The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-15

revenge and the slaughter was sckening Iney
tried to rally and form square; we oroKe -
and tramped them under foot. ineF oInsols
behaved like heroes, but the daafiy reV1,VoI
cracked cracked cracked again and again. by
onets were no defense against the sweep OF IIo
saber or the Quick work of the six-snoo,er
and down the camp rode; here would oe
score of halfdressed desperate men stanuiu9
bag around an over-set tent, quick cha1ses
a rinEing voey. and the riders would spur ossT
a pile of dead and writing bodies 10 fresh at-
tack. WHAT hurried and ill-organized dereuso
there was lasted but moment, and then per
feet panic seized the surviving federais. we
ran them down and shot them remorsely. There
was no cry for quarter. though. Three times
their number could not have resisted the impet-
their sleep. Luck favored Quautreli here. as
on many other occasions. for of all hours
in the twenfy-four TO attack an enemy oy sur
prise it was Just the hour arrived there. Tor
men are harder wake, more stupid ana
weaker in mind and body about sunrise than
at any other time; life beats weakly then. as
over and a camp had been turned into grave
yard IN that brief space, and scores or hrave
men had perished as if by lightning. l don't
really think there was of those soldiers alive
FIVE minutes after We had struck the camp.
Quantreil Immediately dashed on into Massa-
chusetts street with Gregg, and Tuck hill. ana
w Dot Hill and myself and crowd of others,
nd shooting every man who had the nardinood
show himself. while we were. IN turn, SUD-
Jeted to a desultory fire from upper windows,
whah, however, did little damage we were
ANNEXED aso by the steady firing OF BODY OF
InIAutY posted across the h6W river We naO
one MAJ wounded severely by this nring,
Lieutenaat PUNK Biedsoe, of the REGULAR = ,.
A service and we lost one man killed. fellow
named Sksrs, who got drunk and renamed De-
hind, and fhy filed him up with lead just az
soon as we let which did by IL o'clock.
AS to womet and children being killed in
Lawrence by ut il is all nonsense. II there was
woman or chilthurt that day it was by the
lndiscriminate firing of the command across the
kaw river. The ine of retreat chosen by
Quantreli was the sosthern route. Osawat-
tonne road. We male one halt, about four
miles from Lawrence, hr an hour or two, and
resumed march. Or route lay southeast
after passing Black Jack Point where the old
Santa Fe trail and the Oswatomie roads unite,
and half mile further "a we ran full tilt
against body of over five hlndred federal cav
airy. We faced about and reared slowly. and
after q demonstration which checked the enemy,
we crossed the Waukarusa river and the enemy,
having received heavy reinforceuents. followed
us and began press the fighting Quantreu
formed q single line of battle and threw out
advance of sixty skrmishers under Captain
Gregg. / was among these. and we kept the
fight in this way until nightfall ended it. and
all got off unmolested. 1t was just at the
end of the fighting that / received sewers
wound from carbine ball. which. after ripping
up the pommel of my saddle and smashing my
saber-hilt DETECTED and entered my thigh
Just above the knee. aud so. ended the nara
tor, t.that wound np the famous fighting around
Lawrence. But failed to catch Jim Lanen