The progress-advertiser. (Lexington, Miss.) 1902-1903, 1902-11-07

when we got up the bank, we found
Confederate cavalry regiment form
ed acroos the road, tied the canteens
to our saddles and mounted, says |
Kittrell let's see what this scayalry is
! going to do, there may be only a
small force of the emmy on the other
| side and our men may drive them
out of the way and we can 60 ahead.
The commender of the regiment call
| ed in a loud voice all men with long
range guns step to the front" Not
a man moved it looked as if none Of
them had long range guns, at least
they did not think they were He
then rode down the line and pointed
them out, one man said my captain
told me to hold horses. another said
my captain told me to take care Of
his oVercoat," and so on, one excuse
after another. It was a wedding
they die not care to attend, says /
Kittrell these men are not going to
fight, and we are in a middle of a bad
fix. We had hear the distant boom
Of cannons book on the road we
came. Lets get our train together
and await Developments, we found
our train where I had directed them
to stop, moved them out Of the road
| in the shade Of some trees, while dis
tributing the canteens of water, |
saw one Of our infantry brigades
coming down the road at double
quick, thinking that it was Federel
cavalry that had run our cavalry
across the river, and that they were
no better fighters thau ours THAT was
before Vandorn and Forrest had
made fighters of our cavalry and as
soon as our infantry struck them they
would sweep them ont Of the way
and open up our road. Iwent to
looking after some of the wounded,
giving opiates to some that were
suffering greatly Sam Gwin came
to me saying that DR. KERN was in an
abulanoe not in my train, suffering
very much with his wounded hand
| went and dressed his hand, as | fin
ished, one of our men who had been
to me several times on the trip, came
and begged me while we were stopp-
ed to cut his finger off, which had
been shot the day before, and was
hanging by the tendons and a piece
Of skin and swinging about panied
him very much. told him all right,
and for DR.. Kittrell to come with him
to the shade of a black jack, off from
the wagons about forty yards. The
DR.. asked me to let him operate as he
did not often have chance, to which
agreed, laid the man on the ground
and commenced administering chloro-
form on towel. For some reason
he was the hardest man to anaesthe-
lize had even tried it on. He got
to the stage Of excitement and would
not pass it. In the mean time the
that passed US had become
heavily engaged as soon as they got
down on the river and cannons fire.
ng from the other side, says ] Kit
5rell the enemy are not cavalry alone
jhey have infantry and artillery. |
pressed the chloroform an our patient
Who could hear the firing and in his
emi delerious state imagined himself
n the midst Of a battle, fighting the
'ankees SHOOTING, and charging. At h
asst the chlorofa. m got the better of Il
lim. | told the DR.. to ahead and be
IS quick as possible as the fighting 4
vas growing hotter and appeared
:oming nearer and | must get my !
rain back out Of the way The DR..
lad made one cut on the finger to !
orm a flap when shell passed
trough the tree top we were under,
littrell remarked we cant stay here
)r. we will be killed oh, says | 60
head that a shell and they don't shoot
d the same place, but the DR.. was
ervous and his hands shook SO that,
said keep cool Kittrell OF you won't
make good job Of this. am cool
,nough says he but this il operation
lnder great difficulties, AS he said
his another shell struck the ground