Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-25

eiv1 strife even hnu Mhf tlash Hutl
,iapr not pierced mountain fnstnesa and
,fhavi over village aud plain, bcckon'
nd hot tempered youth 20 the lists. IL
90 without saying that tho men OF tho
Ff.t Tennessee made haste to rattle tho
noe,lor horns and Turkish the shoiguns
,,hleh Old time tladdics had slung over the
,snntcls against time Of need. And, by the
~. there was rush to capture the honor
a being No I. and two regiments In Con
,,lertto service boru that title through
M wnr-Manoy's First aud Turncy's First,
,ner their earliest cnonels. Tnrncy's was
,so distinguished ns First Confederate.
Naucy's was raised In central Tennessee
Nashville Franklin. Columbia, Murtreer.
b1ro and Notwithstanding the bcst blood
q i've counties.
Nashville had live companics--throe
known ~ the Rock city Guards, oncof Ger
mans. called Tennessee Rlilcmcu, aud one
Of Railroad boys. Maury county, around
Columbia, gave the Maury Grays and tho
brown Guards; Murfrooshoro. Rutherford
county, tho Rutherford Rifles; Pulaski,
Clle. county. the Martin Guards, and
Franklin, Williamson county, the VII
hanson Guards. These titles alone show
that their bearcrs wrrc among tho pioneer
cohorts OF seccssia. The men carried their
htns OF being among the elect" - far
that some OF tho rough aud rcady follows
iron, the hills dubbed tho Fint the XII
Glove Regiment This nickname had
force until tho men who bore 10 got -
chance 90 charge a battery ortwo AMI thea
was played ont
The chance was long timo coming, rot
until oct. =, isGl, NJ puuyvillc, kyra Ten
ncssec eight IN q sense.
80 peHyvlllr Col. George Nancy led a
brigade composed 81 Eve Ugimcnis-tour
from Tennessee and one from Georgia u
was In Cheathum's division. Chcutham's
men were halted willie the front line skis.
mishod and got the bearings Of the Union
forces. and then let loose. The Union ar.
tillcry aud infantry, warned nud In wait.
lng. received the assailants with showers
Of bullets and shells. Ahead OF the Ten.
ncs4ecnns, on on cmlncncc with ma opcl
field In front, stood Capt G. G. pars1uT
srun battery Of Napoloons. The as.ail.
ants advanced ohliqucly aud pal,ous turn.
Ell ak pieces upon thcm, with canister Nc
ninety PAGES. A glaHng sun almost blind.
81 tho Conicdcratcs, but they advanced.
firing. and quickly shot down Gen. James
s jackson, who was helping Parsons.
The infantry supporting Parsons coolly
awaited ui.ul the charging column cani
within 100 yards, then opened, and the Ten.
neaccans began to fall. Parsons wheeled
hsscycuth gun into position, but before he
could get u shot the enemy was among his
pieces, and he was hauled away In person
hy the main strength " somc Of bis com.
radcs. II couldn't help itn he cried; "it
was not my fault" And sure enough.
that was Tennessee day.
But they hadn't finished u. Therc wax
Ascend Union line behind the broken one.
and there Stones and Buslls kentucky
and Indiana batteries, two iu number, with
twelve guns, were by their generals com.
mnud lying low for close work, that Is,
grape at few PAGES They were half a
milo from Parsons battery aud upon hill
slipping sharply toward the Confederate
line Hll commanding corn field, through
which the n1allanta had to march. TIE
TwCnty.llrst Wisconsin infantry took shell
term the corn aud pepporcd the Tonnes
seclns bitterly, gradually retiring toward
the batteries. stones guns were crushing
the right u Manry's brigade. and Col. II
r. liold, 81 the first, asked the honor q
talking care OF them with his kid Glove
boys 1t wus granted, and the men dc
pluyed In we'll closed ranks and advanced
firing, shooting down thrty-lvc of Stone,
horses aud many Of the gunugrs. The gt.n,
were abandoned and the Tcnnesscaus tool
charge but the battery supports rallied
and drove them out.
Lieut.. Col. John Patterson, Of the First
and about fifty others fCll In that singh
charge Retiring down the steep bofor,
superior forces, Col. Field rallied hi noi
IN the slope aud turned and charged again
Again they reached the guns and mndc ,
stand to hold them In face Of n CALLING fir
until supports should come To their aid
None cnme, and Field gave the order TO re
tire Only ninety muskcts gathers
around him at the foot OF the hill out 81 50
That had entered the fight. The killed out
rightwcro 20, tho heaviest Confederate los
Oh the field, the killed and wounded, 40.