The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-09-17

Bayou De Glaize. Dis time de reppels
| had got Offer and purned de bridge before
We could catch up nit dem. and 500 or
LOCO we're in line on dc other side 20 stop
MS crossing. Ii looked sure as if we would
! be held deere until night and de next
! morning. But Mower came up swearing
and storming. NIT bis brigade command
ers. DE batteries galloped up and opened
| hre. Some of de retchiments double
qvicked into line. and opened nit DER
muskets. Others PECAN tearing down
clubhouse to puild a bridge, Mower and
de Other ChcneraIs helping pull off de
! planks themselves. Other retchiments run
up and down along de parks TO wind some
way of crossing. and bicked some dugouts
and scows. into which dey jumped. and
rowed across de bayou TO get on de- flank
OF de reppels, who den scampered off. De
bridge vas vinished. and We all rode
| across, followed by de artillery and
wagons. It peat all de pridge-building I
| effcr saw.
You weren't with Sherman's army
| commented Shorty. =,
'Petwcen = and 3 o'clock We reached
Marksville. which vas apout three miles
| from de fort. and on its flank and rear.
De reppels had not expected dat We could
come up dat way at all. or dat We could
get dere for days il We tried it. No time
vas wasted in making "Reminiscences. or
drawing plans and writing out orders.
| Mower Just ordered Shaw's brigade to
move forward and assault de fort. and
| Lynch'S brigade to support Shaws. I
vas ordered to go to Shaw and guide him,
and Mower himself rode along nit me.
Shaw's brigade vas de 14th 9th and sd
Iowa. 9th Mo. and Sd Ind. Battery. While
| Lynch's brigade vas de 5Sth and 18th
ILL.,. S9th Ind. and de 9th Ind Pattery."
"Injianny seems to have run to artil-
lery out there" commented 81.
| 81 npffpr nnyfhipO ant and
piznesslike as dat wight said Rosen-
| baum, warming into ardor. at was de
purtiest thing that effer happened in war.
| 1t was one-twO-three, and dere you are.
When | come up out into de open. and
looked Offer at de fort. was sure it would
cake siege of n week at least. De rcpels
had peen working on and Strengthening
de blaze for months-years-and done eff
ferything dey could think of. Part vas
| plated nit railroad iron. even: dere vas
| classmates and embrasures, NIT pig guns.
and whole row of ugly plack cannon
init mouths as pig as nail kegs srinned at
us Offer de works. In front was deep
ditch. nit palisades, and trees cut down
abatis-and all sorts of nasty things to
get ofer But efferpody acted as if all
| dat was nothing at all worth Winding. The
Sd Ind. Pattery galloped right out in
de open. 500 yards from de pig guns, and
pegun banging away at dem, and pres
emily de 9th Ind. Pattery came to its help.
| De skirmishers ran ont in front. and be-
gan sharpshooting ut de gunncrs. until
dey made dem quit shooting de pig guns.
and all at once de pugle sounded. and de
| two prlgadeS began race to see which
| would get inside Wrist. Old Joe Mower
couldn't stand pack. and ran along NIT de
9th Mos colOrs-you know he claims to
| pc n MisSOurian. 1t was all Offer, and
| Fort De Russy vas ours before l could
fairly realize it. though 1 took a gun and
| vent in NIT de rest"
at vas all Offer so soon dat de gun
| boats who we're breaking DER necks to
get up de river ahead of de infantry
marching oferland. only got a chance to
wire two or three shots before our flag
vent up. My, how mad de sailors we're,
and how de infantry pOys crowed ofer
DEM"
every much like the taking of Fort Nc
Allister," remarked ST. superiority. to
Shorty. who nodded assent.
Put none of you fellers effer marched
30 miles. pridged a stream, fought two
pattles. and took a pig fort all in one
day." asserted Sol, vehement for the hon
ors for his side.
81 and Shorty were silent.
"a choke come in afterward," con-
tinued Rosenbaum. "On talking NIT do
prisoners. wound dat dey we're de fellers
who we're so anxious to purn cotton. and
NHoHi /.ibiFi vas dlritu o. ueN Ndiker
had left dem to hold de fort, While he
moved off de rest of his army to try to
stop us where he had expected ms to cross.
and make good retreat if he couldn't
/ guess Col Eroadwell's note had some
thing TO do with their peing bicked out to
stay and hold de fort"
"Of course. that let out your friends
cotton" said Shorty. But they didn't
give You that big diamond just for that"
No, indeed Dis is only de beginning
of dc story. Put hat talked enough war
for tonight. l want to talk to de ladies'
a little While. now. and show dem some OF
the pretty things l hat gathered up here
for my dinner parties I'll see You to-
morrow efening and dell you de rest of
dat. It's great story"
TO be continued)