New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-01


"our line was nearly two miles long, and VIC were
about from any support All of I'd Regiment
put into the lnc and the way We made those Old
Springfield rifles heard was surprising. Tho first
attack easily rcpulse. Then they came ont with
two lines Of battle and emptied cartridges right
out on the ground, laying the percussion caps with
them and the hammers the gs0und. There was not
the slightest intention on our part Of yielding an
inch. The advance was meadows and
work told severely rs soon as they
within 500 yards. About 800 yards away
stone wall with board fence running along
tho top. When they reached this our fire began 10
tell. The got over It, however, and advanced
till In our immediate front they reached common
board fence hundred yards away But by this
time their double line Of battle had melted to almost
a sl1lrmish line and they got back out OF reach as
quickly possible. They were not yet Satisfied
however, and made a third attempt. by this time
the boys In good fighting humor and this third
attempt was nightly close to humiliation for the
attacking force.
After this there was sharp skrmishng, but no
further attempt to force line back and 1t must
have been interesting for the rest Of the army back
on the heights to that Inc Of skirmIshcrs stick
10 It's work But these were the same men who ex-
actly ten months later refused to retreat from the
Bloody Angle at spottsylvanla-men who never dur
Ing the entire. war were whipped out Oh position
taken-the First Vermont Brigade.
HUMoR on THE OUTPOsTS
During the adv ance of the skirmsh line one Of
boys picked up the first sergeants book Of
Company G. sth Georgia, and amused himself by
calling the roll OF Company and assigning men 10
extra duty for not answering TO their Names and
also extending invitation the sergeant to come
and get his book. Occasionally some would
sing out: Look out there, Johnny I'm agoinG
10 shoot, and soon after you would hear from the
Rebel line, Look out there, Yank Use agwine
to shutc' ,u
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this and barn, perhaps hundred feet further down
the line was pile OF stove wood neatly piled up:
Sergeant Dcerng. John Cuthbert and myself
pesb2 Of there being r soRe oSnhes dde
here, when noticing trying poke his rifle through
hole in the fence couple Of hundred yards away,
Of that at the same time leaning my riae across the
fence for shot At this moment heard the sharp
spa OF BAH, and turning saw the gallant Cuthbert
was gone, the ball having struck just over the heart
OF hi. coat Dcering and myself caught him and laid
him down gently, loGscning hs straps and fixing him
said: It's dead shot Frank wish you would
write to my wife. Tell her ali about IT, A few
moments later he raised his canteon and took drink
Of water and a moment after he was gone
This was the work OF a Ia the barn. We
wooInIe and I'm a few moments TO The house Here
at the corner was on old leach barrel lie got be-
hind IT, and supposed OF course IL full OF solid,
wet ashes We afterward found it was empty. But
he made himself such a nuisance that finally ono Of
Of Of powder SIs and p" sent bullet p;o the eeat1s
Mr.. Johnny's rife and equipments behind the barrel
and the blood on the ground made II appear though
ne must have got hunt Twenty or thirty feet TO my
right lay Sergeant Tom L, one Of the best men in
the regiment Tom lay on his face grmly watching
the movements OF some entcrprsng Johnny, when all
Of look OF surprise spread over hts face, and
A bali coming from the left cnfladed the line and
had struck Tom In the fieshy part OF the thigh.
saw the look and its cause and
with semi-scrious tones OF sympathy remarked.
ITS too bad, Tom-and above all other places,
to think thar you should bc hit there. Then came an
angry flush and choking down my laughter. got out
OF Toms r'ach AZ lively gait. though he did give me
a tremendous drubbing aftcrward and | guess he
would again If he knew were telling the story.
THE SAD SIDE OF WAR
During the evening the Confederate tretcher bearers
gathered up many Of their dead and wounded as
possible when they too our lines warnin
from some Of our boys would stop them On the
morning of the 18th, we found nearly a hundred
dead they had been unable to reach. one touching
incident was the finding of young Confederate, per-
haps twenty-five years Old, who held in his hand an
ambrntype portrait OF his young wife and little child
and all felt keeny small part, perhaps Of the
pain the news Of this skirmsh must carry to the
heart OF this wife down in Georgia. It would TO tho
wife Of the gallant Cuthbcrt Of my own company,
among the mountains OF Vermont. The order to al
welcome relief from these scenes that
combined so much OF the Joy Of victory and sorrow Tor
the victims of cruel war.
Passing through the little village Of Fmkstown,
Md. met and were congratulated by great many
Of the people with whom we had become acquainted
the year before. after the AnetaW campaign. They
told they knew the day before that We were there
rs tho wounded COnfcieTaies had told them they were
fighting those blanked Vermontess.' \ day Or two
later General Lee succeeded IN getting away from US
the second time, at WlamspUrt, and ended the
Gettysburg campaign