The National tribune., 1903-01-22

was keeping up hot fire. Gen. Kilpat-
rick directed Col. Murray to watch him
with one regiment.
1 returned to my command. Lieut..
Robinson reported to mo that one OF his
guns had been disabled, the trail having
been broken by shell, and that he had
been unable to haul it off the ground; that
it was in the cornfeld to the left of the
present position of the Sd Ohio. found
the gun hanging by the trunions, with the
muzzle in the air. / called ON the Sd Ohio
for 20 volunteers, with whom, crouchinS
low, l returned to the gun, and putting a
piece of fence rail with a couple of hal
tiers attached to the upper end into its
muzzle, we soon pulled it down to horl-
zcntal position, hauled it back and deliver.
ed it to the battery-men, who took 1t or
its wheels and placed it in wagon.
A CHARGE IN COLUMN.
Mai. Mix having reported with the 4th
Mich, | withdrew my division and formed
for the charge. 1 placed my own brigade
in line of regimental columns of tours at
regimental distance-the 9TH Pa. on the
right, the 4th Mich. in the center, and the
4th Regulars on the left; the battery and
ambulances on the road in rear OF the
Regulars-and instructed Col. Long to
form his brigade Sin rear of my center IN
close column with regimental front, and to
sweep up whatever we broke through"
Gen. Fitzpatrick was on horseback on
the McDOnough road. 1 rode over to re,
port to him. Col. Murray came forward
about tile same time and said:
General. my men cannot charge over
that ground"
'Why not, sir?" said Fitzpatrick.
'They cannot do it, General" replied
Murray.
Fitzpatrick turning to me, said: "Col.
Minty, are you ready:'
"All ready, sir"
'Then charge when you please"
A f0ur-gun battery on hill in rear OF
the rail breastworks was Smelling us, and
a three-gun battery in front of our left
was firing canister at short range.
Instead of trying to describe this great
charge. l will quote the account of it, as
published in the Cincinnati Commercial
Of Aug. 81, 1864:
"Whle the various regiments were be.
ing manuvered into position the men had
time to comprehend the danger that sur
rounded them; rebels to the right of them,
rebels to the left of them, rebels in the
rear of them, rebels in the front of them
surrounded There was no salvation
but to cut their way out. Visions of Lib
by, Andersonville and starvation fitted
through their imaginations and they saw
that the deadly conflict could not be avoid
ed. Placing himself at the head of the
4th Mich, the gallant and fearless Minty
drew his saber, and his voice rang out
clear and loud. attention, draw sabers,
forward-trot; regulate by the center col
umn, march, gallop, march, and away the
brigade went with a cheer that echoed
away across the valley.
'"The ground from which the start was
made, and over which they charged, was
a plantation of about two square miles,
thickly strewn with patches of woods.
deep water cuts, fences. ana bitches. AT
the word away went the bold dragons at
the hight of their speed. Fences were
jumped and bitches were no impeachment.
Charging for their lives, and yelling like
devils, Minty and his troopers encounter
ed the rebels belined hastily
barricade of fence rails. Pressing their
rowels deep into their horses TANKS and
raising their sabers aloft, on, on, on, near
er and nearer to the rebels they plunged.
The terror-stricken enemy could not with
stand the thunderOus wave of men and
horses that threatened TO engulf them.
They broke and ran just rs NIinty and his
troopers were urging their horses for the
decisive blow. In an instant all was con-
fusion. The yells of the hOrsemen were
drowned in the clashing of steel and the
groans of the dying. On pressed Minty in
pursuit: his mems sabers striking right
and left and cutting through everything
in their path. The rebel horsemen were
seen to real and pitch headlong to the
earth, while their frightened steeds rush
ed pell-mell over their bodies. Many of
the rebels defended themselves with al
most superhuman strength, yet it was all
in vain. The charge of Federal steel was
irresistible. The heads and limbs of !,ome
of the rebels were actually severed from
their bodies.
"The individual instances of her0ism
were many. Not a man flinched, and when
the brigade came out most of the sabers
were stained with human blood"
The following is from the Memphis-At-
ianta Appeal, published at Macon, Ca,
early in September, 1864:
'.The newspapers have lately been full
of accounts of how Martins Division of
Cavalry was run over by the Yankees ut
Lovejoy on the Goth ultimo. The writsx