The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-19

the Same Dlu,
barring those who fell. kept the field with
the same organization four years Per
hans the last named feature contributed
70 It's hiRh efficiency, because the same or
xauizat1on included the same leaders, as
rule. ana the same Leaders In . fighting
army means the perfection OF esprit do
CORPS, the unquepohAble fre OF personal
eufAusiasm- Longstreet marshaled under
hls banner o brigade at Bull Run when
Aoarmy numbered 20, ooo next division,
iaAeR q grand diVision and corps. and
whom his columns grow larger the original
troops formed O unie In the enlarged com
mAnd- Hence &c l. noe . mere picturesque
a0uro Of historic TO Wr1se Of Iopgstrees's
V0Aerans'' at Gettysburg and the wilder
usns, for among the ranks which he hurled
o1ainst Round Top and Cemetery Ridge,
In the columns which be rushed with tho
speed and might Of q tempest down the
PLANK road at the Wilderness, were battle
aoarred heroes whom he had led at Antie-
tam. Manassas and ON the peninsula-yes,
even At Bull Bun
There was NO active fighting In the bat
tie uroper at Bull Run (July Sd ton Long
streets brigade, but on the 10th he re-
pulsed the first Union attack on Black
burns ford and defended the crossing ON
the flank OF MoDowell's army while 1t
passed the upper fords and bridge TO the
battlefield At Williamsburg, on the pen
insuia. Lon1street commanded division
and displayed his fighting propensities
little beyond what, In the minds or his
superiors, the situation called for. The
Confederate army under Joe Johnston
evacuated Yorktown on May 4, retreattng
through Williamsburg toward Richmond
The rear guard consisted OF the divisions
OF LonRstreet and ID. II. Hin under Long
streets control. General Sumner, the Old
Bull OF the Woods, had the advance OF Nc
Clellan's column In pursuit, and with
his usual impetuosity attacked the TO
doubts and breastworks occupied by Long
streets men. Instead OF withdrawing
LonRstreet stood battle, giving Sumner q
bloody repulso. This was the first or nu-
merous encounters between these two
generals, the oppOsites In nature. Long
street was cool in the hottest action, while
Sumner became aroused. They suose-
ouently met often, and the aggressor al
ways got the worst of it. Whether the
cool head or the hot head, tt was the same.
In their next battle, Fair Oaks, May 81
and June L, Iongstreet played the role
often assigned to him when Stonewall
jackson wasn't at hand-tbat OF assaiiant
ON the enemy's flank. His division burst
upon the isolated left wing OF Mcclellan q
army across the Chickahominy and was
In a fair way OF destroying it when Mo
Clellan sent Sumner TO its relief. March
ing his men over bridges which were half
submerged by a sudden rise OF water, be
checked IsonRstreet's advance the evening
Of the first day and the next drove him
back TO his own lines near Richmond.
In the next battle Longstreet command
ed a grand division, his own troops united
with A =. Hill's. The movement TO as
sail McCiellan's right wing north OF the
Chlckahominy had been taken up by the
new commander OF the Army OF Northern
Virginia. Robert E Lee. jackson was
withdrawn from the Shenandoah valleS
to strike tho CEion flank, leaving it to
Longstreet's column to dislodge the enc
my from his fortified line close TO the
river, hug that stream with his right
flank and sweep everything before him
while jackson operated on the Union rear
Naturally Longstreet encountered th'
chief obstacles 70 the maneuver. McClel
lan's right wing was led by Eitz John Por
ter. He fought Longstreet's advance a
Beaver Dam creek ON June 20, exacting 1
toll for his passage OF that slender rivule
OF nearly 1, 900 men killed and wounded
Porter then retired TO a new line on tbs
heights at Gaines Mill, which he fortified
jackson took q long time TO get around q
tho Union flank, and when he reache(
there it was to encounter fresh support
OF infantry and artillery sent TO Porter
aid by Mcclellan just in time 10 foil Jack
son. Longstreet's line, lying at right an
giles 90 the river, was enfiladed by UnioI
batteries across the stream. Besides tn
main strength of Porter lay on Long
streets front, heavy batteries and strong
intrenehments- a z. Hill led a savag'
attack upon the Union center, but TIT
men recoiled after terrible slaughter
Longstrees put his own division TO the at