The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-01-21

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transportation when Price moved south,
be secured isur mules with pillow
harness, aud two yoke Of oxen. and
with tour or i've men-one = negro
followed the army.
At CassUlle two twelye-pOunder how
itzers with caissons, horses, harness,
ETC., were added, and men were
recruited rapidly.
At Springfield, Mo-, in December,
1861, Gen. Little organized the First
Brigade, Missouri Infantry, C. S. A.
Little vas killed at Iuka and General
Bowen took command, being succeeded
BY Francis Marion Cockrell, now
senator from Missouri. Capt. Billy
Wsde's battery, Of St. Louis, was
mustered in with the brigade as the
First Missouri, and the next day, or
perhaps two days after, We we're
mustered in as the Second Missouri,
aud ever after bore that designation.
Clarke battery was, however, the name
generally used even long after the
captains death. Then We gained
renswn as Kings then Farris' battery,
but always the Second Missouri. In
February, 1868, we were attached to
Armstrong; brigade, JacksOn's division
Van Dorn's cavalry corps, Army Of
Tennessee, by request Of General Van
Dorm.
Al Elkhorn ours was the left Of q
line Of seven or eight batteries which
moved ''by hand TO the front" across
an open field and forced the enemy
from his position in the dense wood,
when our infantry charged and drove
him back for a mile or more.
Darkness stopped the fighting, and
We slept by the pieces in position.
NeXI day we were held 10 reserve until
after noon, when Clark, chatting at the
enforced idlenes, while the battle ragged
in front, rode IN search Of Gen. Price
and begged to be sem into action. W.
then took position from q quarter Il
ha4 snAs-ssuihEestr o. We EikhoFi
tavern, with orders to fire q few round
and retire. w met other batteries
coming out as we went IN, and | thinl
the army had commenced to retreat
though We did not know il.
l commanded No. / howitzer sta
toned In the road. The other piece
in the woods on our left were withdraw
without my noticing it. Ny gunne
having deserted his pos. and "iaken
tree" was acting as gunner, and tbI
roar Of guns, musketry and burstinI
Of shells was SO incessant no humal
voice could be heard. Clark's me-
were so well trained that they scarcel,
needed any orders after firing com
menced.
was intent on the service Of th
gun and the effect Of our fire on th
dense blue line now rapidly closing il
on US, when No. l cannoneer, a b
faced about in ramming home q charg
pointed quickly to the rear with hi
brawny, bare arm, black With pewde
! smoke. / looked back and saw th
other pieces retiring rapidly up tn
, road and Clark gallOping toward rs o
bis handsome black horse. sabre i
, hand. Riding round the piece b
pointediwith bis sabre to the trail beam
shouting an order which we could nc
} hear, but knew 1t was time TO limbe
up, which we did, then mounted an
started of.
| vas On the left Of the near vhe,
horse, Clark on the right Of the o
leader, and as we had but four hers
, in the team he could not have bee
. much over ten feet from me.
z / was looking earnestly at him |
E catch any order or direction he migl
E give. We had moved perhaps Il
length Of the piece when / saw Il
, captain struck. A large shot or she
took the top Of his head o. Just abo,
the ears and eyes. His face was u,
$ marred below the eyes. His cap WI
. threwn in the aIr and be fell fOrwar
TO the ground. His horSs ran Wild
away and cur second Lieutenast, Hem
+ S. Johnston, riding a horse much iii
z Clark's, rode back and with the ASST
lance Of two others placed the body
> front Of him. The horse, frantic wit
. fear, threw Johnston and the body
: the ground. A second attempt with
like result and they were forced to
e to escape the foe now close at hand.
The enemy did not pursue US b
remained on the field, burying his ow
dead and ours. Captain (afterwal
COLI Wright shaumburg, Of Gener
Little's staff, was afterward sent
with a flag, and removed The body
Van Buren,, where we rs.interred
with military honors.
" Capt. Clark's father, Meriweth.
Lewis Clark, was chief Of ordnan,
e when Bragg took command at Tupel
He and my father were classmates ar
e soommates at West Point, class
4 1880, hence our close friendship. II
grandfather wal Gen. William CLAIR
d who, with Meriwether Lewis, col
Quoted Lewis and Clark's expedite
TO the Rocky Mountains In 1906.
4, He wal q model soldier, brave 10
fault, modest as a girl, handsome AZ
d graceful In demeanor q superb hors
man, an expert sWOrdsmsn, and thOpl