The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-07-15
the same log, killed a man 1900 yards
off. In the estimate he had to con-
slider the speed Of his walk as we'll as

the same log, killed q man l,lUO yarQs
off. In the estimate he had to con-
slider the speed Of his walk as we'll as
distance.
At Ringgold Gap the well directed
shots of Cleburne's Division beat back
and moved down Sherman's army and
saved the Army of Tennessee. That
was General Pat. Cleburne's great
fight, the major general who was after
wards killed at Franklin, and who
died the 'fdeath of honor in the arms
of glory" At cambridge the gun
boats made a desperate attempt to
strike Hoods pontoons and impede
the crossing of the Army Of Tennes-
see. Our land batteries knocked those
gunboats into smithereens. During
the siege of V~icksburg, one Of the
Federal Signal Corps planted himself
on a high-stack chimney, and was sig
mailing with his flag. Sam Rayburne,
of Monserat's Battery. got permission
to direct one shot at him, the distance
being estimated at one mile. At the
crack Of his Napoleon, the ball knock
ed the chimney off 8 or 10 feet, and
down came the Federal, brickbats and
all.
Nor was our Naval Department be-
hind. 1t is said in the engagement
between the Confederate steamer Ala
bama and the Federal steamer Kear-
sarge, that Admiral Semmes directed
a she'll TO the placed in the most WI
nerable place in the Kearsarge. It
turned out afterwards that his gunner
had done as directed, and if the she'll
had exploded the Alabama would have
| added added another star to her al
ready brilliant crown of victory. The
little gathering ram Arkansas was the
grandest achievement in the war of a
| gunboat that the world has eve wit
messed, absolutely battling an organ
lied feet. Neither Decatur in his feat
of burning the Philadelphia on Tripo-
Titan shores, in 1904, nor Captain
Richard Somers, in his daredevil at
tempts to blow up the Tripolitan fleet,
was more daring than Captain Isaac
Newton Brown, commander of the ram
Arkansas, in his drive out of the
mouth Of the Yazoo, thirty miles, to
Vicksburg to destroy Uncle Sans ma
Wy.
In a number of the Veteran an arti-
Gle from some one states how effective
were the sharpshooters in Lees army;
| but instances attract an old soldier,
and a comparison between the old dead
shots of the armies and the pretended
headlights of. to-day in that line, is
the most interesting. Veritable facts
during the war almost equal Munchau-
sens myths.
At Harrisburg, Miss, just after the
battle, Morton's Battery sighted a
Federal n and a quarter miles off,
ascending a ladder from the roadside.
| Captain Morton directed a gunner to
pick him off. At the crack Of the gun
the ladder and the fellow came down.
It was discovered afterwards that he
was prowling around a widows corn
crib. At Paris Landing, before John
sonville was destroyed, q gunboat ap-
preaching, two guns of this same bat
terry opened fire. The boat in motion
guns changing position. Boat over
shooting, and the guns striking in the
broadside all the time, until she hand
ed in her checks.
At Nashville, General Hood, Ste.
phen D. Lee, and a group of general
officers we're on Ridley Hill, two miles
south of Fort Negley. A citizen
warned US that they would attract a
fire from Negley. By the time they
moved down the hill a shell exploded
on the spot that they had left.
At Athens, after Campbell surren-
dered the fort of 1900 men to Forrest
"a bluff game), a Dutchman command
ing a block house filled full of negro
soldiers refused to surrender to Nor
tons Battery. The first shot struck a
port hole, killing a number. The Sec
oud shot did likewise-the third
brought out the Dutchman with the
white flag.