New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-24

Just captured We had about mile TO march
across open 1elds-under the terrible fire OF tho
| enemy who laughed at the madness OF the order.
We marched back to our main fort quicker than
we went. II / could forget those sad uptirned
faces that saw on our return To our Tort would
smile at the folly of that sense lcss order. W hat
name the fool bore who gave that order never
could fn1 out and don't want TO now
Mad. racing. to think they had lost THURSDAY.
held back by that wrctched lite army OF MIlroy,
while the other column Of the Army OF Northern
| Virginia was pushing to BIO destroyed perhaTs
by Hooker, in detail who would then turn upon
| them AMI eat them up IN course as he ought To
have done, just as the sun set in The gold and
glory If ripe summer Sunday. the long lines OF
gray were seen to be moving into mass preparing
for a final charge. We had still 5000 effective
a s1 and lost FL in The h Ss a s% 6 SS
rife pits were filed with determined. picked men.
was not in them: re est OF US huggea Ine Tort
| Our WAGONS hospitals. our stors OF all sorts.
everything but our arms, ammunition and our our
selves the crcing enemy had in his grasp The
town OF Winchester was theirs. and theirs too
all the darlS-eyed maidens who had so charmed
| us with their divine wrath. The night was moon
less but clear. On the west OF the fort apr cared
the indistinct and faint line OF army ing
like grim shadow upon us. Every cannon was
| silent You could have heard a pin drop In our
great fort Mroy gave his orders in whsp sas.
and to poor privetes in gbOsty Iemulous whis-
pers They were short end terrible. Not
Shot until the rebs reach the rife-pts. Then give
them =, and receive them with the bayonet'
The thirty-four cannon. four heavy siege guns
among them were charged with gralc and can
lister and moved to the west side, all pointing
down the ravine up which 10000 TO $4,000 brave
men came crecpins upon MS silent as the dead.
They were carefully ranged Every man hAed
and cicnched teeth We could hear eafh others
hearts throb in that moment Of terrible suspense
livery nan turned 10 flint and steel Our case
desperate if the. enemy got INTO the Tort IN
the darkness On they come Now The line IS
t McTS az Ete nrS p O is silent The ennes are at
their pieces, really at word to flash death into
their ranks Every soldier holds ms muske ei At
deep along the whole len tn OF the west side OF
the great fort just as they reach the nile plts
q singe voice is heard only one IL is Milmys:
Sire! and 5000 muslets and thrty-four can
non fash death and defiance IN the lace or me
advancing foe In the light OF tie discharge the
Keeling ranks. with broad gaps torn through them,
and the ground covered with dead and dying
Con ederates apr ear as plainly as II the sun shone.
Their half n hundred thousand mUskets reply IN
the dark. and rattle above us a. harmless as the
soft .iews of night: " FireW again shouts Miroy.
and the rebel Inc staggers, sways, breaks. mes
the victory is won ana not man lost IN our loit,
not one. Nine hundred Confederate dead press The
sod below. awaiting tO-morrow's hasty funerals;
All no yet. Hark. they are reforming for final
charge They come with their familiar veil. firing
as they come. Again our old hero cries " flIe!" ana
broad sheet Of flame pours down the slope. .he
hight again revealing the familiar scenes of war.
and Instantly all is dark and silent again Inc
enemy have fallen back We are safe ior tue
niRht--long dreary night, hungry. FAINT, thirsty,
chill ed with the dews, without light, Tor "e dare
not show the enemy's guns the range.
Some really slept. l KNOW ulu Dot Rct
wink here were "A magazine and great eisiern
in the fort. The cannon we're spiked, and thrown
into the cistern. The artillery ammunition was
thrown in, too, and the carriages sawed ID pieces
Every cartridge box We carried hal forty rounds
and every pocket was hlled besides. Every
bayonet was fixed We had not horse lbe
Confederafes were all around us. We could hear
them taking. They knew what we were doing
how could they help IT. At all events tomorrow,
Monday June Ii, would seal our fate; this we
both knew well. AT midnight we marched out oil
that fort which for three days and nights had been
our prison. We were CAD 10 leave Tor any fate.
Every moment we expected to be fired on
MuTOy's ord, we're few and simple. BOYS. give
and and" rally at farpers Ferry Sind at Harprrs
Ferry tomorrow, every man. There was no as
or'ler the little garrison moved down the MI
toward the MartiDsburg roac III column OF tlght
deep. 49,
Large bodies move slowly We lelt our way
carefully and aui,tly out into the highway. We
passed through the enemy's lines passed his pick
cts. almost touched elbt ws. and lie never cLal-
was mysterious then bur ike all military affairs
clear now. lie knew what he was up o and We
didn't, that was the difference. But we had Hob
sons choice-we had to move on TO our fate We
had several brass bands and drum corps at VIM
chester, but no use Tor them now. Not adrum was
Gill Left Behind Me" at Winchester though lots
of 'em were thinking on her. We had more Use for
our heels than our ears, and very little taste for
music that morning. We were momentariy ex-
Dectng the dulcet strains of the mimic. and
didn't want TO hear even il. We had our flags
ha We them vet, thank God However our hearts
were chilled with despair and our hopes crushed
with dependency or defeat, We hung on TO the old
flag. 1t made 10 noise as it strenned OFT in the
morning lght but It, still small voice was heard
even IN that awful silence before and after il
was often heard above the roar of war.
We had proceeded 20 slowly az our scouts felt tho
way and we halted so often. that the hrst gray
streaks Of dawn were seen III the east when we
reached the little brook by the great brick honse
AT StcvensUD's station, four miles North OF Wn-
cheste 10 the right was a thick wood, with
steep embaDkment Just above the road. 10 the
eft was a wide expanse OF cleared land, heavy
nd with "A OF DlO>sDmng clover
The brick house also to the left, never torgo t!
Suddenly as if thor sand cannon were shot on ut
once, . found ourselves an buscaded, rounded,
1reoi Oh from every quarter by an Unseen fOe We
we've IN the midst OF the great army of Lee
handful of men IN the mighty clutches of the army
that We bad kept back from the North, back from
gettysburg therefore, for hive mortal DAY s. defer
ure of It's victory. and the last obstruct on
emo ved to It's advance North. General Lee was
TO say that MJoy chose the ground
or tue night OF Gettysburg without knowing it;
md he did. too. II Lees forces had passed over
Is on Thursday. on SATURDAY they would have been
Iarrisburr, G ana the elites North would have fet
heir fury. and Gettysburg remained unknown
orever Tue foe met one worthy OF his steel:
Not Ithstand ng the odds against us We charged
lis batteries. to * his cannon =" in the smoke OF
heir discharge" only to have them retaken from US
he moment alter. Cavalry poured in on us from
III sides by the stone fences that lined the road
We withstOod their charges and gave them rs good
IS they sent. Dslodged from one fence we soon
ouud another. until at last abOnt O'clock for the
'attle ragged in furious hand-to-hand grap2le tor
i've hours. We were forced TO retreat toward North
fountain. but not all Of US. Swift as the roe,
managed thanks to my heels. to lind the mountains
90! But at every jump had good company and
enty Of il, horse, foot and dragoon generals
Oionels and pryates hurry skurry. over stone
ences across ditches over fields up North Monn-
ain, safe among its pines ami lanres. onward two
avs and nights to the Potomac, where crossed
VT the rebel cavalry heels. aud their guns
coming on the other side! 1t was mad chase.
he end Of Milroy ana his Spartan band for that
ampaign. Miiroy removed. half our force killed
7 scattered. the rest OF us brought up at Bloody
un, Pennsylvania, and IN due course participated
the conc lusou of the hole matter at Gettys-
urg, and had the satisfaction OF chasing our old
nemy up the Valley fast as he had chased
own mouth before
As the noun ebanks Of tho political persuasion
n.y. as their coat-tails hap IN the breeze aud they