Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-06-03


ell. Col Kelley was hit twice. True the
SiSty-ninth didn't win the battle Of Ante
tam, but suppose II had finehod before that
biting hail and carried hack the brigade
line with II and with that the supporting
dlylsionsi What them Possibly the oman-
oipatlon proclamation would never have
been issued. Such incidents may decide
great battles and turn the scale Of war.
Just three months otter Autictam the
Irish brigade was again called into the
breach 10 try WHORE others had failed. a
now leader had como 20 the division-lInn
cock the Supcrb--ns successor to Richard
son. who fell at Antietam
In front Of Maryo's Height. on the morn
ing OF Dec. Is, 1902, the command formed
In llne TO support the battalions OF Gen.
French In assaulting the stone wall.
Shortly before the battle the old green
flags Of the lrsh regiments had been sent
home and replaced with new ooors, pro-
hented by admirers In New York. Tie
ranks were so thin that Gen, Meagher do.
cidel not TO risk the new banners In the
fredericksburg fight, and when the men
paradcd On tho fats along tho river and
| formed for the charge he rode up To tho
SlNty-ninth. which was In front ns usual,
and taking bunch ot green from lox
i heAlNt NlAsN ~ manu- IllhfAh III MS zap
with a signal to the men 10 do the same.
In short order the hedge was stripped aud
every man had a waving tutt Of grucn for
lis battle plume. The general spoke few
words to the Sixtyninth and then rode out
beside It's colonel, Robert Nugent, leading
1t by column 10 the point OF assault
Shot aud shell swept the ground, deep
mill race and two fences obstructed the
march, aud the Slxty-nnth was Oh god to
halt under ilN 10 allow the rear 81 the line
TO close up. At the base Of the hill the
brigade formed In two columns, the sixty
ninth IN front, on the right Forward the
doomed ranks marched against the deadly
stone wall, over the dead and wounded "
Fronoh's shattered brigades, up 10 the
third fence which had not yet been passed
by any boy In blue Hating thorc, the
men knet or lay down and trcd nj tho
enemy above. A supporting brigade soon
reached the spot, aud then the survivors
Of fronchs battHlions aud the few Irish
men yet unhurt arose and Joined the
changing ranks. The last fence was passed.
and handful rushed for tho stone wall to
die nearest the works the only thing left
TODD. The Sixty ninth was literally wiped
out About 40 men who had been In Skin
nish line were all that remained for duty
| lAt ron SAii AAhh HAotllHk hhNNeh 10 ON
GERS aud al0 mon present, and the casu
Rltes were 10 officers aud lQ3 men KILLED
and wounded. Tho mortality In the ranli
was again enormous, the dead NUMBERING
aa against 10 wounded The bearer Of III,
United States oolors was found ON the ilolt
with the nag wrapped around hla chest
his arms folded across IL, aud u bullethol,
through tho Tag and through his heart n
well Among the wounded officers wcr
Col, Nugent and the major, and two cap
tains that had succeeded them In command
For some reason the Irish brigade wa
not allowed 10 recruit It's ranks and ate
y Fredericksburg the sixthninth was con
4 solldated into two companies, AZ Getty.
o burg It responded 10 Iluncock's call M,
charged across the What Field, losing /
10 killed and wounded and O missing out a
- W Engaged. After Gettysburg tho sui