The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-23

ls otu WHlcn l Q MS leg again. ]
then stopped at the hole to guard it
while Williams was making a hole
through the partition into the next
room.
When the patients had been got in
TO the next room / followed, dragging
the man with the broken leg after me-
stopped at thehole to guard it while
Williams was helping the patients
through q window into the other de-
lenses. | stuck to my particular
charge. and dragged him out and help
ed him into the inner line of defenses.
! then took my post behind the
parapet, where three men had been
mt just before. One of these was shot
IN the thick part OF the neck, and
was calling on me all night to shift
from one side to the other. On this
side the blaze Of the hospital lighted
up the ground in front, enabling us to
take aim. The Zulus would every
quarter OF an hour OF SO get together
n make q rush accompanied by
yyells. We let them get close and then
tlred a volley-sometimes two. This
would check them and send them
back. Then after a time they would
rally and come on again. About 8 a.
m. day began to break and the Zulus
retreated. A party, Of which I was
one, then volunteered to 60 across to
the hospital, where there was a water
cart, and bring it into the inner in
closure. where there was no water,
n the wounded were crying for it.
When the sun rose we found the Zu-
lus had disappeared. We then went
out to search for our missing COM
rades. [ saw one man kneeling behind
the outer defenses with his rifle to his
shoulder, and resting on the parapet
as If he were taking aim. I touched
hlm on the shoulder, asking him why
he didn't come inside, but he fell over,
and l saw he was dead. saw several
others Of our dead ripped open and
otherwise mutilated. Going beyond
the outer d~efenses I went, as I have
said before, whittier I had killed the
man at whom l had fired three shots
from the hospital. Going on a little
further l came across a very tall Zulu
bleeding from q wound in the leg; ]
was passing him by when he made a
yell and clutched the butt OF my rifle,
dragging himself on to his knees. We
had a severe struggle which lasted for
several seconds, when, finding he could
not get the rifle from me, he let 20
with one hand and caught me around
the leg trying to throw me. While he
was doing this I got the rifle from him,
and, drawing back a yard or two,
loaded and blew his brains out.
then al fetched back to the fort, and
no n was allowed to go out save
with other men. Then several of us
went out together, and we brought in
several wounded Zulus. BY this time
1T was about 8 or 9 o'clock, and we
saw a. body coming toward us; at the
same time Lord Chelmsford's column
came in sight and the enemy retired
Lord Chelmsford, soon after he ar
rived, called me up to inquire about
the defense Of the hospital. I was
busy preparing tea for the sick and
wounded, and was in my shirt-sleeves,
with my braces down. I wanted to
put on my coat before appearing in
front OF the General, but 1 was toldto
come along at once, and I felt rather
nervous at leaving in such a state,
and thought had committed some of.
Tense. When Lord Chelmsford heard
my story he praised me and shookme
by the hand. The Cross was present
ed to me on Aug. 3, at Rorke's Drift,
by Sir Garnet Wolseley.