The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-11


volunteers to ayeu.p the Insult at SUM
Ger fixed New lImp-hIre- quota at
one regiment, hut enthusiasm ram high.
and recruits rushed into camp n mum
beers Co hll two regiments The Second
regiment was organized t0 serve three
months. but the United States government
Increased the term from three months To
three years, and the enthusiastic boys took
Cine leap without q murmur and sw0rp in
t0 serve three years They meant business.
Ou reaching Virginia, thc regiment Joined
General Bumside'- Rhode island brigade
and marched TO Bull Run iu that famous
thanking column of General Hunters which
stirred upand perprtrated and endured the
most of the mischief history SETS down as
the battle Of Bull Run It wa, iu the ad-
vance with Burnside brigade and helped
rppulse the first charge of the Cuuicdcratos
The colonel, Gilman Narston was shot
down just as he was giving the order, up
and at them' TO his New Hampshire boys
For some hours the regiment held its
ground while the battle ragged around &c.
When the panic and retreat began, il
stood fast, and oppurtuuely Colonel Mars
ton reached the front with d CORY handage
on his wounded shoulder The men re-
cpived him with cheers. Down into the
plain, already strewn with the debris Of
battle he led them through -warms of
panic stricken soldiers up tAe hin beyond
IN front Of a Confederate battery. There
they remained, plying bullets at the enc
my's cannOneers until the Union ranks
were irretrievably broken and the day lost.
I 1t was a tough lesson well taken. The ven
ON Of hostile bullets showed itself in the
gaps in their ranks Fourteen were killed,
~ wounded aud As missing.
The next battle Of the Second gave the
men test of their bush fighting valor That
was at Williamsburg, ON the peninsula,
May ., 1862 The regiment was i'm Fight
ing joe iooker's advance column i'm the
attack on the enemy's concealed batteries
and rifle pits. HoOker'S men picked their
way through swamp slaShiugs and fallen
trees until brought to a halt under a biting
fire of canister and bullets The men Of
different regiments became mixed, and the
New Hampshire boys mingled with some
/ Massachusetts troops, who were clad in
gray like the Confederate-.
Captain Leonard Droun of Company Il
led a mixed body Of New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, men against position held
by men in gray, and in drawing close was
met with a white flag and the cry: Don't
shoot We are friends The COnfederates
mistook the Massachusetts color for their
own, but seeing the error opened fire at
close range, killing the chivalric captain
and several Of his followers. The battl,
continued several hours, and "A heavy, colo
rain beat down the whole time adding the
severest hardships to the terror Of the bat
tie. The Second held out until the reserves
reached the front 1t lost % killed, 81
wounded and 10 missing.
l., 81. Ia Hfrlt ha gly a
hominy at Oak Grove, June %, the regi
ment again proved its metal The sharp.
shooting Company b, armed with Sharp,
rifles, lost % killed and wounded out Of 4.
engaged.
One of the fiercest contests of the wal
took place at Groveton, on the old Bul
Run field, Aug. 20, 1862. 1t furnishes {
theme for the descriptive writer equal il
many respects to that of Antietam, Chick
amauga or Gettysburg. StOnewall Jack
sons army was TO be cut in two to proven
junction with Longstreet, and in front o
the Second New Hampshire the Confeder
ates lay three lines deep. The first In
was sheltered in a railroad cut, and tn
second and third lay in woods behind.
At the word of command the New Hamp
shire boys, with loaded guns and fixed bay
onets, marched silently up a gentle slop
over "a crest and across a still gentler slop
of open field toward the cut. There wa
no signal, no sound of wars horrible clan
/ or, and the cracking Of dried twigs, tn
suppressed tones of the officers giving OF
ders, furnished the only music to stir tn
blood for the encounter Suddenly thor
sand muskets blazed along the brink of tn
cut, and volley of bullets tore through tn
air, making music that the soldier mus
! answer in kind or sleep the long sleep I
s its lullaby. Not bullets this time, but col
steel.
D Loud rang the order to charge, and tigh
= ening their grip on the musket stocks I'll
men broke into a run and cleared the raj