Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-19

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! ,,o o,frenchments. the battle cuimin',eO
/ , o~,ilterv duel Of three hours ou-
! lion whom the enemy fell back. Du-
,.r,, mis- artillery duel the writer VIZ
messed az cool a piece OF uaIIH5 OF
/ saw but once after during the var ~
was lying down in mis- pace III W ~
/ trench at the extreme poh.' ".o |
+ era,,,..s battcrv and directly beneath on.
o,,, i'm line Of the direct fire. Inc me-
/ man, IA the left OF him was private ~"
/ hort blackburn. the present poslHlda'el
7 - Artfoch va. who was sitting up
/ 1s-nound shell fell IN the trench DC,
ms fits firing. Kissing fuse, iapuS IN
inc predicating death or Woul"' ~
i'm mat part Of the trench. Ahc'o w.
NO time FOR me TO rise ana 'IION ~ 49,
/ so 1 exclaimed as II ZEN ~ ord
! ort Rob" Instantly he sel1ed lI am
/ h,,r,od n over the bank or the ueilcH'
a1d e, scarcely rolled twenty leet De
/ g., ~ evnloded. Here was tai hpeci-
- ~ our decentralization, 50 curly
! ,,,onno1ed In Mrs. Lees History. IN
| doed colonel afterwards GeneraD 10
ward Johnson paid the mep the cohpn-
nent TO say "They were as immoOHe
under fire as a parcel Of terrapns on
AT CHEAT MOUNTAIN.
ca, at,er ,bis General Robert =. Lee,
then I'm command IN West Virginia Wheh
~. ,,anpad an attack on Cheat mountain
from ina west. called for 2y.J volunteers
| from This force to storm the entrehch-
ments from the east. lie got them anu
| they marched 10 position az Midnight
/ awaiting all day for tho signal guns ION
| tbe west slde-that never came. Genera
Lee could not have deemed then s~lle4-
inc much from Generalization
Late In the fan our forces rem p"Ch ~
! the top of the Allegheny Tor "lh'eI qu"I-
ters Colonel Edward Johnson lH com
nand. ON tho night of tie 10Th OF De
| coD,ber fine enemy. 600 strong. under
| Nulroy made n night march lh s"oM
/ storm 10 surprise u.s. our pickets on the
! t,rrnixe road up the mountain, were
/ bovonoted. rolled up in their blankets,
/ oeieen on their posts. our men were
round their camp-hres. cooking break
/ fast. the buckeyes suddenly appeared
firing into them. Surprised ana over
powered by such numbers, our men scat
/ tered in disorder. falling back some thou-
sand yards and halted. Colonel Jo"H
| SON I'm his night-clothes. slippers. ana
/ overcoat-for there was no time lelt %
| dress-put himself at their head, with an
! cold Grub" picked up, and charged the
/ enemy. our force growing al each step
! bv the surprised men. Tor snort lline
/ a. WAS q haud-to-hand fight az close
! quarters. Gradually the enemy gave
! back: then faster and faster, finally hyins
! Am total rOut along ana down the noun
/ tain side. All things considered TINS
/ was one OF the most remarkable victories
gained during the war. General Lorlns
having assumed command, on hearing
that Fremont was ascending the
Feet Branch Of the Potomac with
1onO men 10 cut him or at
/ Mcdowell slowly fell back TO the
Gov, Pasture mountain 10 protect
staunton. About midnight Of the 9th
~ Nav Stoncwau Jackson, marching
rapidly from the Shenandoah valley
| with a part OF his small force, Jolheu
us and at once ordered us 10 go baeh
"a NcDoweu" and fight but whip the
enemy. We reached the Vcinlly OF Alc-
| DoveI where Fremont had united with
| Mulrov. about J.. VI. OF the 8th of May.
We at once formed line Of battle on
| the ridge above, the centre being held
/ bv the Forty-fOurth and Ihirty-hrst VIZ
! einia and the Twelfth Georgia regiments.
/ Upon this attack after attack was maze
! to break II. The fight stuDDoInly con-
tinued until night. when the enemy We're
totally routed by a general charge and
their camp, stores, etc. taken. FROM
! this date this command became part OF
stonowau Jacksons famous foot cav
alry-present in every fight up TO his Ia
meuted death They formed part or the
force Of General Edward Johnson, cut
off at the Bloody Angle. and furnished
the principal part OF the six hundred
onicers-the martyrs OF Morris's Island
and Fort Puaski-many or them ioOd
for the sharks Of Charleston harDor OF
their bodies decaying amid the boggy
marshes round Fort Pulaski. At the
former places-held by negro troops, late
slayes-their ration was TWO ounces OF
bread washed down with a pint OF
Cayenne pepper tea.
Captain James NJ. Hughes, Company *,
Forty-fourth Virginia, who resides near
Scottsvine. Va, says he owes his lie 10
a negrO-COrporal Triner-Who, taking a
fancy 10 him. daily brought him batter
cakes. hid beneath his SHIRT bosom. ms
brother, Lieutenant John Hughes. less
fortunate. and many others. were reduced
to skeletons, under tho agony OF starVa-
ton from "A stimulated appetite gOaded
by the beverage given. The few Wno at
last. IN the very jaws OF death, re-
turned home were walking skeletons,
whom even their friends failed TO rec
ognize il any one desires TO near the
terrible torments suffered by these vic
ams Of diabOicM cruelty with
out parallel even IN the world $
darkest pages. let them call upon
captain James al. Hughes az brave
and true a soldier as marched 70
the tune o. Dlxle beneath The stars and
s.rg ana as the uuolddcn ear OF mem
orv rises in his fearless eye. he VIII "a
,sie unfold that Will damn the authors
of this daboucal scheme and con@sn
them TO eternal obliquity OF the b.acAes'
pages OF the worlds eternal history.