The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-05-19

our cartridges Citing out. We had expected
moro Of us to pc killed than there wass."
Mon Dieu, What solchersr said he.
More than half of them killed or wound
ed, and they thinking they hain't suffered
as much as they expected"
1T certainly was a very lively intro
duction to the realities Of war" said the
Adjutant. But it's rather the usual thing
for a regiment to have its severest loss in
its first battle"
"Vell, We got it nearly as pad later at
Malvern Hill, and worse, in proportion, in
at Gettysburg, but We safed Little Round
Top. That is, our brigade did-Vincent's
Prigade-the pest brigade in the army
of the Potomac. 1t wass afterward com
manded py Cheneral Chloe Partlett, the
handsomest and vinest Cheneral in the
army"
II know Gen. Bartlett-a magnificent
soldier-and 1 believe all you say about
him."
"You can't till you've seen him in pattle.
He looks very vine on parade, but it's
nothing to What he wass when he mounted
his pig black stallion, and rode out in
| won't Of his brigade for a wight. My, What
a soldier he then wass, and What brigade
he had. The Goth Me-, 18th Mass. Doth
Mass. 1st Mich. 10th Mich, 44th n Y.
SD Pa, 18th Pa.-eight retchiments, eff
terans, and effery one commanded by OFF,
| ficers who had gained their promotion by
| three years Of hard serfice''
Does seem to have been full jeweled
| outfit" admitted the Adjutant.
well 1t wass, now, and you can stake
your prevet on it. OF course, the SD Pa
| wass the best retchiment of all, but all the
| others wass so near it that the difference
| WASN'T the thickness of a sheet of paper
| Rut What I Sfartod RI foil vou apout han.
pened right over there, where you see that
low ridge Of pines. and wass What l wass
| remempsring as l heard you talking apout
| the way We vent on the chump after Lee
when We got him out of his works at
Spotsylvania. 1t wass the slickest little
| chob We did in our whole your years. Lee
| wass breaking for de riffer out there, to
get behind 1t and stop US, but We we're
too swift for him. Right down there
where you see them sycamores is Jericho
Ford, an awful rough blaze to cross, but
tho only one for miles along here. Lee
expected to hat Hills Corps on the pank
| there SO that We neffer could get across
But Gen. Warren put Partlett's Prigade
| at the head Of the column, and We got to
Jericho Ford pefore Hills men did. We
| saw our chance at once, and Chloe Bart
lett rode right into the water, which came
up on the sides Of that pig stallion of his.
The brigade rushed right after him. The
| water was preast-deep to US, and de pot
| tom rocky and slippery, but somehow We
all got across quick, and formed in line OIL
| top Of de pank. The pontoons came right
| up pehind us, and l neffer saw a pridge
laid so quick. Cheneral Grant wass right
behind Watching. He always seemed to
know where the biggest thing wass going
to happen, and Pc in the middle of it.
Neffer saw such Cheneral for that
THE rest of the corps rushed across.
and at once formed in line of pattle, right
over there. at the edge of that Weld, and
PECAN moving forward for the railroad
here. We WASN'T minute too soon, for
Lee saw the danger he wass in. and
rushed forward Hills Corps in double line
They bucked straight against our center,
| which wass Griffin's. Division. Where in
de world SO many reppels come from In a
minute astonished me. They seemed to
| spring right up out of the ground. But
Griffin drove them pack in great shape,
and they settled down into long-range fir
ing across that field there. All at once
they proke out worse than effer in a new
spot Offer here near the railroad. against
Cutters Division. which was struck on the
vlank, and gate away. Chloe Partlett
started Offer through the woods, with his
brigade, to help Cutler out, with us at the
held. Yoost as we came out there on the
railroad We ran slap up against a brigade
OF reppels moving to turn our vlank.
Both sides we're SO astonished at the meet
ing that they stood for a minute looking
at ono another with their mouths open.
Lieut.-COl. Mccoy, who commanded our
rstachmeat then, was q man who took
things In like lightning. He yelled 1T the
advance companies to vace into line and
vire They obeyed like fash, and rot in
volley at close range pefore the reppels