Arizona republican., 1892-11-09

sERGT. RopERrs CAPTURING THE FLAG.
through this under fire from muskets and
cannon, the line swept on across field Of
stumps and brush up to the dry moat that
covered the entire length Of the parapets
Officers and men fell at every step, but the
survivors went ahead and scaled the works,
redoubts and all, at one impetuous rush.
The lieutenant colonel was one Of the
first TO fall, and from that time on the bat
tie was so close that IL was simply melee,
with every man for himself. One Of the
captains, X. w. Furlong, OF Calais, leaped
over the works, and after emptying his re-
volver fought with dubbed musket until
he fell dead. Around his body lay many
Confederate dead, who had been Drained
with the musket stock. A sergeant 20. II.
Roberts, OF Company II, from Corinth),
who found himself alone after leaping the
parapet, threw up his hands when sum-
moned to surrender, but seeing that he had
been followed over the works by several Of
his men called out: mo! take 1t backp
With FIVE comrades he rushed upon the
color guard Of the Eighth Louisiana, seized
the flag, and in desperate struggle bore
off the trophy and batch Of prisoners
along with it. Deeds of valor without
number marked the field. The officers fell
rapidly, and sergeants and privates as
sumed direction in their stead.
The bitter struggle couldn't last long
with odds of 10 TO 1. The Maine skirmish-
ers who entered the redoubt on the right
were driven out, but they did not retreat.
Some of those confronting the rifle pits be-
tween the redoubts had also been repulsed,
and these bands uniting bore to the left
and Joined their comrades in the other re-
doubt and helped to hold the fort. The
Fifth Wisconsin meanwhile marched to
the aid of the skirmishers, and other regi-
ments followed, but the enemy barely
waited for a second clinch with men so de-
termined as the Maine boys had proved to
be. Everything went by the board, and the
victorious skirmishers received the lions
share of glory and trophies. Their cap
lures included $50 prisoners, cannon and
| battlefag. But again they had paid
for the post of honor. Out of 81 Off
GERS engaged were killed and 10 wound
ed, and of 300 men IS were killed and 20
wounded.
The Sixth dropped into one more forlorn
charge. its third and last, when 1t Joined
Gen. Upton's column at Spottsylvania,
May 10, 1864. The loss there was l25, the
killed counting 81 The major command
ing and three captains were wounded AT
the close Of the fight there were 70 men
left, and on the expiration of their term in
July following the handful marched home
ward. They reached Washington during
the scare of Early's Maryland raid and
promptly volunteered to defend the city.
The regiment carried but 1900 men on
its rolls in all, and $40 of them were killed
or wounded. The killed reached 1853. The
first colonel of the regiment and leader OF
the line of battle at Marye's Heights,
Hiram Burnham, accompanied the veter-
ans home He had been promoted to gen
eral, and after brief furlough returned
to the front. The day after he reached the
field he was killed in leading most des-
perate assault at Fort Harrison. near
Richmond. Fated somehow to be breast.
work storiners were these bold sons OF
Maine. GEORGE L. KILMER