The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-02

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pet and swept around in rear of the row
of traverses. This compelled the garrison
TO come out OF their citadels and fight in
open ground or be captured I'm them.
For q time the Confedcrates met this
flank attack from behind an old breast
work that extended along the interior
plane OF the Enclosure. Colonel Lamb,
who was alive TO every opportunity to dis
pute Terry's advance, now went along the
batteries south toward tho point and di-
rected q heavy fire TO be thrown into the
northwest portion OF the work, where the
danger was so threatening. On his way
he ordered every available man forward to
the first traverse ahead of Terry's men,
and on his return he found that traverse
still held by his stubborn soldiers, although
the slaughter among them had been ap-
palling. The fire from the fleet had scooped
out graves in the sand, and his dead were
lying I'm them as they fell, half buried by
the showers of dust thrown out by the
bursting shells. Great timbers, gun car
riages, and even cannon, broken by the
huge missiles from the fleet, were lying in
heaps, and on and around them were the
dead who had vainly tried to defend them.
The advance of Terry's men had been
arrested, and Colonel Lamb summoned all
his force to the front traverse, with the de-
termination to charge upon the aSsailantS
and drive them out. Signals were sent to
the gunners in the fort TO withhold their
fire on the position held by Terry during
this countercharge. The distance between
the combatants was not above hundred
feet, and calling on men and officers to
follow Lamb leaped the breastworks, with
the order: Charge bayonetsl Forward
Double quick! Marchl' Instantly a
Union bullet entered his right hip, and he
sank on the works. Terry's men poured a
heavy yoIley of bullets into the Confeder-
ates, and the latter fell back behind cover.
Colonel Lamb was taken to a bomb
proof and the command given to Major
James Reilly, who agreed to continue the
struggle as long as be had man left. But
this effort of the Confederates depleted
their ranks on the traverses, and new
Union force under Colonel Abbott, on the
left Of Ames' brigades, captured some or the
traverses between AmeS' position and the
sea- The land force was now held at bay
only around the sally port. In another
hour the sally port had been carried, leav-
ing nothing to oppose Terry's advance.
Continued defense being useless without
re-enforcements, a rear guard was formed
from the sound men Of the garrison, and
the sick and wounded were sent on ahead
with their leaders, Whiting and Lamb.
The Confederate rear guard made the best
fight they could, only yielding inch by
inch, and it was 10 O'Clock, or seven hours
after the fight began, when the last traverse
and battery were in Terry's hand
The victory was complete, but 1t had
been gained at heavy cost. The three
brigade commanders OF Ames' division
had been stricken down on the works
From beginning to end the situation on
both sides was desperate in the extreme.
The men pent up in the fort were at the
mercy of the guns on the vessels, which
practically surrounded the work, and
those engaged in storming faced the oIaz-
| ing rifles and cannon on the walls. only
q courage that was peerless could sustain
battle seven hours under those condl-
lions. GEORGE L. KILMER.