Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-08-04

and made his way up tree. While
he was yet barking, as if to call our
attention, n chipmunk came out of his
hole in the ground and sat.on the pile
of fresh earth and whislxed his tail and
chattered merrily.
Suddenly a shot rang out from across
the field. An accident, probably, or
perhaps some soldier trying his aim on
smaller game than man.. No one
minded it. thought l heard the hum
of the ball, but it might have been the
done of bee. l turned on my back
and was looking at the branches over
head when second shot made my
pulses jump. This one was from a
cavalry carbine and was fred by one
of our own men in the gully at the
edge of the field. l sprang up to look,
and for moment the sight dunn
founded me. Just breaking out of the
woods on the far side, where they had
come up and formed so quietly as to
create no alarm, was a full brigade of
the enemy They were marching
straight at us. 1t was not the begin
ming of a battle, but reconnaissance
"A feeler to find the weak spot in the
line IL ullle
Pop! pop! pop! from the pickets.
March! march! march! The fifty men
of us on that front were too small
game for brigade to open on.
Captain, they are coming-a whole
brigade. Don't you bear the firing?"
Thus to the sleeping officer, but he
slept on. There was 40 time to run
and lay hand on his shoulder.
Fall in! Forward, march,! Haiti
Fire at will! Down on the ground,
boys, and give it to 'em hot! We've got
to hold 'em for a minute, anyhow
One lieutenant on detail-the other
back in camp-the captain asleep be-
hind us. Every instant / expected to
hear his voice shouting orders as he
passed along the short, weak line be-
hind us, but it did not come.
March! march! march! thought
of a great wave of water sweeping in
land as / peered under the smoke and
saw the brigade coming forward at
common time and arms at right
shoulder shift. Here and there one
fell out as our bullets found their bill
cts, but a full battery of artillery
playing grape and canister on that
moving mass could not have checked
its momentum.
What shall we do, sergeant? Run
or be gobblcd?"
What shall we do, captain?"
So they asked of me, and SO / asked
of the captain, though he was not
there. Now we can make out in
dividual faces. Now we can almost
tell the color of the eyes In three
minutes more the wave will sweep
lying.
Captain! Captain! Where's the
captain? We can't fight whole
brigade"
''one more volley, men, and then fall
backv'
The volley was given aud we rose up
to make run for it. Too latel Every
gun in the front rank of the brigade
came down from the shoulder and up
to the face, and after the crash of the
musketry there were five of us left to
take to fight-on, on past the dead
and the sleeping and close up to the
battle line. There a division opened
fire, assisted by artillery, and the on
ward movement was checked. Ten
minutes of hard fighting end the
brigade was routed. We followed the
broken regiments back and regeined
our lost ground. There were dead
and wounded here and there, but
looked for the sleeping captain. There
he sat, the same as when the alarm
sounded.
Captain! Captain Dust Wake
up! Don't you know there has been a
fght?"
He did not move. shook him
roughly by the shoulder and the body
toppled over to the right. Capt Dust
was dead-dead from the bullet whose
hum had heard and likened it to the