The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-08
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Only Six Killed and Sixteen
Wounded at Sugar Point
GENERAL BACON UNHURT.
He Returns to Walker With His
Heroic Band, .

Heroic Band
EXPECTS NO FURTHER TROUBLE
Correspondent ]. c. Beaton Gives Graphic
Story of the Battle and Tells How Col
onel Sheehan Saved the Lives of the
Newspaper Men-Gallant Officers Who
Stood in the Open While Urging on
Their Brave Men-General Bacon Has
No Need of Reinforcements, and There
Is No Fear of a General Uprising.
Walker, Mimi, Oct. S.-J. G. Beaton,
one of the three newspaper men ma
rooned with General Bacons troops on
Sugar Point, wires the Minneapolis
Tribune a long account of the battle.
After describing the landing he says:
AS there was no indication of trouble
Brill, Knappen and myself made up
our minds to go back to Walker on the
boat to be sent by General Bacon for
the tents and ratiOns for another day.
We were down at the landing, waiting
for rowboats to take us to the steamer
when shot was heard Immediately
we ran back to the crest of the hill,
when volley came from the woods
to the front Of us.
"Rnn tn ppyar cpp,a pro nr;o5 o,l
rs the soldiers grabbed their guns and
ran to the left l hurried down to the
beach, where | was soon safely housed
behind big boulders and brush. As |
ran down, however, more bullets
chased me, and it was a wonder that
myself and those with me were not
killed.
STEADY, men, steady" was the first
sound of a voice we heard, and as |
raised my head | could see General
Bacon running about with his troops.
Get up in the firing line," was the
next order given, and the men of the
fighting Third were seen to run
through the grass and woods in the di.
rection from which the shots had been
fired.
Another peep above the stone behind
which l lay, and peep at great
chance Of death, and / saw Major
Wilkinson and Lieutenant Ross call
ing to their men to advance. All the
time the shots were fast and furious,
and the bullets flew few inches above
haols uS u.a 1oy bn
! The Gallant Officers.
The men continued to advance. The
three officers were everywhere, Major
Wilkinson in charge of the left flank
General Bacon in charge of the center
and Lieutenant Ross in charge OF the
right flank. The soldiers were running
along. 1t appeared to me, on their
hands and knees, dropping every mo-
ment to fire volley into the ranks
Of the enemy. The officers, however,
stood in the open. They were brave
almost to recklessness and seemed only
to consider the safety of their men,
for they advised them what to do in
tones that could be heard all over the
point.
For 30 minutes there was a cease 4
less roar, and every little while we
could hear cries of the men who had
been shot. | looked up once and saw
that Major Wilkinson had been injur-
ed, but where | did not know. | heard
him cry: Ross, I've been wounded,
but won't give up, for it's not bad"
The next moment. as he stood right
back of his firing line, calling to his
men. "Give it to them, boys; you got
them going; give it to them; they are
towards, and they re going to rum" he
seemed to stagger and Surgeon Ross
ran towards him.
Give them hell general, give them
hell" Wilkinson called at the top of !
his voice over toward the central flank, |
where General Bacon was taking aim |!
at red man. Then he fell into the |
arms of the doctor, who carried him
Into the log cabin at the crest of the
hill. where he died in one hour and
30 minutes later. His was the death
of soldier. and such death as he
expressed to me a few minutes before
he desired to experience.
About the same time the major fell
Private Powell, who was running from
Dnc cover to another, was seen to drop,
and in the evening after darkness had
come he was carried to the little cabin,
the victim Of another bullet from the
Indians Winchesters.
Death Of Sergeant Butler.
! The stripes on the sleeves of another
man whom | saw throw up his hands
and drop his gun told me that a SER
geant had been hit. As he fell he
clapped one of his hands to his head,
nnd afterwards l learned that he was
Sergeant Butler, and that he had been
killed instantly by shot through his
head.
As Butler fell Lieutenant Ross who
had charge of the two tanks after the
Injury sustained by Major Wilkinson,
was seen to drop upon his knees and
fire in the direction in which the shot
That killed Butler had come. They told
me afterwards that Ross got his man.
After that the men were out of sight
up In the woods and behind the cabin,
and we could only lay on the beach
and wonder when our end would come,
Tor we did not know but that the SOL
HERS had been annlhilated. There was
no let up in the firing.
= Suddenly to our right we heard the
voice Of Colonel sheehan, of st. Paul,
deputy United States marshal. We
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