Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-04-08

not pass unnotircd Nv that shfowd com.
mander, ever looking Cor hearts ~ hold
~ bis own. ~ the Second Bull Run,
where stuart aud jackson were again
hghting In unison. Pelham rushed bic .
whole battalion 10 the front and tore /
the enemy's columns with awful effect |
jackson said 10 Stuart, General. " you |
have another Pelham, give him 10 mn "
Stuart did not give the Murat ~ his
corps 60 jackson. His was the talent |
needed In the kind uf fighting which |
the jolly snbreur instituted In the east.
There Is story of every battlefield
from Bull Run ON until his death, hut
one or two will suffice to show the TEN.
per Of the hero and that his laurels were
won by merit, not by favor When Lee
retreated from the Potomac down the
valleys toward the Rappahannock, after
his defeat at Antietam, Stuart's column
was rear guard Of the army. The Fed
erals followed mp and every hour had
its skirmish enough to amount to u
battle. Pelham, as usual, staid by one
gun and that gun was always last to re-
tire. Once when he was far out to the
front with his forlorn hope Stuart be
came alarmed for mis- fate and ordered
him to retire. Pelham was then a major
and he begged his chief to allow him
to remain q little longer. Stuart CON
sented. All the other pieces of the bat.
terry had gone to the rear and one by
one the cannoneers serving the piece
with Pelham took advantage Of orders
and skipped away until the brave major
stood alone. He loaded and fired in the
very teeth Of the enemy crowding upon
him, and then, mounting lead horse,
began to gallop away with the gun.
After going few PAGES the horse
Pelham rode was shot. Cutting the
traces no as to free the team from this
extra load, the brave fellow mounted
another horse, which soon shared the
fate of the first A third horse was shot
and cut loose in the course Of few
rods, but Pelham rode into the battery
with his gun, to the establishment Of
his men and his superiors.
This deed with the rear guard and
others like it were mere exploits, likely
to give soldier camp notoriety. Pei
ham crowned them with feats equally
magnificent yet more mighty in results.
Take his work on the Confederate right
at Fredericksburg ON the 18th of De
cember, 1862. 1t is customary to look up
ON fredericksburg as an easy slaughter
for the Confederates, attended with lit
tie and no actual danger. With Pelham
out of the case all is changed. The
night before the battle jackson S column
arrived ON Lees right below the city,
J expecting to guard that flank while the
center and left defended Fredericks
burg proper. On the morning of the
18th, when a fog obscured the field,
Stuart's rowing horsemen carried to thu
chiefs the news that heavy Federal
u column had crossed the river below the
town and was preparing to attack Lee :!
right flank or to pass it, the leaders moi
counting upon Jackson's presence
Neither side was prepared for the col
lision which resulted and is known il
= history as the battle of Hamilton
Heights. Stuart held the key to the po
I sition, yet he was there only AS "a cav
airy picket On the extreme right Pei
hams guns were parked. When wore
of the Federal advance across the rive
was sent to headquarters, Lee, jackson
and Stuart rode across the plain, which
was covered with dense fog. Stuar
,r whispered to Pelham and instantly til,
d order was given to the batteries to move
.e down to the plain among the cavalry
y pickets. Pelham, with the one single Gun
4 of the Napoleon detachment, " dashed
down the heights, hating at fork il
the road coming up from the river.
Before the other guns Joined the Mo
- bile creoles the mist slowly cleared, ant