The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-01

r. ]. Cleveland in Chicago Times
Herald: The heart of man beats quiek-
or as the story OF the ascent OF spion
Ilop, Of the charge at MOdder River. Of
the slaughter at MagersfonteIn comes
across the sea from Boer-land. There
Il a quick tendency to think that he
roism displayed there has not been met
with before: that English sOldiery are
doing that which the past has not
known. AS matter Of fact, warfare
IS less dangerous to human life and
man is called upon for lesss herculean
tasks In war to-day than he was thirty
years ago One should not forget Look
out II they really wish to understand
what man-no matter what his nations
atty may be-cnn do when face to
face with bitter necessity.
Away TO your left is shining elbow
Of the Tennessee, a lowland of woods.
lonE.drawn valley. glimpses OF houses
At your right you have wooded undu-
latIons. with clear intervals extending
down and around to the valley ut the
eastern base of Lookout. From the fort
the smooth ground descends rapidly TO
a little plain. Three-fourths of a milo
distant rises Orchard Knob, u conieal
mound. perhaps hundred feet high,
once wooded. now bald. Then lodges Of
rock ana narrow breadths of timber
and rolling sweeps Of open ground for
,,Xo miles more, until the whole rough
ana stormy landscape seems to dash
against Mission Ridge. three miles dis
tant. that lifts like a sea wall eight
hundred feet high. wooded, rocky, pre-
CAUTIOUS. wrinlSled with ravines. Alto
gether the rough, furrOwed landscape
,ooks a. If the Titans had plowed and
forgotten to harrow 1t. The thinly
frin4ed summit Of the ridge varies In
width from twenty-five to tifty feet and
houses looking like cigar boxes are dot
ted along 1t. on the top of that wall
arc rebels and batteries; below the first
mitch. three hundred feet down. are
more rebels and batteries, and stilI be-
low are their camps and rifle pits.
sweeping Ave miles, The enemy's adj
vance held Orchard Knob IN force and
their breastworks and rifle pits scanned
the landscape.
From wood and rifle pit, from rocky
ledge and mountain top. Gi,ooo rebels
Watched these couriers tthe Union
,roops), bearing the gift Of battle In
their hands. The divisions Of Wood and
sheridan began to move. Black riHe
pits were tipped with FIRE: sheets OF
flame flashed out OF the woods the
spatter Of musketry deepened into vol
leys and rolled ike mufiied drums; hos
tie batteries opened from the Lodges;
the Rodmans Joined In from Fort
wood; burst shell and gusts OF shrap'
moi filled the air. the echoes reused up
nud growIed back from the mountains
the rattle was roar, and yet these
gallant fellows moved on; down the
slope, through the woods, up the hills
straight for Orchard Knob as the CROW
Ales. moved that glorious line Of blue.
The air grew dense and blue: the gray
clouds OF smoke surged UP the side Of
the valley 1t was terrible Journey
they were making, those men of ours;
and three-fourtbs OF Il mile in sixty
minutes was splendid progress They
neared the Knob: the enemy's fire con
yerged: the are OF batteries poured In
upon them lines Of fire. like the rays
they can a glory" about the head OF
Madonna and the Child, but they went
up the rugged altar OF Orchard Knob
At the double-qulck with cheer; they
wrapped. like cloak, round an Ala
bania regiment that defended 1t nnd
swept them down our side Of the
mound. Then on FOR a second altar
Brush EnOb-nearly half-mile to th'
northeast-and bristllng with battery
It was swept OF foes and garnished with
federal blue in thirty minutes.
At 4 o'cloei eraRger's headquarters
were on Orchard Knob and the crue
storm beat on. Moccasin Point thunder
ed ut the camps in the valley at The
south and Lookout growled at the
Point. Listening with his heart TO al