The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-02-11

would on that field. Winthrop was act
ing AS military secretary on the staff of
the commander, Gen. Butler, and was en-
Jhusiastic over the first battle of the little
army Butler did not go to the battle
ground in person and Winthrop rode out
ut the head of Col Duryea's column of
Fire Iouaves to meet the enemy.
\ surprise that had been planned was
forestalled by an accident, and on arriving
at the field the enemy was seen in position,
with e:,rthworks sheltering his batteries
The fire from those batteries was too severe
for the raw troops that faced them and the
attack was suspended all along the line
At the critical moment Winthrop resolved
to inspire the men with valor equal to the
emergency. His face had glow of TO
nance in it, and when he called for voun-
teers in il forlorn hope, detachments from
different regiments responded. On ap-
preaching the battery there was indecision
in the little phalanX as to the best route to
advance, and the column halted under the
fire of Confederate riflemen who supported
the battery. Winthrop went ahead, fol-
lowed by one or two men, swinging his
sword and pointing out the way The
enemy looked on with admiration, but the
temptation for crack shots to make target
of the conspicuous figure overcame their
chivalry. Il think can bring him." was
the challenge several times repeated as the
sharpshooters craved permission to draw
bead on the hero. Finally Winthrop
stepped upon log and waved his sword
as a signal to the column, tagging some
distance behind, to follow At that instant
a bullet pierced his left side and he fell.
His followers retired and the Confederattes
rushed to the spot to find the gallant fell
low dead
A dcplorable tragedy on the Confederate
side was the fall of Gen. Felix K. Zolli-
Golfer, at Mill Springs, Ky, Feb. 10, 1862.
This engagement, known at the time as
the Confederate Bull Run of the West"
was fight for the possession of east Ten
nessee. Zollicoffer led brigade and open
eel the battle. On approaching the Union
lines at an early morning hour some confu-
sion and uncertainty arose as to the identity
of opposing troops. Soon after the action
commenced Zollicoffer ordered the Nine
teenth Tennessee, of his brigade, to cease
firing, as they appeared to be shooting into
friends. The2 riding forward to a COM
mand in front, which proved to be the
Fourth Kentucky (UniOn), under Col. S. S.
Fry, he repeated the caution, saying to
Fry I'VE must not fire on our own men"
and nodding toward the Nineteenth Ten
nessee. At the moment of addressing COL
FRY the general became aware of the mis-
take, but his Confederate garb was well
hidden under gum coat that shrouded
his figure, anc he quickly decided to brave
it out, and coolly added, pointing to the
Confederate line, "Those are our men,"
COL Fry rode back to tell his Kentuckians
that the strange regiment in front were
friends, when an officer on Zollcoffer's
staff sent Il shot from his revolver into the
Union ranks. This opened the eyes of all
FRY turned and shot at the rider in the
gum coat and some of his men fired at
the same time, and Zollcoffer fell with a
fatal musket ball wound and also a severe
pistol Shot wound. Similar presence of
mind and daring carried men thruu oh
again and again IN the course of the war,
and would have saved Zollicoffer but for
the recklessness of his subordinate.
Naval battles under the long range sys-
tenn of fighting do not offer the same
chances for individual daring that were OBJ
tanned in the days of boarding and hand to
hand struggles on deck, but the war
brought out some heroes of the sea for all.
There was Commander Tunis A. NJ Cra-
ven, who went down in the i'll fated mont
Tor lecumseh in Farragut's battle in Mo-
bile bay, Aug. 5, 1864. The Tecumseh was
one or four highly priced monitors belong
ing to the fleet and had been DELAYED in the
sail to the rendezvous at Mobile, only ar