The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-28

tenderness confessed 20 . friend that he
ssfsa pfesentsmeut that be should tall In
the coming assault. Then he sprang into
tne sscdie. and before he had ridden tea
spaces beyond the crest vers the line
formed be was shot dead. As well try TO
come up 70 . saint q TO . soldier Of that
stamp, q he IVES . good one TO swear
by. anyway.
The popular ideal Of ! brave warrior is
survival from the days OF chivassy. The
courage demanded today IL Of another
klnd. No soldier can tell whether ne
must confront one ~ansagonis. or ten,
whether u 10 to be swords. rife or ran
non. whether he viii be led against the
ice or march openly upon their
pointed weapons. facing their blazing
u The modern soldier FAUST Eight
eSainst engines. not against men merely.
he Enows that the enemy viii not rest
sasisned after cutting down q few indi-
vfGaass. but will aim to annihilate .
brigade or division, and that once his
corps IL taken In disaster there is 20 be
small hope OF fighting back. No doub.
nghf'ng In mass gives courage; SD.
Also. modern battle ciamor. The
steady and continuous roar of rifles
= cannon is TO the battle field
IKE grand orchestral music to the au-
aitorium. keytng every nerve within
q OF the vibration up to its Hottest
AA0A IL ~ sAbLAiI SfA ;
SO long as that mighty ~ciapason swelis
and reverberates around him. The effect
may best be noted when the battle roar
Is suddenly hushed. For q second there is
swee. rest. then relaxation aud weakness.
as when q stimulus dies out and natures
forces are spent. 1t is an xio in war
that soldiers are easiest to tongues just
when they have madc . conquest. The
tension being Of. q counter charge finds
them all unnerved and incapable OF quick
thought and firm action. If the music
wouid play on-druns and buglcs and can
non n blank cartridges-for an hour
after an infantry column has won 3 re-
doubt. there would be snail chance of re-
carturc till the last defender had fallen.
There Is. ungucs.iouably. a species Of
fury or battle fever that SEXES upon GER
TAN raen Ia action, though man veterans
scout the idea. But there are skeptics "a
to any form of inspiration whatever. l
have seen men transformed in battle by
sudden changes marked as percepiibly
upon every feature. as the shifting light
and shadows seen upon the face OF nature
when the sun darts from beh nd q cloud.
II Is as though bands of restraint were
ioosened suddenly. and the pulses seem To
leap as under an electric shock. I have
felt the change and noted it at the instant.
During such . mood = soldier will attack
anything that shows tight. Actors. ora
tors and preachers understand this. for
there comes TO them . time when the &C.
casion. the scene. the approving audience
transports them from the real to The ideal.
and in~spirotion-as good a. any name, If it
has been abused-carries them away.
Again the spur to . marvellous deed may
be incidental to the moment. When Xii
patrick ordered Farnsworth to lead his
sauadrons among the rocky boulders and
standing timber on the slopes of Round
Top at Gettysburg in face of a brigade of
infantry, the brave young soldier protested
that II was sending meu TO slaughter.
These are too good men to kill" he
pleaded. "If you are afraid to lead this
charge. ! will" said Fitzpatrick. There
was hot challenge and fiery answer for a
moment, then the general of q day gave
he signal tor that wild ride to death. Cir
cling the field to draw the enemy's fire
the sole purpose OF the c~harge-and find
ing his band reduced to o handful and
completely surrounded, he started, sword
In hand. TO cut his way through a whole
regiment that stood across the path Of re-
treat. ENDORSED in the first dash he
spEang into the saddle of = fallen trooper
and rode on until ne was overcome by the
drain of five mortal wounds Farms
worth'5 charge would sta nd in history as
a second Ea!aklaya, had not Pickett's oc-
curing a couple Of hours earlier, given the
world \ more picturesque feat OF arms TO
wonde about. 1t is believed that Gen. T.
i. Cieburue. who was killed at Franklin,
Tenn. in 1854. while riding all alone
against the Union breastworks-the most
heroic episode of the kind in the war