The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-11

OF sunboats preparatory TO invading rha
otale: That army of invasion consisted
VI Whlte and negro regiments General
henry McCulloch's brigade consisted Of
tpe best men of the Texans-"the ro-e
ana f9lr expectancy OF the State'-nen a
praVe, DICK Taylor says. as the guard of
me lnkerman. General Dick TAYLOR tne
washington Of the Transmississippi, the
nero OF Mansfield, sent General Henry
McCulloch with his brigade to srrnrts,
and autack the enemy AT that time
some leAas regiments We're penned I'm in
Vicksburg enduring the horrors of be-
sleged army, half starved and scantily
clothed beneath a tropical sun, resisting
me approaches of a powerful foe. Ond
OIL our fellow citizens. Mr.. Jesse Loving
was there. and his heart leaped with 1oy
When ne heard the loud resounding guns
OF this battle of Milliken's Bend The
beleaguered Texans thought thew were
Tie guns OF friends. Dick Taylor's vic
10 rlous cohorts coming to their relief
Like the garrison at Lucknow. surrounded
py lhe savage sepoy when they heard at
distance. the shrll martial strains OF
the plbToch of the highland regiments OF
Slr Colin Campbell's advancing host a
was sweet music to their souls. After a
lohg all nights march from Delhi. during
ne hazy hours of early morning. when
the crimson hues of The rising sun decIled
the eastern skies with its gorgeous gran
deur. the worn Texans from the distant
mus. viewed the majestic stream that
moved so grand east of the battle field
Like La Sale. the disdoverer, thew
viewed that beautiful sheet of water with
awe and admiration as one OF the Won
ders of the world. On TIE ripping sur
race OF this grand river foated the death
dea'ing snnboat-those grim MINISTER'S Of
war which sent destruction and suffering
INTO the sarrled ranks of the Texans
Inc Respondent rays of the rising sun
painted the lambent waves OF the purling
stream with purple hues, Blood blood,
blood was written on the surface of the
troubled waters. With loud and ter
rliyinS cutlery ard bloodcurdhng shouts
THIS Spartan band Of starplnmed Texans
"a fiery mass of irving valor brave as TIE
| Old guard of Napoleon as firm as TIE
Macedonian phalsnx. like a thunder bolt
from the skies ran across a large cot
ton Held which lay in front of the enemy.
protected by the levee and hedge in
from. When the brave and daring Texans
attacked the enemy, the negro troop
acted very bravely killing and wound
ing many OF the Texans as they APP
preached the hedge
When the enemy. rising from their COW
ert behind the levee. fired those fatal
volleys of musketry through the hedge
into the ranks of our brave Texans,
throughout all the Texas land were
heard the loud lamentations of grief, scr
row and woe. There could be heard the
screaming walls of the dead soldiers
wife. There could be heard the heart
rending cries and piteous means OF
children bereft of fathers. There could
be seen the weeping maiden clad in the
sable drapery of despair, inconsolate for
her hero lover. There could be seen the
old, gray-headed patriot with head bent
with grief, sorrowing for his brave, noble
soldier boy, dying on the battle field
There could be seen the sad, sad face
of the broken hearted mother. the burn
Ing tears, weeping eyes the plying a
ngels despair to wipe away. In this ter
rible and destructive battle, amid the
crack of musketry and laundering roars
Of cannon where pale death like a raven
GUS monster was holding high carnival
among our brave Texas heroes, where
war decked Mars from the blood painted
clouds was blowing his loud resounding
bugle blast. Where huge Destruction
stamped his bloody foot and all the earth
trembled as IL shaken by mighty earth
auake. Where all animated nature quiv-
cred with alright at the noise so norri-
Bile as IL all the chained demons were
Embossed from their Tartarian confines.
In the dark storm and dreadful fury of
the charge. in this hurricane of shot and
she'll Colonel e, p. Gregg as brave as
Marshal Ney, proudly eminent, fell dan
gerously wounded in the foremost rank,
in the arms of his brave Texans.
Captain j VI. Lindsay OF Gainesville
was the first with his own sword to cut
through the hedge and at the rick OF his
life. fearlessly as the white plumed Henry
OF Nevarre, to lead the Texans onward to
that dread leyee. through fire and blood
into the Jaws Of death. into the jaws OF
hell--a sheet 81 fame greeting them
from the rifles Of the negro troops.
The Sixteenth Texas was on the ex-
IRENE left Of the brigade and attacked
tie enemy IN their center. where there
WIS q bend OF the levee. consequently
they suffered severely from the enillad-
ing fre. To the right OF the sixteenth
were Aliens and Lucketrs regiments,
who acted their part in this bloody drama
with great honor to the Lone Star State.
Flournoy's regiment. on the extreme
right covered themselves with glory.
although not under so severe fire-they
greatly assisted the other regiments in
driving the enemy from the levee TO The
bank of the river under cover OF the
esatpon like shell Of the gunboats. General
coopiiioch the very Incarnation OF bat
istic. Who "of all our knights he was the
/, as h. led the Texans like a heaven
,wers hero In the crimson rain OF the bait
!. In mpcst. amid screaming shell and
land