The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-09

10 say that the slaughter was enormous
on that ted is TO speak in played out
Terms. Battle historians formerly thought
1t worth while to go into enthusiasm when
ranks were decimated On the field
write about scores of Union regiments LOST
GO to roper cent killed and wounded That
means 3 or out of every 10 shot down.
The Twenty-fourth Michigan, of the Iron
brigade, fought part of the time against
these Carolinians, and it's loss that dav
was the highest in the Union army.
The One Hundred and Fifty-first Penn
sylvania, also opposed to the Carolinians
lost nearly 70 per cent. of it's men killed and
wounded. Gen. Heth reported that at the
point where the Twenty -sixth engaged the
second Union line, the TANKS of Rowley's
and Meredith's brigades, the "Ulsioh dead
marked the line of battle with the accuracy
OF Il line on dress parade" 1T was in doing.
this execution that the Carolinians fired
away all their bullets and took to rifling
the boxes of the dead for more And it
got us good as it gave. One of the wound.
ed OF Rowley's brigade, who lay on the field
when the Carolinians passed on in pursuit
OF the retreating Union columns, said that
they didn't charge in line of BATTLE but in
squads, SO hot was the Union fire. The
IWenty-sixth showed no line of battle
when 1t finally advanced over the field it
had won, because there We're only ten iso-
lated squads where formerly the ten mag
nlt1cent companies had been. Over 600 of
the $40 men had caught hot bullet apiece
and some OF them two or three. The roll
call that evening showed exactly ZIG men
unhurt.
1t might be thought that another fur
Tough would fall to the lot of regiment
so terribly punished. No; it took it's place
IN line on July to support Pickett's
charge on the left of the column. It's place
that day was the right of Pettigrew's di-
VISION joining the left of Pickett, con-
Meeting link between the two. AS Pickett
advanced the uneven ground broke the
formation Of the line, and the Carolinians
touched elbows to the right and chung
close to P1ckett's column. They kept in
step with his line over the meadows, across
Emmitsburg pike, on, on up the slope to
the stone wall north of the angle. At that
point the wall receded toward the Union
line and compelled them to 90 farther than
Pickett In order to reach Hancock's works.
Bravely the little remnant, spared to come
From the jaws of death,
Back from the mouth of hell
on the nrst day, held their grip on the
flank of Pickett's proud stepping battalions
like the little boys on the flying end of the
line in Snap the Whip" bravely they faced
the whitening blast of fire that greeted the
charge, and bravely they leaped the stone
wall and struggled a few PAGES beyond it,
carving the true high water mark of the
rebellion; then the color bearer fixet. the
staff among the loose stones and fell dead
across the wall
During the charge up the slope the regi.
ment had fired but few shots but at the
wall the rifles were busily piled until a
countercharge on the flank and rear showed
the hopelessness of their daring effort.
Looking to the left Union brigades and
batteries were sweeping the field. Net a
mounted officer survived in the Carolina
brigade Looking to the right they saw Pick
ett's line broken and his men retreatinp.