The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1895-03-21

y W. IT picture even a
mind used to war scenes. He was lead
ing in a corps 'armee to re-enforce
Fighting Joe" Hooker in a crisis Of
the terrible battle at the cornfeld and
bunker church, a struggle where more
men fell in a given space Of time-from
O'Clock in the morning to 10-than in
any other single conflict in America.
Hooker's valiant men had won ground,
but We're in danger Of losing it by strong
Confederate dash into their left flank
In swinging around the Union flank the
Confoderates had thrown forward a
boldly charging column to heavy clump
Of trees Oh the same ridge over which
Mansfield led his troops Every thing
was i'll confusion III both lines. Gen
erals fell before they could carry out the
orders OF their superiors, and the supe-
riors were shot down when their plans
were only half known to their subor-
dinates. Mansfield had never before
been seen on any battlefield of the
Army of the Potomac. His troops bare
ly knew him by sight, as he had been
their leader only few days. The COM
mand of a corps was a higher one than
he had previously held, yet he was past
middle age and old enough to have
been the sire Of any Of the other corps
generals on that field
AT the very instant that the jealous:
veteran led his advance line over the
ridge the opposing lines in the cornfield
were surging backward and forward,
HharO1ny rhoa,,I1,ft md fr;,,
which covered tt scene with powder
smoke and yeiled 1he warning battalions
as with heavy L list. Making his way
boldly on horseba K through the woods
toward the edge Of the cornfield where
the firing was hottest and the lines
most irregular, blue and gray boing
often intermingled, he fancied that the
men, around him whom he had just
brought in and told where to take posi-
tion were firing into a body of their
comrades of another division that had
just been repulsed in a charge through
the cornfield and were retreating. In
his zeal to stop the supposed blunder he
rode out into plain view of the Confed-
crates who had defeated the men he was
trying to shield from the bullets Of
friends. For moment he sat there. a
splendid figure on that fiery field of
NJ ars, then turned and beckoned to his
soldiers behind him not to fire upon the
men close il his 'front.' Turning his
horse half around, he calmly rode down
the line OF his advance brigade, telling
the men individually not to fire in the
direction he was pointing When he en-
TERED the ranks of the Tenth Maine,
two officers ran to him and said that the
troops in front whom he was risking
his life to shield were dressed in gray
and were at that very moment pointing
their rifles at him. Eyes, yes; you are
rlghtp' he exclaimed, wheeling his
horse and refining him at fence be-
hind. The horse carried severe wound,
received while his rider had held him
in front there, making that superb and
statuesquo pose, but the general did not
know this and spurred him to the leap.
Weakened by the wound, he could not
make it. General Mansfield then dis
near the officers who had .
warned him, and the wind happening
70 blow aside his coat they saw that he
was wounded through the body. He i'm
sank down, and some Of the
soldiers strapped blanket to two mus
kets. On this rude stretcher the aged
hero who had snuffed the battle and
FASTENED from afar, yet fallen without
seeing single grand battle charge, was