The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02


would on that field. Winthrop was act
ing as military secretary on the staff of
the commander, Gen. Butler, and was en-
thusiastic over the first battle of the little
army. Butler did not go to the battle
ground in person and Winthrop rode out
at the head Of Col. Duryea's column of
Fire Zouaves to meet the enemy
surprise that had been planned was
forestailed by an accident, and on arriving
at the field the enemy was seen in position,
with earthworks 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
70 inspire the men with valor equal to the
emergency. His face had a glow of ro-
nance in it, and when be called for volun-
teers in 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 rifemen 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
III NAdCh S1lOlS " uldhG Il target
of the conspicuous figure overcame their
chivalry. Il think l 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. Atthat instant
a bullet pierced his left side and he fell
f1ll, Il.
rushed to the spot to find the gallant fell
low dead
a deplorable 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. Zolhcoffer led brigade and open
ed 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 Then 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 we'll
hidden under a gum coat that shrouded
his figure, and 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 Zollicoffer's
staff sent 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 Zollicoffer fell with a
fatal musket ball wound and also a severe
pistol shot wound. Similar presence of
mind and daring carried men through
again and again in the course of the war,
and would have saved ZolIicoffer but Tor
the recklessness of his su coordinate
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 Tecumseh in Farragut's battle in Mo-
bile bay, Aug. ), 1854 The Tecumseh wss
one Of four highly priced monitors belong
ing to the feet and had been delayed in the
sail to the rendezvous at Mobile, only az