lay close 70 lis SIDE, lifting our pieces
saoose oui heaas ana hring over the en-
pahkment as well as we could without
SDEclHl al1n.E Inen caJnp the chnrfra nf pl1r
second me toward us, and it seemed us
saough the Internal regions had broken
loose. Inc noise was SO tremendous that
we could net hear our own voices. Of
course our troops we're repulsed to the
WOODS AGAIN. where they stopped and com
Aisneed nrhg atthe enemy, who We're
oiny separated from ourselves by a few
y broken rocK and earth. Still, my
companions ana myself stayed on the EN-
pankment, partly because it was most
uangerous 70 fecross the held, and partly
IA the nope That another line would soon
get up TO us. Our.ammunitionf failed, ard
we lay vain our oncks against the en-
Dankment, as near The top as we dared
venture, large stones over our
heads as forctbly as we could
among the enemy.
! can not now tell which side began this
method or lighting, but l remember dis
tlncliy that we very soon got the worst of
II. Inc oig Jagged pieces of blasted rock
kept laiians about us, n some of them
LOOK ei1ect, co our sorrow. l was myself
hlGthree Tunes, as IND by o letter written
20 my parents o lew days afterward. But
our sue OF the light there was conducted
most terrible disadvantages. Bull
iets from Y own troops in the woods We're
ssfikIhs around US, and 10Th my immedi.
a.e were soon fatally wounded
from tna dlrection. NY own haversack
anu canteen were destroyed by a fragment
VI sieil q q DuAet respectively, and look
ing along the SIDE OF the embankment, in
uoen air~ectiohsss .couia see no active par
Iicipant IN enc q The men OF the First
louisiana were invisible to us, and they
ny " Iaeans OF noWln tnat the force
opposea 70 mem consisted OF one man not
seriously uhd with perhapsa dozen
osnels 80 sorely struck That none OF them
co a nave aimee, q shusket or thrown o
colhpi any oDJect.
rsRsoNAL NTEaviE WITH THE FOE.
groans anu complaints OF my
Wounaea irlends az the tall OF stones upon
sies naaily ueSldea my actlon, andl con-
iuuuueu y soop Dnab aangsr and annoyance
y laenl py personal interview with the
sen.ieinen on ohe o.ner side OF the work.
~ appsalanoe ~ the tinae could not have
peen plepossesslng. Grlmed with dirt and
pI 49, anu wearing nelgher nat nor shirt
4 nau gwen 1he latter garment to a
mounu con.raue rom Whom l q cut
wv = oroeI eo.examlne his hurt-my
was lnsumclent TO hide the desha-
plile enufeiy. BY way OF introduction,
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