The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-17
MAHONE'S STORY OF BATTLE
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED
Brought Out Today for First Time, Divides ATTENTION
With Celebration of Great Gathering
in Petersburg.

- less than one HUNDRED yard-th4t 1t
vas greatly disordered. bur there IN large
force
Describing the attack which ensuci.
General Malone says, III part:
The Virginia brigade. with a plungluS
fire went into the works pell nell Here
and now the fight waS hand 10 hand ana
the work OF death by the bayonet and the
hnrt Of the muske went on TIL all OF
General Johnson's line. with the exception
IT fifty feet and the pit, was retaken.
To clean up the job and restore the
full integrity OF the southern line, the
Georgia brigade was ordered TO retake the
small part OF the line still occupied By the
enemy. Owing to the terrific fire Of the
enemy. the success of the G~eorgians was
not complete.
General Johnson at this juncture. about
10 1. m, came upon the ground and set
j O'Clock as the time when his men would
cooperate with the Alabama brigade
which vas coming up.
GRIM AMUSEMENT.
IN the meantime. General Malone. from,
hS account. proceeded TO finish up that
part of the enemy lying IL the Crate
He suggested TO Colonel Haskill, who was
looking for something TO do, that ho
serve two Cohorn mortarS. which nad
been located some distance away.
The narrative proceeds: II suggested
that If he could serve them I would have
them taken up 20 the outside OF TIE
/ Crater. where lie could amuse himself
till / O'Clock: perhaps no such oppor-
tunity had ever occurred or would likely
occur for the effective employment OF
the~c Juvenile implements Of DEATH
Colonel Haskill eagerly assented. Gen
eral Mahone'S account says:
Quickly Colonel Harkill was emptying
the contents OF the two Cohorns upon the
crowded mass which had been left in and
confined 10 the horrible pit, which l est
mated was, at this time, in the shape Of
goose egg cur half in two-20 feet long, 3"
feet wide. and 50 feet deep. While this
3! deadly work OF the Cohorns was gong on
sharrshootcl- sent back back to the pit
dead CT wounded. every man who attempt
ed to scale its sides and get away. AMI
bayonetted mu>kets of the dead We're. like
j~ayelins. hurled into the pit by those who
could do nothing more to hasten the com
~plction OF tho work all were anxious 10
close out"
One who reads the portion of the nara
tive from which the above vivid cxtrac'
i taken viii more keenly appreciate the
action portrayed N Elders wonderful
printing.
The lines were taken at ! O'Clock. &C
cording to previous arrangements, LEAVING
the enemy only the Crater.
LEAVE THE PIT.
Concerning the surrender Of the surIi-
vorS in the pit. General Malone says:
~ white flag or handkerchief was ra#s
ca ii the pit and upon the response to
come IN. 1.101, ike swallows out Of /
chimney. came pouring over the crest.
and il passing 10 cur rear over the dread,
ful slope, were hurried on-many to The
grave-by the mistaken fire from the
guns Of the Federal batteries that haG
previously - fearfully b~listered al the
ground IN our rear
Here j. 4 humorous paragraph:
Among the large number Of officers
that came out Of the Crater was Genera
Bartlett. OF Massachusetts, who. while II
the dreadful pit. had his wooden leg eA
plodea by 4 bomb from lie Cohorns
! gave him my horse to ride out
and away from the field
Robert Malone Butler gave the New.
Leader reporter permission only to make
extracts from the pamphlet, for which 4
copyright has been applied; otherwise the
paper would be Included IN full. It would
take thrse OF four columns of newspape,
spacr. R. NJ. L.