Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-26

carving mum beress redoubts and line
upon line of ramparts, but leaving the
glory TO others while he rushed of TO
win new victories and to fall at last
close to the guns of the enemy's uncon-
querable stronghold. And there Is
Lyle, Chickamauga's richest sacrifice,
in 8 crisis OF the battle, shouting to
the handful within hearing, the last OF
his once noble brigade: Gentlemen,
we can die but once, Now is our time.
Let US charge" Already three wounds
Slapped his lfeblood. A fourth bullet
reached his heart, and he fell dead from
the saddle.
Tragedies most marvellous and thrill
Ing also cast their shadows over this
new page Of our history-tragedies like
that OF Nelson cut down in the house OF
his friends at toe opening OF a career
promising greatness, aud that, too,
simply TO appease the sudden malice OF
an angry subordinate; OF Morgan who
rode through hostile camps from the
Tennessee to tbs lakes, and after es-
Gaping from prison bars by q cleverness
worthy OF an Orsini or Trenck died in
a midnight skirmish, shot down mis-
takenly for common fugitive,
and OF dashng Earl van Dorm,
with the qualities TO make
him the Murat OF the Confederacy,
throwing his life away for the smiles OF
a simple country oquette-tragedies of
tho battlefield, as when, with no other
motive than duty, no other spur than
an impulsive generals command,
Farnsworth's three hundred galloped
on their wild ride to death among the
rocky powders at the base of Round
Top, lodging double shotted cannon
volleys here and cleaving a pathway
through line OF bayonets there, until
their young leader fell, carrying seven
wounds, either one OF which would have
killed him, his nerveless sword arm
pointing toward the goal for which he
rode; or OF those gallant sons OF Maine
who, when ordered to test the
fire OF Lees batteries and rifle pits at
Petersburg, babe one another good
by with Spartan cooluesS and charged
direct. with s32 men in line, upon the
enemY's glacis, leaving 632 dead and
manged victims along course over
which the few survivors had marched
10 seven minutes. The details OF
slaughter so hopeless as this and OF sac
rificeS so fruitless as that In Farms
worth's charge can only repel the mind
or I'll 1t with angry protest, but not so
with that story OF the bold dash for the
colors on Cemetery Ridge when
the First Minnesota, 262 strong,
rushed hesdlong upon whole
Confederate division, siezed their
leading standards and checked
their advance, leaving, 1t Is true, 2l5 OF
their number PROSTATE upon few
square rods OF earth az the point OF con-
tact. Nor was il wasted valor when
Bigelow's battery, on that same field,
made forlorn stand until horses, can
non, officers, gunners, all were de-
stroyed, nor when at Iuka the Eleventh
Ohio cannoneers stood by the guns and
repealed three desperate oayonet
charges, losing 46 dead ana disabled out
of a company Of 81.
Not fruitless either the courage OF
Duryee's Zouaves-the same lads who
at Gaines Mil closed up the gaps In the
ranks and counted flies under fire
when, caught az Manassas with Haz-
lett's battery between two advancing
lines OF the enemy, they shielded the
cannon with their bodies until one by
ono the pieceS were hauled away and
left 1l9 dead comrades stretched in ir-
regular rows around the wheel ruts and
trail prints on the spot where the guns
had stood.
1t IS plain that only when fOemen OF
equal mettle sustain the combat can such
heroism be born, aud so we read how
Gordon's AlabamiGns st Fair Oaks. when
caught 10 the angle between TWO lines
in the same manner as Duryee's men at
Manassas, stood their ground 10 spite Oh
orders to retreat until whole companies
had been aunihilvted, and the roster OF
officers completely wiped out
Closer still NAV the rivalry between
Northern brawns aud Southern blood be
traced 10 the careers Of individual COM
mauds. Two such l shall refer to In
another class.
The heaviest losers at Gettysburg
were two opposing reElments-the
Twenty fourth Michigan and the
Twenty-sixth North Carolina. They met
on the first day almost man for man,
and in the desperate duellins OF Nc
Pherson's woods batlled until nothing
remained OF either except their Gags
and two pitiful squads Of men. Miehi-
gan lost 397 out OF 496, and North Car.
olInA 6ss out of $50. yet the remnant OF
the latter joined Pickett's charge on
the third day, retiring with 50 men 10
line, while the Michigan fragment
turned out in the repuIse Of Ewell's bat
talons on the other front Of Cemetery
Hill.
For deedssless CHASTITY aud which
charm by their more pleasing features
OF personal vslor we turn 10 the lake
raider Beall snd his daring and all but
successful plan TO unloose the prison
bolts at Johnson's island and ultimately
conquer the lakes and northern border
for the ConfederscT; 70 Andrews ana
his % iIl-starred Ohio comrades, pene-
trating the Georgia wilderness and SELF
ing from the enemy a locomotive and
train 10 blockade the railway against
Confederate re-eaforcements passing