Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14

the Ccufederates pierce the first line
OF Tie Fedara ais. but the latter, dis
legged from the wall. fall back upon
the second line, formed Of small earth
works erected on the ridge in the Vi
entity OF their guns. The troops posted
on the right and left hasten toward
the point menaced.
"Ihe regiments become mixed; the
commanders do not know where their
soldiers are to be found, but they are
all pressing each other in a compact
mass, forming at random living and
solid buiwark more than four ranks
deep. A cluTnp OF trees in the neigh
bcrhood Of which Cushing has posted
his guns, commanding the whole plat
eau, is the objective point that the
Confederates keep in view. Armistead
On foot, his hat perched on the point
of his sword, rushes forward to at
tack the battery. With one hundred
and fifty men determined to follow
him unto death, he pierces the mass Of
combatants, passes beyoRg the earth
works, and reaches the line Of guns,
which can no longer fire indlscrimi-
nately. But, at the same moment,
by the side Of Cushing, his young and
gallant adversary. he falls pierced
with balls. They both lie at the foot
Of the clump CT trees which marks the
extreme point reached by the Confed-
crates in their supreme effort.
IF the Federais have seen large
number Of their chieftains fall and
their artillery left without ammuni-
ton, the effort Of the assailants, on the
otEer hand, is exhausted. On the right
Wilcox has started ii great haste to
cover Pickett's flank, but the direction
he is following leads him to the low
grounds interspersed! with bushes,
whence Plum Run derives its source,
separating him from this division, to
which he can no longer afford assist
ance. PettigreW on the left, does his
best to support him. Ills own brigade
and that Of Archer have reached Hays
line, but nave failed to effect a breach.
Trimble, who is following them close
ly, sustains them vigorously. Lane has
already penetrated the first line of the
Federals, drawn up, as it is elsewhere,
at the foot of the ACTIVITY, and begin
ming to scale it, he draws near the wall
which stands at this point about half
way from the summit. Archer and
SCu4tS. tJFtitu Ol IIO iiSII ny tAIt
movement Of Pickett, who has passed
the same wall at the point where it
Skirts the plain, have preceded Lane
by a few minutes But Pettigrew's
two brigades Of the left. having re-
manned in the rear, cannot Or will not
arrive in time to support them. After
a combat at short range-very brief,
but extremely murderous, in which
Trimble is seriously wounded-his
troops and those Of Pettigrew retire,
even before the two bciTades under
Thomas and Perrin have reached their
position, end while Pickett is still
fighting on the right.
"The regular fire Of Hays impreg-
nable line drives the asailants from
that point in the greatest disorder as
soon as they have taken one step in re-
treat The four brigades OF the Third
Confederate Corps that have thus
been repulsed leave 1000 prisoners
and fifteen stands of cClors in the
hands Of the enemy. A few regiments
of Archer's and Scales brigades,
which outfaLk Hays en- the left.
throw themselves Oh the right and
unite with Pickett's soldiers. who a~e
still contend.rg with Gibbon. This
reinforcement is, however, quite in
sufficient for the Concederates, who
thus find themselves isolated without
support and without reserve. in the