The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-17
GLEN H.. .,..u.s ING.
RESULT or Two SHOTS. LEARNED
AFTER T"zNIY-NlN5 YEARS.

An Intlacnt IN the W VI n
Southern Field Day-How Colonel Rich
ardson Came to Know That He Had Done
some Damage to His Enemies.
When the Washington artillery was
st Morgan City, there were many strik-
ing incidents that sprang out of the GER
/ imouies of dedicating Fort Star and of
practicing with the solid shot. The
whole day the war and its memories
were kept before the people, but it was
not reawakening in which the bloody
shirt had any play, but more of a
thoughtful retrospection, in which the
recalling of battles was not with bitter
ness, but with an impartial sadness.
Among the happenings of the day none
was more singular and noteworthy than
one which occurred to Colonel Richard
son, the commander of the battalion.
1t was during the time when the bat
teries were firing shell at the two tar
gets, which looked like tiny handler-
chiefs ON the water, they were SO far
away A good shot was fired, and the
spectators were applauding the excellent
craftsmanship, and the colonel stepped
nm 70 tho ann ia commend the ounner
,,,bon without co,se nv without Lnou;pg
,yby tho ,ne,norv Of n similar shot which
bad hoa,, ed 90 ,,oors .,,o al,,oet ia tho
yor,, d,,, Aoshad int b;s mind when no
b.d stan,a5 nv, t1 a ,,rnner ana .o,onl;.
mented him in much the same style.
1t was when he was at Fort Malone at
.ha .;a,,o of pa,arshrro which vas
lnown as Fort ..Damn.tion y when rho
sho, % va.rs before had bee, fred and
,ha Eorrtb ,f INV ,,,oe al,nost tba ,,n,;.
,a,.sory az tho WOW, d.v Instead of
,,,,ita taroots for n mail i b,d boon tho
ION. of tu.,, Siblev torts which ,ee,ed
o,er +ba ra,pnar,s of Fort ..Uell " inst
onnos;ta Fort ..Damnation y The were
tha+ents of the FEDERAL officers Hel,ney
that from a deserter who had Informed
him also that the officers Of tbe whole
commend hold a daily consultation tbere
and +ba+ ba conId +ol, +be t;na from tl,o
fact that they hitcbed their horses around
tho +a,,ts
Colonel Richardson was then a can-
tain in the WASHINGTON artillery and he
conceived the idea Of scorine n noinf ON
the Federals Inv firing ON the rents inst
az tbo TINA ~ tho daily consultation
Ue ea,ec.ad tba hest Gunner in lilo com.
n,nd and told him what he y.utad hmm
ia do and that was To load and nren,re
tbe p,ns for u special shot which he was
Going ia direct them To mako the ensu-
mo dav The vouno captain WAS sure
that he had p,,nners he could depend nm.
, - -: .:t II.
he asked General Malone to be nresent
whom the shots vere to Inc fred
I, v,,s noon tho noxt d,v u,ben tbe
horses of tba Federal officers ware seen
collected around the two tents The
,,,,p,ara ,raro to,d 10 train +be;r onne
nnon them and to he certain 70 make
thair shots tell Those two shots were
made the center os tbe interest of those
in Fort "Damnation, for that dav for
the word was PASSED around that the de.
strnctiop of the officers fonts was to be
.t,a,,,+nd
After a deal of preliminary arrange
ments the two shots were fired. and the
TONS of the two Siblev tents disappeared
like cardhouses in a gale of wind, The
success Of the shots was the signal for
cheering on the part of the Confederat
General Malone COMMUNICATED the G.
curacv of the artillerymen. and it was
then that the captain stepped to the gun
ner and EXPRESSED his approbation in
much the same way that he used to the
one that had made the good shot at Nor
gan City. But there had always been "a