The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-06

space between them and their foes.
Before their eyes came images of
those dearer than life itself. Wives,
mothers, sisters and sweethearts
seemed to be gazing at them from
every side, and with affections in
stInct they almost reached out to
! touch those imaginary forms which
lowered about them.
! SIN this Supreme moment they
could hear. tender voices calling,
they could feel the imprint of loves
kiss upon their lips and catch the
brave words spoken at parting four
months before, when they started at
their country's call to face danger
and if need be death in her service.
But all these only urged them for
ward in duty's path and gave them
calmer and nobler purposes in the
conflict which was now upon them.
Seconds were transformed into years.
'The suspense was brief. A loud,
clear, savage voice rang out the word
'Firer The sharp cracking of half
a hundred rifles was the response,
and then the deafening sound of q
thousand shots filled the air. The
smoke concealed those who fired the
guns, but the murderous effect was
none the less terrible. Of the twenty
men only one escaped unhurt or fail
ed to be endorsed. A mass of fallen,
struggling horses, company Of
wounded, dying men lay side by side.
, OF the twenty fifteen were dead or to
die. The "Forlorn HOPE" had met
it's fate. It's mission was to receive
the fire of the savages, when their
fellows and comrades might safely
charge upon the red men with their
guns unlcaded. Its purpose had
| been faithful. 1t had been anrihil-
ated, but it's members had magni-
fed Kentucky manhood and written
in the life blood of three-fourths of
it's members q story of courage and
sacrifice which would live forever.
General Harrison, discovering the
British regulars in open order, after
the lines of the enemyIhad been de-
vsloped, gave the order to Colonel
Johnson to charge. For the manner
in which it was so heroically execut-
ed quote the graphic words of the
author:
"Amid hurried movements and
while the spirit of the amen was
thrilled to the enthusiastic Joy
which ever fills q true warrior
breast at battles eve, the command
Forward Charged rang outson the
oppressive stiffness which surround
ed the expectant host. Hardly had
the horses begunI to move when an
other cry, terrible in its intensity
and with foreboding wrath in it's
tone. filed the space overshadowed
by the mighty monarchs of the
forest. From the stalwart throats of
nearly six hundred. Kentuckians
there arose the cry:
Remember the Raisin!
''As they lifted this mighty shout
to heaven they saw about them the
murdered forms of their murdered
comrades and friends and relations.
They beheld the bedizened, painted
savages, with barbarOus cruelty.
strike their wounded foes and cast
their bodies, when dead or writhing,
into the flames to be consumed.
They remembered the bones of, their
fellow-citizens scattered along the
river and the fields and woods adj
jacent thereto, and before them there
arose visions Of those feshless skele-
tons which seven days before they
had for the second time committed
to mother earth on the battlefield of
the River Raisin.
1.-THE galloping columns caused
the earth to shake and the great
beeches to vibrate as men and horses
maddened with the excitement of
battle, crowded, shouted and rushed
to the conflict. The very boughs and
leaves of the overshadowing trees
swayed and trembled as if keeping
time to the cadence of wars weird.
strange and frenzied notes. Thes::
avenging warriors, catching the en-
thusiasism and delirium of combat,
rose high in their stirrups and plung-
ing their spurs into the TANKS of
their chargers, as they approached
the enemy still more furiously, wav-
ed their guns aloft and with their
voices, made stronger and stronger
by the excitement of their impetu-
osity, cried the more vehemently,
Remember the Raisin! Remember
the Raisin!'
mo human power could resist
such an assault. The red coats of !
the Forty-first British gave way.
The second line, one hundred yards
behind, Jared no better. The Ken
lucky horsemen were invincible, No
sooner had they passed the second !
limo than fWhoo1inm oh0uE +box, |