Arizona republican., 1892-08-18

One month later, at the head Of recon noitertng column, the regiment fought its way across the Rappahannock river in the face of heavy fire from the eneny's rife pits on the opposite bank. At signal the Vermonters dashed to the rivers brink, launched number of p0ntoon boats, scrambled in and pulled across. On the other side the men in the foremost boats charged up the bluffs and overpowered the Confederates who were paying attention to the hsatiuaris yet in the stwsns. It was dariHe feat, qsnried bY'bnldnesstsnd nerve. At GstysiArg 0tesF VeFnaIJsest wtse in resssve. D wsIs SsanDasds NsrhoDs militia that was immortalRed in the re- pulse of Pickett's charge. After Gettys- burg, in the pursuit of Lee to the Potomac, the Fifth was away to the front on the heels of the cavalry. At Funkstown, Md, near Antietam, on July 10, the Confederates turned on their pursuers, and the Yer. monters again displayed their valor on an obscure field. Col. l.. A. Grant. of the Fifth, commanded the brigade, and, noting that the enemy was making for ridge between the lines, he thought it would be good scheme to get there first with his Vermonters.
 The position was so extensive that his troops only made fair skirmish line when deployed. The outwitted enemy tried to carry by force what they had let slip by dalliance and charged again and again But the Green Mountain boys were grit" to the bone and didn't budge an iota. The main Union army and trains were vet far in the rear, and the skirmishers were left unaided whole afternoon and night.
 hal ,,I q away their supply of bullets sent messen- gers to fetch up more on stretchers. In one of the charges made upon the Yer monters Col. Grant counted seven regi- ments in the column. Yet they fell back before the deadly skirmish fire.
 At the close of the Gettysburg campaign and its sequels the plucky souls of the army began to rc-enlist. The Fifth was the first Vermont regiment to go in for a second term. After holiday trip to the old green hills as n reward for re enlisting, the regiment took it's place in the Sixth corps, numbering 500 muskets. At the Wilderness, May ,, 1864, it was in Gen. Getty's line, touching elbows with Hancock's men in the Plank Road fight
 The lieutenant colonel, j. 4. Lewis, was wounded at the outset, and Mai c. r Dudley stepped to the front to lead. Col Grant was still brigadier of the Vermont CTS, and discovering, as he thought. that the Confederate line was thin in front of the Fifth, ordered Dudley to charge. The men dashed in with a cheer, carried the point and looked around for supports. The latter had weakened and left the brave boys in tight place, for the enemy kept n strong reserve and fanked Dudleyfs little band, forcing it to retreat. The reg. iment got out of the Wilderness with an even half of it's men on their legs, and three days later the dashing Upton chose 1t as one of twelve picked commands to make up astorming party at Spottsylvania.
 That famous assault was only a step around the corner from the scene of Han cocks bloody game little later. and was aimed at the same stronghold, the angle on MeCooPs hrm. The breastwofks were high and solid, topped out with loopholed headlogs, but the stormers went over them. capturing and dispersing two lines of Con federstes and spi&laS their cannon Once