The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-03

not due'to "a want soi energy or couzgs that
the incident in mind happened. The enemy,
elated by the repuls6 Of the Union assault,
swarmed over their works, and it looked for
timeas if, ,theywer5 going to make q coun-
ter-charge. This belief was strengthened,
when, with that ringing yal that distinguished,
the enemy when making a charge, battery
OF horse artillery gallOpedto the front Of their
ineabout two hundred yards unlimbered in
fine style, and made ready for-action.
was hugsiUg the ground with my men
about that time, for it seemed-it always does
Seem so--that We were directly in the line of
the enemys fire, when heard ringing cheer.
the crash oftheayy Wbeals, ,sthe snorting and
pounding ofsartillsry horses, urged to a gal
lop,'and above tali the tattery bugler, sound.
ing the'advALco.
= Agap was madsiin our Zines, and through
this battery Bsof heseeoudR Regular Artillery,
fairy few'togtte front.
1 couhtntunasrstandi it sfor to me it looked
as If tho Ba5-sry was charging into the
enemy's lines unsupported; hutwhen within
less thanthree hundred yards of the Confed-
crate guns, the halt sounded and, in a way
that thrilled our hearts and delighted our
souls, the Union gunsIforIned foriaction, and
the horses moved to the rear.
thave read and heard of things being done
"quic1er than the act could BE- described"
This was one OF them.
Two minutes could not have. elapsed. from
fhe time Bgttory B plunged through our
lines, tllit had opened fro on the Confederate
guns.
D., And nov followed the first and only Ear
tiliery' dneI"I had ever seen, though soldiers
hear ann read good deal aboutsuch things (;
indeed, / doubt il thedrecords Of tho war
furnish a parallelcase.
o. Before land after theassanlt; the artillery
and musketry firing was ceaseless, and was
going to add appalling but no mere noise
could appall men who had participated in
that campaign up 10 this time.
There was still some .desultory firing away
70 the right and left, but, as If by mutual con-
sent, the men in blue ,and grey within sight
n those two batteries, leaped to their feet,
and forgot their own rules IN the magnificent
struggle OF those gallant and well-matched
contestants.
, They wero less than three hundred yards
apart, and soon all wecouid seesWas the vivid
fashing'of the fire, through the rising banks
of silyery-white powder smoke. But we
could hear the crash of the shells and the roar
OF the guns, and high.above all the shrfll yell
of the Confederatesl and tho hoarse cheer Of
the Yankee gunners.
After six or eight minutes, that seemed like
so many hours, the fire. slaekened; u sudden
breeze sent the smoke drifting to the west,
and then a deepcheer' of exuitation rangout
from the throats OF the ten thousand men in
blue, who had been eagerly watching tho duel.
Every Confederate gun was disabled, four
of the limbers had blown up, the horses were
in ghastly heaps, but still a feWgalIant men in
grey stood defiantly amid the ruins Of their
battery.
Our men suffered severely, but they brought
back all their guns, and I distinctly recall a
tall sergeant, who sat his horse, with the
blood flowing over his face from a shell
wound In the head, aad Wbo, as ne turned to