The National tribune., 1894-07-26
WAS NOuNDED.

Territory. His report was considered :
model one. He came to the 9th n. Y
as its Leutenant-C Colonel in April, 1851
from West Point Academy, where b,
was Assistant Professor of Mathematics
At the age of 81 he was in command o
the Center Grand Division Of Gen
Grants great Army of the Potomac.
| 1t is unnecessary for me to say more
here about Gen. Warren, as his services
are interviewer with the career of thai
army and recorded in every history Of
the war, from before Big Bethel to Five
Forks. He was impetuous, brave, and a
rigid disciplinarian; but the men did not
complain of that, for he was just, and
harder on officers than on them.
About one-half of the men in Sykes's
Division had enlisted or were in the
army when the pay was s11 per month,
and no bounty thought of. The re-
mainder had received about So bounty.
OF such as the above was Sykes's Divis-
ion composed.
Well, to our muttons. While the
foregoing desperate conflict was going
on on the right of the division we were
not idle. The Second Brigade, under
Lowell, or most of it, was obliged to
throw back its left more to the rear, in
order to present front to the enemy,
who about this time had pierced the
center Of Morell's line, which held the
left wing of Porter's command. They
(Morell's Division) had been battling
all the afternoon, suffering loss in
many of their regiments the most severe
of the war, but they had inflicted
much heavier ON their opponents.
They had resisted the attacks of the
whole of Longstreets Division, several
brigades of A. P. Hill, and two brigades
of Jackson's command; and now, near
nightfall, Gen. Lee put in all his troops,
and by an onset along the whole length
of our line determined to force us back
by the mere weight of numbers, and
Porter had not single regiment on re-
serve to help him resist this avalanche.
1t appears that at E p. m. all the attacks
of the enemy had been repulsed and all
was going we'll.
A charge of some 800 cavalry was
made on the left by Gen. p. w. G..
Cooke, and at very unfortunate time.
There were large number of batteries
behind and in the intervals of Morell's
Division, and it was thought expedient
to move them back little distance to
higher and more advantageous ground.
The division at the time was sorely
pressed. While this charge was taking
place Gen. Cooke ordered a charge of his
cavalry, which was thrown back in dis
order on and through these guns. The
EvER-wATcHFUL ENEMY
followed them up, and in the confusion
charged and captured Ia guns, piercing
the center of Morell's command.
1t was here that Capt. H Easton,
Battery A, 1st Pa. Art, fell dead beside
his guns. Wholly unsupported as they
were by infantry or cavalry, his men
stood by the guns to the last, firing
double-shotted canister on the mass of
the charging Confederates, sand moved
them down in heaps" But the can
noneers were driven from their posts at |
the point of the bayonet, leaving the
four guns and two caissons in the hands
of the enemy. The last words of the
brave Capt Easton were: "The enemy
shall never take this battery but over
my dead body"
The Coniederates who made this |
charge, which decided the fortunes of |
the day on this part of the line and |
captured these guns, were no others than
our old friends, the two " Little Giants"
Hoods Texas Brigade and Laws (nine
But they suffered a loss of
,016 in killed and wounded, of which
the 4th Tex, the first to pierce the lines,
lost 253.
During the occurrence [ have mar
rated as above the 9th n. Y. was in line
to the right, to the left of the Second
Brigade, Regulars Our position was on
a ridge, from which we could obtain a
very good view of nearly all the whole
field, especially on the left and front.
We saw BartIett's Brigade going up
through the woods, diagonally to our
line, from the rear, and moving off to
The right. They were readily recognized
by the straw hats worn by the 18th N.
!. We recognized them also just at
lark, as they returned from their part
Of the front after their gallant fight, and
retired in the rear Of our line of Regu-
ars, in which we were We also were
IN line when the brigades of French and
Meagher came up.
With misgiving that my comrades
Ire getting weary Of wading through
his report or that report, desire to in
'ert here what Gen. Sykes says about
our part of the line, the left. Anybody
IAN write what he regards as history,
and so misconstrue it; and, therefore, to
show that | am not talsitying, | give
you more or less corroborative evidence.
$40 be continnedj
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